Bounchan Keola was injured while fighting the deadly Zogg Fire. California rewarded him with a possible deportation.
The department will update its training to remind officers that citizens should not be arrested for exercising their First Amendment rights.
A survey of presidential preferences and regrets
It's time to do something about police seizures of property from innocent people.
"I don't feel good. Tell my mom I love her," the 13-year-old said immediately after being shot.
Roderick Walker told deputies that he didn't need an ID since he wasn't driving.
A preventable coronavirus outbreak and death occurred after ICE used immigrant transfers as an excuse to fly to D.C.
Two years after commuting her life sentence, the president has pardoned Alice Marie Johnson.
Two officers pleaded guilty after vandalizing cars belonging to a civilian who filed a complaint against them.
Nashville officers tried to smooth things over with groceries. A traumatized Azaria Hines says what she really needs is "a peace of mind."
Witnesses say Jacob Blake was breaking up a fight before an officer grabbed his shirt and shot him at close range.
The Palm Beach County sheriff said he does not "condone" the behavior in the video.
Colorado Springs Police Sergeant Keith Wrede insists he was just "going crazy" to Metallica and doesn't want protesters to die.
After a presidential pardon, Arizona's most notorious former sherrif is not a reformed man.
But she warns against "opportunistic people hijacking the movement.”
Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., is running to keep Tom Cotton out of the White House.
"Garrett Foster understood that libertarianism was about speaking on behalf of those who are the most acutely affected by the abuses perpetrated by an overly aggressive and unaccountable government."
What is the state's position when an innocent man spends 25 years in prison?
Elizabeth Linscott, who tested positive for COVID-19, says she objected to the wording of the health department's isolation orders.
One department said a protester was hit in the eye with tear gas after the canister bounced. Video shows something entirely different.
Scenes from anti-brutality protests are renewing the debate around the controversial use of rubber bullets.
How invasive questions about a stone patio permit turned into a Black Lives Matter protest
Previously unreleased video shows Jerry Brown didn't have much time to react before Pasco County deputies shot and killed him.
A North Carolina officer was fired after saying, "We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them fucking niggers."
Police used a controversial neck restraint during McClain's arrest.
Frederick Douglass: "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
Sometimes a "few bad apples" is systemic rot.
False testimony and prosecutorial misconduct put Walter Ogrod on death row.
They're using their Second Amendment rights to protect local businesses from riots and looting.
Minneapolis police said George Floyd died after he "appeared to be suffering medical distress."
The federal government is reviewing the department's investigation into the botched drug raid.
The Delano Police Department cleared its officers of wrongdoing.
Louisville Metro Police Department said officers identified themselves in a no-knock raid. Neighbors said that's not true.
The LAPD released body camera footage of Frank Hernandez's use-of-force incident.
Officer Frank A. Hernandez, who beat a suspect while his hands were behind his back, once shot an innocent bystander in the leg.
In February, two white men shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a black 25-year-old.
To the NYPD, everything still looks like a nail.
Considering Stormtroopers aren't known for their aim, the police had nothing to fear.
The same weekend, the NYPD tweeted pictures of its officers peacefully handing out masks.
A state trooper believed a man driving by and flipping the bird at the cops constituted disorderly conduct. (It didn't.)
County offices and courts are closed for COVID-19, but the jails are full.
If officials want to ease the burden of the pandemic behind bars, there are hundreds of thousands of inmates who can help them do it.
Some officials want to reevaluate enforcement of low-level, nonviolent offenses during the pandemic. For others, it's business as usual.
City officials have asked NYPD to reduce arrests since there's a global pandemic happening. The commissioner said he'd do no such thing.
Some places are releasing nonviolent offenders during the COVID-19 outbreak. Mississippi won't free a man who failed to hand in his phone.
Ogrod remains on death row even though the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has called for his conviction to be overturned. He probably has COVID-19.
The ACLU is also suing Washington, D.C. jails.