police brutality
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Cop Fired for Stomping on Head of Man in Handcuffs Gets Job Back Because … I Don’t Even Know Anymore
The Columbus, Ohio, police officer caught on tape stomping a subdued, handcuffed suspect’s head into the concrete will be reinstated at the police force after his firing was reversed on the grounds of no one giving a damn about black people. In April 2017, Columbus police responded to a call of a weapon being fired…
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Walking While Black: Bodycam Footage Shows Brutal Beating of North Carolina Man Over Alleged Jaywalking, Trespassing
The incident occurred in August of last year, but it was only earlier this week, on Wednesday, that police bodycam footage was obtained by the Citizen Times showing the brutal beating of Johnnie Jermaine Rush at the hands of Asheville, N.C., Police Officer Chris Hickman. In the video, Hickman can be seen punching Rush multiple…
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2 Georgia Cops Indicted on Multiple Charges in Brutal Beating of Black Man During Traffic Stop
Two Georgia cops who were captured on video punching and kicking a motorist during a traffic stop have been formally charged nearly a year after the original incident occurred. A grand jury filed almost a dozen criminal charges against former Gwinnett County Police Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni and former Master Police Officer Robert McDonald in the…
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Philando Castile’s Mom Is Sick of Wayne LaPierre and the NRA’s Hypocrisy
Following Wayne LaPierre’s rigorous commitment to arming educators in the wake of yet another school shooting, Philando Castile’s mother has called the National Rifle Association CEO a hypocrite for not standing up for her son, who both owned a gun and was a public school employee. Castile’s mother, Valerie, told the New York Daily News…
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Washington, DC, Reaches $3,500,000 Settlement With Family of Terrence Sterling, Unarmed Black Motorcyclist Killed by Police
The nation’s capital is set to pay out $3.5 million to the family of Terrence Sterling, an unarmed black motorcyclist who was gunned down by a Metropolitan Police Department officer. According to the Associated Press, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser released a statement saying that the city was seeking to “illuminate what went wrong” and…
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Pittsburgh Cop Shoots 3 Black People in Less Than a Year, Kills 1
On Feb. 11, 39-year-old Mark Daniels was shot and killed by Pittsburgh police officers after he allegedly shot at and ran from them when they attempted to approach him. The details, reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, are somewhat fishy. The police were called to the scene after being “alerted to an actor with a gun.”…
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‘We Won’t Be Right for the Rest of Our Lives’: Korryn Gaines’ Mother Speaks Out
In the wake of a major court victory, the mother of Korryn Gaines, Rhanda Dormeus, wants people to know exactly what happened to her daughter. In a sobering interview with Baltimore Beat, the grieving mother makes clear that family members tried multiple times to intervene and to de-escalate the situation between Gaines and police. That…
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These Police Stole, Sold Drugs and Covered Up Killings; Now Baltimore Must Pick Up the Pieces
In 2010, Baltimore resident Jovonne Walker was a party planner and a nurse. She and her husband, Jamal, planned three parties over one weekend and had $43,000 in cash on hand that her husband was taking to the bank around 11 a.m. As Jamal stopped to talk to his friends, Baltimore City Sgt. Wayne Jenkins…
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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Black Panther Is Revisionist History
Editor’s note: There are spoilers here. I admittedly missed a couple of key details during my first trip to Wakanda. Something about a nerdtastic property holding such cultural significance put me in a state of bliss. So I made a return trip, you know, to make sure I didn’t miss anything. (Yeah, sure. That’s the…
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Vindication: Jury Awards the Family of Korryn Gaines More Than $37,000,000 in Damages
A Maryland jury has awarded the family of Korryn Gaines more than $37 million in damages in their civil lawsuit against Baltimore County for the death of Gaines, who was shot to death by a police officer in August 2016. The six-woman jury found that both Gaines and her son, Kodi—who was injured during the…