Diversity Management, News and Updates
Virginia resident Monica Cromartie was simply going about her day on Feb. 12, 2015, when Petersburg Police Officer Brian Lee Billings noticed she was speeding and decided to pull her over to give her a ticket. What followed was a textbook example of a white police officer using excessive force…
Police body camera footage shows officers in Tempe, Ariz. hitting Ivaughn Oakry with three Tasers all at once while holding his one-year-old son on June 15. The Tempe Police Department has denied all claims of excessive force and claim that Oakry is the one who put his children in danger….
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…
A study that claims white police are no more likely than their non-white colleagues to shoot people of color is coming under fire. The study, published July 22 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences found police of various races were more likely to kill civilians of…
A new study from Rutgers University-Newark has found that police are a leading cause of death among young — especially Black — men in America today. The study, which compiled data on police-involved deaths in the U.S., estimated the risks of being killed in a law enforcement encounter by age,…
St. Louis, Missouri police sergeant Heather Taylor did not hesitate to answer “yes” when CBS News reporter Jeff Pegues asked her if she believed there were white supremacists on the police force. Taylor’s answer comes after a damning exposé by the Plain View Project, a database of thousands of racist,…
A Miami-area police officer, Lester Brown, has been charged with felony battery and official misconduct after a surveillance video revealed him pushing an inmate — a migrant worker named Jose Garcia — head first into a wall and injuring him. Garcia was arrested Dec. 1 and brought to the Homestead Police…
Baton Rouge police chief Murphy Paul has publicly apologized on behalf of the department for ever hiring Blane Salamoni, the white officer who shot and killed Alton Sterling, a Black man, in 2016. Paul, who is Black, did not join the department until 2018, but said it was the department’s…
In 2016, Tony Timpa called the Dallas police from a parking lot, saying he was afraid and needed help, adding that he suffered from schizophrenia and depression and was off of his medication and had taken drugs. Recently-released bodycam footage revealed the police that were supposed to be there to…
Recent allegations of police brutality in Hamilton County, Tennessee have prompted the county’s District Attorney’s Office to set up a hotline for residents to make reports. The DA’s office said they’ve received a number of videos that have prompted them to investigate. One of these videos includes dashcam footage of…
