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Standard-Examiner
April 21, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man killed in a police shooting in suburban Salt Lake City had previous run-ins with law enforcement and claimed to have mental illness, ... SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two people have been arrested in connection with bomb threats that forced the evacuation of a northern Utah courthouse threeÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
April 21, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man killed in a police shooting in suburban Salt Lake City had previous run-ins with law enforcement and claimed to have mental illness, prompting concerns Friday from a Black Lives Matter activist that police acted too aggressively.
Salt Lake Tribune
April 19, 2018
Police were called to the home — near 1100 East and Princeton Avenue (about 1200 South) — about 12:20 p.m., Salt Lake City Sgt. Brandon Shearer said. ... said Salt Lake City police hadn't spoken to the officers involved, as per the protocol requiring that a separate agency investigate police shootings.
Salt Lake Tribune
April 10, 2018
Federal appeals court declines to reconsider its earlier ruling that police shooting of Geist the dog. Geist (Justice for Geist Facebook page). 22. By Pamela Manson. Ãâ÷ Published: April 10. Updated: April 10, 2018. A federal appeals court decision that a police officer did not violate a Salt Lake City man's constitutional rightsÃâà...
fox13now.com
April 9, 2018
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah – The suspect killed during an officer-involved critical incident Sunday was identified as 20-year-old Elijah James Smith Monday afternoon. According to a press release made by the West Valley City Police Department, at approximately 3:15 p.m. Sunday, officers received a callÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
April 1, 2018
(AP) - People at a rally to renew calls for justice in the police shooting death of an unarmed black man expressed outrage over how an autopsy showed ..... Brazil and Gerrit W. Gong, a Chinese-American, were announced during a twice-annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City.
WTHR
April 1, 2018
... officer New Asian-American, Brazilian apostles make Mormon history Trump's call for tariffs creating anxiety in the farm belt 1,000 march in Salt Lake City over Mormon youth interviews Industrial-scale pork on trial in federal nuisance lawsuits Kings support protesters marching over man shot by police.
fox13now.com
March 30, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — A former West Valley City police officer has settled a lawsuit against the city. In an order filed Thursday night, U.S. District Court ... Cowley was a controversial figure since his involvement in the police shooting of Danielle Willard in 2012. She was shot and killed in an apartment complexÃâà...
NBC Connecticut
March 28, 2018
... both American Samoans and individual plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the United States seeking full U.S. citizenship, pose for a photo in Salt Lake City, Utah. ... A special Sacramento City Council meeting held to promote community dialogue in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark wasÃâà...
Bend Bulletin
March 28, 2018
California AG joins police shooting inquiry — The California attorney general's office on Tuesday joined an investigation into the fatal police shooting of .... 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which confers citizenship at birth to anyone born in the U.S. The complaint was filed in Salt Lake City on Tuesday.
Concord Monitor
March 27, 2018
In 2015 Salt Lake City, Utah, police began taking required yearly de-escalation training and brought a high rate of officer-involved shootings to zero. Same city, same officers, completely different success rates. This includes times when they have chased armed suspects. Instead of shooting the victim forÃâà...
Foster's Daily Democrat
March 26, 2018
In 2015 Salt-Lake City police began taking required yearly de-escalation training and brought a high rate of officer-involved shootings to zero. Same city. Same officers. Completely different success rates. This includes times when they have chase armed suspects, instead of shooting the victim for running orÃâà...
Deseret News
March 21, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — Three teenagers who ran off after their friend was shot by a Granite School District police officer on Tuesday have been found and questioned, district officials said Wednesday. None of the three were arrested. Investigators are still searching for a fourth person, who Granite SchoolÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 17, 2018
Unified police is conducting an investigation as part of a valleywide protocol that requires uninvolved agencies to handle police shootings. ... Liles, who moved from Washington two years ago, pleaded guilty in January 2017 in Salt Lake City to charges of possessing a dangerous weapon, drug possessionÃâà...
Deseret News
March 15, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — A man shot and killed by police near the parking lot of a Sandy TRAX station on Tuesday was wanted for allegedly hitting a West Valley police officer while trying to flee from police last ... On Wednesday, police identified Bryan Keith Liles, 31, of Spanish Fork, as the man shot by police.
U.S. News & World Report
March 12, 2018
Video released showing a fatal police shooting inside a federal courthouse to be made public. ... SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dramatic video released Monday shows a U.S. marshal firing four times at close range at a defendant inside a Utah federal courthouse after he rushed the witness stand, jumped andÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 10, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge is ordering video showing a fatal police shooting inside a federal courthouse to be made public. U.S. District Judge John Dowdell on Friday overruled arguments from government attorneys who said releasing the video could lead to retaliatory gang violence against theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 13, 2018
The so-called 21-foot rule, based on research in the early 1980s by a Salt Lake City police officer, says that a suspect armed with a knife presents a ... And a potential candidate for mayor ought to be expressing concern over unnecessary police shootings, not trying to explain them away with rules that don'tÃâà...
Deseret News
February 5, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — Before police Chief Mike Brown was hired by Salt Lake City in 1991, he and 1,500 other would-be officers crammed into a University of .... after falling to a historic low in 2015, amid protests about police shootings of unarmed black people in Missouri, South Carolina and New York City.
KUTV 2News
January 31, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful-death claim in a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was killed by a police SWAT team during a standoff in northern ... The suit was filed in 2016 on behalf of 35-year-old Jose Calzada, who was shot by police after they entered his Roy home in 2014.
Standard-Examiner
January 30, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — A judge threw out major portions of a lawsuit filed by the widow and mother of a man killed after police entered his Roy home to end a SWAT standoff in 2014. Claims under state law that police committed willful misconduct and caused the wrongful death of Jose Calzada, 35, on Oct. 21,Ãâà...
KUTV 2News
October 26, 2017
The video shows Peterson getting into a Jeep of someone parked at the gas station. Lovell deploys a Tazer on Peterson and orders him out of the Jeep. After the Tazer was deployed, the video shows Peterson attacking Lovell in the parking lot. Salt Lake City Police Lieutenant Andrew Oblad arrived on scene as PetersonÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
October 10, 2017
District Attorney asks FBI to review police shooting of Patrick Harmon ... (Courtesy of Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office) The Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office determined that Salt Lake City Police Department Officer Fox's use of deadly force in the August 13, 2017 stop of Patrick Harmon wasÃâà...
ABC News
October 8, 2017
Black Lives Matter demonstrators gathered outside police headquarters in Salt Lake City this afternoon to protest a prosecutor's decision not to file charges against a police officer who fatally shot a 50-year-old man. Videos of the incident, which occurred in August, were released on Wednesday when theÃâà...
CNN
October 8, 2017
Bodycam footage shows Harmon running away from police before he is shot by Salt Lake City police Officer Clinton Fox. The officers later said Harmon threatened them with a knife. "That video is horrifying. It is just not right," Antionette Harmon, Patrick's older sister, told CNN. "I'm not understanding none ofÃâà...
NBCNews.com
October 7, 2017
On Wednesday, the white police officers who shot to death a black man in Salt Lake City in August were cleared by the local district attorney. But when authorities then released body-cam video footage of the incident, the case suddenly got a lot more complicated, and once again questions are being raisedÃâà...
NBCNews.com
October 6, 2017
Black Man Shot By Police in Salt Lake City. copied! Patrick Harmon, 50, was shot and killed by police in Salt Lake City, Utah. The district attorney says the shooting, captured on officers' body cams, was "legally justified."Oct.06.2017. Read MoreÃâà...
Good4Utah
September 29, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 Utah) - Michael Bruce Peterson was caught sleeping on the stairs leading into the Nectar Massage Therapy. That was a few minutes before he was shot and killed by police during a confrontation outside the Maverik convenience store at 500 East and 300 South. According to thoseÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
August 14, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a man was shot and killed by a police officer in Salt Lake City. Police said the shots were fired Sunday ... Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Brandon Shearer says the officers unsuccessful tried de-escalation tactics before one officer fired. The victim was described as anÃâà...
HuffPost
May 20, 2017
Controversial shootings over the past few years swept Salt Lake City police into the broader debate around reform. In an August 2014 incident that received nationwide coverage, an officer fatally shot Dillon Taylor, an unarmed 20-year-old, just days after the Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
Salt Lake Tribune
December 31, 1999
West Valley City • For a few seconds before a police officer shot a man in a garage of a West Valley City house last week, the man had his left hand raised in the air. Then he abruptly pulled his right hand out of his pocket and a West Valley City police officer fired, three times. One bullet struck Elijah JamesÃâà...
Matangi Tonga
December 31, 1999
On the day of the tragic shooting April 21 of 2014, Angilau was in a federal courtroom in Salt Lake City facing federal racketeering charges for his involvement in organized crime. The witness, Vaiola Mataele Tenifa, was a former member of the Tonga Crip Gang and was testifying in the witness box of theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
A proposal to publicly release video of Los Angeles police shootings and other serious uses of force within 45 days is still too restrictive — but it ... Earlier this year, The Times obtained and posted video of the fatal 2015 police shooting of Charly "Africa" Keunang on skid row after it was introduced asÃâà...
