Police Brutality

Marching to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we were blessed to kick off the day’s journey with the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a world-renowned Civil Rights warrior who once walked the same route we now travel. As we passed through the residential areas, we began chanting ‘justice for Brandon Tate-Brown,’ who was shot in the back of the head […]

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, […]

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 […]

The second day on our route was, in a word, powerful. Our route took us through Trenton, NJ, where residents came out to wave and cheer us on, and motorists tooted their horns in support. We broke for lunch in Martin Luther King Park, where we found inspiration in the Biblical verse on a mural […]

Over 400 people took to the streets of New York to protest the recent police killing of Walter Scott and the deaths of many others that have taken place at the hands of law enforcement this year, the New York Daily News reports. Operated in accordance with the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, protests took place in 30 cities […]

Scrutiny of police tactics has been at an all time high following the deaths of Eric Harris and veteran Walter Scott. Now, an incident involving an Arizona police officer running over a suspect has many questioning if his actions were necessary. Marana police officer Michael Rapiejko used his patrol car to stop Mario Valencia from fleeing from law enforcement by running […]

We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day to gather and #March2Justice. April 13 started with about 250 people in Staten Island to rally and motivate our marchers, including elected officials such as Senator Gustavo Rivera, NYS 79th District Assemblyman Michael Blake, former NYC Comptroller John Liu, NYC councilman Andy King, NYC Councilwoman Deb Rose […]

One hundred fifteen. That’s the number of people killed by American law enforcement in the month of March in 2015. The U.S. has killed more of its citizens in one month than the UK has in over 100 years, according to the comparison offered by journalist Shaun King. Over the course of 31 days, 115 […]

Updated Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 9:48 p.m. Tuesday afternoon hundreds of protesters shut down the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City for a period, according to RT.com.  They had marched from Union Square in lower Manhattan, down to City Hall and New York Police Department headquarters before heading over the iconic bridge connecting the […]

Audio has surfaced of Michael Slager, the former North Charleston police officer who killed Walter Scott, laughing about his “pumping adrenaline” just moments after the fatal shooting. The audio was taken from Slager’s police dash cam after he shot the 50-year-old five times on April 4. Slager, who is also suspected of planting his Taser next to Scott’s […]