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(NEW YORK) -- George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Laquan McDonald, and now Tyre Nichols -- all are part a growing list of people who have been killed by police. The latest disturbing death of Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers has renewed calls for police reform. "The world is watching us," Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said Thursday as he announced charges against the five police […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- At least three people were killed and four injured in the second mass shooting to erupt in Los Angeles County in eight days -- the sixth in California this month, according to police. The latest shooting occurred Saturday in the upscale Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills. The mass-casualty shooting unfolded around 2:30 a.m. when police received multiple 911 calls of a shooting in […]

(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) -- Nearly three weeks after Tyre Nichols was violently arrested in Memphis, Tennessee, city officials released disturbing footage of his fatal confrontation with police. The graphic footage of Memphis police officers beating the 29-year-old following a traffic stop was released Friday "because it was important to the community and to Tyre’s family, as they want the world to be their witness and feel their pain," Shelby County District […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Jan. 6 rioter who attacked fallen Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray was sentenced Friday to 6 years and 8 months in prison. Julian Khater, 33, of Somerset, New Jersey, pleaded guilty last year to assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon. According to court records, Khater maced at least two officers that day at close range as a mob of rioters pulled down metal police […]