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Andrew Brown Jr. family attorneys say he had hands on steering wheel, was shot in back of head By Kelly Hayes Andrew Brown Jr.’s family, attorneys hold press conference in fatal deputy-involved shooting Andrew Brown Jr.s family held a news conference with their attorneys Monday afternoon after watching body camera footage of the fatal deputy-involved shooting. ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. - Attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man shot and killed last week in North Carolina by sherif...

WMNF loading... Black Lives Matter march draws hundreds in Tampa, but organizers say HB1’s chilling effect is already taking hold Share this: Hundreds of activists gathered at Tampa’s Cyrus Greene Park Saturday for a Black Lives Matter march protesting continued police killings of Black Americans. But the crowd was a long way off from the nearly 4,000 who came out for previous marches. Organizers say that’s thanks to the chilling effects of Florida’s HB1. LISTEN: The marchers came in a...

NY lawmakers introduce bill to ban fired officers from joining other departments "If you have the power and the privilege to enforce the law, you must be held to a higher standard," New York State Senator Brian Benjamin said of officers Francisco Moya, and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson have crafted a bill to prevent police officers who’ve been fired from getting hired again by departments in other jurisdictions.  “If you have the power and the privilege to enforce the law, you must ...

A Virginia deputy shot a black man after he mistook a cordless phone for a firearm following a 911 call in which the suspect threatened to kill his brother.

Minneapolis police watch a crowd of protesters, May 27, 2020 / Image: Chad Davis A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis supports the view that none of the city council’s current proposals will prevent there from being another George Floyd. The trial of Derek Chauvin has concluded with a guilty verdict. But the police killing of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb only weeks ago drives home that one guilty verdict doesn’t go nearly far enough...

‘20 seconds is not transparency’: Family demands more bodycam footage of Andrew Brown ‘execution’ by police Josh Marcus © Provided by The Independent The family of Andrew Brown, Jr, a Black man killed last week by North Carolina police, says local authorities only showed them 20 seconds of body camera video on Monday of the extended, multi-officer encounter that led to the 42-year-old’s “execution.” “20 seconds is not transparency when you got multiple officers...

Dr. Umar Johnson returned to The Breakfast Club, where he spoke on a variety of racial and economic issues. He touched on American racism, Derek Ch...

"You just said that on camera. This s--- is going viral," the person behind the camera says. A police officer in Columbus fatally shot Bryant last Tuesday. Graphic bodycam footage showed Bryant lunging at another girl with what the police said was a knife just before the officer fired. The officer had been responding to a 911 call in which a person said somebody was trying to stab them. Bryants mother told 10 News that her daughter had been the one to call the police for help. Officials have no...

Photo: Chris Pizzelo-Pool (Getty Images) In a year that pushed the timing of the Academy Awards from its typical February date to a Sunday in late April, our stars showed up—and out—in a riot of color rivaling any spring garden. Whether in neon brights, jewel-toned hues or the poshest of pastels, this year’s red carpet was not only the most diverse in Oscars’ history (no, really—despite a deeply disappointing and arguably disrespectful end to the festivities); it was also one of the m...

April 26th, 2021 By Ty Ross In just one week we have seen the conviction of George Floyd’s murderer, the police killing of 16 year old Makiyah Bryant and the burial of 20 year old Daunte Wright. The young black man killed by a 26 year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department. That’s a lot for anyone to absorb. You would think it would make law enforcement officers around the country more cautious, more aware. But it seems the opposite is true. In the same week that all of this tra...