On the heels of the violent police assault at a recent Pete Rock and Smif N’ Wessun show in New York City, we decided to compile a list of the top 5 most infamous police brutality incidents ever caught on tape. Below is the list. 5. Pete Rock, Smif N’ Wessun NYPD Police Brutality, 2011 […]
NEW YORK — After police fought with party goers and friends and family of the group Smif N’ Wessun and rapper Pete Rock at their release party last week, members of the group, affiliates, and social activists have planned a protest at New York City’s City Hall today. Concerned community members, hip hop artists, local […]
I can’t seem to erase the conjured images of New York City Police Department officers, savagely beating patrons outside Tammany Hall from my psyche. I didn’t witness it personally, but the bit of video footage caught on camera was enough to fill me with rage. The riot that occurred on Tuesday, June 28, in which […]
New York record producer/rapper Pete Rock, rap group Smif-N-Wessun, and hundreds of their supporters gathered in New York’s Lower East Side on Tuesday to celebrate the release of their album, “Monumental”. The night was marred by violence when members of the NYPD used excessive force to quell what they thought was an unruly crowd. However, […]
WASHINGTON–A University of Delaware graduate blamed three off-duty cops for the loss of his eye, which came as a result of a nightclub beating. Walter Blair, 24, celebrated his birthday in Washington and was involved in a brawl with the cops, who were working as bouncers. Blair was never accused or charged with any crime, […]
NEW YORK — Last night at a release party for Pete Rock and Smif N Wessun’s album, “Monumental,” police got into several physical altercations with fans, family members and supporters of the artists. Rapper Pete Rock claimed on Twitter he saw police beat another woman: “Deez police are outta hand, i saw them beat up […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — A San Francisco Bay area transit agency Tuesday agreed to pay $1.3 million to the mother of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white transit officer in 2009. The settlement between Bay Area Rapid Transit and Wanda Johnson resolves a $50 million wrongful death and civil rights […]
MIAMI – Narces Benoit, a witness to the Miami Memorial day police shooting, which claimed the life of Raymond Herisse says police stomped on his cell phone, pulled guns on him and detained him but he still managed to keep the video of the incident, which he sold to CNN. “When he noticed me recording, […]
ARIZONA-A helmet cam video from a SWAT team member who was with the SWAT team that killed former Marine, Jose Guerena, has been released. Gurena was shot 60 times in the raid. One member of the SWAT team can be heard saying “bang bang,” before the raid. RELATED STORIES Shot 60 Times!? Arizona SWAT Team […]
ARIZONA-Jose Guerena, a decorated Marine was shot and killed by a SWAT team in a raid gone wrong. The team was looking for a marijuana ring and gave no warning before entering Gerena’s house. The Huffington Post reports: As the SWAT team forced its way into his home, Guerena, a former Marine who served two […]
Georgia’s Effingham Police Department is quiet as can be after a video released shows two of their cops sucker punching and attacking a Black man while in his car. Bernard Wallace was on his way home with brother Calvin Lee, when the police pulled them over on a routine traffic stop. While Lee and Wallace […]
OMAHA, Neb. – Omaha police say they shot a man dressed as a pirate who menaced them with a sword. A police news release says officers encountered 38-year-old Jonathan Martis at a home in southeast Omaha where they had been dispatched to investigate a disturbance Thursday evening. The officers told Martis to drop the sword […]
