A Black man was killed by a Michigan police officer during a traffic stop earlier this month, sparking protests in Grand Rapids. Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head, a forensic pathologist performed an independent autopsy said last week. During a news conference, forensic pathologist Werner Spitz and lawyers for the family […]
MIAMI — An appeals court ordered a new trial on Wednesday for a former Florida police officer who was sentenced to probation for shooting at a severely autistic man and wounding the man’s caretaker. A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled that a South Florida circuit judge was wrong to prevent […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana parole board granted parole on Wednesday to Henry Montgomery, whose Supreme Court case was instrumental in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to life in prison without the opportunity for parole when they were juveniles. Montgomery, 75, was convicted in the 1963 killing of East Baton […]
A Black Chicago police officer faces charges after a video captured her opening fire and striking an unarmed man in the back while in a subway station. Melvina Bogard, 32, faces charges of felony aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct for shooting Ariel Roman in the back in Feb. 2020, the Associated Press […]
A police officer was placed on administrative leave after a video captured him punching a woman in the throat during an arrest at a New York Walmart, WSYR reported. The scuffle occurred on July 4 when officers were dispatched to the store in East Syracuse after two women were fighting and using pepper spray. “While in […]
An off-duty police officer in Knoxville, Tennessee, was knocked unconscious for making a racist joke, WVLT reports. At a wedding on June 26, Tanner Holt, an officer with the Knoxville Police Department, was knocked out after telling Jonathan Toney that he “didn’t know they let Black people in the reception hall.” Holt later told Toney […]
“My own uncle … told him to shoot me!” he said on the video as he retreated from the scene. The Guardian reports that the complaint indicated that a second projectile hit him in the rear as he went to pick up his phone. Shakir later sought treatment at a hospital as a result of […]
Joel N. Smith, a member of the Niagara Fall Police Department for more than 10 years, set a historic first for the law enforcement agency earlier this week. On Monday, Mayor Robert Restaino and Police Superintendent John Faso announced during a ceremony at city hall that Smith, a former patrol officer, would be promoted to […]
The police officer charged with fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks and was subsequently fired last year in a fast-food parking lot has been reinstated by the city of Atlanta due to improper dismissal procedures. Atlanta’s Civil Service Board (CSB) determined that the Atlanta Police Department failed to grant Garrett Rolfe the opportunity to respond to their intent […]
Deon Joseph, a Black officer of more than 20 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, wrote a lengthy Facebook post on Sunday to address LeBron James, who faced backlash last week after criticizing the Ohio officer who shot and killed Ma’Khia Bryant. “You’re next,” James wrote in a tweet that featured a photo of an […]