Jason Van Dyke, the former Chicago officer who fatally shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times was sentenced to 81 months in prison on Friday. Van Dyke was found guilty of 2nd-degree murder in October - more than four years after Laquan's death.
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Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of murder in the second degree in the shooting death of teenager LaQuan McDonald.
The Dallas police officer who killed an accountant in his own apartment has been fired from the Dallas police force.
Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall claims she is unable to terminate the Dallas officer who shot and killed Jean Botham in his own apartment.
Lawyers for Botham Jean, the Dallas man who was shot dead by a cop in his own apartment, are "disgusted" that a search warrant signed by a judge was made public.
One of the relatives of a Dallas police officer who gunned down a man inside his own apartment is defending what appears to be racist symbols in social media photos.
A Dallas cop who shot an accountant in his own apartment says she fired at a "large silhouette" of a man she believed was an intruder in her darkened apartment. Amber Guyger was charged with manslaughter Sunday in the shooting death of Botham Shem Jean, 26, who was killed at his apartment door.
A Dallas police officer has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of a 26-year-old accountant. An independent investigation by the Texas Rangers determined there was enough evidence to charge Officer Amber Guyger, who shot Botham Shem Jean at his own apartment door on Friday, Sept. 7.
A Dallas police officer faces a manslaughter charge after she shot and killed a 26-year-old man when she walked into the wrong unit in her apartment building. The District Attorney's office and the Texas Rangers have been called in to help with the investigation.
A rookie East Pittsburgh cop who shot a fleeing teenager in the back during a traffic stop was sworn into duty on the police force a few hours earlier.
An off-duty female police officer was in the right place at the right time when an armed thug attempted to rob a security guard in front of a kindergarten school in the central region of Suzano, a city in São Paulo, Brazil.
The brother of Stephon Clark, the unarmed Sacramento man who was shot dead by police, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony assault and vandalism.
Stevante Clark, 25, was also accused of making criminal threats and abusing a 911 emergency line.
The two Sacramento police officers who shot and killed unarmed Stephon Clark in March are already back on duty. The two cops were assigned to desk duty during an internal investigation into the police involved shooting.
A newspaper columnist is out of a part-time job after she was let go for writing a column suggesting black men should stay home at night to avoid getting shot and killed by police.
Americans with a mentally ill family member say they will not call 911 if the person has a emotional breakdown or begins to act out violently. New Yorkers fear their mentally ill family members will be shot and killed by police after an emotionally disturbed man was gunned down by cops this week.