When rookie police Officer Peter Liang shot and killed 28-year-old Akai Gurley in a dark stairwell in the New York City borough of Brooklyn last Thursday, he displayed “bad tactics,” a high-ranking police source told the New York Daily News. According to the source, Liang’s Glock 9 mm pistol should have been holstered, although unsnapped and…

The “hacktivist” group Anonymous has added its voice to those outraged over the shooting death of 12-year-old Cleveland boy Tamir Rice over the weekend, the New York Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, the group has taken credit for shutting down Cleveland’s government website on Monday. It also sent out a video message…

What do Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Charles Steele and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev have in common? As it turns out, both have a passion for social justice, equality, nonviolent conflict resolution and a deep-rooted admiration for Martin Luther King Jr., who was the co-founder and first president of the SCLC. At a summit…

The Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in early August is wrapping up negotiations with city officials to resign, CNN reports. According to CNN’s sources, Darren Wilson has insisted that he did not commit any wrongdoing in the Aug. 9 shooting. The negotiations over his resignation are centered on whether…

A Lawrenceville, Va., high school is trying to protect its principal against accusations that he was throwing up gang signs in a photo taken with students, WRIC reports. Brunswick High School Principal Warren Bell can be seen in the sharply criticized photo, making a hand gesture while standing next to five students, who were also…

To the casual observer, Jason Brown had it all. At one point the former NFL center had a five-year, $37 million contract with the St. Louis Rams—but then one day he decided to walk away from it all, CBS News reports. “My agent told me, ‘You’re making the biggest mistake of your life,’ ” Brown…

The New York City Police Department is calling the shooting of an unarmed 28-year-old man by a rookie officer an “accident,” emphasizing that the victim was “a total innocent,” the New York Times reports. According to the report, Akai Gurley was shot in a stairwell in the borough of Brooklyn late Thursday night, reportedly without…

A Kentucky fire chief is under scrutiny after a shocking video showed him apparently refusing to assist a black family after a traffic accident and laughing while saying, “We ain’t taking no n—gers here,” WDRB reports. In the video, reportedly recorded on the body camera of a county sheriff’s deputy and obtained by WDRB, Southeast…

Updated Fri., Nov. 21, 11:45 p.m. EST: Dan Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket, issued yet another apology on Friday for a joke he made while hosting the National Book Awards ceremony about black author Jaqueline Woodson being allergic to watermelon. In his new apology, as a gesture of good intentions, Handler donated $10,000 to We…

Updated Friday, Nov. 21, 11:20 a.m. EST: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder promoted the Justice Department’s new guidelines for law enforcement on how to maintain order during First Amendment-protected events on Friday, saying that they “minimize needless confrontation.”   “The Justice Department encourages law-enforcement officials, in every jurisdiction, to work with the communities they serve to…