A Tennessee mother says she wishes she had never called the police on her daughter’s Black boyfriend after the conflict ended with an officer fatally shooting him inside a Knoxville high school bathroom. Anthony J. Thompson Jr., a 17-year-old student at Austin-East Magnet High School, […]
An Atlanta-area police department on Friday released bodycam videos from an April 12 officer-involved shooting during which a Black man was killed. The footage, obtained by Atlanta Black Star, showed 35-year-old Matthew Zadok Williams holding a knife as he rushed a DeKalb County police officer during an […]
U.S. police officers and public officials were among those who donated millions of dollars through a Christian crowdfunding website to 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who is accused of murder in shootings last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a data breach has revealed. The breach, first reported by The Guardian, […]
Oklahoma lawmakers have passed a bill that they’re pretending is about protecting citizens when it’s really about their contempt for anti-racism protesters. The legislation that passed in the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday increases penalties for protesters who block streets while granting blanket immunity for drivers who […]
Rusten Sheskey, the Kenosha, Wisconsin officer who shot Jacob Blake last year, recently returned to duty after being cleared of any wrongdoing. An independent expert review and an outside investigation found his actions were consistent with departmental policy. Sheskey will not face discipline for the shooting police authorities announced, […]
The police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota has placed police killings of unarmed Black people back in the spotlight. The event that directly led up to the police being called resulted in a tragedy that could have been avoided. Floyd was accused of passing a counterfeit […]
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