Police Shooting
Police officers in Ohio, California and North Carolina have killed Black people since Derek Chauvin was found guilty.
Nicholas Reardon, a white officer and U.S. Air National Guardsman, fired four shots at the teen on Wednesday. An investigation into the shooting is underway.
Michael Slager told the judge that he was never made aware of a plea deal that would have cut years off his sentence for the 2015 shooting of Walter Scott.
The prosecution and the defense delivered their closing arguments in the high-profile trial regarding George Floyd's death in May 2020.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Police said Anthony Thompson, 17, shot an officer in his school's bathroom. They then retracted the claim, but have released few other details.
Outraged by video showing the boy with his hands in the air when police shot him dead, protesters carried signs reading “CPD, stop killing our children.”
As Chicago police released bodycam footage of an officer shooting a 13-year-old dead, Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked the city to remain calm and reserve judgment.
In 2020, Trump said that protesters were armed with "big bags of soup" that they would toss at police but claim they'd bought for their families.
"If you can't tell the difference between those two things, it's crazy," the conservative TV evangelist said.
Officer Rusten Sheskey came back to active duty on March 31 after shooting and paralyzing the 29-year-old Blake in August.