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Welp. In yet another surprise in the Freddie Gray case. The third, and highest-ranked officer involved in the death of the Baltimore man was found not guilty on all counts Monday morning.

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A few days before police in Baton Rouge executed Alton Sterling and an officer of the law murdered Philando Castile in Minnesota, Fermin Vincent Valenzuela fell victim to an act of police brutality himself, and ultimately paid with his life as well.

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Joe Budden has been in the news of late for his shots at Drake, but people might remember that he’s still one of Hip-Hop’s top lyricists and that’s before sharpening swords with his Slaughterhouse brethren. The New Jersey rap star lifted a track from Beyonce‘s LEMONADE LP titled “Freedom” and dropped a timely freestyle of the […]

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The shooting death of Black Minnesota man Philando Castile is still reverberating through the media on all levels, and the shock of the video footage from the incident is still much to process. Castile’s mother appeared this morning on CNN and essentially said that Black people are being targeted by power-mad police officers abusing their […]

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While many are waiting to see how and if Drake responds to Joe Budden’s diss records, the Toronto-rapper did take a moment to address the relationship between people of color and law enforcement.

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If you’re wondering why police officers feel like they can shoot down unarmed people and feel like it was necessary, the rulings in these Supreme Court may have the answers.

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Hot 97 radio personality Peter Rosenberg lost it when talking to a police officer on-air about the Alton Sterling shooting.

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The shooting death of Baton Rouge, La. man Alton Sterling on Tuesday (July 5) is the latest in fatal encounters involving a Black person and police officers. In the wake of the video going public, protests have begun to break out in the city and abroad.

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We’ve heard this type of news time and time again, and it is still just as maddeningly disgusting. Another Baltimore cop, Caesar R. Goodson Jr., who was indicted for the murder of Freddie Gray, who died after injuries sustained while in police custody, was acquitted of all charges. 

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Christopher Johnson, a Harris County, Texas man, was arrested in 2015 on suspicion of drunk driving, and he claims in a new lawsuit that cops roughed him up for smiling in his mugshot. Johnson is suing the Harris County Sheriff’s Department for $5 million after employees there allegedly choked him as he was smiling in the […]

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Veteran NYPD Sgt. Diana Pichardo was well known in the Coney Island, Brooklyn streets after patrolling the area for years, but now she faces disciplinary action from the force. Sgt. Pichardo was caught on video pointing her gun at a bystander who filmed her during an arrest outside his apartment hallway.

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“Banking While Black” seems poised to be the next topic trending on social media after what went down in the nation’s capital. 18-year-old Jason Goolsby was brutally assaulted and arrested by Washington D.C. police after officers confused his ATM withdrawal with a robbery attempt.