Tag: Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings

Goon Squad Officers Face Sentencing in Mississippi Torture Cases

Six former law enforcement officers who called themselves the Goon Squad face sentencing in Mississippi starting today, months after they pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses for torturing and sexually assaulting two Black men and a third white man who has remained anonymous until now. Over the next three days, the officers, who each […]

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Connecticut Trooper, Brian North, Is Acquitted in Killing of a Black Teenager

A former Connecticut state trooper was acquitted on Friday of manslaughter and other charges in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old Black man after a car chase four years ago. The trooper, Brian D. North, was criminally charged in 2022 in the killing of the teenager, Mubarak Soulemane, on Jan. 15, 2020. The killing occurred […]

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Republicans Move to Block a Policing Change Made After Tyre Nichols’s Death

The News Tennessee Republicans moved on Thursday to overrule a change to the policing of Memphis traffic laws that was a direct response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who was fatally beaten by officers last year during a traffic stop. A new Memphis law, supported by Mr. Nichols’s family and seen by many as […]

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Iran’s 2022 Protest Crackdown Included Killings, Torture and Rape, U.N. Finds

United Nations investigators say Iranian authorities killed, tortured and raped women, men and children in a brutal repression of mass protests that erupted over the death in police custody of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly wearing a mandatory hijab incorrectly. A U.N. fact-finding mission reporting to the Human Rights […]

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Woman Arrested for DUI in Washington State Had a Brain Bleed

Driving home from work on the day her life changed forever, Nicole McClure could feel her feet tingling and her sense of direction faltering. Then she noticed colorful lights illuminating the early morning landscape. “Oh, pretty lights,” she remembers thinking, not realizing that a highway patrol car was coming up behind her. On what was […]

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Sheriff’s Deputies Shoot Woman Inside Friend’s Home in Houston, Authorities Say

A Houston woman was shot in her friend’s apartment this month by sheriff’s deputies who responded to a report of a break-in and fired repeatedly into the home, according to a statement and body camera footage released by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Early on Feb. 3, the woman, Eboni Pouncy, and her friend smashed […]

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NYPD Officer Fatally Shoots Man in Queens Apartment, Officials Say

A New York City police officer on Monday fatally shot a man in a Queens apartment who officials said had pointed an “imitation gun” at officers who were responding to a 911 call reporting that shots had been fired at the building. The man, whom the police did not immediately identify, refused officers’ commands to […]

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Democratic Divide Over Israel Drives a Left vs. Left Fight for a House Seat

The St. Louis County prosecutor challenging Representative Cori Bush for her House seat in Missouri began his day Thursday being interviewed by a prominent Black radio personality in St. Louis. The prosecutor, Wesley Bell, then went on to lecture a sociology class at St. Louis Community College, where he once taught criminal justice, had lunch […]

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New Mexico Will Not Charge Officers Who Fatally Shot Man at Wrong Address

No criminal charges will be filed against three New Mexico police officers who went to the wrong address while responding to a domestic violence call last year and fatally shot the armed homeowner who came to the door, state officials said. The New Mexico Department of Justice said in a report on Friday that a […]

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Memphis Releases New Footage From Night of Tyre Nichols’s Fatal Beating

The city of Memphis released on Tuesday hours of audio, surveillance and police body-camera footage that offered a fuller picture of the night police officers fatally beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black FedEx worker, during a traffic stop last January. Initially, in the weeks after Mr. Nichols died in a hospital from blunt force injuries […]

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The Failed Promise of Police Body Cameras

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The NYPD Pulled Over Yusef Salaam. Now Both Are Under Fire.

Yusef Salaam, the newly elected New York City Council member who was wrongfully convicted in 1990 as a member of the Central Park Five, was in Harlem on Friday night, driving downtown to dinner with his wife and four of his children, when the flashing lights of a police car appeared behind him. He pulled […]

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Minnesota State Trooper Charged with Murder in Shooting of Ricy Cobb

Prosecutors charged a Minnesota state trooper with second-degree murder on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a motorist who drove away during a traffic stop last summer in Minneapolis. The announcement of charges against Trooper Ryan Londregan in the death of the driver, Ricky Cobb II, followed an investigation that exposed tensions between law enforcement […]

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French Police Officer Convicted in Théo Luhaka Abuse Case

A police officer who brutalized a 22-year-old Black man with an expandable baton during an arrest seven years ago was convicted by a French court on Friday of “intentional violence” in one of the country’s highest-profile cases of police abuse. The young man, Théo Luhaka, sustained a four-inch tear to his rectum after the police […]

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Black and Jewish Activists Have Allied for Decades. What Now?

Eva Borgwardt first embraced the Palestinian cause the summer after she graduated from high school. It happened because of Michael Brown. It was August 2014, and in Ferguson, Mo., not far from her family’s well-off St. Louis neighborhood, protests were erupting after Brown was killed by a police officer. At home, Borgwardt had often wondered […]

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Tacoma Officers Cleared in Black Man’s Death Will Get $500,000 Each to Resign

Three Tacoma police officers who were acquitted in the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died in police custody in 2020 after pleading that he could not breathe, will each receive $500,000 for resigning from the Tacoma Police Department, according to documents released by the city on Tuesday. Two of the officers, Christopher […]

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Tyre Nichols Death: What We Know So Far, One Year After His Killing

Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black FedEx worker, was beaten by Memphis police officers for roughly three minutes on the evening of Jan. 7, 2023, after he was stopped for what the police initially said was reckless driving. The stop escalated into a violent confrontation that ended with Mr. Nichols hospitalized in critical condition. Three days […]

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Police Officer Sentenced in Death of Elijah McClain

A Colorado police officer involved in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young unarmed Black man whose case helped galvanize the police reform movement, was sentenced on Friday to 14 months in a county jail. Randy Roedema, 41, an Aurora Police Department officer at the time, was convicted in October of criminally negligent homicide […]

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After George Floyd, Are Juries Convicting Police Officers?

A few days before Christmas, a jury in Washington cleared three Tacoma police officers of criminal charges in the death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who died in police custody in 2020 after pleading that he could not breathe. The next day, on Dec. 22, a jury in Colorado convicted two paramedics […]

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Who Investigates Mississippi Sheriffs? Often No One.

As Marquise Tillman led deputies on a high-speed chase through rural Mississippi in March 2019, Sheriff Todd Kemp issued a blunt order over the radio: “Shut him down and beat his ass.” When the Clarke County deputies caught Mr. Tillman, they did just that, he later alleged in a lawsuit. He said they pummeled and […]

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Los Angeles D.A. Gascón Is Running for Re-election in a Very Different Climate

Three years ago, George Gascón rode a wave of collective outrage following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis to become district attorney of Los Angeles by promising to make the criminal justice system fairer and, most crucially, to rein in the police. Now, to win re-election and stay in office, Mr. Gascón will need […]

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Trump Pushes Pro-Police Agenda, With a Big Exception: His Criminal Cases

Former President Donald J. Trump has long spoken admiringly of police officers who use aggressive force on the job. For years, he has pointed to his unwavering support for local law enforcement, presenting himself as a “law and order” candidate who would help the police tackle violent crime. But now, as Mr. Trump campaigns again […]

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Former N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Charged With Child Sex Offenses

A former New York City police officer was indicted in federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday on charges of coercing a boy to engage in sex and soliciting explicit sexual conversations and nude photographs from boys. The former officer, Christopher Terranova, 34, met one of his victims by using a Police Department database to obtain […]

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How Police Body Cams Failed Us

What it showed was even more damning than what was captured in the Richards shooting. As the police entered his apartment, Trawick demanded to know, “Why are you in my home?” One officer, Herbert Davis, who was Black and more experienced, then tried to stop his white junior counterpart, Brendan Thompson, from using force. “We […]

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Former Police Officer Admits Helping Her Lover, a Gang Leader, Flee the Country

A former New York City police officer confessed on Thursday to helping a man who prosecutors said was her lover, the leader of a Bronx gang called the Shooting Boys, flee a homicide investigation and escape to the Dominican Republic. The former officer, Gina L. Mestre, 33, of Mohegan Lake, N.Y., admitted in Federal District […]

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Tyler Goodson of ‘S-Town’ Podcast Is Shot Dead in Police Standoff

Tyler Goodson, who was featured in the “S-Town” podcast series, died on Sunday after he was shot during a standoff with the police, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said on Monday. The police in Woodstock, Ala., southwest of Birmingham, responded to a call after midnight on Sunday at a home in Bibb County, where they […]

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Tyler Goodson of ‘S-Town’ Podcast Is Shot Dead in Police Standoff

Tyler Goodson, who was featured in the “S-Town” podcast series, died on Sunday after he was shot during a standoff with the police, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said on Monday. The police in Woodstock, Ala., southwest of Birmingham, responded to a call after midnight on Sunday at a home in Bibb County, where they […]

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Inmate Charged in Stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 Times, U.S. Says

An inmate has been charged with attempted murder for stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 times last week at a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona said on Friday. The inmate, John Turscak, 52, is accused of stabbing Mr. Chauvin with an improvised knife on Nov. 24. Mr. Turscak told investigators that […]

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6 Former Jail Officers Charged in Death of West Virginia Inmate

Six former correctional officers at a West Virginia jail are facing federal charges in the death of an inmate who was assaulted by a group of guards and died last year, the Justice Department said Thursday. The inmate, Quantez Burks, 37, had been at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., for less than a […]

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How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Deputies Got Away With Years of Brutality

For nearly two decades, a loose band of sheriff’s deputies roamed impoverished neighborhoods across a central Mississippi county, meting out their own version of justice. Narcotics detectives and patrol officers, some who called themselves the Goon Squad, barged into homes in the middle of the night, accusing people inside of dealing drugs. Then they handcuffed […]

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Trial of Paramedics Begins in Elijah McClain’s Death

The News The third and final trial over the death of Elijah McClain opened Wednesday in a Colorado courtroom, where jurors will be asked to decide whether two paramedics who responded to the deadly police encounter can be held criminally responsible for what happened to him. Mr. McClain, a young, unarmed Black man, died in […]

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