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
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
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. – A Panama City Beach police officer is being charged with aggravated assault with a firearm and simple battery. According to the arrest report, Scott Womack, 48, got into an argument with the victim in the Rock-It-Lanes parking lot in Panama City Beach while off duty. The report says the argument … 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 sheriff’s deputy has been fired after a March 3 incident in which he allegedly assaulted a 12-year-old girl who was petting a dog at a barbecue restaurant in Austin. Jack Danford was having dinner with his daughter and her boyfriend at Oakwood BBQ in Austin on March 3, according to Fox 26 News of … 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