Police brutality

Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante responded Monday to video showing two county deputies and a Mulberry police officer beating a detained man and slamming his head into the cement in Arkansas.

Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been suspended following social media outrage over a video that seemingly shows two county deputies and a Mulberry officer striking a suspect under arrest.

Two years after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring new use-of-force rules for federal law enforcement. “I don’t know any good cop that likes a bad cop. But many people … such accountability is all too rare.”

Colin Kaepernick is launching an initiative through his Know Your Rights Camp that will offer free, secondary autopsies to family members of anyone whose death is “police-related.”

A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight.

Democrats and Republicans have failed to come to a police reform agreement after the loudest outcry in years over killings of Black Americans.

A Garden Grove police officer was charged Wednesday with beating and threatening two homeless people in separate incidents while on duty, including “hitting a man in the back of his head and pulling his hair while the man’s hands were handcuffed behind him,” according to a press release.

For decades, demonstrators against acts of violence targeting Black Americans have chanted: “No justice, no peace.” Since 2013, protesters in the streets and on social media have shouted that “Black Lives Matter.”

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, Minn., after former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for over nine minutes. Here is a timeline of what happened in the year following Floyd’s death.

A security camera captured police officers in Loveland, Colo., watching footage from the arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia, which ultimately resulted in them dislocating her shoulder and breaking her arm. While replaying the arrest on their phone, one officer asked, “Ready for the pop? Here comes the pop.”

Family and community members gathered on Thursday to remember 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was unarmed when he was shot and killed by Minneapolis police during a traffic stop.

A protest that began peacefully ended with multiple fires, several vehicles damaged and windows shattered in Oakland. The demonstrations were protesting against police brutality in the country.

A protest took a violent turn in Oakland Friday night with fires lit, windows shattered and businesses tagged. This followed a peaceful demonstration for Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo, both shot and killed by police. Thom Jensen reports.

Dr. Martin Tobin, world-renowned pulmonologist, testified at the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin that overall health was not a factor in the death of George Floyd. “Any healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died as a result of what he was subjected to.”

Attorneys for the five children of Chicago resident Daniel Prude have announced a federal lawsuit against the city of Rochester, New York, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.

Barbed wire and concrete barriers surround the courthouse where the white former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd is due to soon go on trial.

The family of a Navy veteran who was going through an episode of paranoia says he died after a Northern California police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes.

The family of a 30-year-old East Bay man is filing a wrongful death suit against the Antioch Police Department claiming officers put a knee on his neck during a mental health crisis. Cheryl Hurd reports.

A lawsuit against a Louisiana sheriff and seven deputies says deputies sat on and kept a chokehold on a shackled, obese, severely autistic 16-year-old for nine minutes until he died a year ago.