Tag: white police officers
Justice Department won’t reopen probe into Tamir Rice death
By Colleen Long, Associated Press
The Justice Department has said it will not reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice,...
Assistant Prosecutor Says Thanks by Giving Back to Detroit
By Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press
The date was Aug. 26, 1979. The venue was Cobo Hall. And a 17-year-old east-sider named Opolla Brown very...
Philadelphia settles in fatal shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
By Associated Press
Philadelphia has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Walter Wallace Jr., a Black man experiencing a...
Philadelphia police to get stun guns after Wallace shooting
By Associated Press
Philadelphia will spend $14 million to equip all of its officers with stun guns, train them on how to use them and...
Melvin Van Peebles, Creative Genius
By Julianne Malveaux, TriceEdneyWire.com
One of the first Broadway plays I ever saw was Melvin Van Peeble’s Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. A....