#BlackLivesMatter

On Race and White America’s sickening obsession with dehumanizing the dead.   “He’s got a gun!” a Baton Rouge officer says, prompting his partner into an all-too-familiar position. “You f*****g move, I swear to God,” says the second officer. It’s been less than twenty-four hours since 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a …

“This is the south darling, find another place to rest your n***er head.”   Airbnb, the popular lodging website that allows users to rent out available space in their domain and subsequently find similar rentals on the consumer side, is coming under fire after a racist host in North Carolina …

Law makes it a hate crime to assault police officers in Louisiana.   Earlier today, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) signed Louisiana House Bill 953, the so-called “Blue Lives Matter” bill, into law, expanding hate crime laws to include law enforcement officers. State Representative Lance Harris (R), who sponsored …

Separate civil suit also claims that one of the students facing criminal charges terrorized the victim with racial slurs, nicknaming him ‘Kool-Aid.’ Three white high school football players in the small town of Dietrich, Idaho, are being charged with raping their black teammate. Authorities say that on October 23, 2015, …

Deputy is still on the job despite recordings of him repeatedly using racial slurs to mock Martin’s death.   In scenes somewhat reminiscent of a racist texting scandal that has shaken the San Francisco Police Department, public officials in Hocking County, Ohio, are reeling after audio has surfaced as part …

SCOTUS rules 7-1 in Foster v Georgia that the defendant’s conviction in 1986 was a “blatant prosecutorial misconduct,” violates 6th amendment.   The Supreme Court ruled Monday morning to give Georgia inmate Timothy Foster new life by finding that prosecutors unconstitutionally barred any potential black jurors from serving on his trial almost …

“The people of Flint have been harmed through the failure of state officials to provide professional and accountable basic services mandated by federal law and expected by any person living in a major city.”   The NAACP announced Wednesday afternoon that it has filed a federal class action lawsuit against …

Faced with the prospect of being fired, Chicago detective opts to quietly step down two days before police board hearing.   Dante Servin, a Chicago police officer whose 2012 fatal shooting of unarmed Rekia Boyd was described as “beyond reckless,” has opted to resign from the Chicago Police Department rather than …

Officer Jason Stockley arrested, charged with 2011 shooting where defendant can be heard saying he’s “going to kill this (expletive deleted), don’t you know it.”   A disgraced former St. Louis police officer has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder for fatally shooting Anthony Lamar Smith – an incident …

Arrested for not possessing a valid driver’s license and held in custody because she couldn’t make bail.   A disturbing story is breaking this morning regarding a 22-year-old mother to a 3-year-old daughter who died in police custody last Tuesday, allegedly due to the failure of local jail officials to …

“We have been killing, and banking on the death of Black lives for as long as we’ve been a country.” I woke this morning to familiarly disgusting news. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchmen who was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin in July of 2013, was again trending as the result of purportedly …

James Comey continues to cling to “Ferguson Effect” false narrative to rationalize improper policing while fellow officers denounce the claim as unproven and divisive The director of the F.B.I. once again referenced the controversial “Ferguson Effect” Wednesday, saying that he believed “less aggressive policing was driving an alarming spike in …

Kevin Matthews was unarmed and killed in an encounter with Dearborn Police on Dec. 23 Kevin Matthews, a Detroit man who was killed by Dearborn police two days before Christmas, was shot 5-6 times, including one from “very close range” according to a private autopsy report obtained exclusively by the Detroit …

In a surprise move in court Thursday, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez filed a motion to recuse herself and her aides from the prosecution of Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.  Alvarez requested that a special prosecutor be appointed to take …

Officer stomped and punched suspects head as he was “resisting arrest” An NYPD officer was convicted by a judge Friday morning for “gratuitously” stomping on the head of a suspect. In a statement explaining his decision, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Alan Marrus said that disgraced officer Joel Edouard “let down …