A Virginia jury convicted a former police officer of fatally shooting an unarmed Black teenager. The prosecutor said he should have used non-lethal force instead of a gun.
Resource officers are commonly trained by police, with each department setting their own standards of force towards students.
The mentally ill man was later found dead in the same restraint chair on the morning of Jan. 2.
Protestors gathered together in Capitol Hill on behalf of Jason Goolsby to express their anger and frustration with police brutality and racial profiling.
A Virginia police officer is now under review after using a Taser on a suspect who appeared to be compliant.
The Philadelphia police department is the latest law enforcement agency facing federal scrutiny from the Department of Justice. The Justice Department has identified nearly 50 areas…
An eight-minute-long video was uploaded onto YouTube on Wednesday showing New York City policemen, uniformed and plainclothes, roughing up three African-American minors. Based on that video, Officer John McDevitt has been…
Thirteen organizations — which include the ACLU, NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Action Network, and Rainbow Push Coalition — sent…
