A Florida police officer is facing felony charges after he violently shoved a 13-year-old boy for arguing with his mother.

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When footage surfaced of a Columbia, SC high school student being flipped in her desk and then dragged across the floor by a school resource officer, there was collective outrage from a community tired of seeing officers abuse their power and Black people being disproportionately on the receiving end of that abuse. Even more disturbing […]

An attorney for Chris Few says body camera footage shows Few's hands were up when two city marshals shot into his car last week, critically wounding the dad and killing his 6-year-old son Jeremy Mardis.

Both officers are being held without bail. The hearing is expected to take place Monday afternoon.

In July of 2014, Greg was found guilty of threatening and assaulting former girlfriend Nicole Holder stemming from a event that occurred in May of 2014.

An alleged attack on two White men by a group of Black men over a Confederate flag decal could be investigated as a hate crime, Fox2Now reports.

Police say the child was targeted because of his father's gang ties and a string of shootings between rival gangs. A basketball the boy often carried to and from school was found near his body.

Police fatally shot a 6-year-old child, making Jeremy Mardis the youngest person to be killed by police this year and proving that police practices across the board should be examined, no matter which communities they serve.

In a trial that began Tuesday in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Daniel Holtzclaw, who is White, faces 36 counts of rape, sexual battery, and forcible oral sodomy of 13 Black women. Problem is, there are no Black women or men on the jury.

Sgt. Michael Walker was arrested by FBI agents Wednesday after a federal grand jury indicted him for murder in the Nov. 14, 2014 stabbing death of his wife, Catherine Walker.

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A model and a teenage boy were shot on a Chicago street corner Monday evening at approximately 6:20 p.m., NBC reports. The model, 20-year-old Kaylyn Pryor, had recently become known as a local celebrity after winning the famous “Mario, Make Me a Model” contest hosted by salon owner Mario Tricoci just over a month before. Pryor was shot in […]

Based off the Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Chiraq follows Lysistrata (played by Survivor’s Remorse‘s Teyonah Parris), who gets a band of women together to withhold sex from their men after a child is murdered in Chicago.