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Graffiti artist Michael McLeer has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD after some of his artwork was reportedly painted over by the cops. The 51-year-old artist, who is sometimes also credited as Michael Kaves through his work with the Lordz of Brooklyn, has argued that the NYPD’s recent initiative to replace graffiti across the city “endangers hundreds of […]
Miami police are interviewing DaBaby after two people sustained injuries in a shooting on Monday night near a restaurant hotspot on Ocean Drive. TMZ reports that DaBaby was questioned to help with law enforcement’s investigation into the incident, which left one victim with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and the other, an injury to […]
On Friday, 28-year-old Coleman Thomas Blevins was arrested in Kerrville, Texas, putting a stop to his suspected plans to attack a Walmart in a mass shooting. The Kerr County Sheriff’s Office shared the news on Sunday, revealing that he was arrested on charges of making a “terroristic threat to create public fear of serious bodily […]
Police in St. Louis, Missouri are investigating a sign that was posted outside a local Popeyes drive-thru lane that refused service to white people. Police said they’re pretty confident the sign was posted by someone who isn’t a Popeyes employee after surveillance video IDed the suspect. The sign, which made the rounds on social media in […]
A Georgia man who police said faked his own death in 2015 to avoid attempted murder charges has been arrested in Oklahoma. According to KFOR, Christopher Tomberlin was apprehended Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service Metro Fugitive Task Force and officers from the Oklahoma City Police Department’s Violent Crimes Apprehension Team. The arrest comes six […]
The City of Baton Rouge has agreed to pay $35,000 to the family of a teen who was strip-searched by officers during a traffic stop. According to The Advocate, the incident occurred on Jan. 1, 2020, when Sgt. Ken Camallo stopped the 16-year-old, his 23-year-old brother Clarence Green, and a woman named Kayleen Butler, who was […]
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 […]
A drug dealer’s “love of Stilton cheese” proved to be his undoing when police were able to identify him based on a photo he shared on what he believed to be an encrypted messaging service, CNN reports. Carl Stewart, 39, of Liverpool, was sentenced Friday to 13 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to […]
Authorities in El Salvador have discovered the remains of at least 24 people in the garden of a former police officer’s home, according to BBC. At first, eight graves were found with 14 bodies, which appear to have been buried for two years on Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez’s property, BBC reports. Officials suspect that they may find […]
Newly released video shows a Tennessee man pleading for his life as a group of officers pin him to the ground just moments before his death. “I can’t breathe!” 48-year-old William Jennette is heard shouting while being restrained at Marshall County jail in Lewisburg, Tennessee. “You shouldn’t be able to breathe, you stupid b****!” an officer […]
