Police Brutality

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May 16, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) - A former Houston police officer was found not guilty Wednesday in the 2010 videotaped beating of a…
May 9, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A police officer is now under investigation after a pregnant woman filed a complaint with alleging she…
April 27, 2012
OPINION - The King beating verdict and the L.A. riots were a sad and tragic taint on the Tom Bradley…
April 27, 2012
OPINION - One thing has changed since 1992, that could have changed not only our response to the Rodney King…
April 26, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't…
April 25, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles…
April 24, 2012
Rodney King was infamously the victim of police brutality that was luckily captured on film. He says now that he…
April 10, 2012
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has agreed to answer questions under oath about allegations that he…
March 22, 2012
theGRIO VIDEO - The shooting of 17 year old Trayvon Martin has reopened old wounds for many in Sanford, Florida's…
March 22, 2012
Damon Jones, president of the Westchester Black Law Enforcement is fighting against the rise of questionable police shootings in the…
March 20, 2012
SLIDESHOW - The murder of Florida teen Trayvon Martin is the most recent controversial instance of a black youth tragically…
March 19, 2012
OPINION - If better relations are really what Chief Bill Lee wants, the first thing he can do is avoid…
March 6, 2012
A 68-year-old, ex-Marine was killed by the police in White Plains, New York in November 2011. His niece, who was…
February 22, 2012
A Manhattan jury of four women and two men took 81/2 hours deliberating before tossing fistfuls of money at Miss…
November 17, 2011
MIAMI - The U.S. Justice Department is launching a civil investigation into the policies and training involving deadly force in…
October 26, 2011
OAKLAND, California (AP) - The scene was tense early Wednesday as a crowd of hundreds of protesters dwindled to just…
October 24, 2011
WASHINGTON - Dwight Harris was drinking in public May 19 and resisted arrest outside the U Street/Cardozo Metro Station, according…
October 12, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One investigation looks at claims that deputies discriminated against blacks and Latinos in two high-desert communities.…
October 3, 2011
NEW YORK - The two grown sons of Barry Deloatch filed the suit Monday, naming New Brunswick, N.J., and the…
September 15, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Stanley Wrice, who has been imprisoned for more than 30 years, says officers working for notorious Chicago…