Ferguson
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It looks like Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo. police officer who fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown last year, will not be indicted on federal civil rights charges for the shooting. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department is taking steps to close the investigation and clear Wilson of any wrongdoing. Federal prosecutors have […]
A member of the grand jury that elected not to indict Ferguson, Mo. Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown Jr. is suing the St. Louis County prosecutor to lift the ban on speaking about the case. The juror, known as “Grand Juror Doe,” also stated in the lawsuit that prosecutor Robert McCulloch “mischaracterized” […]
A group of Michael Brown supporters came together on Christmas to rebuild the teen’s memorial after a car drove into it in the middle of the night. Social media began to report the incident around 1:45 a.m., saying the car destroyed flowers, candles, and stuffed animals laid on Canfield Dr. in Ferguson, Mo., the same place […]
Ferguson, the Missouri suburb that will forever be stained with the blood of an unarmed black teenager who was gunned down by a white police officer on a blistering hot August day, was freezing. The crowds that lined the streets in late summer were gone. The stores — businesses divided on whether to trust a community […]
Just days before a Ferguson, Mo. grand jury elected not to indict a white police officer for shooting, killing, and leaving the body of an unarmed black teenager in the street for four hours, business owners along the now infamous West Florissant — a strip of road perpendicular to the street Michael Brown Jr. was killed […]
For those of those dismayed by the celebrity crickets around the epidemic of police misconduct in this country (Charles Barkley this does not mean you),…
(photo credit: FaceBook) In the wake of the refusal to indict Officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo for the murders of 18-year-old Michael Brown and 43-year-old Eric Garner, respectively, Kings County, Brooklyn district…
Five Montgomery County, Ohio, sheriff’s deputies allegedly sent racist text messages both on and off duty, sparking a sweeping internal investigation, according to Talking Points…
The time couldn’t be better. In the wake of the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown over racial injustice and violence, John Legend and Common collaborate for their latest track “Glory,” featured in the upcoming film Selma. Delivering a sense of hope, John Legend lends his strong soulful vocals to the chorus, while Common raps, […]
Kenny Smith (pictured left), who co-hosts TNT’s “Inside the NBA” sports show with friend Charles Barkley (pictured right) wrote a letter to his colleague for…
Police supervisors at a prior job of a Cleveland, Ohio, officer—who last month shot and killed a 12-year-old Black child holding a toy gun—feared he…