In 1935, the "first modern American race riot" took place in Harlem. In 1935, the police were called on Lino Rivera, a 16-year-old Black Puerto Rican, who stole a pen knife from a dime store.
A black man who was stopped and searched while his white friend was not has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Metropolitan Police. Tallan Bent, 36, a security officer at the Houses of ...
A Pennsylvania court has acquitted a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 17-year-old black teenager in the back. Michael Rosfeld, 30, shot 17-year-old Antwon Rose three times as he ...
The conviction is the latest in a series of highly controversial incidents in the US involving white officers and Black victims. Brett Hankison, a former police officer in the state of Kentucky ...
A federal lawsuit filed against the Gaston County Police Department by two Black police officers alleges that the police department repeatedly discriminated against the two officers by passing them ...