Tag: police violence

Campaigners and political leaders across the United States respond with outrage and calls for justice after the release of body camera footage showing the deadly police shooting of Sonya Massey, an unarmed 36-year-old Black woman from Springfield, Illinois.

Cases against officers frequently vanish for days—sometimes weeks—at a time.

Four years after Breonna Taylor's tragic death, a bipartisan effort emerges to transform police protocol and honor her legacy by proposing a nationwide ban on no-knock warrants.

An officer died of a heart attack while attacking Virgilio Aguilar Méndez; now Aguilar Méndez is facing murder charges.

Police have frequently used that power to withhold footage, not only from the public, but also from civilian investigators.

A critical legal battle unfolds as Atlanta seeks to overturn a ruling allowing nonresidents to participate in a controversial referendum on a police training center.

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability.

Activists face aggressive response while opposing construction of controversial "Cop City" training center in Atlanta.

New records show that investigators allowed police misstatements to stand, despite having body-camera video to disprove them.

"In my view this is a crime against humanity, to be perfectly truthful."