Ismaaiyl Brinsley

A former FedEx driver who unwittingly gave directions to Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the man who murdered two police officers last year, says he's been the subject of brutal harassment by the NYPD.

Two New York Police Department officers were ambushed last weekend by Ismaaiyl Brinsley after he had made threatening posts online, including references to high-profile cases of white police officers killing unarmed black men and a vow to put “wings on pigs.” After shooting the officers, Brinsley ran into a Brooklyn subway station and committed suicide. […]

Let’s have a flashback: In the 1988 presidential race, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush ran an attack ad against Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, pointing out that he authorized weekend passes to Willie Horton, a Black male convicted of first-degree murder. During one of those weekends, Horton raped a woman and attacked her companion. SEE ALSO: Omaha’s Nikko […]

You have to be a special kind of parasite to politicize death, but fortunately for those working in politics, media, and law enforcement such a strain can only serve to propel you in your field. It’s been less than a week since the shooting deaths of two NYPD officers at the hands of the clearly disturbed Ismaaiyl Brinsley, […]

The Huffington Post is reporting that #BlackLivesMatter, the social movement formulated to protest against violence and oppression in the African American community, officially condemned the “senseless” killing of two New York Police Department officers. RELATED: UPDATE: Obama Reacts To Revenge Shooting Of Cops, While Political Firestorm Brews #MarchOn: Nonviolent Protests From Selma To Ferguson and Beyond After […]

UPDATED Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 10:05 a.m., E.T. – A politically divisive firestorm has erupted in reaction to the killing of 2 police officers by a man who vowed on social media to “put wings on pigs” in retaliation for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. New York police union head Pat Lynch placed […]