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The city of Houston will pay $200,000 to a truck driver who said Houston police officers attacked him while searching for a burglary suspect five years ago, causing post-traumatic stress disorder and injuries from a chokehold and punching The city council approved the settlement with Nicolas Watson and his attorneys on Wednesday. Watson had sued … Read more
JERSEY CITY — A Hoboken police officer and his wife were convicted of stealing $187,000 in federal relief funds to repair a home they owned in Seaside Heights after Superstorm Sandy, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Thursday. An Ocean County jury found that Hoboken Police Officer Nikola Lulaj, 45, and Majlinda Lulaj, 32, falsely … Read more
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A man and his mother have filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Huntsville and a number of Huntsville Police Department officers, some of whom are not identified, for excessive force and false arrest in an October 2016 incident with Huntsville Police Department. The lawsuit says Hilton Germany was arrested on … Read more
PRINCE GEORGE’S CO., Md. — A Prince George’s County Police Department officer accused of raping a woman during a traffic stop has been indicted on rape charges. Ryan Macklin was indicted on first and second-degree rape, misconduct in office, and other related charges. According to police, Macklin pulled over a vehicle on University Boulevard in … Read more
The image on the deputy’s calf depicted a skeleton in an officer’s uniform, wearing a cowboy hat and clutching a smoking rifle. Jason Zabala said he was inked by an artist who worked at a Sunset Beach tattoo shop and was the 140th person to get the same design. The tattoo, he said, was a … Read more
The family of a 26-year-old accountant slain in his home by a Dallas police officer who said she mistook his apartment for hers filed suit Friday against the city and the cop who killed him. Amber Guyger was off duty but in uniform when she shot and killed Botham Jean on Sept. 6 at South … Read more
NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio – The North Royalton police chief says his department is conducting an internal investigation after a Parma Municipal Court judge write a scathing opinion which states Officer Steve Zahursky’s report on an OVI arrest contained inaccuracies and falsehoods. Judge Timothy Gilligan further wrote in his judgment entry, filed earlier this week following … Read more
GRIFFIN, Ga. — Police body cameras recorded an officer telling a citizen to “suck my d***” during an otherwise-calm custody dispute. Officer Travis Wick resigned from the Griffin Police Department after begging Police Chief Mike Yates not to fire him. Officer Wick was one of two officers responding to a call for help from Andrew … Read more
A judge said Thursday that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials must reveal whether they know the names of deputies who have matching skull tattoos at the Compton station. Allegations about a secret society of inked deputies at the station have been at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of … Read more
HOUSTON – A former Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been indicted in connection with the death of Danny Thomas. Cameron Brewer is charged with aggravated assault by a public servant. “There is always a lot of emotion surrounding such a death but when it happens at the hand of a government official in a … Read more
The teen who says he was torn from his car then beaten and choked by an off-duty Baytown cop apparently angry over the 19-year-old’s tryst with his step-daughter has now filed a lawsuit against the officer and his wife, who allegedly helped orchestrate the attack earlier this month. The beat-down, in an abandoned Whataburger parking … Read more
Two South Carolina deputies were fired on Wednesday night for their role in the death of two female mental-health patients who drowned last month while being transported in a sheriff’s van swept away by Hurricane Florence’s floodwaters. The Horry County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the firings as part of an ongoing investigation into the two deputies, … Read more