MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man are seven-year veterans, including 13 months each with the city, authorities announced Wednesday. Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze were identified as the officers who responded to a reported domestic assault shortly after midnight Sunday on the city’s […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — State investigators looking into the fatal shooting of a black Minneapolis man by police during a scuffle have several partial videos of the incident but won’t release them at this time, despite demands from protesters, an official said Tuesday. Jamar ONeal Clark, 24, died Monday evening, a day after he was shot […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of Minneapolis on Monday asked for a federal civil rights investigation into the weekend shooting of a black man by a police officer during an apparent struggle. Mayor Betsy Hodges said she wrote to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and to the U.S. attorney for Minnesota […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota agency is investigating the shooting by a Minneapolis police officer of a black man suspected in an assault, an incident that sparked protests and prompted a community forum with the mayor and police chief. Accounts from some witnesses that the man was handcuffed when he was shot early Sunday […]
Roland Martin talks to Attorneys Walter Madison and Ben Crump about the lack of justice in Cleveland in light of nearing the one year anniversary of the death of Tamir Rice and the comments made from the DA alleging that the family is only after money. “It’s appalling when you think a prosecutor is supposed […]
MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — Police body camera video shows the father of a 6-year-old autistic boy had his hands up and posed no threat as police opened fire, severely wounding the motorist and killing the boy, the man’s lawyer said Monday. “This was not a threatening situation for the police,” said Mark Jeansonne, the attorney […]
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Family and friends of a 6-year-old boy killed when marshals in a Louisiana town opened fire on a vehicle were gathering for the boy’s funeral service Monday afternoon. Jeremy Mardis was killed and his father, Chris Few, wounded when marshals in the town of Marksville opened fire on their vehicle last […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The jury at a Pennsylvania police officer’s murder trial has watched a video that shows her shocking a fleeing suspect with a stun gun, then shooting him twice in the back as he lay face down in the snow. Officer Lisa Mearkle went on trial Tuesday in the fatal shooting of […]
Rev. Al Sharpton has been scheduled to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of Corey Jones, the Florida church drummer shot dead by a police officer while waiting by his disabled car. USA Today reports: Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, has delivered eulogies at the funerals of several people whose deaths caught […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of officers stood in the shadows of blue ribbons tied to fences and trees as they waited Tuesday to pay tribute to a policeman slain on patrol — a man remembered for his love of family and pride in his job. Officer Randolph Holder always wanted to be a policeman, […]
Roland Martin talks to Attorney Daryl Parks about the shooting death of Corey Jones, the Florida man who was killed by a plain clothes police after approaching him in an unmarked 15 seat passenger van. Parks is part of the legal team along with Attorney Benjamin Crump. “It’s three o’clock in the morning. The cop never […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — City officials in South Carolina approved a $6.5 million settlement Thursday with the family of an unarmed black man fatally shot by a white police officer who was captured on cellphone video firing at the man’s back as he ran away. The North Charleston City Council approved the settlement by […]
