Los Angeles — A Los Angeles judge has denied bail for a white former transit officer sentenced to two years in prison for fatally shooting an unarmed black man in Oakland last year.
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police say they have reassigned a plainclothes officer and launched an investigation after the officer was shown on a convenience store video kicking a 17-year-old boy in the groin during an Oct. 18 arrest. In a statement on their blog, police said they learned about the officer’s action Wednesday. They say […]
Krystal Gardner, a woman in Farmington, Michigan is accusing Westland police of physically abusing her while she was in jail. The Grio reports: Krystal Gardner is suing two male officers and the Westland Police Department, for $2 million over the assault she alleges happened Aug. 18. The 25-year-old Wayne woman was in custody after being […]
Johannes Mehserle has been sentenced to two years in prison for the killing of Oscar Grant. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the incident in which he shot an unarmed Grant in the back while he was laying on the ground on New Year’s Eve, 2008. Mehserle claimed he thought he was using his […]
Several police officers were caught on video beating and restraining a teenage boy at Roxbury Community College in Boston. Bostonchannel reports: Police officers are being accused of excessive force after Boston police are seen on video punching and kneeing a teenage suspect accused of resisting arrest. The teen is heard screaming and asking the officer […]
THORNWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — Four Pace University football players were arrested, and one of them was stun-gunned, in the chaos after police fatally shot a teammate outside a suburban New York bar, officials said Tuesday. One of the teammates broke a storefront window, Mount Pleasant Police Chief Louis Alagno said. The other three wouldn’t move […]
THORNWOOD, N.Y. – Investigators are trying to unravel conflicting accounts of how a Pace University football player driving away from the scene of a fight ended up dead hours after the team’s homecoming game, struck in a burst of police gunfire that pierced his windshield. Authorities say Danroy “D.J.” Henry, 20, was parked in a […]
MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. — A college football player is dead after police in New York shot at his car during a bar brawl. The dead man was identified as Danroy Henry, a junior at Pace University’s suburban Westchester County campus. He was a varsity defensive football player at the school. According to Mount Pleasant police, […]
For more than two decades, the 52-year-old former Hawthorne, Calif., police officer has made a living embarrassing cops with a video camera. Stung by the rough treatment of his father during a 1987 traffic stop by another California department, Diop Kamau turned to a second career recording police across the country in compromising — often […]
NEW YORK – The fiancee and friends of an unarmed man killed in a 50-bullet police shooting on his wedding day said they wanted justice. The legal system gave them money — more than $7 million. The city did what it has done time and time again: pay. Nearly $1 billion has been paid over […]
If you’re a regular viewer of the nightly news or even Fox’s ‘Cops’, you may be aware of the extent to which police brutality can impact the day-to-day lives of members of marginalized communities, irrespective of the lack of physical danger they might pose to the police. NewsOne has profiled similar cases of police brutality […]
In the wake of yet another NYPD murder, this time 23 year-old Emmanuel Paulino was killed in Manhattan for brandishing a 4-inch pocketknife, those keeping score might have noticed that aside from Gideon Bush who was Jewish, even a police historian would be hard pressed to name another NYPD murder victim that wasn’t Black or […]
