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'Murder in progress': Police tried to spare attacker's life as they saved woman from assault

Mar. 28, 2024 14:54 PM EDT

COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — Detective Lt. Gregory Lennon glimpsed at the modest duplex from his patrol car while waiting for backup that was seconds behind. This was a wellbeing check, among the most common calls in this quiet seaside town near Boston, but Lennon knew better than to go in alone. ...

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

Mar. 28, 2024 11:28 AM 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,...

Non-shooting deaths involving Las Vegas police often receive less official scrutiny than shootings

Mar. 28, 2024 07:43 AM EDT

When a Las Vegas police officer shoots and kills someone, the death sparks a clear review process: from providing information to the public to evaluating whether policies should be changed and whether an officer should be charged for his or her role in the fatality. But the Las Vegas...

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...

Putin says Islamic extremists raided concert hall but attack masterminds are yet to be found

Mar. 25, 2024 17:30 PM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the gunmen who killed 139 people at a suburban Moscow concert hall are “radical Islamists,” but he repeated his accusation that Ukraine could have played a role despite Kyiv's strong denials. Two days after the Islamic State's...

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...

Minnesota officer who fatally shot 65-year-old man armed with a knife will not be charged

Mar. 21, 2024 10:56 AM EDT

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a 65-year-old man armed with a knife will not be charged, state and local prosecutors said. The offices of the Minnesota Attorney General and the Ramsey County Attorney announced Wednesday that Officer Abdirahmin...

2 Black men tortured by Mississippi officers call for toughest sentences

Mar. 18, 2024 16:25 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen. The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey...

Judge asked to dismiss claims against police over killing of mentally ill woman armed with shotgun

Mar. 15, 2024 19:17 PM EDT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — An attorney for the Delaware State Police asked a judge Friday to dismiss several claims in a lawsuit filed by the brother of a mentally ill woman whom an officer killed after firing a shotgun at him. The lawsuit alleges that Trooper Dean Johnson, who fatally...

Appeals court overturns convictions of former Georgia officer who fatally shot naked man

Mar. 13, 2024 14:15 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has overturned the convictions of a former Georgia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, naked man. Robert “Chip” Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when...