A sister of a man shot to death by Chicago police officers last year in a Prairie District park challenged officers’ version of events, saying an officer who was wounded in what police described as an exchange of gunfire actually shot himself. Arlena Love filed a wrongful death suit Monday against the city of Chicago … Read more
The Minneapolis cop who fatally shot an Australian woman during a police call was celebrated as one of the department’s few Somali-American officers, but had two open complaints and named in a recent lawsuit. Mohamed Noor fired at Justine Damond on Saturday night while she was speaking to the officer’s partner. Damond, who’d moved from … Read more
The Fresno County District Attorney’s Office has filed a charge of involuntary manslaughter against a Fresno County sheriff’s detective in the death of Sgt. Rod Lucas last October. The felony charge against Detective Jared Mullis arises from the fatal shooting of Lucas. A complaint was filed Friday after an investigation, the DA’s Office said. Along … Read more
DALLAS – Fired Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver has been indicted for murder for the shooting death of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. A Dallas County grand jury returned the indictment for Oliver Monday on one count of murder and four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a public servant, according to Dallas … Read more
The family of a Reno man who died after being bound in a hogtied position and fighting against police have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed by the father of Thomas Purdy who died in October 2015, is the third wrongful death claim against the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office since in-custody deaths at … Read more
CINCINNATI — Federal authorities announced on Tuesday they have ended their investigation of the fatal police shooting of a black man in a Walmart store, concluding there wasn’t enough evidence to charge the white officer who killed him. The officer shot John Crawford III on Aug. 5, 2014, after police responded to an emergency call … Read more
He grabbed his mother’s wrist and took her phone when she tried to call 911. They were having a family argument. Within hours, 30-year-old Leonard Thomas was dead, killed by a police sniper’s bullet on a May night in 2013. In this freeway-divided Tacoma suburb, the unarmed man was shot on his porch while holding … Read more
Two Madison police officers used unreasonable force when they shot and killed a 26-year-old woman who was pointing a gun at her head during a 2014 incident, a jury found Thursday, awarding her family $7 million in damages. The six-woman, two-man jury deliberated for about 3½ hours before ruling in the federal civil lawsuit brought … Read more
An Ohio police officer who fatally shot a black Walmart shopper holding an air rifle did not violate federal civil rights laws, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Beavercreek Police Officer Sean Williams, already cleared in a criminal investigation of the August 2014 shooting death of John Crawford III, will not be charged with any federal … Read more
The St. Anthony police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile last July during a traffic stop has agreed to leave his job with the city. Jeronimo Yanez will receive $48,500 and any unused personal leave pay he is due from the city as part of a voluntary separation agreement he signed on Monday, according … Read more
INDIANAPOLIS — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into potential Civil Rights violations in the shooting death of Aaron Bailey by two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers. Police say Bailey was driving just before 2 a.m. on June 29 when police pulled him over for a traffic violation near the intersection of … Read more
There’s a picture of Dejuan Guillory making the rounds on social media — in it, he’s smiling and holding two little kids in Halloween costumes — that has been stuck in my mind all day. Guillory, a father of three, was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy in Mamou, Louisiana, on July 6. His … Read more