Police Shootings
Cop Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson Gets Nearly 12 Years Behind Bars
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Stewart F. House / Getty The Texas police officer who shot and killed Black woman Atatiana Jefferson in 2019 was hit with an 11-year, 10-month prison sentence on Tuesday (Dec. 20). Forth Worth police officer Aaron Dean entered the home of Jefferson’s mother for a wellness check where the biology graduate was watching her nephew. The tragic shooting of Atatiana Jefferson occurred when a neighbor called in a nonemergency request to check in on the home. Upon approaching the home, Dean, 38, opened fire, striking Jefferson while her 8-year-old nephew was in the room. Days after the shooting, Dean resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department. According to several accounts, Jefferson and her nephew were up late playing video games. Local outlet KERA shared in...
#JaylandWalker: Jayland Walker Reportedly Shot 60 Times By Akron Police, Details Are Scant
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Douglas Sacha / Getty Jayland Walker is the latest victim of a police-related shooting, and the event’s details are still developing. Walker was reportedly a DoorDash driver who was stopped for a traffic violation, but things went left when eight officers fired 90 shots and reportedly struck him 60 times. Local outlet WKYC obtained details of the shooting including an autopsy of Walker’s body, confirming that he was indeed hit with several bullets after police fired over 90 shots following a traffic chase this past Monday (June 27) in Akron, Ohio. The excessive barrage of gunfire caught the ire and criticism of activists both on the ground and online, and it’s since come out that Walker was unarmed. Police bodycam footage of the shooting has not bee...
Video Shows Michigan Cop Shooting Black Man Patrick Lyoya In Back Of The Head While He Was Face Down
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty On April 4, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya, a Black man from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was fatally shot in the back of the head by a police officer who had him face-down on the ground following a traffic stop that reportedly ended in a brief foot chase and a struggle over a police taser, the Associated Press reports. On Wednesday, four videos, including footage taken by the passenger in Lyoya’s car, were released to the public despite the objection of the prosecutor who will decide if the officer will be charged. “I view it as a tragedy… It was a progression of sadness for me,” said Eric Winstrom, who became Gand Rapids’ new police chief in March after serving for years as a high-ranking Chicago police ...
Guilty Kim Potter Actually Found Guilty On All Counts Of Killing Daunte Wright
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer, was convicted of the first-degree and second-degree manslaughter of Daunte Wright. Justice has actually been served. Our peeps over at NewsOne have the specifics: Kim Potter‘s conviction for killing Daunte Wright, 20, came after four days of jury deliberation. The 49-year-old former Brooklyn Center officer, who was found guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter, faces up to 25 years in prison and as much as $50,000 in fines. After hearing the defense blame Wright’s death on himself, the jury — which was disproportionately composed of white people in a case that at times centered on the topic of race — began deliberating on Monday after about a week and a half of ar...
Guilty Kim Potter Actually Found Guilty On All Counts Of Killing Daunte Wright
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer, was convicted of the first-degree and second-degree manslaughter of Daunte Wright. Justice has actually been served. Our peeps over at NewsOne have the specifics: Kim Potter‘s conviction for killing Daunte Wright, 20, came after four days of jury deliberation. The 49-year-old former Brooklyn Center officer, who was found guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter, faces up to 25 years in prison and as much as $50,000 in fines. After hearing the defense blame Wright’s death on himself, the jury — which was disproportionately composed of white people in a case that at times centered on the topic of race — began deliberating on Monday after about a week and a half of ar...
Black Councilman Catches Cop Urinating On Property After Calling Out Police Killings
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty The police shooting incident which left Black North Carolina man Andrew Brown Jr. dead has raised tensions across the state, leading to a heinous act from authorities sworn to protect citizens. A Black councilman in the state has video footage of a police officer urinating on his funeral home property after speaking out against police who shot and killed Brown. As reported by local publication The Herald, Councilman Gabriel Adkins says that he has surveillance video footage of Pasquotank County deputy relieving himself at his funeral home property and alleges that the act was in retaliation for his outspoken views regarding the April shooting of Brown. It isn’t immediately clear from the report if it was one or more deputies who too...
White Minnesota Man Drags Cop By SUV & Hits Officer With a Hammer, Still Alive
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Armond / Getty Daunte Wright is dead because he is Black, period. And if you need proof, the white man who just dragged a Minnesota police officer with his SUV without getting tased or shot is one blatant example of that reality. The incident occurred on Wednesday (April 14) in a Minneapolis suburb after a 61-year-old man who had a beef with wearing a face mask in a store—there is a pandemic still going on—decided to take the cop who tried to stop him from leaving the scene for an involuntary joyride. Reports the Star Tribune, without irony: Hutchinson Police Chief Tom Gifferson said in a news release that police were called to the Menards at 1525 SE. Montreal St. on a report that the man had assaulted an employee with a piece of lumber after being ...
26-Year Veteran Police Officer Kimberly A. Potter Identified As Daunte Wright’s Killer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty Daunte Wright’s killer has been identified, and she has a very sketchy past when it comes to police shootings. As protests continued for a second night in the city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, following the unjust killing of Daunte Wright and a third night of unrest fully expected, Wright’s killer’s identity has been kept from the public for days. That was until Tuesday (Apr. 13). Following the release of body cam footage, we now know the person behind the so-called “accidental discharge” that took another unarmed Black man’s life. Kimberly A. Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department who just also happens to be president of the police union, has been identified as Wright’s killer. Pott...
Here We Go Again: Texas Cop Arrested After He Shot & Killed Unarmed Black Man Jonathan Price
Source: Montinique Monroe / Getty Add breaking up a fight to the growing list of things that can get you shot and killed by the Police. White Texas police officer Shaun Lucas has been charged with murder after fatally shooting a 31-year-old unarmed Black man, Jonathan Price, as he walked away from him. According to a statement from the Texas Rangers, Officer Lucas responded to a call on Saturday (Oct.3) about a “possible fight in progress” in Wolfe City, Texas. According to S.Lee Merritt, a lawyer for the Price family said the sorry excuse for a cop tried to detain Price who was unarmed and was trying to break up a fight between a man and a woman inside a convenience store. According to the Texas Rangers, Price “resisted in a nonthreatening posture and began walking away.” Officer Lu...
LA Cops Shoot & Kill Dijon Kizzee Over “Bicycle Code Violation”
Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty It has happened again. Yesterday (August 31), police in Los Angeles shot and killed another Black man when he ran away from police after officers tried to stop him for a “bicycle code violation.” According to News One, 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee became the latest Black man to fall victim to trigger happy police officers from the LA Sheriff’s Department in Los Angeles. While the killing sparked protests in LA on Monday night, the LASD tried to justify the shooting by saying that Kizzee dropped a gun and ran away before “assaulting” an officer and ultimately being shot dead on the scene. Even as he laid there lifeless on the pavement, police proceeded to handcuff Kizzee’s hands behind his back because, well, y’all know. This is #DijonKizzee, 29 yrs old and shot ...
Kenosha Police Name Rusten Shesky As Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake
Source: Brandon Bell / Getty Looks like NBA players striking in the middle of the NBA Playoffs in the name of social justice might’ve worked a bit. Days after Jacob Blake was shot by an unnamed police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, authorities finally released the name of the trigger happy law enforcement officer hours after the Milwaukee Bucks began a day of NBA playoff boycotting. According to The Guardian, Rusten Sheskey was finally named as the police officer who shot an unarmed and unaggressive Jacob Blake in the back in front of his children, in turn sparking days protests in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The 7-year veteran was recorded on video holding on to Blake’s white shirt as he made his way to his car before Sheskey inexplicably pumped 7 bullets into his back after he ope...
Jacob Blake Paralyzed From Waist Down After Being Shot In The Back By Cops
Source: Brandon Bell / Getty Jacob Blake, 29, was shot in the back multiple times while walking away from cops. Now, the Black man and latest victim of police brutality is out of emergency surgery, but he is reportedly paralyzed from the waist down. As previously reported, on Sunday (August 23) police in Kenosha, Wisconsin were responding to a domestic violence call. Two women were arguing, but witnesses say Blake was trying to stop them. Blake, a father of six who was celebrating his 8-year-olds birthday that day, placed three children in his car. When the unarmed man tried to get in the SUV, an officer got into an altercation with him, shooting him reportedly 8 times in the back, at point-blank range. Some reports say seven shots were heard—but overkill is overkill especially considering...
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