police violence

A man died in police custody as the German force launched a crackdown of Sunday’s anti-lockdown protest, in which 600 people were arrested.

An Indianapolis Colts player is set to honor Dreasjon Reed, a man with a long criminal history who was killed during a shootout with police.

A black-clad rioter in Wisconsin was seen brandishing a firearm as a large group of demonstrators retreated from police who had fired tear gas at them.

Baltimore officials passed a bill Monday to rename a Columbus monument located near a memorial for fallen police officers the “Police Violence Victims’ Monument.”

Most NFL Hall of Fame inductees where HOF polo shirts, when they attend the annual Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio. Former Baltimore Raven and HOF inductee Ed Reed, went another way entirely.

After a video emerged of a Broward County, Florida, police officer slamming a black teenager’s head into the ground, and then punching him. Golden State Warriors Steve Kerr seemed to blame the entire country for the incident.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has called for a “thorough investigation” into violent police tactics against Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protesters.

JERUSALEM – Nine people were arrested in violent clashes that erupted in Jerusalem Sunday between police and several hundred ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist Israelis  protesting a recent Supreme Court ruling that rejected an amendment to a draft law, effectively ending that community’s exemption from IDF service.

A couple with claimed ties to the New Black Panther Party has been charged for threatening a Birmingham elementary school with a hoax explosive device and threatening to kill police officers with the hope of starting a race war.

President Obama hosted a series of interviews with YouTube personalities, including an interview with Adande Thorne, known as “sWooZie” on the internet.

Two police officers in Ferguson, MO were shot Wednesday evening at a protest against alleged racism in the department and the city itself. It was not enough that the chief of police had just resigned. It was not enough that a local judge had quit. It was not enough that the Department of Justice had exonerated former officer Darren Wilson. No–the mob, told by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder that Ferguson was still guilty of racism, wanted “justice.”

Two Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers who may have been involved in the fatal shooting of a Skid Row man have been “doxxed.” The term refers to a technique, made infamous by the Anonymous hacking collective during the Occupy Wall Street protests, in which hackers post a target’s private information online.

On Sunday, an apparently homeless man was shot and killed by Los Angeles police as he resisted attempts to subdue him. LAPD spokesman Sgt. Barry Montgomery said around noon the police arrived in response to a robbery call on 911. Montgomery said that LAPD officers used a Taser, although it was unclear whether the man, whose street nickname was “Africa,” was struck by the Taser.

Despite pleas from the police to choose another night, Ferguson protesters in Boston disrupted the decades-old “First Night” celebration by holding a die-in, hoping to scare kids and ruin everyone’s New Year’s Eve party.