Freddie Gray

The Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered the eulogy Saturday for an African-American man shot to death by a police officer following a shooting at a crowded Alabama shopping mall. Jackson said the Hoover police officer who shot Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21, “must face justice” and urged authorities to release tapes of the shooting. “No one is above the law,”...

A rare scene in the American justice system unfolded Friday in a Chicago courthouse: A white officer stood before a mostly white jury and was convicted of killing a black teenager.

A Baltimore police officer resigned after a video surfaced online showing him repeatedly punching a man and knocking him down over steps on a sidewalk in a recording that lasts about 30 seconds, the Baltimore Police Department said Sunday. He had previously been suspended. The video begins with the officer standing in front of a black man who has his...

The Baltimore officer that arrested a black man who later suffered fatal injuries in a police van testified at the van driver’s disciplinary hearing Wednesday that he still considers it dangerous to put a seatbelt on an uncooperative prisoner in the confines of a police van, even though current police policy now requires it. Until a few days before Freddie...

A Baltimore police officer involved in arresting a black man who later suffered a fatal injury during a police van ride testified at the driver’s disciplinary hearing Tuesday that the man did not show any signs he needed medical care when he was first put into the van. Officer Edward Nero testified at the hearing for Officer Caesar Goodson, the...

A Baltimore police officer who was acquitted of criminal charges in the death of a suspect while in custody is now fighting an administrative procedure that could cost him his job. Officer Caesar Goodson is facing a police disciplinary board hearing over the death of Freddie Gray, who sustained fatal spinal cord injuries while being transported in a police van...

A former St. Louis police officer was acquitted Friday in the fatal shooting of a drug suspect following a chase. Jason Stockley was charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 death of 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith. Testimony in the trial ended Aug. 9, but Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson weighed evidence for more than a month before ruling. Stockley and his...

Family members of a Baltimore man whose death in police custody touched off unrest in Maryland’s largest city are devastated and disappointed no one is being held accountable for his death, attorneys said Wednesday.

The U.S. Department of Justice won’t bring federal charges against six police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a young black man whose death touched off weeks of protests and unrest in Baltimore.

The producers and participants in “Baltimore Rising” say national and local media sensationalized the protests that erupted after the death of Freddie Gray, but that their new documentary humanizes the narrative. Activists Kwame Rose and Makayla Gilliam-Price appeared alongside director Sonja Sohn Wednesday at the Television Critics Association’s summer meeting to discuss the documentary premiering on HBO in November. The...

The consent decree was negotiated during the closing days of the Obama administration after a federal investigation found rampant abuse by Baltimore police, including unlawful stops and use of excessive force against black people.

The consent decree was negotiated during the closing days of the Obama administration after a federal investigation found rampant abuse by Baltimore police, including unlawful stops and use of excessive force against black people.

Civil rights groups reacted with alarm Tuesday, while law enforcement organizations expressed relief, after the Trump administration signaled it may back out of federal agreements reached with police departments around the U.S. to curb racial bias and excessive force. In a memo made public this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review of all Justice Department “consent decrees” that...

Seven police officers in Baltimore, Maryland, were indicted Wednesday on federal racketeering crimes after a year-long, secret investigation for use of excessive force and other violations by the department, NBC News reported. The crimes, some comitted by members of the elite Gun Trace Task Force, took place last year and range from filing false overtime claims to robbing a driver...

The host of “The Nightly Show,” which ends Thursday, packed a strong voice that resonated with truth, even in a crowded field.

A Baltimore police officer acquitted in the death of a black man who suffered a broken neck in a police van is set to receive nearly $127,000 in back pay.

Citing the “dismal likelihood of conviction,” prosecutors have dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, bringing an end to the cases.

The highest-ranking Baltimore police officer charged in the 2015 death of Freddie Gray has been found not guilty on all counts, marking the third acquittal of an officer charged in the case.

A verdict is expected Thursday in the case against the driver of a police wagon in which Freddie Gray died on the way to a Baltimore police station.

The judge in the trial of a police officer charged with murder in the death of Freddie Gray blasted prosecutors Thursday for withholding information from the defense.