Posts Tagged ‘police’
Where Are the Police? Another Noose Found on National Mall
By: Angela Helm, theroot.com Surely, with all of the camera surveillance as well as several branches of police (federal, local, military, etc.) patrolling one of the most tourist-laden places in these United States, one would think that there would be an arrest or some movement in this noose-hanging frenzy going on all over the National Mall….…
Read More#MissingDCGirls Finally Caught People’s Attention, but How Do You Bring Them Home?
From: The Root Written By: Yesha Callahan In the article “#MissingDCGirls Finally Caught People’s Attention, but How Do You Bring Them Home?,” senior editor Yesha Callahan writes about the increasing number of African American teens that have been disappearing from the Washington D.C. area since February. Furthermore, she points to the lack of police efforts in addressing…
Read More3 Adults and Baby Died In A Jail Run By Potential Homeland Security Head
Four people, including a newborn baby, have died at the Milwaukee County Jail since April. One died of “profound dehydration.” The string of deaths is concerning. The jail’s operation is the main responsibility of Sheriff David Clarke, a leading contender for the Trump’s head of Homeland Security.
Read MoreBaltimore cop spits in handcuffed black man’s face, then charges him with assault
By The Grio A Baltimore police officer has been suspended after video emerged showing him spitting in the face of a black man who he then charged with assault. The officer, Sergeant Robert Mesner, was placed on leave by interim chief Kevin Davis. In the video, Mesner can be seen following 31-year-old Alfred Evan after Evan had been…
Read MoreOfficials were wrong to jump to conclusions in deputy’s slaying
Harris County’s top law enforcement officials hadn’t turned a white deputy’s death, allegedly at the hands of a black man, into yet another wedge between police and communities of color.
Read MoreMan claimed he rammed St. Louis police car ‘for the black people’
A Bellefontaine Neighbors man was charged Sunday with ramming a St. Louis squad car and injuring two city officers on Friday night.
Read MoreBlack South Carolina Trooper Explains Why He Helped a White Supremacist
What the black state trooper saw was a civilian in distress. Yes, this was a white man, attending a white supremacist rally in front of the South Carolina State House. And yes, he was wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika.
Read MoreEx-cop and blackface performer’s fundraiser for officers in Freddie Gray case canceled
A local venue on Wednesday abruptly canceled a planned fundraiser for the six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray after the scheduled entertainment — a former Baltimore officer singing in blackface — drew sharp criticism.
Read MoreFerguson police chief resigns after scathing Justice Dept. report
The police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, resigned on Wednesday, following a scathing U.S. Justice Department report that found widespread racially biased abuses in the city’s police department and municipal court.
Read MoreCulture of Abuse and Racism Revealed in Ferguson Police Department
The Department of Justice’s investigation into law-enforcement practices in Ferguson, Mo., is nearly complete, and the full findings could be released to the public as early as this week… Information that has leaked out… appears to confirm allegations of long-standing abuses by Ferguson police against the town’s residents. Specifically, the DOJ reportedly found evidence of excessive use of force, rampant racial profiling, as well as an undercurrent of racism that extended beyond the police force and to the local court system.
Read More