The US Department of Homeland Security is investigating after more than 90 people were found in a house in southwest Houston that police called people smuggling. Deputy Police Commissioner Daryn Edwards said the police received a kidnapping call Thursday night and the homicide division worked all night to enter the house with a tactical team. … Read more
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Law enforcement posted 911 calls and new body camera videos on Wednesday depicting the chaotic moments associated with the murder of a black 16-year-old girl who was fatally shot by a Columbus police officer while answering a call responded because of a malfunction. Michael Woods, the interim chief of the Columbus Police … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — Police officers responding to an auto burglary in progress here last week found the suspect sitting in the back of a Ford van with a machete in hand. Over the next three hours, a growing law enforcement group that included a crisis negotiation team and tactical operations experts encircled the suspect. He refused to leave the van, so they engaged him in … Read more
April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ET April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ETA demonstrator outside the Brooklyn Center police department on Thursday night.Credit…Victor J. Blue for The New York Times BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — For a fifth night after a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb shot and killed a 20-year-old man, hundreds of people rattled … Read more
Daunte Wright was driving with his girlfriend on Sunday afternoon when he was stopped in the Minneapolis suburbs. Police previously said they tried to arrest the driver after learning that he had a pending arrest warrant during a traffic obstruction. The man got back in his vehicle and an officer shot him dead, police said. … Read more
Caron Nazario, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, was driving to Petersburg, Virginia, from a drilling weekend on December 5, when he saw police lights flash behind him. Lieutenant Nazario, made up of Black and Latino, was too nervous to stop on a dark street. He drove about a mile to a gas … Read more
CHICAGO – A Chicago police officer was transferred to administrative service after he shot and killed a teenage boy in what an officer described as an “armed confrontation”. The boy was Adam Toledo, who, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, died of murder from a gunshot wound to the chest. Toledo, who was … Read more
A witness saw the man “walking openly with a rifle and entering the bathroom” and alerted management, then notified police after a preliminary investigation. The officers immediately located the man and detained him. According to the Atlanta Police Department, officers recovered five firearms (two long guns and three pistols) and body armor during the investigation. … Read more
Ten people, including a police officer, were shot dead in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado on Monday. This was the second mass shooting in the United States in a week. At a press conference late Monday, authorities said the attacker was wounded and in custody and was being treated in hospital. Citing the ongoing investigation, … Read more
OTTAWA – When seven police officers arrived at Debbie Baptiste’s house in August 2016, circling the house and carrying rifles, they informed her that her son was dead. Instead of comforting the grieving mother, they asked if she had been drinking and told her to “put it all together.” Police’s persistent treatment of Ms. Baptiste, … Read more