Calls mount to clear Black woman who shot officer during home raid
Diamonds Ford says they entered unannounced. Her attorney says it amounted to a "no-knock warrant" like the one in the Breonna Taylor case.
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Diamonds Ford says they entered unannounced. Her attorney says it amounted to a "no-knock warrant" like the one in the Breonna Taylor case.
The mural features Floyd's No. 88 jersey from his days playing football at Jack Yates High School in Houston.
Adam Coy is accused of fatally shooting Hill, a 47-year-old Black man, during an early-morning altercation in a residential garage in late December.
"I believe that Black Lives Matter is the largest and strongest social movement in the world today," said Petter Eide, the Norwegian lawmaker who nominated BLM.
"We demand that this officer be terminated because this is unacceptable," Attorney Ben Crump told CBS News.
Information about George Floyd's prior arrests can't be used at the trials of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in his death, a judge ruled.
Ohio's largest city also plans to introduce a law that would ensure officers use the cameras correctly in wake of a fatal police shooting in December.
U.K. government pushes legislation to prevent "town hall militants and woke worthies" from relocating controversial monuments after BLM protests.
"I just want to keep continuing to fulfill our purpose in serving a lot of the underserved communities," he said.
The 50 scholarship recipients must commit to eight years of racial justice work in the South.
The lawsuit, which seeks to install a monitor to oversee police tactics at future protests, alleges that NYPD officers used a litany of illegal tactics including excessive force and unlawful arrests.
McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after he was put in a chokehold by Aurora police in August 2019.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson said police responded to Black Lives Matter protesters "as if they were criminals."
"We are going to file a civil rights excessive use of force 1983 civil rights lawsuit against the Kenosha Police Department," Crump said on CBSN Wednesday.
Images of the assault on the Capitol and of racial justice protests show a stark contrast in police responses.
Prosecutors in Wisconsin announced they wouldn't charge the police officer who shot Blake in the back seven times.
Officer Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake in the back in August, sparking national outrage and unrest in Kenosha.
Kyle Rittenhouse was charged with two counts of first-degree homicide and one count of attempted homicide.
Property was damaged and protesters shot fireworks at a federal court building on New Year's Eve.
New footage shows officers did not give Hill aid after he was shot.
The first police-involved death in the city since George Floyd's death stirred anxiety about renewed protests.
A detective who obtained the search warrant for Taylor's home and one of the officers who opened fire during the raid have both received pre-termination letters, their attorneys confirmed to CBS News.
Officer Amy Detweiler said the officer who fatally shot Hill yelled that Hill had a gun moments before he fired.
The DOJ said video of the shooting was of too poor a quality for prosecutors to conclusively establish what had happened.
"The actions of Adam Coy do not live up to the oath of a Columbus Police officer, or the standards we, and the community, demand of our officers," the city's public safety director said.