A woman who was caught allegedly speeding past a police cruiser in Georgia had her fate decided by a coin toss, shocking bodycam video shows. Sarah Webb drove past the cruiser in April, and was pulled over. As she sat in her car, damning vision obtained by 11Alive shows officer Courtney Brown return to the … Read more
An elected state House representative for Arizona’s 5th District, Paul Mosley, bragged to a sheriff’s deputy that he drives at speeds of up to 140 miles per hour, claiming legislative immunity. The interaction took place at around 4:30 p.m. on March 27th, 2018, according to public records, when Mosley (R-Lake Havasu City) was pulled over … Read more
The press wants access to footage that might show what Broward County sheriff’s deputies were doing during the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School earlier this year. Broward County officials would rather not give it to them. After a judge ruled in the media’s favor, the school board and the state attorney appealed the … Read more
CHICAGO — A police officer has resigned amid an investigation into his response to a woman who said she was being harassed in a Chicago forest preserve for wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rican flag. Footage of the incident, captured on Facebook Live last month, has gone viral, and it even drew the attention … Read more
Police came to North Memorial Medical Center looking for an armed man in a car. They found John Powell, a 48-year-old Minneapolis man, and arrested him at gunpoint on a rainy summer night. But Powell was black — not the white or light-skinned Hispanic person the caller had described. And he was holding a set … Read more
For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has struggled to combat secretive cliques of deputies who bonded over aggressive, often violent police work and branded themselves with matching tattoos. A federal judge called out the problem nearly 30 years ago, accusing deputies of running a “neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang” named the Vikings within the … Read more
FAIRVIEW, Tenn. – A man said a police officer with a grudge arrested him for shoplifting even though he didn’t steal a thing. According to a complaint, a Hickman County man was wrongfully arrested for shoplifting at the Walmart in Fairview. Staley Forsythe said he was targeted by his adopted son’s biological father who happens … Read more
A man was caught on camera berating a woman for wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt in a video posted on July 7. Also captured for posterity: a nearby police officer refusing to intervene. The video has gone viral on social media. One Facebook post has been viewed 1.4 million times with more than 31,000 … Read more
A former local state trooper who pleaded guilty in state district court this week to two felony counts of malfeasance in office took to Facebook on Friday and said he was indeed guilty of doing something that he said “hundreds, if not thousands of troopers” have also done. Jimmy Allen Rogers, 35, resigned from Troop … Read more
Jazmia Inserillo was a rookie New York Police Department officer in her early twenties when a new supervisor took over at her precinct in Queens. The first time she met Lt. Jason Margolis, a hulking figure with big eyes and sagging cheeks, he seemed friendly enough. He liked to be on a first-name basis with … Read more
MADISON, Wis. – A former state trooper from Cambridge was sentenced Thursday on five counts of possession of child pornography in Jefferson County. Frank Richard Torrez was charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography in February 2017. Torrez pleaded guilty to half of those counts in December. Torrez was sentenced Thursday to three … Read more
When $50 went missing during the choir class’s sixth-grade field trip, Lanier Middle School’s police officer informed its assistant principal that sometimes “girls like to hide things in their bras and panties.” The assistant principal then ordered the choir’s 22 female members—it isn’t clear whether there were any boys in the choir—to report to the … Read more