police brutality

Let’s get one thing established from jump: movie theater shootings are not a common occurrence nor should they ever be anticipated. However, in wake of the heinous act that happened during the opening day of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana, Universal Pictures agreed to reimburse theaters for the extra security during Straight Outta Compton’s […]

It took around fourteen San Francisco cops to strong-arm and subdue a homeless Black man after they accused him of being armed with his crutches.

The ongoing protests in Ferguson, Mo. highlights clearly that tensions between police and citizens in the southern town have escalated to new heights. Monday evening, a reporter for a large outlet was roughed up by police and had his press badge taken from him.

Zachary Hammond was killed by a South Carolina police officer late last month, following a drug sting operation where 10 ounces of weed was recovered, and his family wants to know why the public isn’t outraged. The officer who shot 19-year-old Hammond is an apparent victim of attempted murder, because the teen was allegedly trying to […]

Chanel West Coast was reportedly a raging drunk last night in West Hollywood, when she was arrested for fighting, kicking and punching a cop following a separate brawl with a club-hopping female. Now that the booze has subsided in her system, the stalwart Young Money artist is suddenly an activist against police brutality.

Samuel Dubose‘s murderer, University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, and his fellow police officers are all a bunch of liars. That’s the only conclusion to be made when comparing the official police report to what can been seen in the jarring, body cam video of the traffic stop that ended with the 43-year-old fatally shot […]

Over the weekend at the Movement Of Black Lives conference, stylized at #M4BL on social media, police in Cleveland resorted to what protesters have depicted as violent acts of aggression towards the crowd. According to several up-close accounts, police body-slammed a 14-year-old boy for not having a bus ticket and used pepper spray to break […]

Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old Naperville, Ill. woman that was found dead last Monday (July 13) in a Texas cell has been the subject of scrutiny and public outrage. Bland’s mysterious death was ruled a suicide which has many in disbelief, and new details in the case have been revealed since last week.

Another Black man has died in police custody, this time taking place in the state of Alabama. Anthony Ware allegedly resisted arrest after Tuscaloosa police sought to detain him, leading to officers pepper spraying Ware while he was in cuffs when he later collapsed for still unknown reasons.

Authorities in Mississippi are investigating the death of an unarmed Black man that occurred earlier this week, allegedly at the hands of a white police officer. Jonathan Sanders was confronted by the officer on Wednesday, and a family attorney originally said the man was choked to death by a flashlight.

All eyes are on Philadelphia, Pa. after a video released by a journalist was released to the public and spreading through social media channels rapidly. Tyree Carroll, a Black 22-year-old city man from the city, was beaten by around 26 Philadelphia Police officers after he allegedly was stopped for riding his bicycle down a street […]

DaJuawn Wallace, a student at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, is facing a felony charge for pulling over to a well-lighted area after a low-speed pursuit. Wallace, who is pursuing his master’s degree from the school, said he pulled into a lighted store parking lot out of concerns that police officer impersonators had been […]