Raw video: police attempt to stop onlookers from recording arrests
Raw video footage of what appears to be St. Petersburg police officers assaulting a family for recording them as they make arrests in front of their home has gone viral. The family reached out to local...
View ArticleFerguson protests continue, 35 arrested during standoff in highway
Demonstrators attempting to block Interstate 70 in St. Louis on Wednesday to protest the fatal shooting of Michael Brown a month ago were barred by the police from entering the highway. According to...
View ArticlePennsylvania family files lawsuit against cops who invaded their home
A Pennsylvania couple is suing three police officers who they say invaded their home on Feb. 22. Kia Gaymon, 38, and her husband Michael, 35 of Collingdale, filed a lawsuit against the borough as well...
View ArticleFerguson protests show no sign of slowing down, 8 more arrested
Eight protesters were arrested Sunday evening in Ferguson as police continued their search for a suspect who shot a police officer on Saturday. According to a Ferguson police officer, bottles and rocks...
View ArticleActivists call for tracking of police misconduct by FBI
Activists in Ferguson have collected 200,000 signatures backing their demand that federal agencies address the national trend of police brutality with major reforms. The activists are calling for the...
View ArticleArrests made in #IAmJada rape case
By BYP @blackyouthproj 10:39 am December 23, 2014 Two suspects have been charged in the brutal gang rape of a teenage girl in Texas who went public about the crime after discovering the attack on...
View Article99% of students arrested in New York public schools are Black and Latinx
Black and Latinx students in New York public schools only make up 27% and 41% of the population, respectively. However, data shows that they represent 99% of students handcuffed by NYPD school safety...
View ArticleAtlanta Mayor Kasim Reed signs marijuana decriminalization bill
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed signed a bill on Wednesday that decriminalizes the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, making a once jailable offense a $75 fine. According to Fortune, 92% of...
View ArticleThe “positive outcome” of the Starbucks arrest won’t save us because it...
By L.N. Lewis I visit a certain website almost monthly, reading names and cross-checking news stories. It is a stark spreadsheet, a database of nightmares reaching back to May 1, 2013, titled...
View ArticlePhiladelphia ends contract with ICE following protests
The City of Philadelphia is ending a major contract it had with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, otherwise known as ICE which allowed ICE to collect data from an arrest database kept by local law...
View ArticleFederal judge rules Georgia has to wait to certify state election, protesters...
According to 11alive.com, a Georgia NBC affiliate station, Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District Court of Georgia ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by voting rights advocacy group Common Cause...
View Article80+ arrested during protests after D.A. refuses to charge officers who killed...
According to ABC-10, a protest stemming from the Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s decision not to charge the police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark resulted in the arrests...
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