Tag: Police reform
Report: officers shouldn’t have fired in Breonna Taylor raid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville police documents in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid reveal internal disagreements about whether officers were justified in using deadly force,...
Shooting highlights lack of body cams among Portland police
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two police officers raised their weapons while sheltering behind a tree in a Portland park. They yelled at a homeless man...
Hundreds join Daunte Wright’s family on march for justice
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — Hundreds of people joined Daunte Wright's family and friends on a march through the Minneapolis suburb where he was fatally...
Minnesota Legislature struggles for compromise on policing
MINNEAPOLIS — Negotiators in Minnesota’s divided Legislature on Monday kicked off what's sure to be a long and contentious debate over whether further police...
Use-of-force cases prompt state debates over officer records
DENVER — Lawmakers in more than 20 states have considered bills this year to make the disciplinary records of police officers public or to...
Families of Black men slain by police are hopeful for reform
WASHINGTON — The family and representatives of Black men slain by the police met with senators and White House officials Thursday — and left...
Wandering cops shuffle departments, abusing citizens
St. Louis — Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his father. He got a job in Independence, Ohio, but it didn’t...
Appeals panel: Limits on St. Louis police aren’t permanent
A judge’s 2017 ruling limiting how St. Louis police officers can control protesters was meant to be a temporary order and must end unless...
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...
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...
