Police Brutality

National News

Officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor rams car, pulls gun on suspect

Black Information Network - October 21, 2023

Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor in 2020 and was hired earlier this year as a Carroll County sheriff's...

Digital Daily

Philadelphia police rarely release body camera videos – here’s why it may happen in the fatal shooting of Eddie Irizarry

The Conversation - September 10, 2023

Eddie Irizarry, 27, was fatally shot by Philadelphia police on August 14, 2023. (Photo: Eddie Irizarry/Facebook) by Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University Some Philadelphia residents are calling...

Digital Daily

NYC To Pay Millions To George Floyd Protestors Corralled By Police

Black Information Network - March 4, 2023

New York City has agreed to pay millions of dollars to hundreds of protestors who were subjected to arrests and excessive force and who...

Digital Daily

Black Twitter’s expected demise would make it harder to publicize police brutality and discuss racism

The Conversation - November 30, 2022

by Deion Scott Hawkins, Emerson College Before the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and Sandra Bland were propelled into the media spotlight,...

Digital Daily

College requirements for police forces can save Black lives, but at what cost?

Courier Newsroom - August 10, 2022

by Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University and Natasha N. Johnson, Georgia State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The...

Digital Daily

Roger Caldwell: Black Lives Matter and the color of your skin

Courier Newsroom - October 13, 2021

by Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor (NNPA)--There is a pervasive sickness in America, and it is called White supremacy, and systemic racism. These ideologies are...

Detroit

Remembering George Floyd – One Year Later: The evolution of a momentous injustice

Courier Newsroom - May 26, 2021

by Donald James May 25, 2020, is a day that millions of Americans and other global citizens who oppose injustices rooted in racism must remember....

Digital Daily

Black America Triggered by Continued Police Brutality.

Danielle Sanders - April 13, 2021

As the country watches the murderer of George Floyd stand trial, 10 miles away, police shoot and kill another black man in Minnesota. A...

Digital Daily

Derek Chauvin, the Police Officer who killed George Floyd, Heads to Trial

Danielle Sanders - March 8, 2021

Derek Chauvin, the officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds heads to trial today. The trial will be...

Digital Daily

Police reform: Between the baton and the bullet

Courier Newsroom - December 30, 2020

by J. Pharoah Doss For New Pittsburgh Courier Recently, former President Barack Obama said, “I guess you can use a snappy slogan like defund the police,...

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