Why were members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrats wearing black pins with the number “1870” on them during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address? The pins ...
Johnny Hurley’s murder did not make it to the national news. Hurley, dubbed a hero by Denver police officials, was a “good guy with a gun” who witnessed a killing and took action. > ...
Charles Corey Castro was apparently a very bad man. Reports are that he may have been reponsible for the death of a former girlfriend and he’s been accused of domestice violence by his current...
Frankly, we should be embarrassed. We should be so ashamed. Really? You are going to kill a man because he runs at you with a metal frame? But that’s precisely how 49-year-old James Schild me...
I‘ll stipulate that a hammer in the hand of a man intent on doing harm is indeed a deadly weapon. I also contend that members of a sophisticated police force should be able to disarm a man a...
Who knows what led 37-year-old Landon Eastep to the “middle” of 1-65 in Nashville, Tennessee last Thursday, 1/28/2022? What we do know is that in almost no other country on earth would si...
COMMENTARY BY DAILYKOS EDITOR JOANMAR Families took their children to see a high school football game in Philadelphia, PA. and one little daughter would not make it back home. As the peaceful f...
“This is a nice car you’re driving. You sure it’s yours?” he said, the implication of grand theft auto barely going unsaid. “I pulled you over because I thought you might be lost,” ...
COMMENTARY BY BLACKKOS EDITOR JOANMAR Fighting for police reform has been largely left up to black folks because police brutality is seen as a problem affecting only marginalized communities. G...
COMMENTARY BY BLACK KOS EDITOR DENISE OLIVER-VELEZ I’m sitting here wondering if there is a handbook for racist bigots, or a college course called “Creative Methodologies for Murdering Blac...
COMMENTARY BY BLACKKOS EDITOR JOANMAR Ma’Khia Bryant is already yesterday’s news. Her name has all but disappeared from storylines, except when media types need to heap more praise on kille...
American comply or die policing is directed disproportionately at African Americans, but no everyday American is immune from the threat of police brutality. It isn’t just a few bad apples. It�...