Police Killing

• N.B. coroner’s jury will deliberate for a second day in the killing of Rodney Levi

  Rodney Levi was shot dead by police in Sunny Corner, N.B., on June 12, 2020, after officers responded to a complaint about a man with knives at a home.

  Canada

  Oct 7, 2021
  
• Sarah Everard: U.K. police officer gets life sentence for rape, murder of woman

  Wayne Couzens, 48, a serving London officer who guarded diplomatic premises, had pleaded guilty to murder, rape and kidnap.

  World

  Sep 30, 2021
  
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• N.B. coroner’s inquest told community policing model would have saved Indigenous man

  Rodney Levi, who was from the Metepenagiag First Nation, was shot dead by the RCMP on the evening of June 12, 2020.

  Canada

  Sep 29, 2021
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• New Brunswick coroner’s inquest begins into 2020 police killing of Rodney Levi

  Selection of a coroner's jury began today for an inquest into the June 2020 police killing of Rodney Levi.

  Canada

  Sep 28, 2021
• Police told to scale back tactics in Daunte Wright protests, but violence continues

  Police have driven away protesters with tear gas, rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades and long lines of riot police, which the mayor of Brooklyn Center said was "not human."

  World

  Apr 17, 2021
• Police fire tear gas at protesters angry over officer’s killing of Black Minnesota man

  After nightfall, a few hundred protesters had gathered outside the suburban police department, guarded by hundreds of officers in riot gear.

  Canada

  Apr 12, 2021
• Inquest called into death of man shot and killed by Winnipeg police

  An inquest has been called into the death of a man who was shot and killed by Winnipeg police earlier this year.

  Crime

  Oct 16, 2019
• U.S. won’t prosecute death of Eric Garner, who said ‘I can’t breathe’ while in police chokehold

  The decision to end a yearslong civil rights investigation was made by Attorney General William Barr and was announced the day before the five-year anniversary of the deadly encounter

  World

  Jul 16, 2019
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• Family of NDG man killed by police sues city of Montreal for $1M

  The family of the 23-year-old Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) man who shot and killed by police on Aug. 21 is suing the City of Montreal.

  Canada

  Oct 30, 2018
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• Protests continue in Pittsburgh over police killing of unarmed black teen

  The killing of Antwon Rose Jr. is the first in the Pittsburgh area in the Black Lives Matter era

  Crime

  Jul 1, 2018