Roger Fortson, a 23-year-old senior airman, was shot and killed at his apartment by a deputy this month. Lawyers for the family dispute the sheriff's office claim of self-defense.
Michael Moore, a former U.S. attorney and partner at Moore Hall in Atlanta, contextualizes two autopsy report on the January killing of a protester at the site of a public safety training center in Atlanta.
The family of Manuel Terán, who was shot and killed on the property of a planned police training center, are speaking publicly for the first time since the environmental activist died Jan 18.
Special prosecutors have decided to not prosecute two white Atlanta police officers who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in 2020. Justin Miller, a lawyer for Brooks’s family, said the family will continue its fight for justice in civil court, where they have a lawsuit pending. Miller spoke with GPB's Peter Biello.
The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire as sheriff's deputies executed a drug warrant at her cousin's home have filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the deadly raid violated the slain woman's civil rights.
Undercover Fremont police shot and killed Elena Mondragon in Northern California in March 2017. She was a passenger in a car at the time, according to a complaint filed by the family.
K'aun Green, a college student, took a weapon from a patron at a restaurant who was brandishing it at others inside, a lawsuit says. But police shot Green when they arrived.
Residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., are pressing for answers after a Black man, Andrew Brown Jr., was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy carrying out a search warrant on Wednesday.
The highly anticipated footage was released to the public on Thursday, more than two weeks after the seventh-grader was killed by an officer following an alleyway foot pursuit.
"This is what accountability looks like," Police Chief Tom Quinlan said Monday. "Mr. [Adam] Coy will now have to answer to the state investigators for the death of Andre Hill."
The Columbus Division of Police released silent video of the fatal shooting Wednesday. The officer who fired the shots has been placed on paid administrative leave.