A Barstow, California police officer is under fire after body camera shows him brutally wrestling a Black woman to the ground when she was eight months pregnant, CNN reports. The incident occurred in January when the pregnant woman, Charlena Michelle Cooks, 29, of Barstow, was brutally arrested on a charge of resisting arrest after she […]
Rude advisors at Kennesaw . Smh pic.twitter.com/ugcX4gnIsp — KB (@IamKB_) May 14, 2015 UPDATE: Friday, May 15, 2015 4:55 PM ET – Academic Advisor Abby Dawson has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation from the school, according to WSB-TV. —– Video showing a Kennesaw State University employee telling a Black student he was “harassing” […]
A pub owner in Florida was arrested last week after making racist comments and pointing a gun at a young Black couple, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The incident between International Drive pub owner Kim Bruns, Kayla Davis, 21, and her boyfriend Darian Elwin, happened last Saturday when the couple arrived at the Orlando pub to celebrate Elwin’s 20th […]
Forty-three-year-old Roosevelt Champion III – found hanging from a tree on Monday – allegedly killed himself, according to the results of a forensic autopsy released Tuesday, reports NBC News. Champion’s body was discovered Monday by a neighbor in Greensboro, Georgia. Police had recently questioned him about the death of a 55-year-old White woman, and his […]
UPDATE: Tuesday May 12, 4:00 PM ET – In a Tuesday press conference, District Attorney Ismael Ozanne announced that the Wisconsin officer who shot and killed an unarmed Tony Robinson used lawful deadly force. Officer Matt Kenny will face no charges in Robinson’s death. In great detail, Ozanne outlined the events leading up to the shooting, […]
A newly released video of an August 2013 arrest shows a white Dover, Delaware police officer kicking a Black suspect in the head, sparking calls for department reforms in the wake of numerous police brutality incidents nationwide, Delaware Online’s The News Journal reports. The video, captured by a dashboard camera on Aug. 23, 2013, shows […]
A Black homeowner in Hollywood, South Carolina was shot in the neck Thursday by a White sheriff’s deputy responding to a 911 call about a home invasion, according to Fox News. The unidentified homeowner, who was armed, was either leaving or standing at the back door of his mobile home when deputies from the Charleston […]
Prom season has given teens the chance to reenact their favorite looks from celebrities or, in some cases, take pride in looks connected to racism. The latter happened in the town of Parker, Colorado last week, when a group of teens posed with rifles and the Confederate flag. Fox 31 Denver reports students from the […]
It’s been five months since Tamir Rice – the 12-year-old gunned down by an Ohio police officer for playing with a toy gun – died, but the ongoing investigation into his death has produced no charges for the cop involved in the fatal shooting. The stalled investigation has not only taken an emotional toll on Tamir’s mother, […]
In a stern condemnation of violence against Blacks by police, Saturday Night Live this weekend featured a parody of a cop who, well, goes out…
UPDATE: 5/1/15, 4:19 p.m. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Friday afternoon that five of six cops were in custody, according to CBS Baltimore. By late afternoon, the sixth was in custody, according to a CNN breaking news report. From Baltimore CBS: The officers facing charges are: Officer Caeser B. Goodson, Jr. was charged with second-degree […]
Eighteen-year-old Allen Bullock became a defining image of the Baltimore uprisings when he was photographed smashing a police car with a traffic cone on Monday, reports The Guardian. His mother and stepfather urged him to surrender to police in an effort to teach him about taking responsibility for his actions during protests that turned violent Monday […]
