Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer who administered a fatal choke hold to Eric Garner last summer, is being sued for a different incident involving a man named Leonardo Aguirre, the New York Daily News reports.  In his suit, Aguire claims that Pantaleo caused a car accident last June in Staten Island that…

It all started as an innocuous grab for some delicious-looking brownies that a Michigan dad saw laid out in his home Wednesday morning. He popped some into his mouth but soon started to suffer from hallucinations, the New York Daily News reports. The father, according to the Detroit Free Press, called 911, explaining that he had…

The Justice Department announced Friday that it would be bringing civil rights charges against the student suspected of tying a noose around the neck of a statue depicting an African-American civil rights leader stationed on the campus of the University of Mississippi. According to a DOJ press statement, Graeme Phillip Harris, a former freshman at the school,…

Two Chicago-area cousins have been arrested and charged by federal authorities with plotting to orchestrate an attack against a U.S. military facility, the Associated Press reports. Hasan R. Edmonds—a 22-year-old National Guardsman in Illinois—and his cousin, Jonas M. Edmonds, 29, communicated their plans to undercover federal agents, authorities said. Hasan Edmonds was en route to Egypt,…

Chiddi Stober, a Georgia history teacher who works as an Uber driver part time, says that he was assaulted and called the n-word by a passenger who works as a lecturer at a local state university, WSBTV reports. Stober said the ride began normally. He picked up the passenger—whose name is being withheld because he…

A Michigan jury found Shaneka Torres guilty of shooting up a McDonald’s drive-thru window because employees at the fast-food chain twice forgot to add bacon to her cheeseburger order, the New York Daily News reports. Both encounters happened on the same day in February 2014, when Torres placed an order for a cheeseburger with bacon.…

New York City’s stop-and-frisk program has captured national headlines because of how black and Hispanic men are disproportionately affected by the tactic, but according to the Associated Press, Chicago’s stop-and-frisk program is much more robust than New York’s. According to a report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union, Chicago officers stopped and frisked people…

Because HIV testing is not available in the places where most people in Atlanta see their doctors, by the time Atlanta residents are diagnosed with the virus, nearly 3 out of 10 already have full-blown AIDS, WABE reports. That’s what experts found after they went digging for why Atlanta emerged fifth on a list of U.S.…

Advertisers looking to get the most out of their bucks should be looking to multicultural consumers. According to a Nielsen report released Wednesday, multicultural consumers are exhibiting tremendous spending power and are the fastest-growing segment of the country’s “consumer economy.” The report, “The Multicultural Edge: Rising Super Consumers,” looked at the spending habits of African…

It seems that Charlo Greene—also known as Charlene Egbe, the Alaska TV reporter who quit her job on the air in September to protest the state’s ban on recreational marijuana—has become a target for local police. According to the Associated Press, Anchorage police served Greene a search warrant on Friday and ransacked her cannabis club…