Audio has surfaced of Michael Slager, the former North Charleston police officer who killed Walter Scott, laughing about his “pumping adrenaline” just moments after the fatal shooting. The audio was taken from Slager’s police dash cam after he shot the 50-year-old five times on April 4. Slager, who is also suspected of planting his Taser next to Scott’s […]

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Milwaukee police are searching for the shooter involved in the death of a van driver who fatally struck a toddler late Sunday, Reuters reports. A teenager at the scene was also fatally wounded. The incident occurred around 5 p.m. on the city’s northwest side, when a 41-year-old male driver struck a 2-year-old child. He was […]

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The fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy at the hands of a 3-year-old in Ohio is being called “accidental” by Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, Cleveland.com reports. The young child, identified as Braylon S. Robinson, was taken to a nearby hospital after the shooting Sunday, but was later pronounced dead. According to police, the 3-year-old found […]

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The trial began Thursday for the first Chicago police officer to be charged in a fatal shooting in 15 years following the death of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd, an unarmed Black woman, according to the Chicago Tribune. Dante Servin, who is Hispanic, is on trial for involuntary manslaughter and other felonies in the off-duty shooting in […]

The mother of Michael T. Slager, the former North Charleston police officer charged with murder in the death of South Carolina man Walter Scott, said she’s “in denial” about the shooting in an interview with ABC News. Breaking her silence, Karen Sharpe said that her 33-year-old son loved being a police officer, adding that he […]

A video taken from a dash cam in North Charleston, South Carolina Police Officer Michael T. Slager’s cruiser was released Thursday, showing 50-year-old Walter Scott exiting his vehicle and running away. Scott was fatally shot by Slager as he fled on foot Saturday, prompting authorities to charge the now-fired officer with murder. The short dash cam […]

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Relatives of a mentally ill Black man who was fatally shot in February by police in Miami Gardens, Florida have released footage of the frightening encounter, according to the New York Daily News. The 19-minute police video released Wednesday shows an officer ordering Lavall Hall, 25, to “get on the f—ing ground or you’re dead,” […]

In a Wednesday interview with Good Morning America, the brother of a Black South Carolina man who was fatally shot by a White North Charleston police officer said that while the murder charge against the cop is a “positive development,” the family is still apprehensive. “It is unusual right now, but I feel like we […]

The family of a 7-year-old girl who was fatally shot during a May 2010 police raid is suing the Detroit officer involved in the incident, Detroit News reports. The civil rights lawsuit, which alleges officers attempted to cover-up how Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed, names Officer Joseph Weekley, Robert Rowe, the Detroit Police Department, and the city […]

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A tenant in Madison, WI received an eviction notice, as well as a bill for $1,192.15 from his landlord to clean up his roommate’s blood after he was shot dead by police two weeks prior. Nineteen-year-old Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. was killed by officers a few weeks ago in the apartment he shared with his roommate, Anthony M. Limo. Now, landlord Ray […]

According to the website KilledByPolice.net, more than 100 people died at the hands of law enforcement in the month of March. The figure, which comes 31 days after the release of the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing report, averages out to more than three people killed in America each day by police […]

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A Grand Rapids, Mich. woman was convicted Wednesday and now faces up to seven years in prison after she fired a bullet at a McDonald’s drive-thru because she didn’t get any bacon on her burger. Yes, this really happened. Shaneka Monique Torres‘ troubles began on Feb. 10, 2014, when she drove to the McDonald’s on 28th Street […]