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Authorities have released more information about the shooting death of 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell. The former FAMU football player was shot to death 10 times while seeking help after being involved in a car accident.

Yesterday we broke news that a North Carolina police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man 10 times as he sought help would not be indicted. At the time, there was not an immediate explanation available for the grand jury’s decision, but we have now learned that a lack of evidence was cited as […]

When news broke that 24-year-old former FAMU student Jonathan Ferrell was killed by police last month, the subject of police brutality was once again pushed into national spotlight. Now police departments across the country are criticizing those charges.

The 911 call placed moments before 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell was shot and killed has been released.The unarmed former FAMU football player was shot 10 times by Police Officer Randall Kerrick, and the incident has sparked national debate.

There have been varied reactions to the footage of both Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old man who was shot and killed while police had him pinned down to the ground in Lousiana, and Philando Castile, a 32-year-old man who was shot four times in the chest at a routine traffic stop. One Ohio  police officer named […]

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

The family of an unarmed man who was fatally shot by police in an Ohio Wal-mart last week is demanding the retailer release surveillance video footage of the events that led to his death. John Crawford III, a father or two, was killed just days before police shot and killed Michael Brown, 18, in the […]

The following piece originally appeared on The Root. It was written by Jean McGianni Celestin, and appears under the title of, “I’m Terrified of Dying Like Eric Garner.” By: Jean McGianni Celestin When video footage of a California highway patrolman pummeling a defenseless 51-year-old black woman named Marlene Pinnock surfaced on July 1, it sent shock waves throughout many […]

A week after the first grand jury decided not to indict police officer Randall Kerrick in the September 2013 shooting death of former FAMU football player Jonathan Ferrell, a second grand jury  indict the officer on charges of voluntary manslaughter.

A grand jury has decided not to bring charges against the police office with the death of Jonathan Ferrell.  Ferrell, who was 24 at the time of his death, was shot ten times by Officer Randall Kerrick. Ferrell was unarmed. Although Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, where Kerrick works, deemed his response to be “excessive,” the grand jury has decided not […]

Attorneys for the family of Jonathan Ferrell have filed a civil lawsuit against several parties connected to his death. The 24-year-old former FAMU Football player was shot 10 times by Charlotte Police officer Randall Kerrick on Sept. 14. after seeking help from a resident. The unarmed man had got into a car wreck in the […]

  Prosecutors will seek an indictment against a North Carolina police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed man 10 times in September. 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell died after seeking help from a resident of a nearby house after a car accident. Officer Randall Kerrick, 27, is charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with the Sept. 14 […]