CHICAGO (AP) -The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce this week a civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department similar to probes of police departments in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri. The decision to investigate was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the decision who wasn’t authorized to discuss the…
( KTRS ) A St. Louis County woman is dead after firing shots at police officers who entered her home after she shot a neighbor three times. Sergeant Brian Schellman, with the St. Louis County Police Department reports that 61 yr old Sheilah Huck had been acting irrationally outside her home Saturday before shooting a…
Specifics details about her postings were not disclosed by the law enforcement official
CHICAGO (AP) – Hours after Chicago officials released audio-free dashcam video of a white officer shooting a black teen 16 times, a 35-second excerpt with sound appeared online. But experts, police and an Associated Press analysis have concluded the audio is bogus. In it, viewers can see and supposedly hear Officer Jason Van Dyke firing…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) – 2:30 p.m. PT: Police say the attackers who killed an estimated 14 people at a Southern California social services center came prepared with long guns. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan declined to say what kind of weapons they used at the Inland Regional Center. Burguan says a motive wasn’t yet…
( KTRS ) Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether the Chicago Police Department’s practices violate federal and constitutional law. Madigan says that the “shocking death” of 17 yr old, Laquan McDonald, who was fatally shot by white police officer in 2014, raises serious questions about the use…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A 13-year-old boy is dead after being shot in north St. Louis while he and two other minors were allegedly stealing from a vehicle. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1l31mJA ) reports that the shooting happened about 12:45 a.m. Sunday. Police say Martinez Smith-Payne and two others were stealing from an unlocked…
CHICAGO (AP) – A white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting a black Chicago teenager 16 times returns to court to learn whether he’ll be offered bond. A Monday hearing for Officer Jason Van Dyke comes after days of protests in Chicago over the killing of…
