Nov 30 Watch 4:21 News Wrap: No criminal charges for officer who fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, the North Carolina police officer who fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott in September will not face criminal charges. The prosecutor said there was evidence that Scott, a black man, was holding a gun and ignored… Continue watching
Nov 16 Minnesota officer charged with involuntary manslaughter in Philando Castile death By Joshua Barajas The St. Anthony officer, identified as Jeronimo Yanez, shot Castile after stopping the 32-year-old for a broken tail light on July 6 in the town of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Continue reading
Nov 03 Officer’s caught-on-camera actions in the death of Walter Scott ‘flat out wrong,’ S.C. solicitor says By Joshua Barajas Attorneys delivered opening statements Thursday in the trial of a South Carolina police officer Michael Slager over the 2015 death of Walter L. Scott, an unarmed black man. Continue reading
Oct 31 5 important stories that have nothing to do with Clinton’s emails By Joshua Barajas My fellow Americans, Election Day is about a week away. Continue reading
Oct 24 5 important stories getting buried by Clinton and Trump news By Joshua Barajas The election is about two weeks away, but millions of American aren’t waiting for Election Day to cast their vote. More than 4 million people, committed to democracy, already cast their vote early via absentee and mail-in ballots weeks… Continue reading
Oct 12 White Americans largely disapprove of national anthem protests, poll finds By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press White Americans by large numbers disapprove of athletes protesting during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," according to a new poll. Black Americans approve of the protests by even wider margins. Continue reading
Oct 11 Police body cameras capture hours and hours of footage with no national consensus on how to release it By Sarah Breitenbach, Stateline At least 21 states have instituted policies that range from treating body camera footage like other public records to imposing outright bans on releasing footage. Continue reading
Oct 06 Column: White people don’t understand the trauma of viral police-killing videos By Monnica Williams The calls and emails started coming in: “Dr. Williams, are you available for commentary? Have you seen the recent shooting?” Another unarmed black man has been killed by law enforcement. Another life is snuffed out. One more human being who… Continue reading
Sep 28 FBI building database that tracks police use of deadly force, Comey says By Matthew Daly and Eric Tucker, Associated Press The database is intended to capture how often police officers kill citizens in the line of duty and to correct a record-keeping gap that Comey said has resulted in uninformed conversations, based on anecdotes and not facts, about use of… Continue reading
Sep 28 Black man fatally shot by San Diego-area police was not holding a weapon By Kristen Doerer, Joshua Barajas A police officer in a San Diego suburb shot and killed an unarmed black man Tuesday, after the 30-year-old drew an object and took a “shooting stance,” El Cajon, California, authorities said. Continue reading