Dancing. Yes, dancing. That was all it took for the NYPD to “protect and serve” this man, who committed the unthinkable crime of dancing on a public New York street. The man, a YouTuber named Alexander BOK, took up the #DanceDares challenge by…
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“Eric Garner, Mike Brown. Very sad situations. Very, very sad situations. Situations that left so much frustration in me, watching these injustices happen again,” Macklemore said. “It was one of those moments of ‘How is this happening again right now?’…
An interesting story by Reuters details how some active and retired black police officers are treated when off duty or out of uniform. They too are profiled. Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom…
Rudy Giuliani is a ham. He is a political bad actor who uses unfortunate situations to further his own political ambitions. The man went on television all weekend criticizing the present mayor for allowing the protesters to “take over” the…
Ignorance, thy name is Rudy Giuliani. Appearing on Fox News on Sunday, Rudy Giuliani did what he does best, divide people with his dumb, ignorant rhetoric. Giuliani was brought on Fox to talk about the recent unfortunate shooting of two…
I was getting worried there. The silence coming from the Hillary camp in regards to the nationwide protects going on these days, was deafening. But on Tuesday, Speaking to an audience after receiving an award from The Robert F. Kennedy…
As a kid, I got used to being stopped by the police. I grew up in an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. It was the kind of place where officers routinely roughed up my friends and family for no good reason….
According to an investigation from Vocativ, chokeholds are apparently a happening thing with the NYPD. Even though the chokehold is prohibited by the NYPD, there were 87 chokehold complaints filed against the NYPD in 2014. Vocativ looked at the complaints…
Yes, he carried a toy sword in the streets of Utah. But was that a crime punishable by death? Wait. Lemme ask that question this way. Was carrying a toy sword a crime punishable by an execution squad, firing and…
Way to get your name in the news guys, because doing your job and peacefully transporting a psychiatric prisoner to the hospital is too mundane, no excitement and no one knows your name. But pulling over your patrol car and…
CNN is reporting that Ferguson’s Police Chief, Thomas Jackson, is about to resign. The chief however, along with the mayor, are denying the report. Under the proposed plan, after Jackson leaves, city leadership would ask the St. Louis County police…
The man was shot dead, but not before swinging his weapon and striking one officer in the arm and another in the head. The incident happened in Jamaica Queens around 2 pm today. The officers, all recent graduates of the…