DougSchneiderPhoto/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from New York City’s Rikers Island jail on Thursday, according to police sources. Two inmates jumped into the water and one was caught immediately, the sources said. The second inmate remains […]
amphotora/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO and STEPHANIE WASH, ABC News (ATLANTA) — Former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, accused of felony murder in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks, has turned himself in. Officer Devin Brosnan, who is also facing charges, arrived at the Fulton County jail shortly before 11 a.m. ET Thursday. […]
amphotora/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO and STEPHANIE WASH, ABC News (ATLANTA) — Atlanta police officer Devin Brosnan, who is facing charges in the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, has turned himself in, his attorney said. Brosnan arrived at the Fulton County jail shortly before 11 a.m. ET Thursday. Brosnan and former […]
traveler1116/iStockBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — A week after the Los Angeles Police Department launched investigations into 56 misconduct complaints that occurred during recent anti-police brutality protests, 10 officers were placed on desk duty, officials said. Police said that 56 complaints were reported as of June 10 and […]
kali9/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News (EL PASO, Texas) — A Texas man is facing federal charges after authorities said he made racist and threatening comments against black people and Black Lives Matter protesters. Manuel Flores, 42, of El Paso, was arrested on Monday and charged with transmitting threatening communications, according […]
EPHRAIM, Utah-Wednesday, Snow College men’s basketball signed 7-foot center Levi Dunne, formerly of American Fork High School. Dunne checks in at 200 pounds and has previous experience with the Cavemen as both a center and power forward. Here is the Badgers’ official statement on the matter, via their Instagram page: […]
Stewart Trial AttorneysBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (ATLANTA) — The fired Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant violated at least seven police department policies governing the use of force, including kicking the victim after allegedly shooting him in the back […]
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Evacuations are still in place as the Bush Fire rages in Arizona, where it has almost doubled in size since Wednesday morning. Arizona’s Bush Fire, which is the largest in the country, is now 104,379 acres and only 5% contained. New […]
Bastiaan Slabbers/iStockBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Celebration, reflection and progression are what historians say some African Americans across the country anticipate each year with the commemoration of Juneteenth. American history lessons generally teach that when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, it ended the […]
SDI Productions/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) — As calls to defund police departments in the United States continue to spread in the wake of George Floyd’s death, an offshoot message has gained traction as well: remove officers from schools. Several districts around the country have either severed ties […]
