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Policing

Deadly quadruple shooting at Roberto Clemente Park
Community
NBC10

3 gunmen fire 55 shots, kill teen and man, injure 2 others at Philly playground

The shooting victims were on the basketball court at Roberto Clemente Park along 18th and Wallace streets in Spring Garden when multiple gunmen opened fire.

6 years ago

Military police hold a line near the White House as demonstrators gather to protest police brutality on June 1, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Military police leaders weighed deploying ‘heat ray’ against D.C. protesters

Hours before police cleared protesters near the White House on June 1, a whistleblower got an email asking to find a device that would make protesters' skin feel hot.

6 years ago

Lancaster police deployed tear gas on a crowd of people protesting early Monday after an officer shot and killed a man while responding to a domestic disturbance call.
Courts & Law

$1M bail set for Lancaster police shooting demonstrators

The protests concerned the shooting death by police of a Ricardo Munoz, whose sister had called in hopes of having him involuntarily committed for mental health treatment.

6 years ago

Tamika Palmer, mother of Breonna Taylor, addresses the media in Louisville, Ky.
Courts & Law

Multi-million settlement reached in Breonna Taylor lawsuit

The settlement would be the largest sum paid by the city for a police misconduct case, according to a person who has seen the settlement.

6 years ago

U.S. Attorney William McSwain
Courts & Law

U.S. Attorney McSwain charges two gunmen he claims DA Krasner went too easy on

It is the latest in a long-running policy war between the Trump-appointed federal prosecutor and Philadelphia’s Democratic district attorney.

6 years ago

Lancaster police deployed tear gas on a crowd of people protesting early Monday after an officer shot and killed a man while responding to a domestic disturbance call.
Courts & Law

Police shoot, kill knife-wielding man in Lancaster, setting off protests

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Lancaster after police shot and killed Ricardo Munoz, 27, on Sunday afternoon.

6 years ago

Warden Dana Metzger describes how analysts will coordinate with prison officials as they monitor more than 2,000 cameras. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Courts & Law

More than three years after deadly prison riot, Delaware unveils advanced camera system

Analysts will monitor cameras and coordinate with officers at Delaware prisons to help prevent another riot like the 2017 incident that left one officer dead.

6 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilmember Cherelle Parker. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
The Philadelphia Tribune

City councilwoman proposes legislation criminalizing racially motivated 911 calls

The legislation was inspired by a May 25 incident, where a white woman called 911 on a Black man in New York City’s Central Park.

6 years ago

Police officers patrol Market Street in Wilmington, Del., on Thursday, March 26. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware task force starts work to improve police accountability

A group that aims for more police transparency and accountability talked about how the state’s Freedom of Information Act could stymie its efforts.

6 years ago

Police hold a perimeter near the White House as demonstrators gather to protest police brutality in the morning hours of May 31, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
NPR
Courts & Law

Political divisions drive police brutality cases

Most large civil settlements for police killings were in liberal areas the year after the Ferguson unrest. Now, lawyers say current protests are hardening political divisions.

6 years ago

Free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick will appear in the latest update of the Madden NFL 21 franchise. Kaepernick is seen above ahead of a workout for NFL football scouts and media in Riverdale, Ga. in 2019. (Todd Kirkland/AP)
NPR
Community

The return of Colin Kaepernick — to the Madden franchise

Kaepernick has not appeared on the video game since he last played in the NFL during the 2016 season when he was a member of the San Francisco 49ers.

6 years ago

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.

6 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."

6 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.

6 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.

6 years ago

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