Such is the case for 25-year police veteran Erika Shields. Shields resigned from the Atlanta Police Department last…
I have a lot of respect for Anjanette Young, the Black woman whose dignity and wellbeing Chicago police officers had…
In 2017, The Root reported that the U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Baltimore reached an agreement on a co…
If I’m ever having any sort of mental breakdown, don’t call the police.
Over the weekend, an unarmed Black man was fatally shot by a police officer in Killeen, Texas, after the officer…
Just months after the investigation into the Oscar Grant’s shooting was reopened, the Alameda County district…
The story of Anjanette Young—the 50-year-old social worker who was undressing when Chicago police officers barged…
The Dec 22 shooting of 47-year-old Andre Hill in Columbus, Ohio, is arguably among the most reckless acts of police…
Last week The Root reported that the president of pardoning despicable white people has been spending his last weeks…
Breonna Taylor may never receive the justice she and her family deserve, but the fallout from the March 13 botched…
Last week The Root reported that an unarmed 47-year-old Black man was fatally shot by a police officer in Columbus,…
More evidence continues to be revealed that police regularly practice cruelty against Black people in America.
Conservative America would have you believe that Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization and that every BLM…
It sounds like something from a nightmare, but it’s what 35-year-old Lionel Womack is alleging he experienced in…
Anti-blackness and violent policing may have some of their most visible expressions in the U.S. given the nation’s…
A new bill proposed by a Democratic congressman seeks to create a publicly available federal database that tracks…
The family of Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a Franklin County sheriff’s…
On December 7, 2019, in San Francisco’s Mission District, a 24-year-old Black man was shot multiple times by two…
Attorneys for Aurora, Colo., police officers and medics involved in the death of Elijah McClain filed several…
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Tases Black Man Who Witnesses Say Flagged Officers Down for Help
It’s hard to imagine a situation where perfectly professional police officers responding to a reported car accident…