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Sarah Reed was only 30 years old at the time of her death last month. What makes her name the most recent addition to the rapidly growing  list of names being remembered on social media is that she died in police custody under mysterious circumstances. For starters, Reed had been subjected to police brutality and violence while in […]

After acknowledging the initial horror many experienced when viewing video footage of Laquan McDonald being shot and killed by Chicago police, everyone started to notice the same thing – there was no sound. New records suggest that was more than a mere coincidence and reveals a pattern in CPD officers tampering with dashcams and hiding microphones.

According to the New York Times, 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier called 911 three times before the police shot him. There have been new findings from a December police shooting in Chicago which left LeGrier, a college student who was experiencing a mental episode, and his neighbor dead after being hung up on by an impatient dispatcher. When […]

The St. Paul Minnesota Police Department has placed an officer on leave while it looks into claims that he has put on Facebook telling drivers to run over protestors who advocated against the police killings of two black men in 2015.

Could you imagine a society where the police brutality cases were simply isolated incidents? What would the world look like if we could individually look at the act of police killing Black Americans as mistakes separate from one another? Those questions arise as a new Public Religion Research Institute survey has found that white Christians […]

An encounter between Atlanta police and a rapper shows money won’t subvert racial profiling. Sam Benson, the artist who goes by the name “Blac Youngsta,” withdrew $200,000 from an Atlanta Wells Fargo bank on Friday to buy a car, and was detained by officers waiting for him outside, NBC News reported.

The Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland this summer is finally, in some measure, being held accountable for his actions.

By: Jesse Holland   WASHINGTON (AP) — Years before the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement, a new report says.

It has only been a few weeks since video footage emerged of a pool party in McKinney, Texas where Black teens were violently apprehended, intimidated, and brutalized by White police officers and community residents. While some would like to believe that these incidents are few and far in between, the truth is, they happen every […]

An investigation by The Guardian has found that Black and Latino people killed by police are more than twice as likely to be unarmed than white people. From The Guardian: Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed when killed during encounters with police as white people, according to a Guardian investigation which […]

Tania Harris, 18, suffered two gunshot wounds after being shot by police yesterday. Police claim that she was holding a knife but her family disputes police claims. From Fox 9: A Robbinsdale, Minn. police officer shot a high school student after an “unwanted person” call was made at an apartment complex early Thursday evening. According […]

CNN released a damning report this morning that revealed that the Missouri National Guard referred to Ferguson protesters as “enemy forces” and “adversaries”. From CNN: As the Missouri National Guard prepared to deploy to help quell riots in Ferguson, Missouri, that raged sporadically last year, the guard used highly militarized words such as “enemy forces” […]