A man carrying a raised knife charged at a St. Paul police officer after rear-ending his squad car and refused repeated commands to drop the weapon before the officer fatally shot him, according to body-camera footage.
Federal prosecutors said that they won't bring civil rights charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the white officer involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner.
Fifty-four-year-old Eric Logan was fatally shot by Sgt. Ryan O'Neill, who was responding to a report of a person breaking into cars.
The officer opened fire after Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside, assaulted him without provocation as the officer held his young child, Corona police said.
Protesters took to the streets of the Frayser community in anger after the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Brandon Webber.
Lawmakers and Bland's family members say the video proves that Trooper Brian Encinia had no reason to fear for his life and questioned whether he should have faced charges beyond perjury.
Nouman Raja was the first person in Florida in nearly 30 years to be convicted and sentenced for an on-duty killing — and one of only a few nationwide.
Prosecutors said they had to convene a grand jury to compel officers' testimony because many refused to provide statements.
Roberson, an African-American security guard who held a suspected shooter at gunpoint, was 26.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh once ruled against a police shooting victim’s family, blocking financial damages a jury awarded to them. But another part of that ruling was in the family’s favor.
A meme used mostly accurate stats to draw a somewhat questionable link between the duration of academy training and the use of deadly force by police.
President Donald Trump's renewed criticism of NFL protests prompted the re-emergence on social media of a controversy regarding the 2014 police shooting of a black man in Ohio.
Following Carrie Fisher's death, speculation mounted regarding the inspiration for her Princess Leia's character's iconic hair buns.
While this photo is nearly 30 years old, the claim that it shows the business associate of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has only been around since January 2020.
The tradition of using multiple pens to sign important legislation, and then giving those pens to the people involved, has been practiced by politicians for decades.
One right-wing observer called U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a liar for claiming that protesters in Richmond carried Confederate flags in January 2020.
George Washington is in the running for the United States' most misquoted president.