Joe Biden: Guilty Verdicts in Ahmaud Arbery Case ‘Not Enough’ in Fight for Racial Justice
“While the guilty verdicts reflect our justice system doing its job, that alone is not enough,” Joe Biden wrote in a statement after the verdict was announced.
“While the guilty verdicts reflect our justice system doing its job, that alone is not enough,” Joe Biden wrote in a statement after the verdict was announced.
The Nation published an article Thursday blasting the “deeply flawed” jury selection process for the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd, asserting the jury system “set up by white people” allows “white people [to] go free when they kill black people.”
Actress Amber Tamblyn fired off a tweet on Sunday wishing a Happy Father’s Day to George Floyd, and Eric Gardner, [sic] and Rayshard Brooks, men the actress declared “were murdered by police.”
A Wisconsin gym owner apologized on Wednesday after displaying a workout routine titled: “I Can’t Breathe.”
Video of onlookers taunting New York Police Department (NYPD) officers as they tried to place a suspect inside a police cruiser has surfaced online.
NYC police officers are demoralized after the city’s termination of Daniel Pantaleo over the death of Eric Garner, said Bernie Kerik.
New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill on Monday announced the dismissal of Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer involved in the chokehold death of Eric Garner five years go.
The widow of Eric Garner, Esaw Garner Snipes, criticized NY Mayor Bill de Blasio calling him “full of malarkey” after his debate appearance.
Democrat presidential hopeful and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio forced fellow airplane passengers to wait for 10 minutes so he and his security detail could exit first. According to the New York Post, de Blasio’s request to deplane
Longshot 2020 White House hopeful and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was heckled by a protester during his opening remarks during the Democrat presidential debate on Wednesday evening.
The Department of Justice will not file federal civil rights charges again NYPD officers involved in the death of Eric Garner five years ago.
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd thinks he and his fellow legacy media journalists are not actively in the arena opposing President Donald Trump.
The father of one of the officers executed in Dallas in July at a Black Lives Matter protest filed a lawsuit on Monday against Black Lives Matter, Rev. Al Sharpton, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and others charging that they inflamed and inspired a “War on Police.”
Erica Garner took to social media to express her outrage at private conversations from Hillary Clinton’s campaign — which revealed political calculations on how they would use the death of her father in messaging.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke ripped Beyoncé for bringing the mothers of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Oscar Grant to the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, telling Fox News in an interview that the pop star did so only to “use” them “as a backdrop.”
Beyoncé brought the mothers of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Oscar Grant with her to the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet Sunday night.
Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams received a standing ovation Sunday night at the BET Awards while delivering a passionate speech about racial justice and white appropriation of black culture as he accepted the evening’s Humanitarian Award for his work on behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Emmy-winning Netflix prison drama Orange is the New Black closed out its fourth season with a shocking death that paralleled and paid homage to the real-life death of Staten Island man Eric Garner, whose death fueled the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement last year.
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.”
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!”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
On Tuesday, an NYPD cop was indicted on manslaughter charges for shooting to death an unarmed Brooklyn man on November 20.
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.
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.
The family of Eric Garner released a new song this week to honor the life of their relative.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.