Former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge is seen in 2010 at the federal courthouse in Chicago. Burge, who was linked to numerous cases involving the torture of suspects, has died in Florida at 70. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP hide caption
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A still from surveillance footage, released by the police department in Mesa, Ariz., shows officers surrounding a man after they punched him to the ground. Mesa Police Department/azfamily/YouTube hide caption
"I just panicked. I just, it was like my heart exploded," Rose Campbell told local WSB TV, after she was pulled from her vehicle and screamed at during an arrest over a traffic stop. Alpharetta Department of Public Safety hide caption
The video shows a white police officer choking a young tuxedo-clad man who is African-American, pushing him against a storefront and then slamming him to the ground outside a North Carolina Waffle House. Anthony Wall via Facebook/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
In this Aug. 25, 2017, image made from video and released by the Asheville, N.C., Police Department, Johnnie Jermaine Rush grimaces after officer Christopher Hickman overpowers Rush in a chokehold. Earlier this year, a shorter clip obtained by a newspaper sparked anger in the community and helped lead to a felony charge of assault by strangulation against former officer Hickman. Asheville Police Department via AP hide caption
Demonstrators in Miami stand with tape reading, " I Can't Breathe," in 2014. The protest occurred after a grand jury in New York City declined to indict the police officers involved Eric Garner's death. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
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Looters load up a car at the Viva shopping center near a billowing fire during the rioting that erupted in Los Angeles on April 29, 1992, after a jury found four Los Angeles Police Department officers not guilty in the beating of Rodney King. Ron Eisenbeg/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
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Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck at a news conference in October. Nick Ut/AP hide caption
Roman Ducksworth in uniform. The Army corporal was shot to death by a white Mississippi police officer in 1962. Courtesy of Cordero Ducksworth and the Syracuse Cold Case Justice Initiative hide caption
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K.A.A.N. stands for Knowledge Above All Nonsense. Dalton Latham hide caption
Demonstrators in Chicago call for an end to gun violence and resignation of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Chicago police are under scrutiny following the release of a video showing the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Chicago Crime Spikes As Police Avoid Becoming 'The Next Viral Video'
Egyptian mourners carry the coffin of Mohammed Darbaka, who was allegedly shot dead by a policeman over a payment dispute, during his funeral on Feb. 19 in Cairo. AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
New York City Police officers watch demonstrators protesting the death of Eric Garner near Times Square. Zoran Milich/Getty Images hide caption
A mural depicting peace in Ferguson was painted on the wall of a vacant building near the city's police department. David Goldman/AP hide caption
Fired police officer Daniel Holtzclaw cries as guilty verdicts are read in an Oklahoma City court Thursday. Holtzclaw could face life in prison when he's sentenced for rape and other charges next month. Sue Ogrocki/AP hide caption
Antwan Burns-Jones, 31 (from left), William Moore, 35, and David Lee, 23, add a basketball to the memorial for Tyshawn Lee, 9, who was fatally shot in Chicago's Gresham neighborhood. Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images hide caption
Amid Violence, Chicago Parents Try To Inoculate Their Sons Against Fear
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks onstage at the 2015 New Yorker Festival last month. Anna Webber/Getty Images for The New Yorker hide caption
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Director Quentin Tarantino attends a march to denounce police brutality in New York City on Oct. 24. At the rally, Tarantino said, "I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers" — drawing considerable backlash from police unions. Kena Betancur/Getty Images hide caption
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After Tumultuous Year For Police And African-Americans, What's Changed?
New York Will Pay Eric Garner Family $5.9 Million To Avoid Lawsuit
A man walks past the damaged Oxford Tavern on April 30 in Baltimore. Richard Sung Kang's liquor store and bar was hit by looters during a riot over the police-involved death of neighborhood resident Freddie Gray. The doors and windows were broken and cash and inventory stolen, leaving shelves bare. David Goldman/AP hide caption
For Baltimore Businesses, Aid For Riot Repair Is Not Coming Fast Enough
Stanley Wrice pauses in December 2013 as he speaks to the media with his lawyer, Heidi Linn Lambros (left), and his daughter, Gail Lewis, while leaving Pontiac Correctional Center in Pontiac, Ill. Wrice was released after serving more than 30 years. He claimed for decades that Chicago police detectives under the command of then-Lt. Jon Burge beat and coerced him into confessing to rape. M. Spencer Green/AP hide caption