Little Rock’s police chief is suing the local police union, two assistant chiefs and several officers, accusing them of a conspiracy aimed at forcing him out of his job By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press September 30, 2020, 10:51 PM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little […]
Read MoreMayor Lori Lightfoot greets police officers before a press conference at the 10th District Police Station in Lawndale in August. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Desmon Yancy of the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability accused the mayor of reneging on a pivotal campaign promise: “Here’s a mayor who ran on transformation, ran on doing things different. And […]
Read MoreThe mayor of Portland has asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office to end the federal deputation of dozens of police officers in Oregon’s largest city as part of the response to ongoing protests in the city By The Associated Press September 30, 2020, 4:50 PM • 3 min read The mayor of Portland has asked U.S. […]
Read MoreThe organizer of a Southern California rally against police brutality and racism was charged with attempted murder Tuesday for driving her car into counterprotesters and running over a woman’s head. Tatiana Turner deliberately drove into a crowd of President Donald Trump’s supporters with the intent to kill the woman and also seriously injured a man […]
Read MoreMia Wright, who said a police officer grabbed her out of her car by her hair and knelt on her neck outside Brickyard Mall, attends a press conference near 314 N. Loomis St. on Tuesday. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is still investigating the officers for potential charges. A misdemeanor charge […]
Read MorePolice say the city of Memphis, Tennessee, has already broken its record for killings in a calendar year with 230, even though there are still about three months left in 2020 By The Associated Press September 29, 2020, 8:43 PM • 2 min read MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The city of Memphis, Tennessee, has already broken […]
Read MoreProtesters and Portland police have clashed again in Oregon’s largest city and officials say 24 people were arrested By The Associated Press September 29, 2020, 12:57 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article PORLAND, Ore. — Protesters and Portland police clashed again in Oregon’s largest city late Monday, with demonstrators […]
Read MoreThe Minneapolis Police Department is investigating claims by right-wing activist group Project Veritas that individuals tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., engaged in illegal ballot harvesting before the election. “We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements,” a department statement read on Monday. “No further information is available at this time […]
Read MorePolice say a dispute over cutting in line led to a fatal shooting outside a popular haunted house in southeastern Michigan By The Associated Press September 28, 2020, 11:19 PM • 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article PONTIAC, Mich. — A dispute over cutting in line led to a fatal shooting […]
Read MoreFort Lauderdale Police released segments of bodycam video showing officers handcuffing former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. It is not clear what occurred in the moments not shown in the edited three-minute compilation provided by FLPD. #CNN #News
Read MoreA police department on a North Carolina college campus says a man armed with a machete smeared satanic messages in blood on a sorority house and on a vehicle belonging to a student living there By The Associated Press September 28, 2020, 8:01 PM • 1 min read GREENVILLE, N.C. — A man armed with […]
Read MorePolice released bodycam footage on Monday of an incident involving President Trump’s former campaigner manager Brad Parscale, where he was taken to the hospital by law enforcement after allegedly threatening to harm himself. The video shows police tackle a shirtless Parscale to the ground and place handcuffs on him after he emerged from his home, as […]
Read MorePolice officers confiscated 10 guns from former Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale’s home on Sunday after a neighbor called police following an argument between Parscale and his wife, according to police reports. Parscale was taken to a Florida hospital on Sunday by Fort Lauderdale police after a brief but tense standoff in which he barricaded himself in his […]
Read MorePolice say a mother has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of her 5-year-old daughter on Chicago’s West Side over the weekend By The Associated Press September 28, 2020, 5:06 PM • 1 min read CHICAGO — A mother has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of her 5-year-old daughter on […]
Read MorePolice say a shooting outside a Detroit strip club has left six people wounded By The Associated Press September 28, 2020, 10:39 AM • 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article DETROIT — A shooting early Monday outside a Detroit strip club has left six people wounded, police said. A large group […]
Read MoreA Kentucky man who authorities accuse of requesting $30,000 to shoot police officers in Louisville in a social media video while he was brandishing a gun has been arrested By The Associated Press September 27, 2020, 11:51 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky man […]
Read MoreALBUQUERQUE — While protests over police violence against African-Americans spread from one city to the next in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May, the missive scrawled in red paint on the New Mexico History Museum reached further back in time: “1680 Land Back.” The graffiti invoked another rebellious juncture in what is now […]
Read MoreA Los Angeles Police Department officer suffered minor injuries in an altercation inside a police station with a man who wrestled away the officer’s gun, fired it and then ran when another officer shot at him By The Associated Press September 27, 2020, 6:10 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this […]
Read MoreCHICAGO — A man walks up to a squad car and opens fire on two sheriff’s deputies sitting inside. Two police officers are shot after responding to sounds of gunfire during a protest. The shootings — one in Los Angeles and the other 2000 miles (3,200 kilometers) away in Louisville, Kentucky, less than two weeks […]
Read MoreThe lawyer for the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back says his client told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children By The Associated Press September 27, 2020, 4:43 PM • 4 min read KENOSHA, Wis. — The Kenosha police officer who shot […]
Read MoreA few weeks after nationwide protests erupted over the police killing of George Floyd, Julie Muller looked for something positive she could contribute to the movement from her Houston home. The 67-year-old white woman, who has been selling homemade cookie-decorating kits online since March, decided to offer one with a Black Lives Matter theme. The […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Police Department says one of its officers was hurt in a shooting at a police station late Saturday By The Associated Press September 27, 2020, 8:17 AM • 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article LOS ANGELES — A police officer was hurt in a shooting at a Los […]
Read MorePortland police Saturday night detained anti-police brutality protesters who had gathered downtown. Shortly after 9 p.m., officers tackled protesters and detained them as the crowd of several hundred people yelled at them. Police told protesters to move back and get out of the street as they made the arrests. Protesters chanted: “No good cops in […]
Read MorePortland police Saturday night arrested anti-police brutality protesters who had gathered downtown By GILLIAN FLACCUS and SALLY HO Associated Press September 27, 2020, 4:54 AM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article PORTLAND — Portland police Saturday night arrested anti-police brutality protesters who had gathered downtown. Shortly after 9 p.m., video […]
Read MorePolice maintained barricades and plans for a nighttime curfew as Louisville prepared Saturday for a fourth night of protests after a grand jury declined to charge the officers who shot Breonna Taylor. Early Saturday evening, some protesters were gathering at a downtown park, known as “Injustice Square,” which has hosted demonstrations for more than 120 […]
Read MoreOTTAWA — The police in Canada have arrested a Toronto-area man who asserted he was an ISIS executioner, accusing him of perpetrating a hoax that he was involved in terrorist activities. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the man, Shehroze Chaudhry, 25, “claimed he traveled to Syria in 2016 to join the terrorist group ISIS […]
Read More