Fire officials in Ferguson Mo. are investigating the burning of a memorial honoring slain teen Michael Brown that occurred overnight. One of the memorials, complete with candles, stuffed animals, and other mementos, has been sitting in the middle of the street in the Canfield apartment complex where an unarmed Brown was gunned down by Officer Darren Wilson […]
After a jury deadlocked in February on whether or not he was guilty of murdering 17-year-old Jordan Davis, Michael Dunn, 47, will stand trial a second time this month. On Monday morning jury selection began for the retrial that will determine if he will spend a minimum of 60 years in prison for murdering Davis. During […]
The second trial for the Detroit police officer who fatally shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in 2010 began this week, kicking off with jury selection on Monday. Officer Joseph Weekley shot Aiyana during a raid that was being filmed for A&E’s hit show The First 48. Aiyana’s family members maintain the officers were more concerned with […]
The 24-year-old who called 911 to report a man pointing a rifle inside of an Ohio Walmart is now retracting his original account, telling The Guardian that John Crawford III didn’t point the gun at all. That 911 call got Crawford, a 22-year-old black man, killed in August. Police shot Crawford to death in the Walmart while […]
North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement came out in full force this past Labor Day at Marshall Park, a coalition set on condemning the state’s record on voter suppression and racial profiling, as well as urging community members to go to the polls this November. Ironically, just a few hundred feet away, police arrested local activist and former State Senate […]
A little girl from Mississippi named AvaLynn came home from school with shocking injuries all over her face one day, and little AvaLynn’s mother is demanding justice. According to The Epoch Times, the girl was allegedly severely beaten by another student, but the school is saying that AvaLynn got those injuries while playing on the […]
On the ninth night of unrest in Ferguson, things are taken to a new level as police demand protestors to disperse...
Thursday night saw hundreds of nationwide protests and vigils in the name of Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager fatally shot by a Ferguson Mo., police officer on August 9. The groups stood in solidarity against police brutality in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Hawaii and more, using the hashtag #NMOS14 — a social media movement created by community […]
The family of Ezell Ford, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by Los Angeles police earlier this week, announced Thursday that they will be filing a wrongful-death lawsuit against the police department. The family’s lawyer, Steven A. Lerman, who also represented Rodney G. King in 1991 after he was brutally beaten by Los […]
On Monday, police in Los Angeles fatally shot an unarmed black male that family and friends are identifying as Ezell Ford. Police, however, have yet to identify the victim. From the LA Times: An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Newton Division conducted “an investigative stop” in the 200 block of West 65th Street about […]
Despite a vow to facilitate a thorough investigation into the shooting death of Michael Brown, Ferguson police have yet to interview Dorian Johnson, Brown’s 22-year-old friend who was walking with the teen when he was killed. Johnson’s lawyer, Freeman Bosley, also told MSNBC that police declined an offer to set up a meeting, although officials have […]
In the second night of clashes in Missouri, Ferguson police militarized, bringing 200-300 officers out...
