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Lauren Little has come forward with accusations of rape at the hands of Matthew Piter, a Cleveland police officer already accused of raping another woman. || RELATED: Wanted Man Shot by Cleveland Police at Steelyard Commons || || RELATED: Cleveland Police Officer Commits Suicide After Fellow Officer Is Killed || It took four years, but […]
After much public outcry demanding footage from the April 21 police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr be released, video from the incident was finally made public Tuesday (May 18). According to District Attorney Andrew Womble, the shooting was justified and no charges would be filed against the officers involved. || RELATED: Al Sharpton Slams Tim […]
There’s an old saying that goes, “all politics is local.” Dave Chappelle apparently takes that sentiment very much to heart. Recently, the comedian showed up to his local Yellow Springs, Ohio town hall meeting to talk about police reform in the wake of an incident that took place on New Year’s Eve when police tazed […]
Missing East Cleveland teenager, Jasmine Conaway has been located according to Conaway’s grandfather. Jasmine Conaway went missing Feb. 23, according to her mother, Melissa Fuentes, after she and another teenaged girl walked away from the Carrington Youth Academy. Conaway, 15, and the teenager had gotten into a fight with the girl earlier in the week. source: News5.com
Renee Davis, a mother to three children, aged two, three and five, sent a text to friends and family earlier in the day Friday warning of suicidal urges, reports the news outlet. The unnamed source alerted authorities, who arrived at her home on the Muckleshoot tribal lands around 6:30 p.m, according to The Seattle Times. In a […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the police killing of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Friday, but his family isdemanding that the charges against the involved officer be filed immediately. Police were originally responding to an unrelated call when they approached Crutcher’s vehicle, which had been stalled in the […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Ohio Going Blue’s response to an inappropriate Facebook post about the death of Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper Kenneth Velez has gone viral. Velez died Thursday after being struck during a traffic stop. He was set to retire in three days. Ohio Going Blue posted a screenshot of comments from a […]
Sandra Bland’s family has reached a $1.9 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit, the family’s attorney said Thursday. The settlement includes compensation for Bland’s death as well as several changes to jail procedures in Waller County, Texas. Bland was found dead in her jail cell three days after she was arrested for failing to […]
Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images Chris Brown was released on $250,000 bail Tuesday night after he was booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, following an hours-long standoff earlier that day between the singer and officers at his Los Angeles home, police said. Mark Geragos, Brown’s attorney, tweeted, “Thanks to everyone for their support and […]
getty images Bryan R Smith After more than two hours of drama in the sky, NYPD Special Operations officers grabbed a man who was scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower in Manhattan, pulling him inside through a broken window. Police said that the climber is a 20-year-old man from Virginia who wanted a face-to-face […]
getty/instagram An “unprecedented number of threats” have been made against the Baltimore County Police Department since the fatal police shooting of Korryn Gaines on Monday, according to CBS Baltimore. Because of the increase, Chief Jim Johnson has chosen not to identify the officer who fired the deadly shot during the Randallstown incident, even though the department’s […]
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — “It was a sexual style assault on my wife.” That’s what James Lassiter told a reporter from WTVF in Nashville after he and his wife took their family to a Japanese Steakhouse for dinner. Isabelle Lassiter couldn’t believe it when one of the chefs used a plastic toy to spray water in […]