A 15-year-old boy who was seriously injured while being detained by the Metropolitan Police was wrongly targeted in a case of mistaken identity, his mother has claimed. Terrell Decosta Jones-Burton was hospitalised with injuries said to include a split lip, lost teeth, broken jawbone, bruising on the brain and abdominal pain following the incident. He … Read more
Outside a Food 4 Less store In Lemon Grove, CA, Sheriff’s deputies were caught on video repeatedly punching, kneeing, and kicking a man who was already being held face down on the walkway. It is still unknown what began the detainment before the brutal Jan. 14 assault by police. Deputies claim the man tried to … Read more
An Arizona man is accusing a police officer of using excessive force when he was knocked off his bike before he was shocked with a Taser and handcuffed. Body camera footage obtained by ABC News showed the Aug. 14 confrontation between 31-year-old Joshua Dombrowski and a Mesa Police Department officer as the bicyclist is violently … Read more
AGAWAM. Massachusetts – Two of three Agawam police officers fired for a use-of-force incident involving a disorderly patron at Six Flags New England have been reinstated with back pay, according to John Connor, the lawyer representing the officers. Mayor Richard Cohen fired all three veteran officers in October 2016, after an investigation by an outside … Read more
A Denver police officer used excessive force when he fired a Taser at a homeless man, and he and his fellow officers prepared false police reports about what happened, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver. Gregory Heard, 53, filed the lawsuit. Heard claims Denver police officer Greg Dulayev used … Read more
Rotterdam, New York – Town police say they are retraining their officers on how to handle emotionally disturbed people after settling a federal civil rights lawsuit for $360,000 with the family of a teen whose arm was broken in 2013 when two cops tried to drag him off a school bus. The department also is … Read more
Michigan – Coldwater police officer Lewis Eastmead, who is at the center of a federal lawsuit claiming excessive force, is no longer with the department. Eastmead is accused of grabbing a woman and slamming her to the floor during an arrest. Video of the incident was captured by Branch County Jail surveillance cameras. Several other … Read more
Washington – City officials have agreed to pay $100,000 over a civil lawsuit that alleged excessive force by two Bellingham Police officers, one of whom was fired a year ago for misconduct and other accusations. Settling the lawsuit was a “risk management decision” because the city could have faced a large jury award and also … Read more
AUSTIN — A video. A viral reaction. And now, a verdict. A federal jury has decided an Austin Police Department officer used excessive force during a 2015 jaywalking arrest on Sixth Street. The verdict highlighted larger community questions about APD’s ability to police itself. In a February 2016 news conference, Jeremy King said, “I want … Read more
MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK – Middletown’s chief of police has ordered an investigation into allegations of excessive force during a traffic stop. Garnett Miller says an officer pulled him over in the McDonald’s parking lot on Dolson Avenue Thursday night and told him his lights were out. Miller says that the officer was aggressive from the … Read more
A veteran Pittsburgh police officer is under internal investigation after he shocked a Downtown pizzeria employee with a Taser in an incident captured on video. The city’s Office of Municipal Investigations and the Citizen Police Review Board both are investigating. Officer Ronald Hough, a 23-year veteran who serves in the department’s motorcycle division, is accused … Read more
GREENSBORO — The city paid out its second settlement — almost a year to the day apart — for a misconduct incident involving one of its former police officers. On Thursday the city paid Dejuan Yourse $95,000 after a majority of Greensboro City Council voted Tuesday to approve a civil claim in his June 17 … Read more