Investigation Rebukes Police Over Death of Colorado Man
An independent review into the death of an unarmed Black man stopped by Aurora Police Department raises concerns and offers systemic solutions.
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Police Killing
Woman Shot During Protest Against Myanmar Coup Dies
A young woman who was shot in the head by police last week during a protest against the military coup in Myanmar died Friday, her family said.
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Prosecutors Appeal Split Trials in George Floyd Murder Case
Prosecutors in the criminal trial of four former Minneapolis police officers for the death of George Floyd have asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals to ensure the group is tried together.
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Feds Decline Charges Against Officers in Tamir Rice Case
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video of the shooting was of too poor a quality for prosecutors to conclusively establish what had happened.
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California, Kern County Sheriff Reach Reform Deal to End AG Probe
Sheriff’s officers in Kern County, California, must stop using chokeholds while in the field and will be able to stop their colleagues if they see them use the move, the California Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday in announcing a major settlement between the county and state.
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A federal court in California dismissed a class action that claimed Change.org misused money donated to a petition supporting the prosecution of police officers who killed George Floyd. The contribution screen clearly stated the money would be used to advertise the petition to other Change.org supporters, in addition to advertising on external billboard, social media posts and emails.
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Family of Man Who Died in Struggle With Police During Mental Health Call Sues City
The family of a Black man who suffocated under the weight of five Chula Vista Police officers responding to a mental health call by the man’s daughter this past March, filed a wrongful death suit in state court Tuesday.
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Trial Opens in Death of Toddler in Migrant-Smuggling Case
A trial opened Monday in the shooting death of a 2-year-old toddler who was in a van during a high-speed chase in Belgium between police and suspected migrant smugglers seeking to get to Britain.
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The Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of a Los Angeles police officer who shot and killed a 14-year-old boy. Although a member of the jury in this excessive force case was in social media groups that closely followed law enforcement activity, and didn’t disclose that fact, such an affiliation “would not have provided a basis for a challenge for cause.”
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Three sheriff’s deputies indicted on felony murder and other charges for tasing a Black man to death were improperly granted immunity, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled. A homeowner called 911 after the man requested a drink of water on a hot day. The man proceeded to walk down the street after he was denied a drink. The court ruled there was “no legal basis” to detain the man for loitering.
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Report: Police Killing People of Color at Higher Rates Than White People
Over a five-year period, police killed people of color at disproportionately higher rates than white people. It’s happening so frequently, researchers say it’s a public health emergency.
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Police Killing in Philadelphia Roils Community; Officials Vow Investigation
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of West Philadelphia overnight to protest police officers’ fatal shooting of a 27-year-old Black man earlier Monday.
Read moreDeath in Custody
The family of Javier Ambler, a Black man who died in the custody of Williamson County, Texas, sheriff’s deputies in 2019 sued the county, alleging its officers were encouraged to “perform their jobs recklessly to produce more ‘entertaining’ video” for a since-canceled reality television program called Live PD. Body camera footage showed that as officers restrained him, Ambler repeatedly told them: “I can’t breathe.”
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Officer May Face Charges in Killing of Autistic Palestinian
Israeli prosecutors on Wednesday recommended charging a police officer with reckless manslaughter in the deadly shooting of an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City earlier this year.
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Newsom Signs Ban on Police Chokehold, State Mandate to Investigate Killings by Police
California will bar law enforcement from using strangleholds and require the state attorney general’s office to investigate fatal police shootings of unarmed people under a pair of bills signed Wednesday by Governor Gavin Newsom.
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A federal judge upheld a jury verdict in favor of the family of a black man shot three times in the back and killed by a transit cop after he raised an empty hand in response to the cop’s command, “Let me see your hands.”
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Just One Police Officer Indicted in Breonna Taylor Case, but Not for Her Death
A grand jury presented its findings to a judge Wednesday afternoon about whether the three police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna should face criminal charges.
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Former Texas Police Officer Indicted in Death of Homeless Woman
A Texas grand jury indicted a former police officer with criminally negligent homicide Wednesday for shooting at a dog during a welfare check and instead killing a woman nearby.
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Rochester Police Chief Fired in Fallout Over Prude Death
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fired the police chief and suspended her top lawyer and communications director Monday in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude.
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Top Police Brass in Rochester Resign Over Daniel Prude Killing
The top two police chiefs of New York’s third-largest city resigned Tuesday after several days of protests and public outcry in response to the suffocation death of a Black man last March.
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