On Monday night (January 5), the second police shooting in recent weeks shook New York City, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time.
The NYPD’s dissension amongst its ranks has led to the police departments ability to actually police.
Chicago’s Mick Jenkins displayed his penchant for social commentary on The Water[s], a thought provoking mixtape heavily inspired by the socio-economic conditions and violence plaguing his hometown. Continuing this trend, the promising MC recalls the injustice surrounding Eric Garner’s murder at the hands of police on “11.”
The NorCal High School that saw its players banned from an invitational basketball tournament for their “I Can’t Breathe” shirts is now letting freedom ring as First Amendment rights have been reinstated.
The freedom of expression rights apparently don’t apply to high school students after a Northern California high school was banned from a tournament for their expected champing of “I Can’t Breathe” shirts to salute Eric Garner.
The ratio of protest songs to police brutality cases in 2014 has been underwhelmingly low and Questlove feels there is a clear cut reasoning for that.
There has been a ton of police controversy in 2014 and the word out of St. Louis says we’re not done yet. Just last night, a Black teen was killed by cops during a standoff where he reportedly pulled out a gun. While all the facts are being sorted out, we suppose we’ll just wait […]
Jordan Baker, an unarmed 26-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a Houston police officer last January. The officer involved in the shooting was cleared of any wrongdoing by a Harris County grand jury Tuesday (Dec. 23), capping an emotional period for the Baker family.
A police officer in Berkeley, Mo. shot and killed 18-year-old Black teen Antonio Martin Tuesday (Dec. 23) night outside of a gas station. The shooting took place just two miles from the town of Ferguson, adding to the high tensions in the state regarding the shooting death of Michael “Mike” Brown.
As the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner waged on to create a national divide between Americans, a well-known but lesser publicized similar instance was being experienced in the Midwest.
As the country attempts to make sense of the senseless execution of two police officers in Brooklyn, the positive and the negative NYPD tweets have begun to fly at a rapid pace. The Game unsurprisingly steered towards the anti-cop sentiments in the wake of the national news story and responded with, “I guess y’all “can’t […]
Bob McCulloch, the St. Louis County District Attorney overseeing the Michael “Mike” Brown shooting case in Ferguson, claims he knew some witnesses were lying. In an interview, McColluch claimed he knew some of the witnesses lied but allowed their testimony anyway.
