As videos and photos of multiple vehicles driving into or through crowds at Lawrence’s Sunday march against police brutality have circulated on social media, the Journal-World has attempted to gather more information about those incidents, to varying degrees of success. The Lawrence Police Department is also seeking more information.
It appears that one of the reasons witnesses and victims in these incidents ...
Updated at 4:52 p.m. Wednesday
A former Lawrence police officer accused of official misconduct is seeking a diversion agreement with the Douglas County district attorney’s office, court records show.
David Shane Williams, 33, was placed on paid administrative leave from the Lawrence Police Department on Nov. 21, 2019, after he reportedly told detectives that he used his credentials on multiple occasions to ...
Updated at 1:37 p.m. Tuesday:
A Captain America mask reportedly found in the burnt remains of a tipi at Haskell Indian Nations University helped investigators link a suspect to the fire, according to court documents.
The tipi, as the Journal-World has reported, had been put up to honor the graduating Class of 2020. A member of that class also told the newspaper the tipi was used at the beginnings of school ...
Though Lawrence city leaders showed some concern about yearly reports missing from the police department, Douglas County leaders said they believe they have the information they need about the sheriff’s office from various other reports.
As the Journal-World reported May 17, the Lawrence Police Department and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office are both missing some annual reports from recent years. In ...
Protesters took to the streets Sunday evening for a largely peaceful march, Lawrence’s first major organized event following the recent death of a black man during an arrest in Minneapolis.
Protests have sprouted up across the country since May 25, when George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died after pleading for air while being pinned under the knee of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the ...
An organizer of the march against police brutality held in Lawrence Sunday evening said Monday that more people showed up than anticipated, and overall, it went well.
“I definitely do think that we were able to accomplish the goal of letting other people, other cities know that Lawrence is in solidarity with them, as well as be able to keep that many people, as many as we had, safe and peaceful most of the ...
