Violence
A Delaware police officer has been acquitted of kicking a Black man in the face and breaking his jaw during a 2013 arrest.
The 2012 video released Monday evening shows police using a Taser on Philip Coleman, 38, who later died. The footage comes in the wake of protests that erupted in the city after both the Laquan McDonald and Ronald Johnson videos were released in the past month.
The trial has received nationwide attention because of the brutal allegations against the former officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, and the all-White jury selected to seek justice for his 13 Black female victims.
UPDATE: Fight leads to woman stabbed at Art Basel | https://t.co/9UVDXP30HD pic.twitter.com/A2dmACzx1J — Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) December 5, 2015 This week’s Art Basel has taken a bloody turn. One female attendee of the Miami Beach event was stabbed in the arms and neck following a fight with another woman armed with an X-Acto knife on […]
Over 400 miles from where the San Bernardino shooting took place yesterday, a group of police officers fatally shot a man, an incident bystanders partially caught on camera.
A 20-year-old man was charged in the death of a Ferguson mother and aspiring nurse he met online through Facebook.
Police in San Bernardino, California responded to reports that 20 people were shot at a social services office Wednesday afternoon.
The victims of the Planned Parenthood shooting were identified as an Iraq War veteran, a mother of two from Hawaii and a police officer.
A man accused of killing three, including a police officer, when he attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo. was arrested and taken into police custody alive after a tense five-hour standoff.
Warning: Disturbing Footage Via Huffington Post: CHICAGO — City officials on Tuesday released police dashcam video showing an officer shooting teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times,…
Davis, who has been on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement for some time, understands that Jordan is just one story of many in America. For him, the most immediate change can come on Black Friday, the third anniversary of Jordan's death.
Activist Mercutio Southall Jr., the man who was kicked and beaten by Donald Trump supporters at a rally in Alabama, is sharing his side of the story with Think Progress.