Rookie NYPD officer Peter Liang, who is charged with manslaughter and official misconduct in the November 2014 shooting death of Akai Gurley, testified in his own defense on Monday. “His eyes were rolled back,” Liang said of the mortally wounded Gurley. “He was just laying there very still.”
New recordings from the December police shooting that left a mentally ill college student and his neighbor dead show the teen tried to call 911 three times, only to be be hung up on by an impatient dispatcher.
A grand jury in Georgia has indicted DeKalb County Police Officer Robert Olsen on felony murder charges, WSB-TV reports. Olsen shot and killed 27-year-old Air Force veteran Anthony Hill, naked and unarmed, outside an apartment complex in Chamblee, Georgia, last year.
On Thursday, videos of the fatal police shooting of Cedrick Chatman, a black teenager, by a white Chicago police officer in January 2013 were released. Police had said that Chatman pointed a dark object at police as he ran away, the Chicago Tribune reports. The object, it turned out, was a black iPhone box.
Just when it seemed impossible for Chicago police officers to come off any worse in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, lawyers for the family now assert at least three witnesses were interrogated for hours, threatened and forced to lie about what they saw.
The family of Bettie Jones, a 55-year-old grandmother who was killed by police in late December, filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago on Monday.
In 2015, according to the Guardian, a total of 1,134 Americans were killed by law enforcement officers. The British news organization’s “Counted” project found that young black men were nine times more likely than anyone else to be killed by police this year.
A total of 965 people fell dead this year after hearing the blast of a gun that belonged to a police officer.
A Paradise, California police officer who responded to the scene of a drunk driving crash will not face charges, Action News Now reports, after shooting the man behind the wheel as he tried to pull himself from the flipped vehicle.
Police have released a second video of the August shooting death of Gilbert Flores by two Bexar County sheriff’s deputies, which was caught on video, and which shows Flores raising his hands in apparent surrender. On Wednesday, a grand jury declined to indict the officers involved.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man outside a gas station in Lynwood on Saturday morning, the Los Angeles Times reports. At a news conference on Sunday, officials showed a video and photos in which the man, 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson, appeared to be holding a gun.
An unarmed man was shot and killed by a uniformed NYPD officer after an eight-mile car chase through the Bronx and Westchester County ended in the woods around Yonkers, off the Saw Mill River Parkway.
A man who reportedly tried to rob a Bank of America was shot and killed by police on Saturday just blocks away from Art Basel, the annual art world gathering in the city.
The San Francisco man who authorities said had stabbed someone an hour before he was killed in a barrage of police gunfire Wednesday, was identified Thursday as Mario Woods, the San Francisco Examiner reports.
Twenty-four years ago, I watched a police officer shoot a man. It was right outside a supermarket, the Acme Market on Route 40 in Havre de Grace, Maryland. A ferocious thunderstorm had rolled through, all noise and eerie green light, while we were shopping, and the parking lot was still flooded with rain.
The Chicago police officer who was being held for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was released on Monday evening, after posting the requisite 10 percent of his $1.5 million bail, or $150,000.
There was surveillance footage of the fatal encounter between Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and a teenage suspect in the parking lot of a Burger King—until the cops came and a substantial portion of the video mysteriously vanished, a restaurant manager says.
A Chicago police officer accused of shooting a black teenager sixteen times will be tried for murder.
A plainclothes NYPD detective shot an 20-year-old man in the stomach on Sunday after he tried to rob him at gunpoint, CBS News reports. The suspect was shot once in the stomach and is in stable condition. The detective was also hospitalized, with tinnitus.
Police said that an NYPD officer has died after being shot in the head around 8:30 pm on Tuesday evening in East Harlem, the New York Times reports.
