LA Officer Faces Manslaughter Charges in Traffic Stop Shooting
LOS ANGELES (CN) –The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office charged an officer with manslaughter on Tuesday for shooting an
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U.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 moreFamily of Trader Joe’s Worker Killed by Police Crossfire Sues LAPD
The 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.
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Los 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.
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Bakersfield 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 moreFresno PD Immunity
A 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 moreSides Prep for Retrial in Fatal Cross-Border Shooting by Agent
A 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 moreFatal Shooting by Bay Area Transit Police Spurs Lawsuit
Calling 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 moreWhite Dallas Cop Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Black Man
A 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 moreStephon Clark
The 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.
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Police 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 moreFifth Circuit Hears Story of Police Killing in Texas
A 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.
Read moreCalifornia Police Accountability Bills Head to Governor’s Desk
In the final days of the legislative session, California lawmakers passed a set of bills calling for tougher regulations on police conduct, including opening some police misconduct records, protecting health privacy information from warrantless searches and regulating police acquisition of military-grade equipment.
Read moreJury Sentences Texas Killer Cop to 15 Years
A Dallas County jury sentenced former policeman Roy Oliver to 15 years in Texas state prison late Wednesday for firing five shots into a car and murdering 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, a sentence that fell far short of the 60 years prosecutors sought.
Read moreFamily of Hostage Killed by Los Angeles Police Files Claim
The family of a woman fatally shot by Los Angeles officers while firing at a man who held a knife to her throat filed a claim against the police department and the city, lawyers announced Wednesday.
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A Chicago police officer fatally shot the unarmed, 24-year-old Maurice Granton Jr. in the back on June 6, and it was videotaped, his survivors claim in Cook County Court.
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The survivors of Alfredo Okwera Olango sued the City of El Cajon and its police Officer Richard Gonsalves for wrongful death of the mentally disturbed man whose shooting was filmed and sparked public protests, in superior court.
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Las Vegas Metro Police officers, one of whom has been criminally charged, choked Tashii Brown to death without cause in May 2017, his mother claims in Clark County Court.
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Shouting “Nigger, we will fucking kill you,” four Barstow, Calif., police officers, one of whom had previously been charged with a hate crime, shot to death Diante Yarber, 26, in a Walmart parking lot in April, relatives of the father of three claim in a federal complaint.
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