police accountability
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Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department Closes Case of 68-Year-Old Veteran Tased, Beaten, Shot and Killed by Cops
Federal prosecutors have decided not to file criminal civil rights charges against a white police officer who killed an unarmed African American after the mentally ill man was taunted with racial slurs, tased and shot with a beanbag gun in an incident that began when the victim accidentally set off his medical-alert device. Kenneth Chamberlain…
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I Wanted to Do a Good Deed. I Talked Myself Out of It Because I Thought of All the Ways It Might Get Me Killed
Last night, while heading to drop my daughter off at her mother’s house after her martial arts class, I noticed that the lights on a car in her mother’s neighborhood were blinking on and off. It was fairly windy, so maybe a gust had set off the car alarm, though no sound was coming from…
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Ohio Police Officer Who Killed John Crawford III Claims There Was ‘Imminent Threat’
It’s been well over three years since John Crawford III was killed in an Ohio Walmart store while holding an air rifle, browsing though merchandise and chatting on the phone. Now, though, during a deposition in a federal lawsuit, Beavercreek, Ohio, Officer Sean Williams claims that he faced an “imminent threat” during his encounter with…
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Here’s How Many People Police Killed in 2017
Police officers killed 1,129 people in 2017. More people died from police violence in 2017 than the total number of U.S. soldiers killed in action around the globe (21). More people died at the hands of police in 2017 than the number of black people who were lynched in the worst year of Jim Crow…
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Chicago Oversight Board Finds Fatal Police Shooting of Quintonio LeGrier, Bettie Jones Unjustified
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, a Chicago oversight board, has found that the December 2015 police-involved shooting deaths of a 19-year-old college student and a 55-year-old grandmother were unjustified. According to the Chicago Tribune, the board underlined that there was no evidence to support Officer Robert Rialmo’s claims that the student, Quintonio LeGrier, approached…
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Alabama Family Demanding Answers After 17-Year-Old Brutally Beaten by Officers
An Alabama family is demanding answers after a 17-year-old was brutally assaulted by Troy, Ala., police officers in an incident that left the boy bloody and battered, his face swollen beyond recognition. According to WDHN-TV, as reported by WKRG-TV, the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation said that it is conducting an investigation into the use…
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Cop Fired Following ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’ Conduct in Tasing of Fort Worth, Texas, Woman
A Fort Worth, Texas, police sergeant has been fired after an investigation into his use of force in the apprehension of a black woman that proved to be “absolutely unacceptable,” the Fort Worth Police Department announced Monday. Now-former Police Sgt. Kenneth Pierce was terminated for violating the department’s code of conduct, ABC News reports. According…
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Woman Sues Michigan Police for ‘Thuglike Conduct’ During Brutal Arrest
Police in Coldwater, Mich., are facing a federal civil rights lawsuit after one woman, 31-year-old Tiffany McNeil, claims that they used excessive force during her arrest in a brutal and bloody incident caught on camera, and then lied about what happened. McNeil said that she was slammed to the ground and knocked out cold while…
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Surprise, Surprise: Former Arizona Cop Who Killed Daniel Shaver Was Previously Investigated for Use of Force
This is my shocked face. Absolutely no one could have seen this coming. But as it turns out, the former Arizona cop who was involved in the “execution”-style killing of Texas dad Daniel Shaver had previously been investigated for his use of force back in 2015. TMZ got hold of the violent footage, which shows…