On Wednesday afternoon—in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn—New York Police Department officers fatally shot a black man who was holding a metal pipe with a knob on it, an object reminiscent of a shower head. The New York Times reported that the police in question claimed they thought the man was holding a…
Honestie Hodges, a fifth grader, was handcuffed by police officers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as they searched for her aunt in a stabbing investigation. Disturbing body cam footage shows Hodges following police directives, then panicking as she is placed in handcuffs. She is 11. These images have led to an internal…
On Thursday, former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison for second-degree murder and obstruction of justice in the shooting of Walter Scott in 2015.
Indiana police captain Carri Weber has been put on paid administrative leave after telling a police officer he benefited from white male privilege.
In July, a Utah nurse named Alex Wubbels was dragged out of the hospital by Detective Jeff Payne after she refused his illegal attempt to draw blood from an unconscious patient. He has now been fired.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced on Tuesday that she had filed a lawsuit to finally achieve the long-awaited court-enforceable consent decree that would get the ball rolling on at least some modicum of police reform in Chicago, the Washington Post reports. Madigan’s office is suing Chicago to obtain…
In 2015, a woman named Charneisha Corley was pulled over while running an errand, and alleges that she was then subjected to a public cavity search of her vagina after Harris County officers claimed they smelled marijuana in her car. Disturbing dashcam footage of the altercation was released Monday on the website of…
Justine Damond was a Minneapolis yoga teacher who was shot by police through the window of their patrol car after she called to report a potential assault by her house. Though they were wearing body cameras, both officers had them turned off. The ensuing investigation has tried to make sense of why Damond was killed.…
One year ago, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, police officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot 32-year-old Philando Castile in front of his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughter. Last month, Yanez was acquitted of manslaughter, despite damning dashcam footage and the testimony of Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds.…
A bill newly passed in the New Jersey state Assembly on Thursday would require schools to teach kindergarten through 12th grade classes on how civilians should interact with police.
Two New Jersey state troopers are separately under investigation for pulling over female drivers to pressure them for phone numbers and dates. Both men purportedly eschewed suspicion by turning off their recording devices and by blatantly lying to dispatchers.
15-year-old Jayson Negron was shot and killed by police on May 9 in Bridgeport, CT. A video released over the weekend seems to contradict the story told by officers about how Negron died.
On Saturday night, high schooler Jordan Edwards was leaving a party in a suburb of Dallas. Cops were just arriving at the scene after neighbors complained about “drunken young people”; Edwards was in a car that police originally stated was driven aggressively towards them. Officer Roy Oliver opened fire on the…
Earlier this month, attorney general Jeff Sessions—David the Gnome’s racist cousin—commenced a review of “consent decrees,” agreements between the federal government and local police forces to address issues of systemic racism and other prejudices. Today, in an op-ed published by USA Today, Sessions broadcasted his…
Jeff Sessions, a noted racist, filed a memo on Monday that will begin a review of “consent decrees” from the federal government to local police forces. The decrees were issued under President Obama in response to the high profile deaths of black men and women at the hands of officers, and the ensuing investigations…
Hundreds of protestors filled the streets Wednesday night in Anaheim after an off-duty LAPD officer fired his weapon during a confrontation with a 13-year old boy Tuesday.
The trial of ex-cop Michael Slager who gunned down an unarmed Walter Scott as he fled has been declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision.
Charlotte, North Carolina police officer Brentley Vinson, who shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott in September, will not be charged, the DA’s office announced Wednesday. Scott’s family has said that he was sitting quietly in his car when Vinson approached him. The District Attorney’s Office said today they have…
A 14-year-old African American boy is in critical, but stable, condition after being shot by police on Sunday morning in St. Louis, Missouri.
Newly released dash-cam footage depicts in gruesome detail a July incident in which two California police officers intentionally tried to run over a mentally ill man with their cruiser, just before they shot him to death.
