Fresh from our, “Must Read” file, NFL player and activist Michael Bennett writes a letter detailing his encounter with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. He has hired Civil Rights attorney John Burris to exp...
UPDATE: (9/10/15) A judge has ruled that the criminal trials against the six officers accused of killing Freddie Gray will remain in Baltimore, MD. Read more at NBC News. Yvonne Wenger and Mark Puente of The Baltimore Sun are rep...
Reuters is reporting that two sheriff’s deputies and a healthcare worker have been indicted in the death of Matthew Ajibade, 21, who was killed while in police custody in Savannah, GA. Jason Paul Kenny, Maxine Evans and Greg...
McKinney, TX police officer Eric Casebolt has been placed on administrative leave after a video of the officer assaulting teenagers at a pool party, including slamming a a 15-year-old girl to the ground wearing a bikini, went vira...
The blogosphere is ablaze with reports that North Miami Beach police officers actually use mug shots of black men as shooting targets. McNelly Torres and Willard Shepard of NBC Miami report that the practice was discovered at a sh...
The Grio is reporting that the Illinois House Senate has passed legislation that would make it a crime to record any “private” conversations, especially those involving a police officer. Critics of the proposed law say...
Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic is reporting that the Albuquerque Police Department is one of the most brutal police departments in the country, routinely violating the constitutional rights of its citizens. A federal investig...
CBS News is reporting that the grand jury decision over the alleged choking death of Eric Garner by NYPD police officer Daniel Pantaleo is imminent. The video evidence presented to the grand jury depicts Garner being apprehended ...
CNN is reporting that the parents of Michael Brown, 18, a Missouri teen killed by police officer Darren Wilson, 28, have gone to Geneva, Switzerland to testify in front of a United Nations committee in hopes that it will bring ...
Shantana Stewart of NewsOne.com is reporting that Ferguson school officials have welcomed back students following the internationally televised burial services for unarmed teen Michael Brown. Brown, 18 was shot and killed on Augus...
