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Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager’s time in court for killing Walter Scott is far from over. According to CBS News, a court ordered for him to be retried on March 1. 

I grew up in Oakland, California in the nineties and have been arrested and harassed by police more times in my life than I can count. I have been one of the people running away when we heard the call, “5-0! 5-0!” signalling that, no matter what we were doing – lawful or otherwise – […]

A Black transgender man was stabbed after doing something kind on Christmas night: offering his seat to a woman on the subway. Ijan DaVonte Jarrett, 44, was riding the subway home from work in Bayonne around 11pm when he offered his seat to a woman who was riding with her cousin. The woman, Stephanie Pazmino (30), refused […]

Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald has seen the same video we all have of a police officer’s interaction with Jacqueline Craig after she called authorities because her neighbor allegedly choked her seven-year-old son for littering. He also watched the situation escalate on film as the officer forcibly arrested Craig and her two teenaged daughters after implying […]

For the People Artists Collective (FTP) is entering a new season. This past year, their actions and art supported the successful #ByeAnita campaign, which advocated against the re-election of former State’s Attorney, Anita Alvarez, for her role in the Laquan McDonald video cover-up. The video showed the young black man being shot 16 times by […]

Canada is taking steps to make their currency more representative by introducing the first woman to their notes. Viola Desmond, a Canadian civil rights icon, will be featured on the $10 note, taking the place of John A Macdonald, the country’s first prime minister. Macdonald will move to a higher currency when the change happens in […]

Ronald Gasser shot Joe McKnight in broad daylight. He told police officers he did so and turned over the weapon he used to do it. Still, it took them four days to charge him with a crime. 

Aml Elsokary has been a member of the NYPD for 11 years. But when she was out of uniform with her son in Brooklyn, that didn’t matter as she was threatened on the street. Elsokary had just dropped her son off in Brooklyn on Saturday night when he got into a confrontation with Christopher Nelson, […]

At 2:45 p.m. Thursday, Ronald Gasser, 54, was arrested after shooting former NFL player Joe McKnight in Louisiana after a road rage incident. The loss was felt by both former teammates, competitors and fans alike. The same can be said for the outrage that followed Gasser’s overnight release from custody with no charges. 

The staff of a CVS in Carytown, Virginia disappeared for more than 30 minutes when two black customers came in asking for cheese. After wandering around the store, even with a police officer who arrived on the scene, they eventually found the employees hiding in a locked room in the back of the store. 

Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with killing nine black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015, has been granted the opportunity to represent himself in trial, according to the New York Times.

You may recall the headline this past May when a middle schooler was arrested and charged with larceny for allegedly stealing a 65-cent carton of milk at lunch. Sadly, the situation that had already been blown entirely out of proportion is far from over. According to the Washington Post, Ryan Turk will have to face the […]