police

Published
June 23, 2022

Supreme Court rules out suing police for Miranda violations

The issue in the case was whether the warning given to criminal suspects before they talk to authorities is a constitutional right or something less important and less defined.
Published
June 9, 2022

Michigan officer charged with murder in shooting of Patrick Lyoya

The 26-year-old Black man was on the ground when he was shot in the back of the head.
Published
June 2, 2022

Our View: Judge’s ruling should change handling of police misconduct records

It is clearly in the public's interest to know the details when police officers are disciplined.
Published
May 18, 2022

South Portland firm’s vehicle-mounted pepper spray gun raises concerns

The company's founder told a manufacturing industry group that the nonlethal weapon was inspired by Black Lives Matter protests during the summer of 2020.
Published
May 9, 2022

Sheriff’s deputy killed last year among Maine officers honored at Augusta memorial

Hancock County Sheriff's Deputy Luke Gross was investigating a crash when he was struck and killed by a vehicle in Trenton on Sept. 23, 2021, and he is now among the names on the memorial.
Published
April 22, 2022

Officers justified in deadly force in Falmouth, Old Town confrontations, attorney general finds

In both cases, the officers who discharged their weapons were acting in self defense or the defense of others, the state's attorney general concludes.
Published
March 3, 2022

Ex-officer cleared in shooting during Breonna Taylor raid

Brett Hankison had been charged with 3 counts of wanton endangerment for firing shots that went through a sliding-glass side door and a window of Taylor's apartment and into a family's unit next door.
Published
February 7, 2022

Officers could have saved George Floyd’s life, doctor testifies

A lung specialist says George Floyd might have survived if officers had changed his position on the ground or administered CPR as soon as his heart stopped.
Published
December 28, 2021

Mom: 14-year-old shot by LA police ‘died in my arms’

Valentina Orellana-Peralta's family stood outside Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday to call for justice and remember their daughter.
Published
December 17, 2021

Former Minnesota officer who killed Daunte Wright, testifies, ‘I’m sorry it happened’

Kim Potter said she shot Wright in a moment of chaos as he tried to leave a traffic stop as she and other officers were trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant for a weapons violation.