Logan Watkins, a student at Stillwater High School, an hour away from Moore, said police officers are not taught to teach students, they’re taught to arrest people. He told the magazine fear should not be invited into the classroom. “I am already uncomfortable around police officers, being a Black individual,” Watkins said. “I don’t need […]
A Black man car was stolen from outside his aunt’s house, which later led to him getting arrested. Samuel Scott Jr.’s 2006 black Jeep Compass was taken on June 1, 2018. After approx. half an hour after making a 911 call, Scott was arrested by the Miami Police Department (MPD) officers he had called to report […]
Dr. Bernice A. King shares what her mother, Coretta Scott King, would think of the protests against racial police violence, clarifies some of her father’s most famous quotes and talks about how everyone can protest online. Subscribe NOW to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: http://bit.ly/1nwT1aN Watch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Weeknights 11:35/10:35c […]
Four Miami Beach police officers have been placed on administrative leave with pay, and some may charged after the aggressive arrests of three men. An investigation into the incident has since been launched. Dalonta Crudup, Khalid Vaughn, and Sharif Cobb, age 24, 28, and 27, were arrested by Miami Beach Police officers identified in a report […]
Two New York Police Department officers were fired after a judge found them guilty of sexually abusing and raping a teen. In the ruling made public last week, former officers Sanad Musallam, 34, and Yaser Shohatee, 41, were fired from the police department in March after an internal disciplinary trial found the officers engaged in […]
The Caledonia Police Department in Wisconsin was under fire this weekend after a video went viral of a cop throwing a plastic bag in the backseat of a car they’d just pulled over Fox 32 reports. But follow-up video shows that cop’s partner appearing to have retrieved the bag from a search conducted on one of […]
Mother Files Lawsuit Against New Orleans Restaurant After They Called Cops Following Argument with Owner Who Tried to Get Teen Celebrating Graduation Change Her Attire La Shawn Butler took her daughter and nearly two dozen family and friends to Lula Restaurant Distillery in New Orleans, Louisiana in May to celebrate her daughter’s high school graduation. […]
Update (July 9, 2021): An attorney representing Breonna Taylor’s family has filed a lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department (MPD). Attorney Sam Aguiar said the officers involved in the fatal raid were assigned body cameras and he believes the department lied about having video evidence of the fatal shooting, NBC News reported. In the […]
An interracial couple, Lindani Myeni and his wife, Lindsay Myeni, moved from their home in South Africa to Hawaii seeking a safe environment to raise their family. Tragically, just three months later, Lindani was killed by a Hawaiian police officer. The couple relocated to Honolulu from Denver in January. “We never thought anything like this […]
A member of the School Committee, Sarah Philips, motioned for the resolution due to mounting evidence of the damaging effect having police officers on a school’s campus has on young students. The motion was aggressively supported by the mayor, Joseph Curtatone and several other members from various wards, according to Liberation News. There was only […]