A federal grand jury has indicted a Camden County police officer who was caught on video punching a man 12 times in the head after stopping him on a Camden street in February. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday that a grand jury found evidence that Officer Nicholas Romantino, 25, of Egg Harbor Township, violated … Read more
The former St. Martinville Police Department officer was found guilty Monday on four felony counts, including a civil rights violation for using excessive force against an arrestee, and three counts of obstruction and conspiracy to cover up the incident, according to United States Attorney David C. Joseph. After five days of trial, the jury convicted … Read more
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – A man with diabetes will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from Commerce City after officers beat, tased and pepper sprayed him after mistakenly believing he was driving drunk. Carl Leadholm, 41, says he is Mormon and has never had an alcoholic beverage in his life. “For half a dozen officers … Read more
Barine Deezia’s excessive force lawsuit can go forward against the Lincoln police officers who arrested him, a federal judge has ruled. An assistant city attorney had argued that the officers who approached Deezia and his friends downtown at about bar close March 20, 2016, used a reasonable amount of force under the circumstances and that … Read more
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. — The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is facing accusations of using excessive force during an incident on October 14, at a home on Maggie Lane in Moncks Corner. The sheriff’s office says a 911 reported Rashon Smith was assaulting his 19-month-old child with a belt. The report says deputies entered the home … Read more
A Greenville, SC woman is alleging officers grabbed and threw her on the ground when attempting to enter her home WYFF 4 reports. Cassandra Johnson, 62, went to Greenville’s City Hall on Thursday along with her family to file a formal complaint alleging the police exercised excessive force. Agents with the South Carolina Probation, Pardons … Read more
ELKHART — Two city police officers will be charged with Class A misdemeanor criminal battery after being accused of using excessive force against a man in their custody in January. A video of the incident released by the Elkhart Police Department shows the man — seated and with his hands bound behind his back — … Read more
Two men have come forward to suggest that a police officer is responsible for a teen’s death in a cold case. Edward Wells was found dead in the Mississippi River in 1982. The teen was the victim of sex trafficking for years in the French Quarter. A Times-Picayune story at the time said that Wells … Read more
SAN DIEGO — An investigation discovered a North County deputy was found deceptive to a question on a polygraph exam before he was employed with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. A transcript from a separate case involving the deputy, which is currently working its way through the federal court system, revealed this new information. … Read more
Hours after the brutal beating of two men outside an Andersonville neighborhood nightclub, two friends of an off-duty Chicago police sergeant implicated him in the attack under questioning by a Chicago police detective. The next day, a friend of the victims picked out Sgt. Eric Elkins “immediately and without hesitation” as the main assailant when … Read more
HAZEL PARK, Mich. – A former Ferndale police officer who was once charged with a crime for roughing up a suspect later got a second chance with a new police department. But now, 7 Investigator Heather Catallo has learned that Officer Jason White has been let go once more – for getting arrested yet again. … Read more
“Welcome to the white man’s world,” Springfield Police Officer Gregg Bigda allegedly told a Latino juvenile during an arrest on Feb. 27, 2016, after he reportedly spat on him. Bigda, 48, of Wilbraham, and Steven Vigneault, 48, of East Longmeadow, also a police officer in Springfield at that time, were arrested Wednesday and are facing … Read more