The Minneapolis Police Department, in a training manual issued to all new officers, detailed how to execute the same neck restraint that killed George Floyd, lawyers for one of the officers involved in the May 25 incident argued in a Wednesday motion. The training manual, which provided pictures of the […]
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The Phoenix Police Department is under fire after several officers were caught on video surrounding a parked car on July 4 and threatening a man inside before unloading at least ten gunshots in a gruesome incident that has sparked renewed protests. James “Jay” Porter Garcia, 28, was fatally shot while […]
Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the police in May and falsely accused a Black man of threatening her life after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park, faces charges for the incident, prosecutors announced Monday. Cooper, 41, will be charged with filing a false report, […]
Breonna Taylor, a Kentucky EMT worker fatally shot in her home in March, died as a result of a politically-driven police operation “to clear out” a Louisville street to make way for a multi-million gentrification plan, a lawsuit filed by the 26-year-old’s family states. Taylor, who worked for two local […]
A military officer who died by suicide after being confronted about his involvement in Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s disappearance allegedly walked in on her showering, her family’s lawyer said Wednesday. The incident is one of two alleged instances of sexual harassment Guillen, a 20-year-old Private First Class stationed in […]
Adam Savage, the former host of Mythbusters, has been accused of “repeatedly” sexually abusing his younger sister for years in the late 1970s, starting when she was just 7 years old and he was 9, a new lawsuit filed Tuesday states. Miranda Savage Pacchiana, 51, alleges in the lawsuit filed […]
When Brandon Sicilia was named the police chief of Price City last July, some residents of the small Utah town were “horrified.” While the 47-year-old law enforcement official had spent over two decades serving the Carbon County city of 8,715 residents, he also had a history of posting vile, racist […]
Elijah McClain was walking home from the convenience store on an unusually cool Saturday night in August when three Aurora police officers approached him. According to the official police report, a resident called 911 because the 23-year-old massage therapist was wearing a ski mask and “acting weird” by “waving his […]
The police chief of Tucson, Arizona, offered to resign Wednesday afternoon after releasing a disturbing video of a Hispanic man’s death while in police custody in April. Carlos Ingram-Lopez, 27, died on April 21, after authorities restrained him with his head on the ground for more than 12 minutes. His […]
Pennsylvania authorities on Wednesday continued their massive search for an Amish teenager who disappeared on Sunday after attending a church service—a move friends and family have described as “out of character” for the “sweet girl” who never caused trouble. Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, was last seen around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday […]
A young Wisconsin woman accused of murdering her alleged sex trafficker has been freed from jail—where she’s spent two years awaiting trial—after community activists raised her $400,000 bail. Chrystul Kizer, 19, faces life in prison after being charged with arson and first-degree intentional homicide charges for the June 2018 slaying […]
Porn star Ron Jeremy was charged on Tuesday with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth. Jeremy, 67, now faces eight counts—including forcible rape, forcible penetration, and forcible oral copulation—for the separate incidents, which date back to 2014, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. Prosecutors allege that in May […]
Ten days after Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot by an Atlanta police officer after he fell asleep in his car in a Wendy’s drive-thru lane, friends and family of the 27-year-old will honor his life at the church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached. Beginning at 3 p.m. ET, […]
WARNING: The video below contains graphic content. Two years before George Floyd pleaded with a Minneapolis police officer to remove his knee from his neck, Timothy Coffman screamed out for help while he was pinned face down on the ground in Florida—his ankles tied while officers used the same move to […]
A Minneapolis police dispatcher was so alarmed by real-time footage of George Floyd’s violent arrest that she flagged the situation to her supervisor, telling him over the phone, “I don’t know you can call me a snitch if you want.” “I don’t know if they had to use force or […]
As protests across Chicago devolved into chaos last week and residents started to loot nearby stores, police officers were making popcorn and drinking coffee while “lounging” inside Congressman Bobby Rush’s office, officials said in a stunning news conference on Thursday. Speaking alongside Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Rush said at least 13 […]
As an 11-year-old chosen to train under legendary swim coach Andrew King, Debra Grodensky believed she was destined to become an Olympic star. However, by 15, she had quit the sport out of fear following years of disturbing alleged sexual assault by King that culminated in her coach, then 37, […]
A police chief in Washington State was replaced on Monday after spreading a conspiracy theory that antifa activists were planning to destroy the community, the latest in a slew of law enforcement officials disciplined or ousted for their conduct during nation-wide protests against the killing of George Floyd. Keith Rogers, […]
At least three black Liberty University employees have resigned directly as a result of President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tweet in which he declared he would only wear a COVID-19 mask if it were one depicting the 1984 photo of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam allegedly wearing blackface. Falwell, the long-time head […]
Feds announced Monday that a 23-year-old man has been charged in connection to to the March 28 fire set to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station amid protests over the police killing of George Floyd. Branden Wolfe, of St. Paul, was charged with aiding and abetting arson at the […]
The fired Minneapolis police officer who held his knee on George Floyd’s neck while he repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe made his first court appearance on Monday, where a judge slapped him with a maximum bail of $1.25 million. Derek Chauvin, 44, has been hit with second-degree murder charges for the May […]
A professor at the University of Central Florida faces calls for his removal after claiming in a Twitter rant that “black privilege is real” and insisting that the answer to systematic oppression is to “stay in school” amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. Charles Negy, an associate […]
The Georgia man who shot 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery while he was he was jogging on a residential street allegedly called him the n-word after the fatal incident, investigators said Thursday. During a probable cause hearing in Brunswick Thursday for three men accused in Arbery’s Feb. 23 slaying, Georgia Bureau of Investigation […]
George Floyd, the 46-year-old unarmed black man filmed repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe while a white Minneapolis police officer pinned his neck to the ground with his knee—died from asphyxia caused by pressure to his back and neck, according to an independent autopsy. The independent autopsy performed by celebrity pathologist […]