Police brutality

This doesn’t sound good. A federal appeals court blocked a judge’s order that required changes to the controversial and discriminatory stop-and-frisk program implemented by the NYPD. The judge who made that ruling has also been removed from the case. According to the Associated Press: The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the decisions of […]

Details about last week’s shooting of a 13-year-old California boy holding a toy gun are raising a lot of questions about the actions of the deputy who shot him. According to the Daily Mail, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus shot Andy Lopez before his partner was even able to get out of the patrol car. […]

Well, this is embarrassing. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly got quite the welcome on Tuesday, when he was booed off stage at Brown University while trying to give a lecture on “proactive policing.” According to the Providence Journal, the Commissioner was at the Rhode Island university to discuss his time at the New York City […]

Residents, friends and family of the 13-year-old boy fatally shot by police who believed his toy gun was a real AK-47 are making sure their voices are heard. On Tuesday, hundreds gathered in Santa Rosa, California to express their sadness and outrage over the shooting that occurred last Tuesday when sheriff deputy Erick Gelhaus shot Andy Lopez […]

Well, this is interesting. Turns out the Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy that shot and killed 13-year-old Andy Lopez Cruz last Tuesday after mistaking his toy AK-47 for a real firearm is actually a gun expert. Erick Gelhaus, 48, was also identified as a firearms instructor, a hunter and a war veteran who, according to the SF […]

Residents of Santa Rosa have been left puzzled and shocked after a13-year-old boy who was carrying a pellet gun that looked like an assault rifle was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy. While his final autopsy won’t be ready for weeks, a preliminary autopsy report released Thursday said Andy Lopez was shot seven times including two fatal […]

The 13-year-old boy who was shot by officers in Santa Rosa, California for carrying a toy rifle was pumped with at least seven bullets, according to the Daily Mail. A neighbor who witnessed the shooting said that the cops unloaded up to seven bullets into the body of a dying Andy Lopez while he was […]

Here’s some good news. Doctors in Mississippi are convinced that they were able to put HIV into remission in a baby born with the AIDS virus. The new report shows that the girl (now 3-years-old) was infected in the womb. She was treated aggressively and now shows no signs of active infection, despite stopping her […]

A 13-year-old California teenager is dead after Sonoma County sheriff deputies, believing he was holding an actual assault rifle, fatally shot him. The rifle Andy Lopez was holding was actually a replica toy gun. Investigators also found a plastic handgun in the boy’s waistband. His father, Rodrigo Lopez, said that the toy rifle belonged to a […]

On Oct. 14th, Dallas police responding to a call shot a mentally ill man holding a knife in the middle of the street. The officer who shot the man in the abdomen claimed that the man walked towards him and raised the weapon. But new surveillance video is showing something a little different. Bobby Gerald […]

Theft is a serious crime. Especially when it involves $2 taken from a public water fountain, apparently. Police in Bellefontaine, Ohio charged a woman with theft for allegedly taking change from that public fountain earlier this month. Authorities say they found Deidre Romine, unemployed and suffering from a mental disability, near or in the Logan […]

The National Security Agency is at it again, and this time not even your Google chat or AIM conversations are safe. The NSA has been sifting through millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world (including Americans) in an effort to find links to terrorism or other criminal activity. […]