Three officers in a Minnesota city were shot on Sunday morning as they responded to a domestic call, officials said. Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, confirmed the shooting on social media. “They were doing their jobs,” she wrote. “They were protecting our community.” The conditions of the officers were not immediately available. The federal…
A few days before Christmas, a jury in Washington cleared three Tacoma police officers of criminal charges in the death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who died in police custody in 2020 after pleading that he could not breathe. The next day, on Dec. 22, a jury in Colorado convicted two paramedics…
Demetria Heard was driving with her family from their home in Arkansas to a youth basketball tournament in the Dallas area on July 23 when she noticed that a police officer had been following her for several minutes. She told herself it was probably nothing, but soon the siren was on and the cruiser’s lights…
Two former Oklahoma police officers facing manslaughter charges in the fatal 2021 shooting of an unarmed Black man must be reinstated and receive back pay, arbitrators who reviewed their cases have ordered. In their findings, two arbitrators separately concluded that the former officers, Nathan Ronan and Robert Hinkle, who shot Quadry Sanders, 29, a dozen…
The officers, who were also arrested and booked at the Shelby County jail on Thursday, have all been released after posting bail. Lawyers for the officers said that they had not been able to see the video in advance. But they urged the community to avoid rushing to judgment. Blake Ballin, who represents Mr. Mills,…
NASHVILLE — Five Memphis police officers were fired on Friday after the department found that they had used excessive force and failed to intervene or provide help during a traffic stop this month involving a 29-year-old Black man who died in a hospital three days later, officials said. The firings, which were the result of…
Colonel Davis said on Thursday that the case had already spurred “fundamental improvements to our operations, training and administration” inside the state police. The case reached the grand jury in November, brought by John Belton, the district attorney for Union Parish. Mr. Belton had said that federal prosecutors did not object to him moving forward…
Federal officials on Thursday charged four current and former police officers in Louisville, Ky., who were involved in a fatal raid on the apartment of Breonna Taylor, accusing them of several crimes, including lying to obtain a warrant that was used to search her home. During the nighttime raid in March 2020, officers knocked down…