Backed 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.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss excessive-force claims against a Little Rock police officer who shot and killed a man holding what appeared to be a rifle, but was actually a BB or pellet gun
Read moreA man facing a murder charge over a deadly shootout with police in front of a neighborhood market last summer said in court Friday that he was a “prophet” sent by Jesus and smeared a brown substance on a glass partition, but a prosecutor said this was all an act to further delay court proceedings.
Read moreIn an unpublished memorandum issued Monday, the Ninth Circuit agreed Salinas police officers who shot and killed a man armed only with gardening shears are not entitled to summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds – setting the stage for a jury trial in the lawsuit filed by the man’s family.
Read moreThe family of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was fatally shot by Sacramento police officers in his grandparents’ backyard in 2018, filed a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city Monday.
Read morePolice in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe say a burglary suspect who was shot to death by an officer was a 14-year-old boy carrying a replica gun.
Read moreLOS ANGELES (CN) –The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office charged an officer with manslaughter on Tuesday for shooting an
Read moreU.S. Marshal Brian Montana told Las Vegas police officers that Keith Childress Jr. was wanted for murder, though he was not, and police shot him to death though he was unarmed, relatives of the man say in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe family of a Trader Joe’s manager who was killed after being hit by an LAPD officer’s bullet during a shootout with a suspect following a high-speed chase this past summer has filed a wrongful death suit against the city Thursday.
Read moreLos Angeles police officers pointlessly shot the unarmed Christian Escobedo to death on Jan. 14 for the unforgivable sin of sleeping on a sidewalk, his family claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreBakersfield police officer Warren Martin, son of co-defendant police chief Lyle Martin, shot Augustus Joshua Crawford in the back, killing him, as he ran away from a traffic stop, his family claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday a federal judge should have granted qualified immunity to Fresno Police officers who shot and killed a mentally ill man because they faced what they believed was a credible threat from him. The panel declined, however, to decide wrongful-death claims.
Read moreA second federal trial starts Tuesday for a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who six years ago this month opened fire through a fence at the U.S.-Mexico border, striking and killing a Mexican teenager.
Read moreCalling 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.
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