In a dimly lit, wooded area on the southwest side of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn., the handgun Brent Ahlers brought to work accidentally discharged, wounding him. As a security officer at the Catholic university, Ahlers knew the school did not typically arm its personnel, and he feared that bringing his weapon on … Read more
In November 2013, Kansas City police investigating a reported carjacking shot Philippe Lora — 20 times, according to his attorney — leaving him partly paralyzed. When Lora filed a lawsuit saying that he was unarmed and that the officers used excessive force, the department paid $4.8 million in one of the largest settlements in the … Read more
A Macon County Sheriff’s Deputy fired a couple shots at his wife as she ran away from him, and he then decided to barricade himself in his house in preparation for a standoff against other police. He was eventually taken into custody after a 9 hour standoff at his home in Rosamond. The Herald Review … Read more
Investigators are probing the psychological and medical health records of the two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Australian woman Justine Damond two months ago. The independent body investigating Damond’s death, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), has applied in court to access the unredacted personnel files and medical records of officers … Read more
Body-cam footage released Wednesday shows an Ohio sheriff’s deputy shooting a news photographer whose camera he mistook for a gun. “Andy, I’m sorry, brother,” Clark County sheriff’s deputy Jake Shaw can be heard saying. “Listen, dude, you pulled that out like a gun out of the back of the Jeep.” Andy Grimm was on his … Read more
A small Ohio news organization said one of its photographers was shot by a sheriff’s deputy Monday night while he set up to take pictures of a random traffic stop. Andy Grimm “had his camera in his hand” when he was shot in his side by a Clark County sheriff’s deputy in New Carlisle, which … Read more
Move follows the fatal shooting of a retired librarian during a citizen’s training exercise in 2016. PUNTA GORDA — The Punta Gorda police chief has been fired. A Punta Gorda city spokesperson said that despite other media outlets reporting that Chief Tom Lewis had been fired Tuesday, he was not discharged until 10 a.m. this … Read more
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Cobb County police officer who fired eight shots at a 16-year-old as he ran home is now off the job. Channel 2 Action News obtained exclusive body-camera video of the shooting. But Channel 2’s Mark Winne learned the officer was cleared in the shooting. Records indicated officer James Caleb Elliot … Read more
A Chicago police Officer Marco Proano claimed he was just doing his job when he fired 16 shots at a stolen car filled with teenagers on the South Side, wounding two. But a federal jury decided Monday that the shooting — captured on a police dashboard camera video — wasn’t the action of a cop … Read more
SAGINAW – Dash cam video and audio helped a prosecutor to decide a Saginaw Township police officer did not act with criminal intent in a fatal shooting. Thirty-eight-year-old Farhad Jabbari was stopped for suspected drunken driving by Saginaw Township police on the afternoon of July 19. The video shows this all happened in about nine … Read more
TROY — Troy police confirmed Thursday that they did not find a firearm at the scene of the Aug. 15 police shooting of Dahmeek McDonald. Police had previously declined to say if the 22-year-old Troy man, who was wanted on an alleged parole violation, had been armed when an officer opened fire and shot him … Read more
A man who was paralysed after being shot four times by US police has released a video showing the extent to which he has recovered from the controversial 2012 shooting. Leon Ford was pulled over by police in Pittsburgh five years ago for failing to come to a complete standstill at a junction. Police later … Read more