police shootings

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and other high profile police killings, a group of developers launched TurnSignl, an app that connects drivers with attorneys during police traffic stops. The app, which is now available in Minnesota, Georgia and California, is set to roll out nationwide by the end of 2023. CEO and co-founder Jazz Hampton joined NBCLX to...

A jury resumes deliberations Tuesday in the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright.

Chauvin’s arrest, trial and subsequent conviction were hailed as watershed moments. But now a year later following Floyd’s death the question must be asked… has anything actually changed?

Body camera footage of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy last month shows the officer yelling “Drop it!”

“People are tired” of seeing police violence, attorney Michael Starr Hopkins says as Derek Chauvin’s trial in George Floyd’s death continues, after Daunte Wright was killed in a Minnesota police shooting that sparked protests. “No one should be getting a death penalty in the streets of America,” Starr Hopkins added.

Nearly 10 years ago, Danroy “DJ” Henry Jr., a college football player, was shot dead through the windshield of his car by a police officer. Today, his sister Amber is urging people to remember her brother alongside George Floyd and other unarmed black men killed by police. And she wants the cop who killed him prosecuted for murder.

California lawmakers considered emotional testimony from officers and survivors of police shootings Tuesday as they advanced a first-in-the-nation measure restricting when police can use deadly force.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked at the White House press briefing about the police shootings of black men Alton Sterling and Stephon Clark and how the president is responding to the situations. Sanders said they should be dealt with at the local level.

The city of New Orleans will pay $13.3 million in settlements of lawsuits over deadly police shootings after Hurricane Katrina and a fatal beating just before the 2005 storm, the mayor’s office announced Monday. Mayor Mitch Landrieu apologized to the victims’ families at a Monday afternoon news conference, and said he hopes their forgiveness will help the city find peace...

Lawyers for the estate of a confidential informant killed in a botched sting operation by Miami-Dade Police are accusing the department of witness tampering and obstruction of justice, according to a pleading filed this week in the wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of the dead man’s family.