Two college students who were pulled from their car and tased by police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 could receive a $2 million settlement. Messiah Young, a student at Morehouse College, and Taniyah Pilgrim, a student at Spelman College, got stuck in traffic as the streets filled with protesters on May […]
The Georgia branch of the NAACP said it’s was the largest verdict they’ve heard of, especially in a case where the victim is still living, WXIA reports. They believe that this ruling could be monumental in holding law enforcement agencies accountable in cases of excessive force or police brutality. “Given that there was no call for […]
The incident between Atlanta Police Department officer Jon Grubbs and Blasingame, who was 65 years old at the time started with panhandling. “He was panhandling and the police, of course, rolled up on him, chased him and then ran after him,” Ven Johnson said, who is Blasingame’s attorney. Blasingame’s legal team says the officer struck […]
A video posted on social media earlier this month shows a police officer prepper-spraying and tasing Black high school student during a incident at a high school in a Dallas suburb. The unnamed teen was apart of a protest at the school in support of a female schoolmate who has alleged she was groped and […]
The family of a Black Florida man who passed away in 2019 after being tased by Ocoee and Windermere police officers after they were called because he was suffering a mental health crisis says Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell denied their request for another investigation in late August. Worrell denied their request for reneging on […]
Cellphone video released this week shows an incident involving David Crowell, a 29-year-old Black man who was tased by New York police on a subway train after being accused of allowing a rider onto the station without paying. The video, recorded by a bystander, shows several officers trying to restrain Crowell before shooting him with a […]
The officer is heard telling Rodeman to put his hands behind his back. Rodeman is heard telling the officer “I didn’t do nothing…” Then he was tased. “I mean my son was just standing there on his phone,” Rodeman’s mother told the news outlet. “He wasn’t reaching in his pockets. The officer there was no […]