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.
- Police shot black man from behind in Alabama mall shooting, autopsy shows
A black man who was shot dead by police at an Alabama mall on Thanksgiving was shot three times from behind, an autopsy commissioned by his family has revealed. The family has called for the officer responsible to be charged.USA News - Alabama cops who killed ‘wrong’ suspect in Thanksgiving mall shooting shift blame onto victim
The family of an Alabama man shot by police on Thanksgiving is demanding justice after cops appeared to blame the victim for his own murder, even going so far as to retract a statement admitting they were wrong to shoot him.USA News - Protesters march at mall where Alabama police shot wrong man
Demonstrators gathered in protest of police violence after authorities admit that the suspect they killed following a shooting at an Alabama mall was ‘likely’ not the actual shooter.USA News - Black security guard killed by police while stopping a bar shooting
Responding to reports of a bar shooting, police in a southern suburb of Chicago shot and killed the heroic security guard as he was subduing the gunman. Local residents say the killer cops are unlikely to be punished.USA News - Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Cop? Web weapon designed to subdue mentally ill troublemakers
New York police are testing a new weapon that wraps the target in Kevlar cord. With nearly 1,000 people killed by US cops each year, non-lethal equipment is welcome – but can it break officers’ habit of reaching for the gun first?USA News - 'No other civilized country allows the police to kill with impunity,' black activist tells RT
Police in the US act like modern-day slave patrols, Black Agenda Report's Margaret Kimberley told RT, after the historic conviction of Chicago cop Jason van Dyke for the murder of unarmed black teen Laquan McDonald.USA News
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