COLUMBUS — A cell phone video circulating on social media shows Columbus police kicking and punching a suspect during an arrest inside an east side neighborhood market. Court records show police charged 31-year-old Timothy Davis with resisting police. Davis has a criminal history that includes multiple charges of resisting arrest and assault and there was … Read more
A couple taken to the ground and arrested during a video-recorded encounter with BART police at a San Francisco train station are suing the agency in federal court, alleging that officers violated their civil rights and caused the woman to suffer a miscarriage. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 1 at the U.S. District Court in … Read more
TRENTON – City cops are caught on tape cavalierly joking about employing excessive force during arrests and making fun of a gunshot victim who was in the hospital clinging to life after being blasted in the head. All of it was captured by a body camera worn by supervising Trenton Police Sgt. Charles Lamin, who … Read more
BEIJING — Twenty-two seconds of real-life police drama have riveted and divided many in China over officers’ powers to use force against irate residents — including a woman clutching an infant. A video taken by an onlooker has spread online since Friday, showing a woman in Shanghai arguing with an officer over a parking fine. … Read more
When Jennifer Bartley stopped her car next to the Pratt Street pavilion in the spring of 2014, what she saw stunned her. On the sidewalk of Baltimore’s premier tourist spot 25-year-old Calvin Wilkes was bleeding from the mouth as a police officer pinned him to the ground. “There was no way to describe this other … Read more
Rob Liese says he lost two years of work and racked up $75,000 in medical bills after being brutalized by an officer in an Orlando police holding cell. The incident happened in 2014 and was recorded by surveillance cameras. Officer Peter Delio was seen kneeing a handcuffed Liese in the stomach. The attack did a … Read more
The country watched in outrage last week as Salt Lake City Police Detective Jeff Payne forcibly arrested burn unit nurse Alex Wubbels for (properly) refusing to allow Payne to take a blood sample from an unconscious crime victim in late July. Surprisingly, Payne’s superior officers did not find his behavior concerning enough to remove him … Read more
AURORA – A 23-year-old woman is suing three Aurora police officers who she says slammed her to the ground and choked her during a 2015 arrest — an arrest recorded on surveillance cameras. Lawyers for OyZhana Williams filed the civil rights lawsuit in federal court Monday morning accusing the officers of beating her and lying … Read more
Nearly three months later, Tatyana Hargrove still can’t talk about what happened to her on June 18 without tearing up. It had been a sweltering Sunday when, on a bike ride back from shopping for a Father’s Day gift, Hargrove was suddenly stopped by police officers in Bakersfield, Calif. The officers had been looking for … Read more
The NYPD is being sued by a police accountability group for refusing to disclose records on the policing of last year’s J’Ouvert and West Indian American Day parades in Brooklyn. In a press release Thursday, Equality for Flatbush demanded the NYPD reveal the exact number and types of officers and resources deployed during the Labor … Read more
Law enforcement excesses grab an ever-growing share of headlines. Doors kicked in, people killed, dogs shot, phone lines tapped, curfews imposed—they’re all examples of official overreaching at that unpleasant intersection of private activity and state disapproval. For some people, the implication of such abuses is that more scrutiny and the right people in charge will … Read more
CHICAGO — On Monday, the Chicago Public Schools announced that a pilot program launched last year in which students are taught about a police torture scandal that has dogged the city and the police department. The episode will now be part of the curriculum for every 8th grader and high school freshman in the nation’s … Read more