Authorities would release none of the evidence Wednesday that led to the murder indictment against a Bristol Virginia Police Department officer this week — resulting in more questions regarding this rare criminal prosecution.
Justice has finally been served with guilty verdicts in the Chauvin trial. It is time and has been for decades that all police officers put as…
On April 26, a commentary by Robert Benne appeared here, listing all the things he is tired of, beginning with those who think Morgan Griffith…
ATLANTA (AP) — The firing of the former Atlanta police officer who's charged with murder in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks was reversed after a review panel found the city failed to follow its own procedures for disciplinary actions.
BRISTOL, Va.—A grand jury in Bristol, Virginia, has indicted a city police officer on a murder charge in connection with a fatal officer-involved shooting.
The investigation includes an allegation that the man asked boys in his group for naked pictures.
ROME (AP) — A jury in Rome on Wednesday began deliberating the fates of two young American men who are charged with killing an Italian police officer near the hotel where they were staying while on summer vacation in 2019.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A white police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb resigned Tuesday, as did the city's police chief — moves that the mayor said he hoped would help heal the community and lead to reconciliation after two nights of protests and unrest.
The four Republican candidates for attorney general broadly agree on certain policy issues — such as holding the Virginia Parole Board accountable and opposing the ending of qualified immunity for police officers.
When the Nazis wanted to march through Skokie, Ill., many of the residents were horrified. A large percentage were Jewish, and some had been i…
WASHINGTON — Although congressional negotiators remain optimistic about reaching agreement on a police-reform bill in the coming weeks, many of the same issues that divided Democrats and Republicans last summer when they first tried to pass policing reform after George Floyd’s murder remain as sticking points.
Two deputies were killed and three other people including a suspected gunman were found dead after a lengthy standoff in North Carolina, a sheriff's office said Thursday.
A Roanoke teenager was killed in a shooting Monday and a 15-year-old boy has been charged with firing the gun, according to the Roanoke Police…
R&B artist Trey Songz will not face charges in an alleged altercation with police officers at the AFC championship game in Kansas City, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
A Lynchburg Police Department officer who shot at a man while trying to take him into custody during a mental health episode, killing a dog the man was holding, was justified in his actions, a prosecutor has determined.
Police station surveillance video shows Colorado officers laughing while watching footage from the body camera. One officer said, "I love it."
The man was lying on the ground, partially in the road, at the time of the incident, although police have not said why.
A man fell to his death Sunday morning from the railroad trestle at Riverside Park in Lynchburg, police said.
Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America's streets.
At a time when police are being attacked on all sides for brutality, racism, recklessness and all sorts of social sins and criminal acts, I he…
Chesterfield County police officers were legally justified in using lethal force to defend themselves in separate shootings earlier this year after standoffs with two suspects, one of whom was fatally shot, Chesterfield Commonwealth’s Attorney Stacey Davenport has ruled after her office reviewed evidence in both cases.
Moments after former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in George Floyd's death, copies of the original Minneapolis police statement began recirculating on social media. It attributed Floyd's death to "medical distress" and made no mention that the Black man had been pinned to the ground at the neck by Chauvin, or that he'd cried out that he couldn't breathe.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Daunte Wright, the young Black man shot by an officer during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, was not “just some kid with an air freshener,” but a “prince” whose life ended too soon at the hands of police, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday during an emotional funeral.
At least 100 more people are expected to be charged, the federal government said in court papers.
