Actor Isaiah Washington has one simple solution to fight police brutality. And it involves hitting the country where it hurts the most: its pockets. “If every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted, would pick ONE DAY to simply ‘stay at home’ from every […]
The Tulsa police officer who shot Terence Crutcher thought that he was on PCP and behaving erratically, according to the officer’s attorney. Officer Betty Shelby had very recently undergone drug recognition training and believed that Crutcher was high before firing a single shot at Crutcher, according to attorney Scott Wood. However, the attorney for the […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A 37-year-old man was charged Friday in the death of State Highway patrol trooper Kenneth Velez. A driver crashed into the veteran trooper Thursday on Interstate 90 near the Cleveland-Lakewood border. Joshua Gaspar appeared in court Saturday morning on charges in Velez’s death. The judge placed the Columbia Station man on a $500,000 bond. Gaspar […]
EAST CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Cuyahoga County prosecutor says two former East Cleveland police officers will face charges in the beating of a person in their custody. A Grand Jury indicted Denayne R. Davidson-Dixon and Gerald A. Spencer II on Friday for the July 24 beating of Jesse R. Nickerson. Each of the defendants was […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Ohio Going Blue’s response to an inappropriate Facebook post about the death of Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper Kenneth Velez has gone viral. Velez died Thursday after being struck during a traffic stop. He was set to retire in three days. Ohio Going Blue posted a screenshot of comments from a […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – It began with the picnic table-style benches being moved from under the gazebo — benches where a man sat and called police to say that a person was playing with and pointing a gun. That person was Tamir Rice, who later sat on those benches before police arrived and fatally shot him. […]
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio– It is an image police officers see just about everyday: People slumped over from an opiate overdose. Often small children are near the person who used drugs, and officers try to save the adult while they attempt to shield young eyes from the ugly side effects of narcotics. So on Wednesday, when officers found […]
CLEVELAND – A homeless transgender woman has filed a lawsuit in federal court saying CMHA police failed to uphold her rights after she was beaten at a CMHA apartment complex back on June 20. Attorney Gregory Sasse filed the lawsuit on behalf of Kayla Jane, who says a group of tenants at the West Boulevard Place […]
McDonald was shot and killed by police officers back in 2014. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is seeking to fire seven officers for allegedly falsifying information in the Laquan McDonald shooting, CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Thursday. Officers were advised of Johnson’s decision via email. The Independent Police Review Authority delegated the McDonald investigation […]
getty/instagram An “unprecedented number of threats” have been made against the Baltimore County Police Department since the fatal police shooting of Korryn Gaines on Monday, according to CBS Baltimore. Because of the increase, Chief Jim Johnson has chosen not to identify the officer who fired the deadly shot during the Randallstown incident, even though the department’s […]
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — “It was a sexual style assault on my wife.” That’s what James Lassiter told a reporter from WTVF in Nashville after he and his wife took their family to a Japanese Steakhouse for dinner. Isabelle Lassiter couldn’t believe it when one of the chefs used a plastic toy to spray water in […]
Michael Jordan has long been criticized for his failure to use his voice to speak out on social matters. Just this past Friday the New York Times published an opinion piece on the announcement that Charlotte would no longer be the host of the 2017 NBA All-Star game, saying the opportunity represented, “For Michael Jordan, […]