Police Brutality

“Not the desired outcome. This is not what we wanted," said Police Chief James White who later added “our mental health crisis in this country is real." More

October 5, 2022

Lawsuit says suspect Travis Cole was put in a restraint chair at Boulder County Jail and tased by Sgt. Christopher Mecca despite being unable to move. More

September 23, 2022

Amended autopsy says Black man Elijah McClain died after a police encounter near Denver because he was injected with a sedative after being restrained. More

September 23, 2022

Denver District Court judge orders Elijah McClain’s amended autopsy report be released to the public without redactions after news organizations sued. More

September 23, 2022

In his plea agreement, Thomas Lane admitted that he knew from his training that restraining Floyd in that way created a serious risk of death. More

September 21, 2022

Texas board declines request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-cop. More

September 16, 2022

Elijah McClain’s autopsy report has been amended based on confidential grand jury information, the chief coroner for Adams County confirmed, but she said she could not say how it was amended because of an oath of compliance she signed to receive the grand jury materials. More

September 6, 2022

Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona. More

August 26, 2022

Two Atlanta police officers who clashed with Rayshard Brooks acted reasonably during the 2020 encounter, a specially appointed prosecutor said Tuesday. More

August 23, 2022

A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment has pleaded guilty. More

August 23, 2022

Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, will do his time at a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado. More

August 17, 2022

The arraignment hearing for three former Aurora police officers and two former Aurora paramedics charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain was pushed back to Nov. 4 Friday. More

August 15, 2022

Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. More

August 15, 2022

Former Detective Kelly Goodlett intends to plead guilty to a civil rights charge stemming from the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. More

August 12, 2022

A judge scheduled a hearing for Monday on the “status of plea negotiations” for the two remaining officers awaiting trial on state charges in the killing of George Floyd, with the hearing coming after the judge's window for accepting any deal appears to have closed. More

August 11, 2022

Eight minority corrections officers who were working at the jail where a former Minneapolis police officer was awaiting trial in the death of George Floyd were awarded nearly $1.5 million Tuesday to settle a lawsuit. More

August 9, 2022

The U.S. Justice Department has charged four police officers involved in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid with civil rights violations. More

August 4, 2022

Tou Thao, who held back concerned bystanders as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck, got 3 1/2 years. J. Alexander Kueng, who pinned Floyd's back, got three. And Thomas Lane, who held Floyd's feet and asked twice about rolling the Black man on his side, got 2 1/2. For some Floyd family members and activists, the penalties were too small — and a bitter reminder of a justice system they say does not treat all people equally. More

July 29, 2022

The last two former Minneapolis police officers to be sentenced for violating George Floyd's civil rights are scheduled to learn their penalties Wednesday. More

July 27, 2022

A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. More

July 21, 2022

Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to sentence Thomas Lane to between 5 1/4 to 6 1/2 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the restraint that killed Floyd on May 25, 2020. His attorney is seeking 27 months. More

July 18, 2022

Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane await sentencing for their convictions on federal civil rights charges. More

July 8, 2022

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, telling the former Minneapolis police officer that what he did was “simply wrong” and “offensive.” More

July 7, 2022

Akron police released video of the shooting of Jayland Walker who was killed June 27 in a pursuit that had started with an attempted traffic stop. More

July 6, 2022

A federal judge will this week sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd. More

July 5, 2022

Ex-cop Mohamed Noor is scheduled to be released from prison, months after his murder conviction was overturned. More

June 24, 2022

Daria Jalali, one of the Colorado ex-cops charged in connection with the violent arrest of an elderly woman with dementia, pleaded guilty to one count of failure to intervene on a police officer’s use of force. More

June 22, 2022

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on to sentence a former Minneapolis officer to 25 years for violating the rights of George Floyd, saying Derek Chauvin's actions were cold-blooded and needless as he knelt on the Black man's neck while Floyd repeatedly said he couldn't breathe. More

June 22, 2022

The tentative settlement also includes changes in police policies and training involving traffic stops like the one that resulted in Wright's death, according to a statement Tuesday night from attorneys representing Wright's family. More

June 22, 2022

The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that the mayor of Minneapolis hasn’t met a legal duty to hire more police officers or demonstrate why he hasn’t done so. More

June 21, 2022