New York City Police Officer Mirjan Lolja turned himself in after police released a video showing a man running out of a Bronx, N.Y., subway station on Dec. 23—the same man who is thought to have assaulted a subway conductor on the platform just moments prior, the New York Daily News reports. Lolja has yet…

Thousands—although, reportedly, not the majority—of New York City police officers turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio during his remarks Sunday at the funeral service for Officer Wenjian Liu. Liu was one of two New York City police officers gunned down late December by an assailant whom some have loosely tied to the #BlackLivesMatters protests…

The unimaginable happened to 65-year-old Leslie Lange just 12 hours into the new year, and nearly 10 years after she lost her youngest son to gun violence in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. According to the Times-Picayune, around noon on New Year’s Day, a “hail of gunfire” claimed the lives of “her husband and last…

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is defending his department’s use of the “broken windows” strategy, which, as Al-Jazeera reports, is “the practice of cracking down on minor offenses” because if they go unchecked, the argument goes, “they create visible signs of public disorder that encourage more serious crimes.” Bratton co-authored a 4,500-word essay for…

If Iran’s head of state, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is truly operating the Twitter account @khamenei_ir, as is widely reported, then he’s an ardent supporter of the #BlackLivesMatter protests that have denounced the recent police killings of unarmed black people. On Sunday a series of tweets from the account made clear references to the ongoing movement in…

On Sunday night, a man used a rifle to open fire on two Los Angeles police officers who were sitting in a patrol car, Al-Jazeera reports. The police officers immediately returned fire, “but no one was injured” during the incident, the report explained.  The Los Angeles shooting was reminiscent of the shooting Dec. 20 in New…

The family of Dontre Hamilton—the 31-year-old African-American man who was fatally shot by a white police officer in Milwaukee in April—is now looking to the Justice Department to bring about justice since the Milwaukee County district attorney announced Monday that no criminal charges would be brought against Officer Christopher Manney for the shooting, Al-Jazeera reports. The…

President Barack Obama announced on Friday that the United States would levy a proportional attack against North Korea, since the East Asian giant is widely believed to be the cyber culprit responsible for hacking into the emails of Sony Pictures. So when North Korea’s Internet services went out cold on Monday, rumors began to circulate…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is encouraging protesters rallying against racial bias in law enforcement and the criminal-justice system to suspend their demonstrations in light of the killing of two New York City police officers this past weekend in Brooklyn, the New York Times reports.  “It’s time for everyone to put aside political…