A 32-year-old Detroit, Michigan, woman is taking legal action against the city after she was falsely accused of carjacking and robbery due to a facial recognition error. Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant at the time of her arrest on Feb. 16, according to news […]
Three white men are facing charges for violently attacking a Black riverboat captain in Montgomery, Alabama. Even though the melee played out along racial lines, officials say the attackers won’t be charged with a hate crime. Damien Pickett, a Black co-captain of the Harriott II […]
A federal jury decided to relieve a white state trooper in Louisiana of the civil rights violation charges he faced after he clobbered and seriously wounded a Black man with a flashlight during an arrest in 2019. In May of that year, Aaron Larry Bowman […]
A video posted on Twitter showing the very different ways people responded to two blind men is gaining traction. Both appeared to need assistance, wearing dark shades and traveling with a walking stick, but those captured in the social experiment revealed a very dark reality about race […]
Prosecutors have charged a white Minneapolis woman who went on a foul, expletive-filled rant against a Black Uber driver before calling the police on him to falsely accuse him of assault. Jill Berquist, 38, was initially charged with falsely reporting a crime and disorderly conduct, […]
The Mobile Police Department has released transcripts of the 911 call that prompted the police response that led to Jawan Dallas being tased to death this month. Dallas, 36, was stunned with a Taser twice on the night of July 2 by a Mobile police officer after […]