"I don't know." That's the response the North Miami police officer gave to shooting victim Charles Kinsey, when he asked why the officer opened fire as he lay flat on the ground, hands outstretched to prove he was no threat to the police.
Over the course of the last week, NewsOne was forced to revisit our gallery that lists the shooting deaths of Black men killed during police encounters, to add the names of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, while also documenting the two-year anniversary of Eric Garner's death.
The mother of three from Blue Island, just 16 miles outside of Chicago, says she is unsure where we will go as a country from here, but her protest exemplifies the notion that in the fight for social justice and equality, it is deadly to be silent.
Mic published a video on Facebook of celebrities like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Chris Rock, Pharrell Williams, Pink, and others naming reasons why Black people have been killed by police officers.
Muflahi was one of two people to come forward with footage of Sterling's shooting last Tuesday. The store owner released his video exclusively to The Daily Beast on Wednesday. Since Sterling's death, a man he considered a friend, problems have mounted for the Triple S Mart owner.
In the wake of an extremely violent week, which saw two Black men killed at the hands of police, as well as five police officers in a mass shooting in Dallas, Texas, thousands of protesters took to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter. But one image stood out to many on social media […]
Rickey Smiley discussed having a Town Hall Meeting about the recent tragedies that left Alton Sterling and Philando Castile dead. Smiley mentioned that he spoke to officers around Atlanta about community policing and good cops not calling out the bad cops. He also talked about the media and the negative stories surfacing about Black Lives […]
