POLICE

Florida police involved in an incident in which a woman was hit by an officer, apparently at Miami International Airport, were “relieved of duty,” the director of Miami-Dade police said Wednesday.

Each year, hundreds of people die after encounters with the police.

Body camera videos released by the Valdosta Police Department shows an officer body slamming 47-year-old Antonio Arnelo Smith during an encounter that was a result of mistaken identity.

A Black man in Georgia is accusing police of violating his civil rights, saying a white officer slammed him to the ground and broke his wrist in the mistaken belief that there was a warrant for his arrest.

Seattle city crews used heavy equipment to remove makeshift barriers around the city’s “occupied” protest zone following two fatal shootings in the area.

A Massachusetts man was taken to an area hospital Monday night with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a car, state police said. Troopers responded to the 330 block of the Lynnway on the southbound side just before 11:30 p.m. after getting calls reporting a pedestrian was struck. The victim, a 55-year-old Lynn man, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital…

Police continue to search for the hit-and-run driver that seriously injured a Lynn man Monday night.

Boston residents said they were fed up with hearing illegal fireworks going off at all hours of the night for weeks on end during a meeting Monday. Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn held the meeting via video conference call to address some of the concerns constituents have about fireworks continuously being set off across the city. Residents have been complaining…

A man who was hit by a car while walking on the Lynnway Monday night is now in the hospital with life-threatening injuries as police search for the driver.

Heavily armed gunmen have attacked and wounded Mexico City’s police chief in a brazen operation that left three people dead

The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously advanced a plan that could one day do away with the city’s police department, following unrest over the killing of George Floyd

Black officers find themselves torn between two worlds when it comes to the protests against police brutality happening around the U.S. They feel the pain of seeing black men and women killed at the hands of fellow officers, yet they must also try to keep the peace during protests

Police in Randolph, Massachusetts, are looking for three teenagers who allegedly drove a stolen car into a church late Wednesday night. Police got the call about a Honda Accord crashing into the International Assembly of God on South Main Street in Randolph around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. No injuries were reported. The teenagers are approximately 15 to 16 years old, according…

In 2006, Cariol Horne, a police officer from Buffalo, N.Y., intervened when a fellow police officer put a handcuffed suspect in a chokehold. Later, she was fired from her job and lost her pension. Today, she’s fighting for a law that will require other police officers to hold their fellow cops accountable for misconduct.

Police are searching for a group of teenagers who crashed a stolen car into a church in Randolph and fled the scene on foot.

Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black massage therapist, died in August 2019 after police in Aurora, Colorado, stopped him on his way home from the store and put him in an illegal chokehold. LX News host Nik Z reviews the body cam footage of his encounter with the cops and Marc Sallinger, a reporter for KUSA in Denver, gives an update...

Police are investigating a double shooting in East Boston at a playground on Glendon street. Two victims were found a little before 11 p.m. with non-life threatening injuries, according to the Boston Police Department. No further information was immediately available.

Deija Mendez, 23 of Boston, was shot and killed on Coral Street in Lowell Tuesday afternoon, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office.

Police in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, are investigating after a noose was found hanging from a tree and racist flyers were taped to street signs and fences around town. Police said they received a report on June 17 about a noose hanging from a tree at a private association beach off Pump House Road. Two teenagers were seen in the area handling…

Protesters gathered outside City Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, to voice their opposition to an increase in the police department’s budget, and city officials now say they will reconsider their decision. The demonstrators objected to city councilors’ unanimous vote last Tuesday to raise the budget of the Worcester Police Department by $250,000, bringing the total to $52 million. “A lot of…