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Rihanna, Jay-Z, and Pharrell Williams are among the high-profile celebrities who are demanding justice for Danroy “DJ” Henry, a Black college student who was killed by a white officer nearly a decade ago. The stars sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice this week, asking authorities to reopen the investigation into Henry’s fatal shooting. According to People […]
The Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office has launched an investigation following the sharing of widely condemned footage showing an Allentown Police Department officer forcing his knee into a man’s neck to restrain him. As a regional Pennsylvania CBS outlet points out, the department claims its policy includes a ban on neck restraints and chokeholds. Its use-of-force policy, notably, was released […]
Kid Cudi came through with a new song featuring Eminem on Thursday night titled “The Adventures of Moon Man and Slim Shady.” On the track, which was produced by Dot da Genius, Eminem, and J Gramm, Eminem took aim at Drew Brees, rapping, “Got a lil’ green (Yeah), but I don’t do weed (Nope)/Purp nor lean (Nah), that’s Tunechi […]
George Floyd began fearing for his life as soon as officers approached him on the night of his death. According to bodycam transcripts obtained by TMZ, former Minneapolis officer Thomas Lane confronted Floyd in a car and immediately demanding the 46-year-old Black man to show his hands. Floyd started apologizing to Lane, insisting he was nervous due […]
New court documents claim that Breonna Taylor was alive after the police shot her, but was given no medical aid as she lay dying in her apartment, The New York Times reports. Filed by her family, the 31-page complaint says that she was dying for up to six minutes after the fatal shooting, and modifies an earlier […]
Three Colorado police officers have been fired for taking a selfie reenacting the murder of Elijah McClain. The Aurora Police Department previously put the officers on paid leave pending an internal investigation. During a news conference, interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson displayed the photos where officers Jaron Jones, Erica Marrer, and Kyle Dittrich demonstrated a […]
The Aurora Police Department in Colorado confirmed Thursday that Jaron Jones, one of the officers involved in the alleged photos taken near the site of Elijah McClain’s death, has submitted his resignation. Aurora Police Department Interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson announced earlier this week that she learned from Internal Affairs that three officers took photos near the scene where McClain’s arrest […]
Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta Police Department cop charged with murdering Rayshard Brooks, has been released on bond. Rolfe posted bond the $500,000 bond on Tuesday night, per WSB-TV. Publicly available court records list the date of release as July 1. Rolfe, whose charges include felony murder, was originally booked on June 18. The bond’s […]
Though news coverage may have unfortunately waned in recent days, protests continue across the country as activists young and old continue to push for social justice with an emphasis on eradicating police brutality. And as the country saw with the police murder of George Floyd, these all-too-routine instances of fatal brutality at the hands of […]
A recently fired Miami police officer has been charged with battery and official misconduct after he was caught on camera pressing his knee into a pregnant woman’s neck. The cop, Jordy Yanes Martel, also tased the woman multiple times in the stomach, 7 News Miami reports. In the footage from mid-January, he is shown dragging Safiya […]
