Sangamon County, Illinois’ sheriff’s office has released body camera footage captured by Deputy Sean Grayson on July 6, when he shot and killed Sonya Massey, 36, in her home after she called 911 to report a suspected intruder. In the video, Grayson instructs Massey — a Black woman — to …
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Former Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter has been released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence following her conviction on manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright. Potter was released on Monday, the Minnesota Department of Corrections said, according to CNN. She will be on …
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The year is brand new, and civilian killings by police officers continue unabated. In 2022, police killed at least 1,192 people, the highest number ever recorded, according to the Mapping Police Violence database. A hundred of those people were unarmed. Black people were three times more likely than white people …
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Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenny Walker, talked in-depth about the night his girlfriend was shot and killed by police on the new episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk. Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock …
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The FBI arrested Joshua Jaynes, the former Louisville Metro Police detective who was first reassigned to administrative duty and later fired for lying on the search warrant connected to the fatal raid at Breonna Taylor’s Louisville, Kentucky home in March 2020. Three others were also arrested, including Brett Hankison, the …
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The police officer who shot and killed Amir Locke while executing a no-knock search warrant won’t face charges. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman announced the decision Wednesday, April 6. A joint statement called Locke’s death “a tragedy” and railed against no-knock warrants, but ultimately …
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Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who was convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting death of Daunte Wright, was sentenced Friday to just two years in prison for the incident. Sentencing guidelines suggested that Potter received a maximum of nine years in prison after being found guilty of …
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