Nicholas Iovino | Courthouse News Service SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – After less than a day of deliberations, an eight-member jury on Thursday found four San Francisco police officers did not use excessive force in the 2014 shooting death of Alex Nieto. Nieto’s family sued police officers Jason Sawyer, Roger Morse, Richard Schiff and Nathan Chew, … Read more
Adam Klasfeld | Courthouse News Service MANHATTAN (CN) – The late Ramarley Graham’s mother choked back tears as she told reporters that federal prosecutors will not convene a grand jury to investigate the police officer who shot and killed her unarmed son more than four years ago. “The justice system doesn’t seem like our kids … Read more
Nick Divito | Courthouse News Service WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CN) – Police will not face charges after a mother of eight accused of stealing crab legs was found dead in her jail cell, New York’s top prosecutor said Thursday. Raynette Turner, 42, was found dead on July 27, three days after Mount Vernon police arrested … Read more
Nicholas Iovino | Courthouse News Service SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Jurors heard opening statements Tuesday in the civil trial of four San Francisco police officers who shot Alex Nieto to death two years ago, claiming they mistook the 28-year-old student and security guard’s Taser for a gun. Protesters rallied outside the Federal Courthouse as the … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Inglewood, CA — On Sunday, police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Manchester Boulevard around 3:10 am. When police arrived, they engaged in a 45-minute long standoff before opening fire on the man and woman inside the vehicle, killing them both.+ In the news … Read more
2016/02/29 Deb Hipp | Courthouse News Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. (CN) – After awakening a naked woman in her bed, Kansas police shot her to death when she complied with their order to show them where she kept her gun, her daughter claims in court. Michele Choate sued Gardner, Kan., and its police Officers Robert … Read more
Ted Wheeler | Courthouse News Service 2016/02/24 OMAHA (CN) – The family of a “Cops” film crew member who was shot to death by an Omaha police officer while embedded with the police sued the city for wrongful death on Tuesday. Bryce David Dion, who had worked on “Cops” for seven years as a sound … Read more
Rose Bouboushian | Courthouse News Service CHICAGO (CN) – A white Chicago policeman shot an unarmed black man to death and then lied that his victim had a gun, but a surveillance video shows otherwise, his aunt claims in court. Laquida Cockerham, administrator of her nephew Alfontish Cockerham’s estate, sued Chicago and police Officer Anthony … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project 2016/02/19 In America, there are two forms of the justice system — one for those inside the system — and one for everyone else. Carroll County, GA — In September, on a rainy Saturday night, Georgia state trooper Anthony Scott was flexing his above the law privilege and … Read more
Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project Cops Killed Nearly 4 People a Day in January – More Deaths a Day Than Most Countries Kill Per Year In January 2016, police killed 113 people — at least one person was fatally gunned down by a cop every day that month. One particularly deadly day, … Read more
“Well, f**k me,” was the first reaction of this writer when presented with these facts. A sea of disbelief with a touch of dissociation came over me. Then I realized I have to spread the truth if we are going to hand over a free nation to our children, because burying our heads in the sand … Read more
Christine Stuart | Courthouse News Service HARTFORD (CN) – A long Taser firing coupled with head trauma killed a drunken 22-year-old who lay helpless – “unarmed, virtually unclothed and vastly outnumbered by police officers,” his brother claims in a federal complaint. Noting that Connecticut’s chief medical examiner ruled the 2014 death of Jose Maldonado a … Read more