BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died after being injured while in the custody of Baltimore police. 12:15 p.m. The attorney for the family of Freddie Gray is applauding the Baltimore mayor for helping spearhead a $6.4 million settlement with the family after Gray was […]
A former South Carolina police chief has dodged prison time in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed Black man.
Three police officers are on administrative leave after a botched investigation led to the shooting of an unarmed man and the killing of his dog. Officers in Atlanta’s DeKalb County, responded to a report of a ‘suspicious individual’ but went to the wrong house. When they found an unlocked screen and back door, they entered the […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of an unarmed black man shot to death by a white former police chief of a small South Carolina town reluctantly accepted a plea deal on a lesser charge that will give him a year of home detention, but no prison time. Former chief Richard Combs didn’t like the […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Investigators say police officers who arrived at the wrong metro Atlanta home for a report of suspicious activity shot the man who lives there and “likely” shot one of their own, leaving him seriously wounded. Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials said DeKalb County police received a report of a suspicious person Monday […]
UPDATED: HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Houston police officer who was ambushed was shot 15 times at a gas station. Shannon J. Miles appeared briefly in state District Court on Monday. He is being held without bond. He was appointed two attorneys. Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said Deputy Darren Goforth was […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state attorneys have decided against retrying a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man after his trial ended last week in a deadlock. Senior Deputy Attorney General Robert Montgomery told the Mecklenburg County district attorney Friday of the state’s decision in the case of Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]
The police shooting death case of unarmed Black man Jerame Reid in Bridgeton, N.J. in December 2014 made its way to a grand jury, adding to…
BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) — A grand jury has voted not to file charges against two police officers for fatally shooting a man who defied orders by stepping out of a car with his hands raised during a traffic stop, a killing captured by their patrol car’s dashboard camera, prosecutors said Thursday. The officers told investigators […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officers arrested at least nine people and deployed tear gas amid protests in St. Louis over the death of a black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by police after he pointed a gun at them, the city’s police chief said. Chief Sam Dotson said at a press conference late Wednesday night […]
Randall Kerrick, the police officer charged with killing Jonathan Ferrell, said he thought he was going to die during the encounter.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Randall Kerrick says he didn’t remember how many times he fired his service weapon at an unarmed black man nearly two years ago. But the white police officer was clear in his testimony to a jury about why he considered shooting the man at all. “He was going to attack me. […]
