Nearly seven years after transient Kelly Thomas was killed in an encounter with police, two former officers involved in the incident are waging an ongoing legal battle to get their jobs back with the Fullerton Police Department in addition to retroactive pay. An Orange County Superior Court judge will decide whether the Fullerton City Council … Read more
Montana – A former Stevensville school resource officer who resigned his post earlier this month has been charged with a sex crime involving a child. Samuel Steven Fawcett, 37, was arrested Wednesday on a warrant. He posted a $50,000 bond and was released. Fawcett will appear before Ravalli County Justice Jim Bailey on July 19 … Read more
The oldest member of a deeply corrupt Baltimore police unit was sentenced Friday to 18 years, becoming the sixth member of the now-disbanded squad to head to federal prison. U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake handed down the punishment to former Gun Trace Task Force member Daniel Hersl, who had a reputation as a dirty officer … Read more
Do police treat some suspects differently than others? Many are saying this short, 30-second-long video proves they do. There are two suspects, one of them the crowd confirmed was the guy the cops were looking for. Officers cuffed him and ignored him. Then they swarmed an African American man, who some witnesses say was simply … Read more
US Border Patrol agents captured and detained a French woman for two weeks on accusations that she illegally crossed over the US-Canada border while jogging. The woman, Cedella Roman, had been visiting her mother in British Columbia in May when she went for a jog. At one point, Roman accidentally crossed the international boundary in … Read more
A Dos Palos man says law enforcement officers have not explained why they came onto his property about a month ago, killed his dog and urinated on a fence. George Aguaristi filed a $1 million claim with Merced County for the loss of Samson, a 5-year-old pit bull he calls his “best friend” and “son,” … Read more
PHOENIX – A blind man is pleading for the charges against him to be dropped after, what he calls, an honest misunderstanding. Marco Zepeda says on Friday he was trying to find an open urinal in the QuikTrip restroom at 83rd Avenue and McDowell Road. “I didn’t hear anybody coming out,” he said, adding he … Read more
In a terrifying traffic stop, a man was told to get on the ground by police while his wife was in labor inside the car. James Reiner, who is speaking to INSIDE EDITION about his ordeal, tried to explain that they were rushing to the hospital, but the cop just wouldn’t listen. The incident was … Read more
Critics say changes are needed to a system that sees hundreds of people die following fatal police encounters, and virtually no criminal consequences for officers. The comments come in reaction to a CBC News investigation that found criminal charges were laid against 18 police officers involved in fatal encounters since 2000, with only two ending … Read more
It’s no secret that racists have been emboldened under the Trump administration, removing their white hoods and marching proudly in the streets. The sight has grown ever-more common since the so-called “Unite the Right” rally stormed down on Charlottesville, Virginia last summer and left one activist, Heather Heyer, dead after a deranged neo-Nazi plowed his … Read more
MESA, AZ – The Mesa Police Department is once again facing allegations of excessive force, but this time, it’s due to how officers used handcuffs in an incident dating back to November 2017. Late Tuesday, Mesa attorney Anthony Ramirez released body camera footage from the Mesa Police Department, showing his client, 30-year-old Terrence Kirkpatrick, getting … Read more
SACRAMENTO — California would lead the U.S. in significantly changing the standard for when police can fire their weapons under legislation that cleared its first hurdle Tuesday after an emotionally charged debate over deadly shootings that have roiled the country. It’s time to change a “reasonable force” standard that hasn’t been updated in California since … Read more