Nearly a week after fallout from a grand jury’s decision in the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., a panel in…
Gwen Carr, the mother of the Staten Island man, Eric Garner, who was choked to death by the NYPD may now be receiving special treatment from NYPD’s Staten Island borough commander, Assistant Chief Edward Delatorre, who gave her his phone number in the wake of her son’s controversial death. According to the New York Post, […]
The family of the Staten Island man who died after a group of New York Police Department officers tackled him, with one putting him in a chokehold, announced that they plan to name the city, police department and eight individual officers in a $75 million wrongful death lawsuit. MUST READ: NYPD Cop Responsible For Chokehold Death Of Staten […]
The United Nations is calling on the United States to stop the inequitable use of excessive force on African-American people. It’s been an eye-opening summer as the U.S. law enforcement system has come under fire for the deaths of several innocent black men across the country. Eric Garner’s passing earlier this summer got people upset, […]
Thousands poured into the streets of Staten Island as people came out for a march in Eric Garner‘s memory. More than 2,500 people came from all over the country to support the call for justice following Eric’s death and that of Missouri teen Michael Brown. Among the supporters were families of other noted victims […]
From Michael Brown to Eric Garner, it seems as if a war has raged between Black citizens and law enforcement. With protestors being pelted with rubber bullets and tear gassed as they excercise their constitutional right to protest in Ferguson, Mo, the Black community is speaking out about police brutality. “Love & Hip Hop” star Yandy Smith shared her […]
People across the country participated in a peaceful protest against police brutality in response to the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed teen who was killed after an officer shot him multiple times. Starting at 7 p.m., vigils were held all over the United States as part of National Moment of Silence. This comes days after people began […]
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. Read the story here. UPDATE [August 6, 2014]: The […]
The New York City medical examiner’s office has deemed Eric Garner‘s death a homicide, and people are demanding justice! It was determined yesterday that Eric died as a direct result of being placed in a chokehold by a New York Police Department cop. Even though, weight, obesity and asthma did play a factor in his passing, […]
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton is demanding that all 35,000 of his cops be retrained following the incident that killed Eric Garner. Although the New York Daily News reports that an autopsy done on Eric’s body has turned up “inconclusive” results about the cause of his death, Bill told reporters at a press conference that he expects the victim’s […]
The New York Police Department has stripped a Staten Island Cop of his gun and his badge after putting one man in a chokehold that killed him. According to the New York Daily News, Officer Daniel Pantaleo was assigned to modified duty today. Authorities and the Staten Island district attorney are continuing to investigate the […]
A Staten Island man died Thursday after a New York Police Department officer put him in a chokehold. The incident was captured on video by a bystander and obtained…
