Last year's shooting of an unarmed mentally ill Black man in Atlanta has prompted prosecutors to seek an indictment against the White police officer involved in his death, The New York Times reports.
Cpl. Eric Johnson, 20, who goes by the name "Santana Sage," was arrested on Tuesday at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona by U.S. Marshals.
“An act of heroism a lot bigger than we should expect from any 15-year-old,” Obama said of the teenager.
The emails show that the mayor's staff was “scrambling” on how to deal with and react to the shooting, especially when the media and community activists began ringing the alarm.
The Chicago officer who fatally shot Ronald Johnson last year has dropped calls for the court to levy sanctions, or penalties, against the the victim's mother, who allegedly made threats towards him on social media, CBS Chicago reports.
According to The Huffington Post, Officer Richard Haste, 34, earned $88,614 in 2015 and received $25,000 in raises since gunning down Ramarley Graham in 2012.
A community is mourning the loss of Zaevion William Dobson, who risked his life to save others when a gunman randomly opened fire.
A Secret Service officer accused earlier this year of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home was shot and killed in Southwest D.C. Tuesday during a suspected robbery gone awry, according to NBC Washington. Arthur Baldwin, 30, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was unarmed when he was shot multiple times around 2:50 p.m., the report says. Arthur Baldwin: Cincinnati native […]
The FBI announced Wednesday that the San Bernardino shooters did not openly post on social media about jihad, but did have conversations about martyrdom using "private direct messages."
On Friday, Marvin Banks was found unresponsive in his cell at Forrest County Jail. After being taken to a local hospital, he was pronounced dead.
A grand jury has brought an indictment against two Louisiana police officers who fatally shot a six-year-old boy after opening fire into his father's car.
The expert also found that the 12-year-old's toy gun was not visible to either Loehmann or his partner, Frank Garmback, the report notes. And contrary to findings by experts hired by the lawyers for the police department, Loehmann shot Tamir less than a second after exiting the patrol car, not 1.7 seconds.
