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FILE- In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James takes a question at a news conference in New York. James said on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 that she will impanel a grand jury to look into the death of Daniel Prude. Prude, 41, apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester, N.Y. were restraining him in March 2020 and died when he was taken off life support a week later. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
Courts & Law

Rochester police leaders retire after suffocation death

Top police leaders in Rochester are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city's handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, Mayor Lovely Warren said Tuesday.

5 years ago

Demonstrators raise their fist in the air, in front of law enforcement, on August 25, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. As the city declared a state of emergency curfew, a third night of civil unrest occurred after the shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, on August 23. Video shot of the incident appears to show Blake shot multiple times in the back by Wisconsin police officers while attempting to enter the drivers side of a vehicle. The 29-year-old Blake was undergoing surgery for a severed spinal cord, shattered vertebrae and severe damage to organs, according to the family attorneys in published accounts. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Many Black people say police killings aren’t ‘going to be fixed overnight’

Nearly 65% of Americans agreed that the country "needs to continue making changes to give Black Americans equal rights with white Americans."

5 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney
Health

Frustrated Carney calls yet another Delaware inclusion on travel quarantine list ‘stupid’

Delaware needs to have fewer than 97 new coronavirus cases a day over a week to avoid being on the list. Sometimes, it’s under, and sometimes over.

5 years ago

A demonstrator is pepper-sprayed July 30 shortly before being arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest
NPR
Community

Review of federal charges in Portland unrest shows most are misdemeanors

That finding by NPR is in stark contrast to the Trump administration's description of the Oregon city as being under siege by radical leftists.

5 years ago

Jacob Blake
NPR
Community

Jacob Blake shares bedside video from hospital: ‘Every 24 hours there’s pain’

Blake spoke about recovery and community from his hospital bed after being shot seven times by police in Kenosha, Wis. last month.

5 years ago

police car lights flashing
Courts & Law
NBC10

Bethlehem, Pa., police chief retires after offensive Facebook post share

The mayor of Bethlehem said in a statement that Chief Mark DiLuzio's retirement "is a result of the consequences of his recent re-posting of an offensive Facebook post.

5 years ago

More than 200 gather at City Hall to protest police violence during a Justice for Jacob Blake rally. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Protest in Philly over police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin

A City Hall rally continues a summer that has seen the country’s largest protests and demands for racial justice and police reforms in decades.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw
Courts & Law

Philly Police: Homicide clearance rate on the decline as murder rates rise

Police are arresting suspects for less than half of the city’s homicides and shooting victims are getting younger, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.

5 years ago

An investigator works at a scene where a man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Ore., last week was killed as investigators moved in to arrest him in Lacey, Wash., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. Michael Reinoehl, 48, was killed as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him in Lacey, a senior Justice Department official said. (AP Photo/Ted Warren)
Courts & Law

Slain shooting suspect was a regular at Portland protests

Reinoehl was himself killed Thursday when he pulled a gun as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him near Lacey, Washington, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

5 years ago

Protesters gather near a memorial to Daniel Prude at the site of his death, Thursday, Sept. 3. 2020 in Rochester, N.Y. Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died March 30, 2020. His family took him off life support seven days after Rochester police officers encountered him running naked through the street, put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Courts & Law

Rochester mayor suspends officers involved in man’s suffocation death

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced the suspensions at a news conference amid criticism that the city kept quiet about Daniel Prude's death for months.

5 years ago

(Dan Gleiter / PENNLIVE)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Pa. inspector general reviewing legality of some state police traffic stops, searches

The Inspector General is conducting a review of whether Pennsylvania State Police troopers are following the law when initiating traffic stops and then searching vehicles.

5 years ago

A crowd of protesters gathers in Rochester, N.Y., near the site where Daniel Prude was restrained by police officers in March. Prude, a Black man who had run naked through the streets of the western New York city, died of asphyxiation a week later.
NPR
Community

Protests in Rochester, N.Y., after bodycam footage released of Daniel Prude’s suffocation death

Daniel Prude was arrested by Rochester Police in the early hours of March 23, after his brother, concerned for Prude's safety, had called 911.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump turns around after talking with law enforcement officials Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, as he tours an area damaged during demonstrations after a police officer shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. At left, Attorney General William Barr and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf talk with police officers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Community

Trump spins baseless tale of ‘thugs’ flying to protests

He has repeated conspiracy theories that recent protests have been orchestrated by powerful people in “dark shadows” intent on undermining his reelection prospects.

5 years ago

City officials, police officers from the 18th district, and neighborhood residents pose in front of the Sgt. Robert Wilson III mural
Community

‘A slap in the face’: West Philadelphians, police decry vandalism of mural honoring slain sergeant

The incident has outraged Sgt. Robert Wilson III’s fellow officers and community members — even those who are distrustful of law enforcement.

5 years ago

A ground mural depicting a portrait of Breonna Taylor is seen at Chambers Park, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. The mural honors Taylor, a 26-year old Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment. The artwork was a team effort by the Banneker-Douglass Museum, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, and Future History Now, a youth organization that focuses on mural projects. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Courts & Law

Lawyer: Plea offer implicated Breonna Taylor in drug ring

“Why would they put her name on there?” Aguiar, the lawyer for Taylor's family, said in a statement sent to news media. “It’s outrageous.”

5 years ago

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