Former police officer Roy Oliver — who fired his rifle five times into a car and killed unarmed, Black 15-year-old Jordan Edwards — was properly convicted of murder, an appeals court in Texas ruled. Oliver, convicted in 2017, was sentenced to 15 years’ confinement.
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Darren Wilson, the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in August 2014, will not be charged with any crimes.
Read moreThe city of Stockton, California, its police department and an officer must face excessive force and wrongful death claims brought by the family of a Black man who was shot while fleeing from police who thought he was someone else, a federal court in the state ruled.
Read moreA former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department officer was arrested and charged with murder Monday for fatally shooting an unarmed man with a mental illness who had fled from a police vehicle outside a downtown jail.
Read moreA security guard killed by Los Angeles County officers last month was shot five times in the back according to the LA County Coroner’s autopsy report released Friday.
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The Louisville Metro police department has fired one of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, more than three months after the 26-year-old black woman was killed in her home.
Read moreA federal court in California denied the City of Tehachapi’s motion for summary judgment in an excessive force case brought by a man who was shot twice in the back during a foot pursuit by police officers. There is a triable issue of fact as to whether the officers had a “reasonable belief” the man was armed at the time of the shooting.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Conversations with protesters at a demonstration against police brutality and racism in Oakland, California, Tuesday revealed
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It’s the stuff of nightmares: Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend were in bed when three armed men smashed through the front door and shot to death the 26-year-old black woman.
Read moreA police officer’s use of deadly force against a civilian was “objectively unreasonable,” because the civilian did not pose an immediate threat of serious physical harm to others, the Eighth Circuit ruled. The civilian was shot five times without warning after officers responded to the scene of an altercation he had with his uncle.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled in favor of a sheriff’s deputy sued by a woman he shot after a roadside disturbance. The unarmed woman said she reached into her waistband because she intended to “display her buttocks” to the deputy. She also claimed she was shot in retaliation for yelling “I hate America.”
Read moreA man who became paraplegic after being simultaneously tased and shot five times during a traffic stop lost his due process suit against the city of Birmingham. A federal court in Alabama ruled that he failed to cite evidence of a widespread practice of excessive force or sufficiently allege that the city failed to provide adequate training.
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Security and body-cam videos released Tuesday shows Chicago police shooting an unarmed short-order cook at the foot of a subway escalator and again in the back, after officers tried to stop him for violating a city ordinance by walking from one train car to another.
Read moreA bartender shot by an off-duty police officer – who was attempting to load an already-loaded firearm while intoxicated – cannot pursue her due process claims against the City and County of Honolulu, the Ninth Circuit ruled, rejecting her argument that the municipality exhibited deliberate indifference in violation of her rights.
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Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request that prosecutors be sent directly to the scene — an unusual and perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed the city of Dallas Thursday from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Botham Jean, leaving convicted murderer and former cop Amber Guyger as the sole defendant in the civil case.
Read moreA Wisconsin police chief says an officer shot an armed male student at a suburban Milwaukee high school after the suspect refused to disarm and pointed his gun at officers.
Read moreA mother sued the New York City Police Department in Bronx Supreme Court, claiming her child was wounded by a careless and reckless police gunshot.
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