Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phillip Reeder, a 52-year-old man from Irondale, died last August after a police officer knelt on his neck, a death now drawing ...

(Reuters) - The Minneapolis City Council on Friday voted to end use of chokeholds and neck restraints like that used by a white police officer who pressed his knee into the neck of unarmed black man ...

The district attorney said he agrees with findings that the eight officers acted reasonably and followed training consistent ...

Police around the nation and law enforcement experts on Thursday broadly condemned the way George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody this week, was restrained by an officer who dug his knee ...

Several years before George Floyd, a black man, died after being placed in a controversial knee-on-neck hold by a former Minneapolis police officer, the NAACP began prodding the police department to ...

The Minneapolis police chief testified Monday that now-fired Officer Derek Chauvin violated departmental policy — and went against "our principles and the values that we have" — in pressing his knee ...