The case around Mike Brown’s killing by a Ferguson police officer is only getting murkier. After releasing images from a gas station robbery to the press Friday morning with the suggestion Mike Brown was pictured in them, the Ferguson police department is now backtracking. In a second press conference hours later, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson admitted that Brown’s shooting was […]
What’s happening in Ferguson, Missouri around the killing of unarmed teenager Mike Brown is playing out according to a familiar script. The timeline of events and reaction by local and national authorities are so predictable that they don’t even require new analysis. More than 50 years ago, Malcolm X gave a speech on police brutality and […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis police chief on Friday identified the officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager as Darren Wilson. Wilson has been on administrative leave since he shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. Follow NewsOne.com’s continuing coverage of the Michael Brown police shooting and of the protests in […]
Podcast: Download Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, CATO Institute joined Roland Martin Friday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the militarization of America’s police departments. Did you know that local police departments have been amassing military garb and high powered weapons since the war on drugs began? What can be done in Ferguson and around the country to […]
Hard to know where to begin on this, but it’s also hard not to say something, either. Perhaps I should refer to history. Should I start with the Robert Charles Riots of 1900? Or how about Atlanta 1906? Maybe Chicago 1919? How about Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921? Do we even need to fast forward to the 1960s? Harlem 1964? […]
People across the country will participate in a peaceful protest against police brutality in response to Michael Brown‘s shooting death. Starting at 7 p.m., vigils…
A 2012 graduate of Howard University says she was shot in the head during the demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo. Mya Aaten-White (pictured) posted an image to her Instagram page, which showed her bandaged and bruised, and her former school acknowledged her via social media. RELATED: Missouri Highway Patrol Seizes Control Of Ferguson Aaten-White was among […]
Almost a full twenty-four hours before Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson officially identified Darren Wilson, the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed teen, reporters confronted Jackson with what turned out to be, the correct name of shooter. Around 9:58 second mark of the above clip shows a very flustered Tom Jackson responding to […]
After close to a week of refusing to release the name of the police officer who killed unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown, the Ferguson Police Department is moments away from revealing his killer. The officer’s name is Darren Wilson. Brown, who was scheduled to begin college in two days on the day that he was gunned down while walking […]
On August 18, Michael Brown (pictured) was supposed to start classes at St. Louis’ Vatterott College but instead, the slained youth will be memorialized by those who loved him and shared in his joy for a bright and promising future, according to CNN. Brown, aka “gentle giant,” as he was so lovingly referred to by his […]
