Cleveland, Ohio is seeking an outside agency to investigate the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, according to the city’s former police chief. Officials are also hoping to secure an outside probe for investigations of all deadly use-of-force cases in the future. According to the Huffington Post: Michael McGrath, the city’s safety director and its former […]
A grandmother, and three of her grandchildren, were all killed by a fire in their Ohio home on Christmas. According to WCMH, the parents and the kids lived two houses away, but the children wanted to spend the end of the holiday with their grandmother. A Sheriff told the site: “We’ve had tragic fires, but this is unfortunately […]
A day after calling Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins “pathetic” for wearing a “Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford” t-shirt on the field, the president of the Cleveland police union called the killing of the 12-year-old “justified.” Jeffrey Follmer appeared on All in with Chris Hayes Monday to defend his comments about Hawkins’ […]
A video showing police in Ohio aggressively questioning the 26-year-old girlfriend of a young black man they killed for holding a toy gun in early August has emerged, featuring officers reducing her to tears and threatening to throw her behind bars. Tasha Thomas was questioned for 94-minutes following the shooting of John Crawford III, the […]
Former New Orleans Saints player Darren Sharper has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts of aggravated rape in connection the 2013 incident. His alleged accomplices, Erik Nunez and deputy Brandon Licciardi, were also indicted. Sharper’s bail is set to $2.5 million for the aggravated rape charges. Get all of the chilling details here […]
In a press conference Monday morning, Samaria Rice addressed the public for the first time since the death of her son Tamir Rice in November. According to BuzzFeed, Samaria said she was unaware of the fatal shooting until two boys knocked on her door to inform her that Tamir had been shot. She also said her […]
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio is currently in disarray after racist text messages exchanged between white police officers about their black co-workers and pedestrians were revealed to the public. According to WHIO, two out of the five deputies have been identified as Capt. Thomas Flanders and Detective Michael Sollenberger. Two are court security deputies […]
What we’re about to tell you really happened. It really fucking happened. So just know that when considering how our law enforcement officials really feel about the death of a 12-year-old boy gunned down for holding a toy gun. Or an 18-year-old unarmed boy shot in the middle of the street. Or a 43-year-old man strangled to […]
A white police chief working in the small South Carolina town of Eutawville was charged with murder Wednesday for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in 2011. Bernard Bailey, the 54-year-old victim, was shot twice in the chest by Richard Combs after a scuffle that occurred when Bailey came to Town Hall to […]
Officials in Cleveland have confirmed that it took officers close to four minutes to administer first aid to 12-year-old Tamir Rice after a rookie cop shot the child for holding a fake gun. Following the announcement that first-aid was delayed, Dan Williams, a spokesman for Mayor Frank Jackson, said the officers’ actions are under investigation. He […]
Video of a Cleveland police officer fatally shooting a 12-year-old for holding a fake gun over the weekend reveal a disturbing and shocking detail. The officer, identified as rookie Timothy Lowman, 26, shot Tamir Rice immediately after jumping out of the patrol car, which was still moving when police pulled up to the child. The […]
