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Jason Van Dyke murdered Laquan McDonald, jury finds
Almost four years to the day after a Chicago police officer decided to shoot Laquan McDonald 16 times, the murdered teen’s family and friends finally got closure Friday when a jury found Jason Van Dyke...
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Ohio town hires police officer who killed Tamir Rice
A police department in small town in Ohio has hired the officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a shooting that became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement. Timothy Loehmann will soon...
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Family files lawsuit against cop who killed a man in the apartment she says...
Nearly two months after an off-duty, white Dallas police officer shot and killed Botham Jean — the 26-year-old black man whose apartment she claims to have mistaken for her own — his family has filed...
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Police admit a mall shooter is still on the loose after they shot the wrong man
In Alabama, a police officer shot and killed a man on Thanksgiving night after they mistook him for a mall shooter. The real shooter is apparently still at large. Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was...
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Grand jury charges former Dallas cop with murder in death of Botham Jean
A grand jury on Friday indicted former Dallas, Texas, police officer Amber Guyger on one charge of murder for the shooting of Botham Jean. Guyger, who is white, shot 26-year-old Jean, an unarmed black...
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Chicago cops deemed innocent in crucial Laquan McDonald cover-up trial
Three fired cops committed no crimes when they helped cover up former Chicago Police Department Officer Jason Van Dyke’s murder of teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014, a judge ruled Thursday. “The state...
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Former Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke sentenced to 6 years in prison for...
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was sentenced to 81 months in prison for the murder of Laquan McDonald in 2014, Judge Vincent Gaughan ruled Friday evening. Van Dyke may become eligible for...
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Police officers avoid charges in two different shootings of unarmed black men
This weekend brought news that police officers involved in two different fatal shootings of unarmed black men will not face charges related to those killings. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne...
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Sacramento prosecutor’s needless smear of Stephon Clark stunned his family...
Stephon Clark’s family didn’t have any real hope that Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert would charge the police who killed the unarmed 23-year-old in his grandparents’ backyard in...
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D’Quan Young was killed by an off-duty DC cop 10 months ago. His mother still...
Bullets sprayed through the darkness and hit car windows, while bystanders, including children, fled for their lives, according to witnesses. This wasn’t a war zone; it was northeast Washington, D.C.,...
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