A mother claims in federal court that San Diego County sheriff’s officers beat her unarmed son to death for no reason, while shouting “Stop resisting!” as he waited for a friend to pick him up after his car died; part of the incident was caught on video.
Read moreParents sued Bexar County, Texas, its sheriff and four officers in federal court, claiming they chased a stranger who was wanted for credit card abuse into their trailer park, where she entered their trailer without permission, left when they told her to, whereupon the officers fired volleys of bullets at her, killing their 6-year-old son.
Read moreReinstating charges against a former prosecutor said to have withheld evidence in the probe of a police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man, a New York appeals court on Thursday upheld a new policy adopted in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
Read moreThe City of Torrance sued the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in superior court, demanding it not release the names of the Torrance police officers who shot to death Christopher De’Andre Mitchell on Feb. 15, claiming to do so would endanger the officers.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a mother’s claim against Bixby, Oklahoma and its police officer who shot her unarmed 16-year-old son to death after he dismounted from an SUV that had mistakenly been reported as stolen.
Read moreThe city of Sacramento will pay $2.4 million to the children of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in 2018, under a settlement signed Wednesday by a federal judge.
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A former Georgia police officer who shot to death a fleeing, unarmed black man was acquitted Saturday of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.
Read moreKing County sheriff’s officer shot a teenager to death with eight bullets in a “recklessly supervised and unconstitutionally executed ‘sting’ operation to seize a different teenager,” suspected of selling alcohol to minors, the parents of the late MiChance Dunlap-Gittens say in federal court.
Read moreTwo Sacramento police officers who fatally shot Stephon Clark in his grandparents’ backyard in 2018 won’t face criminal charges, federal investigators announced Thursday.
Read moreAn off-duty Los Angeles police officer who shot and killed an intellectually disabled man inside a Costco store in June will not face criminal charges, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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The parents of a mentally ill man who was shot to death by an off-duty police officer in a California Costco store called for him to be criminally charged as they recover from their own gunshot wounds.
Read moreA former Houston policeman who prosecutors say made false statements in a warrant, leading to a drug raid in which a married couple were shot to death by police was charged with two counts of murder Friday.
Read moreA former Utah police officer who shot and killed a woman in her car cannot resue the city that fired him — after it rehired him and settled — the 10th Circuit affirmed Tuesday.
Read moreHeeding 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.
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