
Omaha, Nebraska, police have arrested John Tompkins, 55, for allegedly telling two officers, “You are marked for death. I’m going to kill you because of what you do to black people. I’m going to find your wife and kids and kill those (expletive) too.”
by Jerome Hudson30 Sep 2015, 8:01 AM PST0

Black Lives Matter activists tried to disrupt the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday and marched down the street, shouting a chant that called for the deaths of police officers: “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon!”
by Lee Stranahan30 Aug 2015, 5:00 PM PST0

In the wake of the heinous attack captured during a live TV interview on August 26, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety says the incident provides them with “opportunity” in that they now have a snippet that can serve as their “own Eric Garner video.”
by AWR Hawkins28 Aug 2015, 5:18 PM PST0

The Black Lives Matter movement, which is painfully impotent before Black America, has led a year of national acrimony over the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Grey. The opportunity for blacks to be brutally honest with ourselves about the corrosive culture of crime and death in our own communities has been hijacked by a horde of sniveling, self-absorbed egotists.
by Jerome Hudson12 Aug 2015, 9:55 AM PST0

The family of a black man who died after being placed in a white police officer’s chokehold reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city on Monday, days before the anniversary of his death.
by Breitbart News13 Jul 2015, 6:03 PM PST0

Award-winning, Oakland-based high school a cappella group “Vocal Rush” is finding inspiration in the #BlackLivesMatter protests that have rocked the city’s streets over the past several months.
by Adelle Nazarian16 Jun 2015, 12:49 PM PST0

Monday night on CNN with Don Lemon, Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner who died while being restrained by police in the New York City borough of Staten Island, said the rioters in Baltimore were all but justified Monday’s actions.
by Jeff Poor28 Apr 2015, 6:27 AM PST0

On Saturday, The Washington Post claimed we have a problem in this country wherein cops shoot unarmed people in the back and face no ramifications or very minor ones at the most.
by AWR Hawkins13 Apr 2015, 2:44 PM PST0

A high-ranking New York Police Department official tells the New York Post that an expensive training program introduced by Mayor Bill de Blasio after the Eric Garner controversy has been “a big disappointment on the backs of the city because they’re paying for this course” to the tune of $35 million dollars for what many believe is a “waste of time.”
by Dan Riehl22 Feb 2015, 9:03 PM PST0

Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot released a new music video Wednesday to pay homage to Eric Garner, the man who was inadvertently killed last summer after being put in a chokehold by New York City police officers.
by Kipp Jones18 Feb 2015, 7:14 PM PST0

On Tuesday, an NYPD cop was indicted on manslaughter charges for shooting to death an unarmed Brooklyn man on November 20.
by William Bigelow10 Feb 2015, 9:12 PM PST0

In a lengthy interview with the Daily Beast’s Marlow Stern, filmmaker Spike Lee spoke out on America’s relationship with the Islamic world, his new film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, and the on-court woes of the New York Knicks.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 Jan 2015, 1:57 PM PST0

California Governor Jerry Brown spoke for the first time Friday about the police brutality protests that have consumed the Bay Area and cities across the country in recent weeks.
by Daniel Nussbaum10 Jan 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

The family of Eric Garner released a new song this week to honor the life of their relative.
by Daniel Nussbaum9 Jan 2015, 1:37 PM PST0

Hip hop artist Common spoke to the Huffington Post Monday about his role in the film Selma, saying that Americans have made little progress in regards to race relations since the days of slavery and segregation.
by Kipp Jones6 Jan 2015, 8:43 PM PST0

Anti-police protesters in New York City hoping to disrupt the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square didn’t quite make it that far Wednesday night.
by Kerry Picket31 Dec 2014, 10:43 PM PST0

A Northern California high school reversed course on Monday after initially banning students from wearing “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirts, Eric Garner’s last words, for warmups during a three-day basketball tournament.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Dec 2014, 1:05 PM PST0

Anti-police protesters plan to disrupt New Year’s Eve celebrations, calling upon activists to agitate in major cities “because business as usual in Amerikkka includes wanton police murder of Black people.”
by Kerry Picket28 Dec 2014, 3:11 PM PST0

Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, used Twitter to post that patrolman Justin D’Amico was “another officer that helped killed [sic] my dad,” adding a link to a Web page listing the addresses of D’Amico and five possible relatives.
by Dan Riehl28 Dec 2014, 2:28 PM PST0

A California basketball tournament has disinvited the girls’ and boys’ teams from a high school because competitors sought to wear “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirts at the event.
by Breitbart News28 Dec 2014, 6:32 AM PST0

According to People, the two chart toppers performed the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture popularized in protests over the death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown as they celebrated Jay Z’s 45th birthday in Iceland.
by Ezra Dulis27 Dec 2014, 1:19 AM PST0

After 18-year-old Antonio Martin pulled a gun and was subsequently shot and killed by a police officer at a Berkeley, Missouri gas station on December 23, Pastor Starsky Wilson blamed the police–saying that “most of the protests [since Ferguson] have been nonviolent” but the police escalated things anyway, which in turn caused violence.
by AWR Hawkins24 Dec 2014, 4:22 PM PST0

Breitbart News learned from an NYPD source that officers made no arrests Tuesday night, despite bottles being hurled at police and protesters committing other violations of the law. That’s how Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton wanted it,
by Kerry Picket24 Dec 2014, 2:23 PM PST0

On December 23, a Berkeley, Missouri, police officer shot and killed a teen who pulled a gun and pointed it at him. Thereafter, “approximately 100 protesters” gathered, some of whom jumped and assaulted police, hitting them with bricks.
by AWR Hawkins24 Dec 2014, 8:53 AM PST0

Massive protests shut down 5th Avenue a day before Christmas Eve.
by Mary Chastain23 Dec 2014, 7:26 PM PST0