Police released body camera video of an arrest to show exactly what happened after an excessive force lawsuit was filed. Alton Corey claims police officers showed up to his door and slammed him into a wall, leaving him hurt and bloodied. He filed an excessive force lawsuit against the city of Champaign and the two … Read more
Three Humboldt County jail inmates say child-molestation suspect Cory Jordan Fisher Sr. sexually assaulted them while he was still working in the facility as a correctional officer. In claims filed against the county, John Doe I says Fisher bullied him into performing oral sex. Jon Doe II claims that Fisher, after squeezing the man’s penis, … Read more
GEORGETOWN, Ohio – Ninety-six seconds. That’s how long two Brown County Sheriff’s Office employees were in the jail cell of Adult Detention Center inmate Zachary Goldson the morning he died, according to new evidence obtained by the I-Team. Twenty-three minutes and 42 seconds. That’s the amount of time state investigators said Goldson was alone in … Read more
The city of Colorado Springs had to dish out a $41,000 settlement because of the illegal actions of 2 police officers when they confronted a man who was filming from a public sidewalk outside a police substation. Terrell Clayton was taking pictures of police vehicles entering and exiting the parking lot at the Falcon substation … Read more
A New Jersey police officer has admitted to having sex with two teenage girls while he was on duty. Suspended Rockaway Township police officer Wilfredo Guzman pleaded guilty on Thursday in Morristown to two counts of official misconduct. The Daily Record reports he agreed to forfeit his law enforcement job and will never seek public … Read more
In 2006, the Supreme Court ruled in Hudson v. Michigan that evidence seized during raids in which police violate the “knock and announce” requirement is not subject to the exclusionary rule. That rule says that evidence seized during a search that violates the Fourth Amendment can’t be used against a suspect at trial. It’s meant … Read more
JOHNSTOWN — A former Fulton County Sheriff’s Department corrections officer won’t see jail time after being sentenced Tuesday in City Court to probation. Eric D. Sweet, 47, of 347 W. State St. Ext., town of Johnstown, was sentenced on an official misconduct charge after saying last November he would shoot jail staff and inmates. Sweet … Read more
Victorian police faked more than a quarter of a million roadside breath tests in what appears to be a deliberate ruse to dupe the system. An internal investigation has found 258,000 alcohol breath tests were falsified over 5½ years, The Age has learned. It represents about 1.5 per cent of the 17.7 million tests that … Read more
Standing on the front steps of First Congregational Church of Oakland late last month, Nichola Torbett issued a declaration. “We can no longer tolerate the trauma inflicted on our communities by policing,” Torbett, a white church volunteer, said in front of churchgoers who held photos of African Americans shot dead by law enforcement. The church, … Read more
When John Sebastian was locked in one of El Paso County’s bare, concrete medical cells in 2012, it was supposed to be for his own good. Instead, he said, it made things worse. Sebastian, a 49-year-old father of four with no criminal history, had been arrested for aggravated robbery, a crime he says he committed … Read more
In a win for privacy rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that police may not search the area around a private home without a warrant, even when they think they have seen stolen property on the premises. In other words, police can’t just look on property or peek in windows, see something they … Read more
San Salvador, El Salvador – The United States has quietly funded and equipped elite paramilitary police officers in El Salvador who are accused of illegally executing gang members, CNN has learned. Successive US administrations have pumped tens of millions of dollars into Salvadoran law enforcement and military to shore up the government’s “Mano Dura” or … Read more