In what could only be termed a potential gross violation of human rights, the Morton County Sheriff's Department announced today it plans to block all supplies from entering Standing Rock camps -- including deliveries of food.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Attorney General, demanding an investigation into the reports of brutal and abusive tactics used against DAPL protestors by police.
A Flagstaff police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a video showing him punching a woman in the face surfaced Wednesday on Facebook. Danny Paredes/Special for The Republic Wochit
Cannon Ball, ND -- Award-winning actor and longtime environmental and animal rights activist, James Cromwell, held nothing back in an interview Sunday, when discussing ongoing exploitation and brutalization of Indigenous peoples battling Energy Tran
In an interview with Democracy Now, award-winning national security journalist Jeremy Scahill revealed stunning connections between a private security firm called TigerSwan, operated by a former Delta Force operative, and law enforcement intelligence
On Thursday morning, a group of water protectors left the Oceti Sakowin camp and drove to the Bismarck-Mandan area to demonstrate against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in a few strategic locations.
UPDATE: 1:15 a.m. EST, Nov. 21, 2016: Indigenous Rising Media reported that according to the head medic of the Oceti Sakowin Camp, at least 167 demonstrators have been injured so far after NoDAPL protesters were confronted by militarized police Sunda
The Minnesota cop who shot and killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop has been charged with manslaughter after prosecutors claimed the use of deadly force was not justified.
On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers.
Faithful readers of this column know that I am not timid about reporting on the exponential increase of police abuse currently taking place in our country. This tragic phenomenon is a clear and present danger to the overall health and wellbeing of ou
"Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounte
"Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounte
By Cops in School in Only a Few Weeks
(RT) -- At least four students have been tased by police officers just over a month into the school year, adding their cases to some worrisome statistics: Since 2011, nearly 100 US children have been tased by
Like many in the US, filmmaker Craig Atkinson was glued to the news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. But Atkinson was unsettled by what he saw during the manhunt for the bombers.
Amber Randall for the Daily Caller reports Since policing is a problem, the police should be removed from communities altogether, according to Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza.
BOWING TO DEMANDS for greater transparency into the circumstances surrounding a fatal shooting that sparked protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, this week, the city's police department on Saturday released video of the deadly encounter recorded b
While the police are reluctant to relase the video of the actions leading up to the deadly shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, NC; the family has released their phone-recorded version of events...
A disabled man, Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was fatally shot by Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., officers who were reportedly searching for someone who had outstanding warrants.
Hartford, CT -- On September 11, 2015, journalist and police accountability activist, Michael Picard was illegally detained for lawfully open carrying and filming police on public property. During the illegal detainment, Connecticut state troopers c
A West Virginia police officer who refused to shoot a man holding an unloaded gun was fired for not pulling the trigger, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
A Marine veteran says he was fired from the Weirton, West Virginia Police Department because he did not shoot an armed black man who was looking for "suicide by cop." Two other officers arrived and killed the man, whose gun was not loaded.