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While speaking with community leaders at Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday, Joe Biden suggested that the police could decrease the number of fatal shootings at the hands of officers by having them aim for a person’s leg, instead of their heart. “Instead of standing there and teaching a cop, when there’s an unarmed person […]
On Monday evening, 34-year-old former Fort Worth policeman Aaron Dean was booked into the Tarrant County Jail and charged with murder. His bail has been set at $200,000. BREAKING: Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been booked into jail for murder. — Allison Harris (@AllisonFox4News) October 14, 2019 This past weekend, […]
A Texas police officer fatally shot a black woman in her own home early Saturday while performing a welfare check at the residence. According to the New York Times, the shooting occurred at around 2:30 a.m. when law enforcement responded to an “open structure” report. The Fort Worth Police Department said soon after officers began searching the perimeter, they […]
Amber Guyger now faces a maximum of life in prison after being found guilty of murder for fatally shooting her neighbor Botham Jean. The 31-year-old Dallas Police Department officer was in uniform but not on duty when she burst into Jean’s apartment, allegedly thinking it was her own. She then fatally shot Jean. Prosecutors, per […]
A Georgia woman claims she was fired from her job without explanation; however, she believes it has something to do with a lap dance she witnessed within the workplace. According to WSB-TV Atlanta, former Clayton County Jail clerk Sharon Cunningham said was terminated after she reported her supervisor for giving a lap dance to a deputy. The […]
An independent report ordered by the city of Vallejo, California, found officers had acted “reasonably” in the fatal shooting of Willie McCoy, a 21-year-old Bay Area rapper who went by the stage name Willie Bo. The report, authored by retired peace officer David Blake, revealed Vallejo cops had fired 55 rounds in 3.5 seconds during the February incident. Officers […]
Ed Truitt says he had two options when he found himself at the end of an officer’s gun barrel: Comply and get killed or disobey and survive. The young black man faced this dilemma early Sunday morning in the parking lot of an Arkansas convenience store. Law enforcement arrived at the area at around 3 a.m. and began instructing […]
A newly released report reveals more disturbing details about the murder of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by police more than a decade ago. On New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old Grant was forcibly pulled off a train by Bay Area Rapid Transit officers who were responding to reports of a fight. The father was […]
Nearly one year after Sacramento police shot and killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man in his grandmother’s backyard, the District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert has announced that the two officers will not face criminal charges. Clark, 22, was killed on March 18, 2018, after two police officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, responded to a tip about someone […]
Multiple bystanders took gunfire during a shootout between police and an armed robbery person of interest in New Orleans Sunday night. New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson confirmed to Nola.com that a total of five innocent bystanders were hit during the shootout at a bus stop downtown, including one person who’s still in critical condition. […]
