On Wednesday evening a group of demonstrators staged a sit-in at Baltimore’s City Hall to protest the city’s deliberations on the permanent hiring of interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. According to the Associated Press, protesters also wanted a sit-down meeting with Davis and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. According to a video posted to Twitter, one of…

“I misplaced $60,000,” 50-year-old Tony Harris wrote on his Facebook page Oct. 5, with a photo of his wife, Amber Crane, holding four large stacks of money. “I hope my wife didn’t go shopping with it.” Philadelphia police say that photo may have led to Harris’ death after three masked men burst into his home…

Black Lives Matter activists lined a Washington, D.C., street Tuesday in protest after an 18-year-old black man and his friends were accosted, chased and handcuffed by police for, they believe, standing too close to a banking institution and thereby making a white woman uncomfortable. Jason Goolsby told the Washington Post that he and two friends…

A 17-year-old Bridgeport, Conn., teen claims that a 38-year-old woman whom she didn’t know offered her a ride to school on a brisk morning last week. The teen accepted the offer, and once she was inside the car, the teen claims, the woman sexually assaulted her. Fearing for her safety, the teen reportedly dived from…

Confederate-flag supporters who crashed a child’s birthday party hosted by an African-American family in Douglasville, Ga., have been charged with terrorist threats and gang activity, prosecutors announced Monday. According to WSB-TV, 15 members of a group called Respect the Flag have been indicted and accused of making terroristic threats for reportedly driving through an outdoor…

Philadelphia police Sunday arrested a man they believe was involved in the brutal killing of Keisha Jenkins, a transgender woman who was beaten and shot last week. According to NBC New York, a tip led to the arrest of Pedro Redding, who, police say, has a history of violence. Redding, 24, has been arraigned on…

On July 15, 2015, Kelli Wilson took out her cellphone to record two Jacksonville, Fla., policemen arresting her husband when, she says, the officers assaulted and arrested her and took her phone, footage of which was captured by a surveillance camera. “I was beaten and then falsely arrested, my phone was stolen, my car was…

New York Giants tight end Daniel Fells is in a battle to save his foot and possibly his life, with NFL.com reporting that Fells has had five surgeries to stop a serious staph infection that was reportedly contracted from a cortisone injection he received after a toe injury. The website reports that Fells is battling a…

A Texas councilman was stunned with a Taser in front of his Prairie View home Thursday during an incident involving police—one of whom was reportedly involved in Sandra Bland’s arrest. According to Click 2 Houston, Prairie View police officers were questioning four men about drug activity when, police say, Councilman Jonathan Miller began interfering with…