CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald testified Tuesday that he opened fire when the black teenager kept advancing toward him while waving a knife, adamantly sticking to his version of events even when confronted with video that showed a different scene. In a […]
Prosecutors filed criminal homicide charges against the Nashville cop who killed Daniel Hambrick.
Officials cleared the officers one day after releasing police bodycam video that outraged activists.
A Brooklyn man walked out of prison after serving 25 years of a wrongful conviction linked to a notoriously corrupt NYPD detective.
SWISSVALE, Pa. (AP) — Classmates and community members on Monday honored Antwon Rose Jr. as a dynamic and determined young man who deserves to be remembered as more than just the latest hashtag given to unarmed black men killed by police, while vowing to continue pushing for justice. The funeral for Rose was held in […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The attorneys and a pastor for an Arizona man beaten by police while standing against a wall said Thursday that the officer’s claim that their client posed a threat “doesn’t pass the smell test.” Andre Miller, the pastor to 33-year-old Robert Johnson, said the police description of why they struck the unarmed […]
Progress made under the Obama administration is being reversed.
Marcus-David L. Peters was only 24.
He was unarmed and police claim they were "fighting for their lives."
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for the family of an unarmed black man killed by police in a busy Southern California parking lot said Monday that an autopsy found he was shot 10 times and died from choking on his own blood as police delayed getting him medical help. The autopsy concluded that 26-year-old Diante […]
Plus, alleged racist social media posts have surfaced.
