A former St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to 52 months in prison, after four years after he beat a Black officer who was working undercover during a protest in 2017. Randy Hays, 34, was facing up to 10 years in prison for being apart in the beating of Detective Luther Hall, however, will […]
White St. Paul Officer Apologizes During Sentencing for Assaulting Innocent Black Man Was Already Getting Mauled By Police Dog A former St. Paul, Minnesota officer was sentenced to six years in prison by a federal court judge on Friday, May 21, for using excessive force against an unarmed civilian during a 2016 arrest involving a […]
An FBI investigation into a violent extremist group led to finding a former Georgia sheriff’s deputy who bragged about beating a Black man, fantasized about killing liberal politicians and had a “cache” of illegal firearms prosecutors said. 28-year-old Cody Richard Griggers of Montrose, has plead guilty to one count of possession of an unregistered firearm […]
An FBI investigation into a violent extremist group led to finding a former Georgia sheriff’s deputy who bragged about beating a Black man, fantasized about killing liberal politicians and had a “cache” of illegal firearms prosecutors said. 28-year-old Cody Richard Griggers of Montrose, has plead guilty to one count of possession of an unregistered firearm […]
An investigation by the FBI revealed that a former Georgia deputy threatened to charge Black people with felonies to keep them from voting and bragged about beating a Black man. Cody Richard Griggers, who was a deputy in Wilkinson County, Georgia, shared through text messages in an alleged extremist hate group that he beat a Black […]
On Friday, the family filed the lawsuit alleging that Carter was driving to his father’s house when police began following him to try to pull him over for speeding. According to NBC News, the suit states that Carter was initially unaware that police were tailing him. The family’s suit contends that officers used a “pursuit […]
A video shows a police officer chocking a Black man in California. The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s reportedly launched a use of force investigation. According to The Valley Post, officials of the sheriff’s office acknowledge the investigation in a statement sent to the news outlet. According to The Valley Post: The incident occurred on March […]
The verdicts reignited criticisms that an all-white jury was picked to decide the case. “If an undercover cop can’t get justice, how will the rest of us who have been maced, shot, beaten, and brutalized ever get justice?” tweeted Cori Bush, a Black congresswoman who represents the Missouri district that includes St. Louis. Two other […]
Leon Bibb reports: He has never told the story that resonates in him as loud as the gunshot he heard when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis April 4, 1968. Especially on Martin Luther King Day and on the anniversary of his death, Bishop J. Delano Ellis of the Pentacostal Church of […]
Internal documents acquired by the Associated Press reveal that Louisiana State Police officials are admitting officers involved in the May 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene were not truthful in how they described what happened. Troopers initially said Greene died after he crashed into a tree following a police chase in Monroe, Louisiana, that began over alleged traffic violations. […]