Friends and family identified the dead man as Kevin E. Peterson Jr., 21, and said he was a former high school football player and the proud father of an infant daughter.

Jacob Blake, a Black man, was shot seven times in the back by Wisconsin police officers in an incident caught on video.

“So often the public accepts a narrative driven by an incomplete set of facts, one that vilifies a good person, based on a rush to judgment, which has happened in this case,” one lawyer said.

LeBron James, Joe Biden and Bernice King have joined the growing call for justice in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. No arrests have been made.

Amber Guyger, a white former Dallas police officer, has been indicted on a murder charge in the shooting death of her black neighbour, Botham Jean, at his apartment.

Body camera footage shows Thurman Blevins, a 31-year-old black man, was fleeing police on foot when he was shot in the back, over what Minneapolis police say was a gun in his hand.

A white Louisiana officer was fired for the killing of Alton Sterling, a black man shot in a 2016 incident that inflamed the U.S. debate on racial bias in law enforcement.

Clark was killed by two Sacramento police officers who believed he had a gun. He was holding a cellphone.

"Like any compassionate person, I was horrified by the death of a young Sacramento man who we later found out had two kids," Mayor Darrell Steinberg said.