Search results
Oct 12, 2023 · A Colorado jury Thursday convicted one of two officers charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black pedestrian who was put in a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative, and it...
Jun 8, 2020 · Dallas man says he was hit in eye with "non-lethal" police round at George Floyd protest 02:33 This morning, the names of three men were separately trending on Twitter. Justin Howell, Sean ...
Jun 3, 2020 · The protests that have erupted in cities across the United States in the last week are a visceral response to two recent police killings of black Americans: Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., and...
Jun 1, 2021 · Researchers documented the deaths of 32,542 people who have been killed by police since 2000, 60% of whom constitute people of color, who make up just 40% of the U.S. population.
WHAT IS “POLICE BRUTALITY”? The term “police brutality” is sometimes used to refer to various human rights violations by police. This might include beatings, racial abuse, unlawful killings, torture, or indiscriminate use of riot control agents at protests. WHY IS POLICE BRUTALITY A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE?
May 29, 2020 · Editor's Note, May 29, 2020: In 2017, Smithsonian. covered the history of police brutality upon the protests over the verdict in the Philando Castile murder case. With the Twin Cities once...
News about police brutality, misconduct and shootings, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
