On December 26, 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier was shot to death by a Chicago police officer after a domestic disturbance. Before his death, LeGrier called 911 three times.
James Forcillo, the Toronto Constable linked to the death of 18-year-old student Sammy Yatim, has been found guilty of attempted murder. Many were surprised at the relative leniency of the verdict, expecting that Forcillo would be convicted of second-degree murder instead.
NYPD officer Lukasz Skorzewski filed a $2 million countersuit against a Seattle woman who accused him of sexual assault.
An estimated 68 percent of rapes go unreported. It’s hard to go a day in the news without another horrible reminder why this is the case—why women correctly assume they’ll be dragged hard in the process of attempting to secure justice—and Katie J.M. Baker’s latest story at BuzzFeed is another example, particularly…
Early Saturday morning, the Chicago police accidentally killed Bettie Jones, a 55-year-old mother of five, when responding to a domestic disturbance near her home.
David E. Abbott Jr., the 39-year-old lead investigator in a controversial teen sexting case, shot himself to death on Tuesday morning as police attempted to arrest him for molesting two boys.
The Marshall Project and ProPublica published a very, very good feature today about an 18-year-old Western Washington woman who was wrongly accused by police of lying about her rape. There’s also a glimpse at how they reported the story. The woman sued the city, settling for $150,000 in January of 2014.
Every school in the Los Angeles Unified School District was shuttered on Tuesday after an unspecified, wide-ranging threat was called in.
In the trial of serial rapist ex-cop Daniel Holtzclaw—a man who took an extraordinarily evil bet on America’s disenfranchisement of poor black women, to the point of regularly pulling them over and raping them on the street—some took note of the fact that he was facing an all-white jury and had an attorney who…
Update: The below story was initially reported by Jon Carroll of the Henry County Report, was circulated on social media by a number of prominent journalists, as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center, and was eventually aggregated by a number of news organizations including, obviously, Jezebel.
In a statement released earlier today, one of the two Cleveland police officers responsible for the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice said that they believed Rice was much older than he was and they believed that he was carrying a weapon.
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, imprisoned for fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, left jail on Monday night. Although charged with first degree murder for McDonald’s death, Van Dyke was released after less than a week of incarceration because, according to his lawyer, he “[doesn’t] pose a flight…
On Thursday morning, Austin police attempted to stop a young woman jogging near the University of Texas campus after she crossed against the light. The young woman, who had headphones on, did not hear the police as they yelled at her to stop, so they reacted in the most measured of ways. Texas Monthly reports:
The Associated Press has a long and rigorous report outlining the number of police officers who have lost their badges over sex crimes in a six-year period. According to the AP, their investigation found nearly 1,000 officers nationwide who had been fired for rape, sexual assault and other sex crimes including…
As if this story could get any worse, the South Carolina teenage girl who was seen being violently thrown around in her classroom by a police officer in a video earlier this week is reported to have recently lost her mother.
Monday afternoon, video emerged of a white man approaching a small, black girl sitting in a classroom, noosing a thick arm around her neck, slamming her to the ground while she was still entangled in her desk, picking her up again, throwing her some distance across the room, and then again pinning her down. “Put your…
Ben Fields, the officer caught on tape snatching a black 16-year-old student from her desk and body-slamming her at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina, has been fired.
During a press conference today. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott addressed the public about the disturbing video out of Spring Valley High School where a white officer is seen pulling a student out of her desk, slamming her on the ground, dragging and arresting her. The young black woman is not seen resisting arrest…
After a widely disseminated video of a school resource officer pulling a student out of her desk and tossing her like a rag doll at South Carolina’s Spring Valley High School, the F.B.I. and U.S. Justice Department are opening an investigation into the incident.
In the above video, now making the rounds on social media, a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, confronts and then brutally manhandles a female student. Via WISTV:
