RICHLAND COUNTY, SC – A former Richland County sheriff’s deputy who was fired after writing a racial slur on someone’s poster while he was on a call has pleaded guilty and can no longer work in law enforcement. Kaleb Broome pleaded guilty to malicious injury to private property, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday … Read more
In a fascinating case of addressing impact rather than intention, district attorney in Minneapolis have dismissed felony marijuana charges against 47 people, 46 of whom are black, and halted future low-level sting operations. The racial disparity was brought to light in late May, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports, and shockingly, the powers that be took … Read more
ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s a series of Facebook comments from August that are still haunting Orlando police Officer Robert Schellhorn after Orlando’s Citizens Police Review Board voted on Wednesday to recommend a zero-tolerance social media policy which includes Schellhorn being fired. “Who wants police officers with that point of view patrolling the streets,” said Henry … Read more
A officer of Nelsonville, Ohio was fired after posting a racist Facebook message about Hocking College Interim Police Chief, Tiffany Tims. Former officer Joshua Braglin posted a social media meme of Tims sitting in the car with the caption, “Acting Chief Timms (sic)… Chicken and Waffles baby.” Two other officers also confirmed that Braglin said, … Read more
San Francisco police officers who exchanged racist, sexist and homophobic text messages in 2011 and 2012 — calling African Americans “monkeys” and encouraging the killing of “half-breeds,” among other slurs — can be brought up on disciplinary charges, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday, overturning a judge’s decision that police officials had waited too long. … Read more
An Ohio police chief accused city officials of stalling their investigation into racist and threatening Facebook posts made against her by one of the department’s officers. Nelsonville police officer Joshua Braglin slurred Tiffany Tims, the interim police chief at Hocking College, after she ordered her officers to stand down in pursuit of a possibly armed … Read more
It’s news to no one that the Rebeccas and Karens of the world will not cease until they call cops on every single black person in this country for the most minuscule of perceived infractions. In the past month alone we’ve had incidents of police being called on black people for napping while black, cooking … Read more
A black man got a plea deal with a reduced sentence after his attorneys revealed that an Arab-American officer that arrested him is a member of a suspected white supremacist biker gang. The Chicago Tribune reported that Facebook posts show Chicago Police Officer Sean Najm is a member of the American Knights, a group that … Read more
A Black woman who vacationed with friends and stayed at a California Airbnb said they were swarmed by police and detained after a neighbor reported a group of Black people were taking luggage out of a house. Call it a case of vacationing while Black, which joins the ranks of other racially insensitive run-ins with … Read more
The United Nations has raised serious concern over the deaths of a “disproportionate number” of black and minority ethnic people in police custody in Britain. “The deaths reinforce the experiences of structural racism, over-policing and criminalisation of people of African descent and other minorities in the UK,” a panel of human rights experts said. They … Read more
Liam Joseph stepped out of the Nisa convenience store on Deptford High Street. He met his brother, Dijon, who had just ordered some food from the takeaway next door, and they tapped fists. Within seconds Dijon’s arm was grabbed by an officer from the Met’s territorial support group who said she saw them exchanging drugs. … Read more
12 Oct 2013 A video of two Philadelphia police officers racially abusing two pedestrians in a stop-and-frisk went viral Friday, drawing attention to problems with out of control cops from local media. Officer Philip Nace and another officer from the city’s 25th District can be seen in the video, dated Sept. 27, as they stop … Read more