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Police officers at a Florida elementary school arrested an 8-year-old boy who had allegedly hit a teacher — only to realize the boy’s wrists were too small for the handcuffs.

Attorneys for the family of George Floyd filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Wednesday against the city of Minneapolis and the police officers involved in his death, calling the killing part of “a public health crisis” in America

MIAMI, Fla. (WJW) — One NASCAR team supported first responders with a new paint job on their team car during Saturday’s race in Miami. Mike Harmon Racing (MHR) painted Kyle Weatherman’s car in a “Back the Blue” paint scheme which aims to support law enforcement officers. The car features the “Thin Blue Line” and the “Blue Lives […]

Many compare the outcry over George Floyd’s death to that of the murder of Emmett Till in 1955.

Congress held the first hearing on police reform since George Floyd’s death rattled the nation. Floyds brother was among those testifying.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Demonstrations in cities across the U.S. to condemn racism and police abuses remained large but turned notably more subdued on the eve of a Thursday memorial service for George Floyd that kicks off a series of events to mourn the man whose death empowered a national movement. The calmer protests came on […]

George Floyd’s family on Wednesday demanded the arrest of all four police officers involved in his death, as they visited a makeshift shrine at the Minneapolis street corner where the black man died after a white officer pressed a knee on his neck as he pleaded for air.

(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 […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of a handcuffed black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday, hours after a bystander’s video showed the man pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced the firings on Twitter, saying “This is […]

George Zimmerman was acquitted in the fatal 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, but according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Florida, he believes there was a conspiracy to frame him and wants $100 million in damages.

News Channel 3 received new body camera video Wednesday from a police officer who was seen on cell phone video holding a gun on a man.