PORTLAND, Ore.— Attorneys for Oregon argued Wednesday for a restraining order against federal agents deployed to quell protests in Portland, in a standoff that some legal experts have warned could lead to a constitutional crisis in an election year.
A federal […]
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they won’t bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man whose dying words — “I can’t breathe” […]
NASHUA, N.H. — Helicopter video of a high-speed police pursuit from Massachusetts to New Hampshire shows a driver stepping slowly out of his truck, kneeling and putting his hands on the ground before several officers rush him and start […]
CHICAGO — The latest developments in the city of Chicago’s efforts to deal with fatal police shootings and police accountability (all times local):
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to address police accountability in a news conference with his new […]
NEW YORK — Quentin Tarantino says police groups are vilifying critics of police brutality to avoid focusing on their problems with enforcement.
The Academy Award-winning filmmaker appeared on MSNBC’s “All in With Chris Hayes” on Wednesday to continue to defend […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina sheriff says he acted swiftly but carefully in firing a school resource officer caught on video flipping a disruptive student out of her desk and tossing her across the floor. In the wake […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A deputy who flipped a disruptive student out of her desk and tossed her across her math class floor was fired on Wednesday.
The sheriff called his actions “unacceptable,” and said videos recorded by her classmates show the […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation Tuesday after a deputy flipped a student backward in her desk and tossed her across the floor for refusing to leave her math class.
Federal help was sought by […]
MCKINNEY, Texas — A white police officer recorded on video pushing a black girl to the ground at a North Texas pool party resigned from the police force Tuesday.
Officer David Eric Casebolt’s actions were “indefensible,” McKinney Police Chief Greg […]
McKINNEY, Texas — Hundreds of demonstrators marched Monday night to the pool where a white police officer pinned a black teenage girl to the ground and pulled a gun on others over the weekend. The protesters carried signs that […]
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