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Residents, community activists and elected officials on Sunday called on Mayor Brandon Johnson to fire police officers with ties to the Oath Keepers extremist group and form a task force to address the problem.
Those gathered at Movement on Montrose, 2951 W. Montrose in Irving Park, urged the mayor to act on the Office of the Inspector General’s recommendations for the task force and to reopen the probe into the eight officers, saying they didn’t trust the CPD investigation.
“The OIG’s office has compared this scandal to a time in the 1960s when a CPD officer was fired for being a KKK member,” said Grace Patino of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, one of the organizers of the event. “Make no mistake, nothing about this situation is normal or should be made to feel normal.”
ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico (KVIA) -- Today, an Otero County jury found Dominic De La O guilty of the 2023 murder of Alamogordo Police Officer Anthony Ferguson.
"De La O was also found guilty of multiple additional charges, including tampering with evidence, aggravated fleeing of a law enforcement officer, criminal trespass and two counts of resisting, evading, or obstructing an officer," a spokesperson for the Twelfth Judicial District Attorney of New Mexico's Office said Friday.
JACKSON, Miss. — The mayor of Mississippi's capital city, the top prosecutor in the state's largest county and a Jackson City Council member have been indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges in a case that has already forced the resignation of another city council member, according to federal court records unsealed Thursday.
The charges against Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens and council member Aaron B. Banks were brought after two people working for the FBI posed as real estate developers who wanted to build a hotel near the convention center in downtown Jackson and provided payments to officials, including $50,000 for the mayor’s reelection campaign, according to court documents.
SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. (KRCR) - A Northern California county and its sheriff’s office has settled with a family for $300,000.
It’s a saga that involves a goat being seized and then butchered.
Jessica Long hired attorneys who alleged a violation of her family’s right to not be subject to unjust search and seizure.
In 2022, Long’s then-9-year-old daughter joined a youth 4-H program to introduce her to farming, getting the goat Cedar as part of a termination contract with the Shasta District Fair.
CHICAGO - The Chicago Police Department announced charges Wednesday afternoon in the fatal shooting of a Chicago Police officer on the city’s South Side earlier this week.
Darion C. McMillian, 23, faces multiple charges, including one count of first-degree murder of a police officer, one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder of a police officer, one count of residential burglary, one count of unlawful use of a weapon (machine gun) and one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.
The incident began around 8 p.m. on Monday during a traffic stop in the 8000 block of South Ingleside Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood.
LOS ANGELES — Humberto Duran closed his eyes and told his mother what he'd told her so many times before: He was going to die in prison. After all these years, he was sure of it.
"No," she said, from across the visiting room table. "Have faith."
After spending his whole adult life behind bars, by 2010 Duran had finally lost hope. Since entering California prisons, he'd been shot, stabbed and beaten. He had to get a permanent catheter, developed a seizure disorder and began using a wheelchair.
He'd survived riots, fights and years in solitary confinement. He was no longer the feisty teen he'd been in 1993, when he was arrested on suspicion of an East Los Angeles gang murder he insisted he did not commit.
BRADLEY BEACH, NJ – A legal challenge involving four Bradley Beach police officers and the borough’s former Police Chief Leonard Guida now places Mayor Larry Fox at the center of allegations of fostering an abusive, discriminatory workplace. The officers, who are pursuing a lawsuit, claim that Fox, fully aware of years of misconduct by Guida, failed to prevent harassment, retaliation, and racial discrimination, allowing the police chief to target specific officers with impunity. The potential financial fallout could cost Bradley Beach taxpayers millions of dollars in damages, fees, and penalties, with substantial evidence suggesting systemic negligence at the highest levels of borough leadership.
Chicago taxpayers will pay more than $4.5 million to settle three lawsuits claiming Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct.
The Chicago City Council voted to pay $4 million to the family of a man who spent 33 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering a woman in 1989 in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood.
Lee Harris was 36 when he was convicted in 1992 and sentenced to 90 years in prison for murdering 24-year-old Dana Feitler, who was forced to withdraw $400 from an ATM after being kidnapped from the lobby of her apartment building in the city’s most affluent neighborhood.
In Philadelphia, oversight of law enforcement is taking a proactive turn with the Citizens Police Oversight Commission's (CPOC) Auditing and Monitoring Unit taking action. The unit, as detailed in a recent report by the City of Philadelphia, has started conducting real-time audits of the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) misconduct investigations performed by the Internal Affairs Division (IAD) since July 2024.
The Auditing and Monitoring Unit's tasks include ensuring that the police are held accountable and that investigations are fair, complete, and impartial, as the City of Philadelphia has emphasized. Between July and September, they completed 85 audits, providing feedback in 59 cases and a total of 155 individual recommendations. However, there were cases – 15 out of 85, to be exact, that didn't meet the 90-day deadline set for investigations, though the delays were reportedly justified.
RUTLAND, Vermont (Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024) Vermont State Police — Following review of an investigation by the Vermont State Police, the Attorney General’s Office on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, directed VSP to issue a citation to a Rutland City Police Department officer in connection with a shooting that occurred in the city in July 2023.
Sgt. Andrew Plemmons is due to appear for arraignment Friday on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and reckless endangerment. The hearing is expected to occur at 12:30 p.m. in the Criminal Division of Vermont Superior Court in Rutland.
Jacksonville deputies had been mostly quiet amid mounting criticism they were overly physical Saturday in confrontations with rowdy fans attending an SEC football game affectionately known as “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party."
Several cellphone videos of the fights had gone viral and appeared to show deputies responding with disproportionate force to unruly fans. Jeremy Williamson, who recorded one of the clashes, told the Florida Times-Union it was a clear case of police brutality.
HAMDEN, Conn. — A Hamden police officer has been charged with trying to access police records without authorization.
On Wednesday, Officer Jennifer King was arrested by Hamden police detectives on two counts of criminal attempt to commit a computer crime in the third degree. She is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 20. King was released on a $2,500 bond.
Police said that on Oct. 1, Chief E. P. Reynolds was informed that King attempted to have Hamden police dispatchers run a computer check on a name in the law enforcement computer system for unauthorized personal reasons.
Police killed at least 1,329 people in 2023. It’s the deadliest year for police violence since 2013.
Campaign Zero’s Mapping Police Violence (MPV) today released its 2023 analysis, showing it as the deadliest year since records began, with 1,329 people killed by law enforcement. This rise in police violence contrasts with the national decline in homicides and other violent crimes, underscoring a critical public safety threat that disproportionately affects Black and Brown communities.
Complaints and a request for the dismissal of Marco Island Police Chief Tracy Frazzano are in the hands of City Manager Mike McNees, who met with police union representatives on Tuesday and consulted with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) on Wednesday.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 95 submitted a 17-page document to McNees outlining the union's concerns with Frazzano's leadership after five years in the position. The document from the union detailed incidents it considers examples of Frazzano's "lacking in integrity, respect, professionalism, and the overall direction in which she is leading the department."
Ville Platte City Marshals have arrested a Ville Platte Police Officer.
Officer Lumus Lastrapes was booked Monday night on a warrant accusing him of malfeasance in office. Marshals tell us he was arrested without incident, booked into a secure area of the jail, and released a short time later after posting bond.
We've reached out the Ville Platte Police and we'll update this story as soon as we hear from them.
A US House committee will refer former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice for making “criminally false statements” about a state audit that undercounted nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Post has learned.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is accusing Cuomo of falsely saying that he was not involved in prompting, drafting or reviewing the July 6, 2020, report, which low-balled the state’s total nursing home COVID death count by 46%, according to a draft of the criminal referral to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Prosecutors want a judge to raise bail for the Las Vegas police sergeant accused of unlawful arrests and possession of child pornography.
The Clark County District Attorney's Office filed a motion for a bail hearing Tuesday, saying they want Kevin Menon's bail increased to $250,000, cash only. He was released on $100,000 bail over the weekend.
If he's released, prosecutors also want Menon to surrender his passport and guns, receive high-level electronic monitoring, and be subject to a no-contact order with officers who testified as witnesses at the grand jury.
A police sergeant in Colorado is facing domestic violence and child abuse charges, including accusations of torture and making repeated death threats against his ex-wife — allegedly going so far as to talk about his murder obsession with their two children, who have been allegedly sleeping with baseball bats at night for protection, according to cops.
“He wanted to murder someone so he could see what it felt like,” alleges Richard Norton’s arrest affidavit, which was filed by the Longmont Police Department and obtained by Law&Crime on Tuesday, with it citing Norton’s ex-wife and their kids as witnesses, along with their stepfather.
Former Wichita police deputy chief Jose Salcido is one of four finalists for chief of the Topeka Police Department. Salcido was the Wichita Police Department’s first Latino deputy chief.
He resigned Aug. 21, 2023, after roughly 28 years with WPD, which included overseeing criminal investigations. He left WPD and became Friends University’s director of security for six months before joining the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a data analyst for the past five months, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Salcido left after he, former deputy chief Chester Pinkston and Ramsay were blamed for the little or no discipline given to officers who sent racist and inappropriate text messages.
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (FOX 56) — An officer with the Elizabethtown Police Department (EPD) has been suspended after injuring a man who allegedly fired a gun inside Baptist Health Hardin Hospital and threatened patients and staff there on Oct. 19.
The Elizabethtown Police Department said in a news release that Lieutenant Alex Ruiz has been suspended after shooting 39-year-old George Lee Junior of Radcliff on Oct. 19.
The Ottawa Police Service has a policy to deal with camera infractions 'to hold members accountable'
So many Ottawa police officers are getting caught by photo radar and red light cameras, that the Ottawa Police Service has created a separate category to capture statistics for driving-related complaints, according to a new police complaints report.
It is a trend that has been growing for more than a year as the city has rapidly expanded the number of speed and red-light cameras monitoring traffic.
During the third quarter of 2024, internal complaints rose by 278 per cent from a year earlier, according to the report that is part of the agenda for Monday’s Ottawa Police Services Board meeting. Between July and the end of September of 2024, there were 223 internal police complaints compared to 59 for the same period a year earlier.
The Los Angeles district attorney's move to grant two convicted murderers, the Menendez brothers, a chance to get out of prison despite sentences of life without parole has floored a Florida counterpart who noted the premeditated brutality Erik and Lyle Menendez inflicted on their mother.
On Aug. 20, 1989, the brothers walked into their parents' Beverly Hills mansion with shotguns and opened fire as Jose Menendez and Mary "Kitty" Menendez were snacking in front of their living room TV at 10:30 p.m.
"I think not enough is being discussed about the murder of Kitty, the Menendez brothers' mother," Palm Beach State's Attorney Dave Aronberg told Fox News Digital. "There is no credible allegation she was engaged in sexual abuse, and according to what we know…both parents were sitting on the couch, backs turned, watching TV [and] eating ice cream while the two bothers came up behind them and murdered them."
Less than two months after the Durham County Sheriff’s Office charged two former employees, accusing them of having sex with an inmate, it has charged another two workers for separate crimes involving prisoners inside the jail.
One of the defendants is a detention officer; the other is a contract worker, the Durham County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Former Sgt. Nicole Locke, 45, of Raleigh, was arrested Friday on multiple charges. Among them: two counts of felony conspiracy; one count of providing phone/electronics to inmates, also a felony; and one count of misdemeanor conspiracy.
COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — The Collin County Sheriff's Office said it arrested 40-year-old David Villines on Friday, Oct. 25 for online solicitation of a minor.
According to the sheriff's office, Villines, who is a firefighter and paramedic in Oklahoma, was charged after he attempted to meet with a person who he believed was a 15-year-old girl. However, the person was an undercover investigator posing as a minor.
Former Portsmouth police officer Aaron Goodwin is being sued in federal court by a Black man injured in an assault outside a Port City diner last fall.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Concord by Mamadou Dembele, a vice president at Bangor Savings Bank, claims negligence, battery and assault, and seeks monetary damages as a result of being attacked by Goodwin outside Gilley’s Diner on Fleet Street on Nov. 22, 2023.
The lawsuit is considered a diversity action, a legal term for when a federal court has authority to hear a civil lawsuit involving citizens of different states. Dembele lives in New Hampshire, Goodwin in Maine.
A New Jersey appeals court has reversed a lower court’s decision that could have allowed a police officer in Bergen County to get his job back after he claimed was falsely accused of sexual assault.
The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division reversed a lower court’s decision to vacate the termination of Daniel Fugnitti, a police officer in Ridgefield, according to a ruling released Friday.
The appellate court found the trial court erred in overruling a hearing officer’s recommendation to terminate Fugnitti for egregious misconduct that violated the high ethical standards required of police officers.
A Weehawken police officer won’t face any charges after shooting a suspect who hit another cop with a stolen vehicle, a Hudson County grand jury decided.
Weehawken Police Sgt. Vincent Avoletta’s use of force was investigated by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office (HCPO) and supervised by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability, the HCPO announced.
The investigation was presented to Hudson County residents serving on a county grand jury, in accordance with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office’s 2019 Independent Prosecutor Directive (the “Directive”).
A fatal shooting two weeks earlier was still on the officers’ radar.
Gunfire had left a 32-year-old man dead on West Flournoy Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, and police had no suspects. Now, three plainclothes officers from the Chicago Police Department’s Harrison District (11th) were pulling up to a two-flat in the 3800 block of West Flournoy — about a block from the earlier shooting — and found several people standing outside.
Someone else nearby yelled out, “It’s real,” signaling to others that police officers had arrived. It was just before 10 a.m. on April 15, and one of the men, 24-year-old Reginald Clay Jr., was leaning against a nearby vehicle.
A geriatric nurse entering a KFC quick-service restaurant in St James was injured yesterday when a police officer accidentally fired his submachine gun.
The incident happened around 3 p.m. at the outlet at Western Main Road.
Police said nurse Sunik Thornhill, 52, of Diego Martin, sustained an injury to her leg and was taken to the St James Medical Complex for treatment.
When the Express visited the restaurant at 5 p.m. it was open for business.
Investigating police officers had visited the scene earlier.
Defense attorneys for a former Ohio police officer who fatally shot unarmed Black man Andre Hill told jurors in opening statements of his murder trial Thursday he was justified because he thought Hill had a gun and the officer feared for his life.
Prosecutors, however, said Adam Coy’s December 2020 decision to shoot Hill – who they say held a cell phone, not a gun, as he emerged from an acquaintance’s garage in Columbus – was unreasonable and reckless, in part because Hill was complying with Coy’s commands.
“At the end of this case, the state of Ohio will ask you to find that Officer Coy’s use of force was not reasonable; that Andre Hill followed the commands of Officer Coy; that Andre Hill was not a threat,” Franklin County assistant prosecutor Renee Amlin told jurors in a Columbus courtroom Thursday.
A Korean American community organization announced its support for stronger legislation on use of force in New Jersey by police and called for more action in the investigation of Victoria Lee's death.
Lee, 25, was fatally shot by Fort Lee police on July 28. Officers responded to a call from a man who said his sister, Lee, was experiencing a mental health crisis and needed to go to the hospital. Lee's brother told the dispatcher that his sister had a knife.
Lee was holding a water bottle when she was shot by police, as her family and dog watched.
ANTIOCH, Calif. (KGO) -- The United States Department of Justice is investigating the Antioch Police Department, following an FBI investigation that uncovered a racist text scandal. The California Department of Justice is also conducting a separate investigation.
"Me being arrested in 2009, was attacked by the Antioch police, choked unconscious, kicked in the face and called a bunch of names that you now see in the text messages," says Franklin Sterling, talking about some of what he shared with the DOJ.
MORRISON, Colo. — A Morrison Police officer faces criminal charges after being accused of using his handcuffs on his children, cinching them “tight enough to cause pinch marks on their wrists,” 9NEWS Investigates learned.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by 9NEWS Investigates, large portions of which were redacted, Richard Norton was also accused of telling his children that he would break into his ex-wife’s home “to kill her and her husband” and that “he wanted to murder someone so he could see what it felt like.”
A message left Friday afternoon with an attorney representing Norton was not immediately returned.
BECKLEY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A Beckley man has been arrested following a fire that broke out on October 20 on Crestview Drive in Beckley.
The home was that of former West Virginia Governor Hulett C. Smith. David W. Cole, 30, of Beckley, was taken into custody by officers from the West Virginia State Fire Marshal’s Office.
SAN ANTONIO - A former Border Patrol Agent has been sentenced for multiple sex crimes involving children.
According to court documents, Paul Casey Whipple, 41, was arrested in December of 2017, and during the subsequent search of his home, investigators seized evidence that he had been producing and distributing sexually explicit content involving children.
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said they're investigating a shooting by an officer Saturday morning on the city's North Side.
They were called just before 11 a.m. to the 6800 block of North Washtenaw Avenue.
This is a developing story.
HOUSTON (TNND) — Authorities in Texas rescued dozens of women believed to have been recruited by the cartel for sex trafficking. The victims were allegedly found in "deplorable conditions" inside brothels made to look like bars and nightclubs.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and a Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance shut down nine Houston-a area businesses in "Operation Bad Traffic."
More than 80 women, who were potential human trafficking victims, were found in the establishments, in some cases, where "soiled mattresses" were laid out on the floor.
An Allen business owner is fighting back after being arrested during a raid at his vape shop. In a lawsuit, the legal team for the Allen vape and smoke shop owner said their client’s constitutional rights were violated.
It’s the latest in a story NBC 5 has been following since August when Allen police raided nine smoke and vape shops in the area. Sabhie Khan, 70, was one of six people arrested, and he's now facing a charge of manufacturing and distribution of a controlled substance.
This week, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Khan and Hemp Industry leaders of Texas, alleging warrants for the raids that led to six arrests were obtained using unreliable hemp testing methods.
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The El Paso County Elections Department is working with the Sheriff’s Office and other local law enforcement agencies to monitor polling locations during early voting.
Early voting kicked off on Monday, Oct. 21 and lasts through Friday, Nov. 1. Election Day is Nov. 5.
“Each deputy has four or five locations and they’re basically just going place to place checking throughout the day. This offers us some protection on that side of it. But also if there is an issue, we’re able to get to the location quickly because we have somebody in the area,” said Lisa Wise, County election administrator said.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Orange County prosecutors will ask a judge next week to dismiss felony charges against a fired Santa Ana Jail officer accused of doctoring computer logs after an inmate died by suicide on his watch.
New evidence from a review of the case and an interview of the accused jailer has prompted the district attorney’s office to conclude it can no longer meet its burden of proof.
“The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is a cornerstone of our criminal justice system and it is one that must never be forgotten,” said District Attorney Todd Spitzer, in a prepared statement.
KENTON COUNTY, Ky. (WXIX/Gray News) - The principal at a Kentucky high school is facing charges after a video showed him drinking and serving alcohol to two high school students, according to the Kenton County Police Department.
Anthony Procaccino, 50, the principal of Scott High School, is seen in a New Year’s Eve 2023 video holding a beer bong while two teens, ages 16 and 17, drink alcohol from it, the police department said.
In the video, a man police identified as Procaccino can be seen in a room with the beer bong and cans of Truly sitting on a table.
The agency tasked with investigating misconduct by Chicago police officers identified a troubling pattern of undocumented and aggressive stops on the city’s West Side at least one year before four Chicago police officers pulled over Dexter Reed and killed him in a barrage of gunfire, according to a document obtained by WTTW News.
Four officers fired 96 shots in 41 seconds at Reed on March 21, hitting him 13 times, shortly after he shot and wounded an officer, according to a preliminary investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, known as COPA. Reed was stopped by a tactical team of officers in plainclothes driving an unmarked SUV.
(AP) — The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man killed when eight police officers fired 94 bullets at him after he shot at least one round out his car window, will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the city of Akron, the mayor’s office said Monday.
A grand jury declined to indict the officers last year, but Walker’s family accused the officers in a federal lawsuit of using excessive force and participating in a “culture of violence and racism” within Akron’s police department.
A nursing facility worker was arrested for the alleged identity theft and financial abuse of elderly patients in Glendale.
The suspect was identified as Jesus Cain Medina Leyva, 28, according to the Glendale Police Department.
ASTORIA, Queens (WABC) -- Concerns are growing about police chases through the streets of New York City following the death of a cyclist this week.
A 36-year-old cyclist in Queens was struck and killed Tuesday night by a truck that officers were pursuing.
A memorial marks the place where Amanda Servedio was killed Tuesday night while riding her bike, when a pickup truck that police attempted to pull over struck and killed her in Astoria.
A former Tamaqua police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a federal indictment accusing him of sex crimes related to children and animals.
Christopher J. Cordes, 29, of Nazareth, was indicted for trying to entice a minor into sex to create child pornography, creating a video of himself having sex with animals and sending it to at least one minor, possession of child pornography and producing an animal crushing video.
"Animal crushing" means an animal is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury.
Clark County announced Wednesday it has agreed to pay the family of Kevin Peterson Jr., a 21-year-old man who was shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies during a drug sting in October 2020, $1.25 million to settle a federal wrongful death lawsuit.
Three deputies fatally shot Peterson on Oct. 29, 2020, as he ran, armed with a handgun, from the scene of a planned sale of 50 Xanax pills. The shooting was in the parking lot of a shuttered U.S. Bank branch, next to the Hazel Dell Quality Inn, where the drug sale was set to take place.
PLAINFIELD, Ind. — A Plainfield police officer involved in a police chase that killed an elderly couple in August has now resigned.
The Plainfield Police Department announced Wednesday evening that Officer Logan Westerfield, a five-year veteran, has resigned following the department’s conclusion of its internal investigation.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — A former Oklahoma County Detention Center officer who was arrested earlier in October was arrested again for new charges.
Euitt Sharp was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon for grand larceny and second-degree forgery.
He was released from custody after posting a $10,000 bond.
Investigators say they identified five instances where Sharp is accused of stealing money.
Licensed Social Worker Distributed Videos of Infants Being Raped
Earlier today, Renee Hoberman, a licensed social worker, was arrested on charges of distribution of child pornography. The defendant was arraigned this afternoon at the federal courthouse in Central Islip before United States Magistrate Judge Arlene R. Lindsay on a complaint and ordered detained.
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and William S. Walker, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, New York (HSI) and Patrick Ryder, Commissioner, Nassau County Police Department announced the charges.
“As alleged, Hoberman distributed heinous and disturbing child pornography, including videos showing infants being restrained and raped. Additionally, while posing as a man, Hoberman, who is a therapist serving children, claimed to have produced child pornography and offered others the opportunity to sexually abuse children,” stated United States Attorney Peace. “Our investigation into Hoberman is ongoing, and we urge anyone with information to contact HSI’s tip line. Together with our law enforcement partners, we will relentlessly pursue predators who victimize children and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”
The Kentucky Supreme Court largely upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former Scott County deputy shot by a fellow a cop in 2018, but it allowed the deputy to sue his former supervisor and the city of Georgetown. In a decision released Thursday, the court ruled Jaime Morales could sue former Lt. James Wagoner, who oversaw a special response team on the night Morales was shot.
A Yavapai County Sheriff’s detention officer was arrested Tuesday night in Paulden. Officials say an altercation took place between the officer, 42-year-old Jesse Wilburn Senior of Paulden, and a family member. Wilburn struck a family member outside of a gas station in Paulden.
VILLE PLATTE, La. (KLFY) — A Ville Platte Police officer was arrested and charged with malfeasance in office after letting two suspects in a shooting go without cause, authorities said.
According to the Ville Platte City Marshal’s Office, Lumus Lastrapes was taken into custody Monday night in connection with arrests made Friday night at a high school football game.
Arcata’s reputation as a progressive university town was called into bitter question at the Oct. 16 city council meeting, following the arrest and restraint of a young black man on the Plaza.
Objections to the way police carried out the arrest dominated the meeting’s public comment period and a city councilmember has pledged to pursue formation of a police oversight committee.
The controversy stems from an Oct. 8 police response to the Plaza, where 21-year-old Arcata resident Michael Steelman was using a barbecue.
According to an Arcata Police Department press release, Steelman said he intended to sell food and became “increasingly agitated” when he was told open fires and food sales are illegal without a permit.
A police officer for a Texas school district is accused of shooting at another driver, and chasing after him, in an apparent road rage attack, investigators say and outlets report.
Joseph Andrew Shreve was arrested Oct. 17 on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — roughly a month after the alleged incident, court records show.
At about 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18, El Paso police officers responded to a call to “assist an outside agency with an officer-involved shooting” on the city’s east side, the department said in an Oct. 22 news release.
It has been nine months since bounty hunter and cop-wannabe Wayne Lozier was sentenced to ten years in prison on federal kidnapping charges after barging into a woman’s home without a warrant and driving her across state lines over a missed court date from a misdemeanor charge.
And by now it should be sinking in that he will not receive the same favorable treatment from the courts usually provided to actual law enforcement officers.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Many exchanges caught on an officer’s body camera, part of the release of evidence shown to a grand jury and obtained by FOX5.
“Y’all do this to white people?,” a man asks as he was being detained. “Yeah. I do this to everybody bro,” a Metro officer responds.
The Metro sergeant accused of unlawfully arresting people on the Strip is facing new charges as of Wednesday. The home of Sergeant Kevin Menon near Decatur Blvd. and Gowan Road was searched after he was arrested on child pornography charges.
The widow of a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down in the line of duty warned Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz he was not welcome at the funeral because of his treatment of cops — threatening to kick his “ass out” if he dared to show up.
Shannon Owen told Kamala Harris’ running mate that he was not welcome at the services for her husband, Josh Owen, an Iraq veteran and Pope County sheriff’s deputy who was shot and killed while working on his 44th birthday in April 2023.
DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan man has been released from prison after 22 years after Detroit-area prosecutors acknowledged that his murder conviction was tainted by the key testimony of a rogue police officer. The officer turned out to be a serial bank robber. Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy says no one knew the officer was suspended at the time.
The Watertown Police Department and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office are implementing new policies to protect transgender people in their custody.
The changes follow a lawsuit filed by DeAnna LeTray, a transgender woman who faced abuse and discrimination while detained.
“I was abused because of who I am by those who were supposed to protect me, and I don’t wish that on anyone,” said DeAnna LeTray.
A whistleblower lawsuit alleging misconduct and retaliation in the Allentown Police Department was dismissed this week.
The suit, filed by officers Randy Fey and David Howells III over the summer, was dismissed Monday, according to Lehigh County civil court records.
The suit claimed the department did not properly resolve allegations against officers that included sexual assault, discriminating against co-workers, using their positions to receive sexual favors from women involved with prostitution, and falsifying police documentation.
A nonprofit has asked a court to block the Austin City Council from voting Thursday on a five-year, $218-million deal with the city's police union.
Equity Action, the group that pushed for the voter-approved Austin Police Oversight Act, said the language of the contract is ambiguous and it doesn't fully address the measure. It asked a state district judge for a temporary restraining order preventing the vote.
Equity Action specifically took issue with the contract's language surrounding so-called "G-files," previously confidential employment files concerning police officer discipline. City staff has said the contract language complies with a court order to release those files.
BALTIMORE — A senior deputy and detective who has worked for 27 years for the Harford County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Tuesday for child sexual abuse in Carroll County, where he lives.
Ryan Christopher Hall, 50, of Woodbine, was arrested by members of the Carroll County Advocacy and Investigation Center and the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, according to a Wednesday news release from the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office. Hall was assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit of the Harford Sheriff’s Office at the time of his arrest.
Hall is charged with two counts of sex abuse of a minor, two counts of continuing course of conduct with a child, 10 counts of child pornography filming in a sex act, 10 counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of visual surveillance of a private area.
Jurors in an alleged police misconduct case filed by a Baldwin man who said he was assaulted by two Nassau police officers outside his home in 2017 watched video footage Wednesday of an officer grabbing the man by the neck and throwing him to the ground.
The video played to a federal jury sitting in Brooklyn sharply contradicts statements Nassau County police officer Stephen Beckwith wrote in a felony complaint charging Robert Besedin Sr., 79, with second-degree assault.
Beckwith was the first witness called in the civil trial by attorney Fred Brewington of Hempstead, who represents Besedin in the lawsuit that claims Nassau police violated his civil rights by assaulting and falsely arresting him outside his home on Feb. 7, 2017.
CENTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — More than a year after a day care worker was arrested for alleged abuse, the Butler County District Attorney has filed more charges in the case, this time, against a second day care worker who state police said witnessed the abuse but didn’t report it.
In September 2023, state police charged Taylor Titley for accusations she was abusing five kids between the ages of 2 years and 6 months old at Sheryl Buffington’s day care and Preschool Palace in Center Township. The arrest came after a child went to the hospital with a broken arm and investigators interviewed several employees.
GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) — The three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 are returning to a Georgia courthouse for a hearing on their motion for a new trial.
Father and son Travis and Gregory McMichael, plus their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, were scheduled to go before Judge Timothy R. Walmsley at the Glynn County Courthouse on Thursday at 10 a.m.
Attorneys for the three convicted killers are making a range of arguments for a new trial, from a tainted jury to ineffective counsel for one of the men. Judge Walmsley, who was the judge in their 2021 murder trial and handed down their sentences, has set aside up to two days to hear their legal motions.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A certified nursing assistant threw a 90-year-old Alzheimer's patient out of a shower and started beating him, saying "I can't wait for you to die soon!" according to Chattanooga Police.
The incident happened on Wednesday in the early morning hours at the Ascension Living Valley Residence on Mountain Creek Road, which is a facility for people with Alzheimer's disease.
The victim required two certified nursing assistants (CNAs) to give him a shower, while he was seated in a shower chair.
No charges will be filed after a man was shot and killed by law enforcement over the summer, according to officials with the Guilford County District Attorney's Office.
Back in June, Titus Kopp broke into his grandmother's home, ransacked the house, and threatened to kill her, according to authorities. Officials said he also threatened to kill her daughter, as well as himself.
INDIANAPOLIS — Two former correctional officers have been sentenced to three years in federal prison for their part in an international fraud scheme.
Martins Tochukwu Chidiobi, 34, and Lawrence Onyesonwu, 38, of Muncie, have each been sentenced to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to aggravated identity theft and making false statements to a financial institution.
“It is simply reprehensible for correctional officers to exploit their positions to steal inmates’ identities and further the financial exploitation of scam victims,” said Zachary A. Myers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana.
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A Metropolitan Police Department sergeant already indicted on accusations of unlawful detentions, oppression and battery is facing new charges of possession of child sexual abuse material.
Kevin Menon, who was indicted Oct. 9, was arrested Wednesday and is facing two charges of possession of visual presentation depicting sexual conduct of person under 16 years of age, according to court records and Metro.
Police said the new charges are part of the department’s ongoing investigation into Menon.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia rejects the New York Civil Liberties Union’s (NYCLU) call for civilian oversight of the Buffalo Police Department (BPD) and said that internal officer misconduct investigations have got “substantially better” thanks to training and technology.
Gramaglia made the comments in response to the NYCLU’s analysis of over 900 internal police misconduct investigations conducted by the BPD.
Speaking to WBFO for the first time regarding the findings, Gramaglia defended the department’s current internal investigations practices and said that the records, which span 1995 to 2023, do not accurately reflect internal investigations in recent years.
The BPD investigates complaints made against officers through its Internal Affairs Division.
“We are seeking the truth of whatever that truth is in an investigation,” Gramaglia said. “We want the facts, and then we will move forward appropriately with those set of facts.”
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WMCH) – A jury was selected on Wednesday in the trial against a former Columbus police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man.
Jury selection dragged into its third day Wednesday in the trial against former officer Adam Coy, 48, who is facing charges of murder, reckless homicide and felonious assault for fatally shooting Andre Hill, 47. The special prosecutor in the case signaled intent in 2021 to drop two additional misdemeanor counts of dereliction of duty, but as of Wednesday, Franklin County Common Pleas Court records still showed both counts on the docket.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY — A former Florissant cop was sued on Tuesday for stealing nude photos from women during traffic stops, the third such suit filed in recent weeks.
Tuesday's suit, however, was filed in federal court, and is the first to name an officer.
In the new suit, a St. Louis County woman identified by the initials G.E.S. accuses former Florissant cop Julian Alcala of pulling her over on two separate occasions earlier this year for a broken taillight. It says Alcala took her phone to his patrol car, found nude photos of her on her phone and took pictures of them with his phone.
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio police officer was suspended for 45 days for disregarding his sergeant’s orders and failing to respond to a fire, according to department suspension records.
In January 2024, records show a sergeant told Officer Arturo Mancias he was not needed on a call and ordered him to return to service.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The 10 shots Brett Hankison fired into Breonna Taylor ‘s apartment the night she was killed in a police raid put Taylor, her neighbors and even one of Hankison’s fellow Louisville police officers in danger, federal prosecutors argued Monday.
Lawyers made opening statements in Hankison’s second federal trial in U.S. District Court in Louisville. Prosecutors are trying again to convict Hankison on charges that he violated the civil rights of Taylor and her neighbors by firing shots into her darkened windows the night of the 2020 raid. Last year’s trial ended with a jury deadlocked, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial.
After midnight on July 6, Sonya Massey called 911 to report a prowler. When sheriff’s deputies responded, she answered the door in her nightgown, thanking and welcoming them into her home in Springfield, Illinois. But two minutes later, Sangamon County Deputy Sean Grayson took aim at Massey’s face and fired a fatal gunshot, killing her in her kitchen. The morning prior, her mother Donna had warned police that her daughter was in the middle of a mental health crisis.
“Please don’t send no combative policemen that are prejudiced,” Donna Massey pleaded to a 911 operator. “I’m scared of the police.”
Grayson was fired less than two weeks later and charged with Sonya Massey’s murder.
The sentencing in the murder case of Latres Javontae Cockerham has been postponed due to the recent submission of additional evidence by the State of Maryland.
According to a court filing by Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Donna C. Pettersen, the State has provided supplemental disclosures concerning two police officers. Additionally, the defense has requested information about police officers who have testified in the case, specifically regarding any potential misconduct or credibility issues, known as Giglio material (see below). The State has reviewed internal affairs records related to these officers but believes that not all of the information is necessarily relevant or required to be disclosed.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit against the City of Allentown and Allentown Police Department.
The lawsuit had alleged misconduct, theft, and a culture of secrecy in a department that failed to properly investigate reports of police wrongdoing.
In September an amendment to the lawsuit was filed, adding additional information to the complaint.
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (WALA) - A month after sexual misconduct allegations were made against police officer BJ Squires, the Bayou La Batre mayor said he has been fired from the Bayou La Batre Police Department.
Mayor Henry Barnes said, “He’s been fired and taken off the payroll”.
Barnes said Squires was fired for violating a department policy and it’s not related to the ongoing investigation against him by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office.
(The Center Square) — New York is a national "hotspot" for police misconduct settlements, with more than $1 billion in reported payouts over the past 14 years, according to a new report.
The report, based on the National Police Funding Database, shows that New York had the second-highest number of police misconduct cases from October 2009 to July 2023, with 16 cases averaging more than $72 million per case.
That's the largest average among states for which data was available, including California, which topped the nation for the number of police misconduct settlements, according to the report.
Experts at High Rise Financial, a pre-settlement legal funding company, analyzed data on police misconduct settlements. California reported the highest number of police misconduct cases at 29, with more than $332 million in financial settlements, averaging $11.8 million per case.
An officer with North Vernon Police Department who was fired Tuesday is now under arrest for possession of child pornography, according to a news release from the Indiana State Police.
Jaydan Vanosdol, 22, was charged following a state police investigation that began in August. During the investigation, detectives learned that Vanosdal allegedly began inappropriately communicating with a female juvenile through a social media app approximately one month earlier, according to the news release.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Four Davidson County Sheriff's Office (DCSO) employees have been suspended temporarily for violating DCSO policy.
The suspensions stem from a civil lawsuit filed by the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) against Solaren Risk Management LLC, an event security company which provides secondary employment to law enforcement officers and law enforcement staff separate from their sworn police duties.
A Baton Rouge police officer tied to BRAVE Cave abuse allegations served a weeklong suspension earlier this month, according to discipline records obtained by The Advocate.
Cpl. Joseph Carboni was sidelined Oct. 1 to 7 after officials determined he used excessive force when he shocked a handcuffed 15-year-old boy in the head with a Taser during a June 2023 raid, Baton Rouge Police Department records showed.
Police Chief Thomas Morse Jr. signed off on the suspension Sept. 4 following a six-month investigation by the department’s internal affairs division.
Reviewing a psychologist’s report, a Solano County Superior Court judge on Monday ruled that the woman accused of the July DUI-related killing of Vacaville Police Officer Matthew Bowen was mentally incompetent to stand trial.
In accord with Penal Code section 1368, criminal proceedings, thus, remain suspended against Serena CJ Rodriguez, but Judge Wendy Getty referred the matter referred to a company providing mental health services to hospitals, community agencies and courts, MHM Services. It operates a secure facility in Vallejo.
The judge then scheduled a placement hearing for Rodriquez at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 24 in Department 8 in the Justice Center in Fairfield.
BROCKTON — Brockton School Police Officer Darnell E. Campbell is due in court in late October to face charges he faked his timesheets. Separately, Campbell has had his badge and gun taken away while a police watchdog commission decides whether to decertify him as a law enforcement officer.
Campbell is scheduled to be arraigned on two charges on Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Hingham District Court: false claims by a law enforcement officer on hours worked and a public employee standards of conduct violation, according to the clerk's office in Hingham.
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio police officer is serving a 45-day suspension after punching and kicking a suspect several times and failing to start his body camera, according to records.
Officer Matthew Sparks was called out for a man shooting rounds on South Zarzamora and Somerset Road, records show. According to department records, Sparks has been with SAPD for seven years
Sparks and another officer took the man into custody without issue, documents show. Sparks did not start his body camera before making the arrest.
An NYPD officer working with the department’s youth “Police Explorers” program is accused of trying to strike up a sexual conversation with an undercover officer he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
Travis DeSouza, 35, a 13-year NYPD veteran assigned to Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct, was busted Friday on charges of attempted disseminating indecent materials to minors and attempted child endangerment.
DeSouza’s behavior working with the Police Explorers program for young people between 14 and 20 interested in law enforcement had sparked concerns. So authorities sent a young-looking undercover officer to approach him in person. She identified herself as a 14-year-old girl and expressed interest in the program, according to sources and the complaint.
A Los Angeles City Council candidate has come under heavy criticism after she said, "F--- the police," during a meet-and-greet event with college students in which an audio recording was leaked.
Ysabel Jurado, who is running to unseat Councilmember Kevin de León, who has also come under heavy scrutiny for remarks made in a leaked recording in 2022, was meeting with California State University, Los Angeles, students on Oct. 17 at the time of the incident.
Jurado was asked about her stance on spending discretionary funds on police overtime.
"What's the rap verse? F--- the police, that's how I see them," Jurado responded, appearing to reference the 1988 N.W.A. song, "F*** tha Police."
Las Cruces Codes Enforcement is asking for your help locating shopping carts that may have been abandoned or are still being used off-premises in light of the City’s new ordinance now being enforced, the Las Cruces Police Department (LCPD) announced in a news release.
The new Shopping Cart Ordinance, which was adopted by the City Council in August, makes it unlawful to remove from the premises, possess, abandon or alter a shopping cart that belongs to a retail establishment, according to LCPD.
LCPD said violation of the ordinance is a “petty misdemeanor under the Las Cruces Municipal Code.”
NYPD bosses in Manhattan told a cop the window tints on his mom’s car had to be “removed now,” and then ordered another officer to use a blow dryer and acetone to perform the task behind a Hell’s Kitchen precinct’s station house, an internal report shows.
Police Officer Adam Benarafa walked into the Bronx’s 50 Precinct with his mom Wednesday to report the incident, the document shows.
On January 30, Brookline, Massachusetts, Detective Duane Danforth was involved in a confrontation at EPCOT’s United Kingdom Pavilion. The altercation began when a Disney World cast member informed Danforth that he was not permitted to enter a private event.
Witnesses reported that Danforth exhibited signs of intoxication and displayed belligerent behavior, refusing to follow the instructions provided by the cast member.
A now-former officer for the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s police department in Tampa is facing aggravated assault and other charges after he grabbed a woman by the neck, pointed a gun at her head and held her against her will in what deputies say is a domestic violence case, records show.
Hillsborough deputies arrested Seminole Police Department Officer Melvin Torres Jr. early Tuesday morning, about five hours after the incident, according to an arrest affidavit.
A spokesperson for the tribe said Thursday that Torres was fired after his arrest.
As community anger in response to a forcible arrest on October 8 by Arcata Police Department officers spilled over into the Arcata City Council chambers last week, nearly twenty residents spoke during the public comment period demanding corrective action from the city council, decrying the actions taken by police that were seen in the bystander videos that circulated follow-up the incident. While charges for resisting arrest are pending, the Arcata Police Department is undergoing an internal “Use of Force Review” as a standard procedure when force is implemented by officers.
After being informed that he was in violation of several municipal codes while attempting to operate a public BBQ station, witnesses say 21-year-old Michael Steelman, a young black man, was seen disassembling the pop-up and “quietly minding himself” following the first interaction with the officer on foot patrol. (The full witness account is provided below.)
The lodge is located between Rector Street and Fulton Street near McCarter Highway. The demonstration will begin at the FOP lodge and then protestors will march to the Federal Building at 970 Broad Street in Newark.
“October 22 has been recognized as a day to focus on the problem of police brutality. Organizations will be having protests against police brutality in cities and towns across the United States. Our protest in Newark is part of this national effort,” stated Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization For Progress.
POP is a grassroots racial and social justice organization which has been active on the issue of police brutality since it was established 42 years ago. It has participated in the October 22 observance for more than a dozen years.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A white, former Ohio police officer is set to go on trial Monday in the killing of Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man who was shot as he emerged from a garage holding a cellphone nearly four years ago.
Officer Adam Coy, a 17-year veteran of the Columbus police force, fatally shot Hill while responding to a neighbor's noise complaint. Coy, who was fired after the Dec. 22, 2020, shooting, has pleaded not guilty to murder, reckless homicide and related offenses. Coy's attorney, Mark Collins, has said the officer thought he saw Hill with a silver revolver in his right hand.
Jury selection in his trial is set to begin Monday.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and about 100 supporters rallied Sunday against the recall effort against her, calling it a billionaire-funded attempt to halt much-needed criminal justice reforms.
“We are in the midst of a resistance that is more loud than massive,” Price said as she stood in front of her supporters on the steps in front of the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland. The recall campaign, she said, “weaponizes people’s grief and pain,” and seeks to silence the voice of supporters of criminal justice reform.
Some of the supporters who attended the rally held signs that read, “We won’t go back” and “Defend our democracy.”
For nearly three years, the Civilian Police Review Board has inched toward more authority over police misconduct, approved by voters in 2021.
A final step is approving manuals that would act as the rule books for resident-led oversight. Now, the public can read and comment on them before they are put to use.
The review board works alongside civilian investigators to decide complaints made by residents against police officers. Investigators are employed by the city’s Office of Professional Standards (OPS), which is overseen by the review board.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A group of mothers of children killed by police gathered at Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park in West Atlanta on Sunday, beginning a multiple-day effort to raise awareness about police brutality.
“This is pretty much our community day,” said Ashley McKenzie Smith, whose son Jaylin was killed by police in Memphis last year. Charges were not filed against the officer involved.
The women handed out boxes of goodies, including food, to people at the park.
More than a year after Austin voters OK’d a measure to make them public, the so-called “G-files” of police officers accused of misconduct are now available to the public.
Disclosure of these disciplinary files was a sticking point in discussions around the voter-approved Austin Police Oversight Act and the city’s tentative labor agreement with the Austin Police Department. The police union argued disclosing them violated state law. Criminal justice advocates argued for transparency and pointed out other departments in Texas already disclose the files. A judge ruled last month the city didn’t need to keep the files secret.
Law enforcement is legally required to divulge files related to complaints against police officers if any disciplinary action is taken. That could be anything from an indefinite suspension – which is akin to firing an officer, though they can appeal the punishment – to a couple days’ suspension. G-files are records related to complaints that don’t result in discipline. APD didn’t allow those to be made public.
Mobile surveillance trailers, like this one employed by a sheriff’s department in Tennessee, have become increasingly common nationwide in recent years. Similar trailers were used in Mankato leading up to Minnesota State University Homecoming festivities.
The FBI is now investigating the death of a Black man who died by a fatal hanging after suing the Alabama police for brutality.
A civil rights attorney for the slain man’s family shared the news of FBI’s involvement. The lawyer, Roderick Van Daniel, called the matter a “community issue” as well as national one.
“This is a family issue, community issue for Colbert County, State of Alabama, and the United States of America,” expressed Van Daniel, as reported by AL.com. “I am grateful to know that a federal investigation will be done. We all are seeking the truth, understanding, and justice.”
Dennoriss Richardson was found dead in Colbert County, Alabama in early October. His body was still hanging by a rope at an abandoned house in the area.
CHICAGO - Sunday marked 10 years since a Chicago teenager was shot and killed by a police officer, sparking mass protests and prompting significant reforms within the city's police department.
Laquan McDonald, 17, was fatally shot 16 times by former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke on Oct. 20, 2014. Van Dyke was convicted of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and served half of his 81-month sentence before being released.
McDonald's death led to weeks of protests and calls for police reform. In 2019, the city entered into a consent decree, a court-ordered agreement that mandated reforms to ensure the police department performs constitutional and effective policing.
Drivers who ignored tolls at the Outerbridge Crossing got a surprise last Tuesday when police swooped in, ticketing hundreds of drivers and impounding 30 vehicles driven by repeat offenders.
Police issued more than 500 summonses during a joint law enforcement operation on Oct. 15 at the Outerbridge Crossing, that focused on persistent toll violators and drivers who used fraudulent or obstructed license plates to try to beat electronic collection equipment and cameras.
CHICAGO – A Blue Island police officer is expected to be charged after an alleged road rage incident Saturday evening.
Police sources told WGN News an off-duty Chicago police officer – who is currently on maternity leave – was in the passenger seat of a GMC near 47th and Halsted at around 5 p.m. Saturday when the GMC got involved in a minor crash with a Toyota as part of an alleged road rage incident.
The Toyota was reportedly driven by a 47-year-old off-duty Blue Island police officer, the only occupant of that vehicle.
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) captain was placed on administrative leave after he sent an “unprofessional” email to officers in the Fifth District.
Officials said that a police captain was placed on administrative leave after he sent an email overnight to officers offering overtime.
Hunter Newton, 21, remains in critical condition. His family said Friday he has an inoperable bullet in his brain.
A man shot by Milwaukie Police Department officers almost three weeks ago remains in critical condition with an inoperable bullet in his brain, his family said in a press statement Friday.
The family also claimed, through their attorneys, that Milwaukie police officers waited “nearly a half hour or more” before giving 21-year-old Hunter Newton medical care. The family has retained attorneys and may be preparing to take legal action.
The Massachusetts State Police unit that investigated Karen Read is getting a new leader, weeks after a new leader took over the entire agency.
Police announced Friday evening that Det. Lt. Brian Tully, who has been under internal investigation, has been transitioning to a different department for the time being and that the agency is hiring for his old job leading the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office's detective unit.
"Detective Lieutenant Tully will continue to be available to assist the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office with any cases in which he was previously involved," state police said in a statement, which noted that the investigation remained ongoing.
A Kissimmee deputy police chief who decided to retire last month was facing termination for making a homophobic remark about a female officer seeking a promotion, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.
And it wasn’t the first time Camille Alicea, considered a trailblazer among Hispanics in Central Florida’s law enforcement community, was accused of making homophobic comments. But records provided to the Sentinel this week in response to a public records request offer no indication she was previously investigated or disciplined for allegedly doing so.
That changed earlier this year, after Alicea was accused of suggesting a fellow officer was being promoted “because she is a lesbian female.” Alicea was suspended, and an investigation corroborated the accusation.
Joseph Abasciano, fired as a Boston cop in 2023 for going to Washington and posting a series of tweets about the "traitors" in the Capitol and across the country before and during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, yesterday sued Boston and its police department, alleging violations of his First Amendment rights to both free speech and religious freedom by a mayor and police commissioner allegedly out to get him.
In his suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, the former West Roxbury resident who now lives in New Hampshire, says his tweets, posted under a pseudonym, were an exercise of his First Amendment rights as a private citizen, his "patriots vs. traitors" theme - which included the hope that an election official in Georgia be "dragged away in handcuffs" - was a paraphrase of some of the writing of Ulysses S. Grant, nobody ever protested them save for one anonymous tweet to BPD, he never threatened Mike Pence or members of congress and he never entered the Capitol building or participated in violence when he and another BPD officer traveled to Washington.
At around 11:00 AM, officers from the Albuquerque Police Department were at the Tewa Motor Lodge on Central Ave. helping City of Albuquerque Code Enforcement and members of ACS to remove trespassers and relocate residents from the location. APD was detaining a group of people when one became unruly and had to be handcuffed.
The adult male, who was handcuffed during the interaction, was involved in some sort of altercation that lead to APD officers to discharge their firearms. The shooting reportedly happened around 12:20 PM.
While we were on scene, a woman claiming to be his wife stormed through the police tape and started yelling at APD officers.
Medical marijuana remains illegal in Kansas, and groups representing Kansas police chiefs, sheriffs and peace officers want it to stay that way — claiming it will create black market activity and crime. However, a majority of Kansans support legal weed.
Kansas police are once again saying no to drugs — including medical marijuana.
On Tuesday, groups representing police chiefs, sheriffs and peace officers across the state continued to shoot down the idea of legalizing medical marijuana. They argued that legal weed would create a more lawless Kansas where cartels roam the streets and opioid deaths jump.
They took issue with everything from possible state regulations to the foul smell of cannabis.
“You drive by Blackwell, Oklahoma, and you get hit with that odor,” Kechi Chief of Police Braden Moore told lawmakers. “That’s a quality of life thing. … I don’t want that in my home state, too.”
Charles McMillian delivered some of the most poignant testimony during former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s 2021 murder trial, breaking down into sobs as he relived watching George Floyd die on the street in his south Minneapolis neighborhood.
McMillian, 64, of Minneapolis filed a legal claim against the city for emotional distress, and on Monday, a Minneapolis City Council committee will consider paying him $30,000 in a settlement out of the city’s self-insurance fund.
Here's the start of our series highlighting instances where authority has been misused by law enforcement, dating back two decades. Keep an eye out for more historical accounts of power abuse as we continue to expose them.
A New York City Department of Corrections guard reached a settlement of $135,000 in her federal civil rights suit alleging sexual harassment. Guard Virginia Jones began a consensual sexual relationship with Captain Michael Baxter in March 1998. Jones contended that in September 1998, she ended the relationship with Baxter and made it clear that she no longer wanted to see him on a social basis. Baxter advised co-workers that the relationship was continuing, and he threatened Jones with disciplinary action if she did not continue the relationship.
Jones refused to continue the relationship. Baxter continued to pursue Jones by asking her out for dates, sent her gifts, and made comments such as "[y]ou don't know how to be a Captain's girlfriend." Baxter changed Jones' posts so she had to work in the control room with him. On March 7, 2000, while working in the control room, Baxter asked another guard to leave so he could be alone with Jones.
Baxter then held Jones against her will, kissed her, and fondled her without consent. Baxter also threatened her, spit at her, physically and emotionally abused her, cursed her and made threatening statements to her. Ultimately, Jones was able to grab a radio and broadcast the assault throughout the Rikers Island prison. Baxter again threatened Jones, tried to hit her, and grab the radio. When other jail personnel responded to the transmission, the control room door was opened and Jones was released.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — On Wednesday, a shopping cart ordinance officially went into effect in Las Cruces, allowing police officers to legally cite people for using carts outside of a business property and also requiring businesses to have a detailed plan on how they will prevent carts from being stolen.
KFOX14 spoke with Police Chief Jeremy Story on how they prepared the community for the ordinance to be enforced.
The education for the officers, making sure they understand what the ordinance says, what people can and can’t do, and then how to enforce it,” Story said. “Since they’ve passed, we’ve had an education campaign with our community advocates and our community outreach sections specifically, and the Community of Hope has obviously been doing their own education as well. They’ve been providing alternatives since it passed.
Since this ordinance has passed, Story said it had to be all hands on deck.
Following impassioned public comment from Vallejo families impacted by police violence, officials at the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) on Thursday committed to investigating nine current and former Vallejo officers under a new law that could ultimately see them stripped of their peace officer powers.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed a complaint on Oct. 11 urging POST to investigate allegations of serious misconduct and begin decertifying Vallejo officers under the Kenneth Ross Jr. Police Decertification Act of 2021, also known as Senate Bill 2.
This three-hour virtual event is not just a moment of reflection but an opportunity to learn, act, and make an impact. Hosted by Voices of Strength and Marissa Barrera, the event will feature a series of educational panels and roundtable discussions with survivors of police brutality and the families of victims. You’ll hear powerful stories that humanize the headlines, explore the deeper implications of police violence, and highlight the advocacy needed to bring about change.
LOS ANGELES — Civil rights advocates and family members of people killed by officers of the Vallejo Police Department made a passionate plea Thursday for a state oversight board to launch investigations into whether the officers should lose their badges.
"Murder is murder," one emotional mother, Angela Sullivan, told members of an advisory board for the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. She described how her son, Ronnell Foster, was killed in 2018 when he was shot seven times by a Vallejo police officer.
Her mother — Foster's grandmother — "died four and a half months later from a broken heart," she said.
Another parent, Eugene Moore, told commission members that his son Jeremiah Moore "should be alive today." Moore had autism, he said, and was shot and killed by police in 2012 while unarmed.
At the request of Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth, the Oregon Department of Justice is investigating the Milwaukie Police Department shooting of 21-year-old Hunter Newtwon last month.
Newton was pulled over in a Taco Bell parking lot early in the morning of Sept. 30 for driving with a suspended license when officers ordered him out of the car. According to the Clackamas County DA’s office, Newton refused to exit his car and resisted when officers tried to pull him from the vehicle.
He was unarmed when Officer Kwasean Akom and Sergeant Eduardo Sanchez shot him, the DA’s office previously said.
A lawsuit initiated by a College Park councilwoman is heating up as a responding attorney laid out reasons for a recall effort against the official. The public has also questioned whether the city of College Park has a conflict of interest in the case.
Ward 1 Councilwoman Jamelle McKenzie is suing resident Mose James IV and Deputy City Clerk Queenie Brown in Fulton County Superior Court to permanently end a recall effort to remove her from office.
The legal action filed by McKenzie’s attorney, Jeremy Berry, in August asks the court to review the sufficiency of the recall application that was submitted to the City Clerk’s office.
Los Angeles is facing a dire financial situation that threatens its ability to provide basic services and prepare for the upcoming 2028 Olympics. According to a recent editorial by The LA Times, the city is "teetering on the edge of a fiscal emergency" with its finances in "dire" condition and no funds available for unexpected expenses.
The scale of these payouts is staggering. As the editorial reports, "In just the first three months of the fiscal year that started July 1, the city is on the hook for $258 million in liability costs. The largest category of payouts — 40% — is related to police department negligence or use of force."
ALTUS, Okla. (KSWO) - Charges have been officially filed against the Altus Early Childhood Center Employee that we told you about last week.
You may remember this story from last Thursday on Oct. 10, after the school superintendent posted on social media about a police investigation.
Now, Gerald Pruitt faces a single felony charge of child abuse.
According to court documents filed yesterday, police were called out on Oct. 10, for an incident that allegedly happened between Pruitt and a 5 year old child.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — An assistant chief and four captains were already stripped of badges and guns.
The shakeup at the West Palm Beach Police Department deepens.
WPBF 25 News has learned two more high-ranking officers have just been placed on administrative leave during a financial misconduct investigation — bringing the total number to seven top police command staff now under investigation.
WPBF 25 News was the first to report the police chief was abruptly fired two weeks ago, and in a separate scandal, seven other officers remain under investigation after a July high-speed chase that left two women dead.
Sources tell WPBF 25 News investigative reporter Terri Parker that a major in the Internal Affairs Department and a lieutenant have joined the list of top command staff put on leave.
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The Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the City of Woonsocket and a former police detective for wrongfully arresting and incarcerating a homeless man for a 2022 break-in.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Providence alleges that Mack Blackie’s civil rights were violated when he was twice arrested and detained by Woonsocket police for a crime he didn’t commit.
Blackie spent more than a month locked up at the Adult Correctional Institutions on the felony breaking-and-entering charge because he couldn’t afford to pay the bail. (The felony charge has been dismissed and the case expunged from Blackie’s record.)
A former Green Hill School corrections employee who is already facing charges for allegedly “turning a blind eye” to an assault inside the facility in January was arrested again on Wednesday for multiple counts of first-degree custodial sexual misconduct.
Michelle Goodman, 31, of Centralia, was arrested at approximately 6:20 p.m. on Oct. 16 without incident, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
“Earlier this month, Chehalis detectives were made aware of a possible custodial misconduct at the Green Hill Juvenile Corrections facility involving a female corrections officer and a male inmate,” the Chehalis Police Department stated in a news release on Thursday. “During the detective’s investigation, they learned Ms. Goodman was employed by Green Hill as a corrections officer and during that time had sexual relations with a 23-year-old male inmate.”
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In Brown v. Pouncy, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of Jarius Brown’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim as untimely. The case arose from Brown’s allegations that officers from the DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office used unreasonable force against him, resulting in severe injuries. However, his claim was dismissed because it was filed after Louisiana’s one-year prescriptive period for personal injury claims.
Background of the Case
The incident in question involved Brown, who filed suit almost two years after the alleged assault by officers. Brown’s lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Louisiana, sought relief under § 1983, which provides a federal remedy against unconstitutional conduct by individuals acting under state authority. Additionally, he brought a state law battery claim, over which the district court exercised supplemental jurisdiction.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota school district has banned a police officer from working as a substitute teacher after a series of “racially harmful” actions that officials say included putting a student on the ground for a reenactment of the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer.
The staffing agency that placed him at Woodbury High School said Wednesday that he also no longer works for them, while the Prescott, Wisconsin, Police Department put him on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.
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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A West Sacramento police officer arrested over the weekend for DUI once received an award for his work in arresting drunk drivers.
The California Highway Patrol arrested Raymond Barrantes just before noon Saturday after a San Joaquin County deputy saw Barrantes driving and suspected DUI, according to the West Sacramento Police Department. Barrantes was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp, but he has since bailed out.
West Sacramento police confirmed with KCRA 3 that a photo posted on the department’s Facebook page in April 2015 showed Barrantes receiving an award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, also known as MADD. The caption of the photo said Barrantes and another officer got the award “for having the most DUI arrests for our Agency in 2014.”
WAURIKA, Oklahoma — A city manager and reserve police officer in Oklahoma was arrested for child sex abuse.
Charles Kyote Dunn, 30, is the City Manager for the City of Waurika and a Reserve Police Officer for the Waurika Police Department.
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An officer who was at the center of a controversial 2016 arrest has been terminated from the Fort Worth Police Department following his involvement in an off-duty shooting last month, according to a police department news release.
On Friday, Officer William Martin was fired following an administrative investigation into an incident that occurred on Sept. 3, 2024.
Norfolk officers arrested co-worker Herman Martin earlier this month for sex crime charges.
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk police officer Herman Martin was in court on Thursday for sex charge crimes.
44-year-old Norfolk police officer Herman Martin faces charges of sodomy and intimidation of a victim.
The complaint details Martin was working as a security officer at the Motel 6 on North Military Highway in Norfolk, and on Oct. 4th he solicited a sex worker.
GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - An officer at the Georgetown County Detention Center has been fired after he allegedly had sexual relations with an inmate.
The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office said 38-year-old Peter Sawyer is charged with sexual misconduct and misconduct in office after an investigation that also involved the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division.
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LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - A Jackson Police Officer is on leave after he was arrested Saturday, Oct. 12 in Jackson County. 38-year-old Jonathan Debczak, who has been with the Jackson Police Department for 10 years, faces several charges that are listed below:
Director Elmer Hitt with the Jackson Police Department confirmed with News 10 that Officer Debczak is currently on administrative leave pending an internal investigation into the incident.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A police officer helped steal Crime Stoppers reward money totaling more than $18,000.
That officer pleaded guilty to the crime this summer, but it’s been kept under wraps — that’s until WREG Investigators uncovered federal records.
According to the federal court records, since 2018, Arica Hutchison was one of two officers assigned to sort through Crime Stoppers tips and then give that information to the investigators. That investigator documents the usefulness of that tip in a database, which Hutchison had access to.
A school teacher and veteran police officer repeatedly named “Cop of the Month” moonlighted as pimps in a Long Island prostitution ring that ran two brothels, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The duo — Steven Arey, 53, and George Trimigliozzi, 55 — worked as managers at a Holbrook brothel dubbed the American Girls Spa, collecting so-called “house fees” from sex workers, hiring prostitutes and posting ads to entice johns, according to an indictment unveiled in Suffolk County court.
A judgment against a Casper police officer for forcing a woman to the ground and kneeling on her neck during a 2020 arrest cost Wyoming $130,000 in public funds.
The episode is part of a pattern of unconstitutional behavior by Casper Police Department officers, according to the plaintiff’s lawyers, and a claim against the city in connection with the incident resulted in an additional settlement with the municipality for $25,000 — an award that was paid for by a municipal liability pool.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A family is settling a wrongful death lawsuit against Ohio police who fired 94 bullets at a Black man during a chase two years ago.
Jayland Walker's family and the city of Akron reached an agreement but have not disclosed details, according to a joint court filing Tuesday. The family's lawyers said they would hold a news conference "at the appropriate time" to discuss the agreement, and city officials declined to comment while the settlement is pending a judge's approval.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY — A lawyer for one of three men charged with assaulting an off-duty police officer called the allegations a “creative prosecutorial complaint” at a court hearing Tuesday morning.
Attorney John Rogers said the three men — Matthew Devlin, Garrett Gibbs and Donnie Hurley II — did nothing but their jobs on Sept. 26 when they were accused of beating an off-duty officer while using racial slurs.
SCRANTON, Pa. — The City of Scranton Police Pension Board voted Wednesday to revoke a former patrolman turned federal convict’s disability pension.
The revocation of former Officer Paul Helring’s biweekly retirement stipend was based on Helring’s admission last year in federal court he took thousands of dollars of overtime for extra-duty shifts he never actually worked. The board did so in two votes citing a state forfeiture law and a city ordinance governing pensions.
An off-duty Detroit police officer who was "asking for suicide by cop" was shot dead after he opened fire and injured two fellow officers, authorities said.
When officers responded to a 911 call for a suicide in progress on Monday afternoon, they identified the 45-year-old suspect as a member of the Detroit Police Department's special response team, Detroit Police Chief James White said.
The suspect, a 13-year veteran of the department, was off-duty but in uniform, White said.
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The NYPD said a 33-year-old off-duty police officer has been arrested in the 43rd Precinct, which serves the southeast section of the Bronx. There are four primary commercial strips in the precinct: Westchester Avenue, Castle Hill Avenue, White Plains Road, and Parkchester.
They said that on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 1.30 a.m., Police Officer MD Kabir was arrested and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, assault in the third degree, and harassment in the second degree.
MOUNT LAUREL, NJ — A 22-year-old Mount Laurel Police Officer has been charged with hacking into the social media accounts of an Evesham woman and sending nude pictures she took of herself to her contact and friends lists, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw and Evesham Township Police Chief Walt Miller announced on Thursday.
Ayron Taylor, of Delran, has been charged with three counts of Computer Crime, two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child and one count of Invasion of Privacy.
ASHTABULA, Ohio — It's a controversial hire in the Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office: a former Ashtabula police officer who has twice been sued for excessive force, leading to settlements with the city totaling $9 million.
3News Investigates dug into why former Police Lieutenant Daniel Gillespie has been given a second chance.
Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB) has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice seeking an investigation of the Dallas Police Department’s disproportionate violence against people of color and its handling of brutality cases.
The 19-page complaint details how Black citizens are more likely to be shot or killed by Dallas officers; how Dallas officers use deadly force on people who do not pose an imminent threat; how only a fraction of officers facing complaints of excessive force over the last half century have ever been disciplined; how citizens face needless barriers when attempting to file police misconduct complaints; and how the police department’s internal investigations fail to conform with federal standards.
An Ada County judge decided that a man who was beaten so severely by a Meridian police officer that he needed facial reconstruction surgery will spend at least a few years in prison. Boise resident Colt Seward was arrested in May 2023 after officers found him “passed out behind the wheel” in a traffic lane with his engine running near the intersection of North Ten Mile Road and West Ustick Road in Meridian, police said in a news release at the time.
The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not connect him to the case. Critics are calling the execution murder.
Missouri executed Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams on Tuesday in the 1998 killing of a former newspaper reporter despite a prosecutor in the case and the family of the victim saying his life should be spared.
Williams, who always maintained his innocence − a claim backed by not only his defense team but later prosecutors − is now the third inmate executed in Missouri this year and the 15th in the nation. He was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. following the lethal injection, the Missouri Department of Corrections reported.
If risk assessments of criminal offenders consistently show signs of bias, what does that mean for criminal justice reform?
“There remains evidence that the instruments overpredict the risk of recidivism for some racial and ethnic groups relative to white individuals (e.g., Black, Hispanic, and Asian males and females on the general tools), as was true of previous versions of PATTERN and has been documented in prior reports.”
This article addresses risk assessment instruments designed to implement the federal First Step Act. It is of immense importance to the entire criminal justice system. It’s offered here as a service to my correctional readers, I’m unaware of an effort to publicize the results of this study.
COACHELLA, Cali. (KTLA) — A man arrested outside of a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump in Southern California had multiple guns illegally in his possession, according to authorities.
The arrest took place at a checkpoint at the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive in Coachella just one minute before the rally was set to start on Saturday, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said.
The driver of a black SUV, who was later identified as 49-year-old Vem Miller of Las Vegas, was found to be in illegal possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer has been arrested and is facing a charge of domestic battery.
Police said Sunday that Lieutenant Brian Boxler was arrested Saturday and booked into the Clark County Detention Center for domestic battery by strangulation. #police #thinblueline #lawenforcement #cops
A central Arkansas father has been charged with first-degree murder after finding his missing underage daughter in the car with a man, then shooting and killing the man.
The shooting happened in Lonoke County, about 75 miles northeast of Hot Springs.
Someone called the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office around 1:12 Tuesday morning about a missing juvenile, the sheriff’s office said in a news release on Facebook. The girl is 14 years old and the man who was shot is in his 60s, Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley confirmed to USA TODAY Friday afternoon.
CHICAGO – A Chicago police officer accused of slashing vehicle tires while on duty during the Puerto Rican Fest has had his charges dropped.
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office told WGN News the case against 26-year-old Jacob Gies was dropped on Sept. 26. They issued the following statement on the matter.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating a fatal car crash involving a patrol vehicle that took place Sunday morning.
Police say at 5:40 a.m., officers were traveling westbound on Niles Street when a vehicle traveling northbound on Kern Street struck the patrol car. The driver of the vehicle was ejected and pronounced dead on scene. A 2-year-old child and front seat passenger were transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, where the passenger later died.
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) — The U.S. Department of Justice recently launched an investigation into Rankin County law enforcement to evaluate all types of force used by officers.
This comes months after five Rankin County deputies and one Richland Police officer were sentenced on federal charges connected to the torture of two Black men.
GREENFIELD — It’s been almost a year since former Greenfield Police Department (GPD) officer Nichole Gilbert was fired following an OWI charge. While that was a well-known incident, Gilbert quietly filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Greenfield on Oct. 23, 2023, just days after the incident.
In the lawsuit, Gilbert claims she had been discriminated against by the department for years, citing violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
#police #thinblueline #lawenforcement #cops
BATON ROUGE - Within the span of a week, four deputies across the capital region were arrested and fired for an array of crimes.
Former East Baton Rouge Deputy Tybracia Gibson was arrested and charged with malfeasance in office and three counts of smuggling contraband into a penal facility for her inmate boyfriend.
#police #thinblueline #lawenforcement #cops
The prior alleged wrongdoing of a former Louisville police officer accused of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend and their neighbors in 2020, when Taylor was shot and killed in a botched police raid, cannot be introduced as evidence in the ex-officer’s trial, a federal judge ruled Thursday, according to WHAS11, the ABC affiliate in Louisville covering the case in the courtroom.
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The former Dallas police officer convicted in the 2018 shooting of a man in his own apartment has been denied parole, according to online records from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 for killing 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean, a Black man she mistook for an intruder. The parole hearing was Guyger’s first, and comes halfway through her sentence.
A fired San Antonio police officer accused of using excessive force when he fired a stun gun at a suspect and later lifted the handcuffed man off the ground by his arm, will get his job back — with back pay and benefits.
Arbitrator Lori LaConta wrote in a ruling this week that Police Chief William McManus' decision to issue officer Andre Vargas an indefinite suspension, which is tantamount to firing, was "excessive and unreasonable when considering the circumstances surrounding the underlying incident."
Prosecutors on Friday declined to charge the Aurora police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Black man in May.
Aurora Police officer Michael Dieck fired a single shot that killed 37-year-old Kilyn Lewis, who was being sought in Aurora on a warrant for attempted murder. APD was helping Denver Police track Lewis down at the time. Previously released body-worn camera video showed that as officers shouted commands at Lewis to get on the ground, he fumbled in a rear pocket for something, and eventually produced a dark-colored object he held above his head.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - After trying and failing to get a blood sample from an Atlanta police officer accused of shooting and killing a man while off-duty, South Fulton police want to hire more people qualified to take blood at the scene.
In early August, Melvin Potter allegedly shot a man to death outside a College Park bar after an argument, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). South Fulton police said he refused a breathalyzer test, as is his right — but he was charged with obstruction when he refused to comply with a signed warrant for the blood sample.
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Norfolk Police officer has been charged with sexual assault, police said.
According to officials, on Oct. 9, a woman reported to Norfolk police that she had been sexually assaulted by an officer on duty in the 800 block of North Military Highway five days prior, on Oct. 4.
Herman W. Martin, 44, who has been on the force for eight years, found himself on the wrong side of the law, and was taken into custody just before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 3600 block of East Virginia Beach Boulevard. #policeman #sexualassault #CHARGED
A lieutenant with the LaGrange Police Department has been arrested and charged as part of an ongoing GBI investigation.
LaGrange Police Department Lt. Joshua Clower, 43, has been charged with with theft by taking, theft by conversion and exploitation of an elderly person over the age 65. Lt. Clower was placed on paid administrative leave on Friday, according to LaGrange Police Chief Garrett Fiveash.
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis police officer accused of child exploitation and possessing child pornography is now facing criminal charges in federal court.
Friday, a grand jury returned an indictment of five counts of distributing child sexual abuse material and one count of possession of child sexual abuse against Sgt. Javed Richards, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Indiana announced.
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison.