police trials
CINCINNATI (AP) — A mistrial was declared Friday in the murder retrial of a white University of Cincinnati police officer after the jury said it was hopelessly deadlocked on charges in the fatal traffic stop shooting of an unarmed black motorist. The Hamilton County jury had deliberated more than 30 hours over five days after […]
Dallas police officer Christopher Hess has been indicted for aggravated assault in the fatal shooting of Genevive Dawes.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The prosecutor who charged a former Milwaukee police officer with first-degree reckless homicide in the killing of a 23-year-old black man told jurors Tuesday the man was defenseless and “looked like a child” when he was fatally shot last year. But an attorney defending Dominique Heaggan-Brown against the charge countered that the […]
MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — Two Louisiana law enforcement officers weren’t in any danger when they fired a barrage of bullets at a car, killing a 6-year-old autistic boy and critically wounding his father, a prosecutor said Monday at the start of a murder trial for one of the officers. But an attorney for Derrick Stafford […]