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In June 2021, the year following Jake Gardner's suicide, attorney John Pierce filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the Gardner family in Federal Court in Omaha, NE, against special prosecutor Fred Franklin, County Attorney Donald W. Kleine, the Douglas County Attorney’s Office, Douglas County, NE, and 2 retired police detectives.
In 1964, North Philadelphia was the city's center of African-American culture, and home to 400,000 of the city's 600,000 black residents. [2] The Philadelphia Police Department had tried to improve its relationship with the city's black community, assigning police to patrol black neighborhoods in teams of one black and one white officer per squad car and having a civilian review board to ...
This list compiles incidents alleged or proved to be due to police brutality that attracted significant media or historical attention. Many cases are alleged to be of brutality; some cases are more than allegations, with official reports concluding that a crime was committed by police, with some criminal convictions for offences such as grievous bodily harm, planting evidence and wrongful arrest.
An analysis published by The Guardian in May found 32 percent of black people killed by police this year were unarmed, compared to 15 percent of white people and 25 percent of Hispanic and Latino ...
White San Diego, California: San Diego Police responded to a call from a person who said their roommate, Engel, had attempted suicide at their apartment complex. Police said Engel was armed with a knife and threatening officers. Police shot and killed Engel after ordering him to drop the knife. [79] 2025-01-13 Derrick Williams (45) Unknown
Oris Buckner III, a Black former police detective and whistleblower who spoke out about police brutality in the aftermath of a white officer's 1980 shooting death in New Orleans, has died.
University of Texas at El Paso police responded to reports of a naked man who ran after a female's car. When police arrived, "the naked man was combative and they had to use a taser to subdue him and take him into custody". The man became "unconscious and unresponsive", and was later pronounced dead. [8] 2020-06-27 Aloysius Larue Keaton (58) Black
Harris, in his 2019 interview with ADAMICradio, added that he was still recognized as “the guy from ‘The Warriors’” whenever he traveled abroad to promote other projects.