Last month, as five young black boys in Grand Rapids, Mich., were walking home from a local rec center, where they had been playing basketball, they were swarmed by local police, who drew their guns, and held them at gunpoint for over 10 minutes, as the boys wailed in fear and confusion. The incident happened … Read more
A video is going viral on Facebook showing an off-duty Los Angeles police officer pulling out a gun and firing as he struggles to arrest an unarmed boy who appears to be about 14. The incident took place Tuesday in Anaheim, which is in Orange County, so the cop was completely out of his jurisdiction. … Read more
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Friday, the Fort Pierce City Manager sent a letter to the Human Resources director for the city ordering an investigation into the Fort Pierce Police Chief, using an outside agency if necessary. This came just one day after a Fort Pierce business man filed a complaint about Chief Diane Hobley-Burney. Rick … Read more
ST. LOUIS ― Chris Sommers was pissed. The owner of Pi Pizzeria had been handing out cups of water at one of his restaurants in the city’s Central West End on Friday night, hours after a judge declared a former St. Louis cop not guilty in the 2011 killing of a black man fleeing a … Read more
An off-duty NYPD sergeant was arrested early Thursday morning in southwest Queens after threatening a cyclist with his service weapon and pushing the 34-year-old man off of his bike, according to the NYPD. Sergeant Bradley Beamer, 40, allegedly made an illegal U-turn near the intersection of Queens Plaza North and 24th Street in Long Island … Read more
“Walking while black” defendant Hanson Melvin has sued former city police officer David Campbell and city government over his arrest and jailing in a case that suggests a lax police culture that accepts criminal activity and intimidation by officers and a cozy relationship between the state’s prosecutor in Chattanooga and cops who commit crimes. Mr. … Read more
Police body-camera footage shows a Buckeye police officer detaining a 14-year-old boy with autism after he became suspicious of the boy, who was practicing one of his calming techniques at the time. The Buckeye Police Department has said they think the officer reacted to a reasonable suspicion, but the family’s attorney says there is insufficient … Read more
A new viral video shows a police officer taunting a black man and appearing to threaten him by saying, “you’d be the first one I’d shoot if I had a gun.” According to the Washington Post, the cell phone-recorded video shows an unnamed West Midlands Police officer in the U.K. “joking” with a man whose … Read more
Clay County sheriff’s deputy Robert Belt was dressed in full uniform when he made comments Sept. 5 over the school bus intercom as the student boarded and sat down, according to a Facebook post by the Nelson County (West Virginia) Democratic Organization. “No f*ggot activity will be permitted on this bus,” Belt said, according to … Read more
Michael Bennett, one of the NFL’s most vocal critics of racial injustice, has said police threatened to shoot him last month in Las Vegas for “simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time”. The Seattle Seahawks defensive end says the incident took place as he was heading back to his … Read more
An undercover Minnesota cop was caught on camera threatening a man and shoving his camera into his face when asked for his badge number after he and his partner mistook him for a vulnerable missing person. “911,” officer Benny Williams told 36-year-old St. Paul resident Andrew Casey before physically confronting him. “I work for St. … Read more
James Eric McDonough, a South Miami-Dade activist with a doctorate in organic thermochemistry, has received little but trouble since reporting a Homestead Police officer for speeding in 2012. He’s been thrown out of public meetings, harassed, and even had to sue Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle for threatening to arrest him for recording a … Read more