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For the fifth time, the Breakfast Club team welcomed Dr. Umar Johnson—who’s been widely criticized for telling people to skip out on the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as his massively detrimental pushing of homophobic messages—to the show. About 40 minutes into Monday’s appearance, the topic of the recent police killing of 16-year-old Black girl Ma’Khia […]
Body-cam footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia is receiving renewed attention this week after an extended video was made public showing officers watching and laughing the recording. As highlighted by the Daily Beast’s Jamie Ross on Monday, the hour-long surveillance video shows the two officers from the Loveland Police Department […]
Chilling footage of Dave Grossman, an ex-Army Ranger who became a notorious police trainer, has resurfaced amid constant and ongoing examples of police brutality nationwide. For some background, Grossman was among the law enforcement figures featured in a 2018 film from director Craig Atkinson titled Do Not Resist. “It’s my hope that both community members […]
On Tuesday, a verdict was reached in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the now-former Minneapolis cop who was filmed fatally holding his knee to George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020. Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts—second degree murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter. […]
The manner in which police in Hutchinson, Minnesota responded to a 61-year-old white man who dragged an officer with his vehicle while wielding a hammer has many calling out the inherent hypocrisies of law enforcement at large, particularly in light of the police killing of 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright, which also occurred in Minnesota. […]
A Maryland State Police trooper fatally shot a 16-year-old on Tuesday. The shooting occurred in Leonardtown, a town that’s roughly 56 miles away from Washington D.C. The 16-year-old has been identified as Peyton Ham. Per a news release, two separate 911 calls were received at the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack shortly before 1:30 p.m. local […]
On May 25, 2020 George Floyd—a 46-year-old Black man and father of five—was killed at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. Floyd’s death spurred protests nationwide and stood as the latest example of rampant, institutionalized police brutality in the U.S. Among those who publicly criticized the Minneapolis Police Department during the summer of 2020 was […]
The Orange County Sherriff’s Office has released video of the fatal police shooting of 42-year-old Kurt Andras Reinhold in San Clemente. The video shows several angles of the shooting, which occurred after two homeless liaison officers stopped Reinhold for allegedly jaywalking. Taken together, they show the entirety of the stop, which ended in Reinhold being shot to […]
An Idaho cop shot and killed a man in his own backyard after mistaking him for a suspect. Per a statement from the Idaho Falls Police Department, a Bonneville County Sheriff’s Deputy first made a traffic stop on a vehicle shortly after midnight on Monday. An occupant of the vehicle, described in an NBC News […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for excessive use of force, including the use of brutal force against protesters in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police inspired protests around the country, including […]
