An officer walked up to a group of teenagers outside a housing project, asked a 15-year-old where he lived, and as the boy answered, sh0t him in the head.
Randolph Evans. Brooklyn, November 1976.
There was no struggle, no chase, no weapon, no dispute. Witnesses described a conversation.
The officer was tried and found NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY.
He was committed to a psychiatric facility. He was out in well under two years.
And then the state granted him a disability pension.
Read that sequence again, because it is one of the most extraordinary things in this entire archive: a man shoots a child in the head mid-sentence, is found insane, is released within months, and receives a pension for the rest of his life on the basis of the mental condition that excused the killing.
Randolph Evans was fifteen. He had answered a question.
A 15-year-old answered a question and was shot in the head. His killer was released, then received a pension.
And Randolph Evans is only one of the cases we uncovered. Our book documents the stories of Black people whose deaths, suffering, and denied justice were left behind in the historical record.
Some of these stories will make you angry. Some will break your heart. All of them deserve to be remembered https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF
🚨 ARRESTED: A TikTok influencer with 737,000 followers between his two TikTok accounts was charged with six felonies for sexual exploitation of a minor. He posted a $1 million bond and went home.
Carson Dean Barry is 23, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
State investigators took him Sept. 10. The tip came through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The Attorney General’s Office is the one saying he solicited a minor and that they found child sexual abuse material.
Six felonies. Five for sexual exploitation of a minor. One for soliciting a minor. Each count is a felony. Each count is up to 10 years. He posted $1 million and waked free.
A father and his son were walking to work at five in the morning. The boy was TEN years old.
Two men in an unmarked car pulled up. The boy ran. An officer shot him in the back.
Clifford Glover. Queens, New York, April 1973.
His stepfather heard his son say "Grandpa, don't let them kill me," and then heard the shot.
The officer said he thought the ten-year-old had a gun. There was no gun. The child weighed about ninety pounds.
The trial was historic in the worst possible way: it was the first time an NYPD officer had ever been criminally tried for an on-duty killing. The jury acquitted him in under two hours.
Queens burned that night.
The officer kept his job for a while afterward, then was dismissed for an unrelated matter and applied for a disability pension.
A boy walking to a junkyard job with his stepfather before sunrise, because the family needed the money.
Never forget 8 year old, Noah Bush who was intentionally drowned by an eleven year old boy who got released early from his sentence. Rest in Power, Noah. Say his name.