In the latest flagrant display of white police officers using excessive force on Black men during an arrest, an Indianapolis police sergeant has been charged with kicking an emotionally disturbed and handcuffed man in the head — and the whole event was captured in his body camera footage. CNN’s Amir…
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White Man in Georgia Arrested for Trying To Beat His Black Neighbor’s 15-Year-Old Son With a Belt For Cursing
Matt Martel, a 29-year-old man from Villa Rica, Georgia, has been arrested and charged with a number of offenses for attempting to beat his Black neighbor’s 15-year-old son with a belt because he didn’t like the language the teenager was using. Zack Linly of The Root reported that Maliyk Sim…
Jury Decides One Toledo, Ohio Firefighter Faced Gender Discrimination, Another Did Not
In 2005, two Toledo, Ohio, firefighters filed a discrimination suit against the city, saying it failed to take action against gender discrimination they experienced on the job. Fourteen years later, a jury decided one firefighter, but not the other, was discriminated against. Pvt. Judi Imhoff received $150,000 related to gender…
Indianapolis Police Officer Robert Lawson Charged With Perjury and Official Misconduct After Assault on Black High School Student
Disgraced Indianapolis Metro Police Department officer Robert Lawson was charged with a series of three felonies and two misdemeanors including perjury, battery, official misconduct, and other crimes after a two-week investigation proved that the officer lied about assaulting a Black 17-year-old high school student. According to the Indy Star, the unprovoked…
Archived: Trump Continues to Disparage Women and Mocks #MeToo
At his Great Falls, Mont., rally yesterday, President Trump doled out insults to Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton and survivors of sexual harassment and assault — as if he didn’t care that his “grab ’em by the p***y” comments and assaults weren’t part a catalyst for the…