New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made waves with the police union last week after his comments that his biracial son needed to take special precautions when dealing with police. According to the Huffington Post, de Blasio commented, after a Staten Island, N.Y., grand jury decided not to indict an officer responsible for the…

The recent deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers have sparked debate and protests across the nation. According to an Associated Press report, there are “no firm statistics” to determine if this is a new trend or merely business as usual when it comes to policing the black community. “We have a…

Akai Gurley, 28, and his girlfriend, Melissa Butler, 27, were leaving Butler’s seventh-floor apartment at the Louis Pink Houses in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 20 after she had just finished braiding his hair. Tired of waiting for the elevator, they decided to take the stairs. At the same time, police say, two rookie officers were…

Deshawnda Sanchez, a 21-year-old transgender woman known to many as “Tata,” was gunned down on Wednesday in front of a house in South Los Angeles that police believe she had run to seeking help. “She was definitely at that door, pounding on that door seeking help,” Los Angeles police Detective Christopher Barling told KTLA 5.…

A Chicago man is facing battery and assault charges after he reportedly attacked a woman who refused to give him her phone number. DNAinfo Chicago reports that an unnamed 21-year-old woman from Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood was riding the city’s L train when Denzel Rosson, 24, approached her and asked for her number. The woman refused…

Large groups of demonstrators marched up from Times Square to Rockefeller Center, where the scene was set for a festive televised Christmas-tree lighting Wednesday evening, to protest the news that a Staten Island grand jury would not charge the white New York City police officer accused of choking Eric Garner and causing his death. The…

A Staten Island, N.Y., grand jury has decided not to charge New York police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who administered the fatal choke hold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner, the New York Daily News reports. The news comes only a week after then-Officer Darren Wilson was not indicted for killing unarmed teen Michael…

Moments after the Nov. 24 prime-time press conference held by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch to announce what was, effectively, the indictment of black Twitter, Michael Brown, the media and anyone else not named Darren Wilson, CNN ran, on continuous loop, a raw, emotional reaction from Louis Head, Brown’s stepfather, in which he…

Updated Wed., Dec. 3, 2:32 p.m. EST: A grand jury has decided not to indict the police officer involved in the Eric Garner choke hold case. More to come. Earlier: A Staten Island, N.Y., grand jury could render a decision as early as Wednesday on whether charges will be brought against officers in the case…