police brutality

Oprah Winfrey is installing dozens of billboards around Louisville, Ky., calling for an investigation into the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

The police department in Aurora, Colorado, is apologizing for officers handcuffing an entire family, including a 6-year-old girl, after mistaking their vehicle as stolen.

In the video shared on Twitter, plainclothes police can be seen grabbing the person, who appeared to be ahead of the other protesters, and forcing them into an unmarked van.

Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., confronted Attorney General William Barr during a hearing on Tuesday on the conflicting and unequal response by law enforcement to suspects based on their race. “The department is not doing enough to address issues of racism, bias and brutality in law enforcement, when someone who commits mass murder is calmly arrested and served Burger King while...

As videos of Black people being killed at the hands of police make the rounds online, many Americans have felt called to protest racial injustice in recent weeks

The officer, who has been suspended without pay after the confrontation on the boardwalk at Rockaway Beach, will face second-degree strangulation and attempted strangulation charges, police sources told NBC New York

Family and friends gathered to mourn the death of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man shot by police outside a fast-food restaurant in Atlanta.

The NYPD has suspended an officer without pay after a video surfaced Sunday afternoon that appeared to show the officer use the now banned chokehold technique to detain a man.

Malcolme Morgan, Alonzo Harvey, Tamir Holmes and Tony Wiggins are all Black men who grew up in southeast San Diego and say they’ve had countless interactions with police, many of which included force.

NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar sat down with four Black men from Southeast San Diego to talk about their experiences with police.

Multiple cameras including Atlanta Police bodycams and dashcams captured the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks. Brooks was being handcuffed by police when a struggle ensued and Brooks tries to flee with an officers’ stun gun. He was shot in the back three times and later died at a nearby hospital. Police were called to...

More than 20 community leaders from different faiths will gather on Thursday to call for an end to police brutality and make recommendations on reforms.

More than 20 local faith leaders gathered to discuss racism and an end to police brutality. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez reports.

During a press conference Wednesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended a tweet from President Donald Trump in which the president repeated a bogus, right-wing conspiracy theory that Martin Gugino was an “ANTIFA provocateur.” Gugino, a 75-year-old protester, has been in a serious but stable condition after being pushed to the pavement by police in Buffalo, New York, last...

The NYPD is facing questions over two incidents involving officers using stun guns on civilians, including one man who was tased while in a diabetic shock, and another who claims to have partial vision loss

In a video message played at George Floyd’s funeral, former Vice President Joe Biden offered condolences to the grieving family and called on the country to “dissent from indifference” and address “racial justice.”

At a roundtable discussion on law enforcement on Monday, President Donald Trump confirmed that he will not pursue rollbacks to U.S. police funding and praised the job that law enforcement is doing.

Democrats from the House and the Senate took a moment of silence on Monday to remember George Floyd and others killed during interactions with police officers.

Prosecutors say two Buffalo police officers have been charged with assault after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester

Two police officers in Buffalo, New York, have been suspended without pay after they were caught on camera shoving a 75-year-old protester, causing him to fall and knock his head to the ground. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday the local district attorney should investigate the case for potential criminal charges. Barring that, the governor thinks the officers should be fired….