Attorneys for the family of a black man who was killed in his own apartment by a white police officer accused Dallas police of trying to “assassinate his character” and expressed fury that authorities sought a search warrant that resulted in the discovery of marijuana in the victim’s apartment.
Read moreThe Pennsylvania judge presiding over a police-shooting case agreed to hold a hearing next week on whether a cable news interview he gave after the shooting requires him to recuse himself.
Read moreIn 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 moreA federal judge on Thursday upheld a $44.7 million verdict against the city of Chicago and in favor of a man who was permanently disabled after he was shot in the head by an off-duty police officer following a night of drinking.
Read moreLos Angeles city officials agreed to pay $1.95 million to the family of a homeless man fatally shot by on Skid Row, as part of a settlement agreement approved on Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday declined to grant police summary judgment in a police shooting case that inspired community vigils and sparked protests among police accountability activists seeking to change use-of-force guidelines.
Read moreA Border Patrol agent acquitted in the 2012 cross-border shooting death of a Mexican teen can still be sued over the incident, and the teen he killed was entitled to constitutional protections despite being in Mexico, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday.
Read moreThe Swedish prosecutor in charge of investigating whether police committed an error when fatally shooting a 20-year-old disabled man who waved a toy gun, said Friday that it has emerged that several officers opened fire.
Read moreFor the second time in less than a month, the Los Angeles Police Department released body camera footage showing officers shooting at a violent suspect and killing an innocent bystander in the crossfire.
Read moreLOS ANGELES (CN) – Deputies with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department violated the Fourth Amendment when they entered a shed
Read moreA federal jury on Thursday decided to clear a veteran Long Beach police officer of using excessive force in the shooting death of unarmed 20-year-old Feras Morad.
Read moreAn attorney for a 20-year-old student shot and killed by a Long Beach police officer in May 2015 said in federal court Wednesday that the officer “succumbed” to fear and panic and produced conflicting reports of the incident to make himself look like the victim.
Read moreA Southern California police officer who shot and killed a 20-year-old student in May 2015 said in court testimony Friday that he didn’t intend to kill the man and that the shooting was “horrific.”
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday refused to rule out making San Francisco’s former police chief testify in a wrongful death suit that accuses the police department of breeding a culture of racial bias and excessive force.
Read moreCalifornia lawmakers advanced a pair of police reform bills this week aimed at increasing access to officer misconduct records and establishing statewide procedures for releasing videos from police body-worn and patrol car-mounted camera.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court turned down a Sonoma County sheriff’s bid to toss a lawsuit over the 2013 killing of a 13-year-old boy carrying a toy rifle, clearing the way for a trial in Oakland, California.
Read moreRICHMOND, Va. (CN) – The Fourth Circuit ruled Monday that a Maryland police officer is entitled to qualified immunity from
Read moreThe city of Newport Beach, California and three of its police officers must face claims they used excessive deadly force when they fatally shot a schizophrenic man in a 7-Eleven store when he charged at them with a pair of scissors, a split Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday.
Read moreThe city of Mesa and six of its police officers remain on the hook for the shooting death of an unarmed Texas man in a hotel corridor, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreSan Francisco won’t charge the officers who killed two men of color in separate high-profile police shootings because the officers may have been defending themselves and the public.
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