Louisiana Police claim Victor White III shot himself while detained Louisiana State Police are currently investigating another tragedy involving a young black male, in which 22 year old Victor White III was shot in the back and killed while in police custody on the night of March 2 in Iberia ... Read more...
Six years later, TheSource.com remembers the target of the largest manhunt in NYC history On February 20, 2008, Adam Abdul Hakeem aka Larry Davis, was stabbed to death in Shawangunk State Prison in New York by a fellow inmate after serving 23 years for an illegal weapons charge. Most would say tha... Read more...
A mother and her 1-year-old suffered graze wounds in a shooting in the East Chatham neighborhood this afternoon, authorities said.The two were injured about 3:20 p.m. while in the area of 79th Street and Maryland Avenue, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety. The 1-year... Read more...
This MUST stop... #NoMoreMarching Oscar Carrillo's 911 call was clear: Two young men just robbed him of his computer and backpack. At least one of them had a gun and it was pointed in Carrillo's face. Moments later, police caught up with two teens they believed were the thieves in a Pas... Read more...
As Chicago Public Schools have become increasingly dependent on the police department to control student behavior on school grounds, a disproportionately high number of black juveniles are being thrust into the criminal justice system too early and too easily, according to data from a new report iss... Read more...
Mumia Abu-Jamal“Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind’s movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department’s grea... Read more...
Officers with SEPTA’s transit police have gone on strike following a stalemate in negotiations regarding a new contract. The officers officially went on strike at 2 p.m. SEPTA and the union for the transit have not been able to a settlement regarding a contract. SEPTA officials said con... Read more...
Here's a tale that Dr. Seuss never wrote: the man formerly known as Jeffrey Drew Wilschke has been arrested again by Madison, Wisconsin police, who'd received phone calls from concerned residents. It seems the former Mr. Wilschke had been prowling around a local park, not far from the stateÂ... Read more...
On September 3, 2010 Askia Sabur was attacked and beaten by 4 Philadelphia police from the 19th district. On October 26, 2010 Tanya Yates, Askia's cousin, was also attacked by 19th District police in what the police claim is an unrelated incident. Over this past year over a hundre... Read more...