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FILE — In this April 19, 2021, file image taken from Alameda Police Department body camera video, Alameda Police Department officers attempt to take Mario Gonzalez, 26, into custody, in Alameda, Calif. Three Northern California law enforcement officers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man who was pinned face down during a 2021 incident that drew comparisons to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Alameda Police Department via AP, File)

3 Northern California law enforcement officers charged in death of man held facedown on the ground

Three Northern California law enforcement officers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man who was pinned facedown during a 2021 incident that drew comparisons to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Attorney Bakari Sellers and family of Ricky Cobb II discussed a federal lawsuit filed against two Minnesota State Patrol troopers involved in the 2023 Cobb fatal shooting on April 17, 2024, at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis. Trooper Ryan Londregan fatally shot the 33-year-old Black man during a traffic stop on a Minneapolis interstate last July. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

Family of Minnesota man shot to death by state trooper in traffic stop files civil rights lawsuit

FILE - A police officer points a hand cannon at protesters who have been detained pending arrest on South Washington Street in Minneapolis, May 31, 2020, as protests continued following the death of George Floyd. At least 11 Minneapolis police officers were disciplined for alleged policy violations amid the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd, with penalties ranging from firings to reprimands, newly released documents show Friday, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

At least 11 Minneapolis officers disciplined amid unrest after George Floyd’s murder, reports show

FILE - Christopher "Shane" Burbank speaks with an attorney and codefendants during the pre-trial motion in the trial of Tacoma police officers Matthew Collins, Timothy Rankine and Burbank in the killing of Manny Ellis, Sept. 18, 2023, at Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma, Wash. Burbank, one of the three Tacoma police officers cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of Ellis, has been hired by a neighboring sheriff's office. The Thurston County Sheriff's Office announced Monday, April 1, 2024, that it had hired Burbank as a patrol deputy. (Brian Hayes/The News Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

Officer hired as sheriff’s deputy despite involvement in fatal Manuel Ellis arrest resigns

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

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Some of the documents obtained during the Lethal Restraint investigation by The Associated Press in collaboration with the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism and FRONTLINE (PBS) are photographed in New York on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. After George Floyd was killed under a Minneapolis police officer's knee, reporters at The Associated Press wanted to know how many other people died following encounters in which law enforcement used not firearms but other kinds of force that is not supposed to be fatal. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

This is how reporters documented 1,000 deaths after police force that isn’t supposed to be fatal

The federal government has struggled for years to track deaths that happened after police used force like physical restraints and Tasers that isn’t supposed to be lethal.

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.

CORRECTS SOURCE TO DAILY MEMPHIAN INSTEAD OF COMMERCIAL APPEAL - Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, speaks during a police reform activist panel at Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, Tenn., Friday, March 22, 2024. (Ziggy Mack/Daily Memphian via AP)

Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner say lack of police reform is frustrating

Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner are expressing frustration with politicians who have failed to pass legislation targeting police violence or have worked to invalidate laws intended to reduce chances that citizens’ encounters with police end in death.

The sign outside the town government and police department offices stands in Ridgely, Md., Friday, March 15, 2024. Ridgely officials announced last week that their entire police department had been suspended pending the results of an investigation by state prosecutors. (AP Photo/Lea Skene)

A small town suspended its entire police force. Residents want to know why

The small town of Ridgely on Maryland’s Eastern Shore has suspended its entire police force pending the results of an investigation by state prosecutors.

Democratic Minnesota State Rep. Cedrick Frazier, of New Hope, speaks with reporters at the State Capitol on Monday, March 4, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn., ahead of a debate on his bill to clarify the powers of police officers who work in schools. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Minnesota is poised to give school resource officers clearer authority to use force

Minnesota lawmakers are on the verge of a compromise that will give police officers who work in schools clearer authority to use force.

Sheneen McClain, left, the mother of Elijah McClain, and a supporter leave the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo. on Friday, March 1, 2024. Peter Cichuniec, a Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain in a rare prosecution of medical responders that has left officials rethinking how they treat people in police custody. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via AP)

Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders

A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020.

FILE - A police officer points a hand cannon at protesters who have been detained pending arrest on South Washington Street in Minneapolis, May 31, 2020, as protests continued following the death of George Floyd. The city of Minneapolis agreed Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that journalists were subjected to police harassment and even hurt while covering protests over the police killings of Floyd. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Minneapolis settles lawsuit alleging journalists were harassed, hurt covering Floyd protests

The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that journalists were subjected to police harassment and even hurt while covering protests over the police killings of George Floyd.

The debate over Native American mascots persists as some schools reinstate the logos

A passionate student letter prompted a southern Pennsylvania school district to change its Native American logo years ago.

Trooper Ryan Londregan walks hand-in-hand with his wife to his first court appearance to answer to murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of Ricky Cobb II during a traffic stop last summer on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024 at the Hennepin Public Safety Facility in Minneapolis, Minn. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)

Minnesota trooper accused of fatally shooting motorist Ricky Cobb II makes first court appearance

A judge has ruled that a Minnesota state trooper accused in the fatal shooting of motorist Ricky Cobb II can remain free without bail.

Attorney Karen Koehler, left, comforts plaintiff Bruce Tom during a press conference at the King County Superior Courthouse in downtown Seattle, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020, in a settlement announced by attorneys from both sides. (Kevin Clark/The Seattle Times via AP)

Seattle will pay $10 million to protesters who said police used excessive force during 2020 protests

Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020.

Athar Haseebullah, executive director of the ACLU of Nevada, responds to a question during a news conference at the ACLU of Nevada offices Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Las Vegas. With Haseebullah are Christopher Peterson, left, legal director of the ACLU of Nevada, and Quentin Savwoir, president of the Las Vegas branch of the NAACP. The news conference addressed questions relating to the release of Clark County School District Police body-worn camera footage depicting a CCSD police officer tackling and kneeling on a Black teen outside a Las Vegas high school last year. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Police reports and video released of campus officer kneeling on teen near Las Vegas high school

School officials in Las Vegas have released police reports and body camera footage under court order of a campus officer kneeling on a Black student last year.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Federal prosecutors urged a judge Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin's attempt to overturn his civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd..(Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Prosecutors urge rejection of ex-cop’s bid to dismiss civil rights conviction in George Floyd murder

Federal prosecutors have urged a judge to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s attempt to overturn his civil rights conviction in the murder of George Floyd.

FILE - Tou Thao speaks during his sentencing hearing in Hennepin County District Court, Aug. 7, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minn. On Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of Thao, a former Minneapolis police officer who held back a concerned crowd while fellow officers pinned down a dying George Floyd. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Supreme Court rejects appeal by ex-officer Tou Thao, who held back crowd as George Floyd lay dying

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who held back a concerned crowd while fellow officers pinned down a dying George Floyd.

Colorado ex-police officer Randy Roedema speaks on his behalf during sentencing at the Adams County Court, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, in Brighton, Colorado. Roedema was convicted of killing Elijah McClain, a young Black man walking home from a store, is expected to learn Friday whether a judge will sentence him to prison or he will receive probation. (ABC News One/Pool via AP)

Ex-cop gets 14 months in jail in death of Elijah McClain, whose mom calls him ‘bully with a badge’

A former Colorado officer has been sentenced to 14 months in jail in the death of Elijah McClain. The young Black man was stopped by police while walking home in 2019, and his death helped galvanize racial justice protests the following year.

Missouri school board to reinstate Black history classes with new curriculum

Students at a suburban St. Louis school district can take elective Black history courses in a reversal of the conservative-led school boards’ decision just last week to cancel the classes.

A tear runs down the cheek of Sheneen McClain as she is consoled by Omar Montgomery, president of the Aurora NAACP, outside the Adams County Colo., Justice Center, after a verdict was rendered in the killing of her son Elijah McClain, Friday, Dec. 22, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. Two paramedics were convicted in the 2019 killing of McClain, who they injected with an overdose of the sedative ketamine after police put him in a neck hold. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Paramedics were convicted in Elijah McClain’s death. That could make other first responders pause

Two Denver-area paramedics have been convicted of giving a fatal overdose of the sedative ketamine to Elijah McClain in 2019.

FILE - Francis Howell School Board member Randy Cook, left, listens during the public comment portion of the school board meeting Thursday, July 20, 2023 in O'Fallon, Mo. At right is school board member Mark Ponder. The Francis Howell School Board on Thursday, Dec. 21, voted to drop elective Black history and literature courses at the district's high schools. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Missouri school board that previously rescinded anti-racism resolution drops Black history classes

A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on Black history and literature, five months after the same board rescinded an anti-discrimination policy adopted in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.

FILE - Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. California's attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a police officer who in 2020 fatally shot a man outside a pharmacy in the San Francisco Bay Area amid national protests over the police killing of George Floyd, his office announced Tuesday, Dec. 19. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,File)

California’s top prosecutor won’t seek charges in 2020 fatal police shooting of Bay Area man

California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a Vallejo police officer who fatally shot a man outside a San Francisco Bay Area pharmacy.

Judge Bryan Chushcoff rules on what will be allowed in the state's closing arguments with defense attorney Mark Conrad during the trial of three Tacoma Police officers in the killing of Manny Ellis at Pierce County Superior Court, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Tacoma, Wash. Police officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine stand trial for charges related to the March 2020 killing of Ellis. (Brian Hayes/The News Tribune via AP, Pool)

Closing arguments start in trial of 3 Washington state police officers charged in Black man’s death

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Black man who was shocked, beaten and hogtied facedown on a sidewalk pleaded for breath during his arrest in Washington state, and the three police officers charged in his death did not respond to his pleas, a prosecutor told the jury in closing arguments of their trial Monday

Arkansas man sentenced to 5 1/2 years for firebombing police cars during 2020 protests

The ringleader of a group who admitted to firebombing several police cars in Arkansas during the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison.

FILE - People help a protester after he was shot with a rubber bullet under Interstate 35 freeway, May 30, 2020, in Austin Texas, while protesting the death of George Floyd. A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments of more than 20 police officers in Austin over tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed Floyd's killing said Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, that he was dropping most of the cases and would ask the Justice Department to investigate instead. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Texas prosecutor drops charges against 17 Austin police over tactics used during 2020 protests

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments against more than 20 Austin police officers for tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed George Floyd’s killing said Monday he was dropping most of the cases and would ask the Justice Department to investigate instea

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Inmate who stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times is charged with attempted murder, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison 22 times by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant who told investigators he targeted the former Minneapolis police officer because of his notoriety for killing George Floyd.

Andrea Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, answers a question during an interview at the State Attorneys General Association meetings, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in Boston. In exclusive sit-down interviews with The Associated Press, several Black Democrat attorneys general discuss the role race and politics plays in their jobs. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

America’s Black attorneys general discuss race, politics and the justice system

The American legal system has never faced greater challenges or demands for reform from people of all races and across the political spectrum.

FILE - Demonstrators gather outside Cup Foods to celebrate the murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis. Several stores at the location where Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 have sued the city, accusing it of neglecting the area and hurting business. The lawsuit, filed in mid-November in state court, names the city, Mayor Jacob Frey and other officials and accuses the city of not properly policing the area since Floyd’s death. It also accuses the city of blocking the intersection that is now known as George Floyd Square with concrete barriers for more than a year after Floyd's death, keeping customers from entering. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Businesses where George Floyd was killed sue Minneapolis, saying police are not protecting the area

Several stores where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 are suing the city for about $1.5 million.

FILE - Paramedics Jeremy Cooper, left, and Peter Cichuniec, right, attend an arraignment at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo., on Jan. 20, 2023. Opening statements are scheduled Wednesday, Nov. 29, in the third and final trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, who died after he was stopped by police in suburban Denver. Jurors will have to decide if the two paramedics committed a crime when they gave the 23-year-old Black man an overdose of the sedative ketamine after he was forcibly restrained by officers in Aurora. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)

Prosecutors say paramedics ignored Elijah McClain’s distress after stop and killed him with overdose

A Colorado prosecutor says two paramedics ”did nothing” to help an ailing Elijah McClain and instead injected him with a fatal overdose of a powerful sedative during a 2019 police stop.

Anthony Smith, a social studies teacher, stands outside the James A. Byrne U.S. Courthouse at 601 Market Street, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Smith, a well-known west Philadelphia activist who acknowledged having helped overturn a police car during 2020 protests following the death of George Floyd has been sentenced to a year in prison. Smith was sentenced Tuesday following a guilty plea in June to a federal charge of obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder, which included aiding and abetting an arson, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Activist who acknowledged helping flip police car during 2020 protest sentenced to 1 year in prison

A well-known west Philadelphia activist who acknowledged having helped overturn a police car during 2020 protests following the death of George Floyd has been sentenced to a year in prison.

Sheneen McClain, left, mother of Elijah McClain, and friend and supporter MiDian Holmes, right, clasp hands as they hold up their fists in protest over the verdict of a Denver-area police offer who was acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah, outside of the Adams County Justice Center on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)

Final trial over Elijah McClain’s death in suburban Denver spotlights paramedics’ role

The last trial in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by police in suburban Denver is expected to delve into largely uncharted legal territory.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Derek Chauvin’s family has received no updates after prison stabbing, attorney says

An attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd says his family has been kept in the dark by federal prison officials after he was stabbed in prison.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd’s killing, was stabbed in prison, AP source says

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been stabbed by another inmate at a federal prison in Arizona where he’s serving time for the murder of George Floyd.

FILE - A rally of mostly young people protest in Federal Plaza against the decision by federal prosecutors not to bring civil rights charges against New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo for the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, July 17, 2019, in New York. On Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, New York's highest court upheld a New York City law that forbids police from using chokeholds or compressing a person's diaphragm during an arrest, rejecting a challenge from police unions to a law passed after the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Court upholds NYC law banning the types of police restraints that killed George Floyd, Eric Garner

New York’s highest court has upheld a New York City law that forbids police from using chokeholds or compressing a person’s diaphragm during an arrest.