PROBE INTO POLICING OF 1984 MINERS' CLASH RULED OUT

About 10 000 strikers and 5 000 police were involved in what became known as the Battle of Orgreave in June 1984... READ MORE›

PROTESTS SPREAD ACROSS PARIS ESTATES AS ANGER GROWS OVER ALLEGED POLICE RAPE

Violence continues for fourth successive night on housing estates after police officer charged with raping young man with baton... READ MORE›

TIANJIN EXPLOSIONS: POLICE ORDER MASS EVACUATION AMID CONTAMINATION FEARS

No people or vehicle allowed within the area, the police officer reportedly said... READ MORE›

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WILL INVESTIGATE PRACTICES OF CHICAGO POLICE

McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Chicago on April 21, 2014... READ MORE›

All four officers involved in the New York City incident had recently graduated from the city Police Academy... READ MORE›

Michael Brown shooting Video shows witness saying Ferguson teen had his hands up when police shot him... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN TEENAGERS ATTACK ON POLICE WORKER CALLED ACT OF TERRORISM

The police in Australia have been on high alert since a lone gunman took hostages in a cafe in central Sydney in December last year... READ MORE›

CHICAGO COPS' STATEMENTS IN LAQUAN MCDONALD CASE AT ODDS WITH VIDEO

But he told investigators that he did not see who fired, according to police documents... READ MORE›

SOUTH AFRICA COURT SENTENCES 8 EX-POLICEMEN IN IMMIGRANTS MURDER

Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, a sociologist who studies migrants in South Africa, said the government has tended to overestimate the number of migrants... READ MORE›

FERGUSON DECISION: OFFICER DARREN WILSON DESCRIBES MICHAEL BROWN AS LIKE 'HULK HOGAN' AND A 'DEMON' IN PUBLISHED TESTIMONY

After grappling, during which Officer Wilson was in his marked police car and Mr Brown was standing outside, the policeman managed to reach his pistol... READ MORE›

FAMILY ASKS FBI TO INVESTIGATE THE FATAL POLICE SHOOTING OF UNARMED TEEN ZACHARY HAMMOND

Seneca Police Officer Mark Tiller fatally shot 19-year-old Zachary Hammond on 26 July in a Hardee's fast food restaurant parking lot in Seneca South Carolina... READ MORE›

MUM RUSHED TO HOSPITAL RETURNS HOME TO FIND POLICE HAD DONE SOMETHING WONDERFUL

Then, as the Police Eindhoven Facebook post explains, of course they did the dishes... READ MORE›

'CHILLING' VIDEO SHOWS POLICE OFFICER SHOOTING BLACK TEENAGER 16 TIMES

The mayor of Chicago has publicly appealed for calm after the city released video footage that showed a white police officer shooting dead a black teenager... READ MORE›

BALTIMORE IS HARDLY THE FIRST POLICE DEPARTMENT TO BE INVESTIGATED

A 16-month Justice Department investigation into Albuquerque police was damning Officers routinely violated residents' constitutional rights by beating them, Tasering them, even shooting them dead... READ MORE›

SHOTS FIRED AS FERGUSON MARKS ONE YEAR SINCE THE POLICE KILLING OF MICHAEL BROWN

Louis County Police Department was involved in an officer-involved shooting after officers came under heavy gunfire, county police spokesman Shawn McGuire said in a statement... READ MORE›

GOVERNOR PULLS NATIONAL GUARD FROM BALTIMORE, LIFTS STATE OF EMERGENCY

Together we have survived troubled times in Baltimore that we haven't seen in a number of years, Gov. Larry Hogan said... READ MORE›

FERGUSON POLICE OFFICER BOASTS OF SPENDING HIS 'MIKE BROWN BONUS'

Ferguson police officer to be investigated by department after boasting of spending his 'Michael Brown bonus'... READ MORE›

BALTIMORE RALLIES AT CITY HALL AFTER MAYOR LIFTS CURFEW

More than forty people were arrested during protests Saturday night, Baltimore Police Capt... READ MORE›

3 SHOT IN FERGUSON, ONE BY POLICE, TWO BY DRIVE-BY SHOOTER, ON ANNIVERSARY OF MICHAEL BROWN'S DEATH

Protesters took to the streets on Sunday to honor the one year anniversary Michael Browns death at the hands of a white Ferguson police officer... READ MORE›

NIGHT OF PROTESTS ACROSS THE US

In each city, protesters had their own example of police brutality... READ MORE›

CHICAGO POLICE REPORTS DIFFER FROM VIDEO OF TEENS SHOOTING

Chicago police reports on shooting of black teen at odds with video footage... READ MORE›

DRIVER SMASHES INTO FERGUSON PROTESTERS AS DEMONSTRATIONS ERUPT ACROSS THE US

Police cars and businesses were vandalised meanwhile in Oakland, where two major freeways were also briefly shut by protesters... READ MORE›

BLACK ACTIVIST FOUND DEAD IN CELL 'TOLD GUARD SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY TRIED TO KILL HERSELF'

Police pulled over Ms Bland on 10 July near Prairie View, Texas, for failing to signal when changing lanes... READ MORE›

PRISON VAN CAMERAS FOR MET, SAYS SIR BERNARD HOGAN-HOWE

The Met Police will be introducing cameras into 135 prison transfer vans to increase transparency, says Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe... READ MORE›

'I'M SORRY', SAYS CHICAGO MAYOR FOR POLICE CONDUCT IN TEEN SHOOTING

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel 'sorry' for police misconduct in black teen's shooting death... READ MORE›

US CELEBRITIES CALL FOR BLACK FRIDAY BOYCOTT WITH #BLACKOUTBLACKFRIDAY HASHTAG

The planned campaign calls for a one-day moratorium on spending to protest what it calls staggering human rights violations in the United States, including police brutality... READ MORE›

BLACK LIVES MATTER PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON POLICE KILLINGS IN 2015

While McDonald was walking away from police Van Dyke shot him 16 times, expending the entire magazine of his 9-mm semi-automatic firearm... READ MORE›

ILLINOIS AG ASKS JUSTICE TO PROBE CHICAGO COPS

Trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken, Madigan says in the letter... READ MORE›

PROTESTERS PROMISE TO TARGET CHICAGO'S PREMIER SHOPPING DISTRICT

A University of Chicago database of police interactions with citizens shows that Van Dyke had 18 complaints filed against him since he joined the force in June 2001... READ MORE›

CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER WHO 'ABUSED HIS AUTHORITY' CHARGED WITH MURDER OF BLACK TEENAGER LAQUAN MCDONALD

The accused shot and killed McDonald, on October 20, 2014, after Chicago police officers encountered the teenager on the south-west side of the city... READ MORE›