A one-year-old girl was shot in the head as she sat in a car with her parents in an apparent case of road rage, police in the Seattle suburb of Kent said.

Police say a white reserve police officer thought he was holding a stun gun, not his handgun, when he shot dead a black suspect during an arrest that was caught on video in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A white South Carolina police officer has been charged with murder hours after authorities saw a dramatic video that appears to show him shooting a fleeing black man several times in the back.

US civil rights leaders are calling for an independent investigation into the fatal police shooting of a homeless man.