The data revealed that crime rates and police violence have no correlation — meaning crime can be low and the number of police killings can still be high.
The death of Fernando Rodriguez was ruled as a homicide by asphyxiation by the medical examiner. Officers allegedly knelt on him for ten minutes.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva's statement came three days after the family of David Ordaz Jr. filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the county.
The family of a Black man who Louisiana State Police initially said died in a 2019 car crash had released a photo showing gruesome injuries.
"I've been called a n***** for the first time in my life," Elizabeth City Councilman Darius J. Horton told Insider recently.
The former Brooklyn Center officer appeared at a probable cause hearing over Zoom. A judge ruled her trial on a manslaughter charge may proceed.
The former Louisville police officer Hankinson is accused of firing a gun wantonly into a neighbor's apartment - not for killing Breonna Taylor.
The brand of policing happening in Columbus, Ohio, does little to protect or serve anyone. Ma'khia Bryant's death proves it.
The US remains on track to hit its typical 1,000 police killings per year in 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence data.
George Floyd's youngest brother, Rodney Floyd, spoke to the Washington Post about activism while in Minneapolis for Derek Chauvin's murder trial.
Protests erupted in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday after a grand jury declined to charge two of the three police officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s death. Officers shot Taylor in her own home in March. Her death became a focal point of the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests that […]
Colorado will reopen an investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man killed last summer after police officers violently detained him while he walked home. McClain’s death has received renewed attention in recent weeks, amid nationwide protests over police violence against Black Americans. McClain died in hospital […]
Atlanta police on Monday released the disciplinary histories of Officer Devin Brosnan and now-former Officer Garrett Rolfe. The pair were involved in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks on June 12 in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant. Rolfe, who has been fired, received a written reprimand for use-of-force […]
Atlanta police fatally shot a Black man on Friday outside of a Wendy’s after a scuffle in which he grabbed an officer’s Taser, ran away, then appeared to point the Taser back at the officers. A press release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said police responded to the Wendy’s […]
David McAtee, the owner of a barbecue restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, was killed during a protest on Monday. McAtee was known in the community for giving food away, including to police officers, according to the Louisville Courier Journal. McAtee was killed after police and Kentucky National Guard members were fired […]
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said he has been inundated with calls asking what he’s “going to do about the murder” of George Floyd. But, Freeman told reporters on Thursday, “I will not rush to justice. I’m going to do this right. And those folks who know me in the […]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order on Thursday declaring a “peacetime emergency” after rioters looted a Target and set fire to an AutoZone. The order authorizes the Minnesota National Guard to support “emergency operations” in Minneapolis and elsewhere. The move comes amid popular outrage over the death of […]
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