9 Nov 2015 Just when you thought the NYPD couldn’t get any more disturbing, word has just leaked about a commemorative coin given to a detective, for four “justified kills.” Cassandra Fairbanks reports for Addicting Info, that the “challenge coin” was given “to honor a NYPD Detective for the four people he has killed during … Read more
18 May 2015 Judging from the video, it’s hard to imagine a less threatening figure than David Levi Dehmann in his last moments. When Mount Vernon, Ohio, police first came into contact with him on April 21, Dehmann, was reportedly drunk, half-naked and lying on a stranger’s patio next to a pool of his own … Read more
19 May 2015 A Texas police officer who killed an unarmed Mexican immigrant won’t face criminal charges in the shooting, a grand jury decided Monday. Police in Grapevine, Texas, had argued that an altercation erupted after Rubén García Villalpando disobeyed the officer’s commands during a traffic stop after a high-speed chase. Villalpando’s family argued that … Read more
Texas police are trying to explain why they gunned down a suicidal man, who turned out to be a police officer himself. The mother of 25-year-old Cesar Cuellar, a Webb County sheriff’s deputy, said earlier that the Laredo police officers who gunned her son down did not have a good reason to shoot him. The … Read more
Minneapolis police officer Matthew Harrity testified Thursday before a grand jury in the fatal police shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond in an alley in south Minneapolis last summer. Wearing his police uniform, Harrity walked into the Hennepin County Government Center shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday with attorney Fred Bruno. It was unclear how long his … Read more
GARFIELD COUNTY, Okla. – An Oklahoma sheriff and three other people were charged with first-degree manslaughter connected to the in-custody death of a man in 2016. On Wednesday, Garfield County Sheriff Jerry Lee Niles, Jr. was charged with first-degree manslaughter in the 2016 death of Anthony Dewayne Huff. Niles was also charged with two misdemeanor … Read more
Aug 5, 2016 CHICAGO — A family lawyer said Friday that 18-year-old Paul O’Neal was “executed” when he was fatally shot by Chicago police after a July 28 confrontation over an alleged stolen car. Chicago authorities released video Friday of the moments before the shooting and the incident’s aftermath. The shooting itself was not captured … Read more
June 28, 2007 BENTONVILLE, Ark. – A former state trooper was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail for shooting to death an unarmed, mentally disabled man he mistook for a fugitive. Larry Norman pleaded guilty in May to misdemeanor negligent homicide and admitted he mistakenly shot Joseph Erin Hamley, 21, on March 7, 2006, … Read more
The NYPD sergeant on trial for the fatal shooting of a bat-wielding Bronx woman has been found not guilty in the woman’s death, a judge ruled Thursday morning. Bronx Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary said he found Sgt. Hugh Barry not guilty of all charges — including murder — in the Oct. 2016 shooting of … Read more
A judge has thrown out the murder indictments of three Washington County deputies involved in a suspect’s fatal Tasing. In December, a grand jury indicted Deputies Henry Copeland, Michael Howell, and Rhett Scott on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault. The three are accused of Tasing Eurie Martin to death last summer on Deepstep … Read more
An audio recording of police dash-cam video footage of Andrew Kearse — who died while in police custody after his May 2017 arrest — reveals that he was struggling to catch his breath and repeatedly yelled “I can’t breathe,” while being transported in a squad car to an upstate New York police station. The 36-year-old’s … Read more
Jay Cicinelli was one of two former Fullerton, California cops who was acquitted in the brutal 2011 beating death of Kelly Thomas. This much well known. What many don’t realize is this killer cop has been receiving $40,000 in an annual pension, paid out in tax-payer dollars from the City of Los Angeles. Former Officer … Read more