Crime, Cross Post Now, Police Brutality

A Harris County, Texas, grand jury has cleared a veteran police officer in the fatal shooting of unarmed 26-year-old Jordan Baker (pictured), USA Today reports. SEE ALSO: Ex-Milwaukee Cop Will Not Be Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Unarmed Man [VIDEO] Officials announced Tuesday that officer Juventino Castro would not face criminal charges in the January shooting death […]

Despite two recent decisions by grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island not to indict White police officers in the killings of two unarmed Black men and the international protests those decisions sparked, a new NBC News/Marist poll finds that whites are very confident in law enforcement’s ability to police Black and whites equally. In the […]

Crime

Janet Baker, the Mother of Jordan Baker (pictured), a Houston man shot dead by police in an apparent mistaken identity case, is speaking out about the loss of her son, ABC reports. SEE ALSO: AP To Zimmerman: Stop Using Our Photo Or Else! Per police reports, an unnamed off-duty officer was providing security at a […]