Nov. 25, 2016 LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Former Las Cruces police officers Richard Garcia and Danny Salcido, accused of beating Ross Flynn while he was handcuffed in a holding cell, will not face charges, according to documents filed late Wednesday in Third Judicial District Court. The office of Doña Ana County District Attorney Mark … Read more
Jan 5, 2016 A South Daytona Police officer who was fired after he was accused of striking a handcuffed suspect sitting in the back of a patrol car has been found not guilty of battery. Officer John Zack Pickett testified that he felt spit on his face and reacted to what he thought was a … Read more
June 30, 2015 A former Federal Heights Police Department officer pleaded guilty to attempted assault in June after he lost his cool with a robbery suspect, slinging the man into a refrigerator and punching him inside a holding cell. Mark Magness, who was fired in December after the incident, was sentenced to one year of … Read more
New Orleans, LA – On September 23, 2014, Officer Saulny was caught in a situation that involved a 16-year-old female. According to police, while Saulny was being processed, he told his supervisor that he had to use force when processing the girl. The supervisor obtained video surveillance of the altercation and notified the Public Integrity … Read more
An Athens-Clarke County police officer strikes an intoxicated University of Georgia student several times in the body with a baton. He then knocks the student to the ground with a baton blow to the head. As the student kneels down with his head almost touching the sidewalk, the student cries out in pain as he … Read more
August 20, 2015 TAMPA — The morning of Nov. 5, 2014, started out as a typical one for Liz Vargas Juarbe. Still wearing her pajamas, she rushed around the house trying to get her daughter ready for school before heading out at 7 a.m. As she always does, Vargas let her daughter out of the … Read more
Texas – A Denton man recently filed a federal lawsuit claiming a Denton police officer purposefully fired a Taser projectile toward his face in 2015, leaving him blind in his left eye. In the lawsuit, which was filed in November in the Eastern District of Texas, Melvin Earl Williams Jr specifically claims that Denton police … Read more
ALAMEDA COUNTY — An Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday for allegedly allowing inmates to beat another inmate at Santa Rita Jail, according to authorities. Joseph Bailey, 28, of Tracy, is accused of allowing a small group of inmates to physically assault another inmate in a minimum-security area of the jail in Dublin. The … Read more
A Washington man who was repeatedly punched, Tasered and bit by a police K9 during a 2014 arrest will get a $100,000 settlement for the beatdown. The city of Tukwila, Wash., agreed to settle the civil rights lawsuit filed by Linson Tara, who was the victim of excessive force when cops attempted to arrest him … Read more
A former Independence police officer who injured a teen driver during a 2014 traffic stop was sentenced Wednesday to four years in federal prison. Timothy Runnels, 32, previously pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of 17-year-old Bryce Masters. “His use of excessive force violated both the public’s trust and his oath to uphold the … Read more
DETROIT, MI — A federal judge has issued a ruling reducing a $36.6 million jury verdict awarded to a man who was pepper sprayed, slammed against a metal bench, shocked with a Taser and kicked and punched while he was restrained face-down at the Genesee County Jail. Detroit U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn ruled Tuesday, … Read more
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – A Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been fired for using excessive force and falsifying a report, officials said Friday. Wayne Wagner, 28, was hired by the department on Oct. 20, 2014. He was terminated Friday. Officials said Wagner used excessive force during a March 25, 2016, traffic stop. The stop … Read more