Newport man pleads guilty to attacking Black teen with bike lock at park

Lee Mouat repeatedly used racial slurs and said that Black people had no right to use the public beach where the incident occurred. Mouat then struck one of the teens in the face with a bike lock, knocking out several of the victim’s teeth, lacerating his face and mouth, and fracturing his jaw.

Charges against Detroit protesters for summer demonstrations dropped by judge

David Cripps, one of the lawyers representing them, says the city failed to provide due process. "They couldn't articulate who or which officers made the arrest, couldn't provide us bodycam footage on top of what we saw, to be the constitutional violations of arresting those who were just protesting," he said.

Washtenaw County judge throws out tickets against Chelsea BLM protesters from summer

Washtenaw County Judge Anna Frushour dropped charges Monday against Black Lives Matter protesters after a number of people raised concerns about Chelsea police pursuing civil infractions against them - some of them being just kids.

Detroit drops cases against BLM protesters but Macomb County presses on

"The truth is what we saw the city of Detroit do, was mass arrest, mass police brutality, and the fact that they can't show us body cam video, can't tell us who arrested who," Wallace said. "None of that is a shock, because what happened to us was not only police brutality, it was completely disorganized." 

Attorney suing Grosse Pointe Shores over Black Lives Matter sign gets targeted by hate mail

Todd Perkins says this letter came in the mail last week. In it was an apparent jab at the Black Lives Matter slogan and a poem from the early 20th century rife with racial slurs.

Double-standard on display with police at Capitol Hill riot, say Black activists

"In the summer of 2020, BLM had a protest in DC, you had people in the Army, the military, the Capitol Police, the Secret Service, everybody. Fatigues, helmets, long rifles, (like) 'You're not coming in here,'" Rev. Wendell Anthony said. "And they were peaceful."

Kenosha County DA: No charges in police shooting of Jacob Blake

Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced no charges in the August police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Breonna Taylor case: 2 more officers connected to fatal shooting face dismissal

Louisville police have taken steps that could result in the firing of two officers connected to Breonna Taylor's death — the one who sought the no-knock search warrant that led detectives to her apartment and another found to have opened fire.

Tamir Rice: DOJ won't charge officers involved in 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video of the shooting was of too poor a quality for prosecutors to conclusively establish what had happened.

Detroit Police countersues Detroit Will Breathe for 'civil conspiracy'

Four months since the protest group Detroit Will Breathe sued the city of Detroit, the police department and the city have countersued.

Video shows arrested protester took off clothes inside police car, was not illegally strip-searched by cops

Video from the back of a Shelby Township police car showed what really happened during a Detroit Will Breathe protest on Saturday. A woman who was arrested slipped out of her plastic handcuffs then takes off her shirt- her belt and her pants. 

Lansing jail inmate dies from suffocation while being restrained on camera, lawsuit says

He was brought to his cell after eight hours at the hospital.  According to the attorney for Hulan’s family, the corrections officers are trying to put further restraints on his hands.