police brutality

KOH SAMUI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort isla...

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a white Chicago policeman charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager said Friday he will seek a chan...

CHICAGO (AP) — Janet Lindsey Ferguson has carried a poster bearing a photograph of her teenage son, Rickey Childs, ever since he was shot and killed b...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a Baltimore police officer who is charged with manslaughter in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old bl...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former Oklahoma City police officer was convicted Thursday of raping and sexually victimizing eight women on his police beat in...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The former chief of one of the country's largest local law enforcement agencies was arrested Wednesday on charges he took r...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The prosecution rested its case Tuesday after calling about 15 witnesses in the manslaughter trial of a Baltimore police officer char...

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times is exp...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of protesters blocked store entrances and shut down traffic in Chicago's ritziest shopping district on Black Friday to draw at...

CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on the aftermath of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer (all times local): 2:05 p.m. A march ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times was charged with murder Tuesday, just a day before the deadline a jud...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has pushed racial tensions in the city's small but conce...

NEW YORK (AP) — The executive director of the largest police union in the country is threatening a "surprise" for Quentin Tarantino after the director...

NEW YORK (AP) — Elections for top prosecutor in New York City's smallest borough are usually highly local matters. But this year, candidates for State...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Police Department is turning to a new tool in its effort to teach its future officers about tolerance and understand...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A leading international human rights monitor demanded Thursday that Hungary stop "threatening and obstructing the work of jou...

Questions about the racial identity of a well-known activist in the "Black Lives Matter" movement have stirred controversy and drawn a blistering resp...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder for shooting a motorist during a traffic stop is trying to get his job...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A University of Cincinnati police officer who shot a motorist after stopping him over a missing front license plate pleaded not guil...

MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan (AP) — One of Pakistan's most-feared Islamic militant leaders, believed to be behind the killing of scores of minority Shiites,...