Filming Cops 
MIAMI – A Miami-Dade corrections officer has been arrested in connection to the shooting of a woman at her home Monday night in Opa-locka. The mother of that victim, Doris Chavarrio, told CBS4’s Peter D’Oench that her 31-year-old daughter Wendy Vazquez is in “really bad condition” after being shot in the chest. “I feel so … Read more
Canada’s marijuana legalization was met with new and stricter impaired driving laws throughout the country under Bill C-46 and Canadians are not pleased. While everyone wants safer roads and people can agree that it is important to penalize impaired driving, people are outraged at the new laws that they say puts way too much power … Read more
DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif.- – Video of arrest in Desert Hot Springs over the weekend is causing controversy throughout social media after an officer appears to cover his body camera. The heated confrontation, recorded by the detainee’s brother, has gone viral with nearly 850,000 views on Facebook. The man detained in the video, Joshua Felix, … Read more
YAZOO CITY, MS – Former Greenville police officer, Arsenio Robinson, was sentenced Tuesday for his involvement in the 2015 slaying of Tahiti Banks. He was found guilty by a Yazoo County Jury Thursday, June 28, 2018, and was scheduled for sentencing Tuesday The case is originally a Humphreys County case, but the venue was transferred … Read more
A man was caught on camera berating a woman for wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt in a video posted on July 7. Also captured for posterity: a nearby police officer refusing to intervene. The video has gone viral on social media. One Facebook post has been viewed 1.4 million times with more than 31,000 … Read more
Under the Trump administration, pregnant women apprehended and detained by CBP and ICE are being shackled around their stomachs, hands, and legs and denied routine medical care—even during miscarriages, according to BuzzFeed News. While pregnant women were held in immigrant detention centers under the Obama administration, a 2014 memo made clear that pregnant or nursing … Read more
In the chaotic seconds after a St. Paul police dog broke free, it bit a bystander — leading the mayor and police chief to announce Monday that St. Paul’s K-9s will be used more sparingly amid “significant changes” and an external audit. Friday’s incident was the third high-profile St. Paul K-9 bite case in two … Read more
A police woman and her married PC lover have been jailed over a drug-fuelled affair in which she was pictured with a line of cocaine on her breasts. WPC Kerry Reeve, 36, and fellow constable Adam Jackson, who both worked for Greater Manchester Police, sent each other text messages boasting about the amount of drugs … Read more
A former local state trooper who pleaded guilty in state district court this week to two felony counts of malfeasance in office took to Facebook on Friday and said he was indeed guilty of doing something that he said “hundreds, if not thousands of troopers” have also done. Jimmy Allen Rogers, 35, resigned from Troop … Read more
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – National civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said Monday morning that the beating of a shackled pregnant woman in the Duval County jail should be investigated as a hate crime because racial slurs were hurled at the woman by the since-fired corrections officer. Crump’s law firm is representing Kirenda Welch, who was arrested … Read more
COLLEYVILLE, Texas – As Karen Lucchesi looked through a box filled with photos of a difficult time in her life, it became clear that pictures aren’t necessary to jog her memory. The simple bunk beds and stark white sheets she lived in for more than five years are things she will never forget. “I remember … Read more
A police officer who shot and killed a man during a stop-and-search operation in Nantes, sparking two nights of rioting and violence, has been taken into custody for questioning. Investigators are looking into whether the officer should be charged with “violence by a person of authority leading to manslaughter”. Announcing the arrest on Thursday, the … Read more