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Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw speaks at Olney Transportation Center, where a mass shooting occurred on Feb. 17, 2021. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Philly police monitoring social media in effort to prevent retaliatory shootings

Anti-violence activists have mixed feelings about the effort, with some skeptical that police understand communities well enough to know what they’re seeing.

5 years ago

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A makeshift memorial in downtown Louisville, Ky., for Breonna Taylor in September 2020. Taylor was killed a year ago in her home during a botched narcotics raid carried out by Louisville police.
NPR
Community

A year after Breonna Taylor’s killing, family says there’s ‘no accountability’

Taylor was shot and killed in her apartment by Louisville police last March. "I can't believe it's a year later and we're still just asking people to do the right thing."

5 years ago

Pro-Trump rioters clash with police and security forces as people storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Federal investigators say they expect even more people will be charged in connection with the insurrection. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

DOJ says at least 100 more people could be charged over Capitol attack

The investigation and prosecution of the Capitol Attack will likely be one of the largest in American history.

5 years ago

A protester kicks a tear gas canister fired by police during protests on Monday, June 1, 2020, in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law
Billy Penn

United Nations slams Philly police as city begins settling tear gas lawsuits

The mayor’s office hasn’t reviewed the UN report, despite the rare international censure.

5 years ago

In this image taken from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, right, listen to Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill during pretrial motions, prior to continuing jury selection in the trial of Chauvin, Thursday, March 11, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV/Pool via Pool)
Courts & Law

Minneapolis to pay $27M to settle Floyd family lawsuit

At least three weeks have been set aside to complete a jury of 12 plus two alternates for Derek Chauvin's trial. Potential jurors' identities are being protected.

5 years ago

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a vaccination site on Monday, March 8, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)
Politics & Policy

Resignation demands grow as police get Cuomo groping report

The top Democrat in the state Assembly, Speaker Carl Heastie, on Thursday backed a plan for its judiciary committee to launch an impeachment investigation.

5 years ago

Maurice Gordon and his mother, Racquel Barrett. (Provided)
Courts & Law

Suit: Race a factor in death of Black man killed by N.J. state trooper

The suit names the state of New Jersey, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, State Police Superintendent Col. Pat Callahan, and the trooper who shot Gordon as defendants.

5 years ago

Derek Chauvin will face a third-degree murder charge in the death of George Floyd, after a district court judge reversed his earlier ruling on Thursday.
(MPR News/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Chauvin trial: Judge reinstates 3rd-degree murder charge over George Floyd’s killing

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will face an additional charge of third-degree murder, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ruled on Thursday.

5 years ago

SEPTA Police watch Philadelphia students as they exit a subway concourse in Center City. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

SEPTA police union says a catch and release policy endangers officer safety

SEPTA’s police union is calling on agency officials to reverse a policy that delays the arrest of alleged criminal offenders on the SEPTA system.

5 years ago

L to R: A forensic sculpture of Lisa Todd. A high school photo of Lisa Todd. (NBC10)
Courts & Law

DNA technology leads to breakthrough in decades-old Bucks County ‘Jane Doe’ case

The identity of a young pregnant woman whose remains were found in a well in 1988 baffled Bucks County for decades. Now she has a name: Lisa Todd.

5 years ago

A painting of Floyd is seen outside the Hennepin County Government Center
NPR
Courts & Law

Derek Chauvin trial: Judge postpones jury selection as murder-charge question looms

A pool of potential jurors were in the court building, waiting to start the selection process. But they're being sent home for the day.

5 years ago

John Lewis stands on the Edmund Pettus Bridge
NPR
Community

For the first time in 56 Years, a ‘Bloody Sunday’ without John Lewis

This weekend marks 56 years since civil rights marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers on a day now known as "Bloody Sunday."

5 years ago

Amanda Gorman
NPR
Community

‘This is the reality of Black girls’: Inauguration poet says she was tailed by guard

Gorman, who lives in Los Angeles, wrote on Twitter that as she approached her building, the guard demanded to know if she lived there.

5 years ago

Heather Randazzo, a grow employee at Compassionate Care Foundation's medical marijuana dispensary, trims leaves off marijuana plants in the company's grow house, Friday, March 22, 2019, in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Politics & Policy

Recreational marijuana is legal in N.J. What happens now?

Many aspects, from the legal market to the implications for policing to the expungement of past convictions, remain hazy. Here’s what we know.

5 years ago

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Agents outside the house of Gregory Fiocca and family
Courts & Law
Billy Penn

The FBI sent a dozen agents with a battering ram and long guns to arrest Johnny Doc’s nephew

“What surprises me is that this happened to someone who’s not Black,” said Rev. Mark Tyler, a police accountability advocate.

5 years ago

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