The children of Alton Sterling on Tuesday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the police chief and the officers who shot him, reports NBC News. The move comes after the Department of Justice failed to bring charges against the officers. Sterling, 37, a father of five, was shot six times by Officer Blane […]
Alton Sterling's children claim their father's death was part of a racist pattern of police lethal force against Blacks.
Jeronimo Yanez, the officer who fatally shot Philando Castile, 32, was found not guilty by a Minnesota jury on Friday afternoon. The jury was ordered to keep deliberating after being embroiled in deadlock for the past week. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune writes: “After 27 hours of deliberation spanning five days, the jury of seven men and […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities asked the courts on Wednesday to deny bond for the suspect in last week’s fatal shooting of an Orlando police officer as he was hospitalized for most of the day with injuries he got during his arrest. An affidavit, filed with the Orange County Clerk of Courts a day after […]
CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) — One of two western Pennsylvania police officers “ambushed” and shot while responding to a domestic situation has died, and police are searching for a suspect, authorities said Thursday. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco didn’t immediately identify the slain Canonsburg officer pending notification of relatives. State police Trooper Melinda Bondarenka told reporters […]
Fulton County officials in Georgia are investigating a shooting that left a 22-year veteran officer dead late Tuesday night. The officer was shot during an…
He was 25 years old. He was Black. He was homeless, unarmed, mentally ill, lying on the ground and he was still shot to death five times by three Los Angeles police officers on Skid Row Sunday. Friends called him Africa. Larry Jackson, an eyewitness to the shooting, told reporters: “I heard one shot and I […]
