The former Minneapolis police officer seen on video kneeling on George Floyd’s neck was arrested Friday on unspecified charges, three days after Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests and riots.
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At least seven people were shot in Louisville on Thursday as protesters turned out to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman fatally shot by police in her home in March.
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Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station that the department was forced to abandon as three days of violent protests spread to St. Paul and angry demonstrations flared across the nation over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck.
Read moreProtests, tear gas and looting roiled the streets of Minneapolis for the second night in a row Wednesday as the city grappled with the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in custody of the police.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called publicly Wednesday for the prosecution of a police officer shown on video kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed black man, who died shortly after the incident.
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Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of a black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday, hours after a bystander’s video showed an officer kneeling on the handcuffed man’s neck, even after he pleaded that he could not breathe and stopped moving.
Read moreParents of the late Ronald Clinton sued West Memphis, Ark., its police Lt. James Matthew Presley III, et al. in federal court, claiming Pressley, suspecting their son of misdemeanor shoplifting, chased him at 100 mph, ignored orders to break off pursuit, and shot him to death.
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A 68-year-old man appealed a 27-year de facto life sentence Thursday via teleconference before the 10th Circuit, convicted of planting a bomb outside Colorado’s Nederland Police Department in 2016 to avenge the death of a friend slain by the town marshal in 1971.
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The family of a 20-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah, man killed by police while on a 7-Eleven run appealed a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit during a teleconference with a 10th Circuit panel Wednesday.
Read moreMarlon Hawkins sued Barstow, California and four of its police officers for the fatal shooting of his half-brother, Deante Yarber, and the grievous wounding of Hawkins, in federal court.
Read moreDescending from unmarked cars, four sheriff’s officers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, shot Daviri Oseanus Robertson to death, though he was unarmed and merely sitting in a rental car outside a restaurant, Robertson’s family claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe family of the late Paul Rea, who was 18, claim L.A. County sheriff’s Office Hector Saavedra-Soto shot him to death, in the back, as Rea ran away from him after a traffic stop, then harassed his family with co-defendant Office Argelia Huerta, and that both are members of a “deputy gang” called the Banditos, in federal court.
Read moreThe family of the late Brandon Jacque sued the City of Burnet, Texas and its former police Officer Russell Butler, who was fired and charged with murder for allegedly shooting Jacque to death while responding to a noise complaint, in Austin Federal Court.
Read moreA widow claims in federal court that Kingman, Ariz. police Officer Jason Reif shot her husband to death without warning and without identifying himself as a police officer — and that it was the second time Reif killed a man like that.
Read moreA 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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