Civil rights activists from around the country are expected to soon converge on the city of Cleveland to stage concerted protests to the recent decision not to charge officers in the killing of Tamir Rice.
Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James is being called on by Black Lives Matter activists to sit out NBA games to protest a recent decision not to criminally charge officers involved in the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Prosecutors in the Tamir Rice case “abused and manipulated” the grand jury process to make certain no charges were filed against the officers involved.
The trailer for her new "Shades of Blue" police drama series provocatively shows Jennifer Lopez covering up evidence following the shooting of an unarmed black man.
The Cleveland Police Dispatcher involved in the case of the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot by two Ohio police officers last November, has resigned.
2016 Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said that he not only understands the concerns behind the Black Lives Matter movement, but that he has taken lead in finding solutions as the governor of Ohio.
The white Texas police officer who shot and killed a black, teenage college football player at a nearby Dallas auto dealership earlier this month has been fired over his flawed decision making.
A Cleveland appeals court has dismissed a motion filed by a group of local activists seeking to have two white police officers criminally charged in the killing of a 12-year-old black boy shot and killed while holding a pellet gun in a park near his home.
The Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice last November claims he feared for his life when he encountered the boy in a neighborhood park waving a toy, replica gun just days before Thanksgiving.
An Ohio judge announced on Thursday that he found probable cause to charge the two police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year.
Because of their distrust in the criminal justice system, community leaders in Cleveland, Ohio plan to circumvent prosecutors and ask a judge directly for murder charges against the police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
The Cleveland police officer who fired 49 of a staggering 137 shots directed at a black unarmed couple during a November 2012 incident that many saw as a symbol of the widening problem with over-aggressive policing across the cluntry has been acquitted of manslaughter charges.
The mayor of Cleveland, Ohio issued an apology on Monday following outrage over new court documents filed by city officials that blame Tamir Rice--the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer while carrying a toy gun in November--for his own death.
The sister of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer while carrying a toy gun in November, has filed an official complaint with a Cleveland police oversight board, stating that the officers involved in the shooting treated her like a criminal although she did nothing wrong.
The mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer while carrying a toy gun in November, said that she is still in utter disbelief that her son was a victim of a police shooting.
Well-known New York Times reporter and TV commentator Charles Blow is railing against law enforcement after his son was stopped at gun-point about a burglary by Yale University campus police while returning to his dorm room from the library.