Tag: Law enforcement agencies
Officer dies in crash a day after graduating police academy
WAVELAND, Miss. — A weekend car crash killed a Mississippi police officer just a day after she graduated from the police academy, the police...
Hearing set for guilty plea of former Muncie police officer
MUNCIE, Ind. — A former Muncie police officer is expected to plead guilty next month in connection with a federal investigation of excessive force...
Jury awards $730K to Secret Service agent detained on duty
GREENBELT, Md. — A federal jury has awarded $730,000 to a Black Secret Service agent, finding that two white U.S. Park Police officers unlawfully...
2 men held on Florida’s new anti-riot law in Cuba protest
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Two Florida men who were arrested during a protest in support of antigovernment demonstrations in Cuba are being held on...
Police defend withholding details in South Carolina killings
WALTERBORO, S.C. — State police told a judge that they don't want to release more information about the slayings of two members of a...
Report: Black man’s killing by Louisiana police justified
BATON ROUGE, La. — State police have released a report saying officers in a south Louisiana city police department were justified in last year's...
Retired investigator: Biden nominee stonewalled 1989 probe
BILLINGS, Mont. — President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee U.S. lands in the Western states stonewalled a 1989 investigation into the sabotage of an...
Mississippi marker honors 2 killed Black men killed by Klan
MEADVILLE, Miss. — Friends and relatives gathered Thursday in a tiny town in southwestern Mississippi to dedicate a new state historical marker honoring two...
2019 death after Vegas arrest draws Floyd family, lawyer
LAS VEGAS — Members of George Floyd’s family and their attorney said Thursday they support a federal excessive force, wrongful death and civil rights...
Family files $30M suit over deputies’ shooting of Black man
The family of an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies in North Carolina says he died because of the officers'...