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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville Metro Police suspended an officer for 30 days earlier this year for violating the department’s social media policy with Facebook posts that “advocate violence against others” and “fostered mistrust of the police,” according to Chief Steve Conrad. After an internal investigation of more than one year, Conrad planned to fire Officer … Read more
A federal judge ruled Monday that the civil case brought by the parents of an 18-year-old they say was killed by excessive force from a Harris County deputy can move forward, but he threw out claims against Sheriff Mike Jolley and three deputies. Nicholas Dyksma died nearly three years ago after then-Harris County sheriff’s deputy … Read more
The NYPD on Monday said that after four years it is done waiting and will place Officer Daniel Pantaleo on trial in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. Deputy Commissioner Lawrence Byrne, the NYPD’s top lawyer, in a letter sent Monday — one day before to the Department of Justice, said that unless the feds … Read more
Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin, who made headlines earlier this year when it was revealed that he pocketed $750,000 that was meant to fund prisoners’ food provisions, is now being investigated for allegedly throwing drug-fueled parties where he would have sex with underage girls. AL.com reports that 41-year-old Alabama resident Mary Elizabeth Cross is accusing … Read more
Jacksonville – According to Hawkes, JPD Officer Jennifer Gillham arrived at a residence on Health Lane just before 10 p.m. July 4. Hawkes said several rumors have spread across social media platforms that the officer was at the location without reason, however he said this was a “non-fact.” “JPD received a call for service for … Read more
DES MOINES, Iowa — A termination letter shows that a member of the Iowa State Patrol was fired this month because of “intimidating, threatening and unwelcome” interactions with colleagues. The patrol fired Des Moines-based trooper Wade Karp on July 3 after a 10-month paid administrative leave. The agency had refused to explain the leave or … Read more
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada corrections officer is wanted by police in the shooting death of a woman who was found early Saturday by her children in an east valley residence. Christopher Caggiano, 41, is wanted by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Caggiano is believed to be driving his vehicle, described as a 2017 … Read more
BY NOW it is difficult to resist the impression that the federal government is engaged in a coverup in the death of a 25-year-old accountant, Bijan Ghaisar, shot to death by U.S. Park Police last November. That was eight months ago — eight months in which neither the Park Police nor the agency to which … Read more
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Los Angeles Times to remove information from an article that described a plea agreement between prosecutors and a Glendale police detective accused of working with the Mexican Mafia, a move the newspaper decried as highly unusual and unconstitutional. The agreement was supposed to have been filed under seal, … Read more
Duluth officials said Friday they plan to appeal an arbitrator’s ruling that overturned the firing of a police officer who is seen on police body camera video dragging a handcuffed man through a downtown skywalk in 2017. Officer Adam Huot, who had been suspended for a prior excessive use of force violation, was fired for … Read more
Two Georgia police officers have been placed on leave after video showed them using a coin-toss app before determining whether to arrest a woman caught speeding in April, and the police chief said he is “appalled” by the move. “Why am I being arrested?” Sarah Webb is heard saying to Officer Courtney Brown in the … Read more
A former Royalton police officer charged with taking heroin and other drugs from the department’s evidence closet in July 2017, to give to a woman he was dating, was sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday. John Breault, 31, pleaded guilty in January of this year to the federal felony charge of distributing heroin. … Read more