Back in September, PINAC correspondent Phillip Turner walked into the Arlington Police Department in Texas to file a complaint against a pair of officers who had harassed him for video recording them in public.
He ended up attacked and hospitalized for video recording inside the police station.
The Florida cop who handcuffed a man preaching the Bible on campus lied in his police report, which should earn him a special place in hell if you believe in that kind of stuff.
The Albuquerque Police Department has found its way into another lawsuit. This time a former employee is suing on grounds of wrongful termination for not complying to Police Chief Gorden Eden’s orders to find ways to deny public records request.
A few days ago, the chief of police in my Pennsylvania town of Bethlehem chose to cover up the identity of an off-duty officer involved in a car accident.
This was no ordinary accident though. The off-duty officer involved hit two pedestrians, causing one to collapse and both to need medical care in the hospital.
This is how it was explained in the local media:
Back in August, PINAC reported about the arrest of two prominent police accountability activists in Austin, Texas, Antonio Buehler and Mike Bluehair, who were arrested for the crime of daring to film the police while doing their jobs.
It was just over a year ago when a Utah cop confronted a man going door to door, asking people to shovel their snow in exchange for a few dollars.
The man, James Barker, became annoyed at the officer, and told him to leave him alone, that he was only trying to do his job.
But Salt Lake City police officer Matthew Taylor insisted on knowing his name, telling Barker that he was responding to a complaint of a “suspicious” man walking the neighborhood.
Taylor’s body cam footage shows that Barker grew agitated and lifted the shovel as if to swing it at him.
The Seattle Police Department thought is was a good idea to refuse to release dash cam video to a Seattle-based television station.
Now the police department will foot the bill on a $174,000 settlement to KOMO-TV.
KOMO-TV made a slew of public records request of dash cam video that were suspected of excessive force by Seattle police. But instead of following public records law, the Seattle Police Department used a frivolous statute to deny a records request of the videos in question.
The Illinois man killed by police Wednesday after taking photos of a school was identified as a 38-year-old man with mental illness named Charles Hollstein.
He was shot three times in the back.
Zion police say they recovered a BB gun from the scene.
But they never said anything about him pointing it at the cops nor if the cops even noticed he had the gun until after they killed him.
Despite insisting for two months that Fox Lake Police Captain Joe Gliniewicz had been killed in a brutal ambush as a victim of the fabricated “War on Police,” his fellow officers suspected he had killed himself from the moment they came across his body last September.
After all, there was plenty of evidence to suggest it was a suicide and hardly any evidence to suggest it was a homicide, according to newly released investigative reports.
Illinois police shot and killed a man who was taking photographs of schools Wednesday.
The man was also carrying an air gun and wearing homemade body armor.
However, there is no indication he ever pointed a gun at the Zion police officers.
The only thing police are saying is that they were responding to a report of a “suspicious person” taking photographs of two local schools.
When they approached him, the man then led them on a pursuit, according to news reports. They caught up to him and a struggle ensued.
Then they shot him dead.
