A Virginia state trooper is among three people wounded during a shootout at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, VA. on Thursday.
NBC12 reports the state trooper is in critical condition at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
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Beyonce Knowles will feature the parents and brother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin in her next music video. Martin, 17, was unarmed when he was executed by an overzealous security guard in 2012.
Additionally, Beyonce will also feature family members of Tamir Rice, 12, and Mike Brown, 18, who were also unarmed when they died at the hands of overzealous white police officers.
A Maryland police officer who was shot and killed outside a police station was hit by 'friendly fire' from a fellow officer, the NY Daily News reports.
Officer Jacai Colson, 28, was shot and killed outside a Landover, Md., police station as 2 brothers filmed their oldest brother's attempted suicide by cop on Sunday afternoon.
Police say brothers Malik Ford, 21, and Elijah Ford, 18, plotted with their eldest brother Michael DeAndre Ford, 22, to film his suicide as he fired on cops and civilians with a handgun.
When will the carnage end? Another unarmed black man, Akiel Denkins, 24, lost his life Monday when police in Raleigh, NC shot him in the back as he was fleeing arrest.
Denkins' family members say witnesses told them Denkins was unarmed and fleeing for his life when he was shot in the back SEVEN TIMES.
Prince William County police officer Ashley Guindon, 28, clocked in to work her first shift on Saturday night.
She was killed hours later by Pentagon Army staff sergeant Ronald Hamilton when she responded to a 911 domestic violence call at his home in Lake Ridge, VA.
Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was found guilty Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project.
Liang was fired from the police force immediately after his conviction in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
Twitter activists are pressuring Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James to stage a sit out until the prosecutor's office indicts a cop for the murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year.
On Monday, the prosecutor's office announced there would be no indictment against the cop who shot Tamir 2 seconds after exiting his patrol car on Nov. 22, 2014.
Here's the post you requested about Tamir Rice. The Cleveland cop who shot and killed the 12-year-old seconds after exiting his patrol car on Nov. 22, 2014 will not be charged. But you already knew that.
It was announced (yet again) that an Ohio grand jury refused to return an indictment against the cop, who is white.
The Cleveland Prosecutor's office said (again) that the cop was reasonably in fear of his life because little Tamir had a toy gun in his waistband.
Chicago police have released dashcam video showing the police shooting death of Ronald Johnson, 25, in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood in 2014.
The video released by the Clark County prosecutor's office shows Chicago Police Officer George Hernandez shooting Johnson in the back 2 seconds after arriving on the scene in his squad car.
Police maintain Johnson had a gun in his hand. No weapon is seen in Johnson's hand on the video.
A crazed fan who stalked a WWE female wrestler was shot outside the WWE training center in Orlando, Florida in August.
The center took out a restraining order on obsessed fan Armando Montalvo after he started showing up outside the World Wrestling Entertainment facility.
Montalvo once smeared his feces on the wall of the facility when he went there to apply for a job, according to WFTV.
Chicago police released dash cam video showing a former Chicago police officer shooting and killing an unarmed black teenager.
Officer Jason Van Dyke, 37, turned himself in on Tuesday after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was charged with 1st degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last October.
Five people were shot during a protest for Jamar Clark near a Black Lives Matter encampment in Minneapolis on Monday.
Minneapolis police said the 5 people received "non-life-threatening injuries" and police are actively searching for the shooter or shooters.
Disturbing photo of @MinneapolisPD ready to shoot US Rep @keithellison son. @MayorHodges save your city! #Jamarclark pic.twitter.com/icnC2hcHtd
— WinDiddy (@WintanaMN) November 19, 2015
A Minneapolis cop is under fire for pointing an assault rifle at the son of a U.S. Congressman on Thursday.
Twitter.com user Wintana Melekin tweeted the photo showing a cop pointing his rifle at Jeremiah Ellison, the son of U.S. Represensative Keith Ellison.
Ellison was peacefully protesting outside a Minneapolis police precinct at the time.
The FBI has joined the investigation into the police shooting death of church drummer Corey Jones on Oct. 18.
The cop, Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja, was placed on paid administrative leave until the investigation into Jones' murder is complete.
Usher released new music on Jay Z's flop Tidal music streaming app. The song, entitled "Chains", refers to the string of police shootings of unarmed black men around the country. Usher sings "I've had enough/ Don't give a f*ck/ You put the chains on us."
Listen to "Chains" after the break.
Two independent experts hired by Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty have reached the same conclusion in the tragic police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
The experts conclude that the officer who shot and killed the boy in a Cleveland park "acted reasonably" when he opened fire on 2 seconds after getting out of his police cruiser.
The tide in the left wing media is slowly turning against the online social media justice group Black Lives Matter.
Once the darlings of liberal media outlets, Black Lives Matter are now feeling the cold steel of a disaffected media in the wake of a spate of cop killings.
A Virginia grand jury has indicted a former Portsmouth, Virginia police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.
Stephen D. Rankin was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of William Chapman II, 18.
It happened again: two Texas deputies are under investigation for the fatal shooting of a man who was standing with both arms held above his head in a recognized gesture of surrender.
The lawyer representing a New Jersey teenager who was shot 7 times by Trenton police says his client was unarmed.
Attorney Samuel A. Anyan, Jr. told NJ.com 14-year-old Radazz Hearns is "lucky to be alive."
The Texas police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Christian Taylor was fired from the Arlington Police Department.
Surveillance video from a Texas car dealership shows the final moments before college football player Christian Taylor, 19, was gunned down by police on Saturday.
Former University of Cincinnati officer Ray Tensing posted bond Thursday evening, USA Today reports. Tensing, 25, was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder in the shooting death of Samuel DuBose, 43.
A Cincinnati cop will be charged with murder in the shooting death of Samuel Dubose, 43. Officer Ray Tensing shot and killed Dubose during an altercation following a traffic stop earlier this month.
Police shootings of unarmed black men have dominated the nation's headlines in recent years. Now there is growing concern that new iPhone cases shaped like handguns will lead to more needless deaths at the hands of trigger-happy police.
The health status of a 43-year-old Jonesboro real estate agent who was shot by Clayton County's Sheriff is improving, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Tulsa County (Oklahoma) Sheriff's Office allegedly covered up training records for a 73-year-old deputy who accidentally shot an unarmed black man to death.
A 73-year-old deputy who shot a fleeing suspect to death during a slow police foot chase has been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter.
Dash cam video shows the moments that led up to the police shooting death of an unarmed black man in S. Carolina.
The lone eyewitness who filmed the fatal police shooting of 50-year-old Walter Scott in S. Carolina initially contemplated erasing the video because he feared for his own life.