Police Shootings

The jurors were considering whether to charge an off-duty and an on-duty police officer with a crime for their role in the fatal shooting of the 27-year-old in January 2021 after an alleged road rage incident.

The decision comes nearly six months after a grand jury declined to indict the four officers.

Christopher Taylor and another officer have been indicted in the case of Mauris DeSilva, a 46-year-old neuroscientist. DeSilva was having a mental health crisis in July 2019 when he was fatally shot by police.

Police were serving a search warrant on a house where residents were suspected of selling heroin. Two suspects were found dead after a gun fight. No heroin was found.

The trial of former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver continues this week in Dallas.Oliver is facing murder charges for shooting into a car full of…

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Benjamin Crump, civil rights attorney. Crump gained national prominence…

Vanessa Bissereth learned of her cousin’s death in the newspaper.“Of course it made headlines – ‘Teenager Killed’ – but there was no name,” she said. Her…

From Texas Standard:On Saturday, 15-year-old Jordan Edwards went to a party near Balch Springs, Texas. He didn’t make it home that night. Officer Roy…

After a police officer fatally shot an unarmed 15-year-old in the Dallas area Saturday night, Texas lawmakers are considering whether pending bills could…

The Travis County District Attorney’s Office will no longer bring all police shooting cases before a grand jury. Flanked by representatives of the local…