Police board finds the officers exaggerated threat posed by the black teen to justify his shooting by a white officer. Laquan McDonald was shot 16…
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The Hands Up Act could do something about it. Since the police killings of Botham Jean in Dallas and Emantic “E.J.” Bradford in Birmingham, Alabama,…
James Jackson, who stabbed Timothy Caughman to death in March 2017, has pleaded guilty to murder as an act of terrorism. James Harris Jackson appears…
Relatives of Laquan McDonald, killed in 2014, call ruling step backwards for black community’s fight for justice. Reverend Marvin Hunter: ‘To say that these men…
Jury convicts white former Texas police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old African American in April 2017. A Texas jury has found a white former…
Blane Salamoni’s dismissal comes days after Louisiana ruled out criminal charges in 2016 shooting of Alton Sterling. A white police officer who fatally shot a…
A Mississippi police officer has been accused of shooting and killing an unarmed Black man and allowing a police dog to mutilate him. The incident…
Authorities say they believe two attackers gunned down people at a cookout behind a house. Source: Police search for two attackers who they say opened…