On Friday, the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates Chicago Police Department misconduct, released nine video clips, taken from police body and dashboard cameras, that show the aftermath and events leading up to the fatal shooting an unarmed 18-year-old black man named Paul O’Neal by an officer,…
The Miami Police may have refused to answer questions about the shooting of Charles Kinsey, an unarmed black man lying on the ground with his hands up, but the local police union chief has some illuminating explanations.
North Miami Police Chief Gary Eugene declined to take any questions during a brief press conference held earlier today over the Monday shooting of Charles Kinsey. The investigation has been turned over to the state.
Philando Castile, 32, died Wednesday night after being shot several times by a police officer in a suburb outside St. Paul, Minn., police confirmed. The immediate aftermath of the shooting was streamed live on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend Lavish Reynolds.
Laney Sweet, the widow of Daniel Shaver, an unarmed man who was shot five times and killed by a Mesa, Arizona, police officer in January, is seeking to have body camera footage from the shooting publicly released. Sweet previously declined an apparent offer from prosecutors to personally view the footage on the…
The Minneapolis Police officers involved in shooting and killing Jamar Clark last year will not be charged with criminal wrongdoing, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced at a press conference today. An investigation found that Clark was not handcuffed when he died, Freeman said—a crucial point of contention…
Moments before a Mesa, Arizona, police officer killed Daniel Shaver with five shots from an AR-15, Shaver was on all fours, pleading with officers not to shoot him, according to a newly released police report from the incident.
Newly released video footage obtained by Buzzfeed News shows two Alabama police officers fatally shooting an unarmed black man at a traffic stop in October 2013. The victim, Cameron Massey, was 26.
DNAinfo Chicago’s big scoop today was the sickening dashcam video of the murder of Laquan McDonald. Earlier this afternoon, they also released the charging documents, which lay out the case against Officer Jason Van Dyke.
Investigators will not release video of the shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who died Monday night after being shot by police early Sunday morning, reports the Associated Press.
Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges says she’s requested a federal civil rights investigation into the police shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark, reports the Associated Press.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating a police shooting that has sparked protests from Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, according to multiple reports.
As expected, the story around the fatal police shooting of a man “acting bizarrely” in Los Angeles has gained some details but not a whole lot of clarity, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.
A man who was “acting bizarrely and standing in traffic” was fatally shot by Los Angeles police officers today, reports the Los Angeles Times.
A man who was “whipping his hand around” as though it were a gun was shot and killed by Baltimore County Police, authorities said Thursday. The man, whose name has not yet been released, was shot three times by police after trying to use a fake prescription to buy cough syrup at a pharmacy, the Guardian reports.
Yesterday, San Antonio’s KSAT released a video of two Bexar County sheriff deputies fatally shooting a 41-year-old man who appeared to have his arms raised in surrender.
Officer Charles Kondek, a Tampa officer and veteran of the NYPD, was reportedly shot and killed by a 23-year-old man while responding to a service call Sunday morning.
An Austin man who allegedly fired 100 rounds into three downtown buildings was fatally shot when he opened fire outside police headquarters, an Austin PD spokesperson told reporters.
John Crawford III, a 22-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police inside an Ohio Walmart after another shopper reported Crawford was "walking around with a gun in the store." The alleged gun, which the witness described in a 911 call as a black rifle, and later said he thought was an AR-15, turned out to be a BB…
Today the St. Louis, Mo. police department—located just four miles away from Ferguson—released the 911 phone calls and video from yesterday's police shooting that left 25-year-old Kajieme Powell dead on the sidewalk.
