News From A Colorful Perspective
Anthony Edwards, a Black prospective homebuyer, has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati and three officers from the Cincinnati Police Department on July 15 after he and Black realtor, Jerry Isham, were held at gunpoint and allegedly detained for no reason in November 2018, according to a…
Wesley Michel, a Black software engineer, waited for a disabled friend outside of her apartment building in San Francisco on July 4. As he waited, a white man identified as YouTube executive, Christopher Cukor was caught on video accusing Wesley Michel of trespassing. The intrusive Cukor’s son was with him…
A DC Metro Transit police officer is under investigation after he was captured on video shoving and tasing Tapiwa Musonza, a Black Howard University graduate with a degree in finance, over the weekend. Che’mere Jones captured the incident on video and shared the video on her Facebook account. The DC…
In Stockton, California, on May 25, 26-year-old James Weaver was violently stopped in a road rage incident. Weaver said he feared for his life during the stop that stemmed from an alleged “traffic violation” with off-duty cop, Kevin Hachler. He was driving an SUV which hauled a U-Haul trailer along…
Coffee County, Tenn., prosecutor Craig Northcott is in a recently discovered video that shows him bragging that, if gay people in his district end up being victims of domestic violence, they should not expect him to use the state’s domestic violence laws to protect them, according to WTVF. Northcott has…
A Black mother who stated she was pregnant has been shot and killed by police in Baytown, Texas on Monday night. Police alleged that the woman was resisting arrest and grabbed the officer’s taser. The incident was caught on video and has been circulated widely on social media, according to…
A Snapchat video went viral over the weekend showing male teenagers who attend Homewood-Flossmoor High School, in the Chicago metropolitan area, wearing blackface, shouting profanities while driving, and harassing a female cashier at a McDonald’s by making disparaging remarks about Black girls. One of the boy’s mothers tried to defend…
On Friday, another transgender woman was viciously attacked, fracturing bones in her face and injuring her right arm. But this time, the brutal beating was caught on a cellphone video in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people. Sunday night about 9:30 pm, police in Dallas, Texas arrested…
The body cam footage of the shooting death of 20-year-old Willie McCoy, who was asleep in his vehicle in a Taco Bell drive-thru, has been released by the Vallejo Police Department. Minutes prior to the fatal shooting, which happened last month, Vallejo police had discussed whether they were going to…
Four white University of Georgia Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity members have been expelled from the organization after a racist video surfaced. In the grainy video, the four students are shown mocking slavery and using racist slurs. The first part shows a student jokingly hitting a person under a blanket and saying…
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