US Police Shooting

Two additional suspects have been arrested in connection with an airport parking garage shooting that killed a Philadelphia police officer and wounded another, authorities announced on Wednesday. Alexander Batista-Polanco, 21, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Hendrick Pea-Fernandez, 21, of Pennsauken, New Jersey, were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, First Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore said at a news conference. Police on Monday had said at least two other suspects were being sought as they announced the arrest of Yobranny Martinez Fernandez, 18, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He is from Camden County, New Jersey, and was being held in that state on a fugitive warrant. Authorities said Officers Richard Mendez and Raul Ortiz had just arrived at work about 11 pm last Thursday when they heard breaking glass and saw several people breaking into a car in the parking lot at Philadelphia International Airport. A confrontation ensued, and the two officers and one of the suspec

The Uttar Pradesh Police said Friday that they have gunned down 183 alleged criminals in encounters in the six years of Yogi Adityanath's government and this included gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad's son Asad and his accomplice, who were killed in an exchange of fire in Jhansi. The UP Police data showed that more than 10,900 police encounters have taken place in the state since March 2017, when Adityanath took over as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the first time. In these encounters, 23,300 alleged criminals were arrested and 5,046 were injured. The number of policemen injured in them was 1,443 and 13 were killed, the data showed. Of the 13 policemen killed in encounters since March 2017, eight were ambushed in a narrow lane of Kanpur by the aides of notorious gangster Vikas Dubey. Dubey was shot dead by police when he tried to escape while being brought to UP from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. Police said Dubey's vehicle had overturned during the transit and he had .

The footage shows a quick initial fire exchange in which an officer gets hurt. Later, the assailant was brought down

Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and killed a Black teenager in broad daylight

A North Carolina deputy has shot and killed a Black man while executing a search warrant, authorities said, spurring an outcry from a crowd of dozens that immediately gathered at the scene

Police shot and killed a teenage girl Tuesday afternoon in Columbus just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd

Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the US

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris sought the creation of a registry of police officers with misconduct records, amidst protests after a black man was shot by police in Philadelphia

Biden joins his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, a former attorney general, in calling for officer Rusten Sheskey to be charged in the shooting, which left Blake paralyzed

The shooting Friday night was captured on video, and the state ACLU condemned what it described as a horrific and deadly incident of police violence against a Black person

The shooting of Terence Crutcher on last Friday lead to heightened tensions between police and African-Americans