Death in Police Custody

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July 11, 2025
Saniyah Cheatham, 18, died after being found unconscious in a jail cell. Her mother is now demanding footage and rejects…
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December 9, 2021
Foster passed away two days after being arrested following his involvement in a high-speed chase and, while in jail, a…
June 27, 2020
More than one dozen uniformed staff members at the Rikers Island jail complex will face disciplinary action as fallout mounts…
February 26, 2016
According to lawyers, a 50-year-old woman who was arrested after failing to pay her court fines died the next day…
September 28, 2015
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police say a shoplifting suspect who died while in custody was an 18-year-old man...
August 12, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Cleveland woman who was found dead in her jail cell had earlier spoken with officers about…
July 29, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A 44-year-old mother of eight was found dead in her jail cell Monday. Officers reportedly thought she…
July 27, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Fox and Friends co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck said that the reason Sandra Bland might have been asked to…
July 21, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Memphis police officer pulled over a car for a broken headlight and issued a ticket, but…
July 19, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Sandra Bland’s name has been added to the long (and unfortunately growing) list of people digitally memorialized…
July 16, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Twenty-year-old Sandra Bland was found dead Monday in a Waller County, Texas jail cell. Officials have said…
May 22, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A 26-year-old active Fort Bliss soldier self-reported to a jail for a two-day DWI sentence in July…