New York correctional officers pummeled handcuffed man before death, footage shows

NEW YORK (AP) — Newly released video of a fatal New York prison beating shows correctional officers repeatedly pummeling a handcuffed man, striking him in the chest with a shoe, and lifting him by the neck and dropping him. Body camera footage of the Dec. 9 assault on Robert Brooks...

Ex-police chief sues Alabama city, saying his reputation was ruined by report on officer abuses

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A fired police chief in Alabama says a city report deliberately ruined his reputation with allegations of unlawful excessive force and discrimination by officers, and has filed a lawsuit this week against the mayor, a prosecutor and other officials for slander and libel. ...

The family of a teenager fatally shot by police during a no-knock raid sues Alabama city

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who was shot by SWAT police during a no-knock, predawn raid in Alabama, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police officers involved and the city of Mobile, alleging the teenager was “killed in cold blood.” Randall...

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...