Police-involved shootings news
Follow RT to get the news and updates on police-involved shootings. Nearly 1,000 people are fatally shot by US police each year, according to a Washington Post database project. RT along and other media monitor the trends in police brutality and regularly pick up stories involving fatal mistakes by law enforcement officers. Find the news and articles on the best known cases of police-involved shootings related to the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York City, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, etc. Police-involved shootings in the US sometimes involve racial discrimination. The international activist movement Black Lives Matter claims it campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. Don’t miss the news and updates on Black Lives Matter rallies, protests and other action. There is a lot of footage provided by eyewitnesses showing a police officer committed an unlawful act such as shooting. Check out RT.com to get information on investigations of police-involved shootings, as well as official statements on it. Finally read opinion pieces of experts and authors, who talk to RT on police-involved shootings.
- Suspect barricades himself in at Paramount Studios, shots fired amid massive police response (VIDEOS)
The suspect in a sexual assault case barricaded himself into a building at Paramount Studios, prompting a heavily armed response from the LAPD. The suspect was eventually arrested after a brief siege.Oct 19, 2020 08:11USA News - Knife-armed suspect BEATS TASER stun and CHARGES officer in blood-chilling body cam footage from Chicago (VIDEO)Footage from police body cameras shows the moments leading to a fatal shooting in Chicago, during which cops failed to incapacitate a man with a taser and shot him multiple times as he was reportedly trying to stab an officer.Oct 2, 2020 11:16USA News
- WATCH: Portland BLM ‘security’ tackles man to the ground, puts him in chokeholdAs protesters gathered in Portland at a vigil for a black man killed by police two years ago, BLM security at the event were filmed tackling a man and placing him in a chokehold, which police are forbidden from using.Oct 1, 2020 08:57USA News
- ‘Yo ass goin’ viral’: Antifa, BLM protesters surround Portland police car, play victim when officer draws weaponHordes of activists took to the streets of Portland once again Monday night. When one group surrounded a cop car, the officer inside drew his service weapon, prompting wild complaints from the assembled crowd.Sep 29, 2020 12:28USA News
- Kentucky AG to release grand jury records in Breonna Taylor case after juror files motion to disclose details of proceedingsKentucky’s attorney general will release a recording from the grand jury probe into the death of Breonna Taylor, saying he would do so hours after a juror on the case filed a motion to go public with details about the proceeding.Sep 29, 2020 04:36USA News
- Maryland county to pay $20mn in ‘heinous,’ ‘brutal’ & ‘senseless’ shooting of HANDCUFFED black man by black police officerMaryland's Prince George's County agreed to pay a $20-million settlement – one of the largest ever in a police-brutality case – to the family of a black man who was shot dead by a black officer while handcuffed in a patrol car.Sep 28, 2020 21:12USA News
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