The families of individuals killed by law enforcement joined members of a police reform coalition Wednesday to launch a statewide effort to overhaul the Law Enforcement Officer’s Bill of Rights, which they claim is the “single largest obstacle to police accountability.”
Read moreLondon police have shot and killed a man after he reportedly claimed he had a weapon.
Read moreBacked by the family of an unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police last month, California lawmakers and civil rights groups on Tuesday called for sweeping reforms to the state’s “reasonable force” rule.
Read moreThe Navajo Nation has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Department of Justice, ttorney General Jeff Sessions and Arizona law enforcement officials stemming from the 2016 police shooting death of Navajo Nation member Loreal Tsingine.
Read moreThe family of a Virginia woman who was shot and killed by police in 2016 while brandishing a toy gun sued the city and the officers for $16 million claiming more should have been done to resolve the confrontation peacefully.
Read moreThe suburban Bay Area city of Concord will pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit claiming police conspired with prosecutors to “execute” a 21-year-old man and cover up his murder.
Read moreA police officer who fatally shot a mentally ill woman in her New York apartment in 2016 after she brandished scissors and a bat was acquitted by a judge Thursday.
Read moreA West Virginia police officer who was fired for choosing to try to calm rather than shoot a distraught man at the scene of an alleged domestic violence incident will receive $175,000 to end his wrongful termination suit in a settlement announced Monday.
Read moreCalifornia will assume the role of watchdog to oversee San Francisco’s police reforms after the Trump administration ended an Obama-era program aimed at helping troubled police departments rebuild trust with citizens.
Read moreBaltimore just installed its third police commissioner in as many years following problems with increased violence and a record-level homicide rate in 2017.
Read moreA federal judge tossed a highly publicized lawsuit against the San Diego Police Department over the shooting death of an unarmed homeless man.
Read moreAn Oklahoma prosecutor announced Friday he will not file criminal charges against a police officer in the September shooting death of a deaf man who was not following officer commands.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday sentenced a white former North Charleston, S.C. police officer to 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed black motorist during a 2015 traffic stop.
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A white former police officer who shot an unarmed black man to death after he fled a traffic stop never showed any racial animus toward people he encountered in the community, his attorney said in federal court on Monday.
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Kicking off the trial Monday of a New York City police officer who killed a motorist last year, prosecutors called the alleged road-rage shooting the “brutal murder of an unarmed man.”
Read moreA Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy must face civil claims from the family of a 13-year-old boy he killed after mistaking the boy’s toy rifle for an AK-47, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreA former St. Louis police officer on trial for the December 2011 murder of Anthony Smith took the stand in his defense Tuesday.
Read moreA 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.
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