A grand jury has decided to indict the six Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, who died after sustaining a severed spine while in police custody in April.
The short answer is "yes." In the not too distant past, the conflation of civil rights and LGBT rights seemed to irritate civil rights leaders, but that tide seems to be turning for so many important reasons.
After a five-month investigation, three Fort Lauderdale officers were fired and one resigned when it was determined that they regularly exchanged racist text messages and filmed a video promoting the KKK. Read the disturbing full photocopies of their text messages.
Recently released dashcam footage shows the moment that Michigan police officers dragged a black resident in the city of Inkster from his car before choking him, beating him, and using a Taser on him during a traffic stop.
