18 Sep 2010 DENVER, COLORADO — What started as a walk to the park with his dogs ended with a trip to the hospital for a Denver dog owner. 32-year-old Mark Ashford says he was beaten black and blue by two Denver Police officers. “They punched him and pinned him up against the fence and … Read more
June 28, 2017 Georgia – A Pooler man has filed a lawsuit accusing a Chatham sheriff’s deputy of using excessive force during an arrest in Effingham County, kicking him and breaking his jaw and back. Anthony Oliver also accuses deputy Franklin R. Rollins Jr., who was acting as a U.S. Marshal during the Jan. 23 … Read more
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina – Police in January launched a criminal investigation into whether an officer used excessive force in the arrest of a man suspected of jaywalking and trespassing after he walked across the parking lot of a business already closed for the day. Police body camera video obtained by the Citizen Times on Wednesday … Read more
OCALA, Florida — A Marion County corrections officer accused of slamming a handcuffed inmate’s head into the wall late last year has accepted a plea deal from the State Attorney’s Office, according to officials. In exchange for having charges of battery and malpractice by a jailer dropped, Charles Craig Broaderick agreed to surrender his law … Read more
5 Jun 2013 MESA, Ariz. – A police take down is caught by a cell phone camera. The video shows a dramatic and physical altercation between an officer and a man who refuses to do what he’s asked. But there are two sides to every story, and we’ll show you both. A concerned citizen who … Read more
A New Jersey has been charged after a video surfaced of him punching a suspect in the face while he was in handcuffs. A township police officer is facing criminal charges after punching a suspect who was already handcuffed and in the back seat of a police car. Prosecutors say the cop also tried to … Read more
On January 12th, 2012 a “special needs” homeless woman is punched in the face by a Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy. The video was filmed by an Iraqi war veteran. Cops then tried to intimidate the man, telling him he would be arrested if he did not hand over the phone he used to record … Read more
24 Apr 2014 On Monday came another reminder that it’s not only big city police departments that know how to get their hands dirty with a video from an incident in Green Bay that shows a police officer brutally assaulting a bystander to an arrest who had been criticizing him. It shows Green Bay Police … Read more
25 Feb 2015 A Baltimore school police officer decided to take her frustration out on 3 young school girls, one of whom dared to say “my name is Starr, not little girl”. Apparently that statement set off a chain of events that initially led to the 3 girls being arrested and charged with Assault and … Read more
25 Feb 2015 METAIRIE, La. — A physical altercation between a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy and high school student who was being arrested has raised concerns from the ACLU after the confrontation was captured on video and posted on YouTube. The video shows Deputy Nicholas Breaux punching 17-year-old high school student Brady Becker while … Read more
August 22, 2014 GUERNEVILLE, Calif. – Video has surfaced of a California police officer punching a man he was trying to restrain, reports CBS San Francisco. The eyewitness cellphone video, which was taken Saturday, shows two unidentified Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies wrestling on the ground with a man named Jonathan Carrozzo, according to the station. … Read more
September 17th, 2014 Another day, another potential NYPD abuse of power under investigation. According to the indispensable ANIMAL NY, the New York Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau has launched an investigation after video emerged of a Sunday police scuffle with street vendors in the mostly-Latino neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. In the below video — … Read more