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
Investigators in Florida are reviewing video of a West Palm Beach bar brawl that included a woman being pulled by the hair and tossed onto the ground by police. According to the New York Post, after a fight broke out Sunday at a restaurant and bar in West Palm Beach, a bouncer told school teacher … Read more
Illinois – A 15-year-old student at a special needs school got a lesson in police brutality. Marshawn Pitts, who attends the Academy for Learning in the south suburb of Dolton, was slammed into a locker and thrown to the ground by an unidentified police officer as he was taking Pitts to the principal’s office for … Read more
The Tacoma Police Department says it will review its Use of Force Policy Monday after a federal court found an officer used excessive force against a 15-year-old girl in 2014. In 2014, Monique Tillman was thrown to the ground and tasered by Tacoma Police Officer Jared Williams. She was 15-years-old at the time and she … Read more
Louisiana – On March 21st, 2018, a complaint was lodged, by an inmate, with RPSO Corrections Division administration against a Deputy Corrections Officer in reference to an excessive force complaint. Sheriff’s Office Internal Affairs Division began their investigation and through their investigation, found evidence that supported the original allegations. On March 22nd, Cody Darnell Richardson, … 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
Aug. 29, 2013 ROCHESTER, N.Y. — An officer struggling to subdue a woman at the scene of a family dispute acted properly when he hit her in the head and wrestled her to the ground, despite her repeatedly telling officers she was pregnant, the police chief said. The chaotic Tuesday evening arrest of 21-year-old Brenda … Read more
One officer described a chaotic scene when he arrived at an arrest last year to find a bruised 16-year-old cuffed and face down in a bed of rocks with “blood all over the f—–g place.” A second described his appalled reaction on seeing the injured teen at Carteret police headquarters. Another said the incident was … Read more