Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Beltsville, MD — On Thursday the town of Beltsville, Maryland was rocked by the tragic shooting of Eulalio Tordil’s estranged wife, Gladys Tordil. Thursday afternoon, Tordil walked up to his wife at High Point High School as she picked up their children and shot her. The incident was captured … Read more
John Vibes | The Free Thought Project Bel Air, MD – Police were called to a drunk officer’s residence this week after he fired off multiple rounds inside his house. The officer was reportedly drunk and suicidal, and firing shots in random directions. When police arrived on the scene he attempted to fire at them … Read more
Dan McCue | Courthouse News Service Five former New Orleans police officers will plead guilty to reduced charges stemming from deadly shootings on the city’s Danziger Bridge in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Chief U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt set aside their earlier convictions after a misconduct scandal erupted over online comments made by federal … Read more
Victoria Prieskop | Courthouse News Service ALBUQUERQUE (CN) – Albuquerque will pay $6.5 million to a former police detective who was shot nine times by his own lieutenant during an undercover bust of $60 worth of drugs. Det. Jacob Grant was shot during a drug buy on Jan. 9, 2015. Lt. Greg Brachle missed the … 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
Nicholas Iovino | Courthouse News Service SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Responding to calls for reform after a fatal police shooting, the San Francisco Police Department on Wednesday unveiled new training methods that require officers to shoot only two rounds at a time. The changes came more than two months after five officers shot 26-year-old Mario … Read more
John Vibes | The Free Thought Project Houston, TX — It was recently revealed in court documents that a former police officer who shot a woman in the head during a road rage incident has a history marred with violence and anger issues. Kenneth Caplan, a reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6, was charged … Read more
Izzy Kapnick | Courthouse News Service WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CN) – A jury delivered a $23 million verdict for a South Florida man who suffered disabling spinal injuries when a policeman gunned him down, mistaking his cellphone for a weapon. The verdict, handed down Feb. 4, holds Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Sgt. Adams Lin … Read more
2015/12/29 John Vibes | The Free Thought Project San Juan, PR — Police officer Guarionex Candelario held a number of his co-workers hostage this week and killed three of them before he was apprehended and taken into custody. The incident allegedly began with a simple argument at work, but the police department has not revealed any … Read more
Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project A nineteen-year-old engineering student and a 55-year-old mother of five were shot and killed by Chicago police answering an emergency report of a domestic disturbance — but the incident already echoes a spate of impossible-to-justify killings at the hands of Chicago PD. Relatives and friends of the two … Read more
William Grigg | The Free Thought Project Douglas County, GA — Bobby Daniels was a peace officer by trade – a private security guard employed at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta. When he learned that his emotionally troubled 25-year-old son Bias had suffered a breakdown and was holding a fellow security guard at gunpoint in a … Read more