LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a motorist died and a police officer was hurt when a car slammed into the rear of his police patrol SUV south of the Las Vegas Strip.
An online petition is demanding Metro Police release all video evidence and names of officers involved in a high-profile incident with NFL player Michael Bennet on the Las Vegas Strip last month.
The NFL says it won’t investigate Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett’s claims that Las Vegas Metro Police detained him with excessive force based on racial bias.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Debates about racial bias and police profiling turned this week to Las Vegas, where an NFL player who was detained at gunpoint and handcuffed by officers claimed he was the victim of racially motivated excessive force.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett ran from officers searching for what they believed was an active shooter inside a Las Vegas Strip casino before he was stopped at gunpoint and handcuffed for questioning.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett is accusing Las Vegas police of racially motivated excessive force after he says he was threatened at gunpoint following a report that shots were heard at a casino hotel.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a Las Vegas police officer wounded in a shooting is in stable condition at a hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
The FBI is investigating some members of the vice unit at Las Vegas Metro Police and the Clark County District Attorney’s Office has removed itself from an appeal involving a convicted pimp already
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The coroner in Las Vegas says a police officer's neck hold killed a 40-year-old man who also was zapped with a stun gun and punched after leading the officer on a chase through restricted areas of a casino last month.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say 10 people were arrested after fighting erupted during a weekend protest on the Las Vegas Strip amid calls for a white police officer to face criminal charges in the death of a black man in custody.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The lawyer for the family of an unarmed man who died after a struggle with police outside a Las Vegas Strip casino calls an officer's repeated use of a stun gun followed by an unauthorized chokehold "a fatal cocktail of misconduct."
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say a patrol officer used a stun gun seven times and an unapproved mixed martial arts chokehold to subdue an unarmed man who died after a foot chase through a casino.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas are due to report about the weekend death of an unarmed man after an officer used a neck hold on him that is banned in many cities.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say an unarmed man has died after police officers used a stun gun and chokehold to subdue him during an arrest on the Las Vegas Strip.
Vegas police said the arrest happened about 1 a.m. Sunday near The Venetian casino-hotel.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say they believe the beating deaths of two sleeping homeless men near downtown Las Vegas are connected, and they're going to need public help to find the killer.
As the country moves into an era with a president-elect who makes no excuses about how he feels about undocumented immigrants, there are questions on how this will effect Las Vegas.
