Heeding a judge’s recent recommendation, the commissioner of the New York City Police Department announced Monday afternoon that he will fire the police officer who killed Eric Garner in a chokehold five years ago.
Read moreThe family of a 59-year-old man claims in a federal complaint that sheriff’s officers in Waller County, Texas, broke into their home and shot their unarmed father to death, with a warrant looking for alleged child pornography, though his name was not even on the warrant.
Read moreA federal judge has granted immunity to four police officers involved in shooting and killing an unarmed man staying at a La Quinta Inn in Mesa, Arizona.
Read moreThe Staten Island police officer who killed Eric Garner will not face criminal charges, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday, one day ahead of the five-year anniversary of the shocking chokehold death.
Read moreThe fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in South Bend, Indiana, sparked community outrage and a federal lawsuit, and has taken its toll on the city’s mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
Read moreThe family of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man fatally shot by Sacramento police officers in 2018, reached a tentative partial settlement Tuesday with the city in its federal lawsuit, according to a court notice.
Read moreThe Los Angeles Police Department is gathering evidence and video footage in an investigation of an off-duty officer who shot and killed a man authorities say attacked him inside a Southern California Costco Wholesale store.
Read moreA man has died after a shooting involving a police officer in South Bend, the Indiana city where Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is mayor.
Read moreOn Saturday, a little over ten years since police fatally shot her son Oscar at an East Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit station, Wanda Johnson stood next to a new blue and gold mural of him on its exterior wall and quoted from 1 Corinthians 10:24.
Read moreSettlement talks have broken down between the city of Sacramento and the family of Stephon Clark, which is suing the city for $20 million over the shooting death of the unarmed Clark by police in 2018.
Read moreA federal judge granted partial summary judgment Friday to the city of Bakersfield, California, finding no excessive force or inadequate training in the killing of an unarmed 73-year-old man with dementia by police.
Read moreSan Francisco officials on Tuesday unanimously approved a $140,000 settlement to end a lawsuit over the 2016 police shooting of a Mexican immigrant.
Read moreA Massachusetts woman claims in a federal complaint that three Fall River police officers Taserted her partner to death after entering their home without a warrant to arrest a cousin of his who was staying with them.
Read morePressed to act after another year marred by dozens of cases involving police officers shooting and killing people of color, California lawmakers on Tuesday advanced reforms that would limit officers’ ability to use deadly force.
Read moreWith a jury in place, opening statements were scheduled Tuesday in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who shot to death an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape in the alley behind her home.
Read moreThe city of San Francisco on Tuesday settled a high-profile civil rights suit over the 2015 police shooting death of Mario Woods, a 26-year-old black man, just days before a widely anticipated trial was set to start.
Read moreGunshots were fired overnight through the window of the attorney who defended a white police officer acquitted Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.
Read moreBacked by the NAACP and ACLU, the father of the young black man whom Alabama police shot to death in a shopping mall on Thanksgiving said concerns for officer safety are no reason to withhold video footage and the name of the officer who fired the deadly shots.
Read moreCalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday that two Sacramento Police officers were justified in their use of force in the shooting death of 22-year-old Stephon Clark in his grandparents’ back yard a year ago.
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