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Police reform April 19, 2025 12:05 pm

10 years after Freddie Gray's death, calls for police reform, racial equity persist in Baltimore

Unrest broke out after Freddie Gray died from spinal injuries sustained during transport in a police van in April 2015.

Brian Chaney stands near the area, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Keego Harbor, Mich., where he was arrested. The officer told Chaney he thought Chaney was breaking into cars and cuffed him. Chaney, who is Black, asked for a supervisor. The white officer told pointed to another officer from a different police department and told Chaney he was the supervisor. The Keego Harbor chief said in a deposition in a lawsuit Chaney filed that it's ok for his officers to lie when they are not under oath.

Police reform January 28, 2024 3:54 pm

Michigan case offers an example of how public trust suffers when police officers lie

A white officer in suburban Detroit lied to a Black pedestrian by identifying an officer from another force as his supervisor during a 2021 police stop. The officer wasn’t disciplined.

Candles and signs are seen during a vigil for Manuel Ellis, a black man whose March death while in Tacoma Police custody was recently found to be a homicide.

Police reform December 21, 2023 11:23 pm

Jury acquits 3 Washington state officers in death of a Black man who told them he couldn't breathe

A jury has cleared three Washington state police officers of all criminal charges in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face down on a Tacoma sidewalk as he pleaded for breath.

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