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Hours of body camera footage from Louisville Metro Police Department officers and SWAT team members shed light on the circumstances surrounding Breonna Taylor‘s murder. VICE News obtained footage and documents that have not previously been released on Saturday. The footage was captured by 45 different body cameras and was part of an investigative file compiled by the […]
The family of David McAtee has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department, two of its officers, and members of the Kentucky National Guard. The suit, which was filed this week in Jefferson Circuit Court, comes less than four months after McAtee—a Black business owner—was fatally shot during a Black Lives Matter protest. According to the lawsuit obtained by CNN, […]
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 […]
While the NBA has locked itself away in a bubble, Black people are still victimized by state-sanctioned violence and police brutality outside of it. As a result, protesters have decided to take these issues to the league’s doorstep. Protesters surrounded an NBA media bus that was making its way from ESPN’s Wide World of Sports […]
Jacob Blake has appeared publicly for the first time from his hospital bed since he was shot by police on Aug. 23. According to CNN, Blake appeared for a court hearing via video from the hospital where he’s been recovering from the shooting that has resulted in his paralysis from the waist down. Friday’s court hearing is unrelated to […]
Bill Barr insists the police shootings of unarmed African Americans aren’t racially motivated. The Attorney General made the comments during an appearance on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, claiming there was a “false narrative” about racial biases within criminal justice system. Barr told Blitzer that there were some situations in which a Black person […]
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies shot and killed a Black man on Monday. Speaking with CBS Los Angeles, a woman who witnessed the shooting but chose not to be identified said she knew the victim—who has been identified by family as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee—and noted what she explained as a use of excessive force. […]
Jacob Blake‘s father says his son is handcuffed to a hospital bed, as he recovers from a police shooting that reportedly left him paralyzed from the waist down. “I hate it that he was laying in that bed with the handcuff onto the bed,” Blake’s dad—also named Jacob Blake—told the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday. “He can’t go anywhere. Why do […]
The name of Jacob Blake’s shooter has been released. According to the Associated Press, the Wisconsin Department of Justice has identified Rusten Sheskey as the Kenosha police officer who shot Blake in the back on Aug. 23. The 29-year-old sustained seven gun wounds and is now reportedly paralyzed. Sheskey, who has been with the police department for […]
A Black man is in serious condition after being shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Graphic footage, per the Associated Press, shows police shooting at the man’s back seven times as he walked away and got into the driver’s side of an SUV. Following the shooting, which police claim was preceded by their arrival on […]
