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A weekend of violence hit the Windy City, as three people were shot near the University of Chicago campus. Thirty other individuals were also involved in separate shootings. Two men and one woman were hit by gunfire near the Hyde Park campus around 12:30 a.m., the Chicago Tribune reports. The 35 and 24-year-old men were sitting in a parked car with […]
Escalated steps are being taken to keep intruders away from President Barack Obama and the First Family after another person was arrested for climbing the fence outside of the White House, CNN reports. According to the news outlet, the incident occurred Sunday evening around 10:25 p.m., when officials spotted a person with a package scaling the […]
The lawyer for an Oklahoma reserve deputy, who fatally shot a man he meant to halt with a Taser, released documents on Saturday that verify some of his training, according to CNN. Robert Bates, 73, a businessman in Tulsa, Okla., had one Taser training class over a six-and-a-half-year period, took three firearms training classes, and […]
Another black mother calls the police to help diffuse a situation with her child, another black life ended by them. On Friday night, two St. Louis County police officers shot and killed 23-year old Thaddeus McCarroll after he reportedly came out of his mother’s home with a knife and Bible in his hands. SEE ALSO: Family […]
Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was hospitalized Thursday after a judge ordered him to stand trial in a fatal hit-and-run case that injured another man on set of the biopic Straight Outta Compton, TIME magazine reports. After a two-day preliminary hearing that ended Thursday, Judge Ronald Coen ruled that Knight, 49, will stand trial on one count […]
A day after a critical report raised questions about the training of a Tulsa reserve deputy, he denied Friday that his records were forged and apologized to the family of the man he killed when he “mistakenly” fired his gun instead of his Taser, according to NBC Today. Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Reserve Deputy Robert […]
Playing the disturbing video of former North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager shooting and killing 50-year-old Walter Scott may soon cost thousands for news outlets around the world. According to the New York Times, a publicist representing the bystander who shot the video, Feidin Santana, said the footage will now cost media $10,000 to […]
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, […]
In an effort to address the pain of dozens of torture victims who experienced brutal treatment at the hands of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge and his “midnight crew” of rogue detectives, city leaders have proposed a $5.5 million sweeping reparations package, reports the Chicago Tribune. The proposal, expected to be passed by the […]
A damning report accuses the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office of falsifying training records for the 73-year-old reserve deputy charged with manslaughter in a fatal incident in which he mistook his gun for a Taser, according to the Washington Post. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, supervisors in the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office were ordered to […]
The Inkster, Michigan police officer involved in the beating of Detroit native Floyd Dent has been fired, according to Michigan Live. William Melendez was officially fired on Wednesday after his five-day suspension for the incident. Dent, 57, reportedly ran a traffic light in January and was pulled out of his car by Melendez and another […]
The Arizona police officer who ran over a fleeing suspect in February will not face aggravated assault charges, ABC News reports. Footage from the Feb. 19 incident was brought to light this week, showing officer Michael Rapiejko running over Mario Valencia, a man wanted for a number of robberies and burglaries. While officials previously said Valencia wanted […]