Bettie Jones, 55, received a call early Saturday morning asking if she could help police gain access to her building. According to ABC 7 Chicago, Jones’ neighbor in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood, Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was wielding a bat and acting erratically, so his father called police and then called downstairs to ask if…

A Florida man has been arrested, accused of opening fire inside a local McDonald’s after an argument with another man about his food order. According to the Miami Herald, police arrested 23-year-old Devin Gibbs of Miami on Saturday in connection with the shooting inside the fast-food restaurant. A witness told WSVN that the suspect and another…

Newly released audio recordings indicate that at least one Chicago officer asked radio dispatch for Taser support to subdue 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Radio calls made Oct. 20, 2014, and obtained by NBC Chicago and released Wednesday, demonstrate that minutes before the teen was fatally shot 16 times, an officer tried to request nonlethal force. “Someone…

An Idaho lunch lady was canned just days before Christmas for giving a hungry middle school student with no money a $1.70 lunch. “I handed her the food and said, ‘Here, we’ll take care of it in a minute,” ‘ Irving Middle School cafeteria worker Dalene Bowden told KPVI after the Dec. 15 incident. Bowden says…

Updated Wednesday, Dec. 23, 5:58 p.m. EST: According to a press release put out by several Black Lives Matter chapters, the protests are part of a “Black Xmas” campaign happening in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area.  Declaring Dec. 23 “Black Xmas,” protesters referenced the death of Sandra…

A couple was arrested on charges they attacked a legally blind Salvation Army bell ringer whom, police say, they accused of cutting in front of the line at a White Plains, N.Y., restaurant. According to CBS New York, police said that 30-year-old Juan Rodriguez and 21-year-old Audrianna Wignal attacked the 41-year-old bell ringer around 3…

In 1988 a Colorado man was convicted of raping a woman. The victim, according to the Associated Press, had been out drinking the night in August 1987 when she was attacked. When she reported the assault to police, she initially named a different man as her attacker (who would later say that he had sex…

A white Jacksonville, Fla., woman faces five years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to a federal officer about whether she’d placed an image of a Confederate flag on a black co-worker’s desk.   Susan Thompson and the co-worker were federal workers at the Jacksonville office of the Army Corps of Engineers, according to…

On Monday, 57-year-old Barbara Dawson went to the Liberty Calhoun Hospital in Tallahassee, Fla., because she was having trouble breathing. She was checked by a doctor, who found that she was fine and could be discharged. But Dawson didn’t feel better, so she refused to leave. Police were called, and Dawson was handcuffed and escorted…

Corey Green, 32, was playing cards with friends in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment on Saturday when police officers busted his door in looking for a robbery suspect, his dad, John Green, 52, told the New York Post. John Green claims that the police made all the men leave their card game for an impromptu lineup…