American public outcry over the heavily armed Ferguson police force has congressional lawmakers reconsidering legislation that would limit a controversial Department of Defense program that gave military weapons to police departments for free.
The police named Officer Darren Wilson as the man involved in Michael Brown's shooting and revealed that Brown had been a suspect in a robbery 30 minutes before his death.
The protests turned peaceful as state troopers have taken over Missouri state troopers took over security on Thursday in Ferguson, Missouri, where protests bordering on riots have been taking place after a police officer killed an unarmed black teenager in the town outside of St.
Not the first time the former Florida Congressman has said such things Former Florida Rep. Allen West called President Barack Obama an Islamist who is trying to work against the security of the United States on Wednesday, according to a report from The Daily Caller.
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New York congressional representatives Hakim Jeffries and Yvette D. Clarke said at a press conference outside the headquarters of the NYPD that they've written to Attorney General Eric Holder of the Department of Justice requesting a federal probe into the sudden death of Eric Garner.
It seems Internet vigilantism didn't die after Reddit's Boston bombing-obsessed users pointed its fingers at an innocent student who was later discovered dead. This time it's the hacktivist group Anonymous publically pointing the finger at a person who may or may not have been the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri.
The St. Louis County Police Department no longer has policing authority in Ferguson, Missouri, the suburban community that has been swamped with racially charged protests over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white cop last week.
In Ferguson, Missouri, two-thirds of the population is black, but the city's police force is dominantly white. The disproportion of Ferguson's overall population and police department has alarmed people of potential racial profiling.
President Barack Obama stated several times for Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, and a new report reaffirmed his bid can come to fruition through state levels or executive action.
President Obama speaks out for the first time about the shooting death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, St. Louis and calls for peace and calm. A social media activists organizes a national vigil of silence in towns across the US in four days to remember the victims of police brutality.
A federal civil rights trial began in North Carolina this week that accused a sheriff of carrying out racial profiling against Latino motorists and jailing them for traffic violations rather than issuing citations.
On Monday, dozens of inmates at New York City's Rikers Island were reprimanded for failing to comply with the jail complex's new 9 p.m. curfew. According to sources, inmates were particularly mad that the curfew prevented them from seeing their favorite telenovela.
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