DETROIT – Damon Grimes died at a hospital Saturday after he crashed an ATV into a pickup truck at Rossini Drive and Gratiot Avenue in Detroit. Michigan State Police said troopers had tried to stop Grimes, 15, for “reckless driving,” but the teen fled on the ATV. Troopers pursued and one of them used a … Read more
The brother of an Akron, Ohio, teen who died in police custody is searching for the truth after learning that the young boy somehow shot himself in the head while seated in the back of a police car with his hands handcuffed behind his back. Greg Wiley, 29, says that he is still left numb … Read more
The Norfolk Police Department in Virginia “recklessly failed” to control an officer who had 11 excessive force reports in 14 months before he killed a mentally ill man armed with a knife, the dead man’s relatives said in their wrongful-death lawsuit. Michael Edington Jr. had a “substantial history” of using excessive force on people in … Read more
DeKALB COUNTY, Ga. – DeKalb County Police Department officials confirm they have charged one of their own officers with vehicular homicide in connection with the death of a retired teacher. Officials said 66-year-old Janet Pickney was struck and killed by officer Ian MacGowan’s patrol car on July 25 as she jogged along Chamblee Tucker Road. … Read more
San Diego federal judge ruled Friday that the lawsuit against the El Cajon police officer who fatally shot Alfred Olango, an unarmed black man, last year can move forward. In the same ruling, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant dismissed the city from the case, saying there was not enough evidence to argue that policies or … Read more
SAGINAW – Dash cam video and audio helped a prosecutor to decide a Saginaw Township police officer did not act with criminal intent in a fatal shooting. Thirty-eight-year-old Farhad Jabbari was stopped for suspected drunken driving by Saginaw Township police on the afternoon of July 19. The video shows this all happened in about nine … Read more
Axon (the company formerly known as Taser) claims that their stun guns have only directly killed 24 people, and that those deaths were due to falls or fires related to the strikes, not because of shocks to the body. But a new investigative report by Reuters found 1,005 cases in the United States where a … Read more
The latest statistics for police killings in America in 2017 are as follows: White – 254 Black – 137 Hispanic – 97 Other – 18 Unknown – 127 Body camera present – 63 Body camera not present – 570 Under 18 – 29 18 – 29 – 192 30 – 44 – 215 >44 – … Read more
Law enforcement groups and civil liberty groups agree on this much: Police video is generally a force for good, helping settle disputes over use of force, providing training resources and putting everyone on their best behavior. Those are among the reasons Waco police have used in-car cameras for some 15 years and are about to … Read more
LOS ANGELES – A reputed gang member who beat a murder charge decades ago and went on to land a job as a police officer was convicted Thursday of the 30-year-old killing after DNA evidence put him at the crime scene. Pierre Romain, 53, was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court of first-degree murder for … Read more
The New York state Attorney General’s office has investigated nearly a dozen cases where a police officer killed an unarmed civilian over the past two years, leading to charges being brought against one NYPD cop, according to a report released Thursday. In a 23-page study from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office laid out the 11 … Read more
An eighth-grader was armed with a non-working BB gun outfitted with a laser sight when he was shot and killed by a Columbus police officer nearly one year ago, according to the police investigative file obtained Thursday. Tyre King, 13, who was a student at Linden-McKinley STEM, pulled the BB gun after Officer Bryan Mason, … Read more