Source: AP / The Sacramento Bee JONESBORO, Ark. – Authorities in Jonesboro are investigating after a handcuffed man fatally shot himself while sitting in the back of a patrol car. The Jonesboro Sun reports that 21-year-old Chavis Chacobie Carter shot himself Saturday night. Carter, who was from Southaven, Miss., had been picked up on a felony [...]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Source: NBC News ANAHEIM, California — Protesters broke the windows of least a half-dozen storefronts in Anaheim on Tuesday and five people were arrested in the second major clash between police and demonstrators since an officer shot dead an apparently unarmed man. Mayor [...]
Source: Pauline Kim / CNN The family of a former Marine fatally shot by police inside his White Plains, New York, apartment filed a $21 million federal lawsuit Monday morning. “Today, Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of White Plains and the officers who we allege were responsible for his [...]
by Sylvester Monroe America’s Wire LOS ANGELES-Rodney Glen King’s apparent accidental death at age 47 has prompted a flood of media punditry about the legacy of a life rife with misfortune. It was young Glen, as he was called, who had discovered his father’s body in the family bathtub. Rodney Sr. reportedly drank himself to [...]
Source: MSNBC A federal judge sharply critical of New York City police tactics granted class-action status to a lawsuit claiming officers’ stop-and-frisk policy discriminates against blacks and Latinos. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan said in a written ruling that there was “overwhelming evidence” that the centralized stop-and-frisk program led to thousands of unlawful [...]
Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr. reacts to the NY court’s decision not to indict the police officer who killed his father. WATCH:
Roland Martin talks with Mayo Bartlett, attorney for the Chamberlain family about the Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. case. Chamberlain, a former Marine was killed in his own home in White Plains, New York, by police after they were called when he accidentally activated his medical alert system. Subscribe to the Roland S. Martin Daily Podcast via [...]
Source: Jessica D’Onofrio and Ben Bradley / ABC 7 Chicago NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. - A new audio recording gives some insight into a confrontation between North Chicago police and a man who died after he was in custody. Darrin Hanna’s family says the recording helps prove police caused his death. The interim police chief in North Chicago [...]
Source: AP / theGrio PASADENA, Calif. – Pasadena’s police chief is inviting the FBI to investigate the death of a college student who was shot and killed by officers last month. Chief Phillip Sanchez says the FBI would add another independent review to the investigation of 19-year-old Kendrec McDade’s March 24 death. Sanchez’s invitation comes days after McDade’s parents sued [...]
Source: Huffington Post As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers — and lived to tell his side of the story. Morgan was off-duty as a [...]
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