A New Jersey mom is “disgusted” after a school security guard allegedly choked her son until he passed out while attempting to restrain the 7-year-old child, the Asbury Park Press reports. According to the report, the school employee has since been put on paid leave while police and social services investigate the incident. The first-grader…

One of the officers arrested in the death of Freddie Gray has had disciplinary issues, having had his guns confiscated twice for threatening his ex-girlfriend’s husband with murder-suicide, according to court documents, The Guardian reports. Baltimore Police Lt. Brian Rice, who arrested Gray after making eye contact with the 25-year-old during the fateful April 12 incident,…

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether the city’s Police Department has underlying patterns of abuse or discrimination, the New York Times reports. “We all know that Baltimore continues to have a fractured relationship between the police and the community,” the mayor said as the city continues to…

Colorado Springs, Colo., police racially profiled two black men when they were stopped and detained, the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, which is representing the men, claims, according to Reuters. Ryan Brown, the passenger in the vehicle, recorded video after his brother was pulled over for seemingly no reason on March 25. By the…

University of Virginia student Martese Johnson was charged with public intoxication even though the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents who detained the 20-year-old in a brutal and bloody arrest in March didn’t think he was drunk, the Richmond Free Press reports. The officers in their statements noted that they did believe that Johnson might have…

Court records related to the Freddie Gray investigation in Baltimore apparently listed the wrong Alicia White and Brian Rice, causing two unsuspecting Marylanders to be hounded by reporters looking for the officers charged in Gray’s death or their families, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the report, the Alicia White whose address was listed is…

Newly sworn-in Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expected to be in Baltimore on Tuesday for meetings with city officials, members of Congress, law enforcement and other community leaders, CNN reports. Other Justice Department officials—Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division; Ronald Davis, director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services; and Grande Lum,…

It’s been five months since 12-year-old Cleveland native Tamir Rice was shot by law enforcement outside a recreation center, and his family is still looking for answers and trying to understand why the officer involved has not been charged, WKYC reports.  “We need justice!” family attorney Benjamin Crump said to a crowd that gathered outside…

A 20-year-old man was shot to death on a basketball court in Beaufort, S.C., last week, becoming the second man in three months to be killed on that court, the Beaufort Gazette reports. Matthew Horne was found dead at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday after officers investigated an emergency call reporting shots fired at the court…

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…