police-brutality
Page: 6
Community members are outraged after a video surfaced showing a student at a Los Angeles-area high school being body-slammed by a school resource officer. The teenage girl was thrown to the ground by an officer from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department around two weeks ago at Lancaster High School, ABC 7 reports. The footage […]
Two Atlanta police officers have been taken off duty after a video surfaced this week of a cop kicking a handcuffed woman in the head. ATL police said the “actions of the sergeant appear to be unacceptable,” according to Alive 11, as footage of the incident has gone viral on Twitter and beyond. In the video, […]
A former high school student is being charged with two counts of third-degree computer crimes after unlawfully accessing his school’s computer database, putting a quote from Adolf Hitler in the yearbook, and attributing it to George Floyd. According to the New York Post, 18-year-old Connecticut high school grad Hollister Tryon submitted the following quote: “It is a […]
A former Houston police officer is facing decades behind bars after he allegedly beat a handcuffed suspect. According to NBC News, Lucas Vieira was indicted last week on aggravated assault charges stemming from the 2019 arrest of Aundre Howard. The incident took place on July 7, when Houston PD officers pulled Howard over for expired registration. During […]
A police officer from upstate New York has been placed on leave after he seen punching a handcuffed woman in a lengthy video posted by the department. WSYR reports DeWitt police officer Rory Spain has been placed on paid administrative leave as the department investigates the incident, according to department spokesman Lt. Jerry Pace. The video of a […]
After a judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Friday to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd on Friday, people couldn’t help but feel like the punishment did not fit the crime. The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in […]
Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison. Of those, he’s can serve as little as 15 years behind bars. The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in April. George Floyd died last May after Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s […]
A Colorado high school principal has resigned after a photo of three students reenacting the murder of George Floyd surfaced last month, per CBS Denver. Mead High School Principal Rachael Ayers announced in May that an investigation was underway in response to a photo on Snapchat showing one student in blackface lying on the ground with another kneeling on his […]
The Huntsville Police Department in Alabama are investigating footage from an incident over the weekend which shows an officer repeatedly stomping on a man’s leg while he’s being held down on the ground by another cop, Birmingham-based CBS affiliate WIAT reports. Bruce Turner, the person who recorded the disturbing scene, said he was unaware how the altercation started […]
Despite what others may say, Darnella Frazier doesn’t consider herself a hero, but rather a young “girl trying to heal from something I am reminded of every day.” The 18-year-old Minneapolis teen has been widely praised for her role in securing justice for George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man who was killed by police exactly a year […]
