Tag: Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings

First Elijah McClain Trial Begins Today. Here’s What to Know.

Four years ago, a young Black man returning home from a store in Aurora, Colo., was confronted by the police, arrested, put in a carotid chokehold, injected with a sedative by paramedics and placed into an ambulance. The entire encounter was over in about 18 minutes, a state prosecutor said. And the young man, Elijah […]

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Family of Irvo Otieno, Who Died in Custody in Virginia, Settles Suit for $8.5 Million

The family of a Virginia man who died after he was handcuffed and pinned to the floor by sheriff’s deputies and medical staff members for about 11 minutes earlier this year at a state psychiatric hospital has settled a lawsuit for $8.5 million with the state, county and sheriff’s office. The man, Irvo Otieno, 28, […]

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First Trial in the Death of Elijah McClain Expected to Begin: What to Know

The News Jury selection continues in a Colorado district court for the trial of two police officers indicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died days after being subdued by officers and paramedics. The case is split into three separate trials, the first of which is scheduled to begin […]

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Anguish in an Immigrant Community After a Sheriff’s Deputy Kills 2 Teens

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — They buried them both on Saturday: a pair of identical gray coffins, wheeled out of a hillside church and into the adopted hometown of many of the mourners. The two dead — Dhal Apet, 17, and Lueth Mo, 15 — were part of the South Sudanese community here in Syracuse, second-generation émigrés […]

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Mahsa Amini Profile: Her Family Remembers Her a Year After Her Death in Iran

Her face has lit up a billboard in Times Square, and been painted on murals in Paris and Berlin. It has been splashed on the Barcelona soccer team’s private jet and commemorated on T-shirts with the red, white and green colors of Iran’s flag. Vienna and Los Angeles have even named streets after her. At […]

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‘An Innocent and Ordinary Young Woman’

Her face has lit up a billboard in Times Square, and been painted on murals in Paris and Berlin. It has been splashed on the Barcelona soccer team’s private jet and commemorated on T-shirts with the red, white and green colors of Iran’s flag. Vienna and Los Angeles have even named streets after her. At […]

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The Trials of Aurora: A Colorado City’s Deep Divide Over Policing

Officer Nathan Woodyard, then a 30-year-old who had served as a Marine for five years and with the Police Department for nearly three years, was the first to arrive at 10:43 p.m., followed by Officer Jason Rosenblatt, also 30 at the time, who had been on the force for two years, and Randy Roedema, then […]

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Howard Safir, N.Y.P.D. Commissioner Under Giuliani, Is Dead at 81

Howard Safir, who presided over declining rates of violent crime as New York City’s police commissioner in the late 1990s, but who struck many New Yorkers as tone-deaf to racial sensibilities after the shooting deaths of Black men by his officers, died on Monday in Annapolis, Md. He was 81. His son, Adam, said his […]

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Five Former Officers Indicted on Federal Charges in Tyre Nichols Case

Five former Memphis police officers accused of brutally beating Tyre Nichols have been indicted on federal criminal charges of civil rights offenses, obstruction and witness tampering in connection with Mr. Nichols’s death in January, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The charges, brought in the Federal District Court in Memphis against each of the five […]

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New Deal Will Test Whether N.Y.P.D. Can Alter Its Response to Protests

Protesters were thousands-thick in Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village when the police moved in with horses and nightsticks. The tactics were described by a labor leader as “an orgy of brutality” and brought a public outcry demanding that police officials be fired. This was not a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, or […]

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Philadelphia Police Officer Charged in Fatal Shooting

A Philadelphia police officer was charged with murder after he fatally shot a 27-year-old man who was in his car at near point-blank range, prosecutors announced on Friday, weeks after top police officials announced that body camera footage of the killing showed a different account than what the officer initially described. In addition to the […]

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