SOUTHAVEN, MS – The grand jury declined to indict the officers who shot and killed a man when they served a warrant at the wrong house. Ismael Lopez was shot and killed by police while he stood inside the front door of his Southaven home in July 2017. District Attorney John Champion said he took … Read more
CLEVELAND, Ohio — An arbitrator halved the suspension Cleveland police officer Frank Garmback received for his role in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Garmback’s original 10-day suspension was reduced to five days by arbitrator Daniel Zeiser of Cleveland. Garmback was previously suspended for using improper tactics when driving his police cruiser to within … Read more
The NYPD for the first time released footage from one of its officers’ bodycams last year — and now it needs to fork over the rest of it, according to a civil rights group that says it will sue to see the unedited tape. The New York Lawyers for the Public Interest said Thursday it … Read more
Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore said in a Tuesday morning news conference that the bullet that struck 27-year-old Melyda Corado, the assistant manager at the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s store, was likely fired by police. She was killed Saturday during a tense, three-hour hostage situation in the Trader Joe’s store in the Silver Lake … Read more
The family of an Australian woman shot dead by a police officer outside her home in Minneapolis is suing the city and several officers for violating her civil rights. Justine Damond Ruszczyk, 40, was shot last year after calling police to report a suspected crime near her home. The July 2017 incident sparked international outrage, … Read more
MILWAUKEE — Two police officers who broke down a mentally ill man’s door and tased him in the shower 18 times with stun guns before he died will not be criminally charged, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided. More than 30 minutes elapsed between the first time the West Milwaukee officers deployed their … Read more
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — They are a father and son who have served in the U.S. military and spent years in uniform as Palm Beach County Sheriff’s road patrol deputies. Today they are wearing blue jail scrubs as inmates at the Palm Beach County Jail. Dad Carlton Nebergall Jr. is charged with first-degree murder. … Read more
After more than 15 years in the U.S., Edwin Garcia found himself at a crossroads. Should he stay in New York in order to continue sending money to his wife and three kids back in El Salvador — or return home to finally be with them? The 41-year-old East Harlem man worked from morning to … Read more
A lawyer for the family of a man shot and killed by police in Vineland on Saturday is calling on cops at the scene that day to step forward and report what really happened. The officer who shot and killed Rashaun Washington apparently didn’t follow state guidelines for use of deadly force, according to attorney … Read more
A Connecticut military family is fighting the claim that their son’s 2016 death in Tennessee was an accident. Austin McGeough, a 21-year-old Army specialist stationed in Fort Campbell on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, died when he was hit and run over by at least three vehicles in the early morning hours of Oct. 15, 2016 in … Read more
EL PASO, Texas – Jurors in the trial of Raymond Licon Jr. – the El Paso Police officer charged in the drowning death of his baby son – heard the painful 911 call in which the officer is heard screaming and telling the operator, “I killed my son!” During opening arguments Monday, the prosecution told … Read more
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri has revoked the peace officer license of a former highway patrol trooper who was driving a patrol boat when a handcuffed Iowa man fell out and drowned. The Kansas City Star reports Anthony Piercy’s license was permanently revoked after the Missouri Department of Public Safety reviewed evidence … Read more