Diversity Management, News and Updates
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…
Georgia police officers threw a wailing 10-year-old to the ground after he ran after them for arresting his daddy. Athens-Clarke County police were called to the home on domestic violence charges. As the officers led the father away, the boy shouted, “Why Why He didn’t shoot nobody.” “Every year, millions…
Viktor Stevenson, with a week-old gourmet lemonade business in San Francisco, was checking the alarm system to make sure his business was safe from thieves. Police showed up with “guns almost drawn” saying someone called 911 and accused him of being a robber. They asked him to prove it was…
This week a California Senate public safety committee advanced legislation that would restrict police from using deadly force first. The death of Stephon Clark, killings of unarmed Blacks and the repeated instance of excessive force used against Black men is the motivation behind the Police Accountability and Community Protection Act….
James Frascatore, the NYPD officer who slammed James Blake, former tennis pro, to the ground back in 2015 because he thought he was a scammer, received a five-day punishment from Police Commissioner James O’Neill. Blake’s lawyer, Kevin Marino, said the action is not a deterrent but encouragement for police to…
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the City of Ferguson, Missouri, to force the city to reform its police department and court system after the government found both had violated citizens’ civil rights and were especially biased against minorities. In announcing the lawsuit late Wednesday,…
