This time last summer, Jonesboro, Ark. police were under fire for the case of Chavis Carter —a man authorities claimed shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a squad car– and now comes a similarly confusing officer-involved incident. A man, suspected of stealing a car was gunned down by Little Rock Police Department Officer […]
George Zimmerman is on day three of his second-degree murder trial in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman’s attorney kicked off the trial at the top of the week, stumbling during opening statements by making a “knock-knock joke.”
“These a–holes, they always get away.” Those are the words quoted by the prosecution Monday (June 24), opening the second-degree murder trial against George Zimmerman over Trayvon Martin’s death.
An Arizona man is fighting back after being arrested for DUI despite blowing a 0.000 blood alcohol level. Retired fight fighter, Jessie Thornton of Surprise, Ariz. says he was racially profiled last December when cops pulled him over.
New York City’s “stop-and-frisk” policy has drawn ire over alleged racial profiling, but Police Commissioner Ray Kelly doesn’t believe in the theory. In his view, the policy isn’t an act of racism because most of the people who commit crimes in the city are Black anyway.
Jim Jones claims to have been the victim of racial profiling at Newark Internatinonal Airport in New Jersey, last week. TMZ reports that the Harlem rapper was pulled over and ordered out of his car– all because he’s black.
Charges filed against MC Hammer stemming from a run-in with police last month, have been dropped, according to the Bay Area rapper. Hammer was arrested at a mall in Northern California in late February.
MC Hammer was arrested in Dublin, Calif. Thursday (Feb. 21) for obstruction, and claims to have been racially profiled. In a series of tweets, the legendary rapper blasted reports that he resisted police.
Lawyers for George Zimmerman filed a motion to delay the start of his second-degree murder trial Wednesday (Jan. 30), on grounds that they need more time to prepare. Zimmerman’s legal team claims that prosecutors haven’t been expedicious with the evidence needed to build a defense in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
Meek Mill isn’t taking what he considers to be “harassment” unjust treatment from Philadelphia police lightly. After claiming that he was falsely imprisoned, the MMG artist filed a lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia and two police officers, while the rapper’s lawyer believes it’s a clear case of racial profiling.
February 5 will be a bitter–sweet day for the parents of Trayvon Martin. The day is scheduled for accused killer George Zimmerman’s next court hearing, but it also marks what would’ve been the teen’s 18th birthday.
The older brother of George Zimmerman is speaking out in defense of his family, and trying to put to rest the notion that they are racist. Robert Zimmerman Jr. addressed attendees at an event thrown by the Orlando chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Thursday (Nov. 1), in attempts to respond to a “tidal […]
