12 Search results for "black motorist"

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.

    According to a new report released by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Chicago police stop black motorists more than their white counterparts. 

    The following piece is from the Boston Globe. It was written by Akilah Johnson and Peter Schworm. By: Akilah Johnson and Peter Schworm It feels like a one-two punch for many in Boston’s black community. First, a grand jury in Missouri declined to indict a police officer for shooting to death an unarmed […]

Blacks may bear brunt of new police data capture technology David A. Love, The Grio | April 21, 2011 The latest high-tech gadgets bring promises of convenience and efficiency, with the hopes of enhancing our lives and making our jobs easier. But sometimes they create new challenges. For example, technological advances have helped law enforcement […]

After a Missouri judge acquitted former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, a white man, of  murder for the 2011 death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a Black motorist, unrest overtook St. Louis over the weekend. As recently as Monday, protestors formed a human chain in the same area where people deployed violence the night before.

Yesterday, my partner and I planned a day trip. We were thinking about just getting away from it all after a tough week of violence against Black people and the racist mainstream news cycle to accompany it. We looked up some spots that were within an hour driving distance from Chicago, thinking this might be […]

Isabel Wilkerson, author of ‘The Warmth of Other Suns’, writes that uprising against brutality is part of a day of reckoning for the North.

  Two Hammond, Indiana police officers who violently attacked an unarmed black man during a routine traffic stop have been allowed to return back to the force. The city’s mayor cleared the officers of any wrongdoing, but the FBI agent in charge of the investigation denies that, saying the case is ongoing and the officers […]

A New Jersey state trooper has been suspended and criminally charged after it was found he repeatedly pulled over (read: stalked) women to ask for their phone numbers and try to establish a relationship. Trooper Eric Richardson, 31, faces charged because he lied on his paperwork concerning the multiple encounters in an attempt to cover up his […]

The following piece is from MSNBC. It was written by Trymaine Lee. By: Trymaine Lee Vonderrit Myers is no Michael Brown. Myers, the black 18-year old shot and killed by a St. Louis police officer last week, is also no Trayvon Martin or Jordan Davis or any of the others on a growing list of slain unarmed black men who have invigorated a new generation’s fight for racial […]

The California Highway Patrol officer who was videotaped punching a woman on the 10 Freeway has been relieved of his duties. Officer Daniel Andrew could face “potentially serious charges.” 

Racial bias goes beyond education, employment, health care and criminal sentencing according to a new study of traffic psychology. The study was conducted in downtown Portland by Portland State University and University of Arizona.