HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Authorities are reviewing video recorded by a bystander that shows an Alabama police officer repeatedly stomping on the leg of a man who is struggling with another officer during an arrest, police said Tuesday. The video, which was broadcast through Facebook Live on Sunday night, begins with an unidentified man and a uniformed officer […]
San Diego police have launched an internal investigation after two officers were recorded repeatedly punching a man during an arrest this week according to NBC News. A witness recorded the incident Wednesday said she recognized the man being hit in the head and legs as a “harmless” neighborhood vagrant. She told the news outlet she […]
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a repeal of the state’s 1863 citizen’s arrest law, which previously stated that bystanders could make an arrest if they witnessed a crime. The legislation, which was signed on Monday, comes a little over a year after Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot by white vigilantes who suspected the 25-year-old was […]
Two additional Loveland, Colorado police officers and a sergeant have been placed on administrative leave after the arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia. The encounter is now under investigation according to NBC News. Police officer Austin Hopp was placed on administrative leave earlier this month after a lawsuit accused him and another officer of […]
“In your mind, you want to say to yourself, ‘It happened because I’m Black,’ and then you don’t want to be that petty. You don’t want to be that small. You don’t want to really believe that people’s thinking is really [on] that low of a scale,” Austin told ABC News. “Then when you watch the […]
Nsé Ufot, the founder of the advocacy group New South, said the bill “is a direct attack on our democracy and on Georgians, who deserve to have their votes counted and voices heard.” “Republicans know that their only hope to win our state is to silence the voices of Georgians of color. That’s why they are […]
A Black Tampa, Florida police officer Delvin White was fired from his job this week after a random body camera audit caught him referring to a group of people as “n****s” during an arrest, according to the Tampa Bay Times. White, a school resource officer at Middleton High School who has spent eight years on the […]
The Chicago Police Department are at the center of a lawsuit around footage of an arrest. Leroy Kennedy IV was arrested in 2020 where he claims the incident left him traumatized. Kennedy spent four days in jail and was charged with aggravated battery to an officer, but he says video of the incident shows police […]