police killings

In some ways, 2020 has appeared to mark a turning point in the United States’ long ongoing racial justice movement.…

The family of Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a Franklin County sheriff’s…

In 2018, Jemel Roberson, a Black security guard, was restraining an active shooter when he was shot and killed by a…

There are certain figures that, for one reason or another, get seared in your brain.

The Austin Police Department has released bodycam footage and the 911 call from a fatal encounter between its…

When 23-year-old Elijah McClain died after police put him in a chokehold last year, the news of his killing—and the…

Every week, it seems a new video emerges showing the police blatantly disregarding the pleas of people in their…

When audiences finished the Oscar-winning film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, there was one particular scene…

Fatal police encounters are devastating for the communities in which they occur: families are irreparably ripped…

A Florida police officer is facing life in prison after a jury found him guilty of shooting and killing a black man,…

To examine the injustice and inequality that prompted some NFL players to protest during the national anthem, each…

More than a year ago, an international policing agency issued guidelines on how officers should properly use Tasers.

More than two weeks after the assassination of Marielle Franco, an Afro-Brazilian politician who had staunchly…

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The people have spoken and continue to speak in new and innovative ways. At least two illegal street signs with the…

Philando Castile was not murdered, because white police officers don’t murder black men. If that statement upsets…

The mother of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards on Friday filed to formally join the lawsuit against the city of Balch…

On the very same day 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was laid to rest after being fatally shot by a police officer in…

A memorial for Quanice Hayes, a black teen killed by police in Portland, Ore., brought out hundreds on Friday, who…

An Iowa man who was known to police because of his several run-ins with officers and who had been banned from his…