Crime

The case surrounding the death of Kendrick Johnson (pictured) is perplexing, considering the nature of how the Georgia teen was found dead. Now, a video expert consultant that works for the FBI says that the surveillance video captured at the Lowndes County High School in Valdosta is reportedly missing bits of information. RELATED: Kendrick Johnson Family […]

Court documents filed on Monday indicate that police uncovered a collection of weapons and several rounds of ammunition inside George Zimmerman‘s girlfriend’s home. After being accused of pointing a shotgun at Samantha Scheibe during a dispute last week, the former volunteer night watchman faces domestic violence  and assault charges to which he has pleaded not guilty. […]

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 […]