Beating

A man who Long Beach police hit with a baton, Tasered and pepper sprayed last year was freed from jail Friday after jurors cleared him of charges that he attacked a police officer with a bicycle and violently resisted arrest. However, the panel did convict 31-year-old Solomon Brooks on two lesser counts of misdemeanor resisting … Read more

A Louisiana State Police trooper was arrested and charged with simple battery in New Orleans Thursday (June 15) after being accused of kicking a handcuffed man and smashing that man’s head through the rear window of a patrol unit, the State Police announced. Trooper John Neal, 55, was on assignment in New Orleans Feb. 11 … Read more

A Colorado police officer who was caught on camera beating a suspect and throwing him around a cell has been fired and pleaded guilty to assault. His and another officer’s body cameras captured roughly 10 minutes of footage after Cpl Mark Magness, 51, arrested 48-year-old suspect Kent Lasnik, for allegedly attacking a liquor store clerk. … Read more

Two current and two former Florida police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges filed in connection with the beating of a man captured after a high-speed car chase. Boynton Beach officer Michael Brown and former officers Justin Harris and Ronald Ryan are charged with the 2014 beating of Jeffrey Braswell. The trio and Sgt. … Read more

A Jacksonville sheriff’s officer was arrested on suspicion of beating a handcuffed 17-year-old, a department officer said. Undersheriff Pat Ivey said Timothy James, an officer with over three years on the force, was arrested Saturday in the beating of 17-year old Elias Campos while he was handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. More … Read more

At the start, it was just kids being kids. Around 5:45 p.m. on May 11th, Naji Tribble, a 14-year-old Brewerytown resident, and four friends stopped by a Dollar Tree near the corner of 26th Street and Girard Avenue as part of the group’s afternoon routine of checking out the stores up and down Girard. After … Read more

The Lampasas County Sheriff’s Office released new dashcam video of an arrest involving a deputy repeatedly punching a teenager in the face on May 25. Deputy Logan Lones was placed on administrative leave after the incident, which was posted to Twitter by one of the passengers in the vehicle. Read more at https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3e8_1496886204#IVtzLpITBKUSeKkp.99

THIS is the moment a defenceless man appears to be punched directly in the face by a police officer, despite being helplessly pinned down to the ground. Footage from the incident shows three police officers from Avon and Somerset Police holding the man on the ground in a bid to restrain him. As the man … Read more

A disgraced former NYPD officer once labeled the “dirtiest cop in N.Y.” has been arrested again, on charges he violated a judge’s order in a domestic incident, authorities said Tuesday. Michael Dowd, 56, — who shook down drug dealers for “protection” money in the 1980s and 1990s, was busted Monday night and charged with criminal … Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill – Police are investigating an incident between a Springfield police officer and a child at Harvard Park Elementary School in Springfield. The Springfield Police Department have said they are aware of a video that has been getting alot of attention on social media this week. The video shows an officer striking a child … Read more

Beaver County District Attorney David J. Lozier has released a video of a violent encounter last year between three Aliquippa police officers and an intoxicated Pittsburgh man that is now the subject of a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the city. While Gregory Johnson filed a complaint that police used excessive force on him and beat … Read more