The brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and the teenage boy accused punching and stomping on her with steel-toed boots, authorities said Thursday. The 15-year-old suspect was ordered held at a juvenile detention center while prosecutors determine whether to charge […]
PITTSBURGH — The photos taken by Jordan Miles’ mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head. Now, 10 days after plainclothes officers stopped him on […]
The line had slowly come to a halt. Stretching around the inside of the church were hundreds of people, who had come to this holy place of worship to pay their respects to the life of a sixteen-year-old young man. Outside on the street corner, on this cold, crisp autumn day in Chicago, were a […]
Family, friends and members of the community in Chicago gathered for a vigil to Derrion Albert who was beaten to death late last week during a school melee.
In the same city, the same windy city, where young Barry Obama walked through the streets to organize a community…the same city where Walter needed a Refrigerator to win a Super Bowl…the same city that in ‘68 made students run for their lives…the same city that needed Common Sense to understand the Twisted rhymes of […]
A few months ago, I wrote a blog in support of Trevor Casey and his family.You’ll remember that Trevor was the young boy beaten and bloodied by the police department in Toledo, OH.Following the incident – video of which can be viewed below – the Toledo Police Department launched an internal investigation to gauge whether […]
Over the past few weeks, we have been in very close contact with the family of Trevor Casey, the young boy who was choked by the police in the video below. He has a very long road ahead, as he faces a criminal trial and still is recovering from the mental and physical damage caused […]
