(See update at bottom.) Andre Fiorentino, 32, says he was unarmed when two Coatesville, Pennsylvania, police officers opened fire on him last month outside his home. He was struck several times and nearly bled out while shackled face down on the ground in front of his mother and 14-year-old son. Just one day after the […]
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Glenn Broadnax, a 35-year-old black man from Brooklyn, was unarmed on the night of September 14 when NYPD officers shot at him in the middle of Times Square, striking two bystanders. Instead of apologizing, the New York Times reports that the city has charged Broadnax “with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet […]
Today is day one of Urban Shield, an annual gathering of SWAT teams, law enforcement agencies and military contractors from around the world. The three-day long event, hosted by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, includes a trade show, competitions and training exercises involving simulations of SWAT team raids and mock protests to test out suppression techniques, all in the […]
Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies in northern California shot and killed 13-year-old Andy Lopez while he walked home from school Tuesday afternoon carrying a toy rifle. According to Lt. Dennis O’Leary, two deputies on patrol spotted a “male subject” walking in the area carrying what they believed to be a rifle, at which point they called […]
Cleveland police officers involved in last November’s deadly high speed car chase that ended in the firing of 137 bullets at an unarmed black couple, will remain on the force despite being found guilty of breaking policy. Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said Tuesday that a series of disciplinary hearings surrounding the chase found 64 […]
On May 8, a Volusia County deputy in Florida tried to pull over Marlon Brown, a 38-year-old father of two, for allegedly failing to wear a seatbelt while driving. When Brown fled on foot, Deland police cruisers chased after him, even though they are not supposed to chase suspects for minor offenses. When Brown cut through a […]
A group of Muslim teens were allegedly beaten up by NYPD officers on Monday, August 26, while playing handball in a Bronx park, and had their hijabs, or Muslim headscarves, torn off in the process. Sisters Lamis Chapman, 12, and Khalia Wilson, 14, told the New York Daily News that they were playing handball on […]
Authorities in Hayward, California are investigating the shooting death of Donny Gene Simmons Jr, a father of two who was shot dead Wednesday night by Hayward Police in front of his wife and two young daughters, marking the second fatal police-involved shooting by the Hayward Police Department this year. Police say that they were responding […]
Authorities in Hayward, California are investigating the shooting death of Donny Gene Simmons Jr, a father of two who was shot dead Wednesday night by Hayward Police in front of his wife and two young daughters, marking the second fatal police-involved shooting by the Hayward Police Department this year. Police say that they were responding […]
On the afternoon of Sunday, July 21, 30-year-old Lamont Earl Dukes and his friend, both African American males, were stopped at a Walgreens pharmacy by a St. Louis police officer conducting a “pedestrian check”, a euphemism for stopping people of color in “high-crime neighborhoods” without probable cause.
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