Beating

New Orleans, LA – On September 23, 2014, Officer Saulny was caught in a situation that involved a 16-year-old female. According to police, while Saulny was being processed, he told his supervisor that he had to use force when processing the girl. The supervisor obtained video surveillance of the altercation and notified the Public Integrity … Read more

An Athens-Clarke County police officer strikes an intoxicated University of Georgia student several times in the body with a baton. He then knocks the student to the ground with a baton blow to the head. As the student kneels down with his head almost touching the sidewalk, the student cries out in pain as he … Read more

August 20, 2015 TAMPA — The morning of Nov. 5, 2014, started out as a typical one for Liz Vargas Juarbe. Still wearing her pajamas, she rushed around the house trying to get her daughter ready for school before heading out at 7 a.m. As she always does, Vargas let her daughter out of the … Read more

ALAMEDA COUNTY — An Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday for allegedly allowing inmates to beat another inmate at Santa Rita Jail, according to authorities. Joseph Bailey, 28, of Tracy, is accused of allowing a small group of inmates to physically assault another inmate in a minimum-security area of the jail in Dublin. The … Read more

A Washington man who was repeatedly punched, Tasered and bit by a police K9 during a 2014 arrest will get a $100,000 settlement for the beatdown. The city of Tukwila, Wash., agreed to settle the civil rights lawsuit filed by Linson Tara, who was the victim of excessive force when cops attempted to arrest him … Read more

DETROIT, MI — A federal judge has issued a ruling reducing a $36.6 million jury verdict awarded to a man who was pepper sprayed, slammed against a metal bench, shocked with a Taser and kicked and punched while he was restrained face-down at the Genesee County Jail. Detroit U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn ruled Tuesday, … Read more

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – A Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been fired for using excessive force and falsifying a report, officials said Friday. Wayne Wagner, 28, was hired by the department on Oct. 20, 2014. He was terminated Friday. Officials said Wagner used excessive force during a March 25, 2016, traffic stop. The stop … Read more

A 15-year-old boy who was seriously injured while being detained by the Metropolitan Police was wrongly targeted in a case of mistaken identity, his mother has claimed. Terrell Decosta Jones-Burton was hospitalised with injuries said to include a split lip, lost teeth, broken jawbone, bruising on the brain and abdominal pain following the incident. He … Read more

Michigan – Coldwater police officer Lewis Eastmead, who is at the center of a federal lawsuit claiming excessive force, is no longer with the department. Eastmead is accused of grabbing a woman and slamming her to the floor during an arrest. Video of the incident was captured by Branch County Jail surveillance cameras. Several other … Read more

AUSTIN — A video. A viral reaction. And now, a verdict. A federal jury has decided an Austin Police Department officer used excessive force during a 2015 jaywalking arrest on Sixth Street. The verdict highlighted larger community questions about APD’s ability to police itself. In a February 2016 news conference, Jeremy King said, “I want … Read more