use of force

A Prince George’s County police officer was indicted Tuesday after allegedly assaulting a Black 17-year-old boy he took into custody last fall.  Cpl. Darryl Wormuth was indicted on a first-degree assault charge. He also is charged with second-degree assault and misconduct in office, the department said Wednesday. He was suspended without pay. Wormuth, who has been with the department...

Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, delivered damning testimony in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, saying, “No reasonable officer would have believed that that was an appropriate, acceptable or reasonable use of force.”

Sgt. Jody Stiger of the Los Angeles Police Department, an expert witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, testified Tuesday that the use of force on George Floyd was excessive. Once Floyd was on the ground, “at that point, the officers… should have slowed down or stopped their force as well.”

A report on use of force report found D.C. police didn’t do enough to investigate four cases where officers fatally shot Black men. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A report on use of force report found D.C. police didn’t do enough to investigate four cases where officers fatally shot Black men.