BJS Reports Deaths in Federal Custody – Other Jurisdictions Slow to Comply With 2013 Act
In response to a 2013 law requiring law enforcement agencies to report deaths in custody, the Bureau of Justice Statistics just released...
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Sep 182 min read
Former Officer: Tyre Nichols 'Wasn’t A Threat' During Stop
Tyre Nichols posed no threat to police when he was snatched out of his car during a traffic stop that preceded a fatal beating by five...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 112 min read
Video Of Police Shooting Violence Interrupter Sparks Protests In D.C.
Tensions escalated in the nation's capital after the police killed a man who had worked to prevent violence. This led to unrest on Monday...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 112 min read
Trial Opens For 3 Ex-Memphis Officers In Tyre Nichols' Death
Opening statements are anticipated for Wednesday in the federal trial of three ex-Memphis police officers, charged with civil rights...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 312 min read
Illinois Sheriff Whose Deputy Killed Massey Offers ‘No Excuses’
The Illinois sheriff whose deputy shot Sonya Massey, the unarmed Black woman who called 911 for help in her Springfield home, apologized...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 292 min read
Deputy Responsible For Massey Killing Had History Of Military Misconduct
Sean Grayson, the former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy now charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, was previously...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 122 min read
D'Vontaye Mitchell Remembered At Funeral
Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump spoke at the Thursday funeral of D'Vontaye Mitchell, the 43-year-old father of two who died...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 102 min read
Attorney Demands Justice For Black Man Killed By Guards In Milwaukee
Following the death of a Wisconsin man who was restrained outside a hotel by several security officers amid a mental health crisis,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 52 min read
Family Of Minnesota Man Killed By Police To Seek Federal Intervention After Prosecutor Drops Case
On Tuesday, a day after Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty defended her initial decision to charge the trooper who killed Ricky Cobb...
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Crime and Justice News
May 221 min read
Officer Acquitted in Black Man’s Death Alleges Defamation
Timothy Rankine, a Washington state police officer, was cleared of manslaughter charges in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man...
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Crime and Justice News
May 72 min read
Charges Dropped Against Five Deputies In Death Of Irvo Otieno
A prosecutor in Virginia has dropped the charges against five law enforcement officers who had been charged with murder in the death of a...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31 min read
Few Details Available After Police Shoot Armed Middle-School Student
Wisconsin Department of Justice officials promised a thorough investigation into the fatal police shooting of an armed student outside a...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 142 min read
Bodycam Footage Shows California Deputy Killing 15-Year-Old
On Wednesday, the sheriff of San Bernardino, California, released new body-camera footage of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 101 min read
$11M Settlement Filed for Alameda Man Asphyxiated by Police
The city of Alameda, in California, agreed to pay $11 million to settle claims that three police officers killed a man by sitting on him...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 21, 20231 min read
Detroit Police Officer Charged in Death of Elderly Man He Punched
Prosecutors charged a former Detroit police officer with manslaughter on Tuesday, accusing him of fatally punching a 71-year-old man...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Alabama Family Seeks $36M After Police Tased And Killed Their Son
The family of a Black man in Alabama who died in July after police stunned him with a Taser 13 times has filed a $36 million wrongful...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 29, 20231 min read
Officer Who Placed Elijah McClain In Neck Hold Reinstated, Gets Backpay
Nathan Woodyard, the Aurora, Colorado, officer who stopped and placed Elijah McClain in a neck hold in 2019 was reinstated to the Aurora...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 29, 20232 min read
States, Cities Pay Millions In Settlements For Police Misconduct
New York City paid more than $50 million in lawsuits alleging misconduct by members of the NYPD in the first half of 2023, and that...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 29, 20231 min read
Trial Begins For Maryland Officer Charged With On-Duty Murder
On Tuesdays, trial began for the first Prince George County, Maryland, police officer to be charged with murder for actions taken on...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20231 min read
State Trooper Struggles With, Kills Pedestrian Along L.A. Freeway
A California highway patrol officer shot and killed 34-year-old aspiring actor Jesse Dominguez on Sunday on a Los Angeles highway, the...
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