Police

Concertgoers attending Hot 97’s annual Summer Jam concert at New Jersey’s Met Life Stadium Sunday were pepper-sprayed and maced by police in riot gear as they tried to make their way into the venue to watch acts like Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, and Kendrick Lamar. According to NBC New York, the incidents occurred shortly after 9 p.m. […]

Just weeks after his controversial acquittal in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American couple, Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo faces an assault charge in an incident involving his brother, reports Cleveland. Police issued a warrant for Brelo’s arrest Wednesday, according to papers filed in Rocky River Municipal Court, writes the news outlet. Besides assault, […]

Graduations are meant to be special moments between students and their families, but one family is now facing charges for cheering on their relatives during a high school graduation in Mississippi. Two family members of Senatobia High School graduate Lanarcia Walker and two others were issued warrants after cheering on Walker and another student at the school’s […]

Law enforcement officers in Missouri were 75 percent more likely to stop Black drivers than White drivers last year, and 73 percent more likely to search Black drivers, according to The New York Times. The data also confirmed longstanding complaints by activists that while Blacks were more likely to be stopped and searched than Whites, […]

Two women have filed an explosive lawsuit against a Rikers Island corrections officer and the city of New York, charging that they were raped repeatedly by the officer with the complacency and consent of the city, reports CNN. The class action suit, filed Tuesday in federal court, alleges serial rape and sexual abuse by a […]

Additional footage of Freddie Gray’s arrest by the Baltimore Police has raised questions about the case and Gray’s state during the incident that took his life. In video obtained by the Baltimore Sun, a limp Gray is seen in police custody during the police van’s second of five stops to the station. After being placed […]

There is a reason President Barack Obama picked Camden, New Jersey as the city to announce a bold police initiative on Monday in an effort to address ongoing problems with policing in minority and poor communities. The once bustling industrial hub for shipping and consumer goods is now a ghost of its former self like […]

Imagine if two black gangs had shot up a restaurant and left 9 dead. Now look at this picture. http://t.co/LL6bebiYHdpic.twitter.com/LUxjf3FglB — Donald Kerabatsos (@Papakila) May 17, 2015 A fight between biker gangs in Waco, Texas ended in gunfire Sunday that left nine people dead and another 18 injured. Gunfire was also exchanged with police during […]

A South Carolina homeowner who was fired at by the police after being mistaken for a suspect had just two seconds to react before he was shot, MSNBC reports. Bryant Heyward, 26, was shot in the neck by Charleston County Sherriff’s deputy Keith Tyner last week after calling about a break-in. Heyward says two men shot into […]

UPDATE: Tuesday May 12, 4:00 PM ET – In a Tuesday press conference, District Attorney Ismael Ozanne announced that the Wisconsin officer who shot and killed an unarmed Tony Robinson used lawful deadly force. Officer Matt Kenny will face no charges in Robinson’s death. In great detail, Ozanne outlined the events leading up to the shooting, […]

Four NYPD parole officers have filed a civil lawsuit against the Ramapo Police Department after claiming they were racially profiled during a recent traffic stop, CNN reports. The officers were stopped on April 21 while attempting to carry out an arrest warrant and wearing their badges, bulletproof vests, and a placard on their truck’s dashboard. The force claims they received a […]

On Tuesday, TV One broadcast NewsOne Now’s first ever town hall meeting titled State of Emergency: Baltimore and Beyond.   During the two-hour presentation, Roland Martin asked the panel of national social and political voices, as well as local activists and newsmakers about the perceived role of law enforcement in communities of color. Martin explained that neighborhood policing is […]