Sep 28 FBI to collect better data on police shootings, use of force By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The FBI will begin collecting and providing to the public more information about police shootings of civilians, FBI Director James Comey said Monday as the agency released annual data on crime nationwide. Continue reading
Aug 09 Questions abound in fatal police shooting of unarmed Texas teen By Daniel Costa-Roberts The death of Christian Taylor, an unarmed black 19-year-old shot to death by a Texas police officer in the small hours of Friday morning, has raised questions about the circumstances of the shooting, which some see as fitting a pattern… Continue reading
May 23 Watch 3:13 Protests simmer, but Cleveland ‘very calm’ after cop’s acquittal By PBS News Hour Protesters marched in Cleveland Saturday after police officer Michael Brelo was found not guilty on all counts in the shooting of deaths of two black, unarmed suspects. Mark Naymik from The Plain Dealer joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype. Continue watching
May 23 Cleveland officer found not guilty in shooting deaths of unarmed suspects By Carey Reed Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter on Saturday in the 2012 shooting deaths of an unarmed man and woman. Continue reading
Apr 22 Watch 7:39 Can police reform happen in Philadelphia? By PBS News Hour Last December, Brandon Tate-Brown was killed by Philadelphia police after being pulled over for driving with his headlights off. His family is not alone in their pain -- there have been 394 shootings involving the police in Philadelphia since 2007. Continue watching
Mar 14 Hundreds expected for funeral of 19-year-old man fatally shot by police By Andrew Mach Hundreds of mourners in Madison, Wisc., were expected to attend a visitation and funeral Saturday for a 19-year-old biracial man shot and killed by a white police officer last Friday. Continue reading