Author: Wesley Lowery
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Forced out over sex, drugs and other infractions, fired officers find work in other departments
NEW ORLEANS — By the time the New Orleans Police Department fired Carey Dykes, the officer had been sued for alleged brutality, accused of having sex with a prostitute while on duty and caught sleeping in his patrol car instead of responding to a shooting. The 13-year veteran fought to get his job back but…
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Graphic video shows Daniel Shaver sobbing and begging officer for his life before 2016 shooting
After the officer involved was acquitted of second-degree murder charges, officials in Arizona released graphic video showing Daniel Shaver crawling on his hands and knees and begging for his life in the moments before he was shot and killed by police in January 2016. Shaver was one of at least 963 fatal police shootings in…
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Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started.
Up-and-coming country star Luke Combs had just started his set on the smaller of the two festival stages when Kody Robertson, an auto parts salesman from Columbus, Ohio, squeezed in at the end of the bar next to Michelle Vo, an insurance agent from Los Angeles. The 32-year-olds connected immediately. They joked about their mutual…
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Former St. Louis police officer who shot driver after car chase found not guilty in murder trial
Crowds of demonstrators began to march in the St. Louis region on Friday following the acquittal of a white former police officer who was charged with murder last year for fatally shooting a black driver after a car chase and then accused by prosecutors of planting a gun on the victim. Prosecutors charged Jason Stockley, the St.…
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Border Patrol chief resigns after clashing with powerful union
The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol has resigned after only six months on the job, one day after President Trump announced plans to ratchet up immigration enforcement and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Thursday. It was not immediately clear why Mark Morgan – a career FBI official who was the…
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Ferguson violence broke the mold in 3 ways — one of which is just unfolding now
Even as the president, live from the White House, said “there is inevitably going to be some negative reaction, and it will make for good TV,” the news channels split their screens to show police shooting tear-gas canisters at protesters in Ferguson, Mo. — a presidential appeal for calm competing against frightening scenes of angry…