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Erie County District Attorney John Flynn announced Thursday that the charges against two Buffalo Police officers for shoving an elderly protester to the ground during a Black Lives Matter protest, and cracking his head open on the pavement have been dismissed, WGRZ reports. Aaron Torgalski, 39, and Robert McCabe, 32, were charged with second-degree assault for their involvement in an […]
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 […]
The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for helping bring awareness to racial justice worldwide. USA Today reports that Norwegian Parliament member Petter Eide nominated the organization because the protests against police brutality and systemic racism in the United States reached international recognition. “To carry forward a movement of […]
A disturbing video that has recently begun circulating on social media shows a Florida school resource officer slamming a female student to the ground. The clip appears to show a deputy throwing the student into the concrete walkway, later placing handcuffs on her as she appears to lay motionless on the ground. WKMG-TV reports that the […]
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 […]
On August 23, Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey as he returned to the driver’s side of his SUV. Sitting in the backseat of the vehicle at the time were his three children witnessing what could’ve been their father’s final moments. In an interview with Michael Strahan for Good […]
A sheriff‘s deputy in Virginia has been fired after the department was alerted to “disturbing comments” on Parler, the far-right social media platform. “Early yesterday our agency was notified about disturbing comments being made on several social media outlets by a deputy sheriff,” a rep for the Prince William County Sheriff’s Office said over the weekend. […]
Following the fatal shooting of 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill by Officer Adam Coy this past Tuesday, Columbus Police Chief Thomas Quinlan is recommending that the officer be fired for his actions. In a video statement shared on Christmas Eve, Quinlan said that he believes Officer Coy demonstrated “critical misconduct” and should be terminated as a result. “I witnessed his critical […]
The NYPD’s use of excessive force “likely escalated tensions” during George Floyd protests across the city, according to a newly published report by NYC’s inspector general. The 111-page document states the city’s police department “lacked a clearly defined strategy tailored to respond to the large scale protests” sparked by the series of 2020 police killings of […]
The family of a 23-year-old Black man named Casey Christopher Goodson Jr., who was fatally shot outside of his Ohio home by a white Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy, want answers over his death. BuzzFeed News reports the deputy is not the suspect or focus of any investigation into the deadly shooting of Goodson, which happened on […]
