Police Shootings

The union says Blake was armed with a knife and fought with the officers who tried to arrest him, putting one of them in a headlock.

Professional sports players in the NBA, MLB, WNBA and MLS protested the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. The players refused to play to raise awareness for social justice issues.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he will defend the right to protest over George Floyd's death but urges peaceful demonstrations, saying, "It is how we express pain, process tragedy, and create change."

Prosecutors say a probe of the black man's death while in police custody is underway and federal charges are possible. Violent protests erupted for a third night.

The sheriff's corporal who dramatically lost his job after his pistol fired in a bustling Florida middle school cafeteria plans to appeal his dismissal,…

A Pasco County sheriff’s corporal, whose gun accidentally fired in a busy middle school cafeteria nearly six months ago, caused the accident himself by…

A Florida police officer has been convicted of a misdemeanor but acquitted of attempted manslaughter for shooting at a severely autistic man and...

Jonathan Aledda testified that he did not intend to shoot Charles Kinsey, a caregiver for a man with autism who the officer says he mistakenly thought was armed.

For the first time in 30 years, an on-duty police officer in Florida has been convicted in a shooting death. In October 2015, Nouman Raja shot and killed a black motorist, Corey Jones.

A Florida sheriff's deputy who was killed while responding to a dispute over a cat was laid to rest Tuesday.A six mile long funeral procession for…

Just days after a Florida sheriff's deputy was killed in the line of duty, ceremonies were held in the Tampa Bay area Wednesday to remember fallen law…

Updated 4:13 p.m.A Florida sheriff's deputy died Monday afternoon, a day after being shot in the head while responding to a dispute over a cat,…