A Utah man died in a jail cell shortly after he was taken into custody for unpaid ambulance bills totaling nearly $2,400. Rex Iverson, 45, died in a Box Elder County Jail in the afternoon of January 23, 2016 while jail staff were elsewhere in the facility preparing for the …

The Miami Chapter of the Fraternal Order Of The Police, Lodge #20, voted yesterday to boycott Beyonce’s April Concert In Miami, adamantly claiming that her new music video and subsequent Super Bowl performance promote an anti-police message. Javier Ortiz, whose Miami chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police counts over 1,100 …

Edwin Raymond, an eight year veteran of the New York Police Department, is heading a class action lawsuit involving 12 other black and latino police officers against ‘New York’s Finest,’ alleging that the NYPD is instructing its officers to satisfy predetermined numerary objectives for arrests and tickets every month. In other words, the quota system the department …

A federal monitor tasked with overseeing changes and improvements to the NYPD’s stop, question, and frisk program said recently that out of the 600 stops they analyzed over the course of three months in 2015, nearly a quarter could be viewed as unconstitutional. The findings, released Tuesday in a 72-page …

Two veteran LAPD officers were arrested by detectives from the same police force on Wednesday and charged with a series of sexual assaults, most of which occurred while they were on duty.  The officers are expected in court on Thursday and are now held on more than $3.5 million bail. Prosecutors allege …

Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold told the press Tuesday that he suspects Beyonce’s Super Bowl performance and “Formation” music video may have led to a shooting outside his Murfreesboro, Tennessee home.  The officer reported hearing eight gunshots outside of his house Monday around 9 PM.  He yelled for his wife and two young …

We’ve all been there. You’re having a conversation about social issues that quickly pivots to an argument about race in America, with one person making increasingly uncomfortable statements. You try to avoid making a scene, but then you realize that you don’t owe this person anything – least of all …

Alpha Natural Resources, a bankrupt coal company headquartered in Bristol, Virginia, outlined a plan to pay top executives up to 11.9 million in bonuses over six months as a “reward” for slashing benefits for workers and simultaneously sidestepping environmental remediation obligations during its bankruptcy proceedings. As one of the four largest …

A bizarre love triangle between an adulterous former cop, a woman, and her alleged rapist, 35-year-old cable TV installer, Ronnie A. Torregano began to unfold Tuesday in a New Orleans court.  Orleans Parish prosecutor Jason Napoli told the jurors that NOPD completely botched the rape investigation and that “the only person …

Houston County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Jeffrey Lee Schulmerich, 51, a former Dothan police officer on Valentine’s Day and charged him with felony aggravated stalking. According to Sheriff’s Capt. Antonio Gonzalez, deputies served Schulmerich with a felony warrant on Sunday for a previous event that did not happen on Valentine’s …

A bill has landed on the desk of South Dakota governor Dennis Daugaard, a Republican who has given the bill a positive nod in the past.  Daugaard’s signature is the last remaining step before South Dakota could become the first state to specifically target transgender youth by passing a law …

Days after Georgia correctional officers gained national attention as the FBI arrest 46 of them for corruption in the drug trade, three women have gone public with a civil suit against Captain Edgar Daniel Johnson, the former supervisor at a medium-security women’s prison.  Captain Johnson has made headlines for allegedly raping the three …

Dear Friends, I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but two Sundays ago – Superbowl Sunday – Beyonce performed her newest single “Formation,” an unapologetically proud celebration of blackness. It was a song written for our black friends, family, and community members, but it was also a call to …

At a spirited hearing Monday, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina made a last-minute plea to keep in place two congressional districts that were recently struck down in federal court for racial gerrymandering. Lawmakers spoke to voters at five locations throughout the state via teleconference, saying that they would do everything …

Airstrikes hit a hospital in northern Syria Monday, leaving behind seven dead and more than eight missing persons, according to Doctors Without Borders, who manages the hospital located in Maarat al-Moaman. As first reported by the New York Times, no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but both Russian …