John Crawford III did not even have the BB gun pointed in the air. In fact, he wasn’t even facing the officers who shot him. At least, that’s what his family’s attorney has said after being allowed to review surveillance video from the fateful Aug. 5 incident at an Ohio Wal-Mart, the Raw Story reports.…

Police are looking for thieves who vandalized and ransacked an apartment building in Montgomery, Ala., where renowned civil rights activist Rosa Parks lived at the time of her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat, Reuters reports. The building, which is also a small museum and is on the National Register of Historic…

Update 6:56 p.m. USC football captain Josh Captain now says he made it all up, according to ESPN.com. That story about saving his drowning nephew by jumping out a second story window is just that; a story. There’s no explanation for what the young man was thinking in telling this tale, or how he really…

Police have a 19-year-old in custody as the main suspect in two violent incidents last week in the Baltimore neighborhood of Otterbein, WJZ reports. Within the span of a week in the neighborhood, there have been three attacks, with at least one victim needing surgery for his injuries. A 25-year-old victim, who has remained unidentified,…

Protesters congregated on Chicago’s West Side on Monday after the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Roshad McIntosh, who was gunned down by law enforcement on Sunday, DNAinfo Chicago reports. Officers were responding to a call regarding armed men when they encountered McIntosh, who allegedly started to run when they tried to speak to him. Law enforcement…

A Louisiana teen who is a Rastafarian has missed almost every day of school since the start of the new semester because of the length of his locks, the Raw Story reports.  According to the report, the young boy went to school on Aug. 8, when classes resumed, but was sent home because his hair…

Football captain Josh Shaw of the University of Southern California Trojans will be unable to play for a while after he sprained both his ankles while rescuing his drowning nephew, AL.com reports. Shaw, who is a defensive back, was at a family event over the weekend in California when he saw his 7-year-old nephew, Carter,…

A Georgia 17-year-old is the main suspect in the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy as he slept, WXIA-TV reports. Along with burglary and firearm-possession charges, Malik Davis is being charged with murder after police said he turned himself in at his mother’s encouragement, the news station reports. According to the report, investigators initially believed…

As Michael Brown’s life was celebrated Monday during a packed ceremony at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, the audience and speakers never lost sight of the reason they were there: justice. The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered an emotional eulogy, bringing out cheers and applause from the crowd who came to lay…

At least one Ferguson, Mo., police officer has had some legal trouble in recent years, albeit while employed at another law-enforcement agency, the Huffington Post reports. Justin Cosma, who used to work at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, is currently battling a civil rights lawsuit after he allegedly hog-tied and roughed up a 12-year-old boy.…