LOS ANGELES (AP) — The fiancee of an unarmed black man fatally shot by a Bay Area transit police officer last year testified Monday that her boyfriend told her he was being beaten by officers moments before he was killed.
NEW ORLEANS — Five current or former New Orleans police officers were charged Friday in the shooting death and burning of a New Orleans man during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The star witness in a trial of a former transit officer accused of killing an unarmed black man at an Oakland train station can’t take the stand.
From BlackVoices.com: On the heels of the Detroit police shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones and the investigation of Bed-Stuy’s 81 precinct in Brooklyn for their overzealous tactics in arresting people who aren’t doing anything wrong comes the news that Federal authorities are reviewing a 15-year-old African-American boy’s claim that Indianapolis police beat him so badly […]
Bakari Kitwana speaks with Minister Quannell X about a recent wave of police brutality incidents in Houston, Texas, targeting young Black males. This issue is especially relevant considering the recent police brutality cases of Aiyana Jones and the troubling case of Chicago cop, Lt. Jon Burge, accused of torturing black men.
NEW YORK (AP) — A panel convened after two officer-on-officer shootings said police departments must confront both overt and unconscious racial bias among officers to reduce the risk of one officer harming another during “friendly fire.”
DETROIT (AP) — The police chief acknowledged Tuesday that findings from an investigation into the death of a 7-year-old girl who was shot during a police raid “won’t be pretty, but they will be honest.”
