A federal court in South Carolina upheld the 20-year prison sentence of former police officer Michael Slager, who pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge for shooting Walter Scott, a Black man, after a traffic stop for a broken brake light. Slager shot Scott, who was unarmed and running away from the officer, five times in the back, killing him.
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Police have not yet identified the white man police killed, but an eyewitness said he may have been in a mental health crisis: the exact type of situation where Portland police have been shown a tendency toward deadly overreaction.
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George Floyd’s brother took the stand Monday afternoon during the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to tell jurors about his brother’s life and relationship with the mother he cried out for before his death last May.
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One male juvenile was killed and an officer with the Knoxville Police Department was wounded in a shooting at a school Monday.
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The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Thursday that the act of police shooting a woman in the back constitutes a seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
Read moreThe family of Nicolas Chavez, who died after being shot multiple times by police officers responding to a call about a suicidal person last year, filed a civil suit against the officers, the Houston Police Department and the city of Houston and are seeking $100 million in damages.
Read moreA federal court in Texas refused to dismiss wrongful death and negligence claims against Bexar County, Texas, in a case relating to the killing of an unarmed woman and six-year-old boy by law enforcement officers who were pursuing the woman because she had outstanding warrants for fraud and credit card abuse.
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A federal appeals court has cleared Chicago of liability for a drunken off-duty shooting by a police officer that left the officer’s friend permanently disabled.
Read moreA reasonable juror could find that Huntington Beach police officer Eric Esparza was negligent when he shot a man seven times, the Ninth Circuit ruled. The officer should have known the man was mentally ill and failed to escalate the situation.
Read moreA federal court in Texas dismissed federal civil rights claims brought against Texas police officials over the tragic death of an 84-year-old, wheelchair-bound woman who was shot during a SWAT raid as officials were trying to serve a mental health warrant on her son. However, the court remanded the estate’s state law claims for wrongful death and negligence.
Read moreA journalist filed a lawsuit against the city of Richmond, California, on Wednesday, claiming she was shot by a police officer with a rubber bullet while clearly identified as a reporter covering a protest of the murder of George Floyd.
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A Nebraska woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Lincoln and others Tuesday, after police officers fired rubber bullets at close range into a crowd of people protesting racial injustice and one of the bullets severed the woman’s nose.
Read moreA federal court in Texas refused to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against Bexar County, its sheriff and deputies arising from the deaths of a six-year-old boy and woman shot as the officers pursued the woman on fraud and credit card warrants. The officers fired four rounds at the woman, who did not appear to be armed, and fired 18 more rounds towards her and an occupied residence even though “it was obvious” she was already incapaciated.
Read moreThe City of Fort Worth, Texas, is not liable for the death of a 72-year-old man who was shot and killed by city police officers in his own home, a federal court in Texas ruled. While responding to a burglary alarm at a house across the street, the officers mistakenly responded to the man’s house and, thinking he was being burglarized, he took his gun to his garage to investigate.
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A retired judge on Friday found that the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old last June by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was a homicide.
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Minneapolis police released body camera footage Thursday of a fatal exchange of gunfire with a Black man that brought protests back to South Minneapolis Wednesday night.
Read moreAwaiting a trial where he has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, John Formisano, the police lieutenant who killed his wife, shot her boyfriend and left him for dead, was hit Tuesday with civil claims.
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A federal judge dismissed a civil rights case brought by a midshipman challenging his Naval Academy expulsion over offensive social media posts about the police shooting of a Black woman, finding it’s too early for a court to weigh in.
Read moreA federal court in California denied in part two San Francisco police officers’ motion for summary judgment in an excessive force case in which the officers used pepper spray and a baton and shot a mentally ill man on his front porch after he yelled and cursed at them to go away.
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A lawsuit claiming two police officers violated the free speech rights of a mentally ill man when they shot him on his front porch after he yelled and cursed at them to go away will likely go to trial, a federal judge signaled in court Friday.
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