Four Louisiana Officers Charged in Death of Black Man With Mental Illness
Four Louisiana police officers were indicted Friday on charges of negligent homicide and malfeasance after they used excessive force and a Taser to arrest a...
Tag : Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings
Naomi Osaka Pulls Out of French Open
Naomi Osaka, fresh off her win at the United States Open tennis tournament last week, announced Thursday night that she would not compete in the...
Officer Who Ordered Police Dog to Bite a Black Man Is Charged With Assault
A Salt Lake City police officer was charged with aggravated assault on Wednesday, five months after he ordered his police dog to attack a Black...
Documents Reveal How the Police Kept Daniel Prude’s Death Quiet
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It was early June, days after the death of George Floyd, and cities around the country were erupting in protests against police...
Breonna Taylor’s Family Receives $12 Million Settlement From Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After months of protests that turned Breonna Taylor’s name into a national slogan against police violence, city officials have agreed to pay...
Did This Police Maneuver Lead to Daniel Prude’s Death?
The images of police officers in Rochester, N.Y., putting a hood over the head of a Black man who later died of suffocation spread rapidly...
How New York City’s Police Unions Embraced Trump
New York City’s largest police union had not endorsed a candidate for president in decades when its leader, Patrick J. Lynch, stepped to the lectern...
When Good People Don’t Act, Evil Reigns
I have often wondered how major world tragedies and horrors were allowed to unfold. Where were all the good people, those who objected or should...
Embattled Belarus Leader Faces More Protests in Advance of Putin Summit
MINSK, Belarus — A day before high-stakes talks in Russia, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, the embattled strongman leader of Belarus, deployed his security forces in...
Reform the Police? Guess Who Funds My State’s Officials
LOS ANGELES — In late August, Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies shot a Black man, Dijon Kizzee, whom they had stopped for a suspected traffic violation...