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On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, his father is urging the top St. Louis County prosecutor to reopen the investigation into the white police officer who fatally shot the black and unarmed 18-year-old. Michael Brown Sr. spoke Friday outside the St. Louis County Justice Center. “Justice has not been served,” Brown, 41, said as he was...

Mayor Pete Buttigieg explains the lack of diversity in South Bend, Indiana’s police force and outlines his vision for reform after a black man was fatally shot by a white police officer.

Friday marked the deadline for sweeping changes to take effect in the Chicago Police Department under a plan of court-supervised reforms, more than two years after a U.S. Justice Department report found a history of civil rights violations by officers.

A federal judge on Thursday approved a far-reaching plan for court-supervised reforms of the Chicago Police Department, nearly two years after a U.S. Justice Department report found a history of civil rights violations by officers.

Defense attorneys rested their case Thursday for three Chicago police officers accused of conspiring to cover up the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald.

Prosecutors in the trial of three Chicago police officers charged with lying about the shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald have rested their case.

The mother of Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager who was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, four years ago, said Friday that she is running for city council in the St. Louis suburb, NBC News reported. Lezley McSpadden announced her candidacy along Canfield Drive, near the exact spot where her son, who was black, was shot and...

National concerns about police use of force have been renewed after a police officer from North Carolina was caught on camera choking a black man at a Waffle House restaurant, NBC News reported. Widely-viewed cellphone video shows 22-year-old Anthony Wall being choked by a white police officer. He was then slammed to the pavement by the officer, and can be...

The Chicago Police Department in a report outlining its plans for reform this year promises better training for officers to respond to emergency calls for people with acute mental health problems, more supervision, and more mental health services for the officers themselves to make sure they are able to do their jobs.

Black Lives Matter is a social movement, like the tea party or the civil rights movement, and therefore can’t be sued, a federal judge ruled Thursday. A police officer anonymously sued Black Lives Matter and DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist in the movement, after being injured by a rock thrown during a protest over a deadly police shooting in Baton...

A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a white police officer’s fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy outside a recreation center has been suspended for eight days. Police Chief Calvin Williams found in a disciplinary letter dated March 10 that Constance Hollinger violated protocol the day of the shooting of Tamir Rice, who had been playing...

Chicago Police Department officials on Tuesday released a blueprint of reforms it will undertake to help it battle crime and combat the distrust of police that has built up in some of the city’s neighborhoods.

Lil Wayne understands why some people criticized him for saying racism is over, but claims people don’t see it from his perspective. The rapper got some backlash last month when he told Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed” that there was “no such thing as racism” because his concert audiences had a lot of white fans. He also said millennials knew that...

Having weathered two all-night curfews with no major disturbances, Baltimore officials are now trying to manage growing expectations they will immediately decide whether to prosecute six police officers involved in the arrest of a black man who later died of injuries he apparently received while in custody.

Mayor Michael Nutter and Fire Commissioner Derrick Sawyer are condemning a Philadelphia Fire Department paramedic for a photo — depicting two black men pointing guns at a white police officer — that was shared on Instagram.

A new group calling itself the Huey P. Newton Gun Club launched armed self-defense patrols Wednesday with one stated purpose to protect Dallas neighbors from police.