Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies in northern California shot and killed 13-year-old Andy Lopez while he walked home from school Tuesday afternoon carrying a toy rifle. According to Lt. Dennis O’Leary, two deputies on patrol spotted a “male subject” walking in the area carrying what they believed to be a rifle, at which point they called […]
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You can tell a lot about a media outlet by how it covers Israel. A recent case in point is the New York Times.
Leon Ford Jr. was unarmed when pulled over by Pittsburgh police on the night of November 11, 2012.
Cleveland police officers involved in last November’s deadly high speed car chase that ended in the firing of 137 bullets at an unarmed black couple, will remain on the force despite being found guilty of breaking policy. Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said Tuesday that a series of disciplinary hearings surrounding the chase found 64 […]
In 2010, Shannon Anthony Scott, then 33, was arrested for the murder of 17-year-old Darrell Andre Niles, an unarmed black teen who was found shot to death in his car around 2:30 am on April 18 of that year. However, Richland County Judge Maite Murphy has thrown out those charges, ruling on Wednesday that Scott reasonably believed […]
On Friday afternoon, 43-year-old Jack Lamar Roberson was shot to death by Waycross police officers in front of his mother, fiancé and 8-year-old daughter.
Under the leadership of Republican Governor Rick Scott and a GOP-controlled legislature, Florida has embarked on a massive push for the privatization of prison healthcare services. Most recently, the Florida Department of Corrections awarded a $1.2 billion, five-year contract to Corizon, a Tennessee-based prison healthcare provider that began serving 41 correctional facilities in August. This […]
(See drone update at the bottom) House Republicans are heartless assholes for shutting down the government over a healthcare reform law that isn’t even affected by the shutdown. But the people in charge of determining what gets funded and what gets axed in the event of a shutdown are proving to be even bigger monsters.
Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ordered the state to “immediately release” Herman Wallace from custody, according to his legal team. Wallace, who is dying of liver cancer and has just days to live, has served over 40 years in solitary confinement for the […]
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