A man who allegedly fired shots into neighboring apartments in south Minneapolis was shot and killed by police snipers after a tense six-hour standoff with police.
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A jury trial cleared off-duty cop Wayne Issacs of criminal charges in the shooting of an unarmed civilian in 2016. But an administrative trial could remove him from the police force.
Jagger Freeman may be liable for an officer’s death according to New York’s proximate theory of felony murder, even though he didn’t carry a weapon.
Six of the Vallejo, Calif., police department’s 17 fatal shootings between 2011 and 2020 involved an officer using deadly force while still under investigation for a prior killing.
Some 50 protesters were arrested during July 4 demonstrations in Akron, Ohio over an incident that began as a routine traffic stop.
The department under then-Attorney General William P. Barr decided in November 2019 that it did not have enough evidence to charge the two Park Police officers with federal criminal civil rights violations in connection with the traffic stop killing of Bijan Ghaisar .
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced Monday that Edsaul Mendoza had been charged with three counts of murder following a March 1 incident in which 12-year-old Thomas “TJ” Siderio was shot in the back.
Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom named Christopher Schurr as the officer who killed Patrick Lyoya during a confrontation after a routine traffic stop on April 9, after initially insisting that he would withhold the officer’s name unless he was charged with a crime.
Lawyers for the family of Patrick Lyoya have released results from an independent autopsy confirming that the 26-year-old Black man was killed by a bullet to the back of the head during a confrontation with an as yet unnamed Grand Rapids, Mich., police officer.
Prosecutor Chris Becker, who will decide whether any charges are warranted in last week’s police shooting of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, MI., said the public shouldn’t expect a quick decision.