Atlanta police chief resigns
Atlanta's police chief Erika Shields resigned Saturday after an officer shot and killed 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks outside a Wendy's restaurant. Mark Strassmann reports.
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Atlanta's police chief Erika Shields resigned Saturday after an officer shot and killed 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks outside a Wendy's restaurant. Mark Strassmann reports.
Authorities in central California say the suspected gunman who shot a deputy and killed a second victim was "down," and that multiple officers had been injured during a shootout Thursday afternoon. CBS San Francisco's Marissa Perlman has the latest.
Louisville, Kentucky, has begun the process of terminating one of the three officers involved in the deadly shooting of Breonna Taylor. Mola Lenghi reports.
Garrett Rolfe, who was fired after the killing of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, faces 11 criminal charges, including felony murder.
Rayshard Brooks, 27, was fatally shot by police at a Wendy's drive-thru after officials said he resisted arrest and stole an officer's Taser.
L.A. County sheriff's deputies say Michael Thomas, 62, reached for one of their guns after they responded to a possible domestic violence call. His fiancée says he was cooperating. KCAL's Nicole Comstock reports.
The family of Rayshard Brooks is calling for justice after the 27-year-old father was killed by a white police officer in Atlanta.
A man was shot Monday night at a protest in Albuquerque, New Mexico, over a statue of a Spanish conquistador. Demonstrators were trying to tear down the statue, while clashing with members of a self-appointed armed civilian militia who had vowed to protect it. The victim is in critical, but stable condition. Several people, believed to be militia members involved in the shooting, are now in custody while police investigate.
The Fulton County district attorney is weighing whether to charge two officers with murder for the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. Jeff Pegues reports.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard must try to determine if the officer who shot Brooks thought his life was in danger.
Brooks, 27, was celebrating his daughter's eighth birthday on the night of his death, his family's lawyer said.
Witnesses say a militia member fired the shots as demonstrators in Albuquerque tried to tear down a statue of Juan de Oñate, long a subject of controversy in New Mexico.
Investigators have been closely examining video evidence, and say the critical moment is when the shots are fired.
DA says three charges might apply in case of officer who shot Brooks, if he's charged: murder, felony murder or aggravated assault.
Lawmakers in Louisville, Kentucky have voted to ban no-knock warrants in the wake of Breonna Taylor's death. It was one of these warrants that allowed three plainclothes police officers to force their way into Taylor's apartment unannounced while she was sleeping. She was shot at least eight times. Jericka Duncan reports.
Authorities had locked down a 2-mile radius on the southern end of Paso Robles on Thursday afternoon as they closed in on the suspect.
Trump officials have rolled back an Obama-era regulation that protected wildlife in Alaska National Parks.
George Floyd's brothers and other loved ones paid tribute to him in emotional remarks at his funeral service in Houston. Watch this portion of the service.
Northern California officials called U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Steven Carrillo "a dangerous man intent on bringing harm to police officers" during a weekend ambush.
He was arrested and the victim was in stable condition, CBS Seattle affiliate KIRO-TV reports. His motive was unclear.
Seventy-seven-year-old David Dorn, who was beloved, was killed during a night of violent protests while trying to protect a friend's pawn shop.
The FBI said they are investigating a suspect with a possible connection to a fatal shooting of a federal security officer and an alleged "ambush" killing of a sheriff's deputy in Northern California.
A hearing for the three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia got underway Wednesday morning. Reverend Tim McDonald joined CSBN to discuss his hopes for the outcome of this case and why it is important to be politically active at this moment.
"There's nothing bad to say about this man," one customer said of David McAtee. "He was a good man."
In response to outrage on social media, the county attorney said there was no "racial tone" to conversations between the shooter and the victim.