Bay Area transit agency agrees to pay $1.3 million to mother of man fatally shot by officer Associated Press | June 28, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — A San Francisco Bay area transit agency Tuesday agreed to pay $1.3 million to the mother of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white […]
Chicago has officially reached 500 homicides in 2012, after a fatal shooting on the city’s West Side yesterday. What can we do to make 2013 a safer, more peaceful year?
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Black Liberation & Organizing, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics. How do we hold politicians accountable to Black communities? Is that even possible? What should be our role in the electoral politics? What does abolition look like in practice? What […]
By Terrence Chappell This summer marks the 100th anniversary of Chicago’s 1919 race riots, which triggered an onslaught of inequality that cost the city’s Black community a second causality behind lives lost—opportunity.
41-year old fired Florida officer Nouman Raja was just sentenced to a minimum of 25 years for the 2015 fatal shooting of 31-year old Corey Jones, a Black motorist. Raja is the first Florida officer in 30 years to be convicted of an on-duty shooting.
As Mexico City swore in its first female mayor on Wednesday, Claudia Sheinbaum, she pledged she would dissolve the infamous Granaderos anti-riot police which has been used to violently suppress protests. The Granaderos police unit was popularly known to violently repress people’s dissent and control opposition groups. In 1968, Mexico’s president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ordered […]
On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, George Alan Bush, a 51-year old white man, entered a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and fatally shot two Black people. He reportedly told a white bystander afterwards, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
Florida’s notorious “Stand Your Ground” law has faced renewed criticism for allowing a white man, Michael Drejka, to fatally shoot an unarmed Black man, Markeis McGlockton, after McGlockton pushed Drejka away from harassing his girlfriend and child. Almost a month after the fatal shooting, Drejka was finally charged on manslaughter by state prosecutors. As the […]
Black Lives Matter Sacramento protesters recently crashed the wedding of a Sacramento police officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark. In a video clip of the protest, they can be heard asking calling the unnamed officer a murderer. The group obtained the address to the venue using the website which the […]
If this headline sounds familiar, you’re not mistaken. This isn’t the first time that a Chicago Police Department officer has shot an unarmed citizen and been disciplined as an investigation is conducted. The latest officer to lost their police powers is the result of a fatal shooting on the city’s Northwest side on Monday.Â
Last week, Justin Carr, 26, made his way to the streets of downtown Charlotte to join in the protests over Keith Scott’s fatal shooting by police. He reportedly just wanted to make his grandmother proud, by marching in a protest similar to how she did with Dr. King. “ ‘I just want to come down […]
By: Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Crystal Webb cringes whenever a patrol car appears in her rearview mirror. She also never wants to see the inside of a police station again. Her personal experience with police, plus recent fatal shootings of unarmed black men by white officers, has led the Apple Valley, California, mother of […]
