Police Killings

• Family demands answers about alleged Montreal police shooting death of Ronny Kay

  A grieving Montreal family wants answers about the death of Ronny Kay who was shot by Montreal police overnight September 17 this year.

  Canada

  Nov 20, 2022
  
• Philippines’ Duterte says he won’t cooperate with ICC probe into drug war killings

  An International Criminal Court prosecutor sought authorisation on Monday to open a full investigation into the killings, saying crimes against humanity could have been committed.

  World

  Jun 15, 2021
  
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• Duterte says ‘hold me responsible’ for killings under Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’

  Nearly 6,000 killings of drug suspects have been reported by police but rights watchdogs suspect the death toll is far larger.

  World

  Oct 20, 2020
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• Police officer who stopped Elijah McClain fired over photos reenacting chokehold

  "The fact that three on-duty, in-uniform police officers thought that it was appropriate to reenact the murder, jokingly, shows that the department is rotten to the core," said Mari Newman, the McClain family's lawyer who saw the photos before they were publicly released.

  News

  Jul 3, 2020
• Family of Montreal man killed by police hope protests bring change to policing

  Montreal police say they respond to 33,000 mental health calls every year.

  Canada

  Jun 30, 2020
• Philippine police had ‘permission to kill’ tens of thousands in war on drugs: UN

  The report said that some statements from the highest levels of government had "risen to the level of incitement to violence" and "vilification of dissent is being increasingly institutionalized."

  World

  Jun 4, 2020
• Donald Trump takes thinly veiled shot at Colin Kaepernick in Alabama speech

  The NFL and its players' union on Saturday quickly denounced the president for making these statements. 

  Politics

  Sep 23, 2017
• A glance at police ambush killings in US and its territories since 1932

  Authorities said Monday that police officers were clearly targeted and ambushed in this weekend's shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which killed three officers and wounded three others.

  Jul 18, 2016
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• Thousands attend protests across U.S. against police killings in Louisiana and Minnesota

  Officers made dozens of arrests in Louisiana's capital on a long hot weekend of protests over the killings of black people by police.

  World

  Jul 11, 2016
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• Calls for justice in Kenya as human rights lawyer buried, death linked to police

  Slain Kenyan human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and a taxi driver were buried Saturday amid calls for justice over police-linked extra-judicial killings.

  World

  Jul 9, 2016