After shooting Philando Castile dead during a traffic stop — a killing that was livestreamed on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds — the police obtained a secret warrant for Reynolds’s Facebook account, including her private messages and deleted messages, accompanied by a gag order that banned Facebook from every discussing the warrant’s existence. Facebook … Read more
Six police officers have been injured, with four taken to hospital, following a protest in London over the death of a man after a traffic stop. One male police sergeant suffered facial injuries and a female constable sustained head injuries as demonstrators threw “a number of objects” toward officers at the scene in Stratford, east … Read more
A video showing Seattle police Officer Sean Whitcomb talking about the fatal police shooting of Charleena Lyles — while he was playing a video game — has been removed from the department’s Twitch and YouTube accounts. The video, first posted Thursday, was part of a weekly outreach effort by the Seattle Police Department called “Fuzzfeed206,” … Read more
2017/06/24 The office of Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson said Thursday it had concluded some Mesquite police officers, who in August 2013 shocked 18-year-old Graham Dyer with a Taser on his testicles while he was handcuffed and allowed him to fatally injure himself in the back of their cruiser, had committed a crime. But … Read more
A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury deadlocked in the case of a former University of Cincinnati police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man during a 2015 traffic stop, the latest in a series of high-profile law enforcement shootings that spurred charges but not convictions. The mistrial was the third … Read more
A grand jury has indicted a Dallas police officer on a charge of aggravated assault for firing into a moving car and killing a 21-year-old woman. Christopher Hess, a 10-year veteran of the department, has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation into the death of Genevive Dawes, Dallas police said in … Read more
Deputies accidentally killed a 17-year-old boy while shooting at an aggressive dog outside a home in Palmdale early Thursday morning, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The boy, who was identified by family as Armando Garcia, was likely struck by a bullet that ricochet off the driveway, LASD reports. The shooting occurred at approximately … Read more
A former Milwaukee police officer was found not guilty on Tuesday of reckless homicide in the August shooting of a 23-year-old black man, which led to two days of violent protests. Former officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown would have faced to up to 60 years in prison if he had been convicted. At the prosecution’s request, jurors … Read more
The parents of Michael Brown have reached a confidential settlement with the City of Ferguson over his 2014 death at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson. U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber approved of the settlement Tuesday, but ordered the amount sealed to protect the parties. “Disclosure of the terms of the settlement agreement … Read more
A Honduran immigrant — arrested after being mistaken for another undocumented worker by ICE agents — died in federal custody earlier this month because of inadequate medical treatment, his family’s lawyer alleges. Rolando Meza Espinoza, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on April 1, died on June 10 in the Jersey City … Read more
A 16-year-old Mexican teenager killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent appeared to be on the ground as the agent fired 13 of the 16 shots through the border fence in Nogales, a partial video of the 2012 killing showed Monday. Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was lying facedown on the ground and did not appear … Read more
< The Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile told state investigators that he believed his life was danger because he smelled marijuana in his car, according to transcripts released on Tuesday along with dash-camera footage. Officer Jeronimo Yanez said in an interview following the fatal traffic stop that Castile’s apparent willingness to ... Read more