police violence

Every one of us at the scene carries the tragic horror with us.

Reverend Al Sharpton invited the vice president to deliver brief remarks during Tyre Nichols' funeral in Memphis on Wednesday.

More Republicans said police violence is common against Black people after Nichols' death, compared to those who said the same after George Floyd's death.

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

Tyre Nichols died in hospital days after being detained by police in a traffic stop.

The lawsuit comes after Lexington's police chief was fired after a leaked audio recording surfaced in which he was heard allegedly using racist slurs.

"He was gesticulating with his hands, but I never saw him touch the police or physically threatening them," said an eyewitness.

"We were obviously very surprised, stunned, shocked even disgusted to witness what we saw in that body-worn footage," a member of the Civilian Investigative Panel said.

Devin Wege, 17, claimed a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deliberately ran over his foot during a protest march.

Despite "defund the police" protests in Minneapolis following George Floyd's death, voters rejected a proposal to disband the city's police department.

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

Five years after a police constable used his stun gun and kicked Dalian Atkinson, resulting in his death, the new police chief apologized to Atkinson's family.

The 14-year-old was killed inside a Burlington store in Los Angeles when police opened fire at an assault suspect.

The Hemet Police Department in California said it will "thoroughly" investigate the officer's use of force.

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 pouches, created by Valerie Castile, are designed to store a driver's license, registration and insurance card in plain sight inside the vehicle.

A video captured a school resource officer pinning a 16-year-old student to the ground at Lancaster High School in California.

By deeming the shooting justified despite the facts of the case and the law, the federal government sets a standard that appears to rest on the victim's politics and race rather than an objective judgment about a legal question.

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."

The survey found that police distrust is so severe among people of color that 55 percent of Black people and 40 percent of Hispanics said calling police does more harm than good in a time of need.

A police officer who was seen on security footage apparently slamming a door on a suspect's car has been suspended without pay from his department.

The independent commission called upon the global community to support an International Criminal Court investigation, though the U.S. is not a member state of the ICC.

Concerns grew over former Army ranger Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's previous comments about taking a life in the line of duty.

The woman's attorney said she felt "shock" and "disgust" when she heard the officers discussing the arrest later at the booking office.

Shared on Tuesday, series of TikTok videos showing two Black cyclists being pulled over by the police at gunpoint has reached more than 3.5 million viewers.

Pasquotank County Sheriff Timmy Wooten III identified the man shot by deputies on Wednesday morning as Andrew Brown.

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

Attorneys for the family wrote in a letter: "The truth is this case is tragically simple. Tamir Rice was a boy. On November 22, 2014, he was doing something many boys enjoy: playing with a toy gun in a park near his house."

"The larger officer picked me up by the handcuffs, like I was on a leash, like I was a dog, then he dragged me out... laughing," the woman told the court when recounting her arrest.

The Fox News host has asked President Donald Trump during an interview about the dangers faced by the police.