The Untouchables

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  Portland protesters were beaten, shot at and snatched. Years later, they are frustrated by legal blockades to accountability.

  NBC News - By Lawrence Hurley

  PORTLAND, Ore. — A phalanx of federal officers emerged from the U.S. courthouse in downtown Portland on the night of July 18, 2020, and advanced on protesters standing nearby. Chris David, from the park across the street, saw the officers plow into the protesters, knocking several of them to the …

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  Tracking 5 years of shootings by federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and DEA.

  NBC News - By Adiel Kaplan and Joe Murphy

  NBC News found 216 shootings by officers working for or with the FBI, ATF, DEA and U.S. Marshals from 2018 to 2022. Many got little to no public attention when they happened. National data about the use of force by law enforcement officers, particularly shootings, is limited and nearly impossible to …

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  After Caleb Slay’s death, his family is fighting to hold the DEA accountable.

  NBC News - By Hannah Rappleye

  Families who lose loved ones in shootings involving federal officers have little recourse in the nation’s courts. Caleb Slay’s family is trying anyway. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A few feet from the front door of a small, green house on a quiet street is a patch of dirt where the grass won’t grow. The patch …

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  Fani Willis’ other fight: The Fulton County DA’s battle for accountability after lethal shootings by federal officers

  NBC News - By Simone Weichselbaum, Alexandra Chaidez and Blayne Alexander

  The district attorney in Atlanta who criminally charged Donald Trump is trying to hold federal law enforcement officials accountable after lethal shootings. ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Donald Trump in Georgia for trying to overturn the 2020 election, is …

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  Defying presidents and Congress, the ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals shroud their shootings in secrecy

  NBC News - By Simone Weichselbaum, Hannah Rappleye, Adiel Kaplan, Alexandra Chaidez and Jean Lee

  Despite nearly 30 years of demands for transparency, the DOJ's law enforcement agencies release little data about whom they shoot, why and when, and they rarely use body cameras. During an early Friday dinner rush in 2020, shots rang out as teen workers at a Texas Roadhouse outside Detroit took …

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  ‘He didn’t deserve to die like this’: Supreme Court decision leaves family of a man killed at the border searching for justice

  NBC News - By Lawrence Hurley

  TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION, Ariz. — It was a dark and chaotic scene in the Arizona desert the night 58-year-old Raymond Mattia died from nine bullet wounds after three Border Patrol agents fired dozens of rounds at him. Brandishing flashlights and handguns, 10 Border Patrol agents were responding to a …