Bronx District Attorney says elaborate scheme involving thousands of bribes brought drugs, other contraband inside Seventeen people, involving inmates and at least two correction officers, have been arrested as part of a major Rikers Island smuggling investigation, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday afternoon. Two corrections officers and one Rikers Island …
May, 2016
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18 May
Chicago Police Officer Clauzell Gause Charged For Beating Handcuffed Patient
Prosecutors allege the officer sought “retribution” for an earlier altercation Another day means more problems for the Chicago Police Department. A veteran Chicago police officer was arrested Tuesday and charged with official misconduct, a felony, after a video emerged of him punching and shoving a 24-year-old mentally disabled …
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10 May
Carlisle Officer Ryan Luckenbaugh Charged With Assault After Graphic Video Shows Him Kicking A Handcuffed Skateboarder
Original police report claims victim hit patrol car with his skateboard, dash-cam footage proves otherwise. A Carlisle police trooper previously charged earlier this year with assault is facing increased scrutiny after dash-cam footage was released Monday showing him kicking a defenseless skateboarder in the face while he sat on the …
April, 2016
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29 April
Video Shows Rookie Cop Brutally Beating Handcuffed Woman While Other Officers Watch
Rookie officer has been fired and charged with battery The Jacksonville Sheriff’s department announced Thursday it had fired a rookie deputy after a disturbing video was released showing him senselessly punching a handcuffed woman already pinned to the wall. As first reported by JAX4, 31-year-old Mayra Martinez is clearly shown …
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28 April
Sandra Bland’s Mother Makes Powerful, Heartbreaking Speech To Congressional Leaders
Geneva Reed-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman who died under highly suspect conditions in a Texas jail, made an impassioned speech at the Library of Congress today. Reed-Veal was addressing the newly formed Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls. The Caucus was formed in March …
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25 April
NYPD’s Finest: 16 Year Veteran And Recipient Of “Cop Of The Month” Award Charged With Assaulting And Choking Wife
An off-duty police officer and 16-year veteran of the force was arrested Saturday on domestic abuse charges alleging that he beat and choked his wife in front of the couple’s teenage daughter at their home in Jamaica, Queens. Officer Richard Phipps, 42, who just three years earlier had received the “Cop …
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20 April
School to Prison Pipeline Alive And Well: Elementary School Students Arrested For Watching Playground Fight
Lawmakers calling on TBI, Dept of Justice to investigate Murfreesboro child arrests At least 10 children ages 6 to 11 were arrested at Hobgood Elemetary School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee for reportedly not breaking up a fight that not only did not occur on school grounds–rather at a neighborhood basketball game–a …
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20 April
Two NYPD Detectives Charged With Assaulting US Postal Employee As “Revenge”
Repeatedly stalked and harassed postal employee who unknowingly gave directions to cop-killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley Two New York City police detectives have been indicted on assault charges after viral photos and evidence of them surfaced assaulting a uniformed U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee who had just finished his shift on October of …
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19 April
Protests Rage After Ruling Confirms No Jail Time For Liang
Peter Liang, the ex-NYPD officer who shot and killed unarmed Akai Gurley in November, 2014 will serve no jail time, according to a ruling handed down by Judge Danny Chun. Liang had previously been charged with manslaughter for shooting Gurley, but Judge Chun reduced his sentence to criminally negligent homicide. …
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18 April
Nevada Attorney General Charges Prison Guard For Lethal Shooting Of Inmate Carlos Perez Jr.
A former prison guard trainee was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Monday by the Nevada state attorney general. The guard, Reynaldo-John Ramos had been accused of killing Carlos Perez Jr. with a shotgun while he was in handcuffs in November 2014. If found guilty of both felony charges, Ramos could …
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18 April
NYPD Fatally Shoots Man In Queens, Claims He Reached For Gun But Eyewitness Accounts Claim Otherwise
Eyewitness says police gave no warning and fired on George Tillman within 30 seconds of approaching A 32 year old Maryland male electrician was shot and killed early Sunday morning in Queens, NY after NYPD officers say he reached for his gun while being chased. Around 1:30 AM, two plainclothes officers …
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15 April
UC Davis Doing Everything Possible (With Taxpayer Funds!) To Scrub References To 2011 Pepper Spray Attacks On Protestors
Recently released documents show that University of California-Davis has spent $175,000 to have consultants scrub any postings relating to the Nov. 18, 2011 incident of a police officer using pepper spray on protestors. During an Occupy Wall Street protest at UC Davis, UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike pepper-sprayed protestors …
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13 April
Protest Erupts In Chicago After Officer Shoots And Kills 16-Year-Old Pierre Loury
Chicago now reels from the loss of 16-year-old Pierre Loury, the third person to die this year in a Chicago police-involved shooting. An officer whose identity has not yet been released to the public fatally shot Loury in the chest Monday night after a brief foot chase. The officer says …
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7 April
Unarmed Navajo Mother Killed By Arizona Police Officer Sparks Native American Outcry On Excessive Force And Racial Targeting
On Easter Sunday, March 27, a 27-year-old Navajo mother was killed by a police officer in Winslow, Arizona. The woman, Loreal Juana Barnell Tsingine was suspected of shoplifting a case of beer and shot five times by Winslow police officer Austin Shipley, 26, in a Circle K. parking lot. Shipley …
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7 April
St. Louis Cop Found Guilty Of Brutally Beating A Shackled Man Who Was Arrested Carrying His Daughter’s Credit Card
A former St. Louis police officer Thomas Carroll, 52, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to beating a handcuffed suspect. He acknowledged that he had thrown the suspect, Michael Waller against the wall and punched him in the torso. He denied the accusation that he had stuck a gun in Waller’s mouth to threaten …