Authorities said Nicholas Robertson was armed and turning toward sheriff’s deputies when they fired a hail of bullets, killing him in Lynwood, Calif., Saturday. But a mobile phone video appears to show him walking away, KTLA reports. According to the official account, the deputies were responding to calls about a man firing a gun. They…

The South Boston, Va., NAACP held its first march Saturday to demand justice for a black man who died in 2013 while in police custody, the Associated Press reports. A video released last month shows three officers shooting stun guns multiple times to arrest a handcuffed Linwood Lambert Jr., 46, as he runs toward a hospital…

A lawyer representing Mario Woods’ family showed a new video of Woods’ fatal police shooting and announced that he has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. On Dec. 2, at least five San Francisco police officers fired at Woods, who was a suspect in a stabbing. Woods, 26, allegedly wielded…

President Barack Obama will speak to the nation from the Oval Office Sunday night about the San Bernardino, Calif., attack and the war against the Islamic State group, The Hill reports. The White House said, “He will reiterate his firm conviction that ISIL [also known as ISIS or the Islamic State] will be destroyed and…

A new report says that Tamir Rice’s hands were in his pocket and not reaching for his toy gun when a Cleveland police officer fatally shot him last year, the Associated Press reports. This video analysis, released Friday by the attorneys for Tamir’s family, disputes a statement by the officers involved in the shooting, which…

Fresh uproar may be on the horizon in Chicago. Amid calls for greater transparency, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said yesterday that the city will no longer oppose the release of a police dashboard video that reportedly shows an officer fatally shooting a black man in the back, the Chicago Tribune reports. Authorities said that Police…

Both sides in the trial of Baltimore Police Officer William Porter, one of six officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody, delivered opening statements to a mostly black jury Wednesday, NBC News reports. After Gray’s arrest in April, police officers put handcuffs and ankle shackles on the 25-year-old. They placed him in…

Law-enforcement officials arrested a suspect accused of threatening to kill white men at the University of Chicago, CNN reports. Jabari Dean, 21, allegedly posted his threat on social media over the Thanksgiving weekend. It stated that he would shoot 16 white male students or staff at the campus Monday morning. The message noted that the…

Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke walked out of jail Monday night after posting $150,000 bail—that’s 10 percent of his $1.5 million bond, USA Today reports. Van Dyke is charged with first-degree murder for gunning down 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last year. The police dash-cam video of the shooting, released just last week by a judge’s order,…

Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer, testified Monday before the grand jury investigating the case, WKYC reports. The family’s attorney, Subodh Chandra, released a statement following her appearance, which lasted less than 90 minutes. “Ms. Rice told the grand jury about how she learned about…