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  • Retrial Delayed for Ex SC Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott

    Justice appears to have been delayed once more. On Tuesday a judge decided to postpone the retrial of former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager, who is facing murder charges in the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott during a 2015 traffic stop, Reuters reports. The trial is now expected to be delayed until…

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  • Flint, Mich., Water-System Lead Levels Are Now Below Federal Limit, Officials Say

    The water crisis in Flint, Mich., is far from over, but the Associated Press reports that the city’s water system no longer has levels of lead that grossly exceed the federal limit. Michigan state environmental officials are calling this good news for the city, whose residents are still dealing with the fallout from officials’ negligence.…

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  • Pa. Restaurateur Accused of Calling College Student Racial Slur: ‘Trump’s President Now, so I Can Say What I Want’

    You can’t even eat a meal in peace nowadays. An Annville, Pa., restaurant owner is accused of kicking a local college student out of his restaurant in the middle of his meal, calling the student a racial slur and then quipping that “Trump’s president … so I can say what I want,” Penn Live reports.…

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  • Former Mich. Cop Who Brutally Beat Black Motorist to Be Released From Prison

    A former Inkster, Mich., police officer who was convicted after being captured on dashcam video repeatedly punching a black motorist during a traffic stop nearly two years ago is scheduled to be released from prison sometime this week, the Detroit Free Press reports. William Melendez was sentenced to spend 13 months to 10 years in…

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  • Fla. Judge Accused of Saying Blacks Should ‘Go Back to Africa’ Resigns Ahead of Impeach Probe

    A Florida judge who was facing investigation after being accused of making racist and sexist comments from the bench has abruptly resigned ahead of an impeachment investigation by the Legislature, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Duval Circuit Judge Mark Hulsey III was at the center of a probe by the Judicial Qualifications Commissions after allegedly…

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  • Baltimore Mom Furious After School Dental Program Removes Child’s Teeth Without Her Knowledge

    When Shanda Flemming signed a permission slip regarding a dental program that was visiting her son’s school, she thought she was agreeing to a simple routine cleaning. However, as WJZ reports, the Baltimore mother was in for a rude awakening after her third-grader came home from school with not one, not two, but three of…

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  • Patrol Car of Slain Orlando, Fla., Officer Vandalized

    The patrol car that Orlando, Fla., Police Lt. Debra Clayton was driving before she was gunned down while trying to capture an accused murderer has been vandalized, the Orlando Police Department has revealed, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Clayton’s patrol car has been parked outside police headquarters since her shooting death Jan. 9, with mourners…

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  • Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Appeal to Revive Strict Voter-ID Requirements

    Score 1 for voting-rights advocates. On Monday the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear an appeal by Texas that sought to bring back the state’s strict voter-identification requirements, which had been found to disproportionately affect minorities, Reuters reports. In July 2016, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2011…

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  • British Cops Tase Their Race-Relations Adviser, Thinking He Was Robbery Suspect

    Bristol, England, resident Judah Adunbi has spent the better half of a decade working to improve the relationship between police in southwestern England and members of the Afro-Caribbean community, the Washington Post reports. Despite all his work and his outreach, however, the 63-year-old became the target of police earlier this month during an incident that…

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  • More Than 90 Arrested in Inauguration Disturbances

    More than 90 people were arrested in the nation’s capital on Inauguration Day following disturbances when some members of an unidentified group smashed the windows of cars and stores just before President Donald Trump was officially sworn in, ABC News reports. Interim Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham confirmed the arrests in a Periscope video posted…

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