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#BREAKING CSPD has released video of the shooting of De’Von Bailey. WARNING: This video could be disturbing to some viewers. FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/rpMTzC9ig9 pic.twitter.com/lgS81USntu — KRDO NewsChannel 13 (@KRDONC13) August 15, 2019 Body-camera footage released from the Colorado Springs Police Department shows the death of De’Von Bailey, a 19-year-old Black…
A disturbing video of former St. Albans, Vermont police officer Sgt. Jason Lawton, some of it from a police body camera, shows the intoxicated woman, Amy Connelly, being thrown against a wall in a tiny holding cell after she refuses to sit down. When she stands back up and tries…
When the SWAT officer burst into his bedroom, Amir Worship put up his hands – and the officer shot him anyway. Moments later, the 12-year-old felt a terrible pain in his knee as he lay, shirtless and terrified, on his bed. It was early morning on May 26 and a…
Eugene Grant, 27, was playing with his band on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday night, when the owners of Frenchmen Art & Books called the police on the musicians for allegedly blocking the store. A Facebook Live video has now gone viral, showing Grant on the ground, held…
Elisha Brittman was badly beaten in Chicago. He was found naked and beaten underneath a car near 47th Street and Wabash Avenue in Bronzeville on April 29, according to the Chicago Tribune. He was taken to Mercy Hospital and listed as John Doe – and taken off of life support by…
Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend Indiana mayor and 2020 presidential hopeful, was at an Iowa Democratic Party barbecue in Carroll County on Thursday. While Buttigieg was taking questions, a man named Dave Bagley told Buttigieg that recent trouble between South Bend’s police department and its local Black community would improve if…
Sheefy McFly is a well-known artist and musician who has become highly regarded in recent years. He has a “vivid and fun illustrative style that looks and feels like a hip-hop makeover of Saturday morning cartoons of yore,” according to the Detroit Free Press. McFly has already done one mural…
A year ago, Orlando Police Officer Jonathan Mills was reassigned from the department’s elite tactical squad to patrol duty for making a rude, biased remark about a woman’s hair. He was also the subject of two very serious excessive force lawsuits settled in 2017 that cost the city $130,000. Mills received an oral reprimand…
Eric Logan, a 54-year-old father, was fatally shot by an officer responding to reports of a man breaking into cars in downtown South Bend, Ind. According to authorities, Logan pulled out a knife and lunged at the officer, who shot him once in the abdomen and killed him. But there’s…
To start off the week, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro released a comprehensive plan to overhaul policing in the United States. The plan’s main goal? To prevent shootings of unarmed people of color. This is Castro’s third policy proposal so far since announcing his candidacy and the plan has three goals…
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