Police Brutality
Two police officers in Anniston, Alabama have been placed on administrative leave over allegations that they belong to a hate group, according to AL.com. Lt. Josh Doggrell and Lt. Wayne Brown are being investigated for ties to the League of the South after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) posted an article on its Hatewatch […]
In the aftermath of national protests against police brutality and the shooting death of unarmed Black teen Michael Brown nearly a year ago in Ferguson, Missouri, police claim that demonstrators are jeopardizing community safety, highlighting a rise in violent crime in recent months in St. Louis, according to Think Progress. But a new report released by […]
After months full of turmoil surrounding the issue of police brutality in Baltimore, MD, the metropolis has now been named one of the most “Playful Cities” in America. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made the announcement via Twitter Wednesday afternoon. For the third time, the city has owned the title given by the Humana Foundation’s Kaboom! initiative. Baltimore is so proud […]
For the second time in June, excessive force has reportedly been used on an unarmed young Black girl at a pool. According to NBC affiliate WLWT, a pregnant woman and several children were taken to the hospital after they were accused of disorderly conduct at an aquatics center in Fairfield, OH. The incident occurred last week, when Krystal […]
A 224-page report released Saturday by prosecutors sheds light on a number of damning details surrounding the investigation into the shooting of a 12-year-old Ohio boy by a police officer last year, including a tidbit that the officers involved refused to cooperate with investigators. As previously reported, that investigation into Tamir Rice’s death at the hands of […]
Infamous White supremacist Craig Cobb has offered support to former officer Eric Casebolt after a viral video showing him roughly detaining a young Black teenager led to his resignation from the McKinney Police Department in Texas, according to Raw Story. Cobb’s new White nationalist movement has offered a safe haven to the now-unemployed cop. Cobb’s group, Antler, ND PLE […]
For the three years Kalief Browder sat in New York’s Rikers Island, he probably wondered what the difference would have been if his family could have posted the $3,000 bail that would have gotten him out of the jail and back on the street to await trial. Instead he languished there, just a couple football […]
In what critics are calling a gross misrepresentation of facts, Ferguson, Missouri’s police chief is under fire for claiming in a recent interview that it took hours to remove 18-year-old Michael Brown‘s body from the street after he was shot “because of hostile fire against our officers,” according to The Los Angeles Times. Interim Police […]
After two young Black men were killed by officers in New York City and Cincinnati this week, the death toll for the number of people killed by police in the nation rose to 500 — more than twice the rate most recently recorded by the FBI in 2013, according to The Guardian. The numbers are […]
Reading about the suicide of Kalief Browder is heartbreaking. His story is one of many tragedies that moved me to drive to Albany last week, to stand with legislators like Assemblyman Michael Blake in demanding that New York ‘Raise the Age’ at which youth are charged as adults in our courts. In New York State, […]
Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old who was horrendously abused by police officers on Rikers Island as a teen, was facing new charges shortly before his suicide on Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. Browder’s lawyer calls the charges against Kalief and his brother Kamal, 22, “baseless.” Both brothers were facing disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges on Wednesday […]
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 […]