SAN FRANCISCO– A cell phone video of San Francisco police shooting a man in a wheelchair armed with a knife has surfaced. The man doesn’t seem to pose to much of a threat to the undercover cops but there are reports that he had previously stabbed another officer. KTVU reports: A passerby shot the video […]
Seattle Police have released footage of the killing of a deaf Native American woodcarver who was carrying a knife. Officer Ian Burk killed Native American woodcarver, John T. Williams who was carrying a small knife used for woodcarving. While officer Burk did ask Williams to drop his knife, Williams was deaf in one ear according […]
DETROIT (AP) The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was killed in a Detroit police raid to find a murder suspect, has sued A&E Television Networks for encouraging police aggression by videotaping the raid. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit Tuesday claims the network and production crew filming for the cable television […]
Brooklyn — A brawl between what appears to be high school students and the NYPD was caught on tape and posted on YouTube. The fight appears to be at the Broadway Junction Subway stop in Brooklyn. RELATED STORIES Woman Says Cops Brutally Beat Her For Not Picking Up Dog Poop NYPD Paid $1 Billion In […]
Krystal Gardner, a woman in Farmington, Michigan is accusing Westland police of physically abusing her while she was in jail. The Grio reports: Krystal Gardner is suing two male officers and the Westland Police Department, for $2 million over the assault she alleges happened Aug. 18. The 25-year-old Wayne woman was in custody after being […]
Johannes Mehserle has been sentenced to two years in prison for the killing of Oscar Grant. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the incident in which he shot an unarmed Grant in the back while he was laying on the ground on New Year’s Eve, 2008. Mehserle claimed he thought he was using his […]
Several police officers were caught on video beating and restraining a teenage boy at Roxbury Community College in Boston. Bostonchannel reports: Police officers are being accused of excessive force after Boston police are seen on video punching and kneeing a teenage suspect accused of resisting arrest. The teen is heard screaming and asking the officer […]
MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. — A college football player is dead after police in New York shot at his car during a bar brawl. The dead man was identified as Danroy Henry, a junior at Pace University’s suburban Westchester County campus. He was a varsity defensive football player at the school. According to Mount Pleasant police, […]
For more than two decades, the 52-year-old former Hawthorne, Calif., police officer has made a living embarrassing cops with a video camera. Stung by the rough treatment of his father during a 1987 traffic stop by another California department, Diop Kamau turned to a second career recording police across the country in compromising — often […]
In this video, a suspect who happened to be resisting arrest receives a beating for nearly two minutes from several cops wielding batons.
