BOSTON (WWLP) – Qualified immunity for police officers was a hot-button issue on Beacon Hill in 2020 during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, and lawmakers are debating similar policies ...

Around 10 a.m. on a Friday in October 2018, 14-year-old Jade McMurry was confronted by two police officers, Kevin Brunner and Alexandra Weaver, at the door to the apartment in Midland, Texas, that she ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers say they ...

It’s been more than five years since the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer and more than four years since Massachusetts passed a police reform law spurred by that ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A number of different communities of faith gathered at St. Benedict's parish on Chicago's North Side Tuesday for a vigil to mark the somber occasion of George Floyd's death. A death ...

Based on federal appellate court records, the report showed, courts have been granting cops immunity at increasing rates in recent years — even when judges found the behavior so egregious that it ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC)- Police reform is back in focus as two Virginia officers are being accused of using excessive force on a Black, U.S. Army second lieutenant during a traffic stop in the Town of ...

During his first bid to become Virginia attorney general, Jay Jones promoted legislative efforts to divest from the police, pull cops from schools, end qualified immunity for law enforcement, and ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said innocent victims of wrong-house raids and other abuses by federal law enforcement can seek compensation for emotional and physical harms, upholding a key exception ...

A family's case could proceed under an exception to law enforcement immunity. The Supreme Court on Thursday said innocent victims of wrong-house raids and other abuses by federal law enforcement can ...