The U.S. government and Attorney General Loretta Lynch are tired of waiting on Ferguson to clean up its police department.  Today the feds filed a lawsuit against the Missouri City for unconstitutional police misconduct after the Ferguson City Council changed the terms of a deal it had been negotiating with the …

Lee Baca, the Los Angeles County sheriff who announced his retirement in January 2014 amidst an ongoing federal investigation, will plead guilty Wednesday to making false statements. As first reported by the LA Times, a charging document filed by federal prosecutors proves that Baca lied twice about his involvement in …

A top investigator assigned to the Flint Water Crisis – which knowingly allowed dangerous levels of lead potentially causing deadly cases of Legionnaires disease – could result in criminal charges as serious as involuntary manslaughter. As the ongoing escalations in the crisis prompt Governor Rick Snyder to propose another $195 …

On January 11, 2016 Gynnya McMillen, a 16 year old African-American girl from Shelbyville, KY being detained on misdemeanor assault charges was found dead in her holding cell at the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, KY.                       …

Pat Adelman, a boys high school basketball coach in Portland, Oregon, and the son of former Trail Blazers coach Rick Adelman has come under fire this week after objectifying two of his black players by demanding his white players touch them so that fear of black skin would not affect …

After not serving justice to 12 year old Tamir Rice, who was gunned down by police, The City of Cleveland is suing the family of Tamir for “unpaid emergency medical fees’. So, not only was Tamir’s life meaningless to the city who’s Grand Jury decline to indict his killer, they …

A 17 year old black teenager named David Joseph was naked and unarmed when he was fatally shot by police officer Geoffrey Freeman Monday morning in Austin, Texas. At a press conference Tuesday morning, Assistant Police Chief Brian Manley informed the public that the case is being investigated by the …

After hackers released files to the public taken from the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest union for law enforcement officers in the U.S., analysts have begun to examine heaps of data uncovered in the cyber attack. A wealth of information has been found in the 2.5 GB of released data, …

The use of lethal police force against 17-year-old David Joseph has evoked a call to action by both the Texas chapter of the NAACP and youth justice groups.  The Austin Police Department has named Geoffrey Freeman, a 10 year veteran of the force, responsible for the shooting of the black youth …

Donald Trump’s plan to bring back the outlawed torture tactic of waterboarding is no different than hazing in fraternities, one of his sons insisted Monday. Eric Trump defended his father’s Sunday night statement that he would “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding” by inexplicably claiming that the banned …

A Black, female police officer has been dismissed by the City of Buffalo Police Department after 19 years of service because she tried to stop a fellow officer from choking a man who was already subdued in handcuffs. On November 1st, 2006, Officer Cariol Horne arrived at the scene of …

Only two elected officials in Crystal City, Texas were left unharmed after the FBI arrested six of its public officials under a federal indictment accusing them of taking bribes and assisting an illegal gambling operator in exchange for various favors. As first reported by the Associated Press, those arrested include …

Appearing Saturday on the “End Of Times” conservative radio program hosted by Ian Markell and Eric Barger, Michele Bachmann claimed that Islamic terrorists and Muslim Americans don’t need nuclear bombs to destroy Western Civilization because they have “rape culture.” Ignoring the fact that rape culture persists, well, everywhere in the …

Corrections Officer Nicole Bartley, 30, has been arrested for having an illegal sexual relationship with an inmate and smuggling marijuana. Bartley is now the 26th officer at Rikers Island to have been arrested for misconduct since 2014. Drug-sniffing dogs indicated the smell of marijuana on Bartley Saturday morning and although officers …

Indiana Senate Bill 220 passed the senate 34-16 and will now advance to the state House. This bill would offer the possibility of judges to impose harsher sentences to convicted criminals whose actions targeted victims based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, disability, national origin, ancestry or sexual orientation. Indiana …