The Department of Justice has said that it will not pursue charges pertaining to civil rights violations against Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, MO police officer who killed Michael Brown, sparking protests nationwide.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a person of interest in the attempted bombing of the Colorado Springs chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Bob McCulloch, the prosecutor who controversially provided every single piece of evidence to the grand jury in the Michael Brown case, including information he knew to be untrue, has been sued by a juror, while a number of St. Louis residents formally filed a complaint to the Missouri Bar.
As Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio and Vice President Joe Biden delivered eulogies for slain officers of the New York Police Department, thousands of officers turned their back on the mayor, suggesting a deep seated contempt for democracy and civilian rule.
Despite requests from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to to suspend protests until after the funerals of two slain New York City Police Department officers, New York City saw numerous streets closed and business entrances blocked as people upset with the legal system's failure to indict police officers for excessive force resulting in death.
Tensions in Ferguson, MO, which had begun to calm after weeks of unrest and demonstrations after the shooting of Michael Brown and the failure to indict Darren Wilson, are set to catch fire again after the police in nearby Berkeley, MO killed a young black man.
A Milwaukee district attorney has declined to bring charges against a former member of the Milwaukee Police Department who shot a mentally ill man 14 times.
Protesters demanding policy change after police officers who killed unarmed suspects were not indicted managed to close down the headquarters of the Oakland, CA police.
Thousands gathered in Washington D.C. to participate in a protest called #Justice4All.
A disturbing and irresponsible mistake by the prosecutors in the grand jury responsible for indicting Darren Wilson, the officer who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown, could have played an outsized role in the jury's decision not to charge Wilson.
As shoppers across the country stampeded and fought each other to be the first in line for heavily discounted goods, people also turned out at stores in acts of organized protest.
The Governor of Missouri, Democrat Jay Nixon, has instituted a state of emergency for the entire state over fears that Darren Wilson, the officer accused of killing Mike Brown in August, will not be indicted on murder charges by a grand jury.
Large crowds gathered in Ferguson, Missouri to mourn Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager who was killed by police officer Darren Wilson Aug. 9.
Attorney General Eric Holder arrived in Ferguson, Missouri in an effort to defuse some of the tension that has bubbled up nightly since the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
The arrests of numerous outsiders at protests in Ferguson suggests that outside political groups are trying to exploit a community's grief and sense of alienation from local political life to advance their own goals.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
