Police shootings

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.

In one of the Thursday incidents, an officer underwent emergency surgery after being shot in the head during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect near 31st and Van Brunt.

Among the many names spoken at recent Black Lives Matter protests in Kansas City was Ryan Stokes, an unarmed black man killed by a Kansas City police after he was falsely accused of stealing a phone.

KCUR is beginning a new collaboration with the Kansas City Star, a conversation with the mother of Ryan Stokes who was killed by a Kansas City police officer, and what Kansas City's urban debate league is teaching students.

Ryan Stokes, Terrance Bridges, Cameron Lamb, and Donnie Sanders are some of the people memorialized by protesters in Kansas City. A Kansas City Star reporter recounts the history of violence between police and black men here.

A coalition of civil rights groups in Kansas City has called for the resignation of police Chief Rick Smith, among other reforms, including local control of the police department.

Details on recent demands for reform of the Kansas City Police Department, and the stories of some of the men killed by Kansas City police and honored recently by protesters.

Three days of protests against police violence towards black people, kicked off by the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, had peaceful moments, but ultimately turned volatile between police officers and protesters.

Last weekend's protests in Kansas City over police violence against black people had both peaceful and volatile moments, and long-standing health disparities are causing black Kansans and Missourians to die from COVID-19 at five to seven times the rate of white residents.

Ryan Stokes, an African-American man, was gunned down by a Kansas City Police Department officer in the Power & Light District in 2013. Now one of the officers at the scene who refuted the department's version of events has been pushed out.