Since 1969, the deaths of prominent Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark have been shrouded in mystery with claims that the Panther leader and his fellow member, respectively, were assassinated. Over the years, details regarding the case reveal an insidious plot by the FBI and Chicago police aimed to tear down Hampton’s and the Panthers’ powerful reach among […]

A Black Los Angeles Superior Court judge has filed a complaint against the University of California, Los Angeles police squad for excessive force after a stop for a traffic violation. Judge David S. Cunningham III (pictured) was stopped over the weekend leaving a gym where he says a UCLA officer roughed him up for not […]

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Wilkin Delossantos (pictured) of the Bronx claims officers unjustly tasered him in his apartment. Now he has filed a complaint against the NYPD and is talking to a lawyer about suing, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: Arizona Debacle Spotlights Child Welfare Agencies Delossantos claims policeman barged in to his apartment in the Melrose […]

UPDATED – Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 5:25 p.m. A member of Miami Gardens’ police department alleges that city and police department leaders instructed officers to profile based on race, according to CBS Miami. The unnamed officer also said that cops are pressured to meet quotas for stopping people. The CBS affiliate reports: The tenured officer, who […]

Police in a ritzy Detroit suburb allegedly humiliated Black men by forcing them to sing and dance like chimps and then videoed the antics and shared them with friends and family, according to news blog Motor City Muckraker. SEE ALSO: Sylvester Stallone Drops N-Word Bomb On Paparazzi? In one of the videos, Grosse Pointe Park […]

Cook County prosecutors announced Tuesday that Chicago Police Officer Gildardo Sierra (pictured), who was caught on video shooting an unarmed man 16 times, will not face criminal charges. Prosecutors determined that was Sierra justified in firing the victim, Flint Farmer, multiple times after reasonably mistaking Farmer’s cell phone for a gun, reports ThinkProgress. SEE ALSO:Record […]

UPDATED 10/16/2013: Officer Philip Nace of Philadelphia’s District 25, shown and heard in the below video has been captured in a previous incident involving the apparent harassment of youth playing basketball. Watch the video here. A recent video documenting an apparent stop-and-frisk procedure on two men is currently undergoing online scrutiny and exposing the aggressive, verbally […]

UPDATE: 11/2/13, 2: 34 P.M. EST The results of Jonathan Ferrell‘s toxicology report show that the unarmed man was not under the influence of alcohol or any drugs when he was gunned down by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Randall Kerrick on September 14, 2013. RELATED: Renisha McBride’s Parents Hold Press Conference [VIDEO] The autopsy report concluded that cause […]

Marlon Brown, 38, of Deland, Florida was killed on May 8 when police officers ran him over in a patrol car and. Now his family has released the graphic video, hoping to receive justice, reports Huffington Post. The family has been calling for an independent investigation after a grand jury determined last week that there […]

After being profiled and followed into a Detroit restaurant by a pair of cops back in May, two brothers who were initially charged with assaulting the officers had those charges dropped after surveillance video revealed a different story. Tywonn Mitchell, 20, and Naybon Moore, 26, have long argued that police acted out of line, and […]

Roy Middleton (pictured), a 60-year-old African-American man in Western Florida, is recovering from wounds, after police shot him in front of his home last Saturday. Middleton was reportedly looking for a cigarette inside his mother’s parked car — which sat in his driveway — when county officers opened fired on him even though he reportedly […]

The Mississippi Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN), community leaders and local clergy in Natchez, Mississippi have joined forces to protest the vicious Tasering of Debra Pernell-Simmons, Vice-President of the Mississippi Chapter of NAN and a retired Detroit Public School teacher, by the Adams County Sheriff’s Department, as well as their larger culture of […]