At 3:30 a.m. Monday, May 28, 2012, Miami-Dade County Police Officer Luis Perez drove his squad car through the Hammocks area of West Kendall on a hot and humid morning. He passed a teenager, later identified as 16-year-old Sebastian Gregory, wearing a baggy black sweater, black pants, beanie cap, black shoes, and what Perez later … Read more
NEWARK, Ohio – A Newark police officer was arrested over the weekend, accused of discharging his firearm from his pickup truck. Authorities say they got called to Surrey Drive and found shell casings. Officers say they were also near North 21st Street and State Route 16, where they heard more shots, and saw a pickup … Read more
The Muskogee, Oklahoma Police Department released the video from a fatal on-duty police shooting (scroll down for video). The whole thing was captured by an officer’s body camera, and what it shows is horrifying. Officer Chansey McMillin can be seen shooting and killing 21-year-old Terence D. Walker. The only observable reason why he as shot … Read more
A bystander who was shot by Goshen police this spring while they pursued an armed suspect is now suing the city of Goshen and the officer who shot him. Fernando Cuevas, 68, was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot once in the shoulder by Sgt. Gregory Smith. The lawsuit was filed last week … Read more
SANTA CLARA — The city of Santa Clara will pay $1.7 million to a man who suffered “life-altering” injuries after a police officer fired two rubber bullets that hit him in the head. Handed down last week, the verdict followed a jury trial in which lawyers for Austin Calhoun argued Santa Clara police Officer Mike … Read more
CHICAGO — A former Chicago police officer was sentenced to five years in federal prison Monday for using unreasonable force in an incident in which he unleashed a barrage of gunfire at a car full of teenagers. The sentencing for Marco Proano, 42, comes after he was convicted in August of using unreasonable force and … Read more
BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. — We’re learning more about the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputy who shot at three people in the last four months, killing one of them. Turns out, Deputy Charles Coggins has been in the hot seat before. According to his personnel file, Coggins got in trouble in May 2015 for not submitting audio … Read more
A veteran Chicago police officer faces sentencing Monday for his excessive force conviction for firing 16 times into a moving vehicle filled with teens. Marco Proano, 42, was the first Chicago cop in memory to be convicted in federal court of criminal charges stemming from an on-duty shooting. His attorney is seeking probation, arguing the … Read more
MESQUITE, Texas – Police in Mesquite said Tuesday that a man suspected of breaking into a pickup truck, and was then shot by an officer after a confrontation last Wednesday, is actually the owner of the vehicle. Lyndo Jones was still charged with one count of evading arrest, said Lt. Brian Parrish with the Mesquite … Read more
A jury has rejected a claim in a lawsuit that a Morgan County sheriff’s officer used excessive force when he shot a woman in the left eye at the end of a 2012 police chase. After deliberating for about an hour at the conclusion of a five-day trial in Farmington’s 2nd District Court, jurors returned … Read more
AUBURN, N.Y. — Cassie Mattes was inside the Auburn Domino’s Saturday night when she noticed a man “smash his body into the door.” The 26-year-old assistant manager watched as the man picked himself up and moved away from the restaurant. “It caught my attention,” she said. Mattes said the man appeared to be highly intoxicated … Read more
NEW PHILADELPHIA, OH – The former Newcomerstown police officer accused of shooting himself, causing panic, an hours-long manhunt and a statewide blue alert pleaded guilty on Nov. 8. The Ohio Attorney General’s Office said Bryan Eubanks, 37, pleaded guilty to the following charges: One count of inducing panic, a felony of the fifth degree. One … Read more