Protests turn violent in St. Louis suburb
Police used tear gas and smoke bombs to repel crowds who threw Molotov cocktails during another violent night on the streets of a St. Louis suburb in the wake of the shooting of the unarmed 18-year old Michael Brown.
Jury acquits ex-cop in fatal post-Katrina shooting
A former New Orleans police officer whose 2010 manslaughter conviction was touted as a milestone in the city’s healing after Hurricane Katrina was acquitted Wednesday by a different jury of charges he fatally shot a man without justification during the storm’s chaotic aftermath.
Groups criticize officer arrest in man’s death
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hours after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer fatally shot an unarmed man, the department made a rare move: It charged the officer with
Text mistakenly sent to cop leads to arrest in NJ
SPARTA, N.J. — Authorities say a New Jersey man mistakenly sent a text message to a police detective to set up a drug sale and
Suburban cop helps deliver surprise baby
CARROLLTON, Texas — A suburban Dallas police officer ended up playing midwife to one mother in labor. Gene Kimpton says he entered a home in
Jury can’t reach verdict in Detroit cop’s trial
DETROIT — A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally
Suspects turn the tables in many cases
JACKSON — Over the past decade, more Mississippi law enforcement officers have been shot to death with their service weapons than suspects’ guns. “It suggests
Police: Suspect, officer struggled for several minutes before shooting
Two detectives tried for three or four minutes to restrain a murder suspect they had been questioning before the suspect wrestled away a gun, fatally shot one of the detectives and then committed suicide, officials said Monday.
Authorities say video shows Jackson police officer shooting
Authorities have a video from a police interrogation room that shows a murder suspect shooting a detective to death before killing himself with the officer’s gun, a person with knowledge of the investigation said Saturday.
Mountain manhunt for ex-cop accused of killing three
A fired police officer who threatened to bring “warfare” to the Los Angeles Police Department went on a shooting rampage that left a policeman and two others dead and set off an extraordinary manhunt that had three states and Mexico on alert for much of Thursday.