June 2–8, 2020.
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Police Brutality
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Hours After Conrad James Told the Raleigh City Council He Planned to Sue, the Cops Arrested Him
The community organizer, arrested at 2:15 a.m., was charged with failure to return a rental car and damaging that car.
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Downtown Durham Business Owners Prepared for a Hurricane That Never Came
“We saw everybody boarding up and figured it was better to be safe than sorry.”
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Here’s What’s Happening on the Second Night of George Floyd Protests in Raleigh
It didn’t take long for the tear gas to come out.
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Raleigh Police Unleash Tear Gas on Protesters
A small group of demonstrators busted out windows of the Wake County Public Safety Center.
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More Than 300 Durham Protesters Demand Justice for George Floyd
“It’s outrageous. And I don’t think it will stop until white people stand up as well.”
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The Good, the Bad & the Awful
The ArtsCenter caught a break. The Durham Housing Authority caught a case of terrible timing.
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Video Shows Raleigh Cops Beating Man During Arrest
A 22-year-old was pulled from his car, kneed and hit by police while being placed under arrest Tuesday.
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Why Body-Cam Footage Should Be Public Record, Revisited
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. A week ago, when news broke that a newspaper in Asheville had been leaked body-cam footage showing […]
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Here Is Why Police Body Cams in North Carolina Need to Be Public Record
In August, some white Asheville cops decided to ticket an alleged jaywalker, Johnnie Jermaine Rush—who is, you guessed it, African American—and, after he ran, beat the shit out of him. Here’s the body-cam footage: And here is what Rush looked like afterward: Body-cam video in North Carolina is not a public record. To access it, […]