Tag: manslaughter
Amended autopsy: Black man died due to sedative, restraint
By Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press
A Black man died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019 because he was injected with...
2 Ex-cops Charged in George Floyd Killing Reject Plea Deals
By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's...
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Woman in Emmett Till Killing
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70...
Ex-cops Kueng, Thao sentenced for violating Floyd’s rights
A federal judge on Wednesday, July 27, sentenced two former Minneapolis police officers who were convicted of violating George Floyd's civil rights to lighter...
EXPLAINER: What’s next for 3 other ex-cops in Floyd’s death
By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press
Now that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to federal prison, attention turns to the fates of...