Police Brutality
Law enforcement officers in Missouri were 75 percent more likely to stop Black drivers than White drivers last year, and 73 percent more likely to search Black drivers, according to The New York Times. The data also confirmed longstanding complaints by activists that while Blacks were more likely to be stopped and searched than Whites, […]
A St. Louis, Missouri city official is calling for an investigation after local law enforcement officers used their stun guns on a group of protesters who were demonstrating against police brutality, according to RT. St. Louis Alderman Antonio French says he’ll ask the city’s police chief and any witnesses to appear before the city’s public […]
South Florida police claim that they shot and killed Jermaine McBean two years ago at his apartment complex in Orland Park because he ignored their orders to halt and drop his weapon. Turns out, McBean probably couldn’t hear them, writes NBC News. Not only that, the weapon was an unloaded air rifle. Now, a newly […]
Statistics about fatal police shootings are notoriously hard to come by, so the Washington Post started counting this year. The result is an analysis of 385 fatal police shootings — more than 2 per day — around the nation during the first 5 months of 2015. Reports the Post: About half the victims were white, […]
Police are willing to use lethal force in a library but won’t say why? NOW is not the time for silence. #KevinAllen pic.twitter.com/PedG0KxEc5 — Alex Blank Millard (@Hippoinatutu) May 30, 2015 Yet another black man became a hashtag yesterday as Kevin Allen died at the hands of Lyndhurst, NJ police, who said they had not […]
An ex-cop from Inkster, Mich. who was captured beating an unarmed driver on dash cam video will go to trial for misconduct and assault charges. In January, Officer William Melendez pulled Floyd Dent over for a traffic stop and things quickly went left. “I went to the ground, [and Melendez] started choking me,” said Dent during […]
A Barstow, California police officer is under fire after body camera shows him brutally wrestling a Black woman to the ground when she was eight months pregnant, CNN reports. The incident occurred in January when the pregnant woman, Charlena Michelle Cooks, 29, of Barstow, was brutally arrested on a charge of resisting arrest after she […]
In wake of Baltimore protests regarding the death of Freddie Gray, a group of active and retired New York Police Department officers visited the city in an effort to boost the morale and assist officers who may have been traumatized by the events. The group hails from the Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance (POPPA) organization and they’re lending a sympathetic […]
An Ohio sheriff’s deputy was fired from his job Wednesday after an email sent to the Clark County sheriff requested his termination over a series of racist tweets that focused on the unrest in Baltimore. Deputy Zachary Davis took to the social media site to complain about the Baltimore situation in April, comparing protesters to […]
Lawyers for the six officers facing criminal charges in the Freddie Gray case have filed papers to have the trial moved out of Baltimore, arguing they cannot get a “fair and impartial trial” in the city, according to the Baltimore Sun. In an 85-page motion filed Wednesday, the legal team requests a change of venue, […]
In a scathing rebuke of Cleveland’s police practices, the city and U.S. Department of Justice have entered into a court enforceable agreement to halt excessive use of force by officers. The DOJ on Tuesday released findings of a 21-month investigation that began in 2013, according to the complaint, saying officers frequently used unreasonable force against […]
Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. and Attorney Randolph McLaughlin appeared on NewsOne Now to discuss the police shooting of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., the $21 million lawsuit filed against the White Plains, NY Police Department for the murder of Kenneth, Sr. and the Westchester Coalition for Police Reform. Chamberlain told Martin that the Westchester Coalition for Police Reform was created […]