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Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has been receiving heavy criticism over the LAPD’s aggression during the protests that have been taking place. In order to quell some of the people’s warranted demands for some form of police reform, he and the L.A. City Council has decided to cut $100-$150 million from the LAPD’s budget and reinvest it into black communities. […]
More than 10,000 people have been arrested amid protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd. That’s the latest count from the Associated Press, who added that Los Angeles currently makes up “more than a quarter” of the arrests that have occurred nationally. As for the nature of the arrests, AP states that many of them […]
Louisville police chief Steve Conrad has been fired following the investigation into a fatal shooting during the city’s protests, CNN reports. On Monday, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer revealed that he had relieved Conrad of his duties. This move came after it was reported that two police officers involved in the shooting did not activate their body cameras. “This type […]
On Sunday evening, Travis Scott added his name to a growing list of celebrities who have released detailed statements (or at least publicly commented) about either the death of George Floyd, or the protests that have broken out in several U.S. cities in the six days since then. Scott made his comments in an Instagram […]
Police have released new footage of a man driving his own vehicle that died after police believed he was a carjacker and placed him in a sleeper hold. KTVU obtained body camera footage of the incident, which you can view below. Warning: the video is graphic. In November, David Glen Ward, 52, was spotted by […]
A Chicago man was brutally slammed to the ground by police on Thanksgiving Day while he was being arrested and a citizen accountability group is now looking into the incident, BuzzFeed News reports. In the graphic video, an officer is seen lifting the young man up and slamming his head to the sidewalk. The man […]
Cop Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, has been fired. The move comes five years after Garner’s death and will be announced Monday by New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill, per The Daily Beast. The termination, per the report, is the result of the department determining Pantaleo had violated policy by using […]
On Sunday, a police officer in Louisiana drew widespread crticism when he took to Facebook to repost a fake news article and suggest that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot. “This vile idiot needs a round—and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve,” officer Charlie Rispoli captioned an article from the fake news site […]
Four years after the death of Sandra Bland, a new video showing the fateful 2015 traffic stop from her perspective has surfaced. WFAA points out that the existence of this video was never made public. Previously, the only footage of the traffic stop that was public was from former state trooper Brian Encina’s dashcam. This new video shows […]
An Alabama teen who died by suicide after being bullied for being gay is being remembered as a positive force in his community. Meanwhile, a regional sheriff’s deputy is now on leave after using news of the tragic death to publicly spew homophobia. Nigel Shelby died by suicide on April 18 at 15 years old, […]
