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In states like New York, Georgia, Washington and Virginia, police chiefs were called to resign by their respective communities for their handling of protests as well as for controversial law enforcement incidents involving alleged police brutality and systemic racism.
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Deputy Chief Mark Simmons cited the “current climate” in the city and the nation in a June 4 email advising then-Chief La’ron Singletary to press the city’s lawyers to deny a Prude family lawyer’s public records request for the footage of the March 23 encounter that led to his death.
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“That may mean you making commitments that might be uncomfortable for some of those constituents that you represent, but if your ultimate goal is to have true community safety, I will tell you right now, we have to work together in that effort,” Chief Medaria Arradondo said.
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Immediately after the shooting, the female deputy can be seen on surveillance video struggling to place a tourniquet on her partner even as she herself is bleeding from gunshot wounds.
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An officer with the Baytown (TX) Police Department was indicted on a charge of first-degree aggravated assault by a public servant on Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman in May 2019
Read More →The city of Louisville will pay a record-breaking $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old woman fatally shot by police in her apartment earlier this year.
Read More →The officer—whose name has not been released—was captured on mobile phone video approaching an individual who had been causing a disturbance.
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A captain with the Milwaukee Police Department spoke at the funeral service of an officer who died by suicide, saying that law enforcement officers "must be able to genuinely care for each other, which sometimes means having uncomfortable conversations with people we say we love."
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Two years after Corporal Garrett Hull of the Fort Worth (TX) Police Department was killed in the line of duty while he and other members of the Criminal Intelligence Unit attempted to apprehend three armed robbery suspects, a candlelight vigil was held in his honor.
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An officer with the Green Township (OH) Police Department has received the gift of life as a local citizen has donated a kidney to him following an expansive search for a compatible donor.
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