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Colorado woman, 77, left feeling unsafe after SWAT team mistakingly invades her home

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Report: Despite ban on no-knock warrants, police used one in search of puppy

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Ranting man apparently takes hostages at Texas synagogue

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Florida woman seeks charges dropped, claims self-defense in SWAT officer shooting

Diamonds Ford said she was acting in self-defense when she was woken from her sleep and shot at law enforcement serving a search warrant.
/ February 14, 2021
Shemar Moore

Shemar Moore: ‘I am proud to be Black, but I am also proud to be white’

Actor Shemar Moore opens up about being bi-racial at a protest amid the ongoing unrest after the tragic death of George Floyd.
/ June 8, 2020
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Illinois family files lawsuit after unarmed Black boy was shot in the knee during police raid

A Black family is suing two Illinois police departments for barging into their home and shooting an unarmed 12-year-old boy in the knee.
/ August 9, 2019
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

82-year-old man files lawsuit against police officers for excessive force

theGRIO REPORT – An 82-year-old man has filed suit against the Georgetown officers who he says used excessive force against him…
/ May 26, 2015
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Military policing and jackboots in Ferguson – an America with a paramilitary police culture

Local police forces are militarizing at an alarming rate using tactics of war disproportionately against people of color.
/ August 14, 2014

Sword-wielding porn actor falls off cliff in police stand-off, dies

A “less than lethal munition” was used against Stephen Clancy Hill just before he fell…
/ June 7, 2010