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President Joe Biden has called for "peace and calm" after Daunte Wright's death at the hands of Minnesota police. In his first remarks about the 20-year-old Black man shot dead on Sunday by police amid a traffic stop, the president maintained on Monday that the tragedy did not justify looting…
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A firefighter at Derek Chauvin's murder trial recounted how police officers prevented her from helping George Floyd despite her "desperate" pleas. Genevieve Hansen, 27, an EMT certified firefighter in Minneapolis explained during her tearful testimony that the officers refused to let her assist at the scene, even though Floyd was…
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The woman who was caught on camera ripping off her Uber driver's mask and coughing on him has been charged with two felonies and two misdemeanor offenses, the Independent reports. Arna Kimiai, 24, who assaulted, verbally abused, and used racist language towards her driver, 32-year-old Subhakar Khandka, faces a felony…
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Women were already angry when they attended the vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common – but now, they're furious. A day that began with an emotional visit from Kate Middleton, who said she "remembers what it's like to walk in London alone", ended in violence and arrests. Revealing what…
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The Metropolitan Police have defended officers who manhandled a number of female mourners at a vigil for Sarah Everard. According to the Guardian, a large number of women's rights protestors and mourners gathered on Clapham Common in London on the evening of Saturday, March 13, to pay tribute to the…
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A woman in the UK was so angry about missing out on a McDonald's breakfast by just minutes that she called the police, the Mirror reports. The woman, whose name is not known, had been waiting to be served at the drive-thru but didn't make the UK's 11:00AM cut off…
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It's often said that what goes around comes around, and this was certainly the case for the "world's unluckiest burglars", who accidentally butt-dialed 999 during a break-in. Chief Inspector John Owen of Staffordshire Police in England said officers were made aware of a break-in on Wednesday night (6 January) after…
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A Massachusetts police officer kindly paid for shoplifters' Christmas dinner rather than arresting them. Matt Lima, an officer in Somerset, Massachusetts, received a call from Stop & Shop to say that an incident of shoplifting was currently in progress. A worker informed him that two women with children were not…
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A man who was shot by cops and falsely imprisoned for rape has been exonerated after 19 years behind bars. Termaine Joseph Hicks was shot in the back in 2001 by Philadelphia police officers after he reached into his pocket for his cell phone to call 911 after discovering a…
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A Canadian police officer was caught on video giving a driver a ticket after a passenger in the car asked him why he wasn't wearing a mask. According to CBC, the incident took place on Tuesday (December 8), and saw a Winnipeg police officer - who had stopped a car…
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An ex-model has won her case in court against a cop who used a police helicopter to spy on her while she was sunbathing naked alongside her teenage daughters. Per a report by The Mirror, 53-year-old former glamour model Tracey Dixon was awarded £200,000 ($270,000) in a settlement against South…
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Bella Thorne has been slammed by some fans over her "tone-deaf" Halloween costume. Halloween was a strange affair for many of us this year, with large parties and gatherings taking a back seat as social distancing continues in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. However, that…
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A teenager found guilty of fatally shooting a police dog has been sentenced to 25 years in prison this week. According to a recent report by First Coast News, 19-year-old Jhamel Malik Paskel, who was 17 when he committed the offenses, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison…
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An NYPD officer was suspended yesterday, (October 25) after footage emerged of him defiantly repeating, "Trump 2020" on his patrol car's loudspeaker while on duty in Brooklyn. As reported by BuzzFeed News, the officer in question was not identified by the NYPD, but the department did reveal that he had…
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A high school in Indiana is under investigation after its yearbook listed one of its students as "Black Guy". Brown County High School, a public school in Nashville (approximately 50 miles south of Indianapolis) posted a photo caption in the school's 2020 yearbook listing a student on the boy's basketball…
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A Miami police officer will be disciplined after wearing a pro-Trump face mask in full uniform with a badge and his gun near an early voting site on Tuesday, October 20. Per BuzzFeed News, the officer's actions have been described as a "brazen act of intimidation". Ubeda was spotted wearing…
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Former San Francisco 49ers' quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick has called for the abolition of the police and prison institutions as part of a new essay series. The argument was put forward in a new series titled Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing…
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An 11-year-old boy has been arrested after stealing a school bus and driving off with it, forcing police to chase him down. According to Fox News, the bizarre felony occurred on Sunday, October 11, at approximately 11:00AM in Scotlandville near Baton Rouge in the state of Louisiana. Take a look…
