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The debate over police accountability in the context of the shooting of Alex Pretti
Verified bystander videos, analyzed frame by frame by multiple outlets, standing with a phone, being shoved and then wrestled to the ground by several federal agents, and then being shot while on or n...
The Justice Department's Justice Manual and Department of Homeland Security use-of-force directives tightly restrict shooting at moving vehicles: deadly force cannot be used merely to stop a fleeing s...
Mohamed Noor was convicted in 2019 of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk (also known as Justine Damond) and was initially sentenced to 1...
— multiple news outlets report that the man shot and killed in during a on Jan. 24, 2026, was identified by his family as 37‑year‑old ICU nurse , and federal agents from the were involved in the shoot...
The fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is contested: federal officials say an agent fired after Good used her car as a weapon and tried to run over officers, while Minnesota state ...
The short, evidence-based answer: no— was not the medically established cause of ’s death; the ruled Floyd’s death a homicide caused by cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained and compressed, an...
Social media misreporting simplified and amplified the case into a viral grievance that distorted key facts—most notably an inflated settlement figure—and recast the case as a shorthand in national de...
State and local police departments largely prohibit firing at moving vehicles except when a driver presents an imminent threat beyond the vehicle itself, language mirrored in Department of Justice gui...
Bystander videos from multiple angles have been used by news outlets and experts to construct a tightly paced timeline showing that agents subdued , one agent removed a handgun from Pretti’s waistband...
On January 7, 2026, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent identified in reporting as Jonathan Ross during an encounter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an event that quickly became ...
There is no single, authoritative global tally of “cars used as weapons” across all contexts; published research and watchdog reporting instead offer segmented counts and trends — for example, the Com...
Federal immigration officers are not free to shoot simply because a vehicle hits or threatens them; DHS and Justice Department guidance permit deadly force only when an officer reasonably believes the...