DECATUR, Ga. June 4 2019— Police are looking for information on a large group of people who crossed the campus of DeKalb County’s Maloof Administrative Building – and left destruction in their wake. Security video captured a group swarm the building around 9:30 p.m., Friday. Police believe the group of between 20 and 26 masked […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. May 28 2019 — Three people were taken into custody after a reported incident at Beale and Second Street early Sunday morning. Police said they were working security at the intersection when a surge of people tried to get through that entrance to Beale Street around 2 a.m. The crowd was knocking down the […]
BALTIMORE MD May 28 2019 — Crowds of rowdy teens turned out Saturday night at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, causing police to fill East Pratt Street, block off street corners and arrest several people. Officers began to receive reports around 6:30 p.m. of youths fighting downtown. The crowds remained for several hours. Police said officers arrested six […]
Montgomery AL January 2 2019 The group of about a dozen people went from Birmingham to Montgomery on Sunday to protest in the reported neighborhood of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, news outlets reported. Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21, was shot and killed by a Hoover police officer who responded to a shooting at the […]
Hoover AL December 24 2018 Hoover police arrested two Birmingham activists during a banner drop at Riverchase Galleria on Saturday afternoon. Cara McClure, of Black Lives Matter Birmingham Chapter, and Martez Files, a BLM organizer and an adjunct professor for African American Studies at UAB, were taken into custody shortly after the banner drop started […]
Olympia WA December 8 2018 A private security company has indefinitely suspended its nightly patrols of downtown Olympia after an encounter with protesters last weekend. Starting last spring, Tacoma-based Pacific Coast Security was hired to patrol certain downtown businesses in response to people sleeping outside and leaving behind trash and waste. The business group Olympia […]
DURHAM, N.C. Oct 1 2018-– A group of protesters in Durham rallied in memory of a North Carolina Central University student who died this month. DeAndre Ballard, 23, was shot and killed by a security guard at his off-campus apartment complex on Sept. 18. The security guard’s company, North Carolina Detective Agency, has claimed the […]
WEST COVINA, Calif. Sept 14 2018 A revved-up tribute to late actor Paul Walker in West Covina got out of hand as two mall security guards and their vehicle got roughed up by the boisterous crowd. Video recorded at the scene shows hundreds of people showing up at the parking lot of the West Covina Plaza. […]
Portland Or August 10 2018 A protest against police brutality itself turned violent Wednesday when activists attempted to storm Portland City Hall, clobbered one security guard and scuffled with several others. It was the biggest disruption to a Portland City Council meeting in more than a year, but the Council did not address the substance of […]
Nashville TN Aug 7 2018 Officers worked for hours Monday to unchain protesters as they occupied the property of a private prison company’s corporate headquarters, shutting down Nashville-based CoreCivic’s office building for the day. As of Monday afternoon, the Metro Nashville Police Department had arrested at least 19 of the few dozen protesters on trespassing charges, […]