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(MINNEAPOLIS) — The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright was sentenced Friday to two years in prison, a penalty below state guidelines after the judge found mitigating factors warranted a lesser sentence. Kim Potter was convicted in December of first- and…

(MINNEAPOLIS) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will join the review of the fatal shooting of a Black man by Minneapolis police, authorities said Friday, shortly after police released body camera footage that showed SWAT team officers entering an apartment and shooting the 22-year-old man, who was wrapped in a blanket and had a gun…

During a Thursday meeting with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, President Joe Biden announced actions for investing in policing and community intervention programs in response to the surge in gun violence in recent years that has impacted many cities across the country, including New York City. “Enough is enough,” Biden said. Gun violence deaths…

(CHICAGO) — Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke left prison on Thursday after serving less than half of his nearly seven-year sentence for killing Black teenager Laquan McDonald—an early release that was widely viewed as a setback in the city’s efforts to improve relations between its police department and Black community. Jordan Abudayyeh, a…

On Sunday, the mayor announced that two officers had been suspended in connection with work on the investigations into the deaths of Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls

Eric Adams, the new mayor of New York City, announced on Jan. 24 a detailed plan aiming to end gun violence in his city. Adams, a former police officer and Brooklyn borough president, made public safety one of the tentpoles of his campaign, amid much attention to a national rise in gun violence during the…

Prosecutors in the trial of the three former police officers accused the men of standing by as Derek Chauvin “slowly killed George Floyd right in front of them”

Fanta Bility was shot while leaving a football game in August 2021, and prosecutors initially charged 2 teenagers in her death before filing charges against the police officers

Murder charges were dropped against two Black teenagers initially blamed for the death of Fanta Bility

Homicides as a result of gun violence have remained consistently high across the U.S. in 2021, after a steep increase last year during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Broadly, the year-on-year increase in 2021 is not as large as that in 2020 compared to 2019. But many major cities have in fact have…

The 14-year-old girl who was killed by Los Angeles police last week—she was struck while hiding in a dressing room as an officer was aiming rifle rounds at a man suspected of assaulting customers at a clothing store and a bullet went through a wall—loved skateboarding and had dreams of becoming an engineer to build…

The girl got shot inside a Burlington store's dressing room when police fired at a suspect who assaulted a woman earlier