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Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the police after a black man asked her to keep her dog on a leash, has been charged for filing a false report. The New York Times reports that Cooper, who was filmed by Christian Cooper in the Ramble at Central Park, where it is against the rules to have dogs […]
An angry woman with an ill-fitting hat went viral last month after a video showed her racist rant in Torrance, California. Another video of a separate incident featuring the same woman surfaced less than a week later, and she has since been labeled ‘Staircase Karen’ by the internet. TMZ reports that the woman, 56-year-old Lena […]
The Aurora Police Department in Colorado confirmed Thursday that Jaron Jones, one of the officers involved in the alleged photos taken near the site of Elijah McClain’s death, has submitted his resignation. Aurora Police Department Interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson announced earlier this week that she learned from Internal Affairs that three officers took photos near the scene where McClain’s arrest […]
Tens of thousands of people are demanding a full and thorough investigation into the death of Elijah Weatherspoon, an 18-year-old Black man who died last week under suspicious circumstances. According to WCBD, Weatherspoon went missing on June 25 in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, where he was boating with a group of white friends. At around 11 p.m. […]
Police in Seattle have cleared out the city’s ‘autonomous zone’ and arrested over 30 protesters following an executive order from Mayor Jenny Durkan. ABC News reports that the “occupied” zone, which has been dubbed the Capitol Hill Organized Protest area, was cleared by police on Wednesday. The order from Durkan came after four shootings, two of which […]
NBA Rookie of the Year candidate, Ja Morant, was on the wrong end of a social media first storm. On Sunday, Morant took to Twitter where he apologized for posting a picture that offended law enforcement officers. “My post was intended to focus on the bad cops who get away with the murder of unarmed Black […]
Though news coverage may have unfortunately waned in recent days, protests continue across the country as activists young and old continue to push for social justice with an emphasis on eradicating police brutality. And as the country saw with the police murder of George Floyd, these all-too-routine instances of fatal brutality at the hands of […]
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver and Youngstown State standout, Jermiah Braswell, was arrested on Saturday evening after he drove his car into Lake Erie, Put-in-Bay, Ohio Police report. Put-in-Bay police received a call at around 6:30 p.m. regarding the incident. Witnesses tell police that Braswell drove his orange Camaro off an embankment and landed in the lake. […]
A recently fired Miami police officer has been charged with battery and official misconduct after he was caught on camera pressing his knee into a pregnant woman’s neck. The cop, Jordy Yanes Martel, also tased the woman multiple times in the stomach, 7 News Miami reports. In the footage from mid-January, he is shown dragging Safiya […]
A 46-year-old Black has sued Georgia police officers for “unnecessary and excessive” use of force. According to the Valdosta Daily Times, Antonio Arnelo Smith filed the lawsuit in federal court last Friday, nearly five months after Valdosta officers mistook him for a panhandling suspect. Bodycam footage of the Feb. 8 incident shows white officers confronting Smith outside a Walgreens. […]
