Police Killings

The proportion of unarmed Black people being killed in police encounters is falling but Black people are still three times more likely to be victims.

Last week, five former Memphis Police officers were charged with second-degree murder in the death of Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man.

Protests have been planned in multiple cities on Friday, including Memphis, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.

Chief C.J. Davis said police have found no evidence backing up claims Nichols was involved in reckless driving at the time of his arrest.

Anderson died after suffering a cardiac arrest after being repeatedly tasered by police in Los Angeles.

Earlier this month two men were shot dead by police in Los Angeles, with another dying of cardiac arrest after being repeatedly stunned.

Heavily armed officers killed a suspected armed robber at an Extended Stay America hotel.

A man making "aggressive movements" with a knife was shot dead in Buford, Georgia, shortly before police found the bodies of two women.

The killing of two El Monte police officers comes as the effort to recall the Los Angeles DA gains enough signatures to get on a November ballot.

A former sheriff's deputy was convicted of a misdemeanor but avoided a felony charge for the shooting of a teen.

Governor John Bel Edwards met with the state's Legislative Black Caucus to address a report saying he knew the true circumstances behind Ronald Greene's death.

"Officers are being hunted in the streets," said a police union official this week. "Where are you, Mr. President?"

Despite the BLM movement, Black people are being killed at similar rates to previous years.

"Officer Cummings' actions deviated from his oath and his negligence caused the death of Leneal Frazier," the Hennepin County attorney said.

Three former sheriff's deputies, all white, are on trial for the murder of Eurie Martin after repeatedly shocking him with stun guns.

Damien Ferguson, from Alamo, Georgia, has been arrested in connection with the police officer's death.

A new study estimates the government system that collates all death certificates failed to report 17,100 deaths from police violence between 1980 and 2018.

"The issues raised in the arrest and death of Garner and its aftermath are of the greatest significance," Thursday's ruling read.

Samuel Sinyangwe, who co-founded Mapping Police Violence, says the figure is "most likely an underestimate because more recent killings have fewer articles reporting details such as the race of the victim."

A senior officer was de-escalating the situation with a suicidal man who was holding a gun to his head when Darby entered the scene and shot the man in the face.

At least 979 civilians were killed by police between May 25, 2020 and April 20, 2021, with 71 police officers also killed in the line of duty.

Will the U.S. seize the historic moment following the conviction of Derek Chauvin for George Floyd's murder to finally tackle the the policing and criminal justice crises that have torn the country apart? Activist Shaun King outlines the steps Biden and Congress should take now.

Fifteen-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant became the sixth minor fatally shot by the Columbus Division of Police since 2016.

Black people accounted for 18.7 percent of police killings since May 25, 2020.

Floyd's death on Memorial Day after being pinned with a knee to the neck by a white Minneapolis officer shocked the nation, galvanizing Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S. and abroad.

According to Mapping Police Violence, by the end of November, there had only been 17 days in the year when officers did not kill someone.

Sunny Hostin asked the Democratic senator and presidential candidate about her record as a Minnesota county attorney, particularly prosecutions of police.

Sixty-six of the 964 people killed were unarmed.

There were about 1,166 people killed by police in 2015 and only 523 were reported, a study found.

A witness said Dawud Abdulwali 'was mad' about 'the way the cops were killing black people.'