2015/10/24 Almost a year after outrage that Phillip White’s prejudiced tweets created across the nation, the San Jose police Department has decided to fire the 20-year veteran cop. In December last year he wrote provoking messages on Twitter in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. In fact, some of his words were perceived as … Read more
A teary-eyed Yolanda Salvador looks out the window sitting in her son’s room. He would have been 25 years old, probably graduated from college and on his way to building a successful photography career, had he been alive. Julio Reyes-Salvador lost his life two years ago in an accident that left his car looking like … Read more
2015/10/16 A police officer fired seven shots at a couple because they were in his driveway. Two teenagers who were on their way to a party on New Year’s Day 2014 did not realize that they would find themselves running for their lives for a simple mistake. It was supposed to be a night of … Read more
Officers handcuffed a man and threatened to him without hearing his side of the story. When Mateo Romero pulled into a stranger’s driveway because he needed to stop in an emergency, he did not expect that the matter would turn into a grand debacle. On morning of July 7, 2014 the eminent artist from Cochiti … Read more
The Johnsons’ home was erroneously searched by police officers as the family was threatened and an assault rifle was held to the father’s head. On February 22, 2013 several intruders barged into the Johnsons’ two-bedroom apartment in the early hours of the morning after kicking the door. With their guns drawn the assailants restrained two … Read more
2015/10/12 How would you feel if within 24 hours you go from being a successful corporate executive to being forced to become a patient at a mental ward where no one believes you? It feels straight out of a psycho thriller, but this is the reality that Long Island resident Kamilah Brock faced on September … Read more
He was the president of the department’s Police Officers Association, had spent twenty odd years with the police force, and was a cop at one of the largest school districts in the country – it would not be wrong to expect this man to display model civic sense. However, Clark County School District police … Read more
Just before 10 PM on Sunday night, witnesses say they saw a police cruiser bolting down the road. The vehicle’s lights were not on; there was nothing that indicated it was an emergency that the police officer behind the wheel was headed to. Then there was a loud boom. Apparently the police vehicle had struck … Read more
2015/10/07 Lester Brown, 42, was still complaining of dizziness and shoulder pain well after he had an unsavory encounter with a Zephyrhills police officer. Florida cop Tim Claussen’s body-cam recording showed disturbing footage of his interaction with Brown. On the evening of September 9 Claussen decided to pay the African American man a visit in relation … Read more
CAROLINA — A year ago the Tylers decided to foster a 17-year old African American boy named DeShawn Curri. Ricky and Stacy Tyler have three other children. “He is my baby boy just as much as my other three children are,” says his mother. Curri has never been fond of having his photographs taken, which … Read more
2015/10/02 There is nothing more annoying for a light sleeper to be woken up in the early hours of the morning. Perhaps, that is what upset state trooper Kissinger Barreau when he heard knocking on the door of his New Jersey home at 2 am on Sunday morning. It turned out that 18-year-old John Marasco … Read more
INDIANA — It seems the Indianapolis police department is dealing with another case of drunken driving by an officer. Bernardo Zavalza, who has been with the department for seven years, was off duty when he crashed his cruiser into a pedestrian killing the man instantly on Thursday last week. The man has been identified as … Read more