police brutality

A civil rights lawsuit against the LA County Sheriff’s Department accuses deputies of severely beating a man.

A Garden Grove police officer was charged Wednesday with beating and threatening two homeless people in separate incidents while on duty, including “hitting a man in the back of his head and pulling his hair while the man’s hands were handcuffed behind him,” according to a press release.

For decades, demonstrators against acts of violence targeting Black Americans have chanted: “No justice, no peace.” Since 2013, protesters in the streets and on social media have shouted that “Black Lives Matter.”

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, Minn., after former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for over nine minutes. Here is a timeline of what happened in the year following Floyd’s death.

A security camera captured police officers in Loveland, Colo., watching footage from the arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia, which ultimately resulted in them dislocating her shoulder and breaking her arm. While replaying the arrest on their phone, one officer asked, “Ready for the pop? Here comes the pop.”

Family and community members gathered on Thursday to remember 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was unarmed when he was shot and killed by Minneapolis police during a traffic stop.

Dr. Martin Tobin, world-renowned pulmonologist, testified at the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin that overall health was not a factor in the death of George Floyd. “Any healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died as a result of what he was subjected to.”

Attorneys for the five children of Chicago resident Daniel Prude have announced a federal lawsuit against the city of Rochester, New York, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.

Barbed wire and concrete barriers surround the courthouse where the white former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd is due to soon go on trial.

The family of a Navy veteran who was going through an episode of paranoia says he died after a Northern California police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes.

As we deal with the emotional toll of black death amid a global pandemic, conversations around allyship have come to the forefront as it will take people of all races and backgrounds to stand in support of marginalized groups.

A lawsuit against a Louisiana sheriff and seven deputies says deputies sat on and kept a chokehold on a shackled, obese, severely autistic 16-year-old for nine minutes until he died a year ago.

A Boston police sergeant has been placed on leave and the Suffolk County district attorney is investigating after body cam videos released in a report Friday appeared to show officers using excessive force, bragging about attacking demonstrators, discussing arrest quotas and the use of police cruisers as weapons, and relentlessly targeting protesters with pepper spray and batons. Mayor Marty Walsh…

Voters in communities across the country have approved measures toughening civilian oversight of law enforcement agencies

The unity of the Black Lives Matter and the End SARS movements is one of the first times masses of protesters in different countries have assisted one another at the grassroots level.

Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, was a branch of the country’s police force created in 1992 to deal with crime incidents. However, more recently, it has been the subject of massive protests for its links to murders and other illegal activities. LX News talked to young activists Tiffany Isesele and Adedoyin Adeniji, who created a website to raise awareness...

Health care providers demonstrated Tuesday evening outside the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance, where a deputy shot and critically injured a patient earlier this month, to protest “gun violence and police brutality against unarmed victims, most especially within the walls of ours hospitals.”

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden faced off on Tuesday for the first presidential debate of the 2020 election. Here are some of the key moments you may have missed.