Five Cops Plead Guilty in Case of Deadly Shooting Spree on Multiple Citizens

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

Cop Says He Shot a Black Man to Death Because There Was a “Gun” — Until This Video Proved He Was Lying

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

Cop Never Fired After 2 Fits of Road Rage – On the 3rd Fit, He Shot a Lady in the Head for Honking

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

Shooting at Police Station Leaves 3 Officers Dead – Shooter Was a Cop

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

Innocent Mother of 5 and Mentally Ill Boy Shot to Death by Cops After 911 Call for Help

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

Hero Security Guard Diffuses Hostage Situation Only to be Fatally Shot by Late Arriving Cops

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