If you thought that Dave Chappelle was living it up in a deluxe penthouse in New York City you wouldn’t be further from the truth. The comedy star and his family actually live a mostly quiet life on a farm in a town called Yellow Springs, Ohio. However, despite living in a village of less […]
Charges against Jacqueline Craig, 46, and her daughter, Brea Hymond, 19, were dropped by Forth Worth police after body camera footage of their altercation with an officer leaked, according to Dallas News.
Police in Britain and Wales may fire their guns less than 10 times a year – shocking, right? – but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to racial profiling. Officers in Bristol, which is 120 miles west of London, are under fire for using a taser on a black man outside of his home while they […]
A mother in St. Louis is upset with local authorities after a photo was leaked that she believes shows a police officer posing next to the body of her dead son. On Aug. 8, 2016, Omar Rahman was found dead in a home, supposedly of an accidental drug overdose. The leaked photo shows an officer smiling […]
Police officers in Maryland are being criticized after the public gained access to video footage of them arresting and pepper-spraying a 15-year-old girl.Â
After police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott earlier this week, his family immediately said that he wasn’t armed and was actually holding a book at the time. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney now says that there is video evidence that Scott was, in fact, armed but not that he was pointing his weapon.
A graphic video was released by Tulsa police on Monday that showed the shooting of an unarmed black man by one of their officers.
Columbus police have shot a 13-year-old boy during a chase when he allegedly reached for a BB gun. According to NBC, officers were responding to a call of an armed robbery where the victim was robbed of $10. When police arrived on the scene and saw three young boys matching the suspects’ description, two of […]
According to new findings from Black Youth Project’s GenForward study, 66 percent of white people age 18-30 believe the rhetoric of the Movement for Black Lives encourages violence against police. Only 19 percent of Black respondents said the same. GenForward is a monthly survey of the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with […]
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been centered on making grand statements that many voters never force him to follow through on. Outside of building walls and fixing the U.S. economy practically overnight, he’s also claimed that he can end gun violence, specifically in Chicago. While Trump often uses Chicago as an example of how bad […]
When Indianapolis Metropolitan police arrived at the scene of a robbery early Tuesday morning, they saw a man standing in front of a home with a gun. It wasn’t until after one of the officers fired that they learned the many they thought was a robbery suspect was the homeowner.Â
The mayor in Sommerville, MA is currently in conflict with the local police union after denying their request to remove a Black Lives Matter sign from city hall that’s been there for almost a year.
