One Ferguson police officer has been terminated from the department, along with two being placed on administrative leave, after a slew of racist emails were exposed by the U.S. Justice Department in their 100-page report. According to NBC News, the seven emails were uncovered by the DOJ in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of […]

The family attorney of the late Tamir Rice is calling out the city of Cleveland, along with police officials, after a court document was filed, that implied that the 12-year-old was responsible for his own death. The court document was filed last week, which read that Tamir’s injuries “were directly and proximately caused by their own acts, not […]

After the tragic death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the family filed a lawsuit against the city of Cleveland for wrongful death. Now, several weeks later, the city has responded, claiming that the young boy died because of his own actions. Cleveland reports: The city, in its response, wrote that Tamir’s death on Nov. 22 and all of […]

  A day after the Department of Justice announced they would not be filing charges against George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin, the teen’s mother said she believes the former neighborhood watch volunteer got away with murder. Thursday marked the third anniversary of the 17-year-old’s death. Speaking to the Associated Press, Sybrina Fulton expressed her […]

UPDATE: 2:00 PM EST The Justice Department has released a statement on the closing of the investigation into Trayvon Martin’s death. The Justice Department announced today that the independent federal investigation found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, […]

The Department of Justice is currently preparing to sue the city of Ferguson over discriminatory policing, if they do not agree to fix alleged police tactics involving racial discrimination. According to CNN, Attorney General Eric Holder is set to announce the results of the DOJ’s investigation of the shooting of Michael Brown, who was unarmed […]

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It’s been nearly three years since a neighborhood watch volunteer fatally shot a Florida teenager walking home after picking up a bag of Skittles and an Arizona canned drink from a convenience store. And on Feb. 5, 2015, that teenager would have celebrated a birthday. His name is Trayvon Martin. And as the date of his […]

On November 22nd of last year 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot to death by a police officer, and now his family is filing a lawsuit for wrongful death. NBC News reports: The Rice family’s lawyers had filed their case initially in federal court last December, a brief eight-page document. On Friday, with a new legal team including […]

The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed black man shot by a New York City police officer in a dark stairwell, is planning to sue the city for $50 million over his death. Gurley’s girlfriend, Kimberly Ballinger, notified New York City of the lawsuit on Thursday. Ballinger’s lawyer, Scott Rynecki, said Officer Peter Liang acted […]

Justice was served half a century later as the Friendship Nine, a group of black student protesters who were arrested for staging a sit-in at a “whites only” restaurant, were exonerated of all charges on Wednesday. Seven out of the nine men appeared in court yesterday to hear the judge drop the convictions against the famed civil rights […]

The parents of Kendrick Johnson, the Georgia teenager found dead in a rolled up gym mat in 2013, are facing jail time for a protest they staged seeking answers in their son’s death. Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson face charges of interference with government property for blocking the entrance to the Lowndes County Courthouse with five other […]

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 […]