A St. Louis judge on Friday found a white former police officer who killed a black motorist six years ago not guilty of first-degree murder, prompting fears of protests and riots mirroring those in Ferguson, Missouri, three years ago.
Read moreFearing a repeat of protests and riots in Ferguson, Mo., three years ago sparked by the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer, St. Louis officials prepared Thursday for the following day’s verdict in the murder trial of another white officer who killed a black motorist six years ago.
Read moreAn Alameda County Superior Court judge on Wednesday dismissed criminal charges against a former Oakland police officer at the heart of a police sex-abuse scandal, finding insufficient evidence the man had exchanged anything for sex with a prostitute.
Read moreThe majority of Americans in both political parties hold teachers and members of the military in high regard, but are starkly divided in their opinions of police and college professors, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.
Read moreFor the first time in 20 years, police in the city of Berkeley can use pepper spray on violent demonstrators.
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The U.S. Justice Department won’t charge six Baltimore officers involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest and in-custody death.
Read moreIslamic State militants ambushed a police convoy in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Monday, killing 18 police and wounding seven others in one of the deadliest attacks this year in the restive region bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip.
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A California lawmaker’s effort to regulate the release of police body-camera footage has been sidelined until 2018 after his police transparency measure stalled in the state Senate.
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A D.C. man with cerebral palsy can continue to press his claim that police officers followed him home from a bus stop without cause, and then assaulted him with a stun gun as they beat him, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreThe photographer for a small Ohio news organization who employees say was shot by a sheriff’s deputy who mistook his camera for a weapon is uninterested in seeing the officer punished.
Read moreA man who says he was pepper-sprayed, doused with urine and beaten with canes during the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has sued the city and state police chiefs, claiming their officers purposefully stood down during the violence.
Read moreA Phoenix man has sued the city and several police officers who he claims forced him to eat the marijuana they found in his car.
Read moreA Cobb County, Georgia police lieutenant was fired Thursday in the wake of the release of a dashcam video that showed him at a traffic stop telling a white woman “we only shoot black people.”
Read moreA federal judge in San Antonio ruled that several provisions of a Texas law that prohibits sanctuary cities and punishes local officials with jail time and removal from office for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officers are likely unconstitutional.
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan brought a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Chicago, seeking federal court oversight to prevent the city’s police force from using unneeded excessive and deadly force against black and Latino residents.
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A federal jury on Monday found Chicago police officer Marco Proano guilty of civil rights violations for shooting 16 bullets into a car full of black teenagers in 2013.
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Illinois will limit how local and state police can cooperate with federal immigration authorities under a plan signed into law Monday by Gov. Bruce Rauner, a move that puts the first-term Republican at odds with his party on immigration issues.
Read morePromising more military-style equipment for local police departments, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end Monday of limits instituted in the Obama era.
Read moreA former day care worker who was freed last year after spending almost a decade in prison on charges that she killed a baby claims police and a state’s witness fabricated a report finding that the baby died of shaken-baby syndrome.
Read moreEyeing retirement this fall, a frustrated federal magistrate urged New York City on Thursday to get its database on the Central Park Five case rolling by November.
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