Officials in Barstow, Calif., after looking at body-cam footage of a January altercation involving a pregant woman, are maintaining that the woman “actively resisted arrest,” the Desert Dispatch reports. However, Charlena Michelle Cooks, who was eight months pregnant at the time of the incident, said that she had never been so “terrified” in her life.…

A Kansas teen said she was terrified when, she says, a man called her a “n—ger bitch” during a road rage incident. That individual turned out to be Edwardsville Councilman Chuck Stites, WDAF-TV reports. According to 17-year-old Kali Chatmon, she was turning onto a road on May 3 when she saw a black Lincoln. “He…

A 61-year-old Chicago woman who was sitting on the couch watching the news suffered a gunshot wound to her neck after at least four bullets pierced her window, the Chicago Tribune reports. Jonathan Enriquez, 19, was reportedly upstairs in the family’s two-story red-brick home, playing video games, Tuesday night when he heard gunfire. Going downstairs,…

The photo is problematic, to put it lightly, and the Chicago Police Department reportedly wasn’t too keen on the public seeing it, but a Cook County judge refused to keep the photo sealed, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The image in question shows two white officers—Jerome Finnigan and Timothy McDermott—in plain clothes holding hunting rifles and…

So today in weird (read: creepy) news, The Nairobian is reporting that an East African lawyer is seeking Malia Obama’s hand in marriage; he is offering a bride price of 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats. According to the report, Kenyan lawyer Felix Kiprono is ready and willing to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss…

Herman Crisp was just sitting outside, smoking a cigarette, in late September when, he says, Georgetown, Texas, deputies in full SWAT gear approached him with no warning and threw a “flash bang” explosive device at his residence. The explosion, he says, knocked him out of his chair. Then, the 82-year-old claims, officers slammed him to…

A Maryland grandmother is trying to set the record straight about her daughter, a young woman who, she says, would never hurt her son, WUSA9 reports.  On Friday, Romechia Simms was swinging her son for an “unusual amount of time,” according to investigators, in a La Plata, Md., playground. She eventually drew the attention of…

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…

Kevin Bruce, a student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, just wanted to talk to his academic adviser. After numerous attempts to schedule an appointment with her, he finally went to the office to see her in person. While he was waiting patiently, however, a staff member came up to Bruce and told him that…

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…