Police Brutality

Missouri has become the epicenter of police brutality in the United States in recent months, and now the St. Louis county police department has yet another death on their hands. With the death of 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers at the hands of an off-duty St. Louis Metropolitan officer last Wednesday, October 9th, the city is now in the […]

  As if police brutality across the country wasn’t already at a fever pitch, the number of chokehold complaints the New York Police Department (NYPD) have received so far this year is the highest it’s been in a decade, according to Time. SEE ALSO: [Watch] NYPD Cops Caught Pistol-Whipping Teen With Hands Up The Civilian Complaint Review […]

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  Two NYPD officers, Tyrane Isaac and David Afanador, are under investigation for beating and pistol-whipping an unarmed teenager in Brooklyn. Kahreem Tribble, 16, had his hands up at the time of the attack. Gawker reports: The two officers were pursuing Tribble after he allegedly dropped a bag of weed and began running at 1311 […]

Sara Bennett, who lives in the predominantly White neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York’s Park Slope area, reportedly witnessed a New York City policeman yell over the loudspeaker of his cruiser to a group of strolling Black youths, “Get out of the neighborhood!” states DNA Info New York. SEE ALSO: Mother of 4-Year-Old Girl Vanishes After Cryptic Phone Call To Family According […]

White Columbia, South Carolina, state trooper Sean Groubert (pictured), was arrested and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, after he shot an unarmed Black man repeatedly for not getting his ID out of his vehicle quickly enough during a routine traffic stop earlier this month.  Now the shocking turn-of-events that were captured […]

The family of slain teen Michael Brown, who senselessly died early last month at the hands of Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson, are now in Atlanta to kick off a nationwide effort to arm police with body cameras, according to WSB-TV. SEE ALSO: DOJ Announces Law Enforcement Initiative In Wake Of Ferguson Incident Brown’s […]

Police Brutality

News stories in recent week have directed the public’s attention toward the issues of police brutality and domestic violence. It’s perhaps natural then that researchers are looking into the intersection of the two with, some would say, shocking results. It turns out that rates of domestic violence are two to four times higher in the law-enforcement […]

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DETROIT (AP) — A member of an elite Detroit police team failed to follow his training when he stormed a house looking for a murder suspect with his finger on the trigger and shot a 7-year-old girl who was asleep on the couch, a prosecutor said Thursday at the start of an involuntary manslaughter trial. […]

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A recent study found that police officers across Los Angeles have averaged about one kill per week for the past 14 years. Most killed are men of color. While many may not be shocked by the news, the research is rare given many police departments do not record such data or make it public. Here’s […]

Entertainment, Police Brutality

Actress Danièle Watts was “handcuffed and detained” by Los Angeles police officers Thursday. She and her husband explained from their Facebook pages that the incident started because the cops thought the interracial couple was a prostitute and John. Watts also shared a picture of herself sobbing in handcuffs, as she stood in front of an officer. She posted: […]

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In response to a decision made by their union to stand with organizations calling for justice for Eric Garner, who was killed by an NYPD chokehold, a group of New York City schoolteachers moved last week to show their support for the NYPD in the classroom. One image, culled by the New York Post from Facebook, shows a […]

Ferguson Lives…Young Blacks Continue to Die Where do we go from here? The news from Ferguson has transfixed the nation. Another young black man brutally and senselessly murdered by law enforcement in our country. Radio One, Inc., through its local affiliates 92Q, Magic 95.9, WOLB 1010AM and Spirit 1400AM will convene a Town Hall to address […]