St. Louis police are under fire for allegedly turning off a dashcam while beating a man they were arresting. Now that man, Cortez Bufford, has filed a lawsuit alleging excessive force in the April 10, 2014 incident that ended with him beaten, stunned with a Taser, and charged with resisting arrest and possession of a weapon. In the newly surfaced […]
A 17-year-old boy has died after shooting himself in a game of Russian roulette in the California apartment where he lived with his older brother and sister-in-law, authorities say. Officials believe the unidentified teenager was playing the game early Monday with friends. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies responding to a call about a gunshot in […]
A Republican Mississippi lawmaker who was caught on record saying black people “don’t work” is now claiming his racist comments were taken out of context. When explaining to The Clarion-Ledger why he was against increased funding for education, State Rep. Gene Alday said he comes “from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps […]
So this happened. A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked President Obama’s executive action on immigration that protected as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation — a move that is garnering praise from Republicans who believe the president has acted outside the law. The action initially drew opposition from 26 states across the […]
The man accused of shooting and killing three Muslim students last week was indicted on three counts of first-degree murder by a grand jury Monday. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, shot his neighbors — Deah Shaddy Barakat, wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha — over what the suspect’s now estranged wife and police […]
Dozens were reportedly injured and at least 20 killed by electrocution when a float hit a low-hanging power line during Haiti’s Carnival parade early Tuesday. The coordinator for the Department of Civil Protection, Nadia Lochard, said that at least 46 were injured in the accident that occurred in downtown Port-au-Prince. From the Associated Press: The […]
For the first time since they began their reign of terror, Boko Haram militants carried out an attack on Chad, officials said. Fighters reportedly crossed Lake Chad in motorboats and attacked a village before being pushed back by Chadian troops overnight. Several people died in the attack. Read about it here… [BBC] At a Thursday […]
Following reports that he was banned from seeing girlfriend Bobbi Kristina Brown in the hospital, Nick Gordon has released a statement saying he will not be taking legal action to be by her bedside. Gordon, whose alleged marriage to Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s only daughter has been scrutinized and denied by family, found Brown […]
A 4-year-old California boy was forced to undergo a leg amputation after his father’s police dog, Jango, attacked him on Sunday afternoon. The boy had been playing video games while his father, Rialto police officer Michael Mastaler, was upstairs. The child went outside to look for his mother, who had gone shopping. That’s when Jango, […]
All-Star Weekend has the sports world buzzing with excitement, but Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James‘ latest interview is hitting a more serious note and revealing that, even as a star player, he’s concerned about the precautions his black sons have to take to avoid becoming victims of police brutality. During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, James […]
A police report obtained by the Associated Press is revealing that Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was involved in a traffic accident that injured two people just days before she was found unresponsive in her Georgia home. Brown, who was found face down in the bathtub by her alleged husband Nick […]
Yep. That’s the President of the United States of America. Using a selfie stick. And teaching the nation, it’s all in the pose. Seriously, did you catch that “smile and dip?” Thanks to BuzzFeed, who teamed up with the White House to promote Obamacare (and make this epic video), we now know that President Obama […]