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NEW PORT RICHEY – She should have never been arrested or had to spend a single night in jail. But a Pasco County mom spent five months in a jail cell after a field drug test gave a false positive result. Now she wants to make sure no one else suffers the same injustice. Rebecca … Read more
CLEVELAND, Ohio — An arbitrator halved the suspension Cleveland police officer Frank Garmback received for his role in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Garmback’s original 10-day suspension was reduced to five days by arbitrator Daniel Zeiser of Cleveland. Garmback was previously suspended for using improper tactics when driving his police cruiser to within … Read more
A disturbing video circulating online shows dozens of NYPD officers dragging what appears to be an unconscious teenager from a house, then dropping him on the street next to a police cruiser. The officers eventually lift the young man’s apparently unresponsive body into the backseat of the patrol car, footage shows, as horrified residents shout … Read more
Two police officers are retiring and a third is facing disciplinary charges in the wake of an explosive harassment lawsuit against Mountainside police that alleges years of misconduct involving a large dildo, pranks involving nudity and homophobic games, borough officials said Tuesday. Police Chief Allan Attanasio had been placed on paid administrative leave in May, … Read more
The NYPD for the first time released footage from one of its officers’ bodycams last year — and now it needs to fork over the rest of it, according to a civil rights group that says it will sue to see the unedited tape. The New York Lawyers for the Public Interest said Thursday it … Read more
Use of violent force is never something to celebrate. Any time law enforcement officers legitimately use force or violence against people in the communities that they serve, it is at best an unfortunate part of the job that should be kept to the minimum amount necessary to control a situation. Yet in the El Paso … Read more
The New Holland Police Department has fired a police sergeant just mere seconds after he served charges on the mayor and police chief. A GoFundMe account has been set up as a result. Sergeant Brad Mick was handed a termination letter — without a cited cause — and his last paycheck shortly before 6:30 p.m. … Read more
CANON CITY, Colo. – A former sheriff’s deputy found guilty for putting murder evidence from a cold case in a private storage locker was ordered to serve 15 days in jail. A judge sentenced retired Fremont County deputy Robert Dodd to 180 days in jail but suspended much of the jail time. Dodd was also … Read more
Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore said in a Tuesday morning news conference that the bullet that struck 27-year-old Melyda Corado, the assistant manager at the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s store, was likely fired by police. She was killed Saturday during a tense, three-hour hostage situation in the Trader Joe’s store in the Silver Lake … Read more
Two Seattle police officers who unleashed a barrage of gunshots at a fleeing car in the Eastlake neighborhood last year, wounding the driver and a passenger, have been fired after a lengthy internal investigation. In strongly worded disciplinary reports released Monday, Interim Police Chief Carmen Best found that officers Kenneth Martin and Tabitha Sexton recklessly … Read more
Ohio – Colerain Police Chief Mark Denney is recommending a township police officer facing sex charges in Butler County be fired. According to a police report obtained by The Enquirer from the Monroe Police Department, Snapchat messages to a 13-year-old girl led to sex charges for Colerain Township police officer Robert Brinkman. The report said … Read more
The former Louisville Metro Police officer accused in civil suits of sexually assaulting multiple women will be ordered to appear in court for a deposition. Pablo Cano, who resigned from the department in September after police launched an investigation into the allegations, is a defendant in six lawsuits filed by different women. Shannon Fauver, the … Read more