Crime

Fourteen more correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center have been indicted on corruption charges, shedding more light on the relationship between the infamous Black Guerrilla Family and the officers in the jail. RELATED: Tavon White: Baltimore Inmate Who Impregnated 4 Guards Pleads Guilty To Racketeering, Attempted Murder The indictments were unsealed on Thursday. Read more […]

UPDATED – Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 5:25 p.m. A member of Miami Gardens’ police department alleges that city and police department leaders instructed officers to profile based on race, according to CBS Miami. The unnamed officer also said that cops are pressured to meet quotas for stopping people. The CBS affiliate reports: The tenured officer, who […]

Marvell Weaver, 17, of Lansing, Michigan, recently lost the so-called “Point ’em out, knock ’em out” game when he was shot twice by his intended victim and arrested, reports WILX. On Feb. 26th, Weaver was in a van with two friends looking for random victims, when he spotted a man waiting at a bus stop. […]

A father from Westminster, Colo., posted a selfie of himself with his baby girl on Facebook before shooting her and himself in an attempted murder-suicide, ABC’s Channel 7 News in Denver reports. Westminster police say that the mother of the baby called them around 9:35 a.m. Monday to say that she woke up to her […]

The controversy surrounding Renisha McBride and how we should deal with being Black while needing help from strangers is a murky one. Roland Martin sat with Pastor Jamal Bryant, commentator Cherylyn Harley LeBon, and journalist George Curry about whether Renisha McBride would still be alive if she were white. Pastor Bryant poses the question, “What is […]

Police in a ritzy Detroit suburb allegedly humiliated Black men by forcing them to sing and dance like chimps and then videoed the antics and shared them with friends and family, according to news blog Motor City Muckraker. SEE ALSO: Sylvester Stallone Drops N-Word Bomb On Paparazzi? In one of the videos, Grosse Pointe Park […]

Hip-hop mogul and brow-raising businessman Marion “Suge” Knight (pictured right) was shot in the leg back in 2005 at an MTV Video Music Awards pre-party in Miami that musician Kanye West was hosting. At the time, police investigators did have their who-done-it suspicions, but never took anyone into custody for the shooting. Now a federal informant has stepped forward to provide details about the attempted […]

Despite having been granted a new trial in September, Marissa Alexander will have to wait until the New Year  to find out if she will be freed on bail. Alexander had been sentenced to 20 years for firing a warning shot into a wall during a fight with her husband, whom she alleged had abused her. […]

The curious details surrounding the death of 19-year-old Detroit woman Renisha McBride continue to emerge in the days since her unfortunate passing. Now with an official autopsy report made available to the public, the family attorney is seeking charges against the White man who fired the shot that killed McBride. SEE ALSO:  Autopsy: Renisha McBride […]

Three New Jersey teens are currently locked up on murder charges after they allegedly punched a man to death during a game of “Knockout, according to the New York Daily News. The three teens, all from Jersey City, followed the homeless Hoboken man, Ralph Erick Santiago, 46, down a street back in September. One of […]

UPDATE: 7:52 P.M. EST, 11/10/13: Bethany Arceneaux has been released from Lafayette General Medical Center and is now in the care of her family, reports ABC News. At the time that she was admitted to the hospital Friday afternoon, Arceneaux told investigators that she had not eaten or had anything to drink since she was […]

Minnesota resident Edward Nathaniel III (pictured), a pastor of two churches who moonlighted as a school bus driver, was allegedly fired last week, after leading children in Christian prayer while driving, according to CBS Minnesota. SEE ALSO: Gay Teen Who Ripped Out Bible Pages Suspended By Texas School The 49-year-old minister worked for the Burnsville […]