Colorado officers face charges after assaulting a 73-year-old woman with dementia.

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A Black woman was allegedly grabbed by the hair and pulled out of her SUV by North Carolina police during a traffic stop in 2019 after she was driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit and failed to stop for law enforcement, according to a civil lawsuit filed last week.

Four law enforcement officers are named in the federal lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages for the alleged use of excessive force and unlawful search of the plaintiff’s purse and vehicle.

Stephanie Bottom was driving on May 30, 2019, along Interstate 85 from Georgia to North Carolina to attend her great aunt’s funeral, her attorney Scott Holmes told CNN on Tuesday. The then-66-year-old librarian from Fulton County, Georgia, was listening to music and didn’t initially see the flashing blue lights coming from the police vehicle behind her, Holmes said.

According to the lawsuit, Bottom did not believe she was driving fast and did not think the police were trying to stop her.

Dash cam footage show police officers pulling a 65-year-old grandmother out of her car and arresting her during a traffic stop outside Atlanta.

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Daunte Wright, 20, who died after a run-in with police in a suburb of Minneapolis, was driving an SUV with expired license plates, and he also ran afoul of a Minnesota law that prohibits motorists from hanging air fresheners and other items from their rearview mirrors.

“He was pulled over for having an expired registration on the vehicle,” Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said Monday. “When the officer went over, an item hanging from the rearview mirror was spotted.”

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Virginia Police stop, assault and mace a black Army Lieutenant for No Good Reason. The Army Lieutenant responds by suing the Virginia Police

UPDATE: Cop Fired For Assaulting US Army Officer

One of the police officers who assaulted a US Army officer has been fired.

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Police in Texas arrested an 18-year-old Black teen as he was walking home from work during the state’s winter storm

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Newly released bodycam footage shows multiple police officers present when a 9-year-old girl was handcuffed and then pepper-sprayed in New York

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A crowd gathered to watch cars performing stunts in a downtown Tacoma intersection.

Police received calls at about 6:20 p.m. that the crowd of about 100 people and cars were blocking the street at South 9th Street and Pacific Avenue, according to the press release. An eyewitness told the Tacoma News Tribune the number of people was closer to 40, and five or six cars were spinning in circles in the intersection.

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Bodycam video shows Chicago police handcuff innocent, naked woman while they raid wrong house

Disturbing Chicago police body camera video shows what happened in a February 2019 raid. A dozen male officers entered the home of an innocent woman and handcuffed her while she was naked.

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Chicago, 1919: On Lake Michigan in 1919, a white man threw rocks at a Black boy whose boat had drifted to the “wrong” side of the lake. The boy drowned. Protests broke out across the city.

Governor Frank Lowden appointed a commission that found that “Negroes are more commonly arrested, subjected to police identification and convicted than white offenders.” But policing was just one facet of white supremacy, which touched the lives of Black people in housing, in education and in employment. Almost a century later, the Chicago Police Department’s own records from 2000-2015 show that nearly 90 percent of victims of police use of force were people of color.

Harlem, 1935: When a Harlem shopkeeper thought he saw a teen pocket a 10-cent penknife, he tackled the boy to the ground and a police officer nearby arrested him. Protests erupted outside the store as neighbors and passersby suspected the officer was abusing the boy. The resulting riots lasted two days. Three people were killed and 75 people — mostly Black — were arrested.

Amid cries from activists, civil rights leaders, and unions, New York’s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia set up a biracial commission to diagnose the problem and to prescribe a cure. This commission found that the upheaval was due, in large part, to “the nervous strain of years of unemployment and insecurity of black residents in Harlem,” in addition to “the deep sense of wrong and discrimination against them in the school system and by the police.”

Detroit, 1967: In the summer of 1967, a wave of protests swept the city of Detroit after the police arrested patrons of a “blind pig,” an illegal after-hours bar in a mostly Black neighborhood. The partygoers included two Black Vietnam War veterans who were celebrating their return home. Throughout five days of protests, 43 people were killed, 1,189 were injured, and 7,200 were arrested.

In response, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in the National Guard and the U.S. Army, turning Detroit’s streets into a combat zone. He also set up a commission to understand the uprising. But when the commission released its findings in the Kerner Report the following year, he ignored most recommendations and set aside its findings that the root causes of the uprisings were disinvestment in Black communities, Black powerlessness and frustrated hopes, and how police “symbolize white power, white racism, and white repression” for significant numbers of Black people.

Los Angeles, 1992: In 1991, a video emerged of California Highway Patrol officers brutally beating an unarmed Black man, Rodney King, during a traffic stop. Four officers were charged, but were later acquitted. The verdict sent shockwaves through South Central Los Angeles. The concurrent drug epidemic, gang violence, and systemic racism added fuel to the fire.

Despite calls for immediate action, including an admission by the post uprising commission that the LAPD could not deal with the root causes of crime, very little changed. More money continued to go to the LAPD while funding for schools, housing, and critical social services came in second. These trends continue today.

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