GOODYEAR, AZ – A former Phoenix police detective and his wife are now facing child abuse and murder charges. A grand jury just indicted Germayne and Lisa Cunningham in connection with the death of his 7-year-old daughter. Germayne had been with the Phoenix Police Department for 12 years until he resigned in September. Back in … Read more
Michael Slager, the North Charleston, S.C., police officer who shot and killed black motorist Walter Scott, was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday. He had earlier pleaded guilty to violating Scott’s civil rights. This is one of the few times a police officer has ever been held criminally accountable for an on-duty shooting. But … Read more
The verdict in the case of the shooting death of an unarmed husband and father of two small children, Daniel Shaver, is in. It is not guilty. Daniel wasn’t just an unarmed man brutally shot and killed, he was an unarmed man brutally shot and killed by a police officer. And that police officer just … Read more
Seattle police are investigating after a 53-year-old man died after being restrained and taken into police custody in North Seattle last month. Officers responded to “reports of a man in the street” at North 105th Street and Aurora Avenue North shortly after 11 p.m. on Nov. 18, reported The Seattle Times. The Seattle Police Department … Read more
The mother of a man shot by an Adams County sheriff’s deputy said Friday that the deputy should have used his Taser instead of a gun to control her unarmed son, who panicked and ran when he saw a law enforcement officer because he was wanted on a minor crime. “Now he’s dead. In a … Read more
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma prosecutor announced Friday he will not file criminal charges against a police officer in the September shooting death of a deaf man who was not following officer commands. Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said his investigation determined the Sept. 19 shooting death of 35-year-old Magdiel Sanchez outside his south … Read more
Video posted to Facebook as well as body camera video show an unarmed man fatally shot during an altercation with Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies after a call to 911 about a domestic disturbance on December 7. BSO released footage from the body cameras that Deputies Steven Briggs and Sean Youngward were wearing at the time … Read more
A judge deciding the fate of records central to the death of Burlington resident Autumn Steele ruled against law enforcement in her latest decision, clearing the way for an evidentiary hearing to determine if police body camera and dashboard videos are open to public review. Doland’s eight-page decision, obtained Wednesday by The Hawk Eye, summarized … Read more
A Maricopa County jury on Thursday found former Mesa police Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford not guilty of second-degree murder charges in the 2016 shooting of an unarmed Texas man who was on his knees begging for his life. Jurors deliberated for less than six hours over two days, finishing Thursday afternoon. The eight-member jury also … Read more
Three Dallas police officers were indicted Thursday on criminal charges in connection with last year’s death of an unarmed Rockwall man who called 911 for help. Panicking and high on cocaine, Tony Timpa was dead within an hour of calling police to a seedy stretch of West Mockingbird Lane in August 2016. Tony Timpa died … Read more
Former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for the 2015 deadly shooting of unarmed black man Walter Scott. U.S. District Judge David Norton made the ruling after saying he would follow sentencing guidelines to send Slager to prison for 19 to 24 years. The former officer could … Read more
Walter Scott’s youngest son asked a federal judge Wednesday to give the former North Charleston police officer who fatally shot his father the maximum sentence: life in prison. Sitting at a table between civil rights prosecutors, Miles Scott became emotional as he talked about how much he misses his father, whose picture he gripped tightly … Read more