Police shootings

A grand jury subpoena served in Overland Park in November demanded reams of documents and videos connected to the killing of 17-year-old John Albers who was shot by one of the city's police officers in 2018.

Derek Chauvin now faces murder charges for the death of George Floyd last May. For some activists in Kansas City, the trial's verdict could be an opportunity for justice, or a catalyst for further protest.

The city had refused to turn over a severance agreement with the officer who shot and killed 17-year-old John Albers in 2018.

Days after the Jackson County Prosecutor announced she will not bring charges against a Kansas City police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Black man in March 2020, protestors took to the streets.

At issue is the severance agreement the city entered into with police officer Clayton Jenison nearly four weeks after Jenison shot Albers, a 17-year-old high school student.

"We may not know the full impact right now, but we're going to see it in five years," says Topeka Police Chief Bill Cochran.

The Topeka Police Department is part of new program teaching peer intervention, and an explanation of the legal policy of qualified immunity.

The city has refused to turn over the records although employment-related agreements are deemed open records under the Kansas Open Records Act.

Wesley Hamilton won viewers' hearts when he appeared on the Netflix series Queer Eye. Now he's speaking out on behalf of Jacob Blake, who — like Hamilton — suffered a spinal cord injury caused by gunfire.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas called the president's claims of rising crime being related to recent social justice protests as "not just (a) dog whistle, but frankly dog bark, about racial politics.”

John Albers was 17 and struggling with mental health issues when an Overland Park police officer shot him to death in 2018.

An Overland Park mother's years-long fight for transparency and better police training after the death of her son, how going to the eye doctor is different during a pandemic, and a new director takes over at the Kansas City Public Library.