Texas officials announced Friday that they’ve declined to reverse the 2016 firing of an ex-police officer who allegedly gave a homeless man a feces sandwich. According to the San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio officials said an independent arbitrator upheld Matthew Luckhurst’s second termination, citing his especially appalling conduct. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus had …
Seattle police have released edited video, mostly from officers’ body cameras, showing their attempt to gain access to the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) Saturday night in response to a fatal shooting. After the shooting, police “were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers’ safe access to the victims,” the Seattle Police Department said …
Kentucky officials are reportedly in the process of firing an officer involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, an EMT who police reportedly shot multiple times while executing a no-knock warrant at the wrong apartment. According to WLKY, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced Friday that Louisville Metro police Chief Rob Schroeder has initiated termination proceedings …
Police had reportedly been pursuing Fuller’s half-brother on allegations he had falsely imprisoned a woman, demanding information about his brother’s death
Atlanta police records show that the former officer now charged in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot last week has been investigated by the department’s Office of Professional Standards 12 times, WXIA reported. In one of those, Garrett Rolfe received a written reprimand in 2017 for a use of force …
Rayshard Brooks, the man shot and killed by Atlanta police after he fell asleep in a Wendy’s drive-thru line, died of gunshot wounds to the back, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said Sunday night. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that Brooks’s autopsy showed that he suffered organ damage and blood loss from two gunshot …
Demonstrators flooded south Atlanta Saturday night, protesting the deadly police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot, temporarily blocking a major interstate highway and setting the fast food restaurant ablaze, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. The police officer who fired the fatal shots, Garrett Rolfe, was fired late Saturday night, and Devin Bronsan, …
Black Lives Matter protests focused on Atlanta Saturday as Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields tendered her resignation as chief, less than 24 hours after an Atlanta police officer shot and killed a man after he appeared to fire a Taser at him at a Wendy’s drive-thru. Rayshard Brooks, 27, had fallen asleep in his car …
UPDATE: 5:26 p.m. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation posted footage Saturday afternoon from a surveillance camera at the Wendy’s restaurant in south Atlanta where Atlanta Police shot and killed a man in the parking lot. In this video, the scuffle between Rayshard Brooks and the officers takes place off camera. Brooks is seen running into …
Officials released bodycam footage Monday which shows last year’s arrest involving four Oklahoma police officers and a suspect who later died at a hospital. The Oklahoma City Police Department released May 20, 2019, footage showing the arrest of Derrick Scott, 42. Police Captain Larry Withrow said officers arrested Scott after receiving a call about a …
One of four fired Minneapolis police officers accused in the death of George Floyd posted bail and left jail Wednesday afternoon, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Thomas Lane, 37, was released from Hennepin County jail just after 4 p.m., a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said. He had been held in lieu a $750,000 bail. …
The Louisville Metro Police Police Department released a four-page report on the death of EMT Breonna Taylor during a police raid, but the document contains surprisingly little information, some of it plainly wrong, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The report redacts Taylor’s address and date of birth, which were widely reported, and lists her injuries as …
