The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire two officers involved in the 2016 shooting that killed Black teen Paul O’Neal, 18. In a decision announced last Thursday, the board ruled that cops Michael Coughlin Jr. and his partner Jose Torres endangered the lives of civilians and fellow officers when they fired at a…
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Family Wants Justice For African American World War II Veteran Who Was Beaten, Murdered in 1956
St. Helena, LA — Hammondee Green was a World War II veteran who put his life on the line for his country. After he was honorably discharged in 1946, he was murdered in Amite, Louisiana in 1956 while in custody of the Amite Police Department for reasons unknown according to his family. His family never…
NYPD ‘Won’t Slow Arrests’ As More Cops And Inmates Contract The Coronavirus
Priorities. While some law enforcement agencies around the country have issued directives for officers to stop making arrests for nonviolent crimes in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the largest police department in America has reportedly bucked that trend and decided it “won’t slow arrests.” The report about the NYPD came as there were more…
NYPD drags sleeping Black couple off train after mistaking them for suspects
A New York couple was enjoying an innocent date night when authorities forcibly removed them from the subway in what has now been confirmed as a case of mistaken identity. In a video filmed by passenger Neely Grobani, who then posted it on Twitter, the unidentified duo was seen pleading with police officers as they…
Police Obtain Warrant for Ancestry.com DNA Database
Photo: Shutterstock A Pennsylvania court gave law enforcement officers access to the world’s largest DNA database in the world. We don’t really know when this happened or why the cops wanted the data. Ancestry.com, however, refused to comply with the warrant and the issue hasn’t really been settled so…I’m sure everything will work out.
Black Cop Charged Quickly With Murder For Shooting Handcuffed Suspect To Death
William Green had his hands cuffed behind his back inside a police cruiser when he was shot seven times. Law enforcement officials in Maryland identified the police officer who killed a man inside a police cruiser with his hands were cuffed behind his back on Monday night. Prince George’s police Corporal Michael Owen, Jr., a…
