Excessive Force

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April 15, 2015
CHICAGO (AP) — Victims of police torture under former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge would share $5.5 million, receive an…
April 13, 2015
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton called for unity Sunday at a vigil on the grassy vacant…
April 9, 2015
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — An eyewitness whose cellphone video put a South Carolina police officer in jail on a…
April 9, 2015
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina police officer charged with murder after video surfaced of him shooting a
April 7, 2015
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white police officer was charged with murder Tuesday after he shot and killed a black
April 7, 2015
ZION, Ill. (AP) — Police in the Chicago suburb of Zion say the teenager killed by an officer over the…
April 3, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Detroit father wants answers after his son, 24, died during a traffic stop...
March 26, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Fifty-seven-year-old Floyd Dent says he nearly lost his life after police allegedly beat him and placed him…
March 24, 2015
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than…
March 19, 2015
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (AP) — The governor of Virginia has called for an investigation into the rough arrest of a university…
March 17, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A mentally ill African-American man was shot by Dallas police officers last summer when he did not…
March 3, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - An Alabama man says he was celebrating his purchase of a new home with friends when Madison…
February 2, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Two Florida officers are under investigation for allegedly using excessive force against an 11-year-old girl. The officers…
December 12, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A plainclothes California Highway Patrol officer pointed his gun at protesters, and the image of him doing…
December 4, 2014
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland, Ohio police officers use excessive and unnecessary force far too often, are poorly trained in tactics…
December 2, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A Cleveland policeman who fatally shot a 12-year-old thought the boy..'s pellet gun was a real firearm…
December 1, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will discuss the situation in Ferguson on Monday with his Cabinet, civil rights leaders,…
November 28, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Earlier this week, Dornnella Connors drove into Ferguson to join protesters supporting Michael Brown. Now, she's blind…
October 24, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The family of high school Montre' Merritt is suing the Waycross Police Department for $12.5 million following…