A 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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Fort Worth officials Friday named the eight members of a promised independent panel tasked with investigating the city’s embattled police department in the wake of a white officer shooting and killing Atatiana Jefferson in her own home last month.
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A South Carolina officer involved in the shooting of a Myrtle Beach man – paralyzing him – after storming into his house without knocking, is not immune in an excessive-force lawsuit, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA Chicago police officer was removed from the force Thursday evening after hearings involving the shooting deaths of a college student and grandmother in 2015.
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Community and faith leaders on Wednesday called on the Trump administration to open a civil rights investigation into the Fort Worth Police Department after a white officer shot a black woman to death in her home, saying the goal should be police reform plan enforced by a federal judge.
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A white cop who shot and killed a black woman in her home during a welfare check was arrested and charged with murder, Fort Worth police announced Monday night.
Read moreA white Fort Worth cop is on administrative leave after he shot and killed a black homeowner through her window during a welfare check Saturday, angering a community still reeling from the murder conviction of former Dallas cop Amber Guyger two weeks ago for killing her unarmed black neighbor.
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A Texas judge Monday denied a motion by fired cop Amber Guyger to move her murder trial out of Dallas, rejecting her claims that the media’s “hysteria and false narratives” prejudiced potential jurors in her trial for the shooting death of an unarmed black man in his own apartment.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity Wednesday to a Los Angeles police officer facing excessive-force claims for firing into a group of teenagers after he mistook a replica gun for a real weapon.
Read moreDozens of people, mostly African Americans, huddled around tables scattered across a church gymnasium on a recent evening, discussing past run-ins with Phoenix police officers and ways to hold them accountable.
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Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a white Missouri police officer was a seismic moment in American race relations. The fledgling Black Lives Matter movement found its voice, police departments fell under intense scrutiny, progressive prosecutors were elected and court policies were revised.
Read moreSix men and six women deliberated for less than two hours Wednesday before unanimously finding an El Cajon police officer was not negligent when he fired four shots and killed a Ugandan immigrant in September 2016 while responding to a call for mental distress.
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The day before he was shot and killed by a police officer in El Cajon, California, in 2016, Alfred Olango stopped by his family’s house to tell his estranged wife and his teen daughter he loved them, his wife testified during his wrongful death trial Monday, recalling his “strange” behavior.
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