Policing of Black America

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Senior Airman Roger Fortson
May 29, 2024
The fatal shooting of Roger Fortson by a Florida sheriff's deputy when the Air Force senior airman opened his door…
May 12, 2024
Policing experts say Roger Fortson simply holding a gun when he opened the door wasn’t enough justification to use deadly…
May 8, 2024
The Rev. Al Sharpton and family members of an Ohio man who died in police custody told mourners at his…
April 28, 2024
About half of the 94 people who died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through…
April 28, 2024
The family of Dexter Reed, 26, accused the Chicago Police Department of “brutally violent” policing tactics in wrongful death lawsuit.
April 14, 2024
The Trawick family called the commissioner's move disgraceful after it was announced on the fifth-anniversary of Kawaski Trawick's killing.
April 10, 2024
Already sentenced to federal prison, six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state…
March 21, 2024
I don’t know why I have so much  paranoia about being wrongly accused of stealing from a store. Is it…
March 19, 2024
Two ex-Mississippi sheriff’s deputies, members of a "Goon Squad," have each been sentenced for torturing two Black men.
Police Shooting Connecticut x Trooper Brian North
March 18, 2024
A judge has acquitted Connecticut state trooper Brian North of all charges in the 2020 death of Mubarak Soulemane.
Joseph Mensah cop
March 18, 2024
A federal judge has tossed two of three claims against former Wisconsin cop Joseph Mensah after he killed three people…
March 15, 2024
Sterling Heights police said Wednesday that it released the edited, nearly nine-minute-long video footage “in the spirit of transparency.”
March 14, 2024
An appeals court has overturned the convictions of Officer Robert Olsen, who killed a naked, Black Air Force veteran who…
February 21, 2024
Georgia lawmakers are seeking to change state law to say that officers don't have to arrest people who refuse to…
February 5, 2024
The effect of police violence on Black Americans is tracked in two new studies, with one tying police-involved deaths to sleep disturbances...
January 26, 2024
Family, lawyers and activists for Ricky Cobb II — who was fatally shot by a Minnesota state trooper in a July 2023…
January 6, 2024
A judge sentenced an ex-Colorado cop, Randy Roedema, to 14 months in jail for his role in the death of…
January 5, 2024
Randy Roedema, an police officer convicted of killing Elijah McClain will learn Friday whether his sentence will be prison or probation.
January 5, 2024
A former Alabama police officer has been charged with the murder of Steve Perkins during a dispute with a tow…
December 11, 2023
Marvin Haynes, imprisoned at 16, was set free Monday after a judge ruled the eyewitness evidence on which his conviction…