NYPD Facing $5 Million Lawsuit For Bloody Arrest Of Black Lives Matter Activist
A Black Lives Matter activist is suing New York City police for $5 million after they beat him at a protest for Stephon Clark in...
Category : Criminal Justice
Cop Who Killed Terrence Sterling Loses Appeal and Will be Fired
Officer Brian Trainer, the Washington, D.C. police officer who fatally shot Terrence Sterling in 2016, lost his appeal to keep his job and will be...
Charlottesville Man Who Used Fire to Hold off White Supremacists is Sentenced to Jail
One of the most memorable photos from last year’s Charlottesville protest was one of a young Black man using an aerosol can as a makeshift...
Watch: Video Shows Police Brutally Punching Innocent Black Man Until He’s Unconscious
On Tuesday, the Mesa, AZ Police Department released disturbing surveillance video footage showing a group of Mesa police officers brutally beating an unarmed Black man...
PA Is Considering Using A Computer Program That Believes Black People Are More Dangerous Than White
The state of Pennsylvania is considering using a new computer program that will give criminals harsher sentences for crimes they may commit. This program, which...
Jury Awards $4 to Family of Man Fatally Shot by Sheriff’s Deputy in his Own Garage
A federal court jury found the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office partially liable in the January 2014 fatal shooting of Gregory Hill Jr. in the...
Woman Receives Historic $1 Billion Settlement After Being Brutally Raped
At 14-years-old, Hope Cheston, suffered one of the most heinous crimes possible. She was brutally raped by a stranger who was working as an armed...
Stephon Clark Autopsy Shows Police Shot Him In The Back
Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old father of two who was unarmed when he was fatally shot by police in California earlier this month, was hit...
Jury awards $37M to family of Korryn Gaines in civil case against Baltimore County
The family of Korryn Gaines was awarded over $37 million in damages for the tragic death of the Maryland woman fatally shot by police after...
Mother Believes Her Son’s Organs Were Stolen After Being Killed By Police
On August 14, 2014, Cynthia Lane’s 19-year-old son, Roshad McIntosh was shot and killed by Chicago cops who were investigating reports of gang activity. A...
Cops Mistake Man’s Colostomy Bag for a Gun – Taser & Mace Him
Lamar Wright of Euclid, OH. is filing a federal lawsuit filed against the Euclid Police Department for being tased and maced by police who mistook...
Michael Slager Gets 20 Years for Killing Walter Scott
Michael Slager, the white former police officer who was caught on camera in 2015 killing Walter Scott, an unarmed black man in North Charleston, S.C.,...
15-Year Old girl stabbed 80 times and set on fire by man she met on Facebook
A Philadelphia man is accused of stabbing a 15-year-old girl more than 50 times and burning her body after they met on social media. Police...
Black man sues Ohio town saying he was kicked in the face, tased and kneed in the groin by off duty cops
This Friday Erimius Spencer filed a lawsuit against the city of Euclid, Ohio, former Euclid police officer Michael Amiott, current officer Shane Rivera and the...
Philando Castile’s girlfriend awarded $800,000 settlement for emotional distress, false arrest
The girlfriend of Philando Castile, Diamond Reynolds, will receive $800,000 under a settlement announced on Tuesday, more than one year after a Minnesota police officer...
Mobile app converts your daily change into bail money to free Black people
Black tech entrepreneur, Kortney Ziegler, is the creator of a new mobile app that converts your daily change into bail money that helps get Black inmates out...
