BLACK PEOPLE KILLED BY POLICE!!! LINKS TO THREADS INSIDE.
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I saw the first one a week or two ago. I could've SWORN I posted it...must've been in a different thread.
Thanks for dropping Shots Fired though. The algorithm failed to throw that one my way.
It's probably around. Not a bad thing to be reminded of thoughI saw the first one a week or two ago. I could've SWORN I posted it...must've been in a different thread.
Thanks for dropping Shots Fired though. The algorithm failed to throw that one my way.
A Different kind of Police Settlement.
Normally I would put something like this in my Police Settlement Thread . But I think this story deserved it's own. Little Rock settles its part of 2017 fatal police shooting outside club for $85,000 A late-arriving item for tonight’s Little Rock City Board meeting disclosed the settlement of...
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The family of a teenager who died after being struck by a vehicle during a police chase has settled a lawsuit.
The family of Jalen Carter sued the North Charleston Police Department and a former officer alleging negligence, excessive force, wrongful death and improper search and seizure over Carter’s death.
Carter’s family will receive a $150,000 settlement in the suit.
Carter died from his injuries on Nov. 17, 2017, approximately six days after the chase.
The lawsuit, filed in October 2018, claimed on or about Nov. 11, 2017, at approximately 3:44 p.m., Carter and a friend were standing outside Appian Way Apartments off Patriot Boulevard. When the officer attempted to make contact with Carter and his friend when Carter began to flee on foot, the lawsuit stated.
Court documents alleged the officer chased Carter with his gun drawn, and as Carter attempted to cross Patriot Boulevard, he was struck by a car.
The lawsuit claimed Carter was unarmed and therefore not a threat to the public or the officer, which meant lethal force was not justified; the officer should only have pulled his gun if lethal force is appropriate, it stated.
The suit claimed the officer “did not use sufficient care to know and realize that Jalen was unarmed and was not posing a threat of severe bodily injury or death” and that the officer had a duty to “properly and accurately assess a specific situation before resorting to potential use of lethal force.”
The payout came from the state’s Insurance Reserve Fund.
Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis
June 16, 1960 - August 07, 2020
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Sylvania - Mr. Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, 60, entered eternal rest Friday, August 7, 2020.
Mr. Lewis leaves to cherish his memories, a wife, Mrs. Betty Lewis; father, Roosevelt Lewis; mother, Lindsay Mae Milton; son, Brook Bacon (Shalagh); brothers, Crandall Lewis, Joseph Dwayne Taylor, Marcus Xavier Lewis; sisters, Myra Lewis Hilton, Tonia Lewis Moore, Sabrina Taylor Lewis, Rosezell Cusack, Jackie Rose, Urssula Lewis Jones, Consuelo Lewis; 2 grandchildren.
Public Viewing: 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m., Friday, August 14, 2020 at Sylvania Funeral Home, Inc., Sylvania, GA.
Graveside service will be held 9:30 a.m., Saturday, August 15, 2020 at Charlestown U.M.C., 1759 Effingham Highway, Sylvania, GA 30467.
Georgia state trooper charged with murder of Black man over ‘busted tail light’
By Tim Balk New York Daily News | Aug 14, 2020 at 6:42 PM State trooper Jacob Gordon Thompson was arrested and charged with murder. ((Georgia Department of Public Safety via AP)) A white, now-fired Georgia state trooper was charged with murder on...www.bgol.us
Family of Julian Lewis, killed by a Georgia trooper, obtains $4.8M state settlement
A law firm working for the widow of Julian E. Lewis, who was shot to death by then-Georgia State Patrol trooper Jacob Gordon Thompson along a rural road in Screven County on Aug. 7, 2020, announced Thursday that she has obtained a record $4.8 million settlement from the state of Georgia...
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Video shows when Miami officer fatally shot man during traffic stop
Another video shows when a police officer fatally shot Antwon Cooper in the head just outside of Miami Northwest Senior High School surfaced on Friday.
Video shows when Miami officer fatally shot man during traffic stop
Another video shows when a police officer fatally shot Antwon Cooper in the head just outside of Miami Northwest Senior High School surfaced on Friday.www.local10.com
Drop the non-lethal weapon! Dropped a non-lethal weapon! Okay I'm going to grab my Lethal Weapon and shoot you because you won't let go up a non-lethal weapon
So you would get in a physical fight with someone holding a gun?
The guy was holding a taser and trying not to get tased. It's the same way when I was a kid and my mother tried to slap me and I caught her hand
And in planet of the apes when Caesar catches dudes hand. "No. I'm not gonna let you hit me"
I doubt dude would have fought back if the cop had the gun drawn, but he didn't. He had the tazer and dude was like, "NO"
The problem is the cop treated the taser as if it was a Lethal Weapon. The cop acted as if the black man getting a hold of the taser was the same as the black man getting a hold of the gun and it's not
Fuck you. No one sets out in their day, grab their morning coffee and says, "I'm going to get into a tussle with a cop today"
Every time a black person comes into a confrontation with a cop it's life or death. Period. I'm going to fight for my life, cop or no cop.
I'm not gonna sit there as Biggie said, "My life in that man's hands while he just deciding."
If it comes to it, I'm taking the cop out. I'm not just gonna sit there and let them beat my ass.
If it's a regular interaction with a cop, I'm going to act regular, but if it gets escalated I'm not going to sit there hoping they don't kill me. I would rather go out in a hail of bullets than go out praying a White man doesn't kill me
He wasn't killed, but damn. LAPD actually filed charges for assault with a deadly weapon. The D.A. dropped the charges.
LAPD officers were told a man had a gun and shot him. He had a cellphone
Video posted online this week by the Los Angeles Police Department shows two officers approach a man they believed was armed with a gun in South L.A. in March and immediately shoot him.
Jose Barrera, 45, did not have a gun or any other weapon, but was holding a black cellphone and waving it around. He survived.
The shooting is the latest in which LAPD officers opened fire after misjudging the threat posed by an individual, in part based on inaccurate claims from others — including 911 callers — that the people were brandishing firearms.
In the video from Barrera’s shooting that the department posted to YouTube on Thursday, a 911 caller tells a dispatcher in Spanish that a man with a gun is pointing it at people along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The dispatcher asks the man if it is a small gun, and he then says he doesn’t know exactly what the man is holding. The call went out over the police radio as a man pointing an “unknown type handgun at passersby.”
Later, as responding officers Tatiana Bohorquez and Manuel Rios are driving toward the scene, another officer can be heard on the radio stating, “He does have a handgun, and he’s firing at a house right now.”
“Oh, s—,” Bohorquez, who is driving, can be heard saying.
Rios, in the passenger seat, then opens the passenger side door of the patrol vehicle as it is still moving and holds his handgun at the ready in his right hand.
“You might have to shoot. You might have to shoot,” Bohorquez says as they pull up near Barrera.
Rios then immediately opens fire, seeming to fire four rounds down the street at Barrera.
Timestamps on the body-worn video the department posted showed that the officers then waited about 10 minutes to begin approaching Barrera with a group of other officers. Barrera was handcuffed and taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Despite the fact that Barrera did not have a gun or any other weapon on him, the LAPD presented a case for assault with a deadly weapon against him to the L.A. County district attorney’s office, which prosecutors rejected.
Barrera could not be reached for comment Friday. The district attorney’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Capt. Kelly Muniz, an LAPD spokeswoman, said the department could not immediately answer questions about the incident or the officers’ actions prior to the completion of an internal investigation of the shooting.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore said areas of concern that arise from such shootings are addressed immediately with involved officers through preliminary briefings and trainings, but to reach public conclusions about officers’ actions before the completion of the related investigation “would be contrary to our commitment to basing conclusions after reviewing all of the information provided.”
Barrera’s shooting follows others in recent months in which LAPD officers opened fire on suspects whom callers had reported were armed with firearms, but were not.
Two days before Christmas, LAPD officers entered a Burlington store in North Hollywood where at least one 911 caller claimed that a man with a gun was threatening people and had opened fire.
“So he shot the gun?” the dispatcher said.
“Yes,” the caller said.
When officers found the suspect, 24-year-old Daniel Elena-Lopez, assaulting a woman, a lead officer with a rifle immediately shot him. Elena-Lopez, who had a heavy bike lock but no gun, was killed, as was 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was hiding in a changing room with her mother and was struck by one of the officer’s rifle rounds that pierced a wall.
In another high-profile incident in July, a 911 caller reported a man on Hollywood Boulevard was “screaming and harassing people” with “what looks to be a pistol in his hand.”
When officers ran up to the suspect, Matthew James Sova, in front of a McDonald’s near the busy tourist intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue and he raised his hand in their direction, they immediately shot him.
Sova did not have a gun, but a butane lighter with a pistol-like grip. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
LAPD officials have recently lamented a recent rise in the number of police shootings, especially of individuals who are not armed with firearms, and have said they are revisiting training — including in the use of less-lethal weapons like projectiles and Tasers as alternatives to deadly force.
www.latimes.com
LAPD officers were told a man had a gun and shot him. He had a cellphone
Video posted online this week by the Los Angeles Police Department shows two officers approach a man they believed was armed with a gun in South L.A. in March and immediately shoot him.
Jose Barrera, 45, did not have a gun or any other weapon, but was holding a black cellphone and waving it around. He survived.
The shooting is the latest in which LAPD officers opened fire after misjudging the threat posed by an individual, in part based on inaccurate claims from others — including 911 callers — that the people were brandishing firearms.
In the video from Barrera’s shooting that the department posted to YouTube on Thursday, a 911 caller tells a dispatcher in Spanish that a man with a gun is pointing it at people along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The dispatcher asks the man if it is a small gun, and he then says he doesn’t know exactly what the man is holding. The call went out over the police radio as a man pointing an “unknown type handgun at passersby.”
Later, as responding officers Tatiana Bohorquez and Manuel Rios are driving toward the scene, another officer can be heard on the radio stating, “He does have a handgun, and he’s firing at a house right now.”
“Oh, s—,” Bohorquez, who is driving, can be heard saying.
Rios, in the passenger seat, then opens the passenger side door of the patrol vehicle as it is still moving and holds his handgun at the ready in his right hand.
“You might have to shoot. You might have to shoot,” Bohorquez says as they pull up near Barrera.
Rios then immediately opens fire, seeming to fire four rounds down the street at Barrera.
Timestamps on the body-worn video the department posted showed that the officers then waited about 10 minutes to begin approaching Barrera with a group of other officers. Barrera was handcuffed and taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Despite the fact that Barrera did not have a gun or any other weapon on him, the LAPD presented a case for assault with a deadly weapon against him to the L.A. County district attorney’s office, which prosecutors rejected.
Barrera could not be reached for comment Friday. The district attorney’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Capt. Kelly Muniz, an LAPD spokeswoman, said the department could not immediately answer questions about the incident or the officers’ actions prior to the completion of an internal investigation of the shooting.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore said areas of concern that arise from such shootings are addressed immediately with involved officers through preliminary briefings and trainings, but to reach public conclusions about officers’ actions before the completion of the related investigation “would be contrary to our commitment to basing conclusions after reviewing all of the information provided.”
Barrera’s shooting follows others in recent months in which LAPD officers opened fire on suspects whom callers had reported were armed with firearms, but were not.
Two days before Christmas, LAPD officers entered a Burlington store in North Hollywood where at least one 911 caller claimed that a man with a gun was threatening people and had opened fire.
“So he shot the gun?” the dispatcher said.
“Yes,” the caller said.
When officers found the suspect, 24-year-old Daniel Elena-Lopez, assaulting a woman, a lead officer with a rifle immediately shot him. Elena-Lopez, who had a heavy bike lock but no gun, was killed, as was 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was hiding in a changing room with her mother and was struck by one of the officer’s rifle rounds that pierced a wall.
In another high-profile incident in July, a 911 caller reported a man on Hollywood Boulevard was “screaming and harassing people” with “what looks to be a pistol in his hand.”
When officers ran up to the suspect, Matthew James Sova, in front of a McDonald’s near the busy tourist intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue and he raised his hand in their direction, they immediately shot him.
Sova did not have a gun, but a butane lighter with a pistol-like grip. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
LAPD officials have recently lamented a recent rise in the number of police shootings, especially of individuals who are not armed with firearms, and have said they are revisiting training — including in the use of less-lethal weapons like projectiles and Tasers as alternatives to deadly force.
LAPD officers were told a man had a gun and shot him. He had a cellphone
Video posted by the LAPD shows two officers approach a man they believed was armed with a gun and quickly shoot him. He had a cellphone.
www.latimes.com
Governor saw deadly arrest video months before prosecutors
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — With racial tensions still simmering over the killing of George Floyd, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers gathered in a state police conference room in October 2020 to prepare for the fallout from a troubling case closer to home: troopers’ deadly arrest of Ronald Greene.
There, they privately watched a crucial body-camera video of the Black motorist’s violent arrest that showed a bruised and bloody Greene going limp and drawing his final breaths — footage that prosecutors, detectives and medical examiners wouldn’t even know existed for another six months.
While the Democratic governor has distanced himself from allegations of a cover-up in the explosive case by contending evidence was promptly turned over to authorities, an Associated Press investigation based on interviews and records found that wasn’t the case with the 30-minute video he watched. Neither Edwards, his staff nor the state police he oversees acted urgently to get the crucial footage into the hands of those with the power to charge the white troopers seen stunning, punching and dragging Greene.
That video, which showed critical moments and audio absent from other footage that was turned over, wouldn’t reach prosecutors until nearly two years after Greene’s May 10, 2019, death on a rural roadside near Monroe. Now three years have passed, and after lengthy, ongoing federal and state probes, still no one has been criminally charged.
“The optics are horrible for the governor. It makes him culpable in this, in delaying justice,” said Rafael Goyeneche, a former prosecutor who is president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, a New Orleans-based watchdog group.
“All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing,” Goyeneche added. “And that’s what the governor did, nothing.”
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — With racial tensions still simmering over the killing of George Floyd, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers gathered in a state police conference room in October 2020 to prepare for the fallout from a troubling case closer to home: troopers’ deadly arrest of Ronald Greene.
There, they privately watched a crucial body-camera video of the Black motorist’s violent arrest that showed a bruised and bloody Greene going limp and drawing his final breaths — footage that prosecutors, detectives and medical examiners wouldn’t even know existed for another six months.
While the Democratic governor has distanced himself from allegations of a cover-up in the explosive case by contending evidence was promptly turned over to authorities, an Associated Press investigation based on interviews and records found that wasn’t the case with the 30-minute video he watched. Neither Edwards, his staff nor the state police he oversees acted urgently to get the crucial footage into the hands of those with the power to charge the white troopers seen stunning, punching and dragging Greene.
That video, which showed critical moments and audio absent from other footage that was turned over, wouldn’t reach prosecutors until nearly two years after Greene’s May 10, 2019, death on a rural roadside near Monroe. Now three years have passed, and after lengthy, ongoing federal and state probes, still no one has been criminally charged.
“The optics are horrible for the governor. It makes him culpable in this, in delaying justice,” said Rafael Goyeneche, a former prosecutor who is president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, a New Orleans-based watchdog group.
“All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing,” Goyeneche added. “And that’s what the governor did, nothing.”
Governor saw deadly arrest video months before prosecutors
With racial tensions still simmering over the killing of George Floyd, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers gathered in a state police conference room in October 2020 to prepare for the fallout from a troubling case closer to home: troopers’ deadly arrest of Ronald Greene. There...
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Four officers indicted in McGlothen death turn themselves in
The Caddo Parish Grand Jury has returned indictments against four Shreveport police officers in connection with the April 5, 2020 death of Tommie Dale McGlothen Jr.www.ksla.com
4 Louisiana police officers cleared in Black man’s death
Prosecutors failed to prove their case against Brian Ross, James LeClare, Treona McCarter and D’Marea Johnson in the death of Tommie McGlothen, a judge ruled.
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| Incident Date | Name of officer | Conviction date | Agency | Description of Incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 June 2021 | Michael Davis | 18 March 2022 | Lonoke County Sheriff's Office (Arkansas) | During a traffic stop, Davis shot and killed Hunter Brittain as he went to grab a jug of antifreeze to prevent his truck from rolling into Davis's. Davis was found guilty of negligent homicide and sentenced to a year in prison.[1] |
| 11 April 2021 | Kim Potter | 23 December 2021 | Brooklyn Center Police Department (Minnesota) | During a traffic stop, Potter attempted to arrest Daunte Wright for a warrant. She shot him, claiming that she meant to use her taser.[2] |
| 25 May 2020 | Derek Chauvin Thomas Lane | 20 April 2021 18 May 2022 (pleaded guilty) | Minneapolis Police Department (Minnesota) | Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for about nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on the street calling out "I can't breathe" during an arrest made with three other officers, identified as Tou Thao, J. Alexander Keung, and Thomas Lane.[3] In May 2022, Lane, who held Floyd's legs down, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for having his murder charges dropped.[4] |
| 1 May 2020 | Aaron Russell | 7 January 2022 (pleaded guilty) | San Diego County Sheriff's Department (California) | Russell fatally shot Nicholas Bils from behind after Bils escaped a state parks patrol car and ran away.[5] |
| 3 December 2019 | Eric J. DeValkenaere | 20 November 2021 | Kansas City Police Department (Missouri) | DeValkenaere shot Cameron Lamb, 26, in his own backyard after police responded to a report of a traffic incident involving Lamb's truck. Prosecutors argued DeValkenaere did not have a warrant or probable cause to be in Lamb's backyard at the time of the shooting and planted evidence at the scene.[6] |
| 4 July 2019 | Joshua Taylor Brandon Dingman | 8 November 2021 | Wilson Police Department (Oklahoma) | Taylor and Dingman tased 28-year-old Jared Lakey 53 times, resulting in his death.[7] |
| 24 January 2019 | Nathaniel Hendren | 28 February 2020 (pleaded guilty) | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (Missouri) | Hendren shot and killed fellow officer Katlyn Alix while playing a variation of Russian roulette while he was supposed to be on duty. Hendren pled guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison.[8] |
| 4 January 2019 | Andria Heese | 1 June 2021 (pleaded guilty) | Columbia Police Department (Missouri) | Prosecutors say Heese was parking her police cruiser to watch children board school buses at Battle High School when she struck 4-year-old Gabriella Curry. Heese pled guilty to careless and imprudent driving.[9] |
| 11 November 2018 | Andrew Hall | 26 October 2021 | Danville Police Department (California) | Hall shot and killed 33-year-old Filipino-American Laudemer Arboleda as he slowly maneuvered his car between two police vehicles. Hall was convicted on assault with a firearm, but the jury deadlocked on charges of manslaughter.[10] |
| 18 September 2018 | Stephen Flood | 19 May 2022 | Horry County Sheriff's Office (South Carolina) | In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, Flood drove a police van past a National Guard barrier while transporting two women, Wendy Newton and Nicolette Green, to a mental health facility. The van was swept into a rail by floodwaters, making it impossible for the women to leave, and neither Flood nor another deputy had the key to a second door. Both of the women drowned. Flood was found guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide each and sentenced to 18 years in prison. The second deputy is set to stand trial at a later date.[11] |
| 8 September 2018 | James O'Brien Adam Lunn | 27 August 2021 | Boulder County Sheriff's Office (Colorado) | O'Brien and Lunn picked up 23-year-old Demetrius Shankling and transported him in a police van to a detox center. When they arrived, the deputies found Shankling unresponsive and not breathing. An autopsy found that Shankling died from positional asphyxia due to how he was positioned in the van. O'Brien and Lunn were found guilty and sentenced to six and three years in prison respectively.[12][13] |
| 26 July 2018 | Andrew Delke | 2 July 2021 | Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (Tennessee) | Delke shot and killed 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick as he fled on foot.[14] |
| 3 April 2018 | William Darby | 7 May 2021 | Huntsville Police Department (Alabama) | Darby was convicted of shooting and killing Jeffrey Parker, 49. Parker had been having suicidal ideations and was pointing a gun at his head when Darby entered his residence and shot him.[15] |
| 24 December 2017 | Mike Holmes | 6 February 2020 | Grundy County Sheriff's Office (Tennessee) | During a chase, Holmes shot at a car that drove by him, hitting Shelby Comer, who was a passenger.[16] |
| 15 November 2017 | Keith Sweeney | 4 November 2019 | Oklahoma City Police Department (Oklahoma) | Sweeney shot and killed a suicidal man, Dustin Pigeon, who investigators say was unarmed and posed no threat to police.[17] |
| 26 August 2017 | Mark Bessner | 16 April 2019 | Michigan State Police (Michigan) | During a pursuit in Detroit, Bessner tased Damon Grimes as he rode in an SUV, causing him to crash into a truck and die from blunt force trauma. Bessner stated he believed Grimes was reaching for a gun.[18] |
| 15 July 2017 | Mohammad Noor | 30 April 2019 | Minneapolis Police Department (Minnesota) | While responding to a 911 call about a possible assault, Noor shot and killed Australian-American Justine Damond through the window of his patrol car after he was startled when Damond approached the vehicle.[19][20] |
| 29 April 2017 | Roy Oliver | 28 August 2018 | Balch Springs Police Department (Texas) | Oliver fired three rounds from his rifle into a vehicle full of people leaving a party, killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards.[21] |
| 3 March 2016 | Jesse Santifort | 6 October 2020 (pleaded guilty) | Kenly Police Department (North Carolina) | Following a chase, Santifort tased Alex Thompson multiple times, resulting in his death. Santifort was indicted on involuntary manslaughter but plead guilty to the lesser charge of assault.[22] |
| 25 February 2016 | Aaron Cody Smith | 22 November 2019 | Montgomery Police Department (Alabama) | Shot 58-year-old Greg Gunn seven times, killing him, after Gunn fled a stop-and-frisk search. Smith claimed that Gunn had attacked him with a pole, a claim prosecutors disproved during the trial.[23][24] |
| 4 March 2016 | Bobby Joe Smith | 15 March 2017 | Laurel County Constable's Office (Kentucky) | Smith shot and killed Brandon Stanley as he raised his arms. Smith said he believed Stanley had something in his hands when he raised them.[25] |
| 28 December 2015 | Guarionex Candelario Rivera | 21 November 2016 | Puerto Rico Police Department (Puerto Rico) | While on duty, Candelario Rivera shot Commander Frank Román Rodríguez, Lieutenant Luz M. Soto Segarra, and Agent Rosario Hernández de Hoyos, all of whom were also members of the Puerto Rico Police Department. Candelario Rivera was sentenced to more than 200 years in prison.[26] |
| 25 November 2015 | Patrick Feaster | 18 October 2016 | Paradise Police Department (California) | Feaster responded to a drunk driving crash that killed a woman. As the driver, Andrew Thomas, exited the car, Feaster shot him in the neck. Thomas died of his injuries in December 2015.[27] |
| 3 November 2015 | Derrick Stafford Norris Greenhouse Jr. | 31 March 2017 (Stafford) 29 September 2017 (pleaded guilty) (Greenhouse) | Marksville Marshal's Department (Louisiana) | Stafford and Greenhouse fired eighteen rounds into the car of Christopher Few after a brief road chase resulting in the death of Few's six-year-old son, Jeremy Mardis who was sitting in the backseat.[28][29] |
| 18 October 2015 | Nouman K. Raja | 7 March 2019 | Palm Beach Gardens Police Department (Florida) | While on duty as a plainclothes officer, Raja shot and killed 31-year-old Corey Jones as he awaited a tow truck for his broken down vehicle on a highway exit ramp. Raja claimed that he was investigating an abandoned vehicle when Jones confronted him, armed.[30][31] |
| 22 April 2015 | Stephen Rankin | 4 August 2016 | Portsmouth Police Department (Virginia) | Rankin shot and killed William Chapman in the face and chest during a fight after he was accused of shoplifting. Rankin was found guilty of manslaughter but not guilty of murder.[32] |
| 4 April 2015 | Michael Slager | 2 May 2017 (pleaded guilty) | North Charleston Police Department (South Carolina) | Slager fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he fled after being stopped for an inoperative brake light. Slager then dropped his Taser by Scott's lifeless body.[33] |
| 2 April 2015 | Robert Charles Bates | 28 April 2016 | Tulsa County Sheriff's Office (Oklahoma) | Bates, a reserve deputy, shot Eric Harris after mistaking his taser with his revolver.[34] |
| 9 March 2015 | Robert Olsen | 14 October 2019 | DeKalb County Police Department (Georgia) | Olsen shot and killed Anthony Hill, who was naked and unarmed. Olsen was found guilty of one count of aggravated assault, two counts of violating his oath of office, and one count of making a false statement, and found not guilty of felony murder.[35] |
| 1 January 2015 | Jason Kenny | 16 October 2015 | Chatham County Sheriff's Office (Georgia) | Kenny and eight other deputies were fired after Nigerian student Mathew Ajibade was tased and beaten, later dying from his injuries. Kenny, a second deputy, and a nurse were all acquitted of manslaughter charges, but Kenny was found guilty of cruelty to an inmate.[36] |
| 20 November 2014 | Peter Liang | 11 February 2016 | New York City Police Department (New York) | Liang was patrolling a stairwell in a public housing development in Brooklyn when he fired one round at 28-year-old Akai Gurley, killing him. Liang claimed that he was startled and had fired accidentally.[37][38] |
| 20 October 2014 | Jason Van Dyke | 5 October 2018 | Chicago Police Department (Illinois) | Van Dyke shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald after officers stopped him while carrying a knife in the middle of the street. Dashcam video released later showed that McDonald was walking away when Van Dyke opened fire.[39] |
| 12 October 2014 | James Ashby | 23 June 2016 | Rocky Ford Police Department (Colorado) | While on-duty, Ashby followed 27-year-old Jack Jacquez into his mother's home and shot him in the back. Ashby claimed he thought Jacquez was a burglar.[40] |
| 31 May 2014 | Anthony Piercy | 27 June 2017 (pleaded guilty) | Missouri State Highway Patrol (Missouri) | Piercy arrested Brandon Ellingson on the Lake of the Ozarks on suspicion of operating a boat while intoxicated. Ellingson fell from the boat and his improperly secured life vest came off, causing him to drown as he was still handcuffed. Piercy was charged with negligent manslaughter but pled guilty to negligent operation of a vessel.[41] |
| 12 May 2014 | Steven Homanko | 20 September 2016 (pleaded guilty) | Nesquehoning Police Department (Pennsylvania) | Homanko attempted to pull over a woman who illegally passed another vehicle when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into another vehicle, killing Carola Sauers. Homanko was sentenced to three to 23 months in jail.[42] |
| 11 April 2014 | Marcus Eberhart Howard Weems | 16 December 2016 | East Point Police Department (Georgia) | Eberhart and Weems repeatedly tasered Gregory Towns while he was handcuffed. Eberhart was convicted on all counts and sentenced to life in prison, while Weems was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct, and violation of oath of office and sentenced to five years in prison.[43] |
| 9 February 2014 | Justin Craven | 4 April 2016 (pleaded guilty) | North Augusta Police Department (South Carolina) | Craven shot and killed Ernest Satterwhite after a slow-speed chase ended with Satterwhtie pulling into his own driveway. A lawyer for Satterwhite's family stated that video showed Craven lunge into the car with his gun drawn, before pulling back and firing.[44] |
| 12 January 2014 | Jonathan DePrenda | 6 August 2015 (pleaded guilty) | Williamsport Police Department (Pennsylvania) | While responding to a call, DePrenda's cruiser struck the vehicle of James David Robinson travelling 88 miles per hour. As part of a plea deal, DePrenda also pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of another person, failure to drive at a safe speed, careless driving resulting in unintentional death, and reckless driving in exchange for having vehicular manslaughter charges dropped.[45] |
| 29 August 2013 | Adam D. Torres | 24 June 2016 | Fairfax County Police Department (Virginia) | Torres shot and killed John Geer as he raised his hands unarmed. Torres was sentenced to a year in prison and released after five days due to ten months already served.[46] |
| 7 July 2013 | William McKinney | 6 November 2014 | Buckner Police Department (Illinois) | While responding to a dispute, McKinney struck 62-year-old Roy Barnhart in the head. Barnhart was treated for a head injury and brain bleed but died a few days later. McKinney took a plea deal for official misconduct.[47] |
| 14 March 2012 | Randy Trent Harrison | 26 November 2013 | Del City Police Department (Oklahoma) | Captain Harrison shot 18-year-old Dane Scott Jr. in the back as he ran away after Harrison disarmed him.[48] |
| 7 March 2012 | Joshua Colclough | 16 August 2013 (pleaded guilty) | New Orleans Police Department (Louisiana) | Colclough was executing a drug raid when he fired a single round, killing Wendell Allen as he was unarmed and shirtless.[49][50] |
| 9 February 2012 | Daniel Harmon Wright | 29 January 2013 | Culpeper Police Department (Virginia) | Wright shot and killed Patricia Cook, 54, in her own vehicle as he was investigating reports of a suspicious vehicle. Wright had claimed that Cook had rolled her window up, trapping his arm, and began to drive away. However this was discredited by witness statements and the fact that Cook's vehicle had manual roll-up windows.[51][52] |
| 16 December 2011 | John Swearengin | 14 August 2014 | Kern County Sheriff's Office (California) | While responding to a call, Swearengin struck two pedestrians, Daniel Hiler and Crystal Jolley. Swearengin pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.[53] |
| 30 August 2011 | Kenneth Bluew | 12 October 2012 | Buena Vista Township Police Department (Michigan) | While on-duty, Bluew strangled his pregnant girlfriend, Jennifer Webb, to death. Bluew was convicted of first-degree murder, assault causing a miscarriage, and having a firearm in a felony and was given the mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.[54] |
| 14 July 2011 | Teddie Whitefield | 20 January 2015 | Wichita Falls Police Department (Texas) | Whitefield's patrol car struck a vehicle, killing 18-year-old Yeni Lopez, 13-year-old Gloria Montoya, and Lopez's unborn child. Prosecutors say Whitefield was traveling at 75 miles per hour before the crash and that he had prescription drugs in his system.[55] |
| 2 May 2011 | Richard Combs | 1 September 2015 (pleaded guilty) | Eutawville Police Department (South Carolina) | Combs, the police chief and only officer in Eutawville, shot and killed Walter Bailey after Bailey came to town hall to dispute his daughter's speeding ticket. Combs pled guilty to misconduct in office in exchange for having his murder charges dropped.[56] |
| 19 February 2011 | Kristina Hambie | 5 February 2015 (pleaded guilty) | DeKalb County Police Department (Georgia) | Despite not responding to a call, Hambie was driving 74 mph in a 35 mph zone when her cruiser struck another vehicle, killing Shelley Amos and Cheryl Burton. Hambie pleaded guilty to reckless driving, violation of oath by a police officer, and two counts of vehicular homicide.[57] |
| 5 October 2010 | Richard Chrisman | 16 September 2013 | Phoenix Police Department (Arizona) | Chrisman was responding to a report of a domestic dispute in a mobile home park when he shot and killed 29-year-old Daniel Rodriguez and his dog at point-blank range. A fellow officer testified that Rodriguez posed no threat and was intent on leaving when Chrisman shot and killed him.[58][59] |
| 31 July 2010 | Brandon Shane Mundy | 25 February 2013 (pleaded guilty) | North Courtland Police Department (Alabama) | Mundy's police car struck another vehicle after he ran a stop sign, killing Gary Wayne Cox and Sandra Standridge Cox. Mundy pled guilty to two counts of criminally negligent homicide before his trial began.[60] |
| 25 July 2010 | Derek Folston | 3 May 2011 | Norfolk Police Department (Virginia) | Folstom struck bicyclist Donnell Worsley while responding to a non-emergency call. Folston accepted a plea deal and was convicted of reckless driving.[61] |
| 28 March 2010 | Brian Massa | 1 December 2011 | Southwest City Police Department (Missouri) | Massa fired four shots at Bobby Stacy's vehicle after it had passed him. Massa was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.[62] |
| 20 March 2010 | Andrew Ringeisen | 20 May 2011 (pleaded guilty) | Overland Police Department (Missouri) | Ringeisen shoved 49-year-old Kenneth Hamilton down an interior staircase at Hamilton's home, causing fatal head injuries. Ringeisen pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter.[63] |
| 20 January 2010 | Coleman Brackney | 2 December 2010 (pleaded guilty) | Bella Vista Police Department (Arkansas) | Following a chase Brackney fired at James Ahern six times, the first five as the vehicle was moving and the last after it had stopped. Brackney was sentenced to 30 days in jail. He was later appointed police chief of Sulphur Springs.[64][65] |
| 30 November 2009 | Reginald Jones | August 2010 | Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia) | Jones was on-duty while acting as a lookout during a drug robbery that resulted in the murder of Arvel Alston, 40, and the shooting of one other person.[66] |
| 24 July 2009 | Steven Merchant | 1 March 2012 (pleaded guilty) | Colfax Police Department (Louisiana) | Merchant shot and killed 54-year-old Harold Phillips from behind.[67] |
| 13 June 2009 | Jason Anderson | 4 May 2016 | Milford Police Department (Connecticut) | Anderson was responding to a call without his sirens on when his cruiser struck the vehicle in front of him, killing David Servin and Ashlie Krakowski. Anderson pled no contest to misconduct with a motor vehicle, criminally negligent homicide, and reckless driving and was sentenced to one year in prison.[68] |
| 22 February 2009 | Paul Carrier | 1 December 2010 | Humboldt Police Department (Tennessee) | After a traffic stop, Carrier shot Roy Glenn Jr. once in the back after Glenn fell on his hands and knees facing towards Carrier. Carrier was found guilty of reckless homicide.[69] |
| 1 January 2009 | Johannes Mehserle | 8 July 2010 | Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department (California) | Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant after an altercation on a train platform. Grant was on the ground and restrained when Mehserle drew his service weapon and fired one round into Grant's back, fatally injuring him. Mehserle claimed that he believed Grant was reaching for a weapon in his waistband.[70] |
| 23 November 2007 | Matt Mitchell | April 2010 (pleaded guilty) | Illinois State Police (Illinois) | While responding to a crash near O'Fallon, Mitchell's vehicle crossed the median and struck another car, killing 18-year-old Jessica Url and her 13-year-old sister Kelli Uhl. Mitchell was writing an email on his computer and making a phone call before the crash.[71] |
| 3 August 2007 | Robert Shawn Richardson Paul Bradley Rogers | March 2008 | Noble Police Department (Oklahoma) | Rogers shot 5-year-old Austin Haley while shooting at a snake in a birdhouse. Rogers and Richardson, his supervisor, pled no contest to second-degree manslaughter.[72] Rogers's record was later expunged.[73] |
| 30 May 2007 | Antonio Taharka | 11 March 2009 (pleaded guilty) | Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (Georgia) | Taharka shot and killed Anthony Smashum as he attempted to climb a fence while fleeing. Smashum was shot twice, once in the leg and once in the back. Taharka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.[74][75] |
| 7 February 2007 | Joseph Corbett | 15 January 2009 (pleaded guilty) | Taylorsville Police Department (Utah) | Corbett responded to reports of a chase by preparing to set up spike strips. While at an intersection, Corbett crashed into the vehicle of John Douglas, killing him. Corbett pled guilty to speeding, failure to stop, and improper lookout.[76] |
| 20 January 2007 | Stuart Merry | 20 August 2009 | Beverly Police Department (Massachusetts) | Merry was found guilty of negligent homicide for a crash that killed Bonney Burns. Merry's attorney claimed he suffered a seizure before the crash, although prosecutors disputed this. Merry was sentenced to three years of probation, 200 hours of community service, a $1,000 fine, and the loss of his driver’s license for 15 years.[77] |
| 21 November 2006 | Greg Junnier Jason Smith Arthur Telser | 24 February 2009 (pleaded guilty) | Atlanta Police Department (Georgia) | While executing a drug raid based on faulty information from an informant, plainclothes officers shot and killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston and later planted marijuana in her home.[78] |
| 18 March 2006 | Karl Thompson | 1 November 2011 | Spokane Police Department (Washington) | Thompson repeatedly struck Otto Zehm with a baton after he was accused of stealing money from an ATM. Zehm died two days later and his death was ruled a homicide. Thompson was convicted of excessive force and lying to investigators.[79] |
| 7 March 2006 | Larry P. Norman | 28 June 2007 | Arkansas State Police (Arkansas) | Trooper Larry P. Norman shot Joseph Erin Hamley, a man with cerebral palsy, as he lay on his back after Hamley was mistaken for a fugitive. The trooper pled guilty to negligent homicide.[80] |
| 19 February 2006 | Joshua Corcran | 8 June 2006 (pleaded guilty) | Nevada State Police (Nevada) | Corcran struck a Cadillac while driving south of Las Vegas, killing Victor De La Cruz-De Leon, Reymunda Lopez-Vazquez, Jose Sanchez Lopez, and Jose Roberto Mejia Lang as well as injuring a pregnant teenager. Corcran pled guilty to five counts of reckless driving.[81] |
| 30 November 2005 | Kenneth Bowen Robert Faulcon Jr. Robert Gisevius Jr. Anthony Villavaso II | 5 August 2011 | New Orleans Police Department (Louisiana) | Further information: Danziger Bridge shootings Four NOPD officers not in uniform at the time opened fire on a family on the Danziger Bridge, killing 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison and wounding four others. The officers claimed that they had been fired upon when they responded to a call about an officer under fire.[82][83] |
| 22 December 2005 | Matthew J. Hinkel | 1 May 2007 | Coopersburg Borough Police Department (Pennsylvania) | While responding to a non-emergency call, Hinkel sped 40 miles over the speed limit and collided with the vehicle of Shirley Tuomela, killing her. Tuomela's son and an officer in Hinkel's vehicle were injured in the crash. Hinkel pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter.[84] |
| 14 October 2005 | Brandon Tagayun | March 2007 (pleaded guilty) | Charleston Police Department (West Virginia) | While responding to a call, Tagayun's cruiser clipped a pick-up truck, killing the driver, Patsy Sizemore. Tagayun accepted a plea deal and plead guilty to speeding and failure to operate an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens.[85] |
| 4 September 2005 | David Warren | 10 December 2010 (overturned) | New Orleans Police Department (Louisiana) | 31-year-old Henry Glover was shot with a .223 rifle by NOPD officer David Warren from a second-story balcony. Glover had been retrieving loot at the time.[86][87] |
| 18 December 2004 | Billy Anders | 4 March 2006 (pleaded guilty) | Otero County Sheriff's Office (New Mexico) | Anders and his partner Bob Hedman responded to reports of shots fired after white supremacist Earl Flippen killed his girlfriend. After Hedman and Anders split up, there was a shootout between Anders and Flippen which ended with Anders shooting and handcuffing Flippen. Afterwards, Anders went to the back of Flippen's house and discovered he had killed Hedman. Anders then returned to the front of the house and shot Flippen, still handcuffed, in the chest. Anders accepted a plea deal of voluntary manslaughter.[88][89] |
| 20 July 2003 | Elias Perocier Morales Eliezer Rivera Gonzalez Aaron Vidal Maldonado Juan Morales Rosales Carlos Pagan Ferrer | June 2009 14 August 2009 | San Juan Police Department (Puerto Rico) | Officers beat Jose Antonio Rivera Robles during an arrest at a gas station, resulting in his death. Two officers were sentenced to 10 and 6.5 years in prison, respectively.[90][91] |
| 22 May 2003 | Brian Conroy | 22 October 2005 | New York City Police Department (New York) | Plainclothes officer Brian Conroy shot and killed Burkinabé immigrant Ousmane Zongo during a raid on a warehouse. Zongo was unarmed and running away from police when Conroy opened fire.[92] |
| 19 December 1998 | Scott Byron Smith | 9 March 2000 | New Milford Police Department (Connecticut) | Smith shot and killed Franklyn Reid who was unarmed but had a folding knife in the front pocket of his jacket. After his conviction, he was granted an appeal and retrial before which he agreed to a plea deal.[93] |
| 14 February 1998 | Joseph Mantelli | 1999 | Las Vegas Police Department (New Mexico) | Mantelli shot and killed Abelino Montoya after a chase as he drove away.[94] |
| 10 August 1996 | Mathias Bachmeier | 13 June 1997 | King County Sheriff's Office (Washington) | While on duty, Bachmeier picked up 35-year-old James Wren and killed him, intending to frame him for a fire Bachmeier set at his own home as part of an insurance scam. Bachmeier was sentenced to life in prison without parole.[95] |
| 4 July 1996 | Paolo Colecchia | 30 May 1997 | New York City Transit Police (New York) | Officer Colecchia shot and killed Nathaniel Levi Gaines on a subway station platform after an altercation. Colecchia shot Gaines multiple times in the back and later admitted he was not in fear of his life when he did so.[96] |
| 5 November 1992 | Walter Budzyn Larry Nevers | 23 August 1993 | Detroit Police Department (Michigan) | While in plainclothes Nevers struck Malice Green in the head with a flashlight after the officers noticed Green outside a known drug den. Nevers was sentenced to 12 to 25 years in prison while Budzyn was sentenced to 8 to 18 years. Charges against a third officer were dropped.[97] |
| 16 January 1989 | William Lozano | 7 December 1989 (overturned) | Miami Police Department (Florida) | Lozano shot and killed 23-year-old Clement Lloyd as he fled police in his vehicle. Allan Blanchard, 24, was killed in the resulting crash. Lozano later claimed that Lloyd was attempting to run him over.[98] |
| 27 December 1986 | Craig Peyer | June 1988 | California Highway Patrol (California) | While on duty, Peyer strangled Cara Knott near a Highway off-ramp near Interstate 15 in San Diego County. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.[99] |
| 26 May 1980 | Robert Leroy Nelson | 1988 (pleaded guilty) | Minnesota State Patrol (Minnesota) | While on duty, Nelson picked up runaway Michelle Busha and raped, tortured, and strangled her. Eight years later, Nelson confessed to the murder while being held for unrelated charges in Texas. Busha was not identified until 2015.[100] |
| 5 May 1977 | Terry W. Danson Stephen Orlando | 7 October 1977 | Houston Police Department (Texas) | Several officers, including Danson and Orlando, beat Joe Campos Torres at a secluded spot near a bayou. When a jail officer refused to take him before he was seen at a hospital, the officers brought him back to the secluded spot, where he was shoved into the water. Two of the other officers were granted immunity in exchange for their testimony.[101] |
| 13 June 1975 | Thomas Ryan | 1977 | New York City Police Department (New York) | Officer Ryan beat to death 25-year-old burglary suspect Israel Rodriguez in the back of his patrol car parked at the 44th Precinct station house.[102] |
| 24 July 1973 | Darrell L. Cain | 15 November 1973 | Dallas Police Department (Texas) | Cain shot and killed 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez after arresting him on suspicion of having burglarized a local gas station. Cain shot Santos in the head after pointing his gun at the child in an attempt to extract a confession from him.[103] |
| 26 February 1965 | James Bonard Fowler | 15 November 2010 (pleaded guilty) | Alabama Highway Patrol (Alabama) | Fowler shot and killed unarmed civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson during a peaceful demonstration in Marion, Alabama. Forty years later in 2005, Fowler admitted he had shot Jackson. In 2007, he was indicted for manslaughter and in 2010 he plead guilty and was sentenced to six months in prison.[104] |
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