Police Procedure

From the AP: A Minnesota prosecutor has charged a police officer with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the restraint death of George Floyd. Floyd is the handcuffed black man whose cries of “I can’t breathe”...

Officer in Louisville seems to point a weapon directly at the cameraman pic.twitter.com/5QdoC2fYW5 — Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) May 30, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Protests and riots spread to cities throughout the country last night, Louisville, Kentucky among them. Seven...

The union representing Minneapolis Police Officers has long felt that the democratically elected mayor, Jacob Frey, should not be the boss of them. Across the country, armed insurgent demonstrators have expressed similar feelings about their governors: In Michigan, a gang...

As rioting escalated around the country last night, one of the cities that was hardest hit was Seattle. The city announced a 5 p.m. curfew that was widely ignored as bands of thousands of...

Minneapolis Police have a unique way of winning the hearts and minds of their city's residents following the death of George Floyd. They swept through neighborhoods late Saturday not far from the rioting, pointing...

UPDATE: At the time this post ran this morning, the Louisville Metro Police Department implied that the man shot when they returned fire last night was the shooter. Subsequent reports have identified the man...

Earlier today we ran a report that indicated that the Louisville police had opened fire when a rioter took a shot at them and some National Guard troops early this morning. They returned fire,...

Judd said they received information that law enforcement would come under attack at 8 p.m. near Interstate 4 and Highway 27, but the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Florida Highway Patrol were ready. Judd...

It was just a matter of time. As protests have been allowed to continue in cities across the country, the rioters have grown more bold. The police, who've come under repeated attack, are more...

Pity poor Joe Biden. Every day he's out in public makes him a convenient punchline for more jokes about diminished mental capacity and inappropriate touching of women and children. Yesterday he paused in a...

By Bruce Schreiner and Rebecca Reynolds Yonker, AP Video released by police shows a popular barbecue stand operator firing a gun as officers approached his business in Louisville shortly before he was shot to death,...

By Amy Forliti and Steve Karnowski, AP Prosecutors are charging a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck with second-degree murder, and for the first time will level charges against...