Tag: Law enforcement agencies
Former deputy gets 18 years in prison for child exploitation
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former West Tennessee sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to more than 18 years in federal prison for obtaining and viewing...
Floyd verdict won’t remove blocks to police accountability
The guilty verdicts in the George Floyd murder case felt like a watershed moment to many Americans. President Biden called the verdicts a “giant...
Feds accused Georgia sheriff of civil rights violations
ATLANTA — An Atlanta-area sheriff is accused of violating the civil rights of several people in his agency's custody by ordering that they be...
OAS rights group: ‘Critical’ levels of impunity in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Mexico is suffering “critical” failures in law enforcement and some of the worst levels of journalist killings outside a war zone,...
Analysis: A reckoning on racism? Not for many leaders of GOP
NEW YORK — If the nation is in the midst of a historic reckoning on racism, most leaders of the Republican Party are not...
Tributes to French police official stabbed by extremist
RAMBOUILLET, France — Masked and in silence, hundreds of police officers, family members and others paid homage Monday to a French police official killed...
Family of Black man shot by deputy seeks release of audio
SPOTSYLVANIA COURTHOUSE, Va. — The family of a Black man shot by a Virginia sheriff's deputy last week demanded the release of additional audio...
Man charged in Iowa trooper’s killing was later shot 3 times
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The man charged with fatally shooting an Iowa State Patrol sergeant earlier this month was later shot in the head...
Man killed by Tennessee police was wanted in slaying
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The man fatally shot after charging at a Tennessee police officer with knives drawn was a fugitive suspect in a slaying...
Man killed by LA police had been shot by officers before
LOS ANGELES — A man who was shot and killed by Los Angeles officers over the weekend had been previously shot by police in...
