Last July, 47-year-old Michael Drejka got in a fight with Britany Jacobs, then 24, who was parked in a handicapped-accessible spot outside a grocery store. Her boyfriend, Markeis McGlockton, who was only 28, walked outside after them with their five-year-old son and defended Jacobs from Drejka, who had become aggressive….
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Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump Demands Galveston, Texas Police Department Release Bodycam Footage of Mounted White Officers Leading Black Man With Rope
A photo of two mounted white Galveston, Texas police officers leading a handcuffed Black man with a rope evoked imagery of Antebellum-era slave catchers for many, sparking an outrage last week that led the Galveston Police Chief to issue a public apology to the suspect, Donald Neely, and his family….
Video: Black Columbia University Student Pinned Down By Campus Safety Officials
Several public safety officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after a video went viral over the weekend showing Alexander McNab, a Columbia University senior, pinned to a countertop by officers at the Barnard College library. It all started when McNab got hungry late on Thursday night after he…
Renting While Black: White Woman Blocks Black Man Trying to Get Home
Hilary Brooke Mueller, a white woman, decided that she was the police, security and a private investigator, on top of being racist. Mueller blocked D’Arreion Toles of St. Louis, a Black man, from entering his own apartment building, Elder Shirt Lofts, and proceeded to harass him and follow him to…
Bodycam Footage Shows Minneapolis Police Shoot Black Man in the Back
Thurman Blevins reportedly was drinking gin and shooting a gun in the air on June 23 in a Minneapolis, Minn., neighborhood. When police arrived on the scene, Blevins was sitting on the curb with his girlfriend and baby. From bodycam footage released Sunday, the police are heard saying he’s got…