LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles police officer briefly pressed a knee to the neck of NBA player Jaxson Hayes as the New Orleans Pelicans center gasped “I can’t breathe” seconds before another officer used a Taser on him during a struggle, according to body camera video released Friday. The officers went to Hayes’ home […]
A South Florida man’s attorneys argued in court on Monday, Aug. 23, that he was acting in self-defense when he threatened a group of teenage Black Lives Matter protesters with a gun. On Thursday, Aug. 25, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Alberto Milian rejected that plea and refused to dismiss the case. In 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Day […]
Body camera video from two years ago shows a Louisiana State Police trooper beating a Black man 18 times with a flashlight. The tropper defended the attack as “pain compliance” according to USA Today. Aaron Larry Bowman can be heard yelling during the assault “I’m not resisting! I’m not resisting” in footage obtained by The Associated […]
A student game involving a Black doll baby is receiving criticism. A video has been circulating showing a group of white students at a California High School torturing a Black doll they referred to as Shaniqua. The video was posted on social media under the user name “Shaniqua.shs,” which shows a number of students from […]
Pittsburgh Police Department have launched an investigation into a fight that took place out after a white woman slapped a Black man during an verbal argument at the Steelers’ first home game in the preseason. The encounter occurred at Saturday night’s Steelers-Lions game at Heinz Field, the Post-Gazette reports. The video doesn’t show what started […]
Porter was jailed overnight on suspicion of resisting arrest, however, was never charged. She says the ordeal was dehumanizing. “I was doing my best to do everything right, giving no reason to be treated like this,” said Porter, 33. The suit filed by attorney Yasin Almadani accuses the deputies of violating state and federal civil […]
School started back last week at Kindezi at Gideons Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia and wanted one teacher wanted her students to start the year on a positive note. In a now viral video Neffiteria Acker, a fourth-grade teacher, is shown holding a mirror while students say positive affirmations to themselves. “I practice positive affirmations […]
A Chicago family is outraged after someone who works for the city went onto their property and took down their Black Lives Matter sign. Dimitri Hepburn’s home security footage shows a man with a vest walk onto the property, take down a Black Lives Matter sign. Then turn it face down after it lands on […]
Warning-GraphicLocals while collecting the bodies of three men Clinging to the wheels of the plane that took off from #Kabul airport, they were then fell to the ground near Khairkahana area of Kabul#Afghanistan #Taliban pic.twitter.com/N14U55CZmj — Aśvaka – آسواکا News Agency (@AsvakaNews) August 16, 2021 In other footage, U.S. soldiers appear to fire warning shots in the air as crowds […]
A Southern California police officer searching for a burglary suspect on a February night opened the door of a portable toilet and found him. Seconds later, the unarmed man was dead. Fontana police on Thursday released body-worn camera footage, narrated by Chief Billy Green, from the fatal encounter. Green said the man, Daverion Deauntre Kinard, was holding a “metallic […]