The Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering Australian woman Justine Damond will plead not guilty and fight the charges at trial, court documents suggest. Mohamed Noor, 32, will seek to argue self-defence and reasonable force, according to court documents seen by the Guardian. The documents were filed by Noor’s lawyer, Thomas Plunkett, on Wednesday in … Read more
FORT EDWARD, New York — A former state correction officer who is accused of plotting his grandmother’s murder is alleged to have told the killer how to commit the homicide by wrapping a towel around the woman’s neck, saying that was how correction officers killed inmates without detection, according to court records. Kevin Gonyea pleaded … Read more
FEB 24 2017 Atlanta Police released the video that shows the moments that led up to Deaundre Phillips being shot and killed. The officer who shot and killed Phillips is 11-year veteran Yasin Abdulahad, Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields said to Fox 5 in Atlanta. The video was released by police February 24. The Georgia … Read more
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, HAS been all over the news for the past month, since police shot and killed an unarmed black man, 22-year-old Stephon Clark, in the backyard of his own home on March 18. An independent autopsy conducted at the family’s request showed that Clark was shot six times in the back, according to the … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A DNA match led to the arrest of a 72-year-old former police officer in one of the most baffling and sadistic crime sprees of the 1970s and ’80s — a string of at least 12 slayings and 45 rapes in California by an attacker dubbed the Golden State Killer, police said Wednesday. … Read more
LAS VEGAS, NV – Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have released additional details and bodycam footage of a fatal officer involved shooting that occurred in the early hours of Friday, April 6. The person killed in the shooting has been identified as 22-year old Junior David Lopez. The incident occurred during a routine traffic stop, police … Read more
Overland Park police have gotten away with what seems to be murder in the suburban county outside of Kansas City. Below the fold you can watch two reports and videos on the Jan. 20 shooting death of 17-year-old John Albers by Overland Park officer Clayton Jenison. Jenison shot Albers as the teen backed out of … Read more
A deputy who shot and killed an unarmed man last month following a confrontation in north Houston was fired late Friday by Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. The deputy, Cameron Brewer, was terminated for failing to follow the department’s use of force policy when he shot and killed Danny Ray Thomas, 34, on March 22, … Read more
The mother of Staten Island police chokehold victim Eric Garner issued an emotional plea Friday for long-delayed federal charges against a city cop in the 2014 death. “If the Trump Administration’s Justice Department doesn’t hold NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo and others who killed my son accountable … they are failing to uphold law-and-order for politics,” … Read more
The family of Danny Ray Thomas, an unarmed black man whose encounter with a Texas sheriff’s deputy last month was captured by a bystander’s cellphone right before the deputy shot him dead,filed a federal civil lawsuit Thursday against Harris County, Texas, citing a violation of Thomas’ constitutional rights. On the steps of the Harris County … Read more
Just weeks after the killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento, California cops in Barstow gunned down an unarmed black man in a Walmart parking lot, the Bee reports. Diante “Butchie” Yarber, 26, was a father of three who was driving his cousin’s Mustang with the cousin in the back seat. Cops were responding to a … Read more
When 17-year-old John Albers threatened suicide on FaceTime, his friends called police. Within minutes of officers’ arrival at the teen’s home, he was dead—but not because he killed himself. Officer Clayton Jenison allegedly “acted recklessly and deliberately” when he shot 13 times at Albers, who may not have even known police were at his home, … Read more