News From A Colorful Perspective
A group of Black 8th graders were walking home together after school on Wednesday when someone nearby, but not in the group, loudly said something derogatory about the police. It was overheard by a white male officer whose name has yet to be released. The officer confronted the group of…
Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano claimed a perfect rate of solving burglaries, by charging his subordinates with stopping people of color at the “badlands”— the border of the predominantly white suburban city. Officers Charlie Dayoub, Raul Fernandez, and Guillermo Ravelo complied with their chief’s request, and paid the price….
Jeffery Epstein, a Lakeland, Fla. doctor, started yelling at airline employees in Orlando International Airport, and police arrived on the scene to stop the disturbance. Officers had to detain him because he started acting unruly and refused to calm down. Epstein, a white man and Donald Trump supporter, felt betrayed…
A handful of genetic testing companies have voluntarily agreed on a set of guidelines to address privacy after backlash concerns from consumers on sharing DNA data, especially since law enforcement now utilizes genealogy websites to crack cases. 23andMe, Ancestry, Helix, MyHeritage, Habit, African Ancestry and FamilyTreeDNA, in collaboration with the…
There was one more red carpet for Harvey to walk down. At 7:30 this morning, the alleged rapist walked into a Lower Manhattan police station surrounded by cameras flashing and reporters shouting his name. The white male millionaire Hollywood film mogul was accused of sexual assault for the first time…
Nearly two years after his death, Seth Rich’s family is still dealing with a nightmare from the conservative media that continues pushing conspiracy theories surrounding his murder. But they’re not taking it lying down. Aaron Rich, Rich’s brother, is suing the Washington Times and America First Media as well as…
Last summer, a white man told police two Black men attempted to rob him at gunpoint. It turns out it was the white man who attempted the armed robbery — but it took police six months to watch the surveillance footage that told the real story. Patrick John Owens, 29,…
The fatal shooting of a New York Police Department officer has left a community devastated as police try to piece together a motive for the murder. The shooter, who had posted anti-police sentiments online, suffered from a mental illness, according to his girlfriend and family. Officer Miosotis Familia, 48, was…
There has been prior research pointing to racial bias and official misconduct contributing to higher wrongful conviction rates for Blacks than for whites. But the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE) not only documents such instances; it also supplies a consistent source of data to explore what is driving that disparity….
The same day that President Donald Trump signed three executive orders pertaining to crime reduction, Jeff Sessions kicked off his first day as U.S. attorney general by presenting the nation with some alternative facts. “We have a crime problem,” Sessions said. “I wish the rise we were seeing in crime…
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