A Chicago man, Bernard Kersh, faces charges of aggravated battery after police slammed him to the ground during a Thanksgiving Day arrest. Kersh, who was reportedly stopped for drinking outside of a bus stop, also is charged with resisting police, simple assault and drinking alcohol in public. Civil rights activist…
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Farmington School Resource Officer Resigns Unpunished after Use of Excessive Force on 11-Year-Old Girl
A veteran school resource officer in Farmington, N.M., has resigned after video footage caught him violently brutalizing and slamming an 11-year-old Black female student to the ground. The incident happened on Aug. 27 at Mesa View Middle School in New Mexico. The officer, Zachary Christensen, used excessive force on the…
Archived: White Men Hurled Racial Slurs and a Shopping Cart at a Black Woman
At a Walmart in West Monroe, La., two white men, Dylan Reynolds, 22, and Michael Walters, 24, followed a Black female shopper to her car. When she was approached, she quickly threw her groceries in her car, as the men shouted racial slurs, including the n-word. As she drove away,…