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14-Year-Old Black Girl Suffers Brain Injury After School Police Body-Slammed Her, Officer Not Fired

Nationwide — Ke’Nadie Cathey, a 14-year-old African American girl from North Carolina, suffered a brain injury after a school resource officer body-slammed her during a fight outside West Charlotte High School. An internal investigation later led to a two-day unpaid suspension, and the officer remained employed. Officer Hasun Rogers responded to a report of a fight after school dismissal at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. A large crowd formed in the parking lot as students ran toward the […]

May 6, 2026

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Innocent Black Man Ambushed By Police Files Lawsuit After Video Proves His Innocence

Nationwide — Jeffrey Sutton, an African American man from Bloomfield, New Jersey, is suing his local police department after being shot multiple times during a 2020 arrest attempt. He says officers lied about the incident, claiming he tried to run them over, though the video later showed otherwise. In November 2020, Sutton was driving his Mercedes-Benz through downtown Bloomfield when unmarked police cars suddenly boxed him in. The officers, dressed in plain clothes, were responding to an alert labeling his […]

October 22, 2025

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Barack Obama warns against Trump’s militarization of American police and cities

Former President Barack Obama is continuing his criticisms of President Donald Trump’s actions, this time warning against the 47th president of the United States’ recent takeover of the D.C. local police and the deployment of troops in U.S. cities, and what it could signal for the country’s future. Obama, who has previously spoken out against Trump’s political threats against corporations, law firms, and college campuses, among other actions, shared an interview that details the dangers of militarizing state and local […]

August 29, 2025

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Mom Turns in Her Teen Son to Police After He Assaulted a Walmart Worker

Nationwide — An African American mother from Magee, Mississippi, drove her son to the police station after he was accused of assaulting a Walmart employee. Her son, Norman Whitlock, was taken into custody and charged. Police had responded to a report of an assault in progress at the local Walmart. When officers arrived, they found that an employee had been attacked. They began searching for the person responsible. During the investigation, dispatch received a call from a woman who said […]

August 2, 2025

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‘Don’t be complicit!’: Booker clashes with fellow Dems over police funding amid Trump’s ‘violation’ of constitution

Emotions were high on the U.S. Senate floor on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as Democratic senators clashed in a war of words over a dispute while trying to pass proposals that would boost funding for police departments nationwide. U.S. Cory Booker, D-N.J., objected to the bills containing federal police grants introduced by fellow Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of New Mexico, and Catherine Cortez Masto of New Mexico, arguing that the funding would not reach Democratic-controlled states like his in New […]

July 30, 2025

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‘We’re not begging’: Activists say Trump’s rollback of police reform only strengthens their fight

As the city of Minneapolis and the nation commemorated the fifth anniversary of George Floyd‘s murder this past Memorial Day weekend, the years-long national movement to reform police interactions with Black and brown communities–sometimes deadly–has seen both progress and major setbacks. The Black Lives Matter movement, following Floyd’s death in May 2020, aimed to transform the way police departments interact with Black and brown communities, garnering massive support from corporations and institutions–including commitments to investing in DEI and other programs […]

May 28, 2025

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Justice Department moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis and Louisville

The Justice Department moved Wednesday to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville that called for an overhaul of their police departments following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that became the catalyst for nationwide racial injustice protests in the summer of 2020. Following a scathing report by the Justice Department in 2023, Minneapolis in January approved a consent decree with the federal government in the final days of the Biden administration to overhaul its training and use-of-force policies under court supervision. The […]

May 21, 2025 1

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Marjorie Taylor Greene called ‘butch body bigot,’ Black protester tased by police at town hall

A town hall in the Georgia district of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene erupted in several outbursts on Tuesday, resulting in altercations with police and subsequent arrests. The Republican lawmaker was also insulted with a tagline made infamous by Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Greene, a conservative firebrand closely aligned with President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, faced tensions during the town hall in Cobb County, Ga., where police forcibly removed disrupters and tased one Black protester to applause from […]

April 16, 2025

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Watch: Lee Merritt says police reform must take ‘different’ path after years of federal inaction

TheGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan” recently spoke with state Rep. Justin J. Pearson of Tennessee, Lee Merritt, a national civil rights attorney, and Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change. The political leaders discussed the importance of activating the vote only weeks before the Nov. 5 election. They also talked about what voters can expect if Democrats lose control of the United States Senate and other top policy issues. Merritt, who represented the family of Ahmaud Arbery, told theGrio […]

September 25, 2024