On Wednesday a 19-year-old Chesapeake woman mysteriously died following a routine traffic stop. Police said Sarah Wilson used a handgun inside the car to shoot and kill herself. However, the teen’s mom believes there is much more to this story, and she’s desperate for answers. “In all of her life I have never known of her to shoot a gun, own a gun, or even hold a gun,” said mother Dawn Wilson.

Over and over again, the man protested: "You got the wrong guy." But the police didn't listen. They arrested him at work in front of his colleagues, hauled him off to jail and held him for 15 days believing he was someone else: a fugitive wanted for attempted murder. Six years later, the patient man — 43-year-old Marvin Seales of Harper Woods — got his payback. On a Friday afternoon in a federal courtroom in Detroit, after just one hour and 50 minutes of deliberations, a jury awarded Seales $3.5 million for the injustice he suffered in a case of mistaken identity.

A Dallas Police Department motorcycle officer was killed Saturday when a suspected drunk driver ran into him during a funeral procession for another police officer, the police department said. Senior Cpl. Earl "Jamie" Givens had positioned himself to block traffic to the eastbound entrance ramp to Interstate 20 at Bonnie View Road around 5:30 a.m., the police department said in a news release.

A parolee who authorities said cut off his ankle monitor and carried out a series of killings in the Houston area has been arrested and charged with capital murder. Jose Gilberto Rodriguez, 46, is a suspect in at least three slayings in the past week, with police calling him a "possible serial killer" at a news conference Monday night.

A 10-year-old girl was shot dead when four masked gunmen opened fire in Washington, D.C. on Monday night, and now "outraged" police officers are urging the public to help bring the unknown shooters to justice. The four masked gunmen pulled their black SUV into a courtyard at about 8 p.m. and opened fire on 15 to 20 people who were out enjoying the weather by a nearby playground, Metropolitan Police Assistant Chief Chanel Dickerson said at a news conference Monday night.

Four officers in the Jasper Police Department were suspended for making a hand gesture while posing for a photo. Some people claimed the circular gesture was racist, according to the city's mayor, David O'Mary.

"To bring a coin flip ... that's not part of that decision making to decide to take someone's freedom," the police chief said.

The man caught on video making racist comments to a woman wearing a Puerto Rican flag T-shirt is now facing additional hate crime charges. Timothy Trybus already faced a simple assault charge over the June 14 incident but a spokesperson for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced that Trybus will be in court for a bond hearing over two counts of a felony hate crime charges on Friday July 12.

A 14-year-old black teen was arrested Thursday for allegedly selling water bottles outside the Philadelphia Zoo. A video of the arrest that shows an officer wrangling the teen to the ground and handcuffing him went viral on social media. The incident began when a zoo security officer flagged down Philadelphia police to report a group of boys selling water bottles outside the zoo. When the officers approached the 14-year-old teen he walked away from them, which resulted in his arrest, according to Philadelphia TV station WTXF.

It’s unclear whether the remains belong to one of McArthur’s eight alleged victims or someone new.

A Pennsylvania hate crime statute is being used by law enforcement to punish angry arrestees. Tempers can flare during an arrest, leading some people to say ill-advised and even cruel things. But, where does protected speech end and criminal speech begin?

One of the newest members of the Pensacola Police Department (PPD) is being hailed a hero. His heroic split-second decision likely saved the life of a suspect and fellow officers that were being threatened. The scary moments were all captured on police body cam.

An original print by renowned street artist Banksy was stolen from an unauthorized exhibition of his works in Toronto, police said Thursday as they investigated the theft. The piece valued at $45,000 is believed to have been stolen over the weekend, according to police, who explained that officers were called to the “Art of Banksy” exhibition after gallery staff saw security video showing someone taking the print.

The city of Detroit has paid out $19.1 million to settle claims of police misconduct since 2015, 7 Action News has learned. The payouts stem from allegations of wrongful arrest, assault and battery, destruction of property and more. “$19 million? That impacts every single citizen in the city of Detroit,” said Reginald Crawford, a retired Detroit police officer who recently completed a term on the city’s Board of Police Commissioners.

A sting on the sex-trafficking trade in metro Atlanta netted dozens of arrests and the rescue of dozens of children forced into sexual servitude, the FBI announced this week. Operation Safe Summer was a collaborative effort between the FBI’s Atlanta field office and 38 law enforcement agencies in six metro counties, assistant Special Agent in Charge Matt Alcoke told Channel 2’s Mike Petchenik.

An Oregon police deputy captured on video repeatedly hitting a homeless man during an arrest Monday has been temporarily reassigned during the investigation into the incident, police said Tuesday. Footage captured by KGW-TV of Portland, Ore., showed four Marion County Sheriff's deputies confronting Kevin Straw, 28. Police were taking him into custody for disrupting a search and rescue mission in Detroit, Ore. Detroit is about 59 miles south of Portland.

A US soldier has stolen an armoured personnel carrier from a National Guard base in Virginia and taken the vehicle on a two-hour drive that ended in a police chase through downtown Richmond, the state capital. The unidentified man took the vehicle just before 8:00pm local time from Fort Pickett, an Army National Guard base in Blackstone, Virginia, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in an email to Reuters.

New Jersey cops who pinned a beachgoer to the ground and punched her in the head during an alcohol possession arrest will not face criminal charges, prosecutors said. Bystander video of 20-year-old Emily Weinman’s violent May 26 encounter with two Wildwood police officers went viral. The cops approached Weinman after noticing unopened alcohol near where she was sitting on the beach with her daughter, her daughter’s father, and a friend.

A Georgia police officer has been fired after using his car to hit a fleeing suspect. Athens-Clarke County police department has released bodycam footage that shows Taylor Saulters pursuing Timmy Patmon, culminating in the officer using his patrol car to bring Patmon to a stop

A Dallas woman shot and killed her husband Saturday for beating the family cat, police say. Forty-seven-year-old Mary Harrison told police she shot her husband, Dexter Harrison, during an argument as he was beating their cat, according to the Dallas Police Department. The shooting occured just before 7:00 a.m. in the 13200 block of Fall Manor Drive in Dallas, according to police. Dexter Harrison, 49, was transported to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where he was pronounced dead.