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And this week, three former Memphis, Tennessee, officers went on trial for the fatal 2023 beating of Tyre Nichols, which also followed a traffic stop. The risk, however, is not limited to those ...
Several high-profile cases in which police officers killed Black men — Walter Scott in Charleston, S.C., Philando Castile in Minneapolis — began as traffic stops that quickly escalated into ...
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released video footage Tuesday that shows a group of Chicago police officers firing dozens of bullets at Dexter Reed, 26, during a traffic stop in the ...
A "felony" or "high-risk" traffic stop occurs when police stop a vehicle which they have strong reason to believe contains a driver or passenger suspected of having committed a serious crime, especially of a nature that would lead the police to believe the suspects may be armed (such as an armed robbery, assault with a weapon, or an outstanding ...
For example, Philando Castile had 52 police stops in 14 years prior to the last fatal stop. Half of his charges were dismissed, and none of his convictions were for dangerous offences. The pretext for the fatal stop was a broken tail light, but the real reason was that the police officer thought Castile resembled a robbery suspect. [40]
The other officer involved in the traffic stop was Joseph Kauser, [21] who was described as Yanez's partner. [22] Both officers had been with the St. Anthony Police Department for four years at the time of the shooting, [22] and were longtime friends who had graduated together from the Minnesota State University, Mankato, police academy in 2010 ...
A new report found few traffic stops lead to felony arrests and convictions, even though police are enforcing non-moving violations more often. Report: Few felony arrests come from traffic stops ...
These include Fatal Encounters [28] and U.S. Police Shootings Data at Deadspin. [29] Another project, the Facebook page "Killed by Police" (or web-page www.KilledbyPolice.net) tracks killings starting May 1, 2013. [30] In 2015, CopCrisis used the KilledByPolice.net data to generate info-graphics about police killings. [31]