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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…
Ryan Twyman, a 24-year-old father of three, was shot dead in the parking lot of an apartment complex at San Pedro and 132nd streets on the evening of June 6 in Los Angeles. Police officers approached a car Twyman was inside just before firing shots. Twyman was pronounced dead at…
Willie McCoy, age 20, was asleep in his car on Feb. 9 in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in Vallejo, Calif. An employee had called the police to report someone unresponsive in their car when six officers surrounded McCoy’s car with guns drawn. The officers did not try…
More people are killed by police in California than in any other state in the union. In response to the deaths, the California Assembly passed legislation Wednesday to change rules governing when police officers in the state can use lethal force. Using Assembly Bill 392: The California Act to Save Lives,…
Mikisa Thompson was listening to Malcolm X speeches in her own yard in Garner, N.C. Thompson’s 65-year-old white neighbor, Don Barnette, called 911 on April 22 to complain that Thompson had been listening to “loud Islamic-Muslim preaching” in her backyard. In response, on May 16, nearly a dozen police officers…
