The latest round of athlete protests during the playing of the national anthem came Wednesday against the backdrop of recent fatal shootings of black men by the police in Tulsa, Okla., and Charlotte, N.C. Before a win-or-go-home W.N.B.A. playoff game against the Phoenix Mercury in Indianapolis on Wednesday, every Indiana Fever player knelt and linked […]
The fatal police shooting of an unarmed Oklahoma man with his hands up could be seen in “difficult to watch” video released by police Monday. Tulsa police said one officer fired a stun gun and another officer fired one shot that killed Terence Crutcher, who was black, after investigating his stalled car Friday night. Officer […]
‘The streets are gone,” Dean Angelo, president of the Chicago police union, told me last month. The night before, Aug. 14, a Chicago police officer’s son had been killed in a shooting while sitting on his family’s porch, one of 92 people killed in Chicago during the worst month for homicides in the Windy City […]
Inmates strategically use fights to settle disputes and climb the political ladder. And if inexperienced inmates can’t adapt to their dangerous surroundings, they’ll live in constant fear of another beating. That’s what one participant on the A&E documentary show “60 Days In” learned during his stay at Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The show follows eight volunteers who go undercover […]