Driving While Black (Minority)
Driving While Black, abbreviated as DWB, is a phrase in the contemporary American vernacular that refers to the criminalization of black drivers. An alternate phrase, Driving While Brown, is more encompassing, referring to the crime of being a non-Caucasian driver. “Driving While Black” is word play on the name of a real U.S. crime, driving [...]
Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism borrows elements from Nazi doctrine, including militant nationalism, fascism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and anti-Semitism. Holocaust denial is a common feature, as is incorporation of Nazi symbols and admiration of Adolf Hitler. It is related to the white nationalist and white power skinhead movements in many countries. Read more: Wikipedia
White Cop ‘planted drugs in suspect’s car’
A video taken from a police vehicle’s dashcam shows an officer allegedly placing a bag in the car of a man they had pulled over for running a stop sign. The video, which was filmed on February 11, 2011, shows the officers searching the car as the man stands handcuffed. The officers are from Utica, [...]
Innocent pedestrian shot and killed by a cop
According to an autopsy obtained by the Seattle Times, local woodcarver John Williams was struck by four bullets in his right side when he was fatally shot by Officer Ian Birk on August 30. Information that might contradict the Seattle cop’s claim that Williams posed a threat. The autopsy was leaked to the Times by [...]
Bernhard Goetz
The incident occurred on a 2 train in Manhattan on December 22, 1984. It sparked a nationwide debate on vigilantism, the perceptions of race and crime in major cities, and the legal limits of self-defense. Goetz fired an unlicensed revolver five times, seriously wounding all the alleged muggers. Following this incident, he was dubbed the [...]
Racist Bully
One of the soldiers accused of hounding Private Danny Chen to his death punched and choked his former girlfriend in a sadistic beating in 2001, it has emerged. Specialist Ryan Offutt stripped her and threw her on a bed ‘so hard that she smashed into the headboard.’ The victim told police she believed she ‘was [...]
Joshua Steever
Joshua Steever, a New Jersey resident, had been in California since June 3 visiting a girlfriend he met on the Internet, according to authorities. He is associated with Combat 18, a violent and loosely organized neo-Nazi group formed in the early 1990s. Read more: ADL