OAKLAND-More than two years after Oscar Grant was killed by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Joseph Mehserle, Grant’s cousin, Tony Jones, was shot in the back by Oakland police, Reuters reports. SEE ALSO: 8 Black Divas Who Died Too Soon Why Blaming Bobby Brown Isn’t Fair Reuters has more: The officer shot Tony […]

Ex-Playboy playmate Stephanie Adams (pictured) was awarded $1.2 million for injuries suffered during a scuffle with the New York Police Department, The Washington Post reports. SEE ALSO: Great Tweets In Black History Which Rihanna Do You Love The Best? [Photos] The Post has more: Stephanie Adams claimed in a lawsuit that officers threw her on […]

SEATTLE-A Seattle police officer has been caught on audio tape threatening to falsely charge two suspects with a robbery saying, “I’m gonna make stuff up.” The two suspects, Josh Lawson and Christopher Franklin, filed a lawsuit against the city of Seattle for wrongful arrest and excessive force, claiming that an officer kicked Lawson in the […]

A 19-year-old mother of two in Milwaukee called 911 after a brick was thrown through her bathroom window and someone began kicking her front door. SEE ALSO: Top 5 Winter Travel Destinations Top 7 Places To Visit For Thrill-Seekers But when the cops came, one of them raped the woman, The Daily Beast reports. Below […]

Surveillance footage has been released from the killing of Ramarley Graham by the NYPD. The footage clearly shows Graham walking into his building and officers kicking down the door and entering the building without a warrant. In the video, police can be seen pointing a gun at a resident and another resident claims the police […]

Ramarley Graham was fatally shot by plain clothes officers, after he tried to run from  them during a confrontation Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Daily News. SEE ALSO: The Real Deal With Blacks And Suicide Graham, 19, was pursued by a team of police who had attempted to stop and question him.  Reportedly, police witnessed the youth adjusting the […]

EAST HAVEN, Conn. — Four police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested Tuesday by the FBI on charges that they assaulted illegal immigrants and created false reports to cover up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life was made miserable for Hispanics. SEE ALSO: Police […]

LOS ANGELES-Police shot and killed a man armed with a crowbar outside of a Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Monterey, California. Police were called to the restaurant after reports that a man was breaking windows with a crowbar. At first, police officers tased the individual, which resulted in the unidentified man approaching a police officer with […]

NEW YORK-Police shot and killed Dwayne Browne outside of his home in East New York, Brooklyn after he came outside of his house in his pajamas with a gun to check on a possible break-in. Browne was working installing floors and had attended pharmaceutical school. Browne’s girlfriend says the two were watching a movie together […]

LOS ANGELES-Jermaine Green, an Iraq war veteran, recorded a video of police officers grabbing and punching a woman on a bus in Bellflower, California. Police asked the woman, who was carrying stroller full of pillows, to get off the bus, according to Green’s account. The officers then grabbed and punched her after she refused. Police […]

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Police fired tear gas at supporters of Congo’s top opposition leader Friday as he planned to inaugurate himself president despite officially losing the poll, a move that observers fear could spark more election-related violence in the mineral-rich central African nation. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist Some 1,000 supporters gathered near […]

New York college student Nicholas K. Peart writes a disturbing yet familiar article in the New York Times about his experience with the police, entitled “Why Is the NYPD After Me?” RELATED: Black Males and Cops: Are We Living in a Police State Peart initially explains that even though his mother gave him an ominous […]