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A federal judge has accepted a plea deal from Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. According to the Associated Press, 46-year-old Chauvin pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights during a May 25, 2020, arrest. Chauvin and three other officers had restrained the unarmed Floyd after he was suspected […]
Content warning: This article contains footage and descriptions of police detaining a child. Viral footage showing cops in Syracuse, New York detaining a child for (in their words) “stealing stuff” is drawing widespread criticism. In the clip, which had been shared to Twitter and Reddit at the time of this writing, a child can be seen and heard crying […]
Newly released footage sheds more light on the fatal police shooting of Patrick Lyoya. The deadly encounter occurred during an April 4 traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after an officer stopped the 26-year-old Black man over a license plate issue. On Wednesday, the Grand Rapids Police Department released body camera, dashcam, cell phone, and home surveillance […]
A 19-year-old Brampton resident died hours after an altercation with off-duty Toronto cops last April, according to disciplinary documents recently released by police. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) launched an investigation in the teen’s death back in August, as the two constables involved failed to report the incident. After meeting up with the teen to collect […]
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy knelt on an inmate’s head for three minutes in March of 2021, and department officials reportedly covered the incident up, per the Los Angeles Times. Commander Allen Castellano reportedly wrote in an internal force review that the department was worried about potential optics given the incident’s “nature and its similarities to widely […]
An unarmed Black man who last month was shot and paralyzed by police officers in Trenton, New Jersey, is suing the city and its police department. NBC News reports Jajuan R. Henderson, 29, went to his car to retrieve an iced tea shortly after midnight on Feb. 12, when he was allegedly ambushed by a group of plain-clothed police officers. “In […]
The Los Angeles Police Department has been slapped with another lawsuit alleging excessive force and racial profiling. According to legal documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, the department is being sued by Ernest Simon Jr., a Black production employee of the Walt Disney Company’s General Entertainment Division. The plaintiff says the incident took place in March 2021 during a […]
A Florida police officer’s alleged excessive force was caught on tape, with the footage showing him punching and kneeling on a man after he was already in handcuffs. NBC News reports that the officer, from the West Palm Beach Police Department, has been hit with charges of aggravated battery due to the Nov. 1, 2019 […]
A North Carolina police station is facing protests after an off-duty sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a Black man who he claimed jumped onto his truck. Per the Associated Press, an investigation into the death of 37-year-old Jason Walker on Saturday, Jan. 8 has been launched after he was shot and killed by an off-duty police […]
A member of the jury for the trial of former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter says they believed the cop “made a mistake” when she fatally shot Daunte Wright. In an anonymous interview with with KARE-TV, the juror said that while they ultimately convicted Potter of manslaughter they do not feel as though she’s a racist. […]
