January 21, 2017 New Kensington, PA — When police officers preach transparency and trust only to be caught on video beating a man who is in handcuffs, that trust is broken. Residents of New Kensington, PA, now have little reason to trust their police after a recent video uploaded to Facebook began going viral this … Read more
August 22, 2016 New video shows the shocking moment a Los Angeles police officer delivers a powerful kick near the head of a black man who is lying facedown in the middle of a street, attempting to surrender. The Los Angeles Times obtained footage of the October 2014 encounter through a court order after the … Read more
Decatur, GA — Katie McCrary is a homeless woman doing whatever she can to survive. But while she may have a criminal history, she, like other law-breakers, still deserve to be treated humanely and with some sense of decency. But that didn’t happen, according to critics, when a Dekalb County police officer struck her with … Read more
Louisiana – Chris Cambre says he was having a bad day Jan. 21 when he posted on social media that he was struggling. The Army combat veteran suffers from anxiety and depression, and his online post and his failure to answer his phone got someone worried enough to call and ask police to do a … Read more
An indicted Fort Worth police officer punched a patient who had just been discharged from the hospital after the man called him “bro,” according to videos of the incident obtained by NBC 5. Officer Jon Romer faces charges of official oppression and lying to a grand jury after he arrested the man in November 2016 … Read more
A cell phone video went viral of Columbus police beating an unarmed suspect, Timothy Davis, 31, during an arrest inside a neighborhood market. The photo of 31-year-old Timothy Davis is startling, but not surprising. The police have been beating on unarmed black men and women for decades, so when cell phone video went viral on … Read more
It began at Oakwood BBQ in Austin, Texas. It ended with a 12-year-old girl in the hospital and a sheriff’s deputy in handcuffs. It was shortly before 8 p.m. on March 3 when sheriff’s deputy Jack Danford Jr. was sitting at the back of the restaurant with his daughter and her boyfriend while a 12-year-old … Read more
ELIZABETH – Taxpayers spent $250,000 in a settlement with a Philadelphia man who suffered “significant injuries” to his neck and spine during a police arrest, according to his attorney, and an officer admitted in testimony that he never officially reported that he hit the man with a metal flashlight. Elizabeth settled Jerome Wright’s lawsuit in … Read more
FORT WORTH, Texas – A Fort Worth police officer is facing criminal charges stemming in part from a Nov. 5, 2016, incident in which he allegedly used excessive force against a possible suspect. Jon Preston Romer Jr. subjected Henry Newson to mistreatment, arrest, and search and seizure that was unlawful because Romer struck Newson with … Read more
STOCKTON — A California correctional officer faces charges after allegedly hitting a handcuffed man in an assault that prosecutors say was recorded on surveillance video. Video of correctional officer Matthew Mettler, employed by the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office, striking a restrained man in a spit hood has the district attorney’s office on the lookout … Read more
19 November 2015 A former Detroit-area police officer was found guilty Thursday of assault and misconduct in the bloody beating of an armed black driver during a traffic stop that was captured by a dashboard camera. Wayne County jurors handed down the verdict in the case against William Melendez, who was charged in the January … Read more
A North Carolina police officer recorded beating a black man stopped for jaywalking now faces criminal charges. It began around midnight on Aug. 25 when officer Christopher Hickman and a police trainee stopped 33-year-old Johnnie Jermaine Rush in Asheville and accused him of jaywalking and trespassing through a parking lot, reports the Asheville Citizen-Times. Rush … Read more