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The teen was taken to a hospital with a life-threatening injury. The shooting appears to be an accident, officials said.

Jury selection begins Tuesday for a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer, Kim Potter, who says she meant to grab her Taser instead of her handgun when she shot and killed motorist Daunte Wright, who was Black.

Connor Pollick, a senior at Eastern Connecticut State University, is a college intern with the Willimantic Police Department. He rides along with officers, responds to calls, reviews paperwork, and conducts follow-up visits. But Pollick is not a criminal justice intern. He is studying social work. “We have different skillsets than them and we can help people in different ways,” said…

A Virginia officer’s quick action prevented his co-worker from getting seriously hurt.

While the panel cannot fire Eichhammer, it said it found the photo highly offensive and the demands to fire the officer are valid.

A new use-of-force training program that will be required for all police officers in Connecticut will emphasize “moral courage,” empathy and de-escalation in an effort to reduce fatal shootings and other violent acts by officers. Officials believe it is one of the first use-of-force training programs in the country to be mandated across an entire state. Most police departments provide…

Police officers in west Michigan handcuffed the group after a neighbor wrongly reported that the three Black people were breaking into a home.

An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper successfully performed the Heimlich maneuver on a man who attempted to swallow a bag of marijuana after he was pulled over for speeding.

Officers Maggie Murphy and Michael Perry help extinguish flames from the passenger’s clothing.

Police departments across the country are reviewing the behavior of dozens of officers who were in Washington on the day of the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol

From his early days growing up in a New Jersey hamlet, Brian Sicknick wanted to be a police officer

Police unions nationwide have largely supported President Donald Trump’s reelection, amid mass demonstrations over police brutality and accusations of systemic racism.

The police chief of a Milwaukee suburb that has seen protests and unrest since an officer was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a Black teenager says he sees no reason why the officer should be fired

Footage released by the LAPD shows an officer rescuing a man from a burning car before the vehicle burst into flames.

The Wendy’s location where Rayshard Brooks, a Black man, was shot and killed by police Friday in Atlanta was set on fire Saturday night after a day of peaceful protests.

Minneapolis police have for years required officers to intervene when they see colleagues using unreasonable force. But that didn’t save George Floyd and experts say such rules will always run up against police culture and fear of being branded a “rat.”

An Ohio-based restaurant chain’s decision to close several locations after a group of employees refused to fulfill an order for law enforcement officers has been met with both praise and criticism from customers.

Increasing numbers of police officers and civilian law enforcement staff are getting sick as the number of coronavirus cases explodes across the U.S. And the growing tally raises questions about how laws can and should be enforced during the pandemic, and about how departments will hold up as the virus spreads among the ranks of those whose work puts them...

Nine police officers across Connecticut are back on the job after conquering Africa’s tallest mountain. “I cannot think of a word to describe it,” said Putnam Detective Donna Brown. “It was just unbelievable.” Brown was one of 12 people on the Conquering Kilimanjaro team, nine of whom were police officers from Connecticut. Two police officers from New Jersey were also…

Machine gun fire answers rock-throwing protesters. Motorcycle-riding Revolutionary Guard volunteers chase after demonstrators. Plainclothes security forces grab, beat and drag a man off the street to an uncertain fate. As Iran restores the internet after a weeklong government-imposed shutdown, new videos purport to show the demonstrations over gasoline prices rising and the security-force crackdown that followed. The videos offer only...