Racial slurs heard over the Chicago Police Department’s radio scanner may have come from sources outside the department, DNA Info Chicago reports. The incident occurred Sunday morning when a 911 dispatcher and an officer’s conversation was interrupted by other voices on the line. The dispatcher, who believed she was speaking to a police officer, then heard […]
Today is Flava Flav‘s birthday! Reminiscent on March 16, we’re taken back a few years ago when music videos were like mini movies. Check out this one by Public Enemy that still seems to resonate today: “Fight the Power.” Press play below… SEE ALSO: Soul Train Awards 2014: Flavor Flav Shouts Out Bmore [Video] Flavor […]
An English student’s comparison of a Ku Klux Klan member to a police officer in a school assignment rocked a Kentucky high school and brought about a contentious discussion regarding social injustice, WLKY reports. An Honors English teacher at North Oldham High School in Oldham County asked her students to read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee […]
While police officers around the country have vowed to boycott Beyonce's tour stops after her controversial "Formation" video, Minister Farrakhan has offered up the Nation of Islam's services to make up for it.
Zackary Craft appeared in “Before This Bomb Blows Up (Racism Goes Both Ways)” wearing his work uniform and carrying “Cops Lives Matter” sign.
Michael Sykes, fugitive suspected of stabbing his girlfriend and all three of her small children with a kitchen knife in a brutal attack, was arrested on Saturday, ending a four-day manhunt. Police said that Sykes was last seen on surveillance footage Wednesday heading to the Staten Island Ferry shortly after the fatal attack, and a call to his mother […]
Thanks to her previous history with the law, a Chicago grandmother faces a minimum of six years in jail for allegedly kicking a police officer during a dispute. https://twitter.com/eSHEIKH_/status/697183108555268096 Tina Hunt could get anywhere from 6 to 30 years in prison following an altercation with Chicago deputy Ivan Beat in November 2013, according to the Chicago Tribune. At the […]
Donald "Chip" Pugh was caught by police in the small town of Century, near Pensacola, Florida.
Testimony during the trial of Baltimore officer William Porter on Friday revealed Freddie Gray’s pleas for medical attention were ignored. CNN reports prosecutors played a tape that showed Porter’s versions of the April 12 arrest in court for the first time on Friday. When Porter was asked about his interaction in the van with Gray, he […]
Daniel Andrew, the officer who was seen punching a mentally ill woman on a California highway in July 2014, will not face charges for the incident. According to The LA Times, prosecutors declined to press criminal charges after reviewing video and witness statements from the incident. Officials summarized Andrew, a California Highway Patrol officer, was […]
Over 400 miles from where the San Bernardino shooting took place yesterday, a group of police officers fatally shot a man, an incident bystanders partially caught on camera.
An internal investigation has begun in the case of two Alameda County, California deputies who were placed on administrative leave after they were filmed viciously beating a suspected car thief.
