A San Antonio police officer was suspended for three days without pay after he allegedly used a homophobic slur against a man during a confrontation at the Travis Park Confederate statue removal in September. The officer, Jack E. Harper III, was working crowd control at the event when he got into an argument with 34-year-old … Read more
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis who have dealt with dozens of protests in the two months since a former officer was acquitted in the death of a black suspect can’t shut down non-violent demonstrations or use chemical agents simply to punish protesters, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. A leader of the protest … Read more
Last month, a Missouri state circuit judge did something nearly unheard of: She punished a public official for flouting transparency laws. State Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that a Cole County prosecutor Mark Richardson “knowingly and purposefully” violated the state’s open records law when the prosecutor denied a records request by Missouri resident Aaron Malin … Read more
This past March, Jamie Wilson received a letter from the San Diego Police Department, notifying her that her 17-year-old son had been added to CalGang, the state’s gang database. It didn’t give reasons — Wilson would have to appeal the decision to find out why he’d been added — but the timing seemed suspect. Only … Read more
The Los Angeles Police Department has apparently been arresting residents for speaking 20 seconds longer than their allotted time at public city hearings. Now the ACLU of Southern California is fighting an ordinance that could make it even harder for residents to speak out—especially those who dissent against the practices of the LAPD. If passed, … Read more
Ruben Urbina’s family and friends are still refusing to accept the police department’s version of the 15-year-old boy’s shooting death outside his Haymarket townhome more than a month ago by a Prince William County police officer. Ruben’s parents joined with about 20 other community members and activists to demand more answers from police and prosecutors … Read more
A U.S. Army veteran set out on a trip across Pennsylvania taking a knee at several police stations within the state to protest police brutality while playing the National Anthem. Chris Mueller, 32, has been a one-man roving protest and says he wants to “piss off” as many people as he can while bringing attention … Read more
Hundreds of students walked out of a New Jersey high school in protest of the apparently rough way a police officer handled two classmates. The altercation, which was captured on camera, shows an officer grabbing a girl by the hair and throwing her twin sister to the ground. Nyasia and Kyasia Sorrells said they were … Read more
The Portland Police Bureau put hoods over the faces and headphones on the ears of a group of activists linked together before they arrested them. The activists had been blocking the gate to the ICE building in SW Portland yesterday afternoon, protesting deportations under the Trump administration. Police used hoods and headphones on the protesters, … Read more
The FBI has declared internally that “black identity extremists” are a violent threat because of their views about police brutality toward African-Americans, according to a leaked document. The August report, obtained by Foreign Policy Magazine, is from the agency’s Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit appears to point to the FBI monitoring black rights activists, from movements … Read more
About a dozen protesters confronted law enforcement Sunday at a police union fund-raiser for a Philadelphia police officer who was suspended with the intent to dismiss, for fatally shooting, aka murdering, a man running away from a traffic stop. Facing a heavy police presence outside the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5’s office on Caroline … Read more
America is reeling this morning from the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history. At least 400 people were wounded and 50 killed in Las Vegas when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire with at least ten rifles from the 32nd floor of a hotel onto a concert crowd below. Paddock’s motives are still a mystery … Read more