The scene outside the annual hip-hop and R&B concert Summer Jam deteriorated into chaos Sunday night in East Rutherford, NJ, and police in riot gear were forced to contain unruly groups of music fans, after they tried to enter the show without tickets.
We are meant to imagine an innocent, if perhaps a bit high-spirited, gathering of cheerful teens interrupted by a brutal racist cop, who couldn’t wait to find the nearest young lady of color and body-slam her for fun. The reality seems a bit more… nuanced.
Investigating the violent incident in 2014 that prompted the arrest of U.S. Women’s Soccer Team goalie Hope Solo, 33, ESPN’s Outside the Lines procured police records and secured an interview with one of Solo’s alleged victims to offer a starkly different picture of the events than the story Solo has promulgated on her Facebook page, a February appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, and an espnW article in the past week.
A biker bar shooting in San Diego ended with four people shot, one in custody and an eight-hour SWAT standoff that came up without a suspected second suspect. The incident follows violence between biker gangs in Texas that led to mass arrests and resulted in nine deaths.
The Ohio prosecutor who brought charges against a Cleveland police officer said that the judge who cleared the officer made serious errors in his decision, errors that might “endanger the public.”
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) posted a tweet saying he opposes the militarization of police forces. His message contained a profanity. A photo attached to the tweet showed police officers wearing gas masks and holding weapons, standing next to a mailbox with graffiti that said, “F*** The Police.”
On Saturday night, a California Save-Mart janitor’s night went from calm to violent minutes before closing when two alleged gang members began attacking the man for his blue shirt, which was allegedly interpreted by the attackers as gang colors, according
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton’s wife, CBS legal analyst Rikki Klieman screened her pro-police documentary In the Line of Fire at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City on Thursday night.
A new Human Rights Watch report accuses China law enforcement authorities of dodging new government measures designed to minimize the use of torture and abuse in the police system. Police still routinely use beatings, sleep deprivation, and hanging prisoners by the walls to force confessions, the organization alleges.
The state Department of Justice, which investigated the shooting, released its reports after Ozanne announced his decision. Here’s a look at the last few hours of Robinson’s life, compiled from witness accounts detailed in the reports.
On Wednesday, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the mayor of Baltimore, reversed herself; she now wants the Department of Justice to conduct a civil rights investigation of her city’s police department.
Now that the Obama administration has subtly encouraged critics of police to vent their fury, California legislators have initiated a flurry of at least 20 proposals–according to a count by the Los Angeles Times–to shackle the police and ensure that they are being zealously scrutinized.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a former aide to Jerry Brown, is facing strong criticism over her handling of riots in Oakland this week. Because Oakland police allegedly delayed calling for help until roughly 15 minutes after a protest turned violent, Oakland’s Auto Row took a terrible beating on Friday night, with scores of vehicles’ windows smashed as well as the windows of banks and stores
Police officers across the country are shocked by Friday’s news that six Baltimore cops were charged with the murder of Freddie Gray. Many worry that they will be prevented from doing their job going forward.
Following in the Bay area tradition of Occupy, social justice, and union operative campaigns led by leftist community organizers, hundreds of protestors flooded the streets of Oakland on May Day eve, echoing rioters in Baltimore with progressively violent and destructive actions.
Demonstrators clashed with police in two cities in the Pacific Northwest late Friday, with marchers throwing rocks and chairs at officers as the evening gatherings spiraled into mayhem.
Baltimore police officials said 98 officers have been injured since riots broke out after the funeral of Freddie Gray. Thirteen of the officers had to be placed on medical leave, and 15 were relegated to light duty. Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said protesters had fired bricks, bottles, and chunks of cement at officers.
An ABC news affiliate reported Thursday afternoon that the injuries which ultimately killed Freddie Gray took place inside a police van and not during his arrest. It remains unclear whether those injuries were the result of a failure to secure Gray with a seat belt or caused by some actions of the police officers involved.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News just a few days before she is set to enter the 2016 presidential race, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina shared her thoughts about the riots and unrest in Baltimore.
Francis Pusok was awarded a $650,000 settlement from San Bernardino County on Apr. 22 because police had kicked and punched him. The very next day, police caught him running through the backyards of various homes.
During a Saturday briefing, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said her city government “gave those who wished to destroy space to do that,” seemingly approving of the rioters who smashed the city’s police vehicles in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray.
The banning of private gun ownership in Venezuela has made firearms such a valuable commodity that 57% of police killed in the nation’s capital this year were targeted for their weapons, according to Venezuela’s largest newspaper.
A crash victim became an alleged car thief when a woman stopped Monday evening to offer help to a man stranded after he crashed his car.
On Tuesday’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” on ESPNU and ESPN Radio, host Colin Cowherd compared how hard fans are on referees to how hard the media are on police, in drawing an analogy to the refereeing Monday’s NCAA Basketball
Newark, New Jersey, police are investigating a complaint that rapper DMX helped rob one of his own fans at gunpoint in the city early Sunday morning.
A Boston police officer who was decorated for his actions during the Boston Marathon Bombing is recovering after being shot in the face in what has been called an “unprovoked attack.”
Actress Taraji P. Henson has apologized to police in the Southern California city of Glendale for accusing an officer of racially profiling her son.
AUSTIN, Texas — State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) is pushing back against critics of a bill he filed that would make it a crime for bloggers and independent journalists to film or photograph police officers. After the bill, HB 2918, was filed, it was the target of criticism from both the right and the left. Villalba has conceded he will make some amendments, but has continued to aggressively defend the bill. This week, the bill was referred to a committee and set for public hearing on March 26.
On March 15, The Guardian ran a report suggesting President Obama use his “executive powers” to order “smart guns” for police departments.
Pakistani Christians have long protested the lack of government protection from terrorist attacks and random, unsubstantiated accusations of blasphemy. Sunday’s Taliban attack on two Christian churches in Lahore resulted in the death of at least 14 people, with many dozens wounded. Again, a lack of police presence seems to be a contributing factor in the violence.
After months of rioting interrupted only by the extreme cold weather that Winter brought, Ferguson, Missouri is once again quite as officials investigate Thursday’s shooting of two police officers outside the city’s police station. The shooting of the two officers
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani did not say that Barack Obama should be like Bill Cosby. What Giuliani is calling for is a direct confrontation with the racial grievance industry, which is very different from President Obama tossing off a speech here and there where he says intact families are nice.
Texas State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Texas) has found himself at the center of controversy after filing a bill that would make it a crime for bloggers and independent journalists — as well as regular citizens — to film police officers. Despite the backlash from free speech advocates, Villalba is insisting that his bill “does not infringe on constitutional rights” or “limit liberty in any way.”
President Obama Tweets in reaction to the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri.
On Tuesday, Akron police finally got a solid lead on the man who has pooped on roughly 20 cars over the last three years.
During a protest early Thursday morning in Ferguson, Missouri, shots were fired and two police officers were seriously injured. A live-stream video being shot from across the street by one of the protesters captured the moment.
Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday, a spokesman for the county police department said, as protesters gathered following the resignation of the city’s embattled police chief.
On the heels of a negative report from the Department of Justice on the Ferguson, Missouri police force, the town’s council announced on Wednesday that police chief Thomas Jackson would resign.
A report into the systematic abuse of white girls at the hands of Asian, mainly Pakistani men has found that the police and social services didn’t do anything to prevent the abuse because they blamed the girls, some of whom
Around 400 British children a year are been threatened with tasers by the Police, according to the BBC. The figures show the number of under-18s who have had the firearms drawn and pointed at them in 2013. The Freedom of
