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The unidentified Columbus Division of Police officers shot and killed Samuel Sharpe Jr. after they noticed him wielding knives while officers were having a meeting in a nearby parking lot. The ...
LAPD Chief Michel Moore told police commissioners that he had "concerns" after reviewing video of the fatal shooting of a man who charged at officers while holding a plastic fork.
Masa Nathaniel Warden is suing the Redding police officers in a civil case demanding damages of $360 million because the officers shot him a total of 17 times during a display of "excessive force ...
On April 10, 1990, a group of black teenagers, including 16-year-old Phillip Pannell, were playing in Tryon Park in Teaneck, NJ. The teenagers reported that a pair of them were having a 'play fight' when, in what they described as "routine harassment," a police car drove onto the basketball court where they had been playing and the officer asked if there was a problem.
In 1994, Davis beat a young man in New Orleans, mistaking him for a suspect in a police officer's shooting. [12] Kim Groves, a 32-year-old local resident and mother of three young children, witnessed the assault and filed a complaint with the New Orleans Police Department. [13]
The department reported 310 shooting incidents in that period, 115 of them fatal. During this period three officers were killed in the line of duty. Although the local population is less than ten percent Black, about a third of those shot by the police are Black. In twenty-nine percent of the shootings, officers were shot at by suspects. [1]
Nine-year-old Isaia Orellana was best friends with the youngest of the five victims of the shooting in Cleveland, Texas. His mother, comforting him at a vigil, says her son was in disbelief that ...
Those officers, should things go bad for them, are vastly outnumbered by a group of people who have already voiced their unhappiness with the police." [44] After viewing the shooting from multiple angles, police use-of-force expert Roy Bedard, who initially said he thought the shooting was an accident, changed his mind.