It's official, everyone has lost their shit over poor Ahmed Mohamed — the 14-year-old child who was arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a hoax bomb. The prize for the worst reaction to Ahmed's arrest predictably came from the right. Here was ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The recent rash of stories about excessive force by police, against black people, came to roost in Hammond, Indiana when a black man refused to get out of a car because he feared for his safety. As this amazing video shows, passenger Jamal Jones presented no threat to police ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Feb 17, 2016

Ok, no, he didn’t.  His assertion the Stop, Question and Frisk law has been instrumental to the city’s crime rate is equally as absurd.  The data simply doesn’t back him up on this.  The mayor gave a press conference this afternoon about today’s ruling that the law is ...read more

• By Alyson Chadwick
  Nov 9, 2018

Warning to all black children in America: Don't stare at the police. If you do, you'll get slammed on the floor and choked by a 200lb + officer. From the Miami New Times: Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillian didn't threaten police. He didn't attack them. He wasn't armed. All ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

There is a lot of misinformation swirling around the internet regarding the bombing of the Boston Marathon, and the tragedy is being used by people from all ends of the political spectrum to project their own particular agenda. If you have a theory regarding who was responsible ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018