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Ex-Officer Defends Actions at Trial Over Fatal Shooting
A former St. Louis police officer on trial for the December 2011 murder of Anthony Smith took the stand in his defense Tuesday.
Read morePolice Will Face Parents’ Claims Over Fatal Shooting of Son
A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for a jury trial in a wrongful death lawsuit against Stockton, California, police officers who shot and killed a black teenager following a high-speed chase in 2010.
Read moreMother Sues Beach Town for Fatal Shooting of Son by Police
A mother has filed a $20 million lawsuit Friday against the city of Huntington Beach, California, claiming its police officers used excessive and unreasonable force by fatally shooting her son after witnesses saw him chasing children with a broken bottle at a soccer field.
Read moreCop Disabled in 2016 Ambush Says Black Lives Matter Incited His Shooting
A white police officer left disabled after being shot in a Louisiana ambush sued Black Lives Matter and its organizers saying they incited violence against police after several high-profile police-involved shootings of black men.
Read moreCampus Cop Denied Rehearing at Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit Court on Tuesday denied a motion for a rehearing en banc for an Arizona campus policeman cop who claimed qualified immunity after shooting a mentally ill woman four times in her driveway.
Read moreParents of Man Killed During Drug Sting Sue Feds
The parents of a young man shot to death last year during a federal drug sting claim in court the Homeland Security agent who killed their son shot him in the head when he was already on the ground.
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Police Shooting Protesters’ Free Speech Case Hangs On
A free speech case filed by protesters arrested after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last year can move forward, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreFlorida Deputy Must Face Lawsuit Over Fatal Shooting
A Treasure Coast sheriff and his deputy must face a lawsuit over the death of a Port St. Lucie man who was shot to death in his garage after deputies responded to a noise complaint, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreSuspect in MT Officer’s Shooting Held Anti-Government Views
A man suspected of killing a Montana sheriff’s deputy Tuesday had published dozens of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-government and pro-President Donald Trump posts on social media in the days before the shooting.
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Five Years Later, NYPD Delays Trial on Teen’s Shooting
Standing at the spot where she denounced federal prosecutors last year for refusing to prosecute the officer who killed her son, Ramarley Graham’s mother on Monday denounced the New York City Police Department’s delays on internal action.
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Tulsa Cop Has ‘No Regrets’ About Fatal Traffic-Stop Shooting
Former Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby testified in her own defense Monday, telling jurors in her manslaughter trial that the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist was his own fault and she has “no regrets” about what happened.
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Justice Department Probes Dallas-Area White-on-Black Police Shooting
The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into a fired, white Dallas-area police officer who killed a young black man by firing a rifle into a carload of black teenagers as they left a party, the Dallas County district attorney confirmed Thursday.
Read moreMother Says Police Killed Her Son, Then Engaged in Cover-Up
The mother of 20-year-old black man killed during an unwarranted chase by Winchester, Virginia police claims in court the department tried to cover up her son’s murder by insisting he shot himself in the back of the head.
Read moreBaton Rouge Officers Duck Federal Charges in Fatal Shooting
The Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers involved in last summer’s deadly shooting of a black man whose death, caught on videotape, sent a wave of anger and grief across the world, won’t face charges from the Justice Department, according to a report Tuesday by the Washington Post.
Read morePolice Had Champs-Elysees Attacker in Their Grasp
The Champs-Elysees gunman who shot and killed a police officer just days before France’s presidential election was detained in February for threatening police but then freed, two officials told The Associated Press on Friday. He was also convicted in 2003 of attempted homicide in the shootings of two police officers.
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