Tag: abuse of power

It's been one week since Donald Trump was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial, and he is wasting no time in demonstrating just how authoritarian...

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a viral cell phone video captures a black woman filming an off-duty police officer harassing a group of black teenage girls...

There is little doubt that Donald Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio was an outrage. After all, in the absence of something we haven't heard or...

My fiancé, writer Joe Clark, is black. He is unequivocally the love of my life, and beyond that, just a really amazing life partner. We share...

You probably aren't surprised to hear that rural west Texas is a conservative kind of place. The area is solidly Republican, and consistently votes that...

In a clear moment of physical abuse leading to a $5 million lawsuit and the loss of his job (thank God), a Brooklyn teacher was...

Police officers in Blytheville, Ark. spent the morning of Easter Sunday not attending church services or lying to their kids about the Easter Bunny,...

Just how out of control are some police officers in this country? Well, in Charles County, Maryland, the answer to that question is self-evident. DC...

Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Gordon recently sat down with Fault Lines correspondent Anjali Kamat with the Aljazeera America network. Judge Gordon preceded...

Megon Riedel is suing three Jackson County, Missouri, jailers for cruel and unusual punishment as the result of an incident which occurred in 2012...

  "Governor Rick Scott, while touting fiscal restraint and conservatism, has played it fast and loose with our constitutional right of access to our government,...

An unarmed 19-year-old college football player was shot and killed by police in Arlington, Texas, after the young man's car allegedly crashed through the front...

Criminal justice in Texas has always been kind of batty. After all, it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer while...

The family of a gay man who died in custody in Galveston, Texas, is seeking to find out more about why their son allegedly...

On Friday, a federal judge ordered the immediate seizure of thousands of documents and numerous computer hard drives from the office of Maricopa County,...

An officer with the Dallas Police Department has received a three-day suspension for putting his arm around a 14-year-old's neck and threatening him by...

This is an unbelievable video taken in Austin, Texas around the infamous 6th St. area. In this video, you can see Austin police surround and...

In keeping with the recent tradition of holding police officers accountable for what they do, note that police performing a dispensary raid in Santa...

I will continue to ask this question until it is no longer necessary for it to be asked: How many more times? How many...

There is a video going viral today of a black mom who took five?minutes out of her lunch break to make a YouTube video...