TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
A new North Carolina law will make it harder for the public to acquire police dash cam and body camera footage. North Carolina has been the scene of recent riots and protests as the public calls for accountability in the police shooting of Keith LaMont Scott. After initially fighting the release of body camera footage, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Read More…
“I wouldn’t dare as a chief tell anyone this kinda thing never happens…But what they can be assured of is we take this very serious.” There are few topics more heatedly debated in today’s political climate than that of police brutality and the rising police state. With each polarizing video that surfaces, the country is Read More…
As many Americans approach November 4 with a sense of dread, facing the fact that either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be the next president, much more hopeful things will be going on that day. Residents in at least nine states will be voting on ballot initiatives to legalize recreational or medical cannabis use. Read More…
In what could be considered the most telling insight into police culture yet, the officer charged with second-degree murder for killing a 6-year-old child with autism has requested charges be thrown out — because he shot the boy multiple times in the head in self-defense. Lt. Derrick Stafford, a deputy city marshal in Marksville, Louisiana, Read More…
“He doesn’t have a gun, he has a [traumatic brain injury], he’s not going to do anything to you guys, he just took his medicine,” Scott’s wife tells police in moments before shooting. Disturbing cellphone footage of the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, the 43-year-old black man whose death earlier this week in Read More…
The study, allegedly intended to test the effects of gases on “black skins,” is just one of many criminal and racist studies carried out by the US government in the last century. Though the Pentagon admitted as early as the 1990s that enlisted soldiers in WWII were used as unwitting test subjects in military experiments, Read More…