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Nearly a dozen people were hospitalized Saturday after a man allegedly drove his vehicle through an Arizona bicycle race. According to CNN, the incident took place Saturday morning in Show Low, Arizona, where a Ford F-150 plowed through a group of cyclists participating in the annual Bike the Bluff event. Law enforcement confirmed the 35-year-old suspect was shot […]
A New Jersey city has paid tribute to George Floyd by erecting a 700-pound statue in his image. According to CBS News, the bronze structure was unveiled Wednesday outside Newark’s city hall, where it will remain on display for at least a year. The piece, which shows Floyd sitting on a bench, was commissioned by actor/director Leon Pinkney and created by […]
The children of Alton Sterling have accepted a $4.5 million settlement with the city of Baton Rouge, nearly five years after their father was fatally shot by a police officer, USA TODAY reports. The attorneys for Sterling’s five children released a statement where they expressed hope that the settlement “will allow the city to heal and provide a pathway […]
A man and his infant son were fatally shot during a shootout with police in Mississippi on Monday. The horrifying incident comes after the man allegedly shot and killed the child’s mother and kidnapped his 4-month-old son, according to Biloxi, Mississippi-based ABC and CBS affiliate WLOX. Police responded Monday afternoon to a report of a shooting following a suspected domestic dispute […]
For the fifth time, the Breakfast Club team welcomed Dr. Umar Johnson—who’s been widely criticized for telling people to skip out on the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as his massively detrimental pushing of homophobic messages—to the show. About 40 minutes into Monday’s appearance, the topic of the recent police killing of 16-year-old Black girl Ma’Khia […]
Days after Andrew Brown Jr. was fatally shot by police Wednesday in North Carolina, his family has now seen the 20-second clip of police body camera footage from the shooting. Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies attempted to serve Brown with an arrest warrant in Elizabeth City before the shooting, the sheriff’s office said. Few details have emerged regarding the […]
LeBron James’ comments on the recent fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant angered one Ohio bar owner so much that he has vowed to no longer show NBA games at his establishment. “If anyone wants to watch an NBA game, don’t come to Linnie’s Pub,” Jay Linneman, owner of Cincinnati’s Linne’s Pub, wrote on Facebook, […]
George Floyd’s convicted murderer will receive his sentencing in less than two months. According to CNN, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced on June 16, a little over one year after Floyd was killed while in police custody. Chauvin was recorded kneeling on the 46-year-old Black mans’ neck during an attempted arrest […]
Chilling footage of Dave Grossman, an ex-Army Ranger who became a notorious police trainer, has resurfaced amid constant and ongoing examples of police brutality nationwide. For some background, Grossman was among the law enforcement figures featured in a 2018 film from director Craig Atkinson titled Do Not Resist. “It’s my hope that both community members […]
On Wednesday, LeBron James posted a photo of Nicholas Reardon, the police officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday. James’ post, which has since been deleted, was captioned, “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY.” It also featured an hourglass emoji. Bryant was killed at around the same time Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three counts by a Minneapolis […]
