police misconduct

Newly released dash-cam video shows police tackling and beating a Black Northwestern University doctoral student in Evanston, Illinois after suspecting him of stealing a car that belonged to him.

One of the nation's largest police organizations apologizes for historic mistreatment of minorities. The group's president urged law enforcement to acknowledge its role in causing poor relations with communities of color.

An Ohio man was awarded $22 million after being beaten and locked in a storage closet by two East Cleveland police officers for four days. Arnold Black was arrested in 2012 for allegedly transporting cocaine in his pick-up truck while traveling through East Cleveland. One of the two arresting officers severely beat Black and took him […]

The video above shows Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson announcing the $6 million settlement for the November 2014 shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice at the hands of Cleveland police. The Rice family sued the city of Cleveland, the officers, and the dispatchers for wrongful death after a grand jury declined to indict Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson […]

The Daniel Holtzclaw trial is now into its fourteenth day. It is a trial that mainstream media has essentially ignored, possibly because of who the…

John Felton, an African-American man from Detroit, was pulled over by an Ohio police officer for making “direct eye contact” with him.

In the midst of the truth-telling videos around police brutality and excessive force coming out lately, many are calling for the protection of those who…

Roland Martin and the “NewsOne Now” Straight Talk panel looked at three instances of police misconduct involving African Americans. First off, military vet William Wingate was…

The National Bar Association (NBA) wants 25 cities to hand over their records concerning police brutality cases. The NBA plans to file open records requests to…