On Sept. 13, 2013, Kesean Smalls, 13, and Jahniel Hinds, 12, were playing tag on a street in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn when an officer approached the children with his gun drawn. “Motherf—ker, get on the ground!” Capt. Brian McCaughey, 37, yelled at the kids. Jahniel ran and hid behind his mother. Kesean…

A Georgia mother claims that a day care worker sprayed her 17-month-old son and another child in the face with air freshener. Monica Kendrick told WSB-TV that the Kids R Kids day care in Stockbridge, Ga., allows parents to look in on their kids using online access to cameras placed throughout the facility. Kendrick was…

A Sacramento, Calif., mother was upset to find a black doll with a slave collar in the pirate ship that her 5-year-old son got as a birthday gift. Ida Lockett told CBS Sacramento that she was helping her son put his Playmobil pirate-ship figurines together when she realized that the instructions were showing her how…

City officials in North Charleston, S.C., have agreed to a $6.5 million settlement with the family of Walter Scott, the unarmed African-American man who was shot in the back by a white police officer who is now facing murder charges. According to USA Today, the City Council approved the amount Thursday after months of negotiations…

A Somali teen said that he was standing in a Richfield, Minn., park Saturday night when an officer approached him and began yelling at him to leave. The young man says that when the teen told the officer that the park was public property, things took a turn that included the officer pushing him and…

A 15-year-old Pine Hills, Fla., boy is suffering from second-degree burns after he and a friend were reportedly playing the “fire challenge,” in which participants douse themselves in flammable liquid and then light themselves on fire. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Robert Seals went to a friend’s house near his home Monday. Police say that…

Philadelphia police are searching for five to six men they believe robbed and brutally beat a transgender woman early Tuesday morning before fatally shooting her in the back. Capt. James Clark told WPVI that footage shows Keisha Jenkins, 22, getting out of a car around 2:30 a.m. Police say they received a call shortly after…

An African-American garbage-hauling company has filed a $24 million lawsuit against the city of Chicago, a waste-removal company and a teamsters union, claiming that the trio conspired to keep the minority-owned business from competing for Chicago garbage contracts.  According to the Cook County Record, Linda and Jesse McGee, owners of Linda Construction Inc., claim that…

A Providence, R.I., police officer went into a local Dunkin’ Donuts Friday looking for a hot cup of coffee, but he claims he was given a hot cup of attitude and a social-justice hashtag on the side of his cup. According to ABC 6, the officer, who didn’t want to be named, says he was…

President Barack Obama has chosen Deputy Education Secretary John King Jr. to succeed Arne Duncan to oversee the Education Department. According to NBC New York, King, formerly New York State commissioner of education, was not nominated by the president for his new position, a move that would have required confirmation by the Republican-run Senate. Instead,…