REESE DUNKLIN

Jen Dold, whose brother, Alex Dold, lived with schizophrenia and died after a 2017 encounter with sheriff's deputies and police officers, stands for a portrait with their mother, Kathy Duncan, left, as they visit a beach he enjoyed, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Edmonds, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Accident or homicide? Medical rulings in arrest-related deaths can dictate what happens to police
Police in the United States rarely face criminal charges when civilians die after the use of force such as physical blows, restraints or Tasers.
 
FILE - Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, left, shakes hands with Michael Wilson on the three-year anniversary of George Floyd's death at George Floyd Square, Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)
Policing group says officers must change how and when they use physical force on US streets
An influential group of law enforcement leaders is pushing police departments to change how officers subdue people so they avoid “consistent blind spots” in the use of physical force that contribute to civilian deaths.
 
Joanne Celestin, right, sister of Samuel Celestin, and their mother, Dr. Rose Celestin, stand for a portrait outside their home in Ocoee, Fla., on Monday, April 22, 2024. On April 11, 2019, Joanne noticed right away her brother wasn’t himself. He thought people were trying to get into the house. He didn’t recognize his family. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Florida family’s 911 call to help loved one ends in death after police breach safety protocols
When an Orlando-area man became violent while suffering paranoid delusions, his sister called 911 figuring police would take him for mental health help. Instead, after confronting the man, officers shocked him with Tasers and pinned him facedown.
 
This combination of images from body-camera videos shows police encounters with, top row from left, Jeffrey Melvin in Colorado in 2018, Johnathan Binkley in Tennessee in 2019; bottom row from left, Bradford Macomber in Mississippi in 2016 and Samuel Celestin in Florida in 2019. Police officers in hundreds of deadly encounters across the United States violated well-known law enforcement guidelines that prescribe the safest ways to restrain, subdue and arrest people, an Associated Press investigation has found. (Colorado Springs Police Department, Knox County Sheriff's Office, Gulfport Police Department, Ocoee Police Department via AP)
AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines
An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm.
 
Protesters raise their hands as they face police officers during a rally in Paterson, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in reaction to the death of Jameek Lowery. Lowery, 27, who recorded a frantic video at police headquarters, wound up unresponsive after being taken to a hospital in an ambulance with police officers inside. He died two days later. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Record via AP)
Takeaways: AP investigation reveals Black people bear disproportionate impact of police force
The Associated Press found that Black people make up a disproportionate number of those who died after being restrained, beaten or shocked with stun guns by police officers over a decade.
 
Timere Jones, right, carries a life-sized picture of his brother, Jameek Lowery, as he and others visit Lowery’s grave in Garfield, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Lowery was among more than 300 Black people who died after encounters with police in which officers used force that isn’t supposed to be fatal -- including restraints, punches and stun guns -- The Associated Press found in documenting a decade’s worth of such cases. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead
Records show Jameek Lowery, a 27-year-old Black man from Paterson, New Jersey, died two days after he was restrained and repeatedly punched by officers.
 
In this image from Bristol Police Department body-camera video, Austin Hunter Turner, 23, lies restrained face down in an ambulance in Bristol, Tenn., on Aug. 29, 2017. In body-camera videos, from the moment police arrived, Turner was treated as a suspect resisting arrest – not as a patient who was having a seizure. An investigation led by The Associated Press in collaboration with the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism and FRONTLINE (PBS) has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. (Bristol Police Department via AP)
Key findings from AP’s investigation into police force that isn’t supposed to be lethal
Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death — as happened with George Floyd.
 
This combination of photos shows, top row from left, Anthony Timpa, Austin Hunter Turner, Carl Grant, Damien Alvarado, Delbert McNiel and Demetrio Jackson; second row from left, Drew Edwards, Evan Terhune, Giovani Berne, Glenn Ybanez, Ivan Gutzalenko and Mario Clark; bottom row from left, Michael Guillory, Robbin McNeely, Seth Lucas, Steven Bradley Beasley, Taylor Ware and Terrell "Al" Clark. Each died after separate encounters with police in which officers used force that is not supposed to be deadly. (AP Photo)
Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn’t meant to kill?
Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death — as happened with George Floyd in 2020.
 
Protesters raise their hands as they face Paterson police officers during a rally Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Paterson, N.J., in reaction to the death of Jameek Lowery. Authorities are trying to determine how Lowery, 27, who recorded a frantic video at a police station wound up unresponsive while being taken by police to the hospital — and later died. (Danielle Parhizkaran=njhac
He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. He was dead two days later
“Why y’all trying to kill me?” Lowery asked several Paterson police officers on his Facebook Live video feed. “If I’m dead in the next hour or two, they did it.”
 
Agency: Texas chemical plant unprepared for Harvey floods
The federal agency that investigates industrial accidents is offering muted criticism of the Houston-area chemical plant that flooded during Hurricane Harvey and partially exploded. Officials with the U.S.
 
Flames, smoke at Houston-area chemical plant for a 2nd day
Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up at a flooded Houston-area chemical plant. Friday’s fire was the second there in two days.
 
Dallas sniper was loner; Army sent him home from Afghanistan
The Dallas sniper had been sent home from Afghanistan after being accused of sexually harassing a female, and was described as a loner who followed black militant groups on social media.