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With virtual reality police training, Sacramento tries to get to a much better place CNN 1 hr ago By Emma Tucker, Ryan Young and Julia Jones, CNN © Julia Vargas Jones/CNN Sacramento Police Department officers experience real-life police encounters adapted for virtual reality training. With police training programs across the country under intense scrutiny after Derek Chauvins murder conviction, one department in California is using several high-profile police killings of Bl...

Delaware police used ‘unnecessary force’, killing Black man: suit Al Jazeera English © Lashonnah Nix, sister of Lymond Moses poses for a portrait with a photo of Moses in Wilmington, Dela... Lashonnah Nix, sister of Lymond Moses poses for a portrait with a photo of Moses in Wilmington, Delaware, US on April 23, 2021 [Hannah Beier/Reuters] The family of Lymond Moses, a Black man shot to death by Delaware police in January, announced a lawsuit against the police on Monday t...

Jared Cain, a special education teacher and media entrepreneur, is seen near the intersection of West Center Street and North Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Milwaukee on March 11, 2021. That’s where he filmed and livestreamed a video showing protests against the police killing of George Floyd and property damage just after midnight on June 1, 2020. Police later cited the video as proof that he was in public after a 9 p.m. curfew kicked in — part of an emergency order aimed at curbing u...

The family of Lymond Moses, a Black man shot to death by Delaware police in January, announced a lawsuit against the police on Monday that claims his death was not justified and is another example of unnecessary deadly force by white police against Black citizens. Moses, 30, was killed around 1am local time (5:00 GMT) on January 13 in Wilmington during an encounter with three New Castle County police officers, two of whom fired into his car nine times, with the fatal shot striking his head, acc...

I dont know why they stopped me. I did hear a thump: What drunk driver, 32, said after killing NYPD traffic cop who was thrown 200ft OUT of his boots NYPD Highway Officer Anastasios Tsakos, 43, tried to run for his life when he saw a car racing towards him but he couldnt get out of the way of Jessica Beauvais  Volkswagen Beauvais is accused driving drunk when she hit Tsakos with his car around 2am Tuesday  The force of the impact threw his body nearly 200 feet onto a grassy median, and he was...

A juror who took part in the trial of Derek Chauvin has said that he is still mentally recovering after repeatedly viewing images and videos of Floyd's death during the trial.

WHYY By Police officers keep a watchful eye as peaceful protesters march down Flatbush Avenue on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman) Derek Chauvin’s conviction on murder charges in the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd was rare, both in terms of the outcome of the trial and what led up to the verdict. There have been countless cases over the years of law enforcement killing people on camera, and a vast majority of officers have wa...

USA TODAY ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – Body camera footage of sheriffs deputies fatally shooting a Black man wont immediately be released after a judge ruled Wednesday to allow at least a month for state authorities to complete an investigation into the shooting. Andrew Brown Jr.s family will be allowed to view additional footage of his death within 10 days, Judge Jeff Foster ruled. He also would reconsider whether to release the videos in 30 to 45 days after the State Bureau of Investigation c...

I have again found myself wondering about things where the mind of an old white guy is not supposed to go. My family thinks I have gone silent. My friends and loyal readers seem to think I have slipped into the melancholy of a frustrated old man. Just for the record, I have never experienced melancholy nor is silence a state of being I am familiar with. JW Sayles Submitted I am sitting at the confluence of the far too familiar rivers of Racism and Injustice. The tributaries of Liber...