Three San Francisco men were detained for hours by police at a department store last week according to KTVU FOX 2. The three friends have been cleared of any wrongdoing and have accused police of racial profiling. The men are now planning to file a lawsuit and are being represented by civil rights attorney Adante […]
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Black resource officer at a Florida high school was fired after a random audit of his body-worn camera captured him using a racial slur multiple times, police said. A disposition letter released by the Tampa Police Department said Officer Delvin White was fired Tuesday for “violations of policy that prohibit […]
The Rochester Police Accountability Board has released a video showing an officer violently throwing a mother to the ground and pushing her 3-year-old after a store accused the mother of theft. The incident has sparked outrage considering it comes just weeks after Rochester police officers were seen on camera attacking, handcuffing and pepper-spraying a 9-year-old girl, as Blavity […]
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 […]
0 SHARES ShareTweetSubscribe Louisiana police looking for a Southern University who’s been for over a week. 21-year-old Marquise Jones was last seen at house party on Onzaga Street near N Broad Street in New Orleans according to WWL-TV. Police officials say he was last seen leaving a party around 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 25. Jones […]
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 George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 will make its way to the House floor on Wednesday for a vote after being reintroduced by House Rep. Karen Bass and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler late last month. The police reform bill was put up for a vote last year and passed 236 to 181 […]
A Louisiana State Police trooper has been suspended without pay for kicking and dragging a handcuffed Black man whose in-custody death remains unexplained and the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. Body camera footage shows Master Trooper Kory York dragging Ronald Greene “on his stomach by the leg shackles” following a violent arrest and […]
A Oklahoma City officer shot a death homeless man in December has been charged with first-degree manslaughter. The shooting took place last year on Dec. 11, when Bennie Edwards, a 60 year-old homeless man died after Sgt. Clifford Holman, 36, shot him in the back multiple times as he ran away. The Oklahoma City Fraternal Order […]
Pamela Smith has been appointed leader of the U.S. Park Police, becoming the first Black woman to hold the position with the 230-year-old federal agency, according to a statement from U.S. Park Police. Smith is taking over the agency as it faces multiple scandals and intense scrutiny from lawmakers after its disastrous handling of the deadly […]