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Since March 29, Kansas City Police have received 296 calls related to street racing and sideshow activities. While the city has invested in some new infrastructure, such as installing plastic discs in the ground that make it harder for stunt drivers, the changes haven't held up as well as officials hoped.
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is expected to issue a pardon for Eric DeValkenaere, the first Kansas City Police officer to be convicted for fatally shooting a Black man. DeValkenaere was convicted in November 2021.
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An expansive Kansas law limiting transgender rights takes effect this summer, and trans residents are bracing themselves. Plus: Despite the return of KCPD's Missing Person's Unit, community members are worried about how the department will handle the disappearance of Black women and girls.
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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker and Kansas City Chief Stacey Graves issued a “call to action,” asking the community to step up to stem a violent summer.
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A Kansas City woman's escape from an Excelsior Springs home where she was being held captive in October sparked outrage, and confirmed fears within the Black community that police weren’t taking reports of missing Black women seriously. More than a month after Kansas City’s chief of police reinstated the department’s Missing Persons Section, community organizations are still wary.
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District Attorney Mark Dupree said Amaree’ya Henderson refused the officer’s commands to stop his car, which caught the officer in between the driver’s door and Henderson. Kansas law allows the use of deadly force if an officer is in danger and fears for his life, Dupree said.
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The attorney for Andrew D. Lester says the 84-year-old has been threatened, harassed and called a racist since the Black teen's shooting made national headlines, and is asking the case be sealed so Lester can have a fair trial.
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Amaree’ya Henderson was delivering food when he was fatally shot by a Kansas City, Kansas, police officer during a traffic stop. Now, community members are calling for transparency and demanding the department release footage of the shooting.
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A former KCPD attorney said the department refused to give evidence to prosecutors and denied public records request, but the Board of Police Commissioners said he had “incomplete facts.”
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On the eve of the NFL Draft, the Kansas City Police Department says it has twice asked for overtime payments from the city from the last NFL event, the February Super Bowl victory parade. The Board of Police Commissioners also questioned Mayor Quinton Lucas about the $13,000 spent on sending his security detail to Arizona for the game.
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Andrew D. Lester appeared for a three-minute hearing at the Clay County Courthouse for a formal reading of his two felony charges, first degree assault and armed criminal action. Meanwhile, Lee Merritt, a lawyer representing the teen’s family, said the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the shooting as a federal hate crime.
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National civil rights leaders, local activists and community leaders held a press conference and led protestors Tuesday afternoon outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Kansas City. They showed up to decry last week’s shooting of a Black teenager after he rang the wrong doorbell in a Northland neighborhood.