police-involved shootings

A former police commander-turned-law-enforcement-consultant teaches officers they need to listen to and try to understand the citizens with whom they interact.

Police reform proposals have been largely stagnant in the Florida Legislature following a summer of social justice protests. However, that has changed.

Tallahassee police were involved in a fatal shooting Thursday night.TPD Chief Lawrence Revell says a suspect was shot after he pointed a handgun at an officer.

The marchers were upset at the results of a Friday grand jury announcement that officers who fired fatal shots in three separate incidents this year would not be charged.

More information is surfacing about what led to the deaths of two people near Holton Street, one killed by a stabbing and the other, shot by a police officer. The Tallahassee Police Department has identified 38-year-old Tony McDade as the person who was killed in the shooting and who stabbed 21-year-old Malik Jackson to death. McDade recorded a video the morning the incidents took place. In it, McDade recounts being jumped by a group of men and vows revenge.

At the forefront of the protests is the fatal shooting of Tony McDade this week by a Tallahassee police officer.

Most of Florida’s 20 elected state attorneys and 20 public defenders learned Friday they will be serving another four years in office because nobody met…