Tagged: police accountability
The officers responsible for the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice will not face any criminal charges for their actions after a Cuyahoga County grand jury handed down a no-bill decision today. Rice was shot...
A nationwide group of law enforcement officials issued a call this week to slash the enormous prison population in the United States. The coalition, Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, includes 130...
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a slew of progressive bills into a law this month, from climate change to pay equity to assisted suicide. One of the most contentious bills strengthened the state’s...
Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto was in damage control mode Monday after independent experts with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights blew a giant hole in the official version of what happened to 43...
Just one day after demonstrators marked the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Mike Brown by then-officer Darren Wilson, St. Louis County – which includes the town of Ferguson, Missouri – is...
An Ohio police officer turned himself in Wednesday and is charged with murder in the recent shooting death of an unarmed African American man during a routine traffic stop. From the very beginning, Samuel...
The Texas Department of Safety released a second version of the dashcam video recorded during the controversial July 10th arrest of Sandra Bland, who died three days later in a Waller County jail. The...
Questions are swirling around the official version of the death of a young African-American woman in Texas jail cell. Teddy Wilson reports from College Station. Download Audio Twenty-eight year old Sandra Bland was found...
When grand juries failed to indict police officers for misconduct in several recent killings of unarmed men, including New York City and Ferguson, Missouri, there was widespread public outrage. Many who believed the officers...
It is up to the Los Angeles District Attorney and the Los Angeles Police chief to decide on criminal charges or disciplinary actions for the two officers who shot and killed Ezell Ford, a...