New York's governor orders firing of prison staffers involved in inmate's fatal beating

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor has ordered more than a dozen prison staffers to be fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month. Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement Saturday that she has directed the state's corrections department commissioner to begin the...

Missouri's governor commutes sentence to time served for a Kansas City officer convicted of fatally shooting Black man

2 men charged in UK with assaulting police in Manchester Airport fracas. No officer will be charged

LONDON (AP) — Two brothers were charged Friday with assaulting police during a scuffle at Manchester Airport in July that led to outrage when video on social media appeared to show an officer stomping on a man's head as he lay on the floor. The Crown Prosecution Service said that...

Georgia's outgoing president urges EU to use more leverage to back protesters

BRUSSELS (AP) — Georgia’s outgoing president on Wednesday appealed to the European Union to press her country’s pro-Russia government to hold a new election amid a police crackdown on peaceful opposition protesters. Tens of thousands of people have filled the streets regularly...

Texas jailer dies after being assaulted by confined man, sheriff says

WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man being held in jail fatally assaulted a detention officer who was returning him to his cell following the one hour he was allowed out of his lockup each day, a sheriff said Tuesday. Isaiah Patrick Bias, a 28-year-old who worked at the Ellis...

New Orleans wants to end federal oversight of its police. Critics aren't convinced

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The city of New Orleans and the U.S. Justice Department are pushing to end more than a decade of police oversight that was ordered in response to a long history of mistreatment of African Americans and notorious corruption, including a 1994 murder ordered by a crooked cop and...

Family of 'Cop City' activist who was killed by troopers files lawsuit

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The parents of an environmental activist who Georgia state troopers fatally shot near the site of a planned Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center filed a lawsuit Tuesday against three law enforcement officers who they say planned and carried out a police raid...

Judge allows testing of tissue from George Floyd as officer convicted of killing him seeks new trial

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has granted permission to lawyers for Derek Chauvin to have samples from George Floyd examined as part of the former Minneapolis police officer's efforts to challenge his conviction on a federal civil rights charge stemming from Floyd's death in 2020. ...

NY police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents' civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S. Department of Justice report. The report on a pattern and practice...

Justice Department, Louisville reach deal after probe prompted by Breonna Taylor killing

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department and the city of Louisville have reached an agreement to reform the city’s police force after an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor and police treatment of protesters, officials said Thursday. ...