“If we get immunized as a community, as a nation, we can all start getting back together and enjoying each other again,” John Legend exclusively tells theGrio John Legend is encouraging Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19. The multi-hyphenate entertainer, who is an EGOT winner, has partnered with Walgreens for the “This Is Our Shot”…
Mario Gonzalez, 26, stopped breathing after an April 19 scuffle with police at a park in Alameda. Police in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Alameda have made public body cam footage showing officers pinning a Latino man to the ground for more than five minutes during an arrest last week that ended in…
Sheriff Deputies stand in front of the front entrance to the Pasquotank County Courthouse on April 28 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. | Source: Joe Raedle / Getty A judge ruled on Wednesday that Andrew Brown Jr.‘s son and other family members are entitled to view all of the bodycam videos of last week’s deadly…
Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, has been under investigation for several years over his business dealings in Ukraine Federal investigators have executed a search warrant at the Manhattan home of former President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was…
Brandon Mitchell called the video of Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd “the most important piece of evidence.” A juror in the trial of Minnesota vs. Derek Chauvin spoke out two weeks after the former officer’s murder conviction, saying being in the courtroom hearing details of the case was like “watching somebody die on a daily…
A Pennsylvania cop is under fire after a video clip of him allegedly racially profiling a young Black man at a local diner went viral. The law enforcement officer also appeared to show signs of being drunk at the time of the incident. The confrontation took place at G&G Restaurant in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, on Saturday,…
Brandon Mitchell | Source: Twitter / Good Morning America One of the jurors who served on Derek Chauvin‘s murder trial is speaking out one week after he helped convict the former Minneapolis cop for killing George Floyd. Brandon Mitchell, juror #52 and one of four Black jurors who served on the trial, spoke with Gayle…
Jada Pinkett Smith elated millions of her fans on Monday, April 25, when she uploaded a video of her longtime friend and “Kingdom Come” co-star Toni Braxton singing a rendition of Anita Baker’s 1986 hit “You Bring Me Joy.” In the clip, Braxton, who is wearing an all-white attire with sunglasses, is seen playing the piano as she sang lines…
The technology will focus on de-escalation techniques, critical decision-making and peer intervention training. The police department of Sacramento, California is adding virtual reality to its training to enhance cultural competency and implicit bias training. The technology will focus on de-escalation techniques, critical decision-making and peer intervention training. “When people say ‘defund the police’ because we have…
Exclusive: Congresswoman Karen Bass, who sponsored the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, wants President Joe Biden to highlight the importance of police reform President Joe Biden’s first joint address to members of Congress Wednesday evening is expected to focus on policing, climate change, racial equity and his whole of government approach to stimulate the…
