Police Brutality

Earlier this month, Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker charged Schurr with second-degree murder for the shooting death of Patrick Lyoya. More

June 21, 2022

Christopher Schurr, Michigan police officer charged with murder after shooting Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head, has been fired. More

June 15, 2022

Breonna Taylor neighbors Napper and Cody Etherton are asking a judge to move their lawsuit out of Louisville. More

June 9, 2022

Grand Rapids Michigan police officer Christopher Schurr, who killed Black man Patrick Lyoya, has been charged with second-degree murder. More

June 9, 2022

Florida police officers Brandon Hardaway, William Johns and Evan Reynolds were charged with manslaughter in the death of Calvin Wilks Jr., a man who was subdued with a stun gun. More

June 7, 2022

Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng had been due to go on trial next Monday on charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 2020 death of Floyd. More

June 6, 2022

Two Minnesotans filed federal civil rights lawsuits Tuesday against the city of Minneapolis and Derek Chauvin, alleging they were traumatized when the former police officer used his "signature move" of kneeling on their necks — the same way that he killed George Floyd. More

May 31, 2022

A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd. More

May 18, 2022

A teenage cousin of Amir Locke pleaded guilty Friday to a murder count in a case that that led police to the Minneapolis apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Locke while conducting a no-knock search warrant. More

May 13, 2022

Jacob Blake has dropped his federal civil rights lawsuit against the Wisconsin police officer who shot him during a domestic disturbance and left him paralyzed from the waist down. More

May 9, 2022

Katie Wright said Thursday she was worried about what the Brooklyn Center officers might do to the person being handcuffed when she pulled over on Wednesday night. More

May 6, 2022

Former Loveland, Colorado police officer Austin Hopp was sentenced to prison after taking a plea deal in connection to a violent arrest of a 75-year-old woman with dementia. More

May 5, 2022

The judge overseeing the federal civil rights cases of four former Minneapolis police officers in the killing of George Floyd said Wednesday that he has accepted the terms of Derek Chauvin's plea agreement and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years in prison. More

May 4, 2022

Derek Chauvin asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals in a court filing Monday to reverse his conviction, reverse and remand for a new trial in a new venue, or order a resentencing. More

April 28, 2022

The union representing police officers in a Michigan city is defending Christopher Schurr, the officer who shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head. More

April 27, 2022

A state investigation launched after George Floyd’s killing in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers has determined that the department engages in a pattern of race discrimination. More

April 27, 2022

The incident with the inmate occurred in a county courthouse on March 10, 2021 — two days after jury selection began for the trial of Derek Chauvin. More

April 27, 2022

A Minnesota judge ruled Tuesday that the trial of three fired Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting George Floyd’s killing will not be livestreamed. More

April 26, 2022

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan police chief reversed course Monday and publicly identified the officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head during an April 4 traffic stop. The Grand Rapids officer is Christopher Schurr, Chief Eric Winstrom said. Lyoya, 26, a Black man and native of Congo, was […] More

April 25, 2022

Rev. Al Sharpton demanded authorities publicly identify Michigan officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man and Congo native who was fatally shot in the back of the head. More

April 22, 2022

SEATTLE (AP) — The parents of a man killed by Auburn police have filed a federal wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit alleging an officer shot Enosa Strickland Jr. in the back of the head while he was lying in a parking lot. The lawsuit also contends officer Kenneth Lyman has an extensive history of […] More

April 22, 2022

Attorneys for the family of Patrick Lyoya say an independent autopsy confirms Patrick was shot in the back of the head by a Grand Rapids officer. More

April 19, 2022

While Winstrom said he could not release the officer's name, he did release videos of the shooting, citing a need for transparency. More

April 19, 2022

Body camera footage of Patrick Lyoya's fatal encounter with a Michigan police officer shows a close-up view of an intense struggle, but the video goes dark 42 seconds before the officer shoots the Black man in the head. More

April 15, 2022

By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS and DAVID EGGERT and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Peter Lyoya took his six children from Congo in 2014 to escape violence. Now he fears he brought them to the U.S. to die. A Michigan police officer fatally shot his eldest son, 26-year-old Patrick, in the head […] More

April 14, 2022

Video footage released by the Grand Rapids Police Department shows an officer shooting Patrick Lyoya in the head. More

April 13, 2022

A Baltimore police detective Robert Hankard was convicted of multiple federal crimes for providing a BB gun that he knew would be planted on a suspect. More

April 13, 2022

Patrick Lyoya died Monday, April 4 following a traffic stop on the city's southeast side. Lyoya was the driver of the vehicle. More

April 13, 2022

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors revealed Monday evening that they offered plea deals to three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd, but said at a hearing that the defendants rejected them. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill held the hearing mostly to consider whether […] More

April 11, 2022

Minnesota prosecutors declined to file charges Wednesday against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in a downtown apartment in February. More

April 6, 2022