Blacks and police excessive force

An example of excessive force.

In a scenario that is as old as this nation, a Black man was hospitalized after being shot by the police in Mesquite, Texas, for, get this, sitting in his own vehicle after accidentally setting off his alarm. RELATED: Texas Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Man For Entering His Own Truck The man, Lyndo Jones, 31, of […]

A gun case in Washington, D.C., was dismissed because the arresting officer may have designed a racist T-shirt.

The city of Chicago recently settled a lawsuit with a woman who suffered a miscarriage after she was tasered while pregnant by a police officer in July 2013.

A 31-year-old Las Vegas police officer has been charged in the death of an unarmed Black man, who died after being placed in martial arts-type chokehold following a chase through a casino, according to CBS News.

An unidentified cop in Sacramento, California is under investigation after being caught on video repeatedly punching a Black man accused of jaywalking during a violent arrest Monday.

Florida cop Jonathan Aledda was arrested and charged with attempted manslaughter after shooting unarmed Black man Charles Kinsey last July.

City officials and community members in Columbus, Ohio condemned the harmful action of police officer Zachary Rosen who was caught on video stomping a handcuffed Black man while laying on the ground on April 8.

The NAACP chapter in Grand Rapids, Michigan and community organizers have joined together to fight local police practices involving community members after five unarmed Black teens were stopped and searched at gunpoint in March.

Two Ohio police officers are under investigation after using a taser on a 12-year-old African-American girl who they said attacked them and caused a disturbance while refusing to leave a skating rink.

Newly released dash-cam video shows police tackling and beating a Black Northwestern University doctoral student in Evanston, Illinois after suspecting him of stealing a car that belonged to him.

A Black teenager who was slammed to the ground by a cop at a Texas pool party in June 2015 has filed a federal lawsuit for $5 million against the officer Eric Casebolt, the city of Mckinney, Texas and its police department.