In rejecting the “moment of threat” defense, the court opens the door to greater officer accountability — though how the ...

During a routine traffic stop near Houston in 2016, a police officer killed Ashtian Barnes by blindly firing two shots into ...

The Supreme Court has rejected the "moment-of-threat" rule, which shielded officers from civil liability in police shooting ...

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Barnes v. Felix, holding that courts must consider the ...

In a case making it easier to challenge police unreasonable force in court, the Supreme Court Thursday unanimously allowed ...

The Supreme Court has revived a civil rights lawsuit against a Texas police officer who fatally shot a man during a traffic ...

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on May 6, 2025, we discuss the future of the Rochester Police Accountability Board after the loss of both investigatory and disciplinary power.

In 2017, for example, the Supreme Court heard a case brought by a California man, Angel Mendez, who was shot after police entered ... But even that is too much accountability for a government ...

Current and former Seattle Police officers who attended President Trump's Jan. 6 rally are seeking to keep their identities out of public records related to the insurrection.

The police department later paid $4.1 million to settle a federal lawsuit brought by Lamb's family but did not admit fault.

The five tactical officers for months were on the radar of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. From mid-2023 through March 2024 — the month 26-year-old Dexter Reed was killed in a ...