Police brutality

I was in a state of shock. I asked what was going on.

A mother in Xinjiang region came forward after five years seeking justice for her son's violent killing in police custody.

If Congress were to enact human-rights centered data privacy legislation, and guardrails and prohibitions on certain facial recognition technologies, a future with fair and equitable technology might be within reach.

Trooper Dempsey R. Walters has been charged with two felonies in relation to the incident.

Some people in America feel less safe than they used to, even as crime goes down for them. They point to urban areas, where many poor people of color live and are afraid.

Every one of us at the scene carries the tragic horror with us.

Derek Chauvin, who was sentenced to more than 22-and-a-half years for the murder of George Floyd, is appealing his conviction to the Supreme Court.

As the movement marks its 10-year anniversary, data shows online search for the phrase has plummeted since reaching a peak in the summer of 2020.

Sheriff Robert Luna said: "I found the punching of the woman in these circumstances completely unacceptable."

The Instagram profile of an LAPD officer who fatally shot a man in 2020 features pictures of firearms and the officer showcasing her shooting skills.

A fundraiser started for the officer who shot Nahel Merzouk last week has raised four times the amount of a similar effort launched for Merzouk's mother.

Macron, who's been trying to heal France after his unpopular pension reform, seems to go "from one crisis to another," an expert told Newsweek.

Viral videos and TV news footage show protesters launching fireworks at police, setting vehicles alight and torching public buildings across France.

Over 2,000 people have been arrested after five consecutive nights of protests in France over the police killing of a 17-year-old.

The attorney for the family told Newsweek that Aderrien Murray "came within an inch of losing his life," and that the family demands the officer be fired.

Despite stories of abuses of power making national headlines this year, an overwhelming majority of Americans have a positive view of their local police force.

The treatment of the man who shot Ralph Yarl has put a renewed spotlight on years of concerns with how Kansas City police have treated the Black community.

Police body camera footage has been readily shared online and TV, but health experts advise against watching them.

On Wednesday, the Justice Department Civil Rights Division published a report following an investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department.

Rumors have speculated that one of the officers shared photos of Nichols with his ex-wife, who had allegedly been involved with Nichols.

"Everyone involved wants this case to be concluded as quickly as possible," the judge said following the not-guilty pleas by the former Memphis Police officers.

While most law enforcement officers are committed to protecting and serving all citizens, there are a few who are responsible for perpetrating horrific acts of violence against those whom they have sworn to keep safe. We witnessed this in the cases of George Floyd, and most recently, Tyre Nichols who was fatally beaten by members of the now-dismantled Memphis Police Department SCORPION Unit.

The number on the button refers to the year of the first known instance of police killing a free, unarmed Black person in the United States.

The inexcusable horror of Tyre Nichols' death at the hands of Memphis police officers has been plumbed by pundits everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to Teen Vogue for what it might say about race and policing in America. Such debates, however, miss an essential truth known to policing specialists but rarely stated by activists or politicians: America suffers from poor and abusive policing largely because we often recruit the wrong people

While there is no evidence race was a motivating factor in the attack, Nichols' death has reignited debates over policing and race in the United States.

Reverend Al Sharpton invited the vice president to deliver brief remarks during Tyre Nichols' funeral in Memphis on Wednesday.

More Republicans said police violence is common against Black people after Nichols' death, compared to those who said the same after George Floyd's death.

Last week, five former Memphis Police officers were charged with second-degree murder in the death of Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man.

Preston Hemphill is among seven Memphis officers who have been disciplined following Tyre Nichols' death.

"Everybody from beaters to the paramedics to the regular officers on the scene that stood there and watched is going to lose their job and should," Brandon Williams said.