Video Shows a Chicago 13-Year-Old Had His Hands Up. An Officer Shot and Killed Him.
Chris Sweda/TNS/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Chicago police on Thursday released body-cam video from the police officer who fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo late last month. The video contains a crucial detail that was lacking…
One Trial Can’t Change American Policing
SIPAPRE/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Just 10 miles away from where the state of Minnesota is prosecuting former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, officer Kim Potter, who is white…
Police in Minnesota Suburb Where Daunte Wright Was Killed Rely on Policies Designed to Protect Cops
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim GannonStephen Maturen/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Authorities have released body camera footage of the shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was killed by a police officer on…
Maryland Legislators Override a Veto to Usher in Sweeping Police Reform
Baltimore police face protestors after Freddie Gray’s 2015 death.Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun/Tribune via Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In Minnesota, Derek Chauvin’s trial in the killing of George Floyd is on the verge of its third…
Video: Cops Draw Guns on a Black Army Officer, Pepper Spray Him, Force Him to the Ground
Caron Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, after he was pepper-sprayed by police during a traffic stop in Windsor, Virginia, on Dec. 20, 2020, from newly released body cam video. Windsor Police via AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter…
What the Derek Chauvin Trial Tells Us About Police Use of Force
John Minchillo/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This week, the witnesses at the trial of Derek Chauvin spent several days testifying about police use of force, which includes shootings, the use of tasers, or in the…