The Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland has been indicted on perjury charges. According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia was indicted by a Waller County grand jury Wednesday. If found guilty of the Class A misdemeanor, Encinia could face a $4,000 fine and up to a year in…

The hearing for Baltimore Police Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., the driver of the police transport wagon at the center of the Freddie Gray case, has begun with the judge denying the officer’s request to move the trial to another jurisdiction, the Baltimore Sun reports. Goodson is charged with second-degree depraved-heart murder, the most serious charge…

Editor’s note: It turns out that Ammon Bundy does not have a Twitter account and did not tweet out a comparison to Rosa Parks. That fact was unearthed by the website Gizmodo after it fact-checked this widely circulated, but erroneous, report. The account @Ammon_Bundy was a parody. As if this story weren’t strange enough, on Wednesday…

On Monday, 57 people who were tortured by Chicago police decades ago were paid a total of $5.5 million in reparations for the abuse they suffered under former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. From 1970 to the early 1990s, Burge and other officers under his command shocked, suffocated and beat some…

A Mississippi councilman who asked residents to throw rocks, bricks and bottles at police during what he considers racist car chases held a press conference Sunday to clarify his controversial statements. According to the Clarion-Ledger, Kenneth Stokes, of Ward 3 in Jackson, did not elaborate on his call to action but noted that police pursuits…

A Victoriaville, Calif., woman posted video of a confrontation she had with a Starbucks employee who she claims stole her credit card information and then spent over $200 at a local grocery store. According to the Daily Mail, Elizabeth Becerra was visiting a Starbucks store on New Year’s Day when, she claims, a worker told…

Several armed men who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon continued their standoff over the weekend and vowed to remain there for years, the Washington Post reports. According to the newspaper, militants headed by “Ammon Bundy, a Montana rancher whose father Cliven Bundy led an armed standoff with federal agents in Nevada in…

A West Bloomfield, Mich., mother is upset that her daughter ordered a pizza from a local Domino’s Pizza, only to receive the pie along with a receipt with the words “[f—k] this [c—t]” printed on it.   Kenyatta Robinson says she believes that this all stems from an argument she had with the restaurant’s manager, which…

A Minnesota man lost his job after he reportedly sent racist messages to the Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter last week. According to MPR News, Brad Schultz reportedly posted a message to the group’s Facebook page after learning of protests sponsored by the chapter inside the Mall of America. The message contained several expletives…