On August 9, the Justice Department released a damning 164-page report detailing the numerous and widespread systemic issues with the Baltimore Police Department that found that sexual assault victims were treated with a flagrant disregard, indicating that the problems in the department go far beyond race.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, a despotic thug who owes his enduring fame to an accident of history, reminded Americans in an appearance on “Face the Nation,” that the real problem in African-American communities is not systemic racism or police brutality, but black-on-black violence.
Earlier this month, the Washington Post was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its project on police violence, “Fatal Force.” The Pulitzer Prize Board singled out the paper “For its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot…
One week after an accountability task force concluded Chicago cops have “no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised to institute immediate changes to the city’s police force, The New York Times reports.
More than a decade after six unarmed civilians were shot by police while trying to cross New Orleans’ Danziger Bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, five former officers pleaded guilty in connection with the deadly shooting, NOLA.com reports.
The man who called 911 to report that John Crawford III was walking through the aisles of a Beavercreek, Ohio Wal-Mart with a gun will not be charged in connection with Crawford’s death at the hands of responding officers, according to a report from the Associated Press. Crawford turned out to be holding a BB gun.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is investigating an incident in which two officers were captured on video using their clubs to brutally beat a suspect lying flat on his belly in the street, reports SFGate.
A police officer in Round Rock, Texas grabbed a 14-year-old student by the throat and threw him to the ground on Thursday, as shown in a video that surfaced some time later that night.
Memphis. July 17. A Friday. Carefree black boys call it a night. Darrius Stewart is just around the corner from his mama’s house when blue light hits the rearview mirror of the Chevy Malibu. A routine traffic stop. A simple thing. One week ago, Sandra Bland was stopped in Texas for a simple thing.
According to The Wall Street Journal, more police officers in America have been prosecuted over fatal on-duty shootings in 2015 than in any year going back a decade.
On Tuesday, a Facebook user in Stockton, California uploaded a disturbing viral video showing a large group of police officers violently forcing a 16-year-old student to the ground. The teen’s alleged offense? Jaywalking.
Responding to widespread condemnation of the NYPD officer who wrongly tackled tennis star James Blake last week, Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch sent a blistering letter to reporters on Tuesday characterizing their criticism as “irresponsible, unjust and un-American.”
On Monday, a plainclothes NYPD officer tackled and handcuffed a black man who allegedly looked like a credit card fraud suspect, but was actually tennis star James Blake (who is not a suspect). On Friday, TMZ obtained video of the takedown, which reportedly left Blake cut and bruised.
A police chief in Oregon retired this week after officers say he responded to an accusation of racism by imitating a monkey, singing “Dixie” and pantomiming a beating, KOIN reports.
Three California deputies who repeatedly punched and kicked an apparently subdued suspected horse thief on live television earlier this year have been charged with assault by a police officer, the L.A. Times reports.
Over the 4th of July weekend, riots broke out at a private state prison near Kingman, Arizona. Special forces were called in to restore order. Now, a new report says that the government’s response may have been worse than the riots themselves.
On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Baltimore Police Officer Wesley Cagle with attempted first-degree murder, accusing Cagle of standing over an unarmed suspect who had been shot multiple times, calling the victim a “piece of shit” and firing a bullet into his groin.
A former Fairfax County police officer was charged with second-degree murder on Monday, almost two years after he killed an unarmed man as he stood with his hands raised in the doorway of his home, The Washington Post reports.http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/records-unarme…
A handicapped, homeless man who made the mistake of arming himself with a pair of crutches paid dearly for his arrogance, courtesy of 14 San Francisco police officers who tackled him, pulled off his pants, and pinned him down on the ground for more than 10 minutes.
