Far-left, anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour said she did not “want to have” a conversation on whether Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, because she does not believe he should have possessed a gun in the first place.
Samaria Rice — the mother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2014 — blasted the Marxist political organization Black Lives Matter following the BLM-fueled Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside of the White House on Friday where they shouted and recited chants, including a quote from convicted murderer Assata Shakur.
This year’s “ESPY Awards” on ABC opened with NBA stars Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James delivering a message regarding last week’s death of two African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement, and the Dallas attack on
A Baltimore activist who made a name for himself as a Black Lives Matter protester has thrown his hat in the ring for Mayor of Baltimore. DeRay Mckesson, who has been everywhere pushing the Black Lives Matter line since last
A University of Nebraska-Omaha university professor who used a December 28 Facebook tirade to say “F**k the law,” “F**k police,” and “F**k the NRA” was allowed to meet President Obama after his January 13 speech in Omaha.
Friday, on ESPN2’s “First Take,” Stephen A. Smith responded to the mother of Tamir Rice calling out Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James for not speaking out about the death of her 12-year-old son. The so-called “No Justice, No LeBron” effort demanded James miss
On Thursday’s “Around the Horn” on ESPN, Washington Post sports columnist and frequent show panelist Kevin Blackistone responded to the mother of Tamir Rice being upset that Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James has yet to speak out on the death of the
The mother of a Cleveland boy killed by a policeman who believed he carried a gun says LeBron James not speaking out about a grand jury failing to indict the two cops who encountered him in his last moments of life upsets her.
On Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry reacted to report that the two officers who were involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice would not be indicted. Harris-Perry stated that if she were to shoot a
The Washington Post’s political vertical published an article Tuesday saying government officials who called for calm in the wake of the decision not to indict two police officers in the shooting of Tamir Rice were engaging in offensive stereotypes.
After a long and controversial investigation, grand jurors in Cuyahoga County chose not to indict the Cleveland police officers who were involved in last year’s fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old with a toy gun.
On Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, Freddie Gray’s attorney Billy Murphy Jr., while discussing the death of Tamir Rice, stated that a county like Cuyahoga County, OH that is “predominantly white” is unable to “properly” process shooting deaths of African-Americans by
Cleveland Police Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback gave statements—released Tuesday—in which they claim 12-year-old Tamir Rice put them in a must-shoot situation by lifting his shirt and reaching into his waistband instead of showing his hands.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” while discussing new reports saying the officers acted reasonably in the death of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot dead while holding a toy gun by a Cleveland police officer,
Activist and Black Lives Matter leader Deray McKesson spoke at the Taft School Tuesday and offered students a version of the Tamir Rice shooting in which police waited an hour to render first aid, possibly leading to his death. In fact, an FBI agent on scene rendered first aid to Rice in under four minutes.
A photo titled “His Life Matters” taken of a black and a white police officer at the Trinity Police Department in Texas has gone viral. The photo shows the officers with writing on their hands that says “His Life Matters” with an arrow pointing to his fellow officer.
On August 3, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered an immediate end of “realistic toy gun sales” after finding that some retailers were allegedly selling toy guns lacking a state-required “bright, 1-inch-wide orange stripe ‘down both sides of the barrel and the front end of the barrel.'”
On June 11, Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ronald B. Adrine released an opinion that says police officer Timothy Loehmann “should face murder and other charges in the [death] of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.”
Cleveland emerged unscathed and intact after a day of protests following the acquittal of a patrolman who had been on trial in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects killed in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire.
In a piece published yesterday, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that police are used as a backstop of force to deal with social problems they are ill-equipped to handle. But in making this case, Coates makes the perfect the enemy of the good, choosing systemic solutions he never even articulates over the practical one most people already agree on: body cameras.
