Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Wednesday he has suspended two of his deputies for violating department procedures during a use of force arrest that was partially caught on dash cam video. The video shows the deputies striking 25-year-old Jimarez Reed in May. Sheriff Gualtieri said the use of force never looks good but that the … Read more
MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. – Four people were arrested last week and claimed police brutality against Macomb County Deputies. Now, the sheriff’s office has released body cam and dashboard video of the scuffle. Phone video was released last week that showed a chaotic scene near Walnut Road in Mount Clemens. The officers say they were attacked … Read more
A woman is suing several Coldwater, Mich. police officers after she says she was slammed to the ground and knocked unconscious while handcuffed in a secure entrance to the county jail, a bloody incident captured on camera. Tiffany McNeil’s federal lawsuit alleges that police used excessive force and then lied about what happened. “It was … Read more
Ex-Minneapolis police officer Christopher Reiter will serve six months in a county workhouse for kicking a man in the face during an arrest after a judge told him Tuesday that he “abused his position of trust and committed a serious assault.” Reiter, 37, was on duty in May 2016 when he kicked Mohamed Osman in … Read more
Two Cincinnati officers used “horrible judgment” and may have violated department policy when they used their Tasers in an early August scuffle. The incident prompted an extraordinary intervention by the Hamilton County prosecutor in an external city investigation into the use of force and a major showdown between City Manager Harry Black and police union … Read more
A man was body slammed by cops who said he had no right to film the police. Investigators are scrutinizing the incident, and so far, they seem to confirm the man’s account. It’s somewhat difficult for them to conclude anything else… since there’s a video of him recording his video. Daniel Clement was visiting Baton … Read more
An officer who punched an alleged jaywalker more than a dozen times in Del Paso Heights in April will return to duty in coming weeks with no public details on the outcome of an internal affairs investigation. The department announced Monday it had completed its investigation into the April 10 incident in which Officer Anthony … Read more
ATLANTA, GA — A federal jury convicted a retired Atlanta police officer on Friday of using unreasonable force in 2014 when he beat a man wrongfully suspected of stealing a tomato at a Walmart. Trevor King, of Stockbridge, broke two bones in the victim’s leg with his baton, say federal prosecutors. The jury also convicted … Read more
Euclid, OH — Tensions among police and citizens in Euclid, Ohio have come to a head recently after police killed an unarmed 23-year-old man over a marijuana roach and officers were seen on video pulverizing another man over a suspended license. Now, the Euclid police department is sure to become infamous after body camera footage … Read more
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Corporal Matthew Stice pointed his Taser at Martini Smith’s bare chest. Smith was 20 years old, pregnant and stripped nearly naked, standing in a cell in the Franklin County jail in Columbus, Ohio. She had been detained on charges of stabbing a boyfriend she’d accused of beating her. Stice and a deputy … Read more
HOUSTON – The announcement by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office today brought relief, but also a sense of frustration. Attorney Don Kidd said it took more than a year for the accused jailers to be charged in the brutal beating of Jerome Bartee. The new photos given to us by Kidd are difficult to … Read more
Baltimore officials are set to pay $147,000 to settle an excessive force lawsuit against five police officers. The Board of Estimates, which is controlled by Mayor Catherine Pugh, is set to award the money on Wednesday after a jury found in favor of the two men — Leo Joseph Green and James Green — who … Read more