Two University of Virginia officials say that they are “outraged by the brutality” that a black undergraduate faced early Wednesday morning while out with friends. University of Virginia junior Martese Johnson was celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at a bar when he was allegedly thrown to the ground by officers from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic…

“I just don’t like the black kids.” That’s what a California middle school vice principal says on a video posted on YouTube on Friday,  according to the Fresno Bee. The remarks of Joe DiFilippo, a vice principal at Frensno’s Scandinavian Middle School, were recorded by a student outside the cafeteria, school district spokesman Jed Chernabaeff…

A lawyer representing the man who was charged in the shooting of the two Ferguson, Mo., police officers claims that his client was roughed up while in police custody and gave a false confession under duress, the Daily Mail reports. Jerryl Christmas, the attorney of Jeffrey L. Williams, 20, said that Williams had bruises across…

The now infamous Brooklyn McDonald’s fight on March 9 that left one girl severely injured isn’t the only recording of a beat-down to surface in the New York City borough. The New York Daily News has reported on a new video filmed last fall outside a burger joint that appears to show a group of…

Controversial and graphic body-camera footage from a June 2014 officer-involved shooting of a mentally ill man in Dallas was released Monday, WFAA reports. Officers were responding to a call at Jason Harrison’s home—which they were used to doing because the family had called before for help with the 38-year-old, who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.…

A mom living in the Bronx borough of New York City was merely trying to teach her young son a valuable lesson about why stealing is wrong. She petitioned the help of people who should know best—New York’s finest—when she ended up being handcuffed herself, DNAinfo New York reports. According to the report, 29-year-old Tyeesha…

The head of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association lashed out at a former Rikers Island guard who he said “jeopardized” other officers in writing his tell-all book, Corruption Officer, the New York Daily News reports. “I’m outraged and livid that a member of service … would jeopardize the safety and security of his brother and…

Lawrence Penn III, the founder of New York private-equity firm the Camelot Group, accepted a plea deal on Monday after admitting that he stole $9.3 million from investors to spend on personal items, the New York Post reports. The 45-year-old pleaded guilty to grand larceny and falsifying business records and received a reduced two- to…

A pregnant woman said she was attacked earlier this month after she did not say “thank you” to a man who held a door open for her at a New York City public housing building, CBS New York reports. Lakeeya Walker, who works as a caretaker at the building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan,…