Video footage has been released to show exactly what happened in Grand Rapids, Mich. when five boys were held at gunpoint by police.
Many of the deaths at the hands of policeĀ are underscored by a common thread of mental health needs that often goes ignored by the public. The latest example of a black person being killed while suffering from an “episode” is Desmond Phillips, 25, who was shot after his father called police to their shared apartment […]
Chad Robertson, 25, died in a Chicago hospital a week after being shot in the back while fleeing from a pair of Amtrak police officersĀ outside of Union Station. His death was ruled a homicide and a result of a gunshot wound to the back, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.Ā
Protests have been sparked over multiple days in Paris and surrounding towns after a Black man was arrested, beaten and raped by four police officers.Ā
Lynchings were a not-so-well kept secret and core part of American history. For decades, Black people were terrified that they could be taken out of their homes or jail cells by a mob of angry white people in the middle of the night and killed. Perhaps the worst part is that no one would ever […]
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.
If you’re ever inclined to call the police to report a crime, it should give you pause if you start the conversation with the words, “I donāt know if Iām like racial profiling…”Ā That kind of red flag was ignored by an anonymous 911 caller in 2015 when they reported what they thought was a car […]
Three new Miami police officers were reportedly fired for joking about using predominantly black neighborhoods as “target practice” in a group chat. Officers Kevin Bergnes, Miguel Valdes and Bruce Alcin were reportedly fired on Dec. 23 after it was ruled that they violated department policies following an internal affairs investigation.Ā
āWhy do we accept forms of security that are rooted in violence?ā – Angela Davis, Lecture at University of Chicago November 2016 When I first learned of prison abolition it was from Angela Davis during a lecture she gave at my college campus in 2009. The concept of prison abolition seemed so large and out […]
San Francisco’s police department has been going through what could be generously referred to as a rough patch. It fell under harsh criticism in 2015 after Mario Woods was shot 2o times while holding a knife and continued into 2016 as it went through multiple police chiefs following the exposure of multiple scandals ā one […]
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has decided to relieve an officer of their police powers after the shooting of Kajuan Raye, 19.Ā
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,Ā Omar Rahman was found dead in a home, supposedly of an accidental drug overdose. The leaked photo shows an officer smiling […]
