Lawyer Damario Solomon-Simmons thought he'd seen everything until he visited the trial of ex-Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw.
Fired over a decade-old photo showing him posing as a hunter with a Black man wearing antlers on his head, ex-veteran Chicago Police Detective Timothy McDermott wanted his job back. But Cook County, Illinois Judge Thomas R. Allen on Wednesday upheld the October firing, saying, “It’s a horribly offensive photo,” according to the Chicago Tribune. The […]
After it was announced Tuesday that an officer would not be charged in the shooting death of her unarmed son, the mother of Tony Robinson vowed to sue the police department, according to The Huffington Post. Andrea Irwin told CNN host Anderson Cooper that she “absolutely” planned to sue the Madison Police Department after he raised the […]
Chicago police routinely violate the constitutional rights of mostly African-Americans who have not committed any crime, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week, reports the Chicago Tribune. The allegation comes in a suit filed on behalf of six African-American men from the South and West Sides and seeks class-action status against the city, police […]
Amid a federal and state probe into the violent death of a Black Chicago teen who was shot 16 times by an officer last fall, city leaders on Wednesday agreed to pay his family $5 million, reports The New York Times. The decision comes after 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who police say was wielding a three-inch knife, […]
Relatives of a mentally ill Black man who was fatally shot in February by police in Miami Gardens, Florida have released footage of the frightening encounter, according to the New York Daily News. The 19-minute police video released Wednesday shows an officer ordering Lavall Hall, 25, to “get on the f—ing ground or you’re dead,” […]
