Federal prosecutors announced Friday that they won’t file charges against a white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last year a shooting that sparked protests that led to the deaths of two men. Officer Rusten Sheskey shot Blake, who is Black, during a domestic disturbance in Kenosha in August 2020. The shooting left…
‘Thuggish’ Black Lives Matter protester, 27, who took a flying kick at police officer during London demonstration sparked by murder of George Floyd, is spared jail Jonathan Daley kicked officer during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020 The 27-year-old admitted one charge of violent disorder but was spared jail He was ordered to do…
‘Fasten your seat belts, folks!’ exclaimed the excited television presenter. ‘Our teams will be live for every moment.’ If viewers had not known otherwise, they might have thought they were watching the build-up to a Super Bowl final. But this was Court TV – and what was being shown was live coverage of the most…
Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to reflect Rittenhouse pleaded not guilty to all charges. A Wisconsin prosecutor declined Tuesday to file charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back in Kenosha, concluding he couldn’t disprove the officer’s contention that he acted in self-defence because he feared the…
A Boston police officer has been captured on video bragging about hitting protesters with a car during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in the summer. The uniformed sergeant, who has not been named, was on duty during the racial justice march on the evening of May 31 and morning of June 1 when he approaches…
Moment Colombian cops punch HBO ‘Insecure’ star Kendrick Sampson, cock their guns and arrest him for ‘disrespect and refusing to obey an order’ during his vacation A video shows HBO ‘Insecure’ actor and Black Lives Matter activist Kendrick Sampson being punched by a police officer in Colombia The police officer cocked his gun and held…
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — A suburban Chicago police officer who fatally shot a Black man who was a passenger in a vehicle and wounded the Black female driver has been fired, the department’s officials announced late Friday. In a brief statement, Waukegan Police Chief Wayne Walles said the unidentified officer committed “multiple policy and procedure violations.”…
A white Black Lives Matter protester called a black police officer guarding Downing Street a ‘pet n****r’, a top Tory minister claimed in Parliament yesterday. Repeating the racial slur word-for-word in a Commons debate on Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch, who is black, urged Labour to condemn ‘many of the actions’ of Black Lives Matter…
Seattle’s police chief says she is stepping down, a move made public the same day the City Council approved reducing the department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition. Carmen Best, the city’s first Black police chief, said in a letter to the department that her retirement will be effective Sept. 2…