It must have been bad idea day at CNN. The reputable news source hosted a call and response on Twitter, asking people to use the hashtag #AskACop for their “Cops Under Fire” segment. Has anyone at CNN ever used the internet? Twitter? That hashtag was clearly setting them up for epic failure. On the panel […]

News

Marist College and NBC News have released a poll that reveals a majority of White people (52 percent) believe that local police forces treat White and Black people “equally.” Pause–records screeching and all of that! According to the same researchers of this study, the percentage is the highest it’s been since conducting such studies of […]

Protestors rallied outside of a Phoenix, AZ police station to protest the killing of Rumain Brisbon, an unarmed Black man who like many others was killed by a police officer. The police have yet to announce the officer’s name. They’re already protecting him. We can see where this is going. MUST READ: #ICantBreathe: Protestors Demand Justice […]

Because this is how America works: White male police officers are being granted immunity for killing unarmed Black men, but there’s a group of female police officers who are being chastised for posting sexy photos alongside photos of themselves in uniform on the Instagram account @BluelineBeauties. While there’s no real reporting on what exactly this […]

Dawon Gore, a 13-year veteran of the St. Louis County Police Department is being charged with felony second-degree assault after striking a MetroLink passenger on the hand with his expandable baton after an argument at the Hanley Road station in Clayton this past April. CBS is reporting that there’s a police press release that detailed […]

A North Carolina woman is sitting in jail after it was discovered that she was hiding a handgun in her weave. We’ve heard of bulletproof weaves before, but Uptown magazine reports that Tiffanie Lizette Bass was using her extensions as a holster! Cops at Wake County Detention Center were already booking Tiffanie on other charges […]

We live in a world where a Black man can be accused of burglarizing his own home and subsequently pepper-sprayed. We live in a world where an unarmed Black teen is shot and killed on the street he grew up on, even when he was complying with police. We live in a world where a […]

Actress Daniele Watts (“Django Unchained,” “Weeds” and “Partners”) took to her Facebook page to share a devastating incident that happened between herself, her husband, Brian James Lucas and the LAPD. According to the police, they were responding to a 911 call about “indecent exposure inside a silver Mercedes with the vehicle door open.” They came […]

Not every cop in Missouri has the desire to shoot to kill Black people. One particular cop, Officer Huth, in Kansas City, Missouri has started going viral for the above snapshot of him holding a little Autistic boy who was found wandering the streets alone around 1 a.m., wearing only a diaper and socks. MUST […]

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A preliminary autopsy obtained by The New York Times has found that Michael Brown “was shot at least six times — twice in the head — with all of the bullets striking him in the front.” Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson was previously identified as the shooter who gunned down the unarmed teen on August 9, though his name was not released by Police Chief […]

Celebrity

The unwarranted slaying of Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown has caused plenty of citizens to fight for justice and musicians J. Cole and Elle Varner are getting in on the action. North Carolina rapper J. Cole, with a heavy heart, pleads for the police to find value in black life on the song “Be Free.” […]

I get a lot of my news from Twitter and happened to be perusing my personal timeline in the wee hours of Sunday morning when I came across yet another story about a young Black teen who was shot multiple times and killed at the hands of the police. His name is  Michael Brown, and he was unarmed at the […]