Up for debate was whether or not it was "clearly established" that officers cannot apply injurious force to a subject who isn't resisting.
Police arrested and charged Joshua Garton with harassment for posting a photoshopped picture of two men urinating on a police officer's grave.
Reforms like the ones recently passed in Maryland and New Mexico offer a better long-term fix than the conviction of one police officer.
The doctrine shields state actors from accountability.
A Virginia lawyer successfully defended her stepson in court. Three days later, police raided her house using a flimsy search warrant.
Imagine a world in which media outlets were unable or afraid to post video of police and other authorities acting reprehensibly.
The GOP has resisted reining in the doctrine. That might change.
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Most victims of police misconduct never get to take their cases to court.
Bans on dangling objects are just one example of the myriad petty rules that give police the power to stop nearly any driver at will.
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The guilty verdicts on all three counts reflect the logical force of the prosecution's case as well as the emotional impact of watching the assault on George Floyd.
Whatever happens, much will remain to be done to curb police abuse. But there is still no justification for rioting.
It's yet another example of the effects of having to enforce dumb laws.
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"This wasn't policing," the prosecution says. "This was murder."
Among other things, it calls for online censorship to shield identities of public officials and lets the governor control city police budgets.
Prosecutors initially suggested that the boy had a gun in his hand, but the government walked that back today.
The defense rested without calling Chauvin to the stand, and closing arguments are expected on Monday.
That was one of several eyebrow-raising claims made by Barry Brodd, who said Derek Chauvin's actions were "objectively reasonable."
The defense will have to cast doubt on at least one of those claims.
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A police officer pulled the trigger. But Wright shouldn't have been pulled over in the first place.
Over the objections of Gov. Larry Hogan, the state’s Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights is tossed out.
Andrew Baker's account, like the testimony of other medical experts, implicates Derek Chauvin in Floyd's death.
The witnesses rejected the defense's suggestion that Floyd might have died from a drug overdose.
It is the third state to rein in the legal doctrine that protects state actors from accountability for misconduct.
A use-of-force expert says the officers who pinned George Floyd to the ground should have recognized the risk of positional asphyxia.
The pandemic pushed Americans to consider police reform while other countries moved to unleash their cops.
Medaria Arradondo says Chauvin's treatment of George Floyd violated department policy in several important ways.
Richard Zimmerman's testimony contradicts the defense claim that Derek Chauvin "did exactly what he had been trained to do."
Sometimes vibrant, sometimes crime-ridden, a local tells Reason what it’s like to live blocks from where George Floyd died.
If drugs played a role in Floyd's death, the prone restraint only compounded that danger.
Luther Hall was assaulted so severely he required a spinal fusion.
Thoughts on rioting and protest from a local activist who is demonstrating outside the courthouse where the murder trial of Derek Chauvin is taking place.
The defense will have a hard time showing that Chauvin's conduct was justified by any threat Floyd posed.
The officers knowingly violated the First Amendment, said the court. But that doesn't matter.
“I think if Chauvin’s acquitted, we’re fucked,” says one local cop.
It is the first city in the U.S. to do so.
Predictive policing lets authorities add a science-y gloss to hammering people who rub them the wrong way.
