Police Brutality
In an interview set to air on Fox News, Kyle Rittenhouse made an appearance on Fox News and told Tucker Carlson: “I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement, I support peacefully demonstrating.”
A new national poll shows that only 44 percent of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement—a steep decline from the 52 percent who said they supported the movement in June 2020, according to the same survey.
Dustin Boone's lawyers are really trying to argue that the ex-cop convicted in the beating of detective Luther Hall - who was working undercover at a BLM protest - should get a light sentence because St. Louis officers brutalizing Black people is basically a police love language.
In July 2020, Sgt. Javier Esqueda of the Joliet Police Department reportedly shared with the media exposing how police officers treated Eric Lurry, a Black man who died in police custody. Now, he's facing charges and has been ousted by the Joliet Police Officer’s Association.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has recommended between one day and one year of suspension for multiple Chicago police officers who were involved in the botched raid on Anjanette Young's home, and “up to and including separation” from the department for others.
On August 27, eight-year-old Black girl Fanta Bility was killed by police gunfire in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, outside of a football game at Academy Park High School. A month and a half later, only one person has been charged with murdering Fanta—a Black teenager who didn't kill anyone.
Nouman Raja, the former Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, police officer who, in 2019, was convicted of manslaughter and attempted murder for the 2015 shooting death of Black musician Corey Jones tried unsuccessfully to appeal his conviction and put an end to his 25-year prison sentence.
In light of previously withheld body-cam footage that showed Ronald Greene was beaten by Louisiana State Police officers, the FBI ordered Greene's autopsy to be reexamined and it turns out the cops were lying about the car crash causing his injuries.
Glenn Youngkin, the GOP hopeful in Virginia's gubernatorial race, has two loud and proud neo-Nazis, Lucas Isturiz and Angie Chang, in his fan club, and he has shown no interest in denouncing them.
Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was fatally shot in an apartment in Smyrna, Ga., by a deputy who was part of a team that was serving a drug warrant on December 17, 2020. A grand jury determined the shooting to be unjustified and has recommended the officer to be charged.
In Bradenton, Florida, U.S. Marshals arrived with guns drawn at the home of Kada Staples and her three-month-old during a raid conducted by the cops who were reportedly searching for a murder suspect—at the wrong apartment.
Eric Heinze, an assistant chief inspector with the U.S. Marshal's Task Force, and Kristopher Hutchens, a Clayton County police officer, were charged with felony murder, aggravated assault, burglary, making false statements and violation of oath by a public officer in the death of Jamarion Robinson.