Diversity Management, News and Updates
Lt. Cmdr. Kerry Karwan, a retired member of the Coast Guard and member of the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), attended the Dec. 11 joint congressional hearing by the U.S. House Oversight and Homeland Security Committees. The issue at hand was one she had personal experience with. “Righting the Ship,”…
On Dec. 4, Captain Penny Phelps was relieved of her duties as the head of the Monroe County Sheriff’s major crimes unit after a damning audio recording of her telling officers to pull over a Black murder suspect and “act like a white supremacist,” and a “neo-Nazi cop” was released,…
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…
Key surveillance video evidence in the death of a transgender woman who sought asylum in New Mexico appears to have been deleted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, according to a BuzzFeed report. Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez’s death was under investigation after her family retained an attorney to file a…
Two New Jersey 17-year-old boys have been arrested after reportedly calling a group of Black middle school girls the N-word and urinating on them at a Lawrence High School football game Oct. 18. Police say the bias incident — the way hate crimes are referred to in New Jersey law…
Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean was arrested on Monday for the murder of Atatiana Jefferson. He was detained at the Tarrant County Correction Center. Dean, 34, resigned from the department before his arrest. The killing took place on Saturday when Dean reportedly responded to a welfare check call…
While the Mueller investigation dragged on for the first two years of President Trump’s time in office, it turned up nothing damning enough to warrant impeachment. But a phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just two months ago and a whistleblower complaint regarding it have even Speaker…
Now-fired Muskegon, Mich., police officer Charles Anderson has an excuse for having Confederate flags displayed throughout his home and a Ku Klux Klan application hanging on his bedroom wall: He’s simply a history buff and a fan of the ’80s TV show “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Related Story: Charles Anderson,…
A Facebook live video captured the last moments of Minnesota man Brian Quinones, who police shot during a traffic stop Saturday. A live video posted on Quinones’ page shows him listening to loud music while driving outside of Minneapolis around 10 p.m., while police lights flash in his rear window….
Two guards who were delegated to monitor Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his alleged suicide were suspended. The warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center has also been reassigned to Washington D.C. by the Justice Department pending the investigation into his death, according to a story published by BBC. The…
