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Byline: Bryce Buyakie and Christopher Cann, USA TODAY NETWORK AKRON, Ohio - The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man who was shot 46 times by police after he fled [...]

Desmond Mills Jr., who testified against his former colleagues, broke down in court, saying, ''I made his child fatherless.'' Desmond Mills Jr. watched the footage from his body camera, the [...]

A former Memphis officer said he had been angry about a lack of arrests even before he began a pursuit that led to a fatal beating. Emmitt Martin III was [...]

Byline: María Luisa Paúl A judge on Friday reduced the sentence of a paramedic who had been convicted in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man whose [...]

Byline: Robert Klemko MEMPHIS - A jury has been selected and opening statements are expected Wednesday morning in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in the [...]

Byline: Robert Klemko MEMPHIS - Jury selection began Monday in a federal trial for three of the five former Memphis police officers charged in connection with the fatal beating of [...]

As three police officers face a federal trial, the city is embroiled in a standoff with state Republican leaders over its policing and public safety policies. The agonizing footage of [...]

Byline: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff The officer who fatally shot Timothy Green near a Washington state coffee shop wore gloves with a Blue Lives Matter emblem while attempting to treat his wounds. [...]

Byline: Paul Duggan - - - Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Irvo Otieno's mother was not told in advance that charges would be reduced against [...]

The case was a rare prosecution of medical personnel that stirred strong reaction from paramedics following the case. A Colorado paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a [...]

The Times found that each of the six officers we tracked immediately used physical force, escalating even as Nichols became increasingly incapacitated and incoherent. Tyre Nichols faced an onslaught of [...]

There were dead men at the State of the Union. No, I'm not talking about George Santos, who I don't think is long for the House of Representatives because his [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella One of the former Memphis police officers charged in the murder of Tyre Nichols texted a photo of Nichols to multiple people after the unarmed, 29-year-old Black [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS - A former Minneapolis police officer who held George Floyd's back as he begged for breath and ultimately lost a pulse beneath the knee of officer [...]

Officer Shaun Lucas, who is white, shot 31-year-old Jonathan Price four times. After the encounter, he was fired. A white police officer who shot and killed a 31-year-old Black man [...]

The men were convicted of federal hate crimes after state murder convictions in 2021. Their lawyers tried without success to have part of their sentences served in federal prison. ATLANTA [...]

Mr. Walker's family urged calm as protests continued in Akron, Ohio. AKRON, Ohio -- A 25-year-old Black man who was killed last week by police officers in Akron, Ohio, suffered [...]

Byline: MICKEY DJURIC; THE CANADIAN PRESS A Saskatchewan Health Authority business card with a number written on it lay on the ground where Samwel Uko's body was pulled from a [...]

Byline: Austin Bogues, Commentary editor, USA TODAY I try not to watch the videos anymore. I still regret scrolling through Twitter during the spring of 2020 and unwittingly seeing the [...]

Byline: Avlana Eisenberg In criminal trials, it's normally defendants who face the highest stakes. But in the recent federal hate-crime prosecution of Ahmaud Arbery's killers, the three defendants had already [...]

The three officers at the scene -- two of whom held Mr. Floyd down and one who kept bystanders away -- are charged with violating his civil rights as Derek [...]

Jurors delivered a swift verdict after a weeklong trial in which prosecutors presented voluminous evidence of the men's racist beliefs and language. BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- A jury on Tuesday found [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey ST. PAUL, Minn. - Three former Minneapolis police officers 'chose to do nothing' as Derek Chauvin slowly killed George Floyd by pressing a knee into his neck, [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey and Mark Berman ST. PAUL, Minn. - When Tou Thao took the stand in his own defense in the ongoing federal civil rights trial over George Floyd's [...]

Byline: David Nakamura, Hannah Knowles and Margaret Coker A federal jury has found three White men guilty of committing a hate crime and other violations when they chased and killed [...]

Byline: David Nakamura, Hannah Knowles and Margaret Coker A federal jury has found three White men guilty of committing a hate crime and other violations when they chased and killed [...]

Byline: David Nakamura The three White men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through a Georgia neighborhood in a confrontation that led to his death were motived by 'racial assumptions, racial resentment [...]

Byline: David Nakamura The three White men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through a Georgia neighborhood in a confrontation that led to his death were motived by 'racial assumptions, racial resentment [...]

Byline: David Nakamura Racing to chase after Ahmaud Arbery, Gregory McMichael jumped into a pickup truck with his .357 Magnum revolver. He was in such a hurry, he later told [...]

The government emphasized not only racial slurs but also expressions of support for vigilantism. BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- Federal prosecutors in the hate crimes trial of Ahmaud Arbery's three murderers on [...]

The three white men are facing federal hate crime charges in Mr. Arbery's death. In opening arguments, their lawyers said that they were motivated by concern about crime in their [...]

Jurors in the unusual case will be asked to decide if the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery were motivated by racial animus. The evidence they may consider includes [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey MINNEAPOLIS -- Minneapolis police released body-camera footage late Thursday that captured the fatal shooting of a Black man by a SWAT team officer this week in a [...]

Byline: Lateshia Beachum North Carolina authorities are looking into the killing of a 37-year-old Black man who was shot Saturday by a White off-duty deputy as demands for justice mount. [...]

Mr. Prude's death last year became part of a fraught national conversation around racism and brutality in policing. Over the course of 45 hours, the grand jury convened in the [...]

Society has become horribly desensitized to police killings of Black men. One of the first times I wrote about the police killing of an unarmed Black man was when Michael [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE, Staff Lead Ontario's police watchdog has cleared three Peel Regional Police officers of criminal wrongdoing for their involvement in a violent 2019 arrest that left a Mississauga [...]

Byline: Kristine PhillipsA police officer who mistakenly shot and killed a black man during a shootout inside an Alabama mall will not face criminal charges.A report released by the state's [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang;Wesley Lowery SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- More than a week after a police officer fatally shot her son in a dark parking lot, and days after she [...]

Byline: Justin Fenton Five Baltimore police officers involved in the 2015 arrest and death of Freddie Gray have been charged with violating department rules, with three of them facing termination, [...]

Byline: Abigail Hauslohner BATON ROUGE -- The plan was to shut down the interstate. It was five days after two white police officers had shot Alton Sterling dead as he [...]

Byline: Abigail Hauslohner BATON ROUGE -- The plan was to shut down the interstate. It was five days after two white police officers had shot Alton Sterling dead as he [...]

A 12-year-old black boy walks into a Cleveland park, plays with a toy gun and, within seconds of arriving, a police officer shoots him dead. His partner tackles the boy's [...]