Black Man’s Fatal Encounter With Police Splits Mississippi City Known for Harmony

TUPELO, Miss. — The blue lights flashed in the rearview mirror of the Ford Focus. The man behind the wheel, a 37-year-old African-American, pulled over, opened the door and sprinted into the Mississippi night. Soon, a white police officer was giving chase on foot, accompanied by his police dog. The officer would eventually find and fatally shoot the man, Antwun Shumpert, here on the evening of June 18, plunging this small city — famous globally as the birthplace of Elvis Presley, but known regionally as a beacon of relatively progressive racial attitudes — into what has become a tragically common…

Fixing the Force

  • June 27, 2016
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Since 1994, the Justice Department has had the power to investigate law enforcement agencies nationwide for a pattern or practice of civil-rights violations. Federal officials can then compel departments with systemic problems to enter agreements to reform. Explore the investigations by location, date, allegation or status, then click for more details about each case. Policing the Police Sources: Justice Department officials and documentation; interviews with police and city officials and civil-rights groups; news reports. This project was reported by Sarah Childress, senior digital reporter for FRONTLINE’s Enterprise Journalism Group. It was built by Chris Amico and Ly Chheng from FRONTLINE,…

Police officer absolved in Freddie Gray case

  • June 23, 2016
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Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson Jr. on Thursday was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of injuries sustained while in police custody. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams found Mr. Goodson, who is also black, not guilty of all criminal counts including second-degree depraved heart murder, the most serious accusation against any of the six officers charged in connection with Gray’s death. Prosecutor had failed to secure convictions in two earlier trials of police officers. Mr. Goodson, 46, was the driver of a police transport van in which Gray broke…

Brandenburgische Regelung zur polizeilichen Kenn­zeichnungs­pflicht verfassungsgemäß

  • June 17, 2016
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Kein Verstoß gegen Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung der Polizei­vollzugs­beamten Die brandenburgische Regelung zur Kenn­zeichnungs­pflicht der Polizei­vollzugs­beamten ist verfassungsgemäß. Durch die Regelung werden die Polizei­vollzugs­beamten nicht in ihrem Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung verletzt. Dies hat das Verwaltungsgericht Potsdam entschieden. http://www.kostenlose-urteile.de/VG-Potsdam_3-K-356413_Brandenburgische-Regelung-zur-polizeilichen-Kennzeichnungspflicht-verfassungsgemaess.news22764.htm

Am Ende war JAJA Tod

  • June 15, 2016
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Das neue Jahr ist gerade zwei Wochen alt und der Winter hat Hamburg schließlich doch noch in seiner nass-kalten Variante erreicht. Am 14. Januar 2016 wird Jaja Diabi am Hamburger Berg von der Polizei festgenommen. Vier Tage später, am 18. Januar wird er von der U-Haft an der Holstenglacis nach Hahnöfersand verlegt. Genau einen Monat später, am 19. Februar 2016 ist Jaja Diabi tot. Laut Justizbehörde hat Jaja Selbstmord begangen, sich an einer Gardinenstange erhängt. Laut Justizbehörde gab es jedoch im Vorwege keine Anzeichen einer möglichen Suizidgefahr, weder das sogenannte Suizidscreening ergab dazu Anhaltspunkte, noch berichteten die Beamten, die am…

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