“There’s no victim here,” Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said at a press conference Tuesday.
That conclusion might come as a surprise to the countless people who watched a bystander video of off-duty Boston police officer Edward Barrett’s brazen road rage attack on a pedestrian in May.
“It hit her pretty much square in the middle of her leg and went through and broke the bone. She had to have a plate and screws to help pin the bone in place,” Brad Ellis, Ava’s dad told ABC6.
Confusing a book for a gun, a North Carolina cop shot and killed an unarmed 43-year-old man Tuesday, according to his daughter, who posted a video of the shooting’s aftermath on Facebook.
But Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say Keith Lamont Scott was armed and posed an “imminent deadly threat to the officers,” which is why he had to die.
They say they were in the area to serve an arrest warrant, which had nothing to do with Scott.
The video showing an Oklahoma cop shoot and kill Terence Crutcher after he had his hands in the air, only to later claim he was not complying, is so outrageous that even an Ohio police chief took to social media to voice his disgust.
And that is something we never see.
A San Diego cop who was allowed to change his story after he watched surveillance footage that captured him fatally shooting an unarmed, mentally ill homeless man in an alley was never interviewed by internal affairs investigators.
Nor did the California cop have to answer to any superior officers in his department because none of them were interested in investigating the shooting.
Oklahoma police initially said Terence Crutcher would not comply, which is why he had to die, never mind the fact that his only crime was driving a car that had stalled in the middle of the street, which, of course, is not a crime.
But police videos released today shows he was complying when he was shot dead on Friday, raising both arms in the air after police had pulled up to his stalled vehicle.
A Louisiana cop was caught on a store surveillance camera in April kicking, punching and dragging a handcuffed suspect who appeared to offer no resistance.
Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson fired Robert Wallow Thursday just before charging him with simple battery and malfeasance in office on Friday. Wallow was booked into the Jefferson Parish Jail.
It was a stand off at Standing Rock.
Authorities would apparently like to quell voices of protestors opposing construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, and stifle journalists from covering the protest that’s taking place near the construction site within the same area several Native American tribes claim is sacred ground.
It started with international security guards attacking peaceful protestors with dogs and pepper spray.
There was apparently enough evidence to arrest him, but not enough to fire him.
A cop who has worked as a trooper for the California Highway Patrol for 26-years was arrested at his home for sharing child porn over the internet.
Embarrassed over a deputy’s comments made to a 14-year-old girl while arresting her Saturday, Oregon sheriff’s deputies are now threatening to arrest the man who recorded the video.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is claiming Darren Hall violated the state’s wiretapping law when he stepped outside his apartment, stood on some stairs and recorded the deputy berating the girl for having argued with her mother over the girl’s use of makeup.
