While illuminating, Tulsa videos leave out key details
Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, broadly released dashcam and aerial footage, 911 calls and police radio traffic with unusual swiftness following last Friday’s shooting death of an unarmed black man by a white officer.
2nd night of violent protests over Charlotte police shooting
Violent protesters rampaged through parts of downtown Charlotte as anger continued to build over the deadly police shooting of a black man and the wildly different stories about what happened from authorities and the victim’s family and neighbors.
Family: Tulsa shooting victim was turning life around
The unarmed black man shot dead in the middle of a Tulsa street last week by a white police officer had run-ins with the law dating back to his teenage years and had recently served a four-year stint in prison.
Protesters in Charlotte police shooting injure officers, block highway
Authorities used tear gas to disperse protesters in an overnight demonstration that left about a dozen officers injured in North Carolina’s largest city and shut down a highway after the fatal shooting of a black man by Charlotte police who said he was armed and posed a threat.
Ricky Ball Shooting: Cousin of Ricky Ball speaks out
A member of Ricky Ball’s family spoke out on Thursday for the first time since former Columbus Police Department Officer Canyon Boykin was indicted in Ball’s shooting death.
Some police departments shelve body cameras, cite data costs
Police departments in at least two states that outfitted their officers with body cameras have now shelved them, blaming new laws requiring videos to be stored longer, which they say would significantly increase the cost.
Beach town reels over chief’s death after gun investigation
Worries would seem to be few and far between in Bay St. Louis, a community of sandy beaches and monthly art walks that bounced back strong after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina all but wiped it out.
Ricky Ball Shooting: Citizens react to ex-officer’s indictment
At a little before 11 a.m. Friday, a group of about a dozen people gathered at the back entrance at the Lowndes County Courthouse.
Manslaughter charges for Boykin in Ricky Ball shooting
A former Columbus police officer is being charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Ricky Ball.
Officials: Police chief shoots himself just after suspension
A Mississippi police chief who had just been suspended shot and killed himself Thursday in the police department’s parking lot, officials said, in what was described as “a bad day for law enforcement.”
Tupelo officer back at work weeks after fatal shooting
A white police officer is back at work in northeast Mississippi, weeks after a grand jury declined to indict him in the shooting death of a black man who ran from a traffic stop.
Man pleads guilty in slayings of 2 Hattiesburg officers
A Hattiesburg man accused in the 2015 slayings of Hattiesburg Police Officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate pleaded guilty Thursday in Forrest County Circuit Court.
Poll: Police harassment familiar to young blacks, Hispanics
Crystal Webb cringes whenever a patrol car appears in her rearview mirror. She also never wants to see the inside of a police station again.
ACLU calls for release of report on Tupelo police shooting
The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi is demanding the release of a police report on the death of a black man who was shot and killed by a white Tupelo police officer following a traffic stop.
Black Lives Matter activist sues Baton Rouge
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson sued the city of Baton Rouge and police officials Thursday, saying officers responded in a “militarized and aggressive manner” in arresting him and other people protesting a police shooting death.
Columbus holds National Night Out events
Kids played hopscotch, adults won cakes in cake walks and police officers and firefighters mingled with citizens at the seven National Night Out sites around Columbus Tuesday night.
Grand jury doesn’t indict Tupelo officer in shooting
Grand jurors on Monday cleared a northeast Mississippi police officer of wrongdoing in a June 18 shooting that left a man dead, but relatives rejected that finding, saying they’re looking to a federal investigation and a civil lawsuit for justice.
Miss. grand jury clears 3 officers in fatal shooting
A grand jury has ruled three Mississippi police officers were justified in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man whose weapon turned out to be a BB gun.
At vigil, Biden tries to comfort relatives of slain La. officers
The gunman’s bullets that killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge also targeted the country and “touched the soul of the entire nation,” Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday at a memorial service for the fallen officers.
Therapist shot by police has reunion with autistic client
An unarmed black therapist who was shot in the leg by police last week while protecting his severely autistic client said he had a joyful reunion Thursday with the man, who remains hospitalized because of emotional trauma.
