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Grant Reeher speaks with Lance LoRusso. He's a former police officer that now represents law enforcement officers in court as a lawyer handling on-duty shootings and in-custody deaths. LoRusso is also a firearms instructor and a consultant on police use of force. He's the author of the books, "When Cops Kill" and "Blue News."
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Grant Reeher speaks with Lance LoRusso. He's a former police officer that now represents law enforcement officers in court as a lawyer handling on-duty shootings and in-custody deaths. LoRusso is also a firearms instructor and a consultant on police use of force. He's the author of the books, "When Cops Kill" and "Blue News."
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An indictment describes four instances last year in which Sheriff Victor Hill ordered detainees restrained in a chair for hours, though the men had offered no resistance.
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A major civil rights group is demanding the attorney general pause federal grants to local police until he confirms they aren't engaging in discrimination, citing more police killings of Black people.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the inquiry a day after a jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin on murder charges in the death of George Floyd.
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Justices ruled 5-3 that when officers fired 13 shots at a fleeing suspect, their actions were a seizure under the Constitution, entitling the suspect to sue for damages.
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Sgt. Alice White says female officers tend to rely on "brain muscle" instead of physical power. White is profiled in Deirdre Fishel's new documentary about women in the Minneapolis Police Department.
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Demonstrators gathered near a Rochester, N.Y., police precinct — not far from where a 9-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed last week. An officer is suspended, two others are on administrative leave.
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The incident renews scrutiny of the city and its police department following the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died of asphyxiation after an encounter with police in March.
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Journalist Jon Fasman says local police are frequently able to access very powerful surveillance tools with little oversight. He writes about the threat to privacy in We See It All.