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Body camera footage and documents obtained and released by Vice News are raising new questions about the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday evening that a federal civil rights investigation has been opened into the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the weekend.

People from all over Nashville came out to protest this week’s decision in the Breonna Taylor case on Saturday afternoon.

The family of a man who died in police custody in Austin last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Texas county.

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman fatally shot by police in her apartment in March, to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit, Mayor Greg Fischer said on Tuesday.

(CNN) — An independent autopsy into the death of George Floyd found that the unarmed black man died from “asphyxiation from sustained pressure,” according to attorney Ben Crump. Floyd was essentially “dead on the scene” in Minneapolis on May 25, Crump said. “The ambulance was his hearse,” the family’s attorney told reporters Monday. The independent autopsy’s findings […]

The Louisville police chief declared a state of emergency Monday for the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) ahead of Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s announcement in the Breonna Taylor case.

Members of George Floyd’s family, and others who lost loved ones to police encounters, joined activists and citizens in Minneapolis on Sunday for a march that was one of several events planned nationwide to mark the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s death.

The Wisconsin Attorney General announced Monday that a former Madison, Wisconsin police chief will serve as an independent consultant for prosecutors deciding whether to file charges against the officers involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake.

A judge has granted Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s request for an extension to release a grand jury recording in the Breonna Taylor case.

The fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager seen on video charging at two people with a knife, came within minutes of the verdict in George Floyd’s killing — causing unrest by some over the continued use of lethal force by Columbus police.