police shootings

Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran on Friday, about a month after he killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson while responding to a domestic violence call and being directed to Fortson’s apartment. Chantemekki Fortson, Roger Fortson's mother, said the firing was akin to throwing her “a bone.”

The famed civil rights attorney said the police-involved shooting last month of Donald Armstrong is yet another disturbing instance when police officers fail to handle mental health-related emergency calls and routinely impose criminal charges to justify using lethal force

The first full public accounting of the 2022 death of Romen Phelps, a 33-year-old electrician who crashed into Dreyfoos High School of the Arts while in the throes of a drug-induced mania, shows that a 2-minute clash with a cop - who refused to grant police an interview but was later honored - ended his life.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy, called for justice for Nichols and lamented the fact that Nichols was killed in the same city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

Memphis authorities initially said Tyre Nichols was taken into custody after two "confrontations" with police. Video footage released later shows Nichols being fatally beaten by officers.

The charges announced by Attorney General Merrit Garland on Thursday include civil rights violations, conspiracy, use of excessive force offenses and obstruction.

Trooper Brian North fired seven gunshots into a car, killing 19-year-old Mubarak Soulemane in 2020 after a high-speed chase. North said he feared Soulemane would attack other officers with a knife.

The new initiative will eliminate concerns from the first autopsy, ensure that it was conducted without any biases or errors.

A well-funded, and mostly misunderstood, 2018 ballot amendment could roll back public oversight of the police for the foreseeable future. How did we get here?

"What we saw on that video was an unjustified killing," family attorney Bakari Sellers told reporters on Tuesday in Elizabeth City, N.C., after seeing additional police body camera video.

Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was shot dead by sheriff's deputies as they arrived to carry out search and arrest warrants last month. The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered his eulogy.

The Pasquotank County, N.C., Sheriff's Office said three deputies who fired shots will stay on leave pending investigations but that it's "obvious" from videos that four deputies didn't shoot.