Police Shooting

Pittsburgh: Summer Protests Planned over Police Shooting Death

Antwon was a passenger in a car that was stopped because it fit the description of a vehicle involved in a drive-by shooting and there were bullet holes in the window. Two semi-automatic weapons were found inside the car and Antwon had an empty 9mm clip in his pocket. The police officer has been placed on administrative leave. Protesters are calling for the District Attorney's ouster as he has not filed charges against the police officer. [...]

Protests in Pittsburgh Over Black 17-Year Old Shot Dead by Officer

Protests erupted outside of the East Pittsburgh Police station over a17-year-old boy, Antwon Rose, who was shot and killed by a police officer as he ran from a traffic stop related to a separate shooting. The car matched the description of a vehicle being sought in a separate nonfatal shooting. Two weapons were recovered from the car. [...]

California Community Fights for Accountability After Police Kill Unarmed Black Man in Hail of Bullets

BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA — A California community is drawing increasing attention to the police killing of Diante “Butchie” Yarber, a 26-year-old black father of three who was shot to death as he sat inside his car in the parking lot of a Barstow Walmart on April 5.
In dramatic video filmed of the incident, which occurred in broad daylight, police can be heard rapidly spraying dozens of rounds  – well over 30 – at the car Yarber was driving, killing the young father and wounding his friends. No firearms were found inside the vehicle.

‘Shoot First and Think Later’: Supreme Court Deals Another Blow to Police Accountability

(ANTIMEDIA) — Last week, the Supreme Court dealt another blow to police accountability in the United States. In a 7-2 ruling in Kisela v. Hughes, a majority of Supreme Court justices decided that police officer Andrew Kisela of the University of Arizona Police Department could not be sued for shooting Amy Hughes, who was holding a knife at the time of the shooting but was not […]

Ohio Cop Shoots Journalist After Mistaking Tripod For Gun

A police officer in Clark County, Ohio opened fire on a journalist Monday night after he mistook the reporter’s camera equipment for a weapon.
The incident occurred around 10 pm after Andy Grimm, a photographer for the New Carlisle News who was out photographing a thunderstorm — due to pass the small town about 20 miles north of Dayton — began setting up his camera and tripod at a local traffic stop.

Video Shows Teens Beg For Their Lives Before Police Fire 21 Shots, Killing One

Phenix City, AL – The entire dash cam footage was just released showing officer Allan Brown firing eleven shots into a vehicle — pausing only to reload — and fire another ten shots into the vehicle as the teens can be heard begging for their lives. While a snippet of the video was released in May, the entire video, obtained by the Ledger-Enquirer, is disturbing, to say the least.

St. Louis Cop Faces Murder Charge For ‘Executing’ Man Then Planting Gun In His Vehicle

Former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, who was charged in May 2016 in the Dec. 20, 2011, death of 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith. (St. Louis Police Department)
A white former St. Louis police officer charged with killing a black man “executed” him after a car chase, then planted a gun in the slain drug suspect’s vehicle as an excuse for opening fire, a prosecutor told a court Tuesday.

Cops Serve Warrant at Wrong House, Kill Innocent Man and Shoot His Dog

(ANTIMEDIA) Southaven, MS — In a case that has witness accounts contradicting those of the authorities, a Mississippi man with no warrant out for his arrest was shot and killed over the weekend after officers went to the wrong address.
Forty-one-year-old Ismael Lopez, who was asleep in bed with his wife when cops arrived at his door to serve a warrant, was a former mechanic who had lived in his Southaven home for 13 years.