Press TV- Protest rallies have erupted outside a courthouse in the US state of Ohio after a judge declared a mistrial in the shooting death of an African American man by a white campus police officer of University of Cincinnati. The protests on Saturday broke out as the 12 jurors in the case of the universitys police officer Roy Tensing, who ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An American political commentator in Madison said US police brutality disproportionately targets minorities, especially African-Americans, adding that blacks are treated the way Israel oppresses Palestinians as American law enforcement officers receive their training in Tel Aviv. About one third of the American population lives ...

A white Memphis police officer, who fatally shot an African-American man, will not face federal civil rights criminal charges, a prosecutor says. On July 17, 2015, Officer Connor Schilling shot and killed 19-year-old Darrius Stewart after he engaged in a confrontationwith the officer. Schilling stopped a car for a broken headlight, issued ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Dozens of protesters took their fight for racial equality in policing to the heart of Charlotte's power structure on Monday, demanding the resignations of the mayor, police chief, and lawmakers in the wake of the police slaying of a black man. Residents and activists, many of whom have participated in street demonstrations ...

The governor of the US state of North Carolina has declared a state of emergency following a second night of violent protests in Charlotte over the fatal police shooting of a black man. "I have declared a State of Emergency & initiated efforts to deploy the Nat'l Guard & Highway Patrol to assist local law enforcement in CLT," Governor Pat ...

Police have fatally shot a 13-year-old boy in the state of Ohio after he pulled a fake gun from his waistband while officers were trying to place him under arrest. Tyree King was shot several times after police responded to an armed robbery call in Columbus on Wednesday, authorities said. Police said they were chasing three suspects when ...

29 year-old Darren Seals was found dead in his car on September 6th. Reports have indicated thatSeals was shot in his car before it was set on fire. While it isnot yetclear what or who killed Seals at this moment, what is clear is who Seals was. Seals contributed immensely to the Ferguson rebellion that followed the police murder of Michael Brown in ...

British authorities have been forced to cancel all flights at the London City Airport after a number of Black Lives Matter activists managed to occupy its runway. The incident happened on Tuesday morning, when a number of BLM protesters gained access to the runway by crossing a nearby river. The runway is currently closed due to protesters ...

On August 9th, it will have been two years since Michael Brown was gunned down by police in Ferguson. The killing of the unarmed 18-year old, college bound Black youth sparked the beginnings of a mass movement against white supremacy and state violence. Tens of thousands of Black Americans and their supporters have taken to the streets ever since to ...

Alwaght- The three-year-old Black Lives Matter movement started as an American phenomenon due to the high number of Blacks or African Americans shot and killed indiscriminately by United States Police. Now the movement is becoming popular in several countries across the world, especially Western countries, both in solidarity with those who have ...

Amid anger and anxiety over two fatal police shootings in the United States, Black Lives Matter protests have erupted in Britain,where police patrol unarmed and have fatally shot very few people over theyears. In the days after thepolice shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota and deadly sniper firein Texas,wherefive officers were killed and others ...

The Black Lives Matter movement has pushed the question of which lives matter in the US to the forefront of political discourse. As Gerald Horne notes in his text The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, the oppression of Black and Indigenous life expanded the profit shares of settler slave traders ...

'Black Lives Matter' protests have resumed across the US with protesters demonstrating over the recent police killings of two African Americans. On Tuesday, 37-year-old Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police in the southeastern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot dead Wednesday by a police officer near ...

It is legal in several states to shoot at a police officer who is actively engaged in threatening your life, liberty, and property. It's what the 2nd amendment was written for, as a check on unchecked state power. Such a rule does not allow for firing on random police officers and civilians in public, like the horrific situation in Downtown Dallas....