News From A Colorful Perspective
Valerie Castile, the mother of Philando Castile who was murdered by a Minnesota police officer in 2016 during a traffic stop, is keeping her son’s legacy of helping the community alive. Last week, Valerie delivered a check for $8,000 to Robbinsdale Cooper High School in New Hope, Minn., to clear…
The Washington Post examined over 50 civil rights cases against officers and found that charges were filed, on average, more than three years after the event. For example, Eric Garner, who had asthma, was killed in 2014 by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who along with others tackled him to the…
NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch suggested Botham Jean might still be alive today if only he was “a law-abiding gun owner” and Philando Castile’s still-grieving mother, Valerie Castile, rightfully, went off. “You know, this could have been very different if Botham Jean had been, say, he was a law-abiding gun owner…
Thousands gathered Thursday afternoon to celebrate the life of Botham “Bo” Shem Jean in the sanctuary of Greenville Avenue Church of Christ in Richardson. But undertones of hurt, and a demand of justice for Jean, were present. Many spoke of Jean’s character and faith, and the family’s rearing of an…
Two years after Philando Castile’s death, community-police relations in his old neighborhood are shifting in the right direction. Areas throughout the Twin Cities have implemented Lights On, a program aimed to improve the community and its relationship with police. Rather than issue tickets and fines for miniscule vehicle problems, police…
With the driver present at the scene of the crime, and the police “confident” that the same person posted racist Snapchats about the killing, no arrest has been made. Sherrell Lewis Jr., 31, was killed last week in Louisiana while helping clear debris from a highway by the truck Matthew…
If Kaitlin Bennett wasn’t white, you’d be reading about a dead Black student. She graduated from Kent State University in Ohio, brought an AR-10 to campus the next day, and posted about gun rights on Twitter: I have no apologies for my graduation photos. As a woman, I refuse to…
Routine police traffic stops have been notoriously dangerous for Blacks in America, resulting in the deaths of Sandra Bland, Philando Castile and Samuel DuBose, to name a few. But an unarmed, 65-year-old Black woman, a grandmother, would be safe when stopped by cops, right Wrong. Alarming dashcam footage shows Rose…
The St. Anthony City Council in Minnesota voted to give Diamond Reynolds $675,000 as part of a total $800,000 settlement for her emotional distress and wrongful arrest following the fatal officer-involved shooting of her boyfriend, Philando Castile. In response, aRice County sheriff’s deputy, who is also a city council member,…
Police in St. Paul, Minn.,announced Wednesday that aSt. Catherine University public safety officer lied when he said a Black male shot himon campus, which put “Black youth at risk,” said thepresident of the St. Paul African-American Leadership Council. Brent Patrick Ahlers, 25, admitted to investigators that he accidentally shot himself…
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