News From A Colorful Perspective
A Miami-Dade Police aide was placed on administrative duty after he was investigated for reportedly saying a Black female sergeant looked “like a monkey”, according to a report from the Miami Herald. Pablo Espinoza, who works as a public service aide for the Miami-Dade Police Department, allegedly made the racist…
In 2005, two Toledo, Ohio, firefighters filed a discrimination suit against the city, saying it failed to take action against gender discrimination they experienced on the job. Fourteen years later, a jury decided one firefighter, but not the other, was discriminated against. Pvt. Judi Imhoff received $150,000 related to gender…
St. Francis Smith, a Black former Mount Dora, Fla., police officer, is suing the department for racial discrimination. In the federal lawsuit, filed Oct. 8 against the Mount Dora Police Department, Smith says he “felt bullied and harrassed” as the department’s only minority SWAT team member. He had been at…
Three former employees of the Danby House, an assisted living facility in Winston-Salem, N.C., were accused of running a “fight club” from their place of employment. They were arrested earlier this month, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Related Story: Drag Queens Are Helping a North Carolina School Reduce Bullying Taneshia…
An off-duty NYPD officer Hyun Kim was suspended without pay after he held his gun to a waitress’ head in a boozy Queens karaoke bar incident, according to reports. The incident occurred Oct. 8, and Kim was charged with menacing Oct. 13. Kim, a member of the 115th Precinct, was…
A study, appropriately named “The Triumph of Injustice,” by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California at Berkeley, has found that, for the first time in history, the wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate than the bottom 50% of Americans. In 2018, the average effective…
Over the past year, Louisiana has become the unlikely hub of immigrant detention in the United States. Eight thousand migrants out of 51,000 nationally are being detained across eight jails in the state, the Associated Press reported. One of the challenges for immigrants is the location of the eight detention…
Former DeKalb County Sheriff’s Deputy Antonio Perryman was terminated from his job three days before he was to retire from an illustrious 20-year career with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia. According to WSB-TV News, Perryman wanted to end his career on a fun note and decided to don…
Last year, off-duty Dallas, Tx. police officer Amber Guyger walked into Botham Jean’s apartment, thinking it was her own, and shot him as he sat on his couch, unarmed, eating ice cream. After an emotional trial, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison, although she could have faced up…
On Aug. 3, Texas Rangers in Galveston, Texas, handcuffed and detained Donald Neely, who has a history of mental illness. They proceeded to lead him down the street with a rope. One of the officers said “this is gonna look really bad” shortly before he started heading down the street…
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