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Chantemekki Fortson, mother of Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son.

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Family of Black U.S. airman seeks answers after fatal shooting by Florida deputy

2:27pm May 17, 2024

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.

4 law officers serving warrant are killed, 4 wounded in shootout at Charlotte home, police say

8:24am April 30, 2024

by Associated Press

Four officers trying to serve a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and four other officers were wounded in a shootout in North Carolina. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said the officers killed the suspect outside the Charlotte home Monday after he fired on them.

Copies of the 911 calls placed by 11-year-old Aderrien Murry and his grandmother to the Indianola Police Department were released Friday. The calls raise questions about the May 20, 2023, incident and how the situation was handled by authorities. Here, an image from the body camera footage shows the moment Sgt. Greg Capers fired his weapon at Aderrien.

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New details in shooting of 11-year-old Aderrien Murry emerge from 911 calls

1:44pm January 16, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

The calls raise questions about the May 20, 2023, incident and how the shooting was handled by officers with the Indianola, Miss., Police Department.

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A jury awarded $21M to the family of a pregnant teen shot and killed by police

3:06am June 26, 2022

by The Associated Press

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.

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Winston-Salem police say suspect who was killed in standoff fired shotgun at officers

10:49am October 11, 2021

by Paul Garber

State investigators are probing the death of a suspect who was shot during an armed standoff with Winston-Salem police last week.

At a ballfield a few blocks from where Andrew Brown Jr. was killed by a sheriff's deputy in Elizabeth City, N.C., Daquail Alexander organized a vigil and protest in Brown's memory.

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'It Didn't Change': North Carolina Town Demands Answers After Another Fatal Shooting

2:52pm April 22, 2021

by Sarah McCammon

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.

Two boys hold signs at an April 6 news conference, days after a Chicago police officer fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo.

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Chicago Releases Video Showing Fatal Police Shooting Of 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo

8:44pm April 15, 2021

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.

Newly elected Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is the Georgia's attorney general to give the Rayshard Brooks murder case to another prosecutor.

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District Attorney In Atlanta Wants Off Rayshard Brooks Case

9:36am January 29, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis says the actions of her predecessor have forced her to relinquish the police shooting case to another prosecutor.

The Justice Department announced Tuesday it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice (pictured in a memorial).

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Justice Department Declines To Prosecute Cleveland Officers In Death Of Tamir Rice

8:04pm December 29, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

The department announced that it found insufficient evidence to "support federal criminal charges" against Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.

Advocates against police brutality organized a caravan protest after the killing of Andre Hill in Columbus, Ohio. Officer Adam Coy was fired from the Columbus Police Department on Monday for his role in fatally shooting the 47-year-old on Dec. 22.

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Columbus, Ohio, Officer Who Shot And Killed Andre Hill Is Fired

9:11pm December 28, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

"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."