Killing

Andrew Emett | The Free Thought Project Bastrop County, TX – After gunning down an innocent, unarmed woman without warning and falsely claiming she had a gun in her hand, a former deputy was found not guilty of murder this week. Although several other deputies were caught blatantly participating in a cover-up, no other cops … Read more

Daniel Staples | Courthouse News Service BALTIMORE (CN) – A Baltimore police officer shot his estranged girlfriend to death after she tried to kick him out of their home, the woman’s children claim in court. Officer James Smith Sr., a 20-year police veteran, killed Kendra Diggs with his service weapon after his fellow officers responded … Read more

Emma Gannon | Courthouse News Service DENVER (CN) – A Colorado family doubts a sheriff’s story that their father shot himself in the back of a police car with his hands cuffed: they claim in court that an officer killed him. Carlos Mendoza, 36, had two children and a third on the way when he … Read more

Lorraine Bailey | Courthouse News Service The former Memphis police chief must face claims that he “rubber stamped” police shootings and sent the message that people “are being killed by design,” the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday. “Here, we have allegations that a government official with supervisory responsibility ratified the conduct of officers who shoot first … Read more

Lorraine Bailey | Courthouse News Service Two officers will not face charges for the shooting of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis that sparked major protests, the Hennepin County Attorney announced Wednesday. Jamar Clark was killed with a gunshot to the head after a minute-long encounter with Minneapolis police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze … Read more

Adam Klasfeld | Courthouse News Service MANHATTAN (CN) – In a report prompted by the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner, city investigators found the New York City Police Department failed to put officers on trial for using chokeholds in 10 substantiated cases. Less than two years have passed since NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo … Read more

Freddy Centeno would not recover from the multiple wounds suffered at the hands of these two Fresno cops. According to Roger Centeno, the victim’s brother, Freddy is bipolar and schizophrenic and abused drugs.  The family had been asking the city and county for help and were told “something needs to happen” before Freddy could get … Read more

2016/03/27 Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Santa Fe, NM — Just after 1 am on Nov. 7, 2013, New Mexico State Police Officer Oliver Wilson saw Jeanette Anaya turn right through a green light from Alta Vista Street onto St. Francis Drive. Wilson claimed Anaya had committed a traffic violation, although the video does … Read more

Tim Hull | Courthouse News Service TUCSON (CN) – A police officer in Bisbee, Ariz., needlessly killed a homeless man who had a long history of mental illness, the man’s relatives claim in a federal lawsuit. During an April 22, 2015, altercation at a tent camp near a supermarket in Bisbee, a small town about … Read more

2016/03/20 Justin Gardner | The Free Thought Project Fresno, CA – The family of a Fresno man is challenging the narrative of the Kings County Sheriff’s Office in the killing of 76-year-old Albert Hanson, Jr. Officers say that Hanson initiated a “standoff” while sitting in his car and fired a round from his rifle, prompting … Read more

Lisa Klein | Courthouse News Service CHICAGO (CN) – Chicago’s police union sued the city this week to stop its inspector general from questioning officers that were on the scene when 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot and killed. Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder by the Cook County State’s Attorney the same … Read more