Vancouver Island parents say they believe they were doing the right thing when they tackled and restrained a man they allege was in their Port Alberni home to have sex with their underage daughter. RCMP officers responded to a call about a disturbance at a residence in the 3600-block of Bruce Street shortly before 12:30 … Read more
Almost a year ago, a group of bounty hunters kicked in the door of a Lolo man’s home and found him asleep in bed with his wife and 4-year-old daughter. The six-person team, wearing body armor and carrying semiautomatic rifles, pulled the man outside, handcuffed him, put him in their vehicle and drove away. The … Read more
A 79-year-old woman’s interaction with a longtime Sarasota, Florida, deputy sheriff began with a simple call for help. It ended with that officer allegedly forging checks and attempting to kill the woman and frame it as a suicide, according to a legal affidavit and a law enforcement official. Detective and patrol deputy Frankie Bybee was … Read more
Olander Holloway paused to wipe away tears as she sat facing the disgraced ex-cop whose botched response to a domestic-violence incident may have contributed to the death of her son, New Orleans Police Officer Daryle Holloway. “I have wondered about your conscience and if you have one,” Olander Holloway said. “I don’t remember you ever … Read more
It was Andrew Craig Sustaita’s own colleagues at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office who arrested him for obscenity in January 2017. A high-tech crime unit within the office uncovered a video of the then-deputy engaged in a sex act with a small dog on a “pay-to-play” bestiality website. He was immediately fired upon his arrest, … Read more
On-duty misconduct by Minnesota law enforcement officers has become an expensive proposition. Over the past 11 years, at least $60.8 million has been paid out statewide to people who have made misconduct allegations, according to data compiled by the Star Tribune. From 2007 to 2017, jurisdictions in Minnesota have made at least 933 payouts to … Read more
Michigan – A young woman with special needs says she thought she was going to die after police officers threw her to the ground and handcuffed her inside the Livonia Walmart. When the Kozma family couldn’t get an apology from Livonia police, they sued the city and Walmart. Those lawsuits have now been resolved, but … Read more
07 Jul 2015 Dashcam video released this week shows a Georgia deputies pleading with officers to go easy on him after he allegedly shot his wife with a military-style assault rifle. Earlier this year, Aiken County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Blakley was charged with involuntary manslaughter after he said that he accidentally shot his wife in … Read more
17 Oct 2016 An Illinois family was the subject of a racist police raid on Friday as officers were searching for a murder suspect. The police, the DeKalb County sheriff’s deputies, and the Sycamore police showed up at the family home of Eric Nabors and surrounded the place with guns and dogs, according to the … Read more
30 March 2012 A video published to YouTube on Friday appears to show a police officer at a Walmart store in Houston, Texas threatening several black males with a Taser, then claiming he would arrest them, apparently because they cowered away from his weapon. Reached by Raw Story, a Houston police spokesman said it was … Read more
13 Sept 2017 A viral video shows a police officer taunting a black man and appearing to threaten him by saying, “you’d be the first one I’d shoot if I had a gun.” According to the Washington Post, the cell phone-recorded video shows an unnamed West Midlands Police officer in the U.K. “joking” with a … Read more
27 Aug 2015 A black Ohio man got a police officer to admit to him on video that he followed him for nearly two miles and pulled him over for making “direct eye contact,” talk show host David Pakman reported. “As suspicious as ‘making direct eye contact’ may be to a police officer, doing the … Read more