After we ran our recent article, Is a TASER a Deadly Force Weapon When Utilized by a Resistive Subject, and asked readers to share their responses to that question in the context of an officer-involved shooting in Grand Rapids, MI, e-mails from across the country flooded in. In this ...
Competing Narratives: April 4, 2002
1. A Grand Rapids, MI police officer, mercilessly and unjustifiably shot a confused and terrified black man in the back of the head while laying on top of him and pushing the defenseless man’s face into the ground. A motivating factor in the ...
During a small Black Lives Matter protest in Pennsylvania, an individual scuffled with officers who were in the process of arresting a participant. In response, an officer throws a punch and the soon-to-be-arrested subject goes down.
WATCH THE FOOTAGE AND TELL US WHAT YOU ...
Kim Foxx, the elected State’s (Prosecuting) Attorney for Cook County, which includes Chicago as its major city, made a stunning announcement several weeks ago.
The announcement?
She decided not to charge two Chicago police officers in two separate 2021 incidents where those ...
On December 8, 2021 a young police officer answered a disturbance at an apartment complex in Oklahoma City. He immediately encountered 40-year-old Antwon Hill in a breezeway. The officer was alone.
Within 30 seconds of the encounter Hill pulled a gun out of his coat’s right pocket ...
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