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Mar 19, 2024 · Goon Squad Officer Is Sentenced to 20 Years in Mississippi Torture Cases. Six officers pleaded guilty last year to assaulting two Black men and shooting one of them in the mouth during a raid on ...
Oct 12, 2023 · The deadly confrontation sparked months of protests against police brutality in Colorado, before the national demonstrations that erupted in response to the police killing of George Floyd in ...
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- Deon J. Hampton,David K. Li,Phil Helsel
Jan 28, 2023 · It has also brought into focus what many Black people have said is frequently lost in police brutality cases involving white officers and Black victims: that problems of race and policing are a ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Jordan Edwards. Jordan Edwards, a Black 15-year-old boy, was killed by police officer Roy Oliver in Balch Springs, Texas in 2017. Edwards and several of his friends were leaving a house party when Oliver fired his patrol rifle at their car, with one of the bullets striking Edwards in the head and killing him.
May 17, 2017 · In May of last year, Officer Betty Jo Shelby was found not guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black driver, in Tulsa, Okla. In seven cases ...
Jun 2, 2020 · Circumstances: Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald 16 times in the middle of a street around 10 p.m. Police said McDonald, who was 17, had been brandishing a knife and that ...
Oct 18, 2021 · The cases involved police officers accused of excessive use of force. The first of Monday's two cases concerned Daniel Rivas-Villegas, a police officer in Union City, Calif., who responded to a ...
