POLICE

The former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks is suing the mayor and interim police chief, saying his firing violated his constitutional rights and the city code

The police department in Aurora, Colorado, is apologizing for officers handcuffing an entire family, including a 6-year-old girl, after mistaking their vehicle as stolen.

Police in suburban Denver have apologized after a group of Black girls was detained and at least two handcuffed during a weekend investigation of a stolen car

As more states are enacting requirements for people to wear masks to curb a surge of coronavirus cases, they’re facing resistance from the police expected to enforce those orders.

Experts say collective bargaining agreements between officer unions and cities can stand in the way of accountability

A procession and memorial service took place Wednesday in remembrance of Plainfield Police Department K-9 Kody who recently died from cancer.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday refused to answer a question about police violence against Black people, instead pointing out that white people are also sometimes victims of police violence. “And so are white people, so are white people,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’s Catherine Herridge when asked why Black Americans are still dying at the hands of law...

Police in the D.C. area and around the world are testing a new kind of electronic lasso designed to take down a suspect without hurting them.  It’s called a BolaWrap and looks a little like something Wonder Woman or Spider-Man might have dreamed up. A handheld device that looks like a Taser shoots cord as far as 25 feet...

Authorities in suburban Seattle have identified a police officer shot and killed after a brief vehicle pursuit

Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the person who robbed a 7-Eleven store at knifepoint last week in Lincoln Park on the North Side. He entered a store at 1:52 a.m. July 3 in the 2600 block of North Clark Street and demanded money while armed with a knife, police said. The 7-Eleven is located at 2619 N….

‘We were kids. Why would you have a gun in a kid’s face?’

Protestors gathered outside New York’s Schenectady Police Department Monday after video surfaced of an officer kneeling on a man’s neck earlier in the day. Yugeshwar Gaindarpersaud says officers punched him in the stomach and bruised him on his own property.

With a new focus on police accountability and allegations of systemic victimization of African American citizens, attorneys and recently exonerated individuals in Cook County are asking why it takes so long to investigate allegations of police corruption. “I don’t know what’s second to killing Black citizens, than systemically putting them away in prison and taking away their life,” said...

Florida police involved in an incident in which a woman was hit by an officer, apparently at Miami International Airport, were “relieved of duty,” the director of Miami-Dade police said Wednesday.

Each year, hundreds of people die after encounters with the police.

Body camera videos released by the Valdosta Police Department shows an officer body slamming 47-year-old Antonio Arnelo Smith during an encounter that was a result of mistaken identity.

A Black man in Georgia is accusing police of violating his civil rights, saying a white officer slammed him to the ground and broke his wrist in the mistaken belief that there was a warrant for his arrest.

Seattle city crews used heavy equipment to remove makeshift barriers around the city’s “occupied” protest zone following two fatal shootings in the area.

Heavily armed gunmen have attacked and wounded Mexico City’s police chief in a brazen operation that left three people dead

The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously advanced a plan that could one day do away with the city’s police department, following unrest over the killing of George Floyd