Beating

A man alleges Lincoln police officers manipulated their body cameras during an encounter downtown last year where they slammed him to the ground and knocked him out, according to court documents. Barine Deezia’s attorney leveled the allegations in Deezia’s federal lawsuit against the department over excessive force, as an attorney for the city sought to … Read more

A Toronto police officer has been charged and is suspended with pay in connection with an attack on a 19-year-old man that left him with broken bones and a serious eye injury last December in Whitby, Ont. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) charged Const. Michael Theriault on Tuesday with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon … Read more

Before he was accused of beating a handcuffed African-American woman, a Chicago Police sergeant registered a racist URL: n**gadown.com. George Granias, a sergeant at the heart of a recently settled police brutality lawsuit, purchased at least two websites with racial slurs in their titles, his alleged victim’s lawyer says. The domain names include URLs like … Read more

NEWARK – Two Newark Police officers received disciplinary sanctions for their actions, according to a quarterly review of internal investigations conducted by the department. Officer Derrick Beach received a 20 hour suspension without pay and his probationary period with the department was extended by nine months following an investigation. The investigation was a result of … Read more

A black 19-year-old girl was punched in the mouth by an officer, bitten by a police K9 and arrested last month after an officer said he mistook her for a 180-pound bald man suspected of threatening people with a machete at a nearby grocery store. Tatyana Hargrove’s story has been gaining attention this week after … Read more

An internal investigation of the DeKalb County Police Department, initiated by a use of force complaint from an arrest in June, has been reopened after a bystander’s video recording of the incident went viral on social media. At the Chevron on Glenwood Road and Line Street in Decatur, customers were all revved up. Cell phone … Read more

COLUMBUS — The City of Columbus fired Officer Zachary Rosen, the officer caught on camera kicking a suspect on the ground. The Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge revealed the city’s decision Monday afternoon. The firing comes after Police Chief Kim Jacobs recommended a 24-hour suspension for the officer. The Director of Public Safety … Read more

A Vandergrift police officer has been charged with assault and harassment by Gilpin police. William Moore, 49, of Route 66, Gilpin, is charged with two counts each of simple assault and harassment — all misdemeanors. Moore is a full-time Vandergrift patrolman. The charges stem from a May 21 incident at Moore’s residence in which, police … Read more

CARTERET, NJ—Police Officer Joseph Reiman was suspended and charged with three counts of second-degree, official misconduct after allegedly beating a local teenager and failing to activate the camera that was a part of his uniform. That assault occurred shortly after the 16-year-old victim was involved in a crash on May 31, and led to serious … Read more

ARIZONA (KRON)– An Arizona man said he was a victim of police brutality after officers accused him of jaywalking. The altercation happened Monday night and was all caught on camera. The man said he was walking on the sidewalk when two officers pulled over and accused him of jaywalking. He said the officers then tackled … Read more