Video footage shows Leonard Cure fatally shot at point blank range by a Georgia sheriff’s deputy.
A witness said Manny Ellis posed no threat to the police when he was violently detained.
Benjamin Crump's latest fight is for a 69-year-old Tallahassee woman charged with voter fraud.
On Thursday, an officer involved in the death of Elijah McClain, 23, case was convicted on criminally negligent…
Stephen Perkins may have only had a millisecond to respond to the cops before being shot at over a dozen times.
"Anytime the government is going after civil rights and civil liberties, you need to fight like hell, because it's…
This Black man was forced out of his car without his wheelchair by Maryland police.
Racists spray-painted swastikas across a Black Lives Matter sign outside of the Metropolitan AME Church in Northwest…
Elijah McClain Told Police 'I Can't Breathe' 7 Times During His Arrest. They Helped Kill Him Anyway.
The trial of one current and one former cop charged in McClain's death started Wednesday.
Prosecutors must decide from an investigation if an officer was justified in fatally shooting a Black man.
Manuel Ellis was killed in March 2020 due to a lack of oxygen from a 'physical restraint.'
A lawsuit is accusing Beverly Hills police of racially profiling nearly 1,100 Black drivers during traffic stops.
Mississippi 11-year-old Aderrien Murry is the latest to have a nearly fatal encounter with police after being…
Video shows Wisconsin police wrongfully arresting Jermelle English Jr., as he was holding his one-year-old baby…
The police have one story. A witness has another. The family told The Root that they want answers.
The estate of Joseph Rosenbaum filed a lawsuit against Rittenhouse and local police over the weekend, accusing them…
A Queens man who wielded a bladed glove at Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 is about to learn his fate.
Antonio Johnson is suing the Aurora Police Department with video evidence of what they allegedly did to him in 2021.
Michael Brown's death helped spark a whole movement. The Root looks back at other incidents of police brutality that…
Kenosha police violently detained the wrong man inside an Applebee’s for a hit-and-run crash that occurred down the…