San Antonio policeman James Brenand is now charged with shooting Eric Canto

A San Antonio police officer who repeatedly shot a teen eating a burger in a McDonald’s parking lot has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault by a police official. “He’s in custody,” Police Chief William McManus said of James Brenand, who surrendered an arrest warrant about an hour before a Tuesday evening news conference. “We’ve been working on this for several days to get to this point.” The victim, 17-year-old Eric Canto, is on life support, and the chief said, “If he doesn’t, the charges will change.” Brenand,…

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Porter Borks died in Detroit in Hail shot despite intervention in the police crisis

It took about three seconds for five Detroit officers to kill Porter Borks as he advanced toward them in the midst of a mental health bout on Sunday. Along the way, they’ve raised new questions about whether even those cops who aim specifically to help people in a crisis do anything at all to reduce the likelihood of people of color dying in a barrage of police bullets. Police say Burks, a 20-year-old black man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was carrying a knife around 5 a.m. Sunday when they responded to…

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Chicago police Christopher Liakopoulos and Robin Reynuso charged with lying about the shooting

Prosecutors announced Friday that two Chicago policemen lied about being shot before they killed an unarmed man in late July. According to Prosecutor Kimberly Fox, a nearby surveillance camera captured the events that led to police shooting 23-year-old Miguel Medina in the back and thigh, leaving him in hospital. “The victim in this case that I described to you, who was shot dead by the police officers charged today, was unarmed and unarmed,” Fox told reporters at a news conference in Chicago. What the footage showed, Fox said, directly contradicts…

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Donovan Lewis’ sister, Tatiana Crowder, drowns in Ricky Anderson, the Columbus cop who killed him

The Columbus cop who shot Donovan Lewis while the unarmed 20-year-old was in bed last month was previously fired from the force after being criminally charged in connection with a bank side party. The shooting did not involve the use of force, and an arbitrator later reinstated Officer Ricky Anderson. She told the Daily Beast that learning about the history renewed the anger and hurt that Louis’s sister felt. “If we do these kinds of things in any normal job, you won’t get your job anymore,” Tatiana Crowder, 28, told…

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Brandon Combs shooting revealed in brutal video of North Carolina cop Timothy Larson

A new video highlights the shocking last moment when North Carolina Police Officer Timothy Larson shot 29-year-old Brandon Combs through the windshield of a Larson Police SUV. The video — which the Combs family’s attorney shared with The Daily Beast ahead of what the City of Concord said will be its public release Thursday — provides an undisturbed view of what former Caparros County District Attorney Roxanne Vannikoven recently concluded was not a crime. Instead, the attorney general said the shooting was a reasonable use of force by a police…

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Donovan Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Doran, angry with Columbus police after shooting, video shows

While a new video offers a fresh perspective on the murder of Donovan Lewis, a 20-year-old black man who was shot by a Columbus police officer in bed last month while likely clutching a vape pen, the murdered man’s family has issued a new call for justice. “I want to see real action,” Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Doran, said during a press conference Thursday outside Columbus City Hall, noting that she was “a little bit at a loss.” “There’s the slang saying, ‘Don’t talk about it, be about it.’ Let’s see…

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Brandon Combs was shot and killed in North Carolina by Timothy Larson, but the cop won’t be prosecuted

Last week, body camera footage was released of the horrific incident in which a North Carolina police officer shot a 29-year-old man multiple times, paused to say “shoot” to his radio, and then shot him again. . Brandon Combs fled into Officer Timothy Larson’s patrol car after allegedly attempting to steal a pickup truck from a Nissan dealership in February. When he died, he left behind his 9-year-old daughter, Alison. Combs’ mother, Virginia is a pilot, had seen the footage months earlier. However, she told The Daily Beast via text…

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Denver Cops Shot 6 Civilians in LoDo or Lower Downtown and Might Get Away With It

Willis Small IV is a self-proclaimed “introvert,” but on one hot night in Denver last month, he set out to change that. “I’m only getting older. So I figured, I had to step out at some point and enjoy it,” the 24-year-old student told The Daily Beast. After a few hours of socializing in the wee hours of July 17, Small said, he was ready to go home around 1:30 a.m., primarily because he had previously heard that “you shouldn’t hang out downtown around that time.” As he began to…

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Cops will not face charges for the death of Rayshard Brooks, the black man who was shot twice in the back

More than two years after the shooting of 27-year-old Richard Brooks, which sparked fiery protests across Atlanta, the special prosecutor said the officer who fired two bullets in the black man’s back will not be prosecuted for the murder. Georgia Special Prosecutor Pete Scandalakis insisted that Atlanta Officer Garrett Rolfe was allowed to protect himself from “significant bodily harm” when he shot Brooks. The aggravated assault charge against the second officer at the scene, Devin Brosnan, who kicked Brooks, was also dropped. Scandalakis told a news conference that the actions…

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Video depicting San Bernardino police shooting black man Robert Adams as he ran away

The family of a black man killed by San Bernardino police is demanding that the officers involved be charged for shooting him in the back as he ran away. San Bernardino police have asked their community to refrain from sentencing after circulating security footage of officers who shot 23-year-old Robert Adams, claiming that the video “failed to provide any details or context for what happened in the incident.” However, to the Adams family, the video tells the full story: An officer shot Adams running in the opposite direction, not firing…

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