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Pittsburgh Officers Accused Of Beating Black Teen Are Suspended The city of Pittsburgh has suspended three white police officers while officials investigate accusations that they beat up a black teenage arts student who was walking to his grandmother's house after dark, according to the Associated Press. The city agency that handles police misconduct allegations h ...

3 Police Officers Indicted In Race-Related Beating According to CNN, five people, including three police officers, have been indicted in the fatal race-related beating of a Latino man in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. "The evidence suggests that Mr. Ramirez was targeted, beaten ...

Report: L.A. Police Mishandling Complaints Of Racial Profiling Against Officers An independent investigation of how the Los Angeles Police Department handles complaints of racial profiling and other types of discrimination against its officers found the department lacking. Inspector General Andre Briotte found that in a third of the cases he looked at, police officials made serious missteps, such as failing to talk to all the witness ...

Missing Black woman last seen in Malibu wandering in the night alone Mitrice Richardson didn't have $89 to pay her dinner tab. Because of that, and some seriously unconscionable behavior by some good folks in Malibu and law enforcement, she might receive a death sentence for that crime. ...

Teen Dies In Police Custody Investigators in Tennessee are looking how an 18-year-old man died while in police custody. The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro reports that Andron Reed died after officers arrested him Friday night. Reed led them on a high-speed chase before the arrest, which eventually ended in a crash. Authorities say Reed did not ...

Baltimore Officers Suspended After Alleged Hit And Run Three Baltimore police officers have been suspended after a 17-year-old boy accused them of running him over with a police cruiser. Deon Johnson, an Olympic boxing hopeful, told his attorney he was sitting on a dirt bike talking to friends when an unmarked police car sped into him, causing several injuries. Johnson said he had been training for the 2012 Olympics before the accident. Police picked him up on two outstanding juvenile warrants after his accusation. ( ...

'Jungle monkey' comment endangers the police Boston police officer Justin Barrett is suing the city after being fired for sending an e-mail calling Henry Louis Gates Jr. a "banana-eating jungle monkey." While Barrett has since apologized, his lawsuit confirms his lack of understanding of his actions and makes it difficult to sympathize with the police. ...

Cop Who Sent 'Jungle Monkey' E-mail Sues Boston Officer Justin Barrett is suing the city after he was suspended for referring to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "banana-eating jungle monkey" in an e-mail.  ...

On the police, Gates and other highly educated black men Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s encounter with police was drastically different than the police profiling and brutality many black men experience. He didn't have to see what happens to black men who have no money for a lawyer, or watch a court-appointed attorney spend five minutes with clients before advising them to take the prosecutor’s deal. He may not have had that beer if he had. ...

Boston Cop In Trouble For Gates Comments A Boston police officer was placed on administrative leave after he allegedly used a racial slur when referring to Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. In a mass e-mail, Officer Justin Barrett called Gates a "jungle monkey," according to a law enforcement source. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis found out about the e-mail on Tuesday and immediately str ...