The 22-year-old bystander who filmed Eric Garner’s fatal arrest was arrested Saturday on a charge of gun possession, Staten Live reports. The man, Ramsey Orta, and a teenage woman, identified by police as Alba Lekaj, were arrested about 10 p.m. after leaving a hotel in Staten Island, N.Y., the report says. The arrests came after officers…

Decked in a T-Shirt emblazoned with the names of murdered black men, including Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin, British singer and producer Devonté Hynes alleges he was attacked by security guards after a recent performance at Lollapalooza, Buzzfeed reports. Hynes, known as Blood Orange, announced on Twitter that he and his girlfriend, Samantha Urbani, were assaulted…

The first Ebola victim brought to the United States from Africa arrived in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday amid hysteria and outrage from some Americans concerned that the deadly disease could escape an isolation unit at one of the nation’s top hospitals and spread, the Associated Press reports. Dr. Kent Brantly, a missionary doctor who was infected…

Bruce Lawson thought he was bidding farewell to his 81-year-old mother last week at her funeral in Houston, Texas, KHOU11 reports. That’s why he was surprised when he received a call several days later saying her body was still at the funeral home, the report says. Mabrie Memorial Mortuary was calling to apologize, the news…

In the aftermath of the choke hold death of Eric Garner, some more officers with the New York Police Department may be in hot water after allegedly dragging a half-naked Brooklyn, N.Y., woman into the hall after responding to a domestic disturbance call, the New York Daily News reports. A police spokesman told the News…

Update: Saturday, Aug. 2, 2:53 p.m. EST: The Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday that he will lead a protest “march across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City later this month in response to a medical examiner’s ruling that Eric Garner was the victim of a homicide after police placed him in a chokehold last…

In a city known for its racially segregated communities, residents in a neighborhood in Chicago’s Hermosa community on the Northwest Side are pushing for integration for personal reasons, according to a note scrawled on a sign. “Wanted white people to play so the city will take care of this park,” the sign reads, according to…

Tired of her racist tirades, a neighbor struck back at a former Sarasota, Fla., school bus driver by sharing a video of one of her stunning outbursts on social media, according to a report at ABC affiliate WWSB. The video allegedly captures Pamela Michener spewing racial slurs at a neighbor. She retired from a job…

Health authorities worked quickly Saturday to contain the potential spread of the deadly Ebola after a man reportedly stricken with the virus boarded a plane from Liberia to Nigeria, the Associated Press reports. The incident raises fears that the man could have spread the highly contagious disease to other travelers aboard the plane, the report…