NewsOne Featured Video Source: SeventyFour / Getty Two years ago, 37-year-old Tremar Harris was a pre-trial detainee in solitary confinement at the Appling County jail in Brunswick, Georgia. Now, Harris has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against three correctional officers, one of whom can be seen in surveillance video wrapping a chain […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Sean Pavone / Getty “It never ends,” began Nsombi Lambright-Haynes during an exclusive discussion with NewsOne about Mississippi’s Goon Squad members, Brett McAlpin, who filed a notice of appeal this week despite having plead guilty to torturing two Black men, his attorney Aafram Sellers reported. Lambright-Haynes is the executive director of […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Here’s a question: Why is it that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis always seems so dedicated to further protecting the most protected classes in America? He protects white students and parents from any Black history or studies that might hurt their feelings. He protects the heterosexual and cisgender […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Xinhua News Agency / Getty There are lingering questions about the death of an unarmed Black teen who was killed last month when a Mississippi police officer’s department-issued cruiser drove over him while he was reportedly being chased for reasons that have still not been made clear. Kadarius Smith died March […]
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NewsOne Featured Video A white police officer in Louisiana was shown on video choking an unarmed Black man during an incident that attorneys say not only violates state law but also places a spotlight on the worsening issue of police brutality in the state. The unfortunate encounter happened last weekend in the city of Scott, […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Here’s one of the main reasons Black people’s tumultuous relationship with police officers is all but assured to continue: Cops don’t seem to learn from previous high-profile incidents. Nearly a decade after the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, an officer in Akron, Ohio—the same city where officers of the same police department […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images / Getty An ex-San Jose police officer who resigned after his police chief released 10 pages of racist text messages, including one where he declared, “I hate Black people,” is facing a lawsuit that was filed after he shot one of the Black people […]
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Source: JOSEPH PREZIOSO / Getty UPDATED: 11 a.m ET, March 29, 2024 A bill that repeals police traffic stop reforms adopted after the beating death of Tyre Nichols was signed into law on Thursday by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, potentially clearing the way for more innocent drivers to be legally brutalized by law enforcement. Lee, […]
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