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News Articles: Police Shooting

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

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.

May 17, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin,
  • Emma Bowman,
  • and 1 more
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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  • Law

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

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

January 16, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Joel Paez, father of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, speaks during a press conference, Monday, March 13, 2023, in Decatur, Ga. A press conference was held to give additional autopsy findings in Terán's death. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz)

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Two autopsies of Atlanta protester killed by police could both be valid. An expert explains

Michael Moore, a former U.S. attorney and partner at Moore Hall in Atlanta, contextualizes two autopsy report on the January killing of a protester at the site of a public safety training center in Atlanta.

April 28, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Biello
 Manuel Teran’s mother speaks at a Feb 6, 2023 press conference surrounded by family including Teran’s father and brother.

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  • News

Family of environmental protester killed by police wants answers

The family of Manuel Terán, who was shot and killed on the property of a planned police training center, are speaking publicly for the first time since the environmental activist died Jan 18.

February 06, 2023
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
In this June 12, 2020 file photo from a screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department Rayshard Brooks speaks with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, in Atlanta.

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Rayshard Brooks' family lawyer says they'll seek justice in civil court

Special prosecutors have decided to not prosecute two white Atlanta police officers who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in 2020. Justin Miller, a lawyer for Brooks’s family, said the family will continue its fight for justice in civil court, where they have a lawsuit pending. Miller spoke with GPB's Peter Biello. 

 

August 25, 2022
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  • Peter Biello
Latoya James

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Family alleges civil rights violation in Camden County raid

The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire as sheriff's deputies executed a drug warrant at her cousin's home have filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the deadly raid violated the slain woman's civil rights.

August 22, 2022
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Associated Press
Monteria Robinson, standing before microphones assembled by local media outside of the Clayton County Police Department, is accompanied Aug. 4, 2022, by supporters of her son, Jamarion Robinson, who was killed by police in 2016.

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Victim's mother, family want answers from Clayton County PD on hiring of indicted officer

The mother of a man shot more than 100 times is calling for the firing of one of the law enforcement officers that was involved in her son’s death. 

August 05, 2022
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  • Donnell Suggs
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  • National

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

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.

June 26, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
K'Aun Green is suing the city of San Jose after he was shot by a police officer after disarming a restaurant patron who was brandishing a gun, a lawsuit says.

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  • Law

A man shot by police after disarming a gunman during a brawl files a civil rights suit

K'aun Green, a college student, took a weapon from a patron at a restaurant who was brandishing it at others inside, a lawsuit says. But police shot Green when they arrived.

April 08, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
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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  • National

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

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.

April 22, 2021
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
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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  • National

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

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.

April 15, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman,
  • Vanessa Romo,
  • and 1 more
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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  • Law

District Attorney In Atlanta Wants Off Rayshard Brooks Case

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

January 29, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
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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  • Race

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

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

December 29, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
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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  • Race

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

"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."

December 28, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
This image from a Columbus police body camera shows the moments before Officer Adam Coy fatally shoots Andre Maurice Hill early Tuesday.

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  • National

Ohio Officer's Bodycam Shows He Shot Unarmed Black Man Within 10 Seconds Of Encounter

The Columbus Division of Police released silent video of the fatal shooting Wednesday. The officer who fired the shots has been placed on paid administrative leave.

December 24, 2020
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  • Gabriel Rosenberg
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