Arrested at 17, Carlos Montero has been in Riker’s Island for 7 years without being convicted http://t.co/aMP8eaWNs0 via @dailykos — JoeInWV (@wvjoe911) June 16, 2015 A 24-year-old Manhattan man has spent nearly seven years in New York City’s Rikers Island jail awaiting trial, a jaw-dropping record for pretrial incarceration that is unlikely to end soon, […]
Presidential hopeful Ben Carson placed another thorn in his campaign when he stated he was irritated by the comparisons between gay and civil rights, CNN reports. The GOP candidate spoke out on Wednesday during Fox News’ “Special Report.” Carson, who previously apologized for saying that being gay was a choice, said LGBT people haven’t faced the same […]
One of the women who allegedly began the racially-motivated altercation at the McKinney, Texas pool party has been suspended from her job, according to the Daily Kos. Tracey Carver-Allbritton, one of the women seen fighting Tatyana Rhodes during the McKinney pool party, was placed on administrative leave by her employer, Core Logic Inc. Allbritton was one of […]
A judge has supported murder charges against the police officers set to stand trial for the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, NBC News reports. Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine stated probable cause was found to charge Cleveland police Officer Timothy Loehmann with murder for shooting the child as he played with a pellet gun in November. […]
Emmy contenders Taraji P. Henson and Viola Davis spoke on how they’ve managed to handle race and sexism in Hollywood with The Hollywood Reporter. The actresses were joined by Ruth Wilson (The Affair), Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Honourable Woman), Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Freak Show) and Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex), for a roundtable discussion on women […]
In what critics are calling a gross misrepresentation of facts, Ferguson, Missouri’s police chief is under fire for claiming in a recent interview that it took hours to remove 18-year-old Michael Brown‘s body from the street after he was shot “because of hostile fire against our officers,” according to The Los Angeles Times. Interim Police […]
After two young Black men were killed by officers in New York City and Cincinnati this week, the death toll for the number of people killed by police in the nation rose to 500 — more than twice the rate most recently recorded by the FBI in 2013, according to The Guardian. The numbers are […]
Just how racist is the Chicago Police Department? This photo paints a pretty bleak picture http://t.co/m86FOaOFbU pic.twitter.com/9NHrZ4lHeh — Slate (@Slate) May 27, 2015 Fired over a decade-old photo showing him posing as a hunter with a Black man wearing antlers on his head, ex-veteran Chicago Police Detective Timothy McDermott wanted his job back. But Cook […]
An early look at tomorrow’s front page… NYPD commish’s black eye: http://t.co/d7y7wPQnYdpic.twitter.com/cgE6O7CePY — New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 10, 2015 Ever wonder why there aren’t more Black police officers? Hiring more officers of color is difficult because so many potential recruits have criminal records, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton tells The Guardian. “We have a […]
The McKinney, Texas police officer seen pushing and swinging at a 15-year-old Black teenager on the ground during a pool party dispute has resigned. According to Fox4, a lawyer for Cpl. Eric Casebolt confirmed his resignation. Casebolt was placed on administrative leave following the surfacing of a disturbing video that showed him grabbing the Black […]
The teenager whose video of a McKinney, Texas police officer detaining and roughly handling Black youth at a pool party went viral last week is speaking out about the disturbing ordeal and the abuse he witnessed. Brandon Brooks, the 15-year-old White teenager responsible for bringing the officers’ controversial tactics to light, told NewsFix that he noticed […]
Community leaders, activists, and members of clergy in Cleveland, Ohio, hope to sidestep prosecutors and ask a judge directly to bring murder charges against two officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, CNN reports. The leaders plan to hold a news conference Tuesday in front of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center to […]
