Dominique White’s death certificate indicates two Topeka police officers shot him in the back following a Sept. 28 confrontation in East Topeka. For a family struggling with answers while Lawrence police investigate, the death certificate — which says White died from “gunshot wounds of back” — offers the first new information to be made public … Read more
After walking at least a dozen miles on a hot summer night, 58-year-old Euree Martin asked a stranger for water. Hardly an unusual request just south of Georgia’s gnat line, but the stranger thought otherwise, calling 911 to report a person acting suspiciously. Or as one civil rights activist later called it, “walking while black.” … Read more
In the federal government’s relentless and futile pursuit to control what Americans can and cannot put into their own bodies, all too often, innocent people become the victims of state-sponsored violence. Since its inception during the Nixon years, the drug war has not only failed at its task but it’s served to create a massive … Read more
The man who fatally shot himself moments after his estranged wife was found slain nearby was a longtime former Chicago police officer who had threatened to harm her before, according to her request for an order of protection against him years ago. Police were trying to make contact with Raymond Zene at his Plainfield home … Read more
SANTA CLARA COUNTY — The Santa Clara County District Attorney has cleared an officer of any wrongdoing who shot and killed a mentally ill, suicidal and unarmed man in March, the DA announced Thursday. Jesus Geney-Montes, 24, was shot and killed by a police officer in Santa Clara on March 9 after stabbing himself and … Read more
Daniel Shaver cried for his life before a Mesa police officer shot and killed him, a woman who met Shaver about half an hour before his death testified Thursday in Maricopa County Superior Court. Monique Portillo, 35, testified in the trial of former Mesa Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, whom prosecutors accuse of unjustifiably shooting Shaver. … Read more
A former guard at the jail in Hazard was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years and six months in federal prison for beating an inmate who later died. Damon Wayne Hickman, 40, will have to serve at least 85 percent of the sentence, or nearly nine years. That is because there is no parole in the … Read more
Nearly two years after Michael Marshall was killed by Denver deputy sheriffs at the downtown jail, the city has agreed to pay his family $4.65 million. But because Marshall was schizophrenic, the family insisted that new policies be put in place to train officers on how to deal with mentally ill inmates. They hope that … Read more
An Orange County sheriff’s deputy who in 2013 continued to shoot a felled suspect and then stomped his head may be sued for using excessive deadly force, a federal appeals court decided Wednesday. “When police confront a suspect who poses an immediate threat, they may use deadly force against him,” Judge Alex Kozinski wrote for … Read more
CYPRESS HILLS, Brooklyn – Closing arguments concluded Thursday in the trial of an NYPD officer accused of fatally shooting a man in an apparent case of road rage. Surveillance video appears to show off-duty officer Wayne Isaacs shooting Delrawn Small as he approached his car in East New York in July 2016. Isaacs took the … Read more
CLINTON COUNTY, Ind. — On Tuesday morning, 57-year-old Keith Smith was sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder. In September, the former Colfax deputy town marshal was found guilty of shooting and killing his wife, Lisa Smith in March of 2016. According to court documents, the couple had been married since 2011 and spent … Read more
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — A police officer in southwestern Wyoming who pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the death of a 2-year-old boy is set to be sentenced in November. The Rock Springs Rocket-Miner reports 35-year-old Jacob Anglesey, of Green River, faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced for the … Read more