A New York police sergeant is claiming that his support for former NFL quarterback and original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick, has kept him from getting promoted.
Nike stole the attention of a nation on Monday, by debuting a 30th-anniversary campaign starring former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick.
Rocker Lenny Kravitz included images of NFL Players such as Colin Kaepernick taking a knee to protest the country in a graphic and politically charged new music video for his latest protest song aimed at terrorism and racism.
A police officer has been suspended after a video showed former NFL player Desmond Marrow being slammed to the ground and roughly handled during an arrest in Henry County, Georgia.
Analysis by medical experts shows that a Paris police officer did not “rape” suburban black youth Théo L. who claimed an officer had purposely inserted a baton into his anus, the alleged incident sparking mass riots last year.
The Paris suburb of Villeneuve-la-Garenne has been rocked by several nights of rioting and violence against police officers following the shooting of a man who attacked motorcycle police on Friday.
A newly released CCTV video of Paris police arresting a young man named Theo Luhaka contradicts the testimony of the youth, whose claim that police had purposely inserted a baton in his rectum caused large-scale riots.
Rapper Eminem rants about racism, white privilege,’crooked police,’their so-called oppression of black people, and the embarrassment of being white in his latest politically charged anthem ‘Untouchable.’
Monday on “Fox & Friends,” Army veteran Kathy Barnette said NFL players protesting police brutality during the National Anthem need to focus on some of the “real issues” the black community faces. “There are some real issues in the black community,
A violent crackdown on the growing number of independent salesmen in Cuba has triggered a protest among civilians outraged by the brutal police beating of a young man who had entered a Havana neighborhood known for its trade to shop.
The Las Vegas Police Department has issued a brief statement saying they are investigating a charge of police brutality issued Wednesday by Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett.
President Donald Trump gave a speech today to federal, state, and local law enforcement, addressing the issue of the MS-13 gang. When he joked that that police didn’t have to be “too nice” to gang members, leftists took this as a call for police brutality.
The Brazilian government has suspended sales of tear gas to Venezuela amid increasing police violence, Reuters has reported.
A 14-year-old boy was “run over and tortured” by an armored vehicle driven by the Venezuelan National Guard in the city of Mérida, according to opposition politician José Manuel Olivares.
Riots have broken out in Paris with cars burned and property damaged after a man said to be of Chinese extraction was shot by police in his home. Cars were set alight in Paris’ 19th district Monday evening after 56-year-old Shaoyo
Former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Sunday blamed the Black Lives Matter movement for the uptick in violent crime in this country.
Venezuelan government statistics revealed this month show that 4,156 people were killed in incidents labeled “resistance against authorities” between January and September 2016. Venezuela’s police have been accused of torture and beatings of dissidents, as well as raids of political opponents’ offices and keeping dissidents as prisoners of conscience.
Attorneys handling a lawsuit filed against the city of Baton Rouge by #BlackLivesMatter protester DeRay Mckesson announced that a settlement may soon be reached between the two parties. The lawsuit challenged their arrests during a protest in the area that followed an officer-involved shooting of a black man.
Mary J. Blige serenaded Hillary Clinton with a song about police brutality in a promotional video for the singer’s new Apple Music show The 411 on Tuesday that was widely ridiculed on social media.
A reported 100 demonstrators showed up for a Dallas Black Lives Matter solidarity march Thursday night. Despite a few tense moments, the protest remained tame. Dallas police made no arrests.
New York rapper Fat Joe posted a pointed tweet Friday criticizing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s method of protesting police brutality, calling it a disrespectful display against United States soldiers.
Cornell William Brooks, the president of the NAACP, compared Colin Kaepernick’s decision not to stand during the national anthem at NFL games in 2016 to Rosa Parks’ decision not to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955.
Embattled San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has caused quite the controversy in his protest against police brutality, choosing for the second weekend in a row not to stand during the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Monday, ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith said on “First Take,” while discussing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit during the national anthem, that he hopes athletes and media are just as willing to bring attention to black-on-black
A leading Dallas police officers association will be able to provide substantial financial support to the families that lost loved ones during the Black Lives Matter protest in early July with the help of a veteran-founded apparel company.
Only weeks after the executions of five Dallas area police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest, local social justice activists are set to continue demonstrations against “police brutality” in memory “of those who have fallen”.
Thursday on Fox Sports 1’s “Speak for Yourself,” co-host Jason Whitlock weighed in on the recent outcry against police brutality, calling the movement of calling for change in the system a “lie.” Speaking as someone who has lost a family member to
Actor and LGBT activist George Takei said the same “attitudes” that resulted in thousands of Japanese Americans to be forced into internment camps during World War II, are the same attitudes that make law enforcement officers shoot black men.
Jay-Z released his first new music in three years late Thursday night with the anti-police brutality anthem “Spiritual,” just after the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas, Texas Thursday night and the police-involved shooting deaths of two African-American men earlier in the week.
Pop queen Beyoncé penned an open letter Thursday in response to the police-involved shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile this week, begging law enforcement officer to “stop killing” black people.
Wednesday’s episode of Black-ish confronts police brutality in America, the criminal justice system, and the difficult discussions and decisions every black parent must face in a country where “the system is rigged against us.”
An upcoming episode of ABC’s “Black-ish” will take on the issue of police brutality in the black community.
A vigil for Sandra Bland in New York’s Union Square Park Wednesday night skirted into conspiracy theory territory as protesters carried signs saying Bland had been “killed” and speakers suggested the failure to charge anyone in her death was a sign that justice had not been served.
Yesterday, we reported on the untimely death of open source software pioneer Ian Murdock, who died in sensational circumstances after a string of emotionally charged posts on social media in which he threatened suicide and claimed to have been the victim of a vicious incident of police brutality.
Ian Murdock, a pioneer of Open Source software who created the Debian project, has passed away at 42 after a series of sensational public claims in which he alleged he was the victim of a serious incident of police brutality, threatened to commit suicide, and accused another Twitter user of wanting him dead.
In an extended interview on Meet the Press, film director Spike Lee said he wanted his new film, “Chi-Raq,” to touch on “black-on-black violence” and make the point that “it’s not always policemen” killing black people.
At least one police union has seemingly abandoned its plans to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight in the wake of the director’s participation in an anti-police brutality rally in October and his subsequent escalating rhetoric against law enforcement.
On December 26 The Washington Post reported that police shot and killed 965 people in 2015.
In a recent interview, longtime comedian and actor Eddie Griffin said he would vote for anyone but billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, and added that he is tired of “professional politicians” like Hillary Clinton.
Quentin Tarantino continues to stand by anti-police comments he made earlier this fall in a new interview, saying he “completely rejects” the “bad apples” argument that only a small number of police officers behave inappropriately on the job.
