Outrage is growing in Maryland after the Montgomery County Police Department released an alarming video showing two officers screaming and insulting a 5-year-old before handcuffing the child and threatening him repeatedly at his school in January 2020. Officers Kevin Christmon and Dionne Holliday were not fired for their conduct in the video, and a union official told […]
A new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court could provide victims of excessive force by an officer a clear path to receiving justice. In a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a New Mexico woman who is seeking to sue two officers who she said violated her Fourth Amendment right which prohibits law […]
Kentucky lawmakers are hoping to pass a bill that enforces penalties on protesters who taunt or insult officers. Republicans in the state Senate said S.B. 211 is a “tool” to protect officers at protests “because in those situations when you’ve got someone that’s right up in your face, yelling in your face, waving their arms, calling […]
Maryland officers Edgar Andrickson-Franco and Mancini Gaskill are receiving praise after calming a man who was having a behavioral health crisis on Saturday. The officers found the man inside a convenience store in Hyattsville, Maryland, after they received a call about a person who was agitated. “When we first arrived, he appeared to be incoherent,” Andrickson-Franco […]
One day prior to the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of the slain 26-year-old, filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department in the fatal no-knock raid on March 13, 2020. The suit, collaboratively filed on Friday by multiple law firms in Kentucky, contends that the LMPD violated Walker’s […]
The New York Times has identified two police officers from Virginia who were lauded for dancing with protesters after George Floyd‘s killing last year but are now facing federal charges for participating in the Jan 6. attack on the Capitol. The lengthy feature chronicles the story of Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson and officer Jacob […]
Internal documents acquired by the Associated Press reveal that Louisiana State Police officials are admitting officers involved in the May 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene were not truthful in how they described what happened. Troopers initially said Greene died after he crashed into a tree following a police chase in Monroe, Louisiana, that began over alleged traffic violations. […]
A family in Indianapolis, Indiana, is suing the city and its police department for the death of Eleanor Northington, a woman who died in church two years ago with a cop’s knee digging into her back. As she struggled in her final moments, the 43-year-old Black mom of three uttered the familiar words heard in the killings of […]
The Rochester police officers who suffocated 41-year-old Daniel Prude last year by placing a hood over his head and pressing it down until he was unresponsive will not be charged in his death. On Tuesday, a grand jury met to evaluate the case and determined not to bring an indictment against the seven officers, according to […]
An independent investigation has revealed new details in the case of Elijah McClain, stating that Colorado police and paramedics made several errors when they treated the 23-year-old Black man, who was killed in 2019 after officers responded to a call about a suspicious person in the area. The panel of medical and legal experts appointed by the […]