Police brutality

A Black man seeking refugee status in Canada found himself returning to the United States after his application was denied last month. Kyle Lydell Canty visited British Columbia last year and decided to stay, citing that police in his native country were essentially targeting Black people and exterminating them. VICE reports: Kyle Lydell Canty said […]

Brian Encinia, the Texas Trooper that arrested Sandra Bland before she died in prison a few days later, has been indicted for perjury by a grand jury. Encinia, 30, is suspected of lying in his incident report of Bland’s arrest at a traffic stop; the charge is a misdemeanor that would warrant possibly a year […]

Jordan Marsh, senior corporation counsel for the city, resigned after a judge ordered a new case in a wrongful death lawsuit.

The North Charleston, South Carolina police officer who shot an unarmed Black man eight times as he was running away was granted a $500,000 bond Monday afternoon

In a Saturday appearance on MSNBC, Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, told Melissa Harris-Perry the non-indictment of the Ohio officer who fatally shot her son made her "mad as hell."

The editor-in-chief of the popular blog Urban Bush Babes is suing the New York Police Department after she says officers falsely arrested her outside a Brooklyn nightclub.

Emanuel and Interim Chicago Police Supt. John Escalante on Wednesday are slated to announce a "'de-escalation' approach to handling potential conflicts and standoffs, including making sure every 'operational' on-duty officer is equipped with a Taser."

Police thought Barbara Dawson was "making herself dead weight" to avoid going to jail, according to a police report released Monday.

Despite yesterday's announcement from Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty, the Department of Justice insists that the case of Tamir Rice's death is not over and that it is leading its own independent review.

Samaria Rice referred to the justice system as "corrupt" after a grand jury failed to indict the officers who shot her 12-year-old son, Tamir.

Arguing that Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was unarmed when Chicago police shot and killed him over the weekend, his father on Monday filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city, reports DNAinfo Chicago.

Tim McGinty, the prosecutor of Ohio’s Cuyahoga County announced that the grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, the police officers who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice on December 22, 2014 outside of a local recreational center. Samaria Rice, the child’s mother, had been informed of the decision prior to the press […]