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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 […]
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 […]
Four Parisian police officers have been charged in the beating of a Black music producer earlier this month, after video of the cops beating him in the doorway of his recording studio went viral. The inciting incident appeared to be Zecler standing outside the studio without a face covering, which is illegal under France’s coronavirus […]
The Kentucky State Police is facing backlash this week over training material that reportedly included quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler. Student journalists at Louisville’s duPont Manual High School were the first to report on the slideshow presentation, which was shown to cadets as recently as 2013. One of the slides, titled “Violence of Action,” encouraged trainees to […]
It has been 194 days since police fatally shot Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, while she slept in her bed. On March 13, around 1 a.m., plainclothes Louisville Metro Police Department Officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, along with Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, used a battering ram to force open Taylor’s apartment door while executing […]
The former officers who’ve been charged in George Floyd‘s death were met by an angry crowd of protestors following their Friday court appearance in Minneapolis. According to KTSP, defendants Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng, and Tou Thao appeared at a pre-trial hearing at a Hennepin County courthouse. The hearing took place more than three months after Floyd’s police […]
An NYPD union leader is facing calls for his resignation after launching a “homophobic” attack on Ritchie Torres, the Bronx’s first openly gay elected official. The remark in question was made less than a week ago on the Sergeants Benevolent Association’s official Twitter account. The since-deleted tweet, which was credited to SBA president Ed Mullins, came after Torres and other local […]
Colorado officials have launched another investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after he was detained by police in summer 2019. According to KDVR, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment is reexamining the role ketamine might’ve played in McClain’s highly publicized death. The man was stopped by Aurora officers on […]
A large portion of Lil Baby‘s commercial appeal is his realistic accounts of things he’s experienced. So while it may have seemed off-brand to some for him to release his pro-Black Lives Matter song “The Bigger Picture,” it actually continues the trend that propelled him to super-stardom. Baby touched on his environment and the current state of […]
The head of the New York State Troopers is demanding that all of its members be pulled from New York City in direct response to the legislation criminalizing the use of chokeholds by police, which was signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio earlier today, the New York Post reports. In a letter submitted on Wednesday, Thomas Mungeer, president […]
