Police officers are trained to deescalate situations when possible, but when this officer followed his training instead of shooting to kill he was fired for it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a soldier of Ethiopian descent whose assault by police officers sparked violent protests.
The City of Baltimore is currently convulsing in civil unrest as people upset about the violent death of Freddie Gray by police have turned to rioting.
The family of Michael Brown has filed a lawsuit against Darren Wilson and the City of Ferguson in relation to Brown's Aug. 2014 that caused social unrest in the St. Louis suburb and brought international attention to the issue of policing tactics in the United States.
The City of Baltimore continues to be the site of protests by people demanding answers in the death of Freddie Gray, who was killed during an arrest by Baltimore Police.
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the death of Freddie Gray as the Baltimore Police Department released the names of the officers who arrested him.
Residents of the city of Baltimore are demanding answers after a man who was arrested in a manner the police described as peaceful died after 80% of his spinal cord was severed at the neck.
A Chicago police officer on trial for the off-duty shooting of an unarmed black woman named Rekia Boyd has had his case dismissed by a judge.
A New York City police officer has been indicted for the fatal shooting of an unarmed resident named Akai Gurley.
The City of New York has settled a lawsuit with the family of an unarmed teenager who was shot to death by police in 2012.
Despite requests from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to to suspend protests until after the funerals of two slain New York City Police Department officers, New York City saw numerous streets closed and business entrances blocked as people upset with the legal system's failure to indict police officers for excessive force resulting in death.
Tensions in Ferguson, MO, which had begun to calm after weeks of unrest and demonstrations after the shooting of Michael Brown and the failure to indict Darren Wilson, are set to catch fire again after the police in nearby Berkeley, MO killed a young black man.
A Milwaukee district attorney has declined to bring charges against a former member of the Milwaukee Police Department who shot a mentally ill man 14 times.
As discussions of police training, policy, and the use of force dominant conversations around the United States, a New York City Police Department officer caught attacking a suspect that was already subdued by the police has been suspended.
As shoppers across the country stampeded and fought each other to be the first in line for heavily discounted goods, people also turned out at stores in acts of organized protest.
