28 Dec 2015 In dramatic footage provided to the New York Daily News, a Queens man had his head repeatedly bashed into a wall and punched during a dog walking incident that escalated out of control. According to 25-year-old college student Nicholson Gregoire, he had just exited his home to walk his 5-month-old pit bull … Read more
4 Jan 2015 A drug task force video of an arrest differs markedly from the police reports written by the plainclothes detectives involved in the incident, The Kansas City Star reports. The video — available below — begins with the final moments of a car chase between Timothy Whittle and two plainclothes detectives, Michael Chinn … Read more
May 9, 2010 The FBI says it has launched an investigation into the controversial beating of an innocent man by Seattle police officers. Federal agents said the findings of the routine investigation will be forwarded to the Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Meantime, police sources have identified Officer Mary … Read more
MADISON, Wisconsin — An excessive force lawsuit an African American woman brought against the city of Superior and three police officers involved in her arrest, was recently settled out of court for $50,000, said Police Chief Nicholas Alexander. Attorneys for Natasha N. Lancour, the insurer for the officers and the city reached an agreement and … Read more
February 20, 2013 A Civil Service panel has upheld the firing of one of two Denver police officers fired for lying about their involvement in a videotaped beating outside a LoDo bar, but it reinstated the second officer with back pay and benefits. Officer Devin Sparks and Cpl. Randy Murr were accused of using inappropriate … Read more
TRENTON, New Jersey – Video footage from inside city police headquarters shows a wild encounter between an arrestee and a cop who is now under federal investigation and will probably be sued. Quaree Singletary engaged in a struggle with city cop Anthony Villanueva after Villanueva abruptly ended Singletary’s phone call to relatives. Villanueva was assigned … Read more
Newly released bodycam footage shows a New Jersey cop pummeling a screaming handcuffed man laying on the ground and later bragging about it to another officer, Trentonian reports. The incident happened in April 2017, when a suspect named Chanzie Washington allegedly led cops on a car chase. He then got out of the car and … Read more
Jan 10, 2018 WORTHINGTON — The defense attorney for the city of Worthington and Worthington Police Department (WPD) has filed an answer to a complaint from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleging the department’s officers used excessive force on Worthington resident Anthony Promvongsa and violated his Fourth Amendment rights. In a document filed Friday … Read more
It was November 2016, and then-20-year-old Henry Newson had just been released from Harris Methodist Hospital near downtown Fort Worth. “This was a young African American kid with no criminal history, no criminal record,” said his attorney, Matthew Bobo. “He’d been in the hospital for two days and he was waiting for his mom to … Read more
New Jersey – Federal prosecutors are looking into a February incident when a Camden County police officer was caught on camera punching a man 12 times in the head. The attorney for Edward Minguela, 32, of Camden, has demanded criminal charges be filed against the officer he said threw the punches: Nicholas Romantino, a 24-year-old … Read more
03.06.2015 Newly released dashcam footage shows an officer pepper spraying his peers as they brutalized a handcuffed man in Palm Beach, Florida. The November 2013 incident caught deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office assaulting Shawn Hawkins, a man who was allegedly involved in a domestic dispute earlier that night. The officers claim that … Read more
TACOMA, Wash. – On Thursday, a jury in federal court unanimously decided that a Tacoma police officer used excessive force while confronting a 15-year-old girl in May of 2014. The City of Tacoma will now have to pay the victim and her family $550,000. In 2014, Monique Tillman and her brother were biking through the … Read more