If you haven’t already heard about the traffic stop gone wrong in Monongah, you likely will soon. The widely shared video starts near the end of the interaction, which began with a traffic stop about 30 yards away near Shaver Street and Lambert Avenue. The accounts of the initial traffic ...
Memphis’ police chief said video of the Jan. 10 beating by five police officers that killed 29-year-old Tyre Nichols included “acts that defy humanity.” We had fair warning, but the 66 minutes of body-worn and lamp-mounted camera images released Friday night confirmed the chief’s ...
by Samantha Perry Where does it start? How does it stop? The madcap rash of violence that seems to be hopscotching across our nation brings one of the scariest of times for my generation and, I am sure, those raised in the years before and after. My grandfather used to speak of ...
by Tony Norman When even white people have begun noticing the paradoxes in the criminal justice system, then the contradictions have become too blatant to chalk up to “the way things have always been done.” A passive belief in the status quo has worked for centuries in America. ...
One big question deserves to be on every police officer’s mind when pulling a motorist over for a relatively minor offense: Is this stop really worth the violent confrontation or death that could follow? Even if cops aren’t asking that question, city governments are, and they increasingly ...
The Dominion Post reported Monday that Westover’s insurer settled two lawsuits alleging police brutality. The suit on behalf of William Cox — who says he was kicked, punched, pepper-sprayed and falsely arrested by Westover officers Aaron Dalton and Justice Carver for recording them ...