A Lawrence County deputy sheriff was cleared by a grand jury of any wrongful action after a car chase ended in the death of a suspect of a purported traffic violation.
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The deputies who shot Kizzee “reasonably believed” that lethal force was “necessary to defend against a threat of death when they initially fired their weapons,” the LA DA’s Justice System Integrity Division wrote in a report last week.
For every five people shot and killed by police officers across over 150 police departments with the highest rates of police shootings, another four people were injured in police shootings but survived, an investigation by The Washington Post.reveals.
The U.S. had a fatal police shooting rate of 3.1 per million in 2019—and its police forces provided the briefest training period among the 18 countries examined, averaging only five months, according to a Rutgers University study.
The footage shows Porter Burks attempting to run toward or quickly approach the officers, who began shooting almost immediately, firing 38 rounds in three seconds.
Kelly Goodlett and another officer met days after the shooting in a garage where they allegedly agreed on a false story to cover for the false evidence they had submitted to justify the botched raid.
Some fatal shootings have sometimes been justified because officers had only a “split second” to decide whether they faced a threat to their lives. But what was going on before that “split second”?
Following a police shooting in July that left at least 7 people wounded, the most injuries of any police shooting in Colorado in over a decade, the investigation will decide whether officers should be indicted on criminal charges.
Through mid-July, police officers have so far killed 633 people in 2022, including 202 who were fleeing or 32 percent.
With J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao’s sentencing, all four officers involved in George Floyd’s death have been held convicted and sentenced to prison time for their actions.