Cleveland’s mayor admitted that he didn’t trust a state agency to investigate the shοoting deαth of 12 year old Tamir Rice due to prior bunglings. Tamir Rice was gunned down by officers while carrying a toy gun. Mayor Frank Jackson explained on Sunday that he was hesitant to trust a state agency to review the fatαl shoοting due to a 2012 investigation involving two unarmed suspects who were shοt deαd…
The family of a Utah man gunned down by police while running away filed a lawsuit Friday against the officers involved in the shooting as well as the city. The incident occurred in September after someone called 911 to report that a man was walking around carrying a samurai sword. Darrien Hunt, 22, was holding a samurai sword and engaged in cosplay when he was confronted by Saratoga Springs officers….
A University of Connecticut student who had reportedly been a victim of assαult before graduating from high school in 2012 was arrested after allegedly making a threαt online. Tyler McKenzie, 18, posted on website Yik Yak that “East Lyme better get ready for a hail of bullets. I’ve been bullied too long. I’m going to let all may anger out.” McKenzie, currently a freshman at the University of Connecticut, prompted…
By Tamala Perkins On New Year’s Day, actor Terrence Howard shared the happy news that he is expecting something new in the new year; a baby. The Oscar-nominated actor announced that his new wife model Miranda Howard is expecting their first child. Even though it is their first baby together, for Terrence, it is baby number four. Howard has already fathered three children with his first wife. He is also…
Reported by Liku Zelleke Chris Rock has been making us smile and laugh out loud for well over 20 years. Everywhere he goes his humor – whether in a movie or on stage – has entertained millions of fans all over the world. It comes as no wonder that Rock, 49, is one of the richest people in Hollywood. It is estimated that he has a net worth of about…
Considering that the Ku Klux Klan is a domestic terrοr organization that has engaged in mυrder and harassment of black people, any action taken by the organization can conceivably be viewed as racist. Still, members of the group are claiming that a new billboard isn’t racist at all. A billboard advertisement for KKK radio in Harrison, Arkansas appeared this week. “It’s not racist to (love) your people,” the ad reads,…
The holidays are supposed to be a time of good cheer, but crime reports indicate that the holidays are also a time when many people snap. One Boston man stands accused of stαbbing his wife to deαth with a kitchen knife after she complained about him not buying her a Christmas gift. Julio Resto, 51, pleaded not guilty mυrdering his 42 year old wife, Gloria. According to police, Resto first…
When Mississippi Senator Trent Lott heaped praise on segregationist Strom Thurmand during the man’s 100th birthday party, it was the beginning of the end of Lott’s career. “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years, either,” said Lott in 2002. Praising Thurmond, who…
One thing that always seems to accompany debates on police brutαlity is fuzzy logic from the far right. Although published studies, such as a recent one by USA Today , prove that black people are heavily harassed by police, right wing pundits are always in search of ways to rationalize that harassment. During a discussion on Fox News’ “The Five” about de Blasio meeting with leadership from NYPD’s unions, co-host…
Prior to Obama’s election, some pundits openly suggested that his election might signal the beginning of a post-racial era in America. Instead of healing, however, Obama’s mere presence in the White House has been met with disdain by racists. It was almost as if racists were awakened and enlivened by Obama and thus, became more active, at least that’s what the data seems to indicate. According to the Southern Poverty…
The city of Chicago is besieged by viοlence, thanks at least in part to record level poverty in the city. Instead of getting the city’s viοlence under control, Mayor Rahm Emanuel became a victim, as recent reports indicate that the mayor’s son was robbed outside of the family home. In a letter to President Obama, 13 year old Chicago resident Malik Bryant told the president that all he wants from…
Everyone’s on Twitter now, even the Pope. Add to that list Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who took to the social media site to blast the U.S. government for its treatment of blacks. The U.S. became a hotbed of tension following the deαths of several unarmed black men at the hands of police. An NYPD cop chοked Eric Garner to deαth, and even though his deαth was ruled a…
The police officer who chοked Eric Garner to deαth escaped criminal prosecution, but people are being arrested at breakneck speed for threαtening police officers. Among those arrested was a 36 year old Brooklyn personal trainer who was taken into custody on Monday for making threαts against police. Clifton Jean-Pierre allegedly sent a text message to NYPD drug officer Katrina Weekes and eight others that read, “FOR EVERY ONE THEY KιLL,…
Just this week, video emerged showing an NYPD cop bullying a person for dancing in the street. The YouTube performer was verbally mocked by cops for dancing on Christmas Eve. This incident didn’t appear to have anything to do with socioeconomic conditions, but during an appearance on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ over the weekend, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton suggested that it isn’t so much the NYPD that has a problem,…
Grieving for a family member is a difficult enough process, but that process was made even more difficult for one family after a criminal intervened. A South Los Angelas family had no choice but to chase down a thief after he stole the hearse that contained their deceased relative’s casket. The attempted theft occurred at around 11am on Saturday as the funeral director was preparing a service for 19-year-old Jonté…