Chicago is enduring a second night of protests after the release of police video showing the minutes leading up to the 2014 shooting of an African-American teen. Wednesday night, a second video has been released, showing video from the cruiser of the officer who fired the 16 fatal shots that killed the teen.
As the protests over the Laquan McDonald shooting raged across The Windy City, a Chicago Police document warned that gang members might use the cover of the protests to commit crimes or attack police.
Schools went on lockdown Monday as police searched for a man suspected of attempting to kill a local police officer on Sunday night in Manchester Township, a northern suburb of York, Pennsylvania.
The Supreme Court of the United States issued a per curium decision today reversing a 2014 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit opinion holding that a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper was not entitled to be granted qualified immunity. The officer had used deadly force to stop a driver in a high-speed car chase. Justice Sotomayor chastised the court for allowing a “shoot first, think later approach to policing.”
A two-year-old video released by the Miami-Dade Police Department shows a police officer being repeatedly stabbed at a gas station by a suspect before the officer shot and killed him.
Two men fleeing in a Chevy Impala from a crime scene fired on two Texas cops. The Houston police officers returned fire after seeing muzzle flashes. No one was struck by the gunfire and the two suspects were stopped and captured a few blocks away from the scene.
A Las Vegas police officer was shot on Sunday in an ambush-style attack. A shooter walked up to the police car, opening fire and injuring one of the officers in the two-man police cruiser. The suspect is now in custody.
The violence in Chicago rose to fever-pitch level again over the weekend, with 32 wounded and four killed. While most of these shootings are gang-on-gang warfare, on Friday, the Chicago Police were involved in a shooting that wounded a 16-year-old.
On August 23, a Louisiana State Trooper was shot in the head during a traffic stop in which he pulled over a driver who appeared to be driving impaired.
Shreveport, Louisiana, Police Chief Willie Shaw had some harsh words for the “naysayers” spewing “negativity” about America’s law enforcement officers.
After being fired on by a suspect, a Waller County police officer returned fire and killed one of two brothers involved in a fight Saturday afternoon. The officer, a member of the SWAT team, told officers he did not want to
The manhunt is on for 29-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn, the man that Memphis police have ID’d as the murderer of a local officer shot during a routine traffic stop on Saturday night.
After an off-duty, 16-year veteran St. Louis police officer was shot ambush style by a young black male suspect, a protestor who was active in the Ferguson “uprising” took it upon himself to rush to the scene and hold up a sign to mock the attack.
On June 19, a 48-year-old man allegedly approached two LAPD officers in their patrol car; when he raised a “towel-covered hand” and appeared to point it at them, he was warned–then shot in the head.
Following news that a Middle Eastern man was shot dead Tuesday morning after threatening law enforcement, the suspected terrorist’s brother has come forward to claim that his sibling is innocent of any wrongdoing.
The Boston Globe reports that a Middle Eastern man in his 20s who was under surveillance by a joint counter-terrorism task force was shot during a confrontation with an FBI agent and a police officer in Roslindale on Tuesday morning.
During an appearance on MSNBC’s NewsNation with Tamron Hall, Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man discussed Wednesday night’s shooting of two Ferguson, MO police officers, asserting that the officers had it coming.
HOUSTON, Texas – The family of a Texas man who allegedly pointed a gun at police after robbing and pistol-whipping another man, doesn’t understand why the police shot him. Danny Miguel Saul, a 29-year-old man from Tomball, Texas, is in the hospital after being shot by local police officers. The officers responded to a call about a robbery and assault. When Saul allegedly hid in the bushes with his gun and then pointed the gun at police, they fired at least eleven rounds.
Texas Rangers are investigating the police shooting of a 17-year-old girl in East Texas. Three officers of the Longview Police Department were called to the lobby of the police station where they were confronted by Kristiana Coignard. She was allegedly brandishing a weapon and police shot and fatally wounded her.
A protest by family members of a police shooting victim in Texas City, Texas, erupted into a confrontation as a counter-protest from police supporters attempted to drown out the protest.
The Huffington Post closed out the year on a humiliating note after the left-wing online publication was forced to admit Tuesday night that it hadn’t properly vetted a source who claimed to have witnessed the fatal police shooting of Antonio
Mayor Bill de Blasio lost his cool during a press conference in New York City this afternoon, blasting the media for dividing the people of New York. “What are you guys going to do? Are you going to keep dividing
