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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 7, 2020

NM State Police Release Video of Controversial Fatal Shooting

State police said they tried to pull over Rodney Applewhite in Los Lunas, but he led them on a chase. They said it was when they finally caught up to him and were trying to arrest him, he reached for a sergeant’s gun and another officer opened fire

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 3, 2020

St. Petersburg Detective Shot, Suspect Killed

Police vehicles had boxed-in the suspect’s vehicle when authorities say he aimed a semiautomatic handgun out of the driver’s side window and shot an officer at close range.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 27, 2020

Commission Clears LAPD Sergeant in Fatal OIS of Man Holding Bicycle Part

Sgt. Colin Langsdale said he believed Valencia had a gun. Other witnesses at the scene said they also believed he had a gun.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 23, 2020

Woman Slips Handcuffs, Tries to Shoot Alabama Deputy

The deputy had restrained both subjects with handcuffs behind their back. However, the woman was able to slip off one of the cuffs.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 23, 2020

San Francisco DA Files Homicide Charges Against Former Officer for OIS

Christopher Samayoa was days out of the Police Academy when he shot 42-year-old Keita O’Neil in the head during a police pursuit near the Alice Griffith housing projects on Dec. 1, 2017.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 18, 2020

Wisconsin Officer Justified in 3 Fatal Shootings Resigns

Mensah, who has been suspended since July 15, has shot and killed three people in the line of duty in the last five years. All three of those shootings have been ruled justified self-defense by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office, including the most recent one in February.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 13, 2020

New L.A. County DA Reopens 4 Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting Cases

Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has selected a deadly 2015 police shooting in Long Beach as one of four cases he plans to reopen, it was reported Friday.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 11, 2020

Grand Jury Decides Not to Charge Indianapolis Officer in Fatal Shooting of Dreasjon Reed

The ISP investigation concluded that Reed was armed, that he fired two shots after he had been tased by Officer Dejoure Mercer and that he was then shot multiple times by Mercer, including while they were facing each other.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 10, 2020

Washington Deputies Shot, One May Have Been Saved by Bullet Hitting Cellphone

The 55-year-old deputy--who was originally thought to have been shot in the back--suffered  abrasions and cuts when a cellphone he was carrying in a pocket was shattered by a bullet fired by a suspect, and the phone effectively slowed or stopped the bullet, police say.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 9, 2020

CA Officer Stabbed, Suspect Killed in Gas Station Attack

The agency released surveillance footage from the station that shows a man walk up to the patrol car before getting into a scuffle with an officer in the driver’s seat.

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