Dionne Cordell-Whitney | Courthouse News Service ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) – Attorneys for the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop last summer tried to persuade a state judge Wednesday morning to dismiss the criminal charges against him. Ramsey County District Court Judge William Leary III heard Jeronimo Yanez’s defense … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Cumberland County, NJ — Gerald Sykes, 76, and his wife woke up Friday night to their dogs barking and flashlights shining through their windows. Sykes immediately grabbed his shotgun and proceeded to the living room to defend his home. Sykes was ultimately shot by these intruders and was in … Read more
Lorraine Bailey | Courthouse News Service CHICAGO (CN) – A black man shot fives times by Chicago police officers after he angered them by calling 911 sued the city for excessive force, claiming the officers weren’t disciplined until months after a police oversight board found his shooting unjustified. On Feb. 7, 2015, Antwon D. Golatte … Read more
Via RT – Philadelphia, PA — (RT) The city of Philadelphia has reached a $4.4 million settlement with a black deliveryman which 2 officers say they mistakenly shot 14 times leaving him with permanent injuries and a seizure disorder. The settlement represents the largest in a police shooting incident in the city’s history, Philly.com reports, … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Fort Worth, TX — An innocent man was shot in the back by police, arrested, charged with assaulting THEM, is now paralyzed for the rest of his life — and police call this justice. After David Collie watched the video of a Fort Worth police officer assault and … Read more
Dionne Cordell | Courthouse News Service (CN) – Attorneys for the police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile in July say the manslaughter charge against him should be dropped because Castile was high on marijuana at the time of the incident. Jeronimo Yanez and his attorneys filed a motion to dismiss Wednesday and a … Read more
Helen Christophi | Courthouse News Service SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Eight years after police officers shot a schizophrenic woman in the head inside her apartment, San Francisco has agreed to settle for an undisclosed amount, closing a contentious case that made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer … Read more
Adam Klasfeld | Courthouse News Service MANHATTAN (CN) — In an inversion of Tamir Rice’s fatal shooting in Cleveland, a New York teen holding a toy gun survived police fire — and a federal judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit filed by the boy’s mother against those officers can go to trial. Almost a year … Read more
Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project Thirteen-year-old Tyre King was “more likely than not” running from Columbus, Ohio, police when Officer Bryan Mason fatally shot him, an independent medical examiner retained by the child’s family has now found. Because results of the completed autopsy performed by the local coroner will not be revealed for … Read more
Elizabeth Warmerdam | Courthouse News Service PASADENA, Calif. (CN) — The Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that an Orange County police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man suspected of stealing an ex-girlfriend’s cellphone is not entitled to immunity. The ruling means that Tustin Police Officer Osvaldo Villarreal will have to face a jury on … Read more
DON BABWIN & JASON KEYSER | Courthouse News Service CHICAGO (AP) — A federal grand jury has brought civil rights charges against the Chicago police officer who was videotaped firing shots into a car, injuring two black teenagers. U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon said in a statement that Marco Proano, 41, was indicted Thursday on two … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Milwaukee, WI — A 13-year-old girl was brought to the hospital Thursday afternoon after suffering a bullet wound from a police officer’s gun. According to police, they were attempting to bring the ‘combative’ child under control when the ‘officer’s gun discharged.’ According to police, they were called to … Read more