Calling the police shooting of an allegedly unarmed black man “unconscionable,” the family of Sahleem Tindle sued the San Francisco Bay Area’s public transit agency Wednesday night, seeking punitive damages.
Read moreA white Dallas police officer was charged Sunday evening with manslaughter for killing a black male resident in an apartment she mistook for her own but was on the wrong floor.
Read moreThe family of Stephon Clark, who was killed in a hailstorm of bullets fired by Sacramento Police Department officers, filed a $15 to $35 million wrongful death claim with the city this week – a precursor to the anticipated lawsuit.
Read morePolice in Ceres, California, shot Nicholas Pimentel to death after he ran a stop sign on Oct. 22, 2017, Pimental’s family claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreA Brownsville, Texas policeman fired four shots into an SUV during a late-night traffic stop, killing the driver as he tried to flee. Was the shooting justified? A Fifth Circuit panel took up the question Tuesday.
Read moreIn the final days of the legislative session, California lawmakers passed a set of bills calling for tougher regulations on police conduct, including opening some police misconduct records, protecting health privacy information from warrantless searches and regulating police acquisition of military-grade equipment.
Read moreA Dallas County jury sentenced former policeman Roy Oliver to 15 years in Texas state prison late Wednesday for firing five shots into a car and murdering 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, a sentence that fell far short of the 60 years prosecutors sought.
Read moreThe family of a woman fatally shot by Los Angeles officers while firing at a man who held a knife to her throat filed a claim against the police department and the city, lawyers announced Wednesday.
Read moreA Chicago police officer fatally shot the unarmed, 24-year-old Maurice Granton Jr. in the back on June 6, and it was videotaped, his survivors claim in Cook County Court.
Read moreThe survivors of Alfredo Okwera Olango sued the City of El Cajon and its police Officer Richard Gonsalves for wrongful death of the mentally disturbed man whose shooting was filmed and sparked public protests, in superior court.
Read moreLas Vegas Metro Police officers, one of whom has been criminally charged, choked Tashii Brown to death without cause in May 2017, his mother claims in Clark County Court.
Read moreShouting “Nigger, we will fucking kill you,” four Barstow, Calif., police officers, one of whom had previously been charged with a hate crime, shot to death Diante Yarber, 26, in a Walmart parking lot in April, relatives of the father of three claim in a federal complaint.
Read moreParents of a black man who was shot to death by a Texas sheriff’s deputy have evidence that rebuts the story he attacked the lawman with a knife, a federal judge found this week, refusing to dismiss their wrongful death lawsuit.
Read moreSeattle police officers Scott Miller and Michael Spaulding claim in a federal complaint that Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant defamed them by calling them murderers and racial profilers after they shot a violent felon and rapist as they tried to arrest him, and that she did so “for personal gain.”
Read moreA year and half after she watched in horror as police gunned down her unarmed son outside their apartment, a Boston woman brought federal excessive-force claims Wednesday against the city.
Read moreCiting DNA evidence that was withheld, a federal judge Tuesday ordered the reopening of a civil rights lawsuit in a high-profile, white-on-black police killing of a drug suspect.
Read moreVallejo police refuse to release body-cam videos of Officer Ryan McMahon shooting to death Ronell Foster, who was unarmed and black, after Foster jumped off the bicycle he was riding and ran away from the officer, Foster’s family claims in a federal complaint for wrongful death.
Read moreLouisiana will not bring criminal charges against two white police officers involved in the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a black man, which sparked widespread protests two years ago, the attorney general’s office said Tuesday.
Read moreMinneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor was charged with the shooting death of an Australian woman, Hennepin County Attorney Freeman announced Tuesday.
Read moreA U.S. Border Patrol agent goes on trial Tuesday over the 2012 death of a teen who was shot in the back through an urban fence separating the United States and Mexico.
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