According to an independent autopsy initiated by the family of Andrew Brown Jr., the 42-year-old Black man was shot five times, including once in the back of the head. “This, in fact, was a fatal wound to the back of Mr. Brown’s head as he was leaving the site trying to evade being shot at […]
Rep. Maxine Waters went to Twitter on Tuesday to speak out on the killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, describing the incident as “hard to believe.” “How could a trained officer make a mistake shooting an unarmed man with a gun instead of a taser? Hard to believe,” the congresswoman said, posting a side-by-side photo to […]
Former Buffalo, New York police officer Cariol Horne received justice after a 15-year battle. In 2006, the 53-year-old was fired after she stopped Gregory Kwiatkowski, a white police officer who had Neal Mack, a Black man, in a chokehold, as Blavity previously reported. According to court documents, Horne removed the officer from the suspect’s neck and […]
Protests erupted in Minnesota after police shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. During a Monday press conference, Brooklyn Center Police Department Chief Tim Cannon asserted that the officer unintentionally drew their handgun as opposed to their taser, concluding that the fatal shooting was accidental. “During […]
Former sheriff deputy L.C. “Buckshot” Smith has worked in law enforcement for more than 56 years and is currently the oldest police officer in Arkansas. With his 92nd birthday approaching in May, Smith suggested that retirement isn’t on the horizon for him yet, saying he’ll retire “when the good lord says so.” For 46 years, […]
Rapper, actor and businessman Romeo Miller shared a gut-wrenching story about a dangerous police stop that took place near UCLA during an interview on The Mix. Miller told the show’s hosts that he was driving near the California university when he was pulled over by an officer who was holding up a gun as he […]
The officer who arrested Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon on Thursday said that her actions reminded him of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. As Blavity previously reported, Cannon was arrested after protesting Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to sign SB 202, a controversial 98-page omnibus bill that will propagate voter suppression. According to the Atlanta […]
Day two of Derek Chauvin’s murder trial left those watching awestruck by the testimony of multiple witnesses who were there when the Minneapolis officer choked George Floyd to death. Chauvin is facing charges of second and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, setting off global protests […]
Michael Rainey Jr., a star actor on Power and Power Book II: Ghost, shared a terrifying video of what he said is an unwarranted police encounter that occurred while he was driving. The undated video shows an officer with his hand on his gun as he demands answers from Rainey Jr., who is sitting inside of […]
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 […]