Stephen Nicholas Broderick, a former Texas sheriff’s deputy accused of fatally shooting his former wife, their adopted daughter and another person has been arrested. In a statement on Facebook, Manor, Texas police wrote: “On Monday, April 19, 2021, at approximately 6:53 am the Travis County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a suspicious person call in […]
A Tennessee mother now says she wish she had never called the police on her daughter’s boyfriend after the incident ended with an officer fatally shooting him inside a Knoxville, Tennessee high school bathroom. Anthony J. Thompson Jr., a 17-year-old student at Austin-East Magnet High School, was fatally shot Knoxville police officer on April 12, […]
An insurer for the City of Cedar Rapids will pay $8 million to a Black motorist who was paralyzed after a white police officer shot him during a 2016 traffic stop, the city announced Monday. The payout will settle a long-running lawsuit brought by Jerime Mitchell, 42, over a shooting that had sparked protests and exposed tensions between […]
His bail was immediately revoked and he was led away with his hands cuffed behind his back. The verdict was read in a courthouse ringed with concrete barriers and razor wire and patrolled by National Guard troops, in a city on edge against another round of unrest — not just because of the Chauvin case […]
A lawyer representing the family of a man fatally shot by an off-duty Pentagon security officer is now demanding prosecutors to release surveillance video of the shooting at the Takoma Overlook condos located in Takoma Park, Maryland. Attorney Malik Shabazz says in the interest of transparency, the State Attorney John McCarthy should release all images […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white former police officer serving 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed Black man in South Carolina who ran from a traffic stop said his lawyer never told him about a plea offer from prosecutors that could have cut years off his sentence. Former North Charleston police officer Michael […]
The Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop will now be charged with second-degree manslaughter, a prosecutor said Wednesday according to USA Today. Washington County Attorney Pete Orput told USA TODAY that Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, would be charged. […]
An Ohio couple has been awarded $450,000 settlement from Euclid, Ohio after a 2017 traffic stop incident where a police officer was captured on video repeatedly beating Richard Hubbard. The city agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit filed by 29-year-old Richard and his partner, 28-year old Yolimar Tirado after a five-hour mediation in federal […]
Former Buffalo, New York police officer Cariol Horne received justice after a 15-year battle. In 2006, the 53-year-old was fired after she stopped Gregory Kwiatkowski, a white police officer who had Neal Mack, a Black man, in a chokehold, as Blavity previously reported. According to court documents, Horne removed the officer from the suspect’s neck and […]
The officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a Minnesota suburb on Sunday has resigned. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon who said in a press conference Monday that the shooting was accidental, also announced his resignation. On Tuesday, Kim Potter, a 26 year veteran of the Brooklyn Police department announced her resignation in […]