Settlement reached after police dog mauls teen and deputies fire so indiscriminately dog is killed

A South Carolina county is set to shell out $700,000 in a civil settlement after a teen girl was “mauled by a police dog and shot five times by deputies,” the victim’s attorneys announced …

Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyers claim hunting laws allowed him to carry an AR-15 assault rifle to protest

How do we begin to unpack the sheer caucasity of arguing that the little vigilante and darling of the far-right, Kyle Rittenhouse—who is charged with fatally shooting two men and injuring another—was …

'This is what racism looks like': D.C. cop shoots, kills Black man who'd been sleeping in car

A Washington, D.C. police officer fired 10 shots, killing a 27-year-old Black man who had been asleep in a BMW moments earlier, according to body camera footage that was released on Thursday.

Antwan …

'Did he really have to shoot them all?' Ex-cop charged after open firing in deadly Costco shooting

A former cop who shot and killed a man with a mental disability inside a Costco store two years ago was charged on Monday with one count of voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a …

Judge parts ways with prosecutors to call for cop who killed Jay Anderson Jr. to be charged

In a rare application of a law in place in Wisconsin and six other states, a judge overruled a prosecutorial decision on Wednesday not to charge a police officer who shot and killed Jay Anderson Jr., …

Dallas police chief is first to apologize publicly after cop playing Russian roulette kills child

Forty-eight years after a Dallas cop playing Russian roulette shot and killed a 12-year-old boy, the police chief is finally apologizing to the child’s mother. “In order to heal, those who …

Popular Georgia carwash worker shot and killed in case eerily similar to that of Breonna Taylor

Like Breonna Taylor, Johnny Lorenzo Bolton, a beloved worker at a Georgia carwash, had his eyes closed when a SWAT team armed with firearms and a no-knock warrant raided an apartment he shared with …

Neighbor shoots 6-year-old boy allegedly over bike and it takes public outrage to keep him in jail

It took a vast and viral showing of public outrage for a Michigan court to keep a man accused of shooting his 6-year-old neighbor over a bike in his lawn in jail. Ryan Le-Nguyen was initially allowed …

State autopsy just released and most deputies are back to work after fatally shooting Andrew Brown

The state autopsy report is just now being released more than a month after a North Carolina district attorney determined the deadly shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., who had both hands on the steering …

Family forced to wait to see what happened to Andrew Brown while prosecutor is linked to his killers

Attorneys for Andrew Brown, Jr., a Black man shot and killed in an all-too-common encounter with law enforcement agencies, are demanding that the district attorney in the case recuse himself. …

Black man calls 911 for help and ends up shot some 10 times by same deputy who just gave him a ride

About an hour before a Virginia deputy shot 32-year-old Isaiah Brown at least 10 times, the deputy who critically injured the man had given him a ride after he reported car troubles, Brown’s family …