Video Shows Police Brutally Beating Tyre Nichols—Then Laughing About It
This article contains descriptions of graphic violence. Nearly three weeks after Memphis police fatally beat Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop, the city has released body-cam footage to the public,...
View ArticleMemphis Police’s First Press Release About Tyre Nichols Was Full of Glaring...
On January 8, the Memphis Police Department released a statement about a “confrontation” between police officers and a 29-year-old Black man, Tyre Nichols, that had taken place the previous evening....
View Article“All I Want Is My Baby Brother Back”
Three weeks after his death at the hands of Memphis police, Tyre Nichols is finally being laid to rest. On Wednesday, friends and family gathered to celebrate Nichols’ life at the Mississippi Boulevard...
View ArticleThe Future of American Environmental Protests May be Unfolding in a Forest...
The past two weeks have marked a significant escalation in the years-long struggle over the proposed construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (PSTC), a $90 million project that would...
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We Don’t Need Black History Month Police Cruisers. We Need Police Reform.
We’re only three days into Black History Month, and people are already cutting up. Within the first two days of February, police departments in both Miami, Florida, and Columbus, Ohio, unveiled their...
View ArticleMississippi Cops Shot a 15-Year-Old in the Head. Four Months Later, They...
Outside a Family Dollar store in Gulfport, Mississippi, a stream of cars enter a parking lot. It is early February, a Saturday, but no one is here to shop. Katrina Mateen, 41, stands with her back...
View ArticlePolice Charged With Killing Tyre Nichols Allegedly Beat Another Man Days Before
Monterrious Harris, 22, was sitting in his car outside his cousin’s apartment in Memphis on January 4 when eight men in black hooded sweatshirts and ski masks allegedly approached the vehicle and...
View ArticleA Mississippi Police Officer Who Shot a Black 15-Year-Old in the Head Won’t...
Four months after a Mississippi police officer shot a Black 15-year-old, Jaheim McMillan, in the head outside a Family Dollar store, the state’s Department of Public Safety has released video footage...
View ArticleWho Killed Rasheem Carter?
On a Saturday in early October, Rasheem Carter, a 25-year-old Black man visiting rural Taylorsville, Mississippi, for work, called his mother in a panic. Some white guys were following him in three...
View Article“This Was My Baby”: The Family of Black Man Killed by Cops While Experiencing...
Two days after Virginia deputies were charged with second-degree murder for the killing of a Black man at a state mental hospital, the victim’s family made their first public appearance on Thursday,...
View ArticlePolice Killed His Friend and Blamed Him. He Got 65 Years in Prison. He Was 15.
LaKeith Smith was 15 years old when he and four other Black teens broke into an empty house in Millbrook, Alabama, to steal an Xbox and other gaming equipment in 2015. The police arrived, and an...
View ArticleThe Cops Who Raided Afroman’s House Are Suing After Being Featured In His...
The law enforcement officials who raided the Ohio home of Afroman during a raid last year are suing the rapper after he used footage from the police search in music videos and on social media. A copy...
View ArticleCrime Mattered in Chicago’s Mayoral Race—Just Not How Pundits Implied It Would
In the weeks leading up to Chicago’s mayoral election, polls showed that voters were especially concerned about crime. This led plenty of journalists and political pundits to suggest that the candidate...
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The Accountant Who Wants to Take On the Police
One night in late January, Los Angeles’ brand new controller, Kenneth Mejia, zipped up an official windbreaker with a city seal on the left breast, and walked out of City Hall to police headquarters....
View ArticleThe Cop Who Killed Breonna Taylor Just Got a New Policing Job
Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer who fired the shot that killed Breonna Taylor in 2020, just got a new job at a nearby sheriff’s office. The Carroll County Sheriff’s...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Said It Canceled Its ICE Contracts. Then, It Opened New Ones...
In September 2019, after more than a year of protests, Johns Hopkins University announced that it would end its contracts with the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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Trump’s Republican Rivals Are Funneling Money to Daniel Penny
After Daniel Penny was charged on Friday with manslaughter for choking Jordan Neely to death on the F train, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) tweeted a link to donate to Penny’s legal defense fund. “We stand...
View ArticleAtlanta City Council Approves Funding for “Cop City”
“I’m begging and pleading that you stand with the people of Atlanta.” “The wrong direction is Cop City and you can’t whitewash it away.” “We need to spend our money on public funds and not our...
View ArticleA New DOJ Report Paints a Damning Picture of the Minneapolis Police
After a two-year Department of Justice investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department—that involved a review of thousands of documents, incident files, body-worn camera videos, and department...
View ArticleNative Americans Are Major Victims of Minneapolis Police Racism: DOJ
After George Floyd’s murder in 2020, Native Americans stood beside Black protesters in Minneapolis and called for changes to policing. Now, the Justice Department is highlighting how the city’s cops...
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