The Chicago Police Department started an investigation into a cellphone video on social media which shows a plainclothes officer repeatedly hitting a black man in the head while he was on the ground. According to NBC Chicago, family members shared the video, which they said was taken around 7:30 p.m. on Monday in the city’s … Read more
The footage is startling at times and shows a pregnant women being hurled to the ground and others being unnecessarily kicked and punched in the head. The footage is a prime example why Dennis Flores started El Grito de Sunset Park Cop Watch, a group that films the police in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Dennis was … Read more
New leaked police body camera footage from 2016 shows a sergeant repeatedly stunning a handcuffed man in the same Dallas suburb where a fired cop fatally shot 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. A white officer with Balch Springs Police Department can be seen shoving the stun gun into the cuffed man’s side, prompting him to cry out … Read more
Nathan Stanley III (left) Pittsburgh Police Officer Raymond Toomey (right) The following statement was issued Friday by the Pittsburgh Public Safety Department: “Pittsburgh Police Officer Raymond Toomey has been assigned to the warrant office pending the outcome of investigations into an arrest he made on the South Side. The temporary assignment will prevent Officer Toomey … Read more
LAS VEGAS (AP) — An unarmed man’s death after Las Vegas police grabbed him in a neck hold has put a much-criticized law enforcement technique to subdue people back in the spotlight. Las Vegas police train to use a version of a chokehold designed to avoid restricting the airway while cutting the flow of blood … Read more
In Balch Springs, Texas, where a police officer recently shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards as the teenager’s car was driving away. The police department had video that showed what happened was inconsistent with the officer’s initial statement, thanks to the body-worn camera on the officer. Three days after Jordan was killed, the officer who … Read more
Two police officers in Georgia have been fired after videos showed them separately punching a 21-year old man in the face and then kicking him in the head as he lay on the ground in handcuffs during a routine traffic stop. The Gwinnett County Police Department said that a “very disturbing” cellphone video taken by … Read more
Give the officer some credit, folks. He did have a gun in case someone’s dog was nearby. A police officer stood by, chatting on his cellphone while the men rescued the 62-yr-old woman, who is now in critical condition. According to witnesses the woman was trapped in her vehicle for at least six minutes. Update: … Read more
BOSTON — The Annie Dookhan deception continues to unfold. Dookhan was a government chemist who tampered with thousands of cases, creating fake “evidence” that caused the imprisonment of countless innocent Americans. These innocent men and women were rounded up and locked in prison cages while prosecutors scored successful “convictions” because of Dookhan’s fake evidence. Many lost … Read more
After nearly two decades, a now-former officer has been caught in a case involving the gruesome slayings of two women. The now-former officer Edward T. Carter, 43, is being charged with two counts of murder. The charges stem from the 1994 killings of Candace Belt, 22, and Gloria Ross, 18, both of whom worked at the … Read more
DETROIT — Tywonn Mitchell, 20, and his older brother Naybon Moore, 26, were driving to a restaurant back in May when suddenly, they say, Detroit police officers began profiling them and following them. They had done nothing wrong and have no criminal record. The cops tailed them all the way to the restaurant, actually followed … Read more
“Law enforcement officers now are part of the revenue gathering system. The ranks of cops are in competition with one another and intra-departmentally. It becomes a game. Policing isn’t about keeping streets safe, it’s about statistical success. The question for them is, ‘Who can put the most people in jail?’” Friends, those are the words … Read more