Piper Hudspeth Blackburn ASSOCIATED PRESS (10/08)
LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — A lawyer for a grand juror involved in weighing charges in the case of Breonna Taylor,
Associated Press (10/06)
Colin Kaepernick’s publishing company is putting out a collection of 30 essays over the next four weeks about abolition, policing and prisons.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two Virginia police officers have been indicted on misdemeanor charges stemming from their actions during the summer’s widespread protests against police brutality and racism,
By BRUCE SCHREINER, REBECCA REYNOLDS YONKER and PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN Associated Press (10/07)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police files released Wednesday show contacts between Breonna Taylor and a man she dated previously who was suspected of drug dealing,
Associated Press (10/06)
SEATTLE (AP) — The widow of a Tulalip tribal member who died in 2015 has won a new trial over allegations that police officers used excessive force on Cecil Lacy Jr.
By JUAN A. LOZANO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press (10/06)
A white police officer has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Black man following a reported disturbance at a convenience store in a small East Texas town,
By JANIE HAR Associated Press (10/06)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area city is pondering a public safety emergency declaration that would allow staff to bypass normal channels to push through reforms involving a scandal-ridden department that is reeling from high crime rates,
Associated Press (10/05)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A lawsuit accuses Omaha police of using excessive force when they responded to protests against police brutality and racial injustice in Nebraska’s largest city earlier this year.
Associated Press (10/05)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California prosecutor announced Monday that she will reopen an investigation into the killing of a Black man at a train station by a transit officer 11 years ago.
Associated Press (10/2)
BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — The fatal police shooting of an Iowa man who was holding a machete to the body of a 4-year-old girl was justified,
Associated Press (10/2)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania appeals court reversed a judge’s ruling that state police didn’t have a valid legal reason for searching a car just because it smelled like cannabis,
By DYLAN LOVAN and PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN Associated Press (10/02)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police said they knocked and announced themselves for a minute or more before bursting into Breonna Taylor’s apartment,
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press (10/1)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Guard has designated military police units in two states to serve as rapid reaction forces so they can respond quickly to any potential civil unrest around the country,
By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press (10/01)
In graphic, matter-of-fact chatter picked up on his body-camera mic, a Louisiana State trooper implicated in the death of a Black man can be heard talking of beating and choking him before “all of a sudden he just went limp.”
“I beat the ever-living f—
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press (9/30)
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The racial justice protests following the death of George Floyd earlier this year prompted calls to “defund the police” in cities across the country,
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press (09/30)
HOUSTON (AP) — A task force in Houston which was appointed during this summer’s nationwide protests over racial injustice on Wednesday released more than 100 recommendations on how to improve the city’s police department.
Associated Press (09/29)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Wednesday released the training records for the three Kenosha police officers involved in last month’s shooting of Jacob Blake,
Associated Press (09/28)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Criticism of the law enforcement response to a protest in Portland late Saturday into early Sunday prompted Oregon Gov.
Associated Press (09/28)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nine people charged with misdemeanor trespassing after a racial injustice protest in a private St. Louis neighborhood in June will not be prosecuted,
By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press (09/28)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general acknowledged that he never recommended homicide charges against any of the police officers conducting the drug raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death,