Floyd Dent, a Michigan resident who was brutally beaten by a police officer in Inkster during a traffic stop in January, settled his lawsuit for almost $1.4 million on Thursday, The Guardian reports, the same day the officer involved appeared in court to learn whether he would be headed to trial. According to the report,…

It’s been some 179 days since the Nov. 22, 2014, shooting of Tamir Rice by a Cleveland police officer. In less than two seconds, an officer gunned down Tamir after a toy gun he was playing with was mistaken for a real weapon. Samaria Rice has lived without her 12-year-old son for six months, and…

Tamir Rice died almost six months ago, and just last week his mother, Samaria Rice, and her legal team publicly demanded answers as to how long an inquiry into the 12-year-old’s death would continue. CNN is reporting that on Tuesday, Cuyahoga County Sheriff Clifford Pinkney said that most of his department’s probe into the shooting of…

Google is upping the ante in the quest for diversity. The tech giant plans to spend $150 million on an extensive campaign to bring more women and racial minorities into the industry, USA Today reported in an exclusive interview with Nancy Lee, Google’s vice president of people operations. Last year the company spent some $115…

Wisconsin inmate Christopher Scarver gained nationwide notoriety after he killed serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer in prison in 1994. However, soon after killing Dahmer, Scarver killed another inmate, Jesse Anderson, for what Scarver describes as racist antics, the New York Post reports. According to the report, Scarver killed Anderson in November 1994 because the…

Renowned former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has formally announced his presidential campaign in a bid to win the Republican nomination in 2016, the Associated Press reports. Carson has never held public office and, as AP notes, is expected to be the only well-recognized African American to put his hat in the ring for the Republican presidential…

Updated Friday, May 1, 1:30 p.m. EDT: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced during a brief press conference that five of the six officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death were in custody: We know that the vast majority [of the department] serve our city with pride, with courage, with honor and with distinction. But to those of…

Allen Bullock, the 18-year-old seen in photos smashing in a police car with a traffic cone, turned himself in after being encouraged by his parents. But now he is being held on $500,000 bail, an amount his parents cannot afford, The Guardian reports.  Bullock faces charges of rioting and malicious destruction of property, among other…

While media attention has quickly zoomed in on the burning of Baltimore, and as discussions focus on the “bad actors” and “thugs” who were destroying property and, allegedly, targeting police, there is another side of Baltimore that has been studiously overlooked, as a majority of protesters continue to do good for and by their community. …

Virginia’s Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office now prohibits the use of Tasers at its jail after a mentally ill inmate died after being shocked four times while being prepared for medical transport, WUSA 9 reports. Natasha McKenna, 37, was shocked several times while she was restrained and stopped breathing, according to WUSA. According to the report,…