Filming Cops 
AUSTIN, Texas — A video of an arrest in downtown Austin on Friday night has gone viral on social media, with many people questioning the use of force the clip seems to depict. Twitter user Patrick King tweeted out a recording of the arrest on 4th Street outside of the Rain nightclub. King says he … Read more
A Pennsylvania man who was videotaped being tasered by police while sitting on a curb is suing the department for use of excessive force. Attorneys for Sean Williams, 27, filed a lawsuit Monday against the Lancaster Police Department and the officer who fired the Taser, Phillip Bernot, seeking more than $75,000. The lawsuit also claims … Read more
ZANESVILLE, Ohio – A retired Muskingum County deputy and local boxing trainer pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to eight counts involving nude photos of juvenile males. Timothy Hartmeyer, 61, was arrested after Muskingum County deputies were alerted to pornographic material discovered at his former address. On March 16, the couple who purchased a home from Hartmeyer … Read more
Late on a Tuesday night in July 2017, 21-year-old Ronnie James Mickasko raced around north Edmonton in a stolen truck. For more than an hour, he was surreptitiously pursued by an Edmonton police helicopter. “He’s absolutely flying,” the Air1 officer observed at one point, a video recording revealed. Mickasko was a danger to himself, the … Read more
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office has released body camera footage showing the fatal shooting of an Atlantic City man by police. Timothy Deal, 32, was shot dead after he allegedly stabbed a police officer in what Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner has called an unprovoked attack. The injured officer, whose name has not been released, … Read more
A police union in South Carolina has challenged the inclusion of Angie Thomas’s multiple award-winning novel about police brutality, The Hate U Give, on a school’s summer reading list, describing it as “almost an indoctrination of distrust of police”. The intervention from the Fraternal Order of Police Tri-County Lodge #3 came after Wando high school’s … Read more
Former Florida Department of Law Enforcement supervisor Charles McMullen is guilty of nine child sex offenses surrounding his time as a foster parent and child sex crime investigator. A Santa Rosa County jury heard six days worth of testimony and evidence beginning with jury selection Monday and returned with a guilty verdict late Saturday. McMullen … Read more
Thomas McWain once received accolades for his work helping drug addicts get help. A grand jury has now indicted the West Deptford cop on charges he filed false arrest reports and referred a drug offender to a rehab program in which he had a financial stake. McWain, 31, of Woodstown, was charged last November with … Read more
Raimundo Atesiano had a statistic to tout at a town council meeting in Biscayne Park, a village of 3,000 in the middle of Florida’s Miami-Dade County. The Biscayne Park Police Department, where Atesiano was chief at the time, had a clearance rate of 100 percent for burglaries, he said at the July 2013 meeting, according … Read more
“I like strong women,” former Horry County Police Officer Troy Allen Large said in a March 2016 deposition. “That’s my dark secret.” But Large, who died earlier this year, had more than just one dark secret during his 27-year tenure at the South Carolina police department. Large was indicted in September 2016 by a Horry … Read more
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Authorities say a New Mexico State Police officer has been arrested on federal drug trafficking charges. Prosecutors say 33-year-old Daniel Capehart of Bloomfield was taken into custody by the FBI last Friday. He was assigned to patrol duty in Farmington and San Juan County and is on administrative leave. A criminal complaint … Read more
RICHLAND COUNTY, SC – A former Richland County sheriff’s deputy who was fired after writing a racial slur on someone’s poster while he was on a call has pleaded guilty and can no longer work in law enforcement. Kaleb Broome pleaded guilty to malicious injury to private property, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday … Read more