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Due to a series of events that are hard to believe outside of a complex movie script, a man was wrongly profiled and arrested for the death of his cousin, one of the six Baton Rouge officers killed on July 17.

Christopher LeDay didn’t film Alton Sterling’s death, but he’s been cited as the person responsible for it spreading to a national level. As a result, he was arrested the next day as he walked into work at a private security firm at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, GA. While LeDay was later released after paying […]

Chris LeDay found himself in police custody only a day after helping circulate the video of Alton Sterling’s death at the hands of Baton Rouge police, according to Complex. While LeDay didn’t originally capture the footage, he’s been credited as the first person to help it spread to a wider audience. LeDay went onto his own Facebook account […]

DeRay McKesson is one of the most recognizable names and faces in the Black Lives Matter movement and is known to travel around the country to visit areas in need of police reform. This past Saturday, McKesson was in Baton Rouge, LA when he was arrested by local authorities while live-streaming the experience.

A few days ago the world was not-so-shocked when a grand jury decided to not indict the former McKinney, Texas police officer that was seen on video slamming Dajerria Becton, 15, to the ground and drawing a gun on her friends that tried to help. [The shock was only absent because sort of thing always […]

Rhamar Perkins, 16, took advantage of a rookie NYPD officer’s sensibilities this past week and escaped after he was arrested for skipping out on a $2.75 subway fare. He was initially taken into custody by a veteran officer and their partner, but asked to go to the bathroom once the veteran left the room and asked […]

Trigger warning: This story details police violence against a teenage Black woman. There are links to videos of the physically violent arrest. A recent video posted to Facebook showed the brutal arrest of a 18-year-old woman, identified by local news media as Genele Laird, outside of the East Towne Mall in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday, according to […]

As more details come out about Freddie Gray’s murder, it become even clearer that those six police officers present at his death were aware that he was in dire need of help. Police Officer William Porter testified that Freddie Gray asked him for help during his ride in the back of a Baltimore police van […]

School rivalries can get intense and before you know it you may look up and feel that you have a genuine dislike for the students from across the way. But hate is a different level altogether and has no place. And that hate being used as a platform for racist and anti-transgender rhetoric is unacceptable. […]

Blacks are far more likely to be arrested for selling or possessing drugs than whites, even though whites use drugs at the same rate.

On Monday, April 4 2016, the jury selection began for the trial of James Dixon, the 25-year-old man who was accused of manslaughter and assault in the 2013 murder of Islan Nettles, a 21-year-old black transgender woman.

Last month, a New York mail carrier was arrested by a group of plain clothes NYPD officers while delivering a package. A portion of the exchange was captured on video and placed the department under harsh public scrutiny for the officers’ actions. According to the New York Daily News, the lieutenant that oversaw the arrest has been […]