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Key findings from AP's investigation into police force that isn't supposed to be lethal

Mar. 28, 2024 23:34 PM EDT

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death. Over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds,...

Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill?

Mar. 28, 2024 11:23 AM EDT

Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and...

How non-shooting deaths involving police slip through the cracks in Las Vegas

Mar. 28, 2024 07:42 AM EDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Richard Ybanez always saw himself as his little brother’s protector. Growing up as latchkey kids on Guam, he and Glenn spent their childhood mostly outdoors, tinkering with bicycles and riding skateboards. If anyone tried to pick on his brother, Richard had his...

This is how reporters documented 1,000 deaths after police force that isn't supposed to be fatal

Mar. 28, 2024 06:12 AM EDT

After George Floyd was killed under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee, reporters at The Associated Press wanted to know how many other people died following encounters in which law enforcement used not firearms but other kinds of force that is not supposed to be fatal. The U.S....

Teen pleads guilty in murder case that Minnesota's attorney general took away from local prosecutor

Mar. 22, 2024 19:13 PM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota teenager pleaded guilty to murder Friday for killing a young mother, in a case where Gov. Tim Walz took the rare step of taking the case away from Hennepin County prosecutors and handing it to Attorney General Keith Ellison amid public criticism that the original...

Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner say lack of police reform is frustrating

Mar. 22, 2024 18:17 PM EDT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner — three Black men killed in violent confrontations with police officers — expressed frustration Friday with politicians who have failed to pass police reform legislation or have worked to invalidate laws intended to...

North Carolina's highest court won't revive challenge to remove Civil War governor's monument

Mar. 22, 2024 18:14 PM EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's highest court declined on Friday to revive a challenge to the decision by Asheville city leaders to remove in 2021 a downtown monument honoring a Civil War-era governor. The state Supreme Court agreed unanimously that it had been appropriate to...

A small town suspended its entire police force. Residents want to know why

Mar. 21, 2024 23:17 PM EDT

RIDGELY, Md. (AP) — A small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore has suspended its entire police force pending the results of an investigation by state prosecutors, a largely unexplained decision that has left residents shocked, skeptical and on edge. The unusually harsh crackdown...

North Carolina appeals court upholds ruling that kept Confederate monument in place

Mar. 19, 2024 18:49 PM EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that local leaders who refused calls to remove a Confederate monument from outside a county courthouse acted in a constitutional manner and kept in place the statue at its longtime location in accordance with state law. ...

Editorial Roundup: Florida

Mar. 13, 2024 19:40 PM EDT

South Florida Sun Sentinel. March 11, 2024. Editorial: Start flexing some veto muscle, Gov. DeSantis They sabotaged the Commission on Ethics. They protected rogue cops from civilian review boards. They invited unqualified chaplains into public schools. ...