Police Brutality
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California Cop Charged and Taken Into Custody for Fatally Shooting Black Man
A police officer in San Leandro, Calif., has been charged and taken into custody for the fatal shooting of a Black man in April. CBS San Francisco reports that 49-year-old San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher was taken into custody following a hearing on Tuesday, after being charged with voluntary manslaughter for fatally shooting 33-year-old…
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‘Make Him a Suspect’: Rochester City Records Confirm Coordinated Police Effort to Cover Up the Death of Daniel Prude
A cache of documents from the Rochester, N.Y., police department, including emails, police reports and internal reviews, show a coordinated effort on behalf of city officials to keep the death of Daniel Prude out of the public eye. Prude, a Black man experiencing mental illness, died of suffocation in March after cops responding to a…
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![Breonna Taylor’s Family Reaches $12 Million Settlement With City of Louisville [Updated]](https://assets-server.theroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/29113624/hbstf0xawvprf0o6nqlk-300x195.jpg)
Breonna Taylor’s Family Reaches $12 Million Settlement With City of Louisville [Updated]
Attorneys for the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old emergency medical technician shot and killed by Louisville police in March, confirmed that they had reached a settlement with the city Tuesday. As CNN reports, Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, filed a wrongful death suit against the city earlier this year. The city of Louisville and Taylor’s…
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One Officer Fired After Video Shows Cops From Clayton County, Ga. Brutalizing a Black Ride-Share Passenger Who Reportedly Wouldn't Show ID
After videos posted to social media on Saturday showed two officers from the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia pinning a Black man to the street, punching him, and seemingly attempting to suffocate him, one of the cops in question has been fired. Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill announced the firing on Sunday, but did…
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Report on Fatal Police Shootings of Women Finds Black Women Disproportionately Killed by Law Enforcement
Since 2015, nearly 250 women across America have been shot and killed by police. Despite comprising just 13 percent of the population of women in the United States, Black women accounted for 20 percent of the killings, a new analysis finds. The report, published on Sep. 4, comes from the Washington Post’s Fatal Force project,…
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Washington, D.C., Police Release Body Cam Footage Showing Officer Shooting a Black 18-Year-Old Within Seconds of Arriving on Scene
After a night of protests, D.C. police have released body camera footage showing a D.C. police officer shooting 18-year-old Deon Kay in the chest. The graphic video—taken from the perspective of the shooter, Alexander Alvarez—does show Kay in possession of a gun, but the quick succession of events laid out by police will likely be…
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Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Kenneth Walker Sues Louisville Metro Police, Says Wounded Cop Was Injured by Friendly Fire
Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor who was with her the night she was shot and killed by Louisville Metro Police, has filed a lawsuit against the department, arguing that he is a victim of police misconduct and seeking immunity from future prosecution related to the case. The 28-year-old filed the civil complaint in…
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Top Kenosha Police, Prosecutor Under Increased Scrutiny in Wake of Jacob Blake, Protest Shootings: ‘Some People…Aren’t Worth Saving’
In the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, all eyes are on top law enforcement in Kenosha, Wis., as organizers and civil liberties groups around the country question the culture of policing that permeates the city. Among the officials under renewed scrutiny is Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth, whose comments about a group…
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![Jacob Blake Is No Longer Handcuffed to His Hospital Bed, Attorney Says [Updated]](https://assets-server.theroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/29113405/vlj9ilfqas3m0vpfbalr-300x200.jpg)
Jacob Blake Is No Longer Handcuffed to His Hospital Bed, Attorney Says [Updated]
After being shot in the back multiple times by Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey, 29-year-old Jacob Blake is paralyzed from the waist down, says his family. Despite Blake’s incapacitation—and his clear need to continue to receive treatment—his father says Blake is currently handcuffed to his hospital bed. Blake’s father, also named Jacob Blake, shared the…
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Kenosha Police Release Incomplete Report of Jacob Blake Shooting, Claims He Had a Knife in the Car; FBI to Investigate
Three days after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake multiple times in the back in front of his three children, the department finally has its version of events (or, as CNN aptly put it, “their first version”) of the police shooting. Released late Wednesday, the official police report says officers were responding to a domestic dispute…