A set of lawsuits has been filed against the Baton Rouge Police Department, some of its officers, and the city. These lawsuits reveal shocking allegations of physical abuse, torture, and sexual humiliation by police officers against Black individuals in custody. These lawsuits, obtained by Atlanta Black Star, were filed by Ternell Brown and Jeremy Lee...
Laphonza Butler, 44 and a Jackson State University graduate, became the newest senator from California during a swearing-in ceremony officiated Tuesday afternoon by Vice President Kamala Harris, whom she once served as a trusted adviser. Wearing a bluish-gray suit, Butler presented herself before Harris and was flanked by California’s other senator, Alex Padilla, to her...
The Philadelphia Police Department is looking for a biker who stomped on the back window of a car after getting into an argument with its female driver. Video captured the moment when the man broke the window, shattering glass into the backseat where her two young children were strapped in. A tourist on a bus...
Laphonza Butler, a prominent Democratic strategist who served as an adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, will fill the seat vacated by longtime U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who passed Friday at the age of 90. California Gov. Gavin Newsom made the pick in fulfillment of a promise he’d made three years ago, when he...
A white Australian man verbally attacked a Black man last month, threatening to find out where he lives and to “hunt” him like a dog before allegedly ramming his vehicle into the Black man’s BMW. Local authorities have charged the white man with several crimes. The victim, who only wants to be identified as JP,...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign, to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In choosing Butler on Sunday, Newsom fulfilled his pledge to appoint a Black woman if Feinstein’s seat became...
An arrest has been made in the McDonald’s assault case of a minor that made headlines in early September. The Los Angeles Police Department received numerous tips from the outraged public after the video of a grown woman brutally attacking a California teen went viral. Kassidy Jones was attacked by an adult stranger in a...