NewsOne Featured Video Supporters of Jordan Neely protest a rally in support of Daniel Penny on May 24, 2023, in New York City. | Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty We are disabled. We are Black. We are women, and just like Fannie Lou Hamer, “We are sick and tired of being sick and tired”. […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: KEREM YUCEL / Getty UPDATED: 8:00 a.m. ET, May 25, 2023 Thursday marks the third year since George Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. As the wheels of justice have spun slowly but surely, this year is the first time the anniversary of the brazen police […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: kolderal / Getty The NYPD officers manning a police van that killed a Black pedestrian by running him over after speeding through red lights during a non-emergency will not be charged for the death, the New York Attorney General’s Office has announced. The decision in the death of Ronald Anthony Smith […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The independent autopsy results for a Black man who died in the custody of a jail in Atlanta was “killed” as the result of extreme neglect at the facility, where his body had been found to be “infested” with insects, according to lawyers who were scheduled to […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Nearly three weeks after being killed on a New York City subway, Jordan Neely will be laid to rest amid continued demands for there to be true justice and accountability for the vigilante who placed the 30-year-old in a deadly chokehold over a perceived threat. Neely’s funeral […]
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UPDATED: 12:30p.m. ET, May 17, 2023 But if anybody thought police would be deterred by that apparent exception to the rule of holding police accountable for killing Black people, they should think again as it has been a quick resumption of law enforcement normalcy with continued shootings of Black men and boys with impunity since […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Spencer Platt / Getty New York City is preparing to bury one of its own following a brazen example of vigilante violence that has sparked a raging culture war along racial and political lines and renewed criticism of both the criminal justice system and local officials. The details are set surrounding […]
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Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester, was sentenced by a grand jury to 25 years, according to KXAN News. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott previously stated he would seek to pardon Perry. Though, it’s been crickets since his conviction came down. Small Town Horror Story: The Killing of […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty The mayor of New York City is apparently refusing to say whether an unarmed Black man who was killed after being placed in a protracted chokehold by a vigilante passenger on a subway train was murdered despite medical examiners ruling his death a homicide. New York […]
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NewsOne Featured Video A D-line subway train arrives at the Broadway-Lafayette Street station on January 28, 2023, in New York City. | Source: Gary Hershorn / Getty The NYPD has declined to charge a white vigilante who choked an unarmed and nonviolent Black “vagrant” to death during a confrontation on the subway this week, according […]
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NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: Universal History Archive / Getty Rest easy to legendary singer, activist and actor Harry Belafonte. The news of his death was announced on Tuesday. Belafonte lived a full life, passing at 96 years old at his home in Manhattan, New York City. The entertainment and civil rights hero has joined […]
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Former Louisville officer Myles Cosgrove, who was part of the botched raid of Breonna Taylor’s home in 2020, has found a new job in law enforcement an hour away from his previous department, according to The Associated Press. Cosgrove was fired from the Louisville PD after being accused of fatally shooting Taylor. Small Town Horror […]
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NewsOne Featured Video In this handout provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter poses for a mugshot at the Hennepin County Jail on April 14, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Source: Handout / Getty A former police officer was released from prison early Monday morning after serving less […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: twitter / Twitter White fragility must be one powerful drug the way it gets racists so deep in their feelings that they get themselves arrested and charged with crimes they’re forced to pay the penalty for when minding their own Caucasian business is 100% free. If one is so bigoted and […]
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A civil rights attorney has filed a complaint against the Antioch police officers under investigation for exchanging racist text messages, per AP News. They say the messages threatening to target Black residents in traffic stops and jokes about violently arresting them were real incidents. Are Black San Franciscans Getting $5 Million Each in Reparations? Off […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Neilson Barnard / Getty On Thursday, the Atlanta Police Department tweeted that it’s “actively investigating three violent crimes involving transgender women this year,” including a fatal shooting of a trans woman that occurred on Tuesday. The APD didn’t identify the victim in the announcement, but, according to HuffPost, she has been […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images / Getty On December 9, 2018, two Torrance, California, police officers shot and killed 23-year-old Black man Christopher Deandre Mitchell while he was sitting in a car. The cops claimed they saw his hands move toward what turned out to be an air rifle […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: twitter / Twitter The man who shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in Kansas City, Missouri, is back in custody after initially being held for 24 hours and released. When we first reported this story, the race of the man who allegedly shot Ralph after the teen went to the wrong house to […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: eyfoto / Getty A Black teenager in Kansas City, Missouri, was shot last Thursday after ringing the doorbell at the wrong house while attempting to pick his younger sibling up from their friend’s home. According to CBS News, the identity of the shooter hasn’t been released and his race hasn’t been […]
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A grand jury in Ohio has come back with disappointing news for the family of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old who was killed by a hail of 80 bullets from Akron police officers. The jury declined to indict the officers and found they were justified for their use of force, per CNN. Cheat Sheet: What Does […]
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Updated as of 4/14/2023 at 10:30 a.m. ET A Travis County judge unsealed court documents that revealed a series of racist social posts and messages shared by Daniel Perry, the man convicted in fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester, according to Austin American-Statesman. Perry’s conviction was recently challenged by Gov. Greg Abbott who sought […]
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Updated as of 4/14/2023 at 10:30 a.m. ET A Travis County judge unsealed court documents that revealed a series of racist social posts and messages shared by Daniel Perry, the man convicted in fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester, according to Austin American-Statesman. Perry’s conviction was recently challenged by Gov. Greg Abbott who sought […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: samuel howell / Getty We all know that the U.S. justice system plays around with Black people’s lives like poker chips and the courtroom was a Las Vegas casino. It’s as if Black people are disposable, especially if we have criminal pasts or if cops, prosecutors, judges or juries even suspect […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Brandon Bell / Getty Republicans—whether we’re talking about elected officials, legislators, Supre Court Justices or other appointed officials—prove time and time again that they have zero qualms with changing, manipulating or outright forcing the rule of law to fit a hard-right conservative agenda. We’ve seen this with the white ignorance and […]
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to undo the guilty verdict of a white army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter protester back in 2020, according to USA TODAY. Though the jury found the man guilty as charged, Abbott said he plans to pardon him based on the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law. Kevin […]
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to undo the guilty verdict of a white army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter protester back in 2020, according to USA TODAY. Though the jury found the man guilty as charged, Abbott said he plans to pardon him based on the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law. Kevin […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Dalaneo Martin. | Source: GoFundMe Amid an investigation into the police shooting of a Black teenage driver in Washington, D.C., new video footage from the incident shows the 17-year-old father was shot multiple times in the back from the backseat of a moving vehicle. The U.S. Park Police claims its officers found […]
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Last month, a Black teenage boy was shot and killed by a U.S. Park Police officer after being woken out of his sleep to a group of cops surrounding his vehicle, according to NBC News. The body camera footage of the incident was released publicly Wednesday and caught the interest of the FBI to investigate […]
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UPDATED: 8:30a.m. ET, April 6, 2023 But if anybody thought police would be deterred by that apparent exception to the rule of holding police accountable for killing Black people, they should think again as it has been a quick resumption of law enforcement normalcy with continued shootings of Black men and boys with impunity since […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Caroline Ouko makes remarks at the funeral for her son Irvo Otieno, killed by sheriff’s deputies and employees of Central State Hospital earlier this month, in Richmond, Virginia, on March 29, 2023. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty Nearly a month after a young Black man died in police custody at […]
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The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation completed its probe into the fatal shooting of Jayland Walker by Akron police officers, according to WKYC 3News. Officials say the case has been handed over to a special prosecutor who will bring it before a grand jury to decide on whether the eight officers involved should be criminally […]
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