If killing a small child for holding a toy gun, failing to convict the police officer who shot said small child and refused to medically assist him afterwards wasn't enough, forcing the family of the murdered child to pay for his ambulance ride and hospital fees appears to be ...read more

Somebody call Webster's, because Joe Scarborough has rendered its definition of "white privilege" obsolete. On Tuesday morning's Morning Joe, Scarborough and his diverse panel (Howard Dean was once voted for by black people) tackled LeBron James' "I can't breathe" protest ...read more

Frequent MSNBC contributor Anthea Butler, Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, went off on the network and Joe Scarborough in particular Wednesday morning. She called MSNBC an "evil empire," ...read more

The killing of 12 year-old Tamir Rice has become the latest in a string of police killings of unarmed black men and boys, and a focal point of activists and reporters in the wake of the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown. Last ...read more

In 1983, Los Angeles police officer Anthony Sperl shot and killed 5 year-old Patrick Andrew Mason when the child pointed a toy gun at him in a dimly-lit bedroom. The case became an instant cultural touchstone and dramatic cliché, reenacted in every cop show, and forming crucial ...read more