The tragic irony of the recent rioting in Baltimore after alleged police brutality on an African American man is that the violence is a legacy of the American Civil War, which had its first violent deaths in the same location 154 years before.
A package of police reform bills that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is scheduled to sign into law today, in part as a response to the death of 25-year-old Baltimore resident Freddie Gray, was weakened under political pressure from Maryland police unions,
Baltimore was a city on edge Tuesday as hundreds of National Guardsmen patrolled the streets against unrest for the first time since 1968, hoping to prevent another outbreak of rioting.
Matt Drudge warned that America could fall in the aftermath of riots that tore through Baltimore yesterday as thousands of National Guard troops were called up to deal with potential further unrest.
The police are overwhelmed, emergency is declared and troops are summoned. The cause is all too familiar, what appears to be the fatal mistreatment by police officers of a black person.
Officers injured; stores vandalized in Baltimore violence
"He has access to our full compliment that's here within the state, which means up to about 5,000 troops that can be put onto the streets to protect property and people.
The law firm of Marc J. Victor, P.C. has been retained to represent Mr. Jeffrey Lihosit for civil rights violations and other injuries arising from an incident occurring on October 30, 2014 and involving two City of Mesa police officers.
While Mr. Lihosit stood peacefully in front of his home, he was threatened with being punched in the face and then "lit up" with a taser "stun gun" by the City of Mesa police officers.
John Geer was killed a year and a half ago, but it wasn't until a judge ordered officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, to release 11,000 pages of documents earlier this year, detailing their 17-month cover-up of the case, that details of his homici
John Geer was killed a year and a half ago, but it wasn't until a judge ordered officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, to release 11,000 pages of documents earlier this year, detailing their 17-month cover-up of the case, that details of his homici
Between 2001 and 2013, according to an analysis by the New York Daily News, nearly 2.7 million New Yorkers were issued criminal summonses for publicly consuming alcohol, urinating in public, riding a bicycle on the sidewalk, being in a park after dar
A volunteer sheriff's deputy plans to vacation in the Bahamas while facing a second-degree manslaughter charge in Oklahoma, his attorneys told a judge Tuesday, drawing immediate criticism from the family of the man he killed.
Published on Apr 21, 2015 - I'm asking you guys (the brutal cops that like to beat and kill unarmed people) to THINK!! You are creating something in the psyche of the American population with all these beatings and killings, that you will not be able
DURHAM ?" The University of New Hampshire Justice Studies Program hosted a panel discussion on the militarization of law enforcement. Panelists included Carla Gericke, President of the Free State Project; Perry Plummer, Director of Homeland Securit
America has a problem. People don't generally avoid speaking of it, but, to my knowledge, no one has offered any kind of solution to it. The failure to address it properly has changed the character of the nation.