Diversity Management, News and Updates
The trial of former Detective David March and former Officers Joseph Walsh and Thomas Gaffney of the Chicago Police Department begins today. The men are charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and misconduct in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. They are the first Chicago officers to face criminal…
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…
Jemel Roberson’s killer, a Midloathian officer, has not been named for over two weeks, and the civil rights attorney for the family says it’s hiding evidence. Other than the officer being identified as white, a four-year veteran of the Midloathian Police Department, and seven years in the field, and a…
The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force released a preliminary report less than three days after the shooting of Jemel Roberson, Black security guard in Robbins, Ill, which contradicted what witnesses and Roberson’s family attorney have said. It claims witnesses said Roberson was wearing “plain black clothing with no…
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…
Zahiem Salahuddin, a 13-year-old 8th grade student, was playing with his friends on the basketball court in Grays Ferry, Pa., this past summer. Salahuddin had a plastic toy gun that shot an orange plastic ball. A white boy was hit with the plastic ball. It was unclear which child shot…
In Coral Springs, Fla., a Black female was recorded being punched by a white male cop. In a video taken by a bystander, a 14-year-old girl lies facedown while being held down by one cop, and getting punched in the side of her belly by another cop during an arrest….
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….
Karle Robinson, 61, a retired Army vet was finally living his dream moving to the countryside. He bought a home in Tonganoxie, Kan., and had almost finished a grueling 12-hour move back in August, in the early hours of the morning, when police showed up, shined flashlights, and asked him…
A sheriff in Bergen County, N.J., resigned on Friday after racist comments he made about Black people, and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, were released to the public. Following New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s inauguration on Jan. 16, Michael Saudino, who attended, can be heard in audio clips, released by WNYC…