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A Black transgender man was stabbed after doing something kind on Christmas night: offering his seat to a woman on the subway. Ijan DaVonte Jarrett, 44, was riding the subway home from work in Bayonne around 11pm when he offered his seat to a woman who was riding with her cousin. The woman, Stephanie Pazmino (30), refused […]

A Baltimore City Schools second grader was in the hospital with a broken jaw and missing teeth after an altercation with a tutor. 

This Monday, after the J’Ouvert festival in Brooklyn, 22-year-old Tiarah Poyau was heading home around 4AM with her friends when a man she did not know approached her and began dancing on her. She told the man, “Get off me,” and, in response, he pulled out a gun and shot her at close range, above her eye. 

This story has been told multiple times now, with the only changes being the name of the officer walking away free and the total number of others that have done the same. The fourth officer involved in the death of Freddie Gray has gone to trial. Three of them have been acquitted while one resulted […]

Out of the six Baltimore police officers charged with playing a role in Freddie Gray’s death, only one was brought up on charges of actual murder. Caesar Goodson Jr., who was reportedly driving the van that Gray was fatally injured in the back of, was charged with depraved-heart murder, which is a second-degree felony with […]

Monday saw another disappointment for many in the Black community, as a police officer who involved in the murder of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody, was acquitted on four charges. This brought up questions about whether or not any of the six police officers who […]

Justice hangs in the balance after a judge declared a mistrial in the first case against an officer involved in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray this past April.

News just broke that a jury could not reach a decision in the trial of Baltimore Police Officer William Porter, 26, who was charged in relation to the killing of Freddie Gray, 25, in April. This is the first of six cases related to Gray’s gruesome death in the back of police van.

From the New York Times: A New York City police officer was arraigned on Wednesday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on several felony charges, including second-degree manslaughter, in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in an East New York housing project last November. The officer, Peter Liang, appeared in a suit and tie […]

Leon Ford at Community Awareness Day (Photo by Haute Muslim) httpv://youtu.be/_x-8MGdRBgA On November 11, 2012, Leon Ford was pulled over by the Pittsburgh police. He promptly gave them his drivers license and registration, which confirmed who he was and his ownership of the vehicle he was driving. The police officers then decided, despite Leon giving them […]

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said that his office would investigate 16-year-old Darrin Manning’s claim that a female police officer seriously injured his testicles during a stop-and-frisk. During a news conference on Thursday, Williams said, “when allegations are made about misconduct from a police officer, it erodes the public’s trust of law enforcement.”

Leon Ford Jr.’s entire life changed last November after a routine traffic stop escalated to gun shots, leaving Ford paralyzed. His family believes the officers acted unlawfully. Now they are seeking justice for Ford who still faces charges.