Police brutality

A lawsuit against a Louisiana sheriff and seven deputies says deputies sat on and kept a chokehold on a shackled, obese, severely autistic 16-year-old for nine minutes until he died a year ago.

As we deal with the emotional toll of black death amid a global pandemic, conversations around allyship have come to the forefront as it will take people of all races and backgrounds to stand in support of marginalized groups.

A Boston police sergeant has been placed on leave and the Suffolk County district attorney is investigating after body cam videos released in a report Friday appeared to show officers using excessive force, bragging about attacking demonstrators, discussing arrest quotas and the use of police cruisers as weapons, and relentlessly targeting protesters with pepper spray and batons. Mayor Marty Walsh…

Voters in communities across the country have approved measures toughening civilian oversight of law enforcement agencies

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden faced off on Tuesday for the first presidential debate of the 2020 election. Here are some of the key moments you may have missed.

One of the police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in her Louisville home in March was charged Wednesday with first-degree wanton endangerment.

A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle crash hours after learning he would be fired for his role in the in-custody death of a Black man last year.

Tiffiny Dixon is an activist and mother to a 4-year-old son she describes as bursting with energy… a real go-getter who literally leaps out of bed each morning with a smile on his face ready to embrace the world....
But Dixon worries. She that where she sees simply hope for the future, others will one day see a future threat. And...

Tiffiny Dixon looks at her 4-year-old son and knows that someday he will “stop being cute” and start being stereotyped as a threat. That’s why she takes him to Black Lives Matter protests – to teach him how to fight back by using his constitutional rights of assembly and free speech.

Breonna Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, spoke at a press conference on Tuesday to call for the arrest of the police officers who killed Taylor as she slept in her apartment in March. Taylor’s family settled their civil suit with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday morning, which included police reform stipulations.

Hours after the family of Breonna Taylor settled their civil lawsuit with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor Greg Fischer announced a series of reforms to prevent future acts of police brutality. The police officers who killed Breonna Taylor in March while she slept in her apartment have not been charged with her death.

Lonita Baker, attorney for the estate of Breonna Taylor, spoke at a press conference on Tuesday about the terms of the civil settlement between the city of Louisville, Kentucky, and Taylor’s family, saying, “It’s important that here, a financial settlement was not negotiable without significant police reform.”

A sheriff’s office in Georgia says it has fired a deputy seen on video repeatedly punching a Black man during a traffic stop

The four police officers charged with the killing of George Floyd appeared at a Minneapolis courthouse on Friday for pretrial proceedings.

Oakland, six other cities and the nonprofit Public Rights Project are demanding from the Trump administration records on the deployment of federal agents to cities considered progressive, Oakland prosecutors said Wednesday.

Dr. Shamard Charles, the host of “Heart Over Hype” speaks on issues of police brutality, police reform and the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities

Jacob Blake delivered a message to supporters Saturday, saying he has “a lot more life to live” after being left paralyzed from the waist down by a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, NBC News reports.

The man who suffocated after police in New York’s third-largest city put a “spit hood” over his head was the loving father of five adult children, had some mental health issues but was harmless, and had just arrived in Rochester for a visit with his brother, his aunt said. Daniel Prude, 41, known to his big Chicago-based family by the…

Hundreds of people took to the streets of San Francisco Thursday demanding an end to police brutality and calling for the defunding of the police department.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of San Francisco Thursday demanding an end to police brutality and calling for the defunding of the police department. Jean Elle reports.