News From A Colorful Perspective
Five years ago, Eric Garner’s dying words “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter activists and those protesting police brutality against people of color. A day before the fifth anniversary of Garner’s death, Attorney General William Barr ordered that the charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD…
Eric Garner’s wrongful death suit with the NYPD has been settled for a little over $5 million and is closed. However, New York Police Department union attorneys are now implying that Eric Garner’s obesity contributed to his death five years ago, not Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s chokehold, which strangled him. Attorney…
The infamous 1969 Stonewall raids that sparked activism and change in the gay community lasted for several days, from June 27-28. Patrons of the gay bar and their allies fought back against police officers that attacked them for nothing else except for the fact that they were gay. In 1969,…
A Black woman, who was irresponsibly and unnecessarily taken to a mental health facility, held against her will, misdiagnosed and “treated” for eight days, will finally have her day on court. The trial began on Monday. Long Island professional banker, Kamilah Brock, was driving her 2003 BMW 325Cl through the…
A woman’s racist and violent tirade on a New York City subway was captured on several cellphone videos. One of the videos was posted on Facebook and has gone viral with more than 8 million views. She has been identified as Anna Lushchinskaya, an attorney based in Brooklyn. While riding…
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that Jazmine Headley, age 23, would not face charges related to her Friday arrest, and called for her immediate release. Justice Craig S. Walker of the State Supreme Court ordered her release. Headley was arrested after the NYPD ripped her infant son from her…
Jasmine Headley, age 23, was carrying her child into a city agency building in Brooklyn where SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is located, and sat on the floor to wait as there were no more chairs. A bystander, Nyashia Ferguson, who goes by the name Monae Sinclair on Facebook, reported…
Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in a chokehold which killed him, is scheduled for a disciplinary conference on Thursday that could result in the termination of his job. Pantaleo has since been reassigned to desk duty after the 2014 death of Garner whose alleged offense…
I watched the New York Times video on the bogus arrest of Lasou Kuyateh. There were red flags from beginning to end, regarding the incident. From the illegal search of the young mens’ bodies, to the officer’s body camera’s “technical difficulties” and even Officer Kyle Erickson’s insistence that all of…
A 57-year-old Black woman is recovering from surgery to repair a collapsed lung because while exiting a subway in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was punched in the mouth and stabbed by a white man who called her a “Black b–ch” The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the attack as…
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