CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland police are currently investigating an officer-involved shooting involving a Cleveland Heights police officer and a Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority police officer. The preliminary investigation revealed the Cleveland Heights Police Department was seeking a man wanted for aggravated robbery. The suspect was in the area of Kinsman Road and Grand Avenue just after 1 p.m. […]
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, have been identified by law enforcement in the deadly shooting. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, have been identified as suspects in the holiday party shooting massacre on Wednesday in San Bernardino, Calif., where 14 people were killed and over a dozen others injured, according to […]
The officers involved in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice say they issued several warnings to the child during the two-second encounter Weeks after the anniversary of Tamir Rice’s death, two Cleveland police officers involved in the incident are giving their account of what happened. According to NBC News, Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback […]
CLEVELAND-– The officers involved in the Tamir Rice shooting gave statements to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s detectives that were read to a grand jury in lieu of their testimony. Henry Hilow, who represents Officers Frank Garmback and Timothy Loehmann, told FOX 8 the statements were made late Monday afternoon. The grand jury has been hearing the […]
One of the six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray will head to trial Monday morning, The Baltimore Sun reports. William G. Porter, 26, is charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. Porter, like the other officers, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. The officer maintains that he […]
Lawyers for Tamir Rice‘s family have released two outside reports that call his shooting “unreasonable,” contrary to reports released earlier by the Ohio prosecutor, according to The New York Times. The reports, which were released Saturday night, run counter to three previous probes ordered by the prosecutor’s office that determined that “the shootings were tragic, […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland police officers were out in force Thanksgiving morning. But no arrests were made — just a few deliveries. More than a dozen officers from the second district went house to house bringing holiday meals to shut-ins and others in their community. Turkey and all the fixings were delivered to more than 50 […]
None of us are safe from police aggression… When a black woman gets held at gunpoint by police for being in her own house, we know there’s a problem. In a candid piece, Fay Wells tells The Washington Post about her police ordeal outside of her own home. Wells got locked outside of her house […]
Linwood “Ray” Lambert tased while handcuffed by South Boston, Va. Officers Tiffany Bratton, Clifton Mann and Travis Clay *A black man in Virginia died in police custody after he was repeatedly tased while shackled and denied medical care by the three, white, arresting officers. The graphic turn of events was all captured on police surveillance […]
*To say the NYPD is not thrilled with director Quentin Tarantino is an understatement. It’s all because of his anti-police brutality stance with the #BlackLivesMatter Movement and a rather specific and inflammatory statement he made. “When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder, and I […]
Black Lives Matter, a movement sprouted from the racial mistreatment of police officers towards men and women of color, was targeted by Fox News host Sean Hannity this week when he compared them to the Ku Klux Klan. Hannity expressed discontent with the Democratic party after news surfaced that the DNC would allow the BLM group to host a […]
While nearly 1,000 people have been killed by police this year alone, it’s hard to know if that number is accurate — local police departments are on a voluntary self-reporting basis that doesn’t mandate them to send data to the FBI for recording. It may be because of that ineffective system that Tamir Rice and Eric Garner — […]