HOUSTON, Texas — #PrayforHouston was trending on Twitter on Saturday after Houston police officers had to shoot an armed black man who pointed a gun at them. Alva Braziel died at the scene in Houston around 12:30 Saturday morning after officers fired what was reported as numerous shots at the man.

Video has emerged of a police shooting last month of an unarmed 19-year-old male in broad daylight in Fresno, California. The man, Dylan Noble, was shot four times.

On July 7, The Atlantic looked at officer-involved shootings that took the lives of two armed black men, Alton Sterling (Baton Rouge) and Philando Castile (Minneapolis).

An Austin police SWAT officer was shot early Thursday morning while executing a search warrant. He was the second Texas police officer shot in the past twelve hours. The officer is in stable condition recovering from his wound.

Large demonstrations with heavy participation by Chinese-Americans were held in support of former NYPD officer Peter Liang over the weekend, in both New York and Los Angeles. The New York Times reports other demonstrations planned for Washington, D.C., Orlando, Philadelphia, and San Diego.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Wednesday afternoon that the federal Department of Justice will sue the cash-strapped city of Ferguson, Missouri, because the city council rejected an expensive deal negotiated by federal officials.

Nearly two dozen Chicago police officers have been called before a federal grand jury, which is investigating the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, shot by a fellow officer 16 times in 2014.

As the investigation and the recriminations over Chicago’s handling of the Laquan McDonald shooting continues to rile the Windy City, witnesses of the shooting are now coming forward to claim that the Chicago Police Department coerced them to change their stories to better conform to the statements of officers on the scene and even threatened those who refused to obey.

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson joined The David Webb Show on SiriusXM with conservative radio host David Webb and reacted to the cop who was ambushed and shot “in the name of Islam” in Philadelphia.

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.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Minnesota Judge Karen Janisch refused to halt a large Black Lives Matter protest planned for Wednesday at the Mall of America.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shreveport, Louisiana, Police Chief Willie Shaw had some harsh words for the “naysayers” spewing “negativity” about America’s law enforcement officers.

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

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.

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.

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.