On Wednesday, former tennis superstar James Blake made news when he was tackled by an undercover New York City police officer and taken to the ground, suffering cuts in the incident, which stemmed from mistaken identity in a credit card fraud case. Turns out that the officer, identified as James Frascatore, has been sued four…

Police officers in the U.S. have reportedly been warned to be on high alert for Friday’s anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, conservative-leaning media have reported, according to the International Business Times. The alerts were reportedly based on death threats coming from activists who claim to be associated with Black Lives Matter, although the severity…

An Oregon police officer who outed his chief for making racist remarks in response to a black woman’s complaints is now claiming that he and his family are fearful for their lives, Agence France-Presse reports. Clatskanie, Ore., Police Officer Dustin Alex Stone says that he has received death threats from the community and has been…

It’s been a whirlwind week of news coming out of Baltimore surrounding the Freddie Gray case. In the latest development, embattled Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who has been dealing with the fallout since Gray’s in-custody death and subsequent protests and riots in April, has announced that she has no further plans to seek re-election, the Baltimore…

The Fairfax County, Va., Sheriff’s Office has finally released video of deputies’ ultimately fatal encounter with Natasha McKenna, who later died after being shocked four times with a Taser, even as she was fully restrained, NBC Washington reports.  In the video, deputies dressed in biohazard suits can be seen attempting to restrain McKenna, who suffered…

The trials for the six police officers charged in the ultimately fatal arrest of Freddie Gray will remain in Baltimore, a judge ruled on Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams brushed off arguments from the officers’ attorneys claiming that it would be hard to choose unbiased jurors in the city…

Kenneth Kelley has been indicted on several charges surrounding a car crash that left five people dead, including two mothers and two children, in Oxon Hill, Md., almost a year ago, WUSA9 reports. Kelley is facing charges on five counts of negligent manslaughter in the fatal October 2014 crash that killed Typhani Wilkerson, Tameika Curtis, two…

A black Georgia death row inmate is now turning to the Supreme Court, pleading for a new sentencing hearing, after learning that a white juror, who voted for the death penalty, used the n-word to refer to him, the Associated Press reports. Kenneth Fults, who was sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of Cathy…

A Texas mom who is accused of abandoning her children at a fire station says that was never her intention and that the allegations against her are “made up,” WSBTV reports. Jasmine Jones, 22, the mother in question, reportedly dropped off her boys, ages 9 months and 3 years, at Houston Fire Station 73 Monday.…