A Reading family will have to wait for more than two years for answers over how a man being held in police custody died. Leroy Junior Medford died on April 2, 2017, after being held in the c... Read more
A man died in police custody on 7 July after he was detained for ‘breaching the peace’. Greater Manchester Police arrived at Andre Moura’s property in Oldham at about 11.30pm on 6 July, foll... Read more
West Midlands Police paid £300,000 compensation to the family of a man who died in custody, it was publicly revealed today. Mikey Powell, 38, tragically died of asphyxiation while in custody... Read more
Events in Fulton over the weekend marked the anniversary of the death of Justine Damond, who in June 2017 was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer after calling 911 to report a po... Read more
Shocking video footage of the death in custody of an Indigenous Australian man has been aired in court for the first time, depicting five officers restraining a man who said 12 times that he... Read more
A new law which ensures better monitoring of the use of force against patients in mental health units has been approved by MPs. "Seni's law" was inspired by Olaseni Lewis who died in 2010 so... Read more
The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody has published statistical report into deaths in custody – covering the period to March 2018. The report also gives information about incid... Read more
A white police officer, Michael Rosfeld, was charged Wednesday with criminal homicide in the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed black teenager who fled a traffic stop in East Pittsburgh,... Read more
The police officer who chased and wrestled Rashan Charles to the ground before he died said he “knew something wasn’t quite right” and that he probably should have called an ambulance sooner... Read more
The family of Mzee Mohammed are one step closer to finding out what happened on the day the 18-year-old died after being detained by police. Police watchdog the IOPC have confirmed they've c... Read more
