A manhunt ended late Thursday for a suspect officials say shot and killed a Texas Department of Public Safety officer. Dabrett Black, 32, was captured around 8:45 p.m. in Prairie View, Tx., after allegedly firing multiple shots from a rifle at trooper Damon Allen in...
A federal judge ordered the city of Chicago to pay $62,500 for withholding records in a wrongful death lawsuit, marking the eighth time Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has been sanctioned for failing to turn over potential evidence in a police misconduct case, the Chicago Tribune...
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), having apologized over a nude picture of him circulating online, says that the Capitol Police is investigating a potential crime against him involving explicit materials, Politico reports. “Today, the Capitol Police reached out to me and offered to launch an...
Ferguson, Mo., has paid nearly a half-million dollars to the monitor team overseeing its police and court reforms, but city leaders question what they’ve gotten for their money, especially after the departure of the original lead monitor, the Associated Press reports. Washington attorney Clark Kent...
Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Art Knight remembers the tongue-lashing he and his grandfather got from a white cop for the “crime” of being black and walking into a general store in 1960s Mississippi. “Boy, what’s your ass doing here?” the officer snarled at his grandfather,...
The anti-narcotics police arrived in the heart of Colombia’s cocaine industry last month to destroy the coca crop. The community was determined to save it, the Los Angeles Times reports. Roughly 1,000 farmers, some armed with clubs, surrounded a hilltop camp that police had set...