SEATTLE (AP) — Five weeks after ex-Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, three Washington state police officers pleaded not guilty Friday in the death of Manuel Ellis, another Black man who pleaded for breath under an officer’s knee. Tacoma police officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine appeared in orange […]
Two additional Loveland, Colorado police officers and a sergeant have been placed on administrative leave after the arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia. The encounter is now under investigation according to NBC News. Police officer Austin Hopp was placed on administrative leave earlier this month after a lawsuit accused him and another officer of […]
A viral TikTok video posted on April 20 showing two bike-riding Black men are accosted at gunpoint by police. The clip was titled “What you think happen,” was shared by @riskie_e showing the person who posted the video and his friend riding their bicycles past a police car in Orlando around 11:47 p.m. The officers […]
“In your mind, you want to say to yourself, ‘It happened because I’m Black,’ and then you don’t want to be that petty. You don’t want to be that small. You don’t want to really believe that people’s thinking is really [on] that low of a scale,” Austin told ABC News. “Then when you watch the […]
McKINNEY, Texas — Seven officers involved in the in-custody death of a Black jail inmate in Texas whose family members say may have been suffering a mental health crisis have been fired, a sheriff said. The detention officers violated sheriff’s office policies and procedures leading up to the death of Marvin Scott III, Collin County […]
A Black Tampa, Florida police officer Delvin White was fired from his job this week after a random body camera audit caught him referring to a group of people as “n****s” during an arrest, according to the Tampa Bay Times. White, a school resource officer at Middleton High School who has spent eight years on the […]
Police officers who put a hood over the head of a mentally distraught Black man, then pressed his body against the pavement until he stopped breathing will not face criminal charges after a grand jury declined to indict them, New York’s attorney general announced Tuesday. Daniel Prude, 41, died last March, several days after his […]
A former NYPD police officer had a dying wish to have his letter, in which he admits he’d been a part of covering up the assassination of Malcolm X, read following his death, Reuters reported. In the letter, the now-deceased ex-undercover NYPD officer Raymond Wood implicates his department and the FBI in ensuring the successful […]