Killing

In the weeks before he died, 32-year-old Daniel Reid stopped taking his medication. His mother, Jackie Hambrick, isn’t quite sure when, but she thinks it happened two or three weeks before he was fatally shot by Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies. There were five drugs, and Hambrick can still reel off the names: Risperdal, Vistaril and … Read more

The father of a 16-year-old teenager who was shot and killed Sunday by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy stood in front of a packed church seeking answers. “Where’s the gun? Where’s the gun?” John Weber asked sheriff’s officials as the crowd backed him up with chants and shouts. Sitting at a table with department … Read more

A Seattle police officer who did not have his Taser with him when he was involved in the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles has been suspended for two days without pay for violating department policy. Interim Police Chief Carmen Best imposed the discipline Friday on Officer Jason Anderson, one of two officers who shot Lyles … Read more

September 3, 2015 Brownsville, TX — On Tuesday, the Brownsville police department released dashcam video of one of their officers killing an unarmed man as he fled. Officer Rolando Trujillo Jr. pulled over Jose Roman Rodriguez on July 17 for fitting the description of a suspicious vehicle associated with a robbery. Upon stopping the vehicle, … Read more

SEPT. 6, 2016 A South Carolina police lieutenant who fatally shot a 19-year-old man during an attempted drug arrest in a Hardee’s parking lot last year has been fired from his job, the police chief said. The officer contended that he was acting in self-defense when the suspect drove a car toward him. John Covington, … Read more

November 5, 2015 Hummelstown, PA – Another cop has been cleared of charges for cold-blooded murder. Officer Lisa Mearkle of the Hummelstown Borough Police Department was found not guilty of criminal homicide for the shooting death of 59-year-old David Kassick on February 2. Video has just been released from the Taser camera which was deployed … Read more

COLUMBUS, GA – A video was obtained showing a scuffle with police the day a 30-year-old Hector Arreola died hours after officers tried to restrain him. Body camera footage from a Columbus Police officer shows the night Hector Arreola died after being arrested for disorderly conduct outside a home on Moss Drive. Arreola’s family says … Read more

A Tennessee sheriff is being sued for using excessive force after he was recorded boasting he had told officers to shoot a man rather than risk damaging police cars by ramming him off the road. “They said ‘we’re ramming him,’” Sheriff Oddie Shoupe of White County said on tape in the aftermath of the killing … Read more

The list of officers summoned to testify before a grand jury Tuesday indicates that Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman is trying to meet the legal standard to charge Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor in the shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, legal experts say. Noor’s partner, Matthew Harrity, the sole witness, is among those who … Read more

When Mike Becker received the frantic call on Tuesday that a gunman was threatening his family at the nearby Dollar General, he said he immediately took off with a handgun. The Independence man ran to the store shortly before 6 p.m. and saw the gunman pounding on the glass door. Inside, his wife, 4-year-old adopted … Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Florida sheriff’s deputy on Tuesday lost a pretrial bid to terminate a lawsuit in which he’s accused of fatally shooting a man mistaken for a cellphone theft suspect. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke denied the defense’s motion for summary judgment, allowing the wrongful death claim against Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Gerald … Read more