The second in command of the Norfolk Police Department’s internal affairs unit donated to the white man accused of shooting and killing protestors last year and whose case has become a rallying cry for right-wing activists.
The family of Donovon Lynch, the 25-year-old fatally shot by police on March 26, responded sharply Wednesday to the city’s acknowledgment that Lynch was moved by first responders after he was shot.
The officer who killed Donovon Lynch personally knew him and the friend Lynch was with the night of the March 26 shooting, the family’s attorney said at a Monday press conference.
A lawsuit filed in federal court in Norfolk accuses two Windsor police officers of pulling over a man who is Black and Latino, pulling guns on him, pepper spraying him and striking him repeatedly.
Police in both Hampton and Newport News tried a controversial facial recognition program that their departments later said they had never used, data released Tuesday show.
A nationally known pastor and an activist called for a federal outside investigation during a Monday funeral for a 25-year-old Virginia Beach man shot and killed by a police officer.
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