Demonstrators protest the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014. Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images
by Seanna Leath, Washington University in St. Louis...
*OK, so the jury is in, and the conclusion reached is that yes, some cops are just plain stupid. No really. How else could you explain some of their actions? Just blatant. Unleashed. Ignorance. Like this St. Louis County police officer who actually wrote a post on Facebook joking about the 2014 death of unarmed […]
Michael Brown’s death has become very profitable for police officers in Ferguson and St. Louis. But actually coming out and saying it has put one Missouri…
FERGUSON, Mo. – A day of peaceful protests to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s shooting death turned violent Sunday night when gunfire erupted between…
E Notes
By Kai EL’Zabar
Executive Editor
Chicago Defender
WHY DO BLACK MEN RUN FROM POLICE?
Why do Black men run from the police? I have to ask because...
E NOTES
By Kai EL' Zabar
Executive Editor
It was 1955 in Money, Mississippi, while visiting family where 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago native, was brutally murdered...
The U.S. Department of Justice investigative review found the Ferguson Police Department engaged in rampant, racially biased enforcement that permeated the city’s justice system, including…
Has the country reached a tipping point?
The killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and John Crawford III, among others, by police officers this year...
