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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — The family of a U.S. airman who was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff’s deputy inside his own home in 2024 filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday over his killing. The complaint filed in a Pensacola courthouse alleges that Deputy Eddie Duran used excessive and unconstitutional deadly force when he shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson just seconds after the Black 23-year-old opened his apartment door on May 3, 2024. Duran identifies as Hispanic, according to his voter registration. Fortson’s family is represented by Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney who has been involved in...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Judge Christina Mims has declared a mistrial in the trial of Christopher Schurr after the jury was unable to reach a verdict. For parts of four days, the jury deliberated over whether the former Grand Rapids police officer was guilty of second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter in the death of Patrick Lyoya. On Tuesday, Judge Mims read an instruction — also known as the Allen charge — to the jurors, encouraging them to "talk things over in the spirit of fairness and frankness." Ultimately, the twelve could not reach unanimity in the case, causing a mistrial...

The jury in the trial of Christopher Schurr went home without a verdict on Monday after hours of deliberation. While the facts of the case have never been in dispute — Schurr shot Lyoya in the back of the head as the two struggled over his taser during an April 2022 traffic stop — it's the jury's duty to decide whether Schurr acted within his role as a police officer when he fired the fatal shot. The Prosecution's Case Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker argued Schurr's use of force was not necessary. To this end, he called to the stand...

HENDERSON, Texas — Timothy Michael Randall was on the phone with his mother when a police car pulled up behind his Nissan Altima with its lights flashing. It was just after 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 14, 2022, and Randall was heading to his cousin’s house after a night out. “He had called to let me know that he was going to be home a few minutes later,” Randall’s mother, Wendy Tippitt, recalled. “So I wouldn’t worry.” Randall, 29, pulled over and hung up with his mom. Sgt. Shane Iversen of the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office walked up to the Altima...

LOCKLAND, Ohio — One person has died and another person has been taken into custody after a multi-county police chase ended in a shooting involving police on Interstate 75 in Lockland Wednesday morning. The incident shutdown all northbound lanes near the end of the Lockland split for hours, but the roadway reopened just before 7:40 a.m. It started at 2:45 a.m. West Chester police say a license plate reader flagged the suspect vehicle as stolen. When officers attempted to pull the vehicle over, it fled, leading to a pursuit. Lockland police say they were called to assist in locating multiple...

The San Diego Police Department has released video footage of the officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of a 16-year-old boy as he fled gunfire from another shooter on the night of January 28 near the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego. While police have not named the victim, the family identified him as Konoa Steven Wilson, a student at Bayside Community School in Logan Heights. Steven Wilson, the father of the deceased, told CBS 8 that his son was "a leader" who had never been in trouble before. The family has expressed deep confusion and disbelief over...

DENVER — The family of a pregnant woman whom police in Arvada, Colorado, shot and killed after they mistook her for a shoplifter has reached a $2 million settlement with the city, officials said Tuesday. Destinee Thompson, a mother of three from Denver, was killed on Aug. 17, 2021, as she tried to drive away from officers who had surrounded her car as she was leaving an Arvada motel. The lawsuit filed by Thompson's family was settled in July and the settlement was announced this week, said Dave Snelling, a spokesman for the Arvada Police Department. The shooting occurred as...

Legacy media outlets have drawn criticism over their framing of an incident in Chicago where a 26-year-old man was killed by police after he fired at officers who had pulled him over for a traffic stop last month, according to an initial investigation and body camera footage. Dexter Reed was killed after police pulled him over for a traffic stop in Chicago on March 21 after officers said he was not wearing a seatbelt. When officers attempted to speak with him, Reed locked himself in his vehicle and gunfire broke out leading officers to run away from the vehicle. According...

A Mississippi police officer accused of shooting an unarmed 11-year-old child who called law enforcement for assistance in a domestic disturbance incident has been suspended without pay, according to reports. The action taken against Sgt. Greg Capers of the Indianola Police Department as an investigation is ongoing into the shooting that unfolded last weekend at the home of Aderrien Murry, Murry family attorney Carlos Moore told The Associated Press. The mother said police responded to the residence in the rural city around 4 a.m. Saturday after the father of one of her other children showed up, knocked on a window...

The family of Chase Allan — a 25-year-old man who was shot and killed by Farmington police officers Wednesday — expressed frustration as they say police will not give them information. "We have learned more from media coverage about what occurred than anywhere else right now," the Allan family said in a statement late Thursday. "Police are stonewalling us."

Anyone have a link to an older Video, I saw it on YouTube, of a white man standing in daylight, in a construction area, or area without people around, getting Shot to death by Police? Hot, daylight, uninhabited area. I seem to remember a white Truck. The guy was standing up when shot repeatedly to death.

Yesterday I wrote about the Brooklyn public school teacher, Christopher Flanigan, who described the massive gathering of police officers at slain Detective Jason Rivera’s funeral as “ideal conditions for reciprocity,” after citing a 2020 instance where a police vehicle drove through a crowd of protesters and rioters in the city. I am forced to confess that I got one thing wrong when covering that story. After noting an actress who was fired after also complaining about the funeral, I said that her treatment was “more than you’ll see happening to Mr. Flanigan” because of the far-left climate in most of...

Over a thousand people took to the streets of Chicago on Friday evening, marching for police reform. They were protesting the killing of Adam Toledo, 13, by a police officer in the early morning hours of March 29.

Source: Screenshot“To Serve and Protect” is more than a mere police slogan – it is a police duty. And in the case of the shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, Officer Nicholas Reardon was clearly carrying out his duty to protect the life of another.Most of us know we have a right to self-defense. That means that if someone is trying to harm us, we can legally respond by using whatever force is necessary to meet and repel that force. But when it comes to using force against someone else – including deadly force – there is another closely-related legal right...

On MSNBC, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) argued that police officers “could shoot in the air” and that “Teachers go and break up fights with knives every day.” Beatty said, “We have to have a better way of de-escalating. Here is an occurrence where the police knew they were coming with two girls fighting — or a girl and two adults fighting. You can’t say that you are trained to only shoot to the center of the body. Four shots, I mean, come on, the first shot would knock the knife, a kitchen knife to the ground....

Breaking news from Columbus, Ohio this morning as a fatal officer-involved shooting in Columbus, Ohio. One person dead The victim is allegedly a 15-year-old black girl. Video below: Twitter LinkAnother video shows that a crowd is starting to show up: Twitter LinkThe protesters have continued to gather as the nation is still on edge after the Chauvin trial. Twitter LinkTwitter LinkSomeone at the scene of the Columbus, Ohio police-involved shooting mentions the 15-year old girl was armed with a knife and was involved in a fight. Another from the scene: Twitter LinkSo far we have limited information for this case...

by Sam RastonA mob of BLM protesters gathered outside of the Columbus, Ohio Police headquarters Tuesday night after an officer-involved shooting death of 15-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant.Members of the Black Liberation Movement showed up to the scene of the shooting Tuesday to confront police officers.An angry crowd chanting Ma'Khia Bryant’s name formed outside of the Columbus police headquarters.Across Twitter all afternoon, BLM activists and Democrats accused the police of "murder" of a "little child", making #AbolishThePolice the #1 trending topic for hours as a result.BLM protesters outside Columbus police headquarters demanded release of the bodycam footage.WATCH: Well tonight, they got just...

Victimhood is a currency on the left. In fact, it’s THE currency on the left, better than Bitcoin. The more you can claim for yourself the higher esteem you are held in among the intelligencia and elitists who seek to control the people of this country. That’s why there is this scramble, this desperate fight, even by wealthy leftists to claim they’re somehow a put-upon victim.The latest piece of performance art in the quest for the ultimate status on the left comes from Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post.Capehart has an estimated net worth between $1 and $5 million, which...

Mainstream media is utter garbage. That's it. That's the message. The entire purpose of a free press is to allow the truth to come out. In modern day America, mainstream media works against this notion and proactively works to subvert the truth with their reporting. In the case of CBS News coverage of the police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, the dishonesty on their part is striking. They intentionally edited out the part of the video that shows a gun in Toledo’s hand just prior to being shot. We know it was intentional because the rest of the video edit...

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