Two Triple Shootings of Police Since Friday
One police officer was killed and two others critically wounded in Fargo, N.D., on Friday afternoon in what a witness described as an...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 8, 20232 min read
Liberal Prosecutors Struggle to Charge Officers in Old Cases
With high-profile instances of police brutality occurring more in recent years, liberal prosecutors have promised to reopen old cases...
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Crime and Justice News
May 29, 20231 min read
Family Wants Miss. Officer Fired For Shooting Eleven-Year-Old Boy
A family sought the firing of an Indianola, Miss., police officer after he shot an 11-year-old boy who was trying to follow the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20232 min read
$19 Million Settlement in Police Shooting of 911 Caller
In the largest settlement over police misconduct in Colorado history, the state of Colorado and three local law enforcement agencies...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 21, 20232 min read
2022 Fatal Police Shootings Up Again, But Causes Up for Debate
Last year, police shot and killed more people than at any point since the Washington Post began tracking these incidents in 2015, with...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 16, 20232 min read
Feds Now Looking Into MS Police Shooting
Mississippi and federal investigators are probing allegations that six white sheriff's deputies falsely accused a Black man of selling...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 3, 20232 min read
Memphis Police Kill Man In Library After He Shoots Officer
A Memphis police officer shot and killed a man in a public library on Thursday after the man shot another officer, critically wounding...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 3, 20232 min read
OH Police Kill Fleeing Man They Say 'Almost Struck' Officer With Minivan
Joe Frasure, 28, died on Tuesday after being shot by Wyoming, Oh., police officers the day before. Family members say Frasure was...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20232 min read
$12 Million Settlement By IL Police Agency Over Shooting Of Boy, 12
Twelve-year-old Amir Worshop was sitting on his bed hands raised when an Illinois police officer shot him in the knee with an AR-15-style...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 12, 20231 min read
L.A. Chief Moore 'Deeply Concerned' About Recent Fatal Police Shootings
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore is concerned about two recent fatal police shootings, including one in which officers failed to...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 14, 20222 min read
Louisville Settles Lawsuits By Breonna Taylor Friend For $2M
The city of Louisville settled lawsuits brought by Breonna Taylor‘s boyfriend, who was there when police fatally shot her during a raid...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 6, 20222 min read
Feds Record Fewer Fatal Police Shootings As National Total Rises
Fewer fatal police shootings are recorded by the federal government every year, despite renewed scrutiny of police use of force and...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 16, 20221 min read
Off-Duty NY Cop in Murder-Suicide
An off-duty police officer from a suburban Rochester, N.Y., department killed herself after shooting two women, one fatally, according to...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 26, 20222 min read
Former TX Police Officer Acquitted in 2020 Shooting of Black Man
A white police officer who shot and killed a 31-year-old Black man in Texas two years ago and whose response was deemed “not objectively...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 12, 20222 min read
No Charges Against KS Officer Who Killed An Unarmed 17-Year-Old
The Justice Department will not file criminal civil rights charges against a police officer in Overland Park, Ks., who shot and killed an...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 6, 20221 min read
Ohio Probing Columbus Police Killing of Unarmed Black Man in Bed
This summer, Donovan Lewis shoved his wife LaTonya Lewis out of a chair at a park, she said, so she fled and called police. The call set...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 27, 20221 min read
Family of Pregnant 16-year-old Killed by Police Wins $21 Million
A federal jury awarded $21 million to the family of 16-year-old pregnant girl who was fatally shot by police in Fremont, Ca., in 2017,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 16, 20222 min read
Judge Bars Florida Newspaper From Naming Deputies In Fatal Shooting
The Sarasota, Fl., Herald-Tribune says is seeking to overturn an emergency injunction granted by a judge the Sarasota County Sheriff’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 7, 20221 min read
$3M Settlement In NC Deputies Killing of Unarmed Black Man
A North Carolina sheriff’s office announced a $3 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man who was shot...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 26, 20221 min read
Police Officer Identified in Michigan's Lyoya Death
A Michigan police chief reversed course on Monday and publicly identified the officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the...
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