Count of fatal shootings by police up again in '22
The number of fatal police shootings across the country rose again last year, with officers killing 1,096 people, including a 2-year-old girl caught in a standoff.
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The number of fatal police shootings across the country rose again last year, with officers killing 1,096 people, including a 2-year-old girl caught in a standoff.
Tyre Nichols died by the hands of Black police officers who abided by the racist U.S. rules of engagement towards Black people. A human’s life was snatched away, and society just goes on.
A freelance journalist who is a recent graduate of the university reported on the mass shooting on campus while her younger sister, a current student, sheltered in a classroom.
The majority of people police shot and killed were armed. And, as in prior years, about one quarter of people killed were in the throes of a mental or emotional crisis.
The family of unarmed Colorado man Richard Ward fatally shot by police in a middle school pick-up line filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday.