Filming Cops 
OROVILLE — A Butte County jury Friday found a former Chico police sergeant not guilty of assault in the choke hold of a handcuffed suspect in the back of a police vehicle in 2017. The former sergeant, Scott Ruppel, 51, had been charged with misdemeanor assault by a public officer after prosecutors alleged he unreasonably … Read more
Rosemarie Reilly repeatedly begged police for help in the month leading up to her death. Her ex-boyfriend, Jeremy Kelley, had beaten her and held a gun to her head, then started following her, she told them, but police didn’t take him into custody. Nine days after an arrest warrant was issued, Kelley tracked Reilly down … Read more
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A federal judge in Memphis ruled Friday that the city’s failure to properly train members of its police department caused it to violate a 1978 agreement not to collect political intelligence on activists exercising their First Amendment rights. “The failure was one of training and inadequate direction over a sustained period of … Read more
Police reports show a northern Virginia man was unarmed when he was shot and killed by U.S. Park Police after a brief car chase last year. Twenty-five-year-old Bijan Ghaisar of McLean died after a Nov. 17 chase on the George Washington Parkway. Federal authorities have said little about their investigation. Ghaisar’s family has filed a … Read more
MOUNTAINBURG — The Mountainburg police chief was forced to use his taser on a woman as she watched her home burn down, he claims. Charlotte Adam’s home burned to the ground Friday (Oct. 26) night. The Mountainburg police chief, Vincent Clamser, was called to the scene to help assist with the fire. He says Adams … Read more
DENVER — Denver Police Sergeant Joseph Rodarte, who was arrested and charged Thursday with second degree assault, has faced more than 20 complaints of inappropriate force during his career, but virtually all of the complaints were ruled unfounded, not sustained, or Rodarte was exonerated. According to a DPD statement released Thursday, Rodarte was charged in … Read more
Three Texas Department of Public Safety troopers noted an odor of alcohol — two were “overwhelmed” by it — coming from Bertram Police Chief James Jay “J.J.” Wilson as they investigated the crash of his marked patrol car Oct. 24 near Marble Falls. DPS Trooper Frank Randolph responded to a vehicle crash at 8:34 p.m. … Read more
BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A former Pierce County police officer and Ware County high school teacher was sentenced Thursday to more than 10 years in federal prison for paying a 16-year-old boy for sex, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood sentenced Tracy Wayne Crosby, … Read more
A Little Rock police officer was arrested Friday on a sexual assault charge after having a woman perform oral sex on him in a church parking lot in exchange for not being arrested, according to court documents. Brandon Johnson, a Little Rock patrol officer currently on paid leave pending an internal investigation, was arrested after … Read more
A former sheriff’s deputy in Houston who shot and killed an unarmed black man who was acting erratically was indicted Thursday on a felony charge. The deputy, Cameron Brewer, encountered Danny Ray Thomas at an intersection in Houston in March. Mr. Thomas, 34, who was unarmed, had his pants around his ankles. According to the … Read more
KUNA — An Idaho inmate claims he is still suffering headaches and back pain more than three years after an excessively forceful search by the prison’s emergency response team. Joshua Nall, an inmate at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna, is suing the state’s correction department and prison staff. He is asking for damages … Read more
A veteran Border Patrol agent handed over $650,000 to drug traffickers and picked up 90 pounds of cocaine during his late-night shifts at a remote border crossing in Southern Arizona, an FBI special agent wrote in a federal criminal complaint. Ramon Antonio Monreal Rodriguez, a 32-year-old Vail resident who worked at the Border Patrol’s station … Read more