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After coming close to killing a man over a cell phone case shaped like a gun, police in California are warning citizens to think twice about using such devices.
After all, the next time could end “tragically,” as the Alhambra Police Department noted.
And we could have told you that knowing how cops will confuse anything for a gun, whether it be a smartphone with no gun-shaped attachment, a wallet or just a hand with an index finger extended, which have all gotten people killed by police.

South Florida cops detained a man after he recorded several officers running a stop sign outside the police station where his wife works last month.
The Delray Beach cops never admitted they detained him for recording them blatantly violating traffic laws.
But a recording of the call to dispatch reveals a department employee placed the call to report a “suspicious man” she observed backed into a parking spot “pointing a Sony camera where police vehicles are exiting.”

Before she strapped a bra around her neck and tried to hang herself from a prison shower head in Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Michigan, Janika Edmond asked prison guards for a suicide prevention vest.
But state corrections officers Kory Moore and Dianna Callahan blew her off, mocking her instead, talking amongst themselves about a bet they had placed on whether or not the inmate would ask for the vest.
Callahan had won the bet, so she started taunting Moore about how she now owed her a Subway sandwich.

A Louisiana jailer has been sued for repeatedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old inmate and threatening to harm her mother if she didn’t obey his commands.
During the girl’s seven month stint in the juvenile tier of the St. Bernard Parish Juvenile Detention Center, Deputy Eddie Williams subjected her to constant harassment, ordering her to disrobe and masturbate in certain places so he could view video of her via the jail’s remote security camera.

The California man who stepped out of a car during a traffic stop wielding a rifle to prove cops are good people and would not shoot him not only ended up getting shot multiple times.
He is now being charged with attempted murder.
That means Jose Vaca is now facing a possible life sentence in prison.
But chances are, Vaca will still maintain his positive attitude towards police.

A Texas cop who also worked as a juvenile detention officer was arrested in uniform on Tuesday for repeatedly sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter.
Elmendorf cop Jesus Gonzalez, 42 was charged with continuous sex abuse of a child, a first degree felony, according to KSAT.
The mother of the girl contacted police after finding indecent pictures on her daughter’s cell phone, discovering the young girl had been texting lewd photos to her boyfriend at his request.

A retired Chicago cop named James R. Povolo was slapped with felony arson charges and destruction of property for burning a homeless man’s tent and all of his belongings earlier this year.
Everything Scott Huber had left was all he’d managed to keep during his version of a peaceful political protest after the city of Naperville in Illinois evicted him from his home and electronics business.

An Oklahoma cop hailed as a hero last month for saving a woman’s life was arrested Thursday on child sex crime charges.
Blanchard police officer Jordan Jones, 30, was arrested for solicitation of a minor with the use of technology, receipt of child pornography and violation of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act, according to KFOR.

An Oregon cop who ran a red light and struck a pedestrian before driving his patrol car into a doughnut shop earlier this year was found to have violated department policy and state law.
But Bend Police Corporal Robert Emerson is an award-winning officer, which means he only had to pay a $260 fine for a traffic signal violation.
And he is appealing that, according to KTAU:

Cops and firefighters clashed after responding to a house fire in Indiana Tuesday, resulting in police arresting the fire chief as the house continued to go up in flames.
Cannelton police say the city’s volunteer fire chief, Christopher Herzog, pushed and shoved one of their officers, which is why they arrested him for felony battery against a police officer.