• How videos of police brutality traumatize many Americans

    How videos of police brutality traumatize many Americans

    Jan 30, 2023 11:50 PM EST

    ... police body cameras and cell phone videos, we have seen the police killings captured on tape not just of Tyre Nichols, but of Eric Garner, George Floyd, Philando Castile, Walter Scott. The list, unfortunately, goes on and on and on. What do you see as the compound effect of that ...

  • 7th Memphis police officer disciplined, EMTs fired in Tyre Nichols death

    7th Memphis police officer disciplined, EMTs fired in Tyre Nichols death

    Jan 30, 2023 05:12 PM EST

    ... family, their lawyers and community activists who have peacefully protested in Memphis since the video was released. The video was evocative of the arrest of George Floyd in 2020 and officers' failure to intervene. On Saturday, Nichols' stepfather, Rodney Wells, told The Associated Press that the family was going to ...

  • Protesters question circumstances surrounding 'Stop Cop City' activist's death

    Protesters question circumstances surrounding 'Stop Cop City' activist's death

    Jan 29, 2023 08:00 PM EST

    City Council approved the $90 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in 2021, saying a state-of-the-art campus would replace substandard offerings and boost police morale beset by hiring and retention struggles in the wake of violent protests against racial injustice that roiled the city after George Floyd ...

  • Tyre Nichols' death renews push for police reforms

    Tyre Nichols' death renews push for police reforms

    Jan 29, 2023 05:47 PM EST

    ... the coronavirus pandemic. Budgets increased and more officers were hired for some large departments, including New York City’s. Still stuck in Congress is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which would prohibit racial profiling, ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants, limit the transfer of military equipment to police ...

  • Tyre Nichols’ death puts spotlight back on excessive police use of force

    Tyre Nichols’ death puts spotlight back on excessive police use of force

    Jan 28, 2023 10:45 PM EST

    ... community can actually, over time, lead to these situations. This is exactly what we see not only in this case with in Eric Garner, with George Floyd, in many other cases where it was small infractions, not for murder, not for rape, not for aggravated assault, for small infractions that ...

  • Marcus and Abernathy on the deadly police beating in Memphis

    Marcus and Abernathy on the deadly police beating in Memphis

    Jan 27, 2023 11:30 PM EST

    ... very healthy. What happened before that fact is obviously really disturbing and, in some ways, more disturbing, on a certain level, when it's Black officers involved. It's horrifying when a white officer shoots and kills or is responsible for the death of a Black man like George Floyd.

  • WATCH: White House says Biden, Nichols family are calling for peaceful protests

    WATCH: White House says Biden, Nichols family are calling for peaceful protests

    Jan 27, 2023 06:07 PM EST

    ... added that the moment underscored the need for Congress to pass legislation addressing policing reform. Biden unsuccessfully pushed for a sweeping legislation, known as the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, earlier in his term. "Today, we all must recommit ourselves to the critical work that must be done to ...

  • Memphis authorities release video footage in Tyre Nichols' death

    Memphis authorities release video footage in Tyre Nichols' death

    Jan 27, 2023 03:25 PM EST

    ... spoke with Nichols' mother earlier in the day and told her that he was going to be “making a case” to Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act “to get this under control.” The legislation, which has been stalled, is meant to tackle police misconduct and excessive ...

  • Colorado police officers, paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain case

    Colorado police officers, paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain case

    Jan 21, 2023 01:24 AM EST

    ... to open a criminal investigation into the case. There had been renewed national interest in McClain's death as protesters rallied over the killing of George Floyd in 2020. In 2021, the city of Aurora agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by McClain’s parents for $15 million. McClain, a ...

  • Derek Chauvin's lawyer says ex-cop didn't get a fair trial, asks court to void verdict

    Derek Chauvin's lawyer says ex-cop didn't get a fair trial, asks court to void verdict

    Jan 18, 2023 10:36 PM EST

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An attorney for Derek Chauvin asked an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer's convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that legal and procedural errors deprived him of a fair trial. Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin ...