The family of a 75-year-old woman killed by police in the US state of New Mexico has demanded criminal charges against the culprits, days after a body camera video of the deadly shooting was released.

A man went on an apparent hate-crime spree in Manhattan earlier this week, assaulting seven Asian women over a two-hour span.

The former head of one of New York City's police unions was charged with fraud, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday.

The parents of Amir Locke, 22, shot dead by Minneapolis police vow they will not stop fighting until he “gets justice.”

The fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man by an off-duty white police officer in a North Carolina town last week led to angry protests on Thursday.

A police officer in Los Angeles fatally shot a teenage girl in a clothing store dressing room Thursday during a chaotic confrontation that the city police chief called “devastating and tragic”.

A new study suggests that more than half of all police-involved killings in the US are misclassified or unreported.