
A gunman ambushed 33-year old Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett on Thursday night. His attacker is in custody and claims it was an attempted “execution” in the name of Islam.
by John Hayward8 Jan 2016, 7:58 AM PST0

Late Tuesday afternoon, Minnesota Judge Karen Janisch refused to halt a large Black Lives Matter protest planned for Wednesday at the Mall of America.
by Lee Stranahan22 Dec 2015, 6:38 PM PST0

The family of Walter Scott, the South Carolina man seen on video being shot by a North Charleston police officer, is asking a judge to approve a $6.5 million wrongful death settlement.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Dec 2015, 7:36 PM PST0

Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing growing calls for his resignation a full two weeks after the city released the shocking police dashcam video of a city police officer shooting an African-American teen to death.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Dec 2015, 7:43 PM PST0

After more than a week of protesters flooding the streets of Chicago over the death of an African-American teen shot by a city police officer over a year ago, the Department of Justice is poised to finally launch a probe into the actions surrounding the shooting.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Dec 2015, 7:00 PM PST0

Cleveland Police Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback gave statements—released Tuesday—in which they claim 12-year-old Tamir Rice put them in a must-shoot situation by lifting his shirt and reaching into his waistband instead of showing his hands.
by AWR Hawkins1 Dec 2015, 6:25 PM PST0

MINNEAPOLIS—Some participants in the funeral procession for Jamar Clark waved liquor bottles and chanted “fuck the police” as the procession made its way though the block that protesters have occupied as part of a Justice For Jamar campaign.
by Lee Stranahan25 Nov 2015, 9:54 PM PST0

Chicago is enduring a second night of protests after the release of police video showing the minutes leading up to the 2014 shooting of an African-American teen. Wednesday night, a second video has been released, showing video from the cruiser of the officer who fired the 16 fatal shots that killed the teen.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Nov 2015, 8:30 PM PST0

As the protests over the Laquan McDonald shooting raged across The Windy City, a Chicago Police document warned that gang members might use the cover of the protests to commit crimes or attack police.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Nov 2015, 6:54 PM PST0

Schools went on lockdown Monday as police searched for a man suspected of attempting to kill a local police officer on Sunday night in Manchester Township, a northern suburb of York, Pennsylvania.
by Warner Todd Huston23 Nov 2015, 9:05 PM PST0

The Supreme Court of the United States issued a per curium decision today reversing a 2014 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit opinion holding that a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper was not entitled to be granted qualified immunity. The officer had used deadly force to stop a driver in a high-speed car chase. Justice Sotomayor chastised the court for allowing a “shoot first, think later approach to policing.”
by Lana Shadwick9 Nov 2015, 9:16 AM PST0

A two-year-old video released by the Miami-Dade Police Department shows a police officer being repeatedly stabbed at a gas station by a suspect before the officer shot and killed him.
by William Bigelow21 Oct 2015, 6:10 PM PST0

Two men fleeing in a Chevy Impala from a crime scene fired on two Texas cops. The Houston police officers returned fire after seeing muzzle flashes. No one was struck by the gunfire and the two suspects were stopped and captured a few blocks away from the scene.
by Bob Price9 Sep 2015, 10:24 AM PST0

A Las Vegas police officer was shot on Sunday in an ambush-style attack. A shooter walked up to the police car, opening fire and injuring one of the officers in the two-man police cruiser. The suspect is now in custody.
by Bob Price6 Sep 2015, 4:50 PM PST0

The violence in Chicago rose to fever-pitch level again over the weekend, with 32 wounded and four killed. While most of these shootings are gang-on-gang warfare, on Friday, the Chicago Police were involved in a shooting that wounded a 16-year-old.
by Warner Todd Huston23 Aug 2015, 8:24 PM PST0

On August 23, a Louisiana State Trooper was shot in the head during a traffic stop in which he pulled over a driver who appeared to be driving impaired.
by AWR Hawkins23 Aug 2015, 5:42 PM PST0

Shreveport, Louisiana, Police Chief Willie Shaw had some harsh words for the “naysayers” spewing “negativity” about America’s law enforcement officers.
by Jerome Hudson13 Aug 2015, 6:58 PM PST0

After being fired on by a suspect, a Waller County police officer returned fire and killed one of two brothers involved in a fight Saturday afternoon. The officer, a member of the SWAT team, told officers he did not want to
by Lana Shadwick9 Aug 2015, 7:53 AM PST0

The manhunt is on for 29-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn, the man that Memphis police have ID’d as the murderer of a local officer shot during a routine traffic stop on Saturday night.
by Warner Todd Huston2 Aug 2015, 7:59 PM PST0

After an off-duty, 16-year veteran St. Louis police officer was shot ambush style by a young black male suspect, a protestor who was active in the Ferguson “uprising” took it upon himself to rush to the scene and hold up a sign to mock the attack.
by Lee Stranahan15 Jul 2015, 5:43 AM PST0

On June 19, a 48-year-old man allegedly approached two LAPD officers in their patrol car; when he raised a “towel-covered hand” and appeared to point it at them, he was warned–then shot in the head.
by AWR Hawkins24 Jun 2015, 11:02 AM PST0

Following news that a Middle Eastern man was shot dead Tuesday morning after threatening law enforcement, the suspected terrorist’s brother has come forward to claim that his sibling is innocent of any wrongdoing.
by Jordan Schachtel2 Jun 2015, 8:34 PM PST0

The Boston Globe reports that a Middle Eastern man in his 20s who was under surveillance by a joint counter-terrorism task force was shot during a confrontation with an FBI agent and a police officer in Roslindale on Tuesday morning.
by John Hayward2 Jun 2015, 3:24 PM PST0

During an appearance on MSNBC’s NewsNation with Tamron Hall, Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man discussed Wednesday night’s shooting of two Ferguson, MO police officers, asserting that the officers had it coming.
by Kipp Jones12 Mar 2015, 12:54 PM PST0

HOUSTON, Texas – The family of a Texas man who allegedly pointed a gun at police after robbing and pistol-whipping another man, doesn’t understand why the police shot him. Danny Miguel Saul, a 29-year-old man from Tomball, Texas, is in the hospital after being shot by local police officers. The officers responded to a call about a robbery and assault. When Saul allegedly hid in the bushes with his gun and then pointed the gun at police, they fired at least eleven rounds.
by Bob Price19 Feb 2015, 8:31 AM PST0