In the moments before he was shot and killed, Daniel Shaver was trying his best to comply with orders from Mesa police, specifically Sergeant Charles Langley, who was berating and threatening to kill him while barking out a series of confusing orders, according to a chilling transcript from an officer’s body camera released today.
An off-duty Boston police officer was caught on video Tuesday in the middle of a road rage attack on a pedestrian he chased down.
The video has prompted the Boston Police Department’s notoriously inefficient and unhelpful internal affairs division to open an investigation, according to The Boston Globe.
Trying to capitalize on the fabricated War on Cops, a Colorado cop fabricated a shooting on himself last year, prompting a statewide manhunt that ended up costing $38,000 in taxpayer money.
Commerce City police officer Kevin Lord even pointed out a suspect in a photo lineup, telling investigators that he was 90 percent sure it was the man in the photo, encouraging officers to arrest him.
A $20,000 reward was offered for the capture of the suspect while Commerce City police issued the following statement after the November 5, 2015 incident:
Inspired by the mythical War on Cops, Louisiana lawmakers are on the verge of passing the so-called “Blue Lives Matter” law, the nation’s first police hate crime law, which would provide police officers with even more protective status than they already possess.
Florida police officer Michael Harding had such a promising law enforcement career in front of him when he was named Officer of the Year while working for the Fort Pierce Police Department in 2011.
One year prior to that, he was presented with the Exceptional Police Service award for issuing 76 DUI citations.
But then his career started to falter after accepting a job with the Port St. Lucie Police Department just south of Fort Pierce in 2011.
A video uploaded to YouTube last week shows a Detroit school cop shove, kick, drag and pepper spray a 15-year-old student after she broke a school rule and stepped on an elevator with an expired hall pass, attempting to get to class on time.
On December of 2015, Cass Technical High School tenth-grader Destiny Heard, who’d never been in trouble before, was running late for class, so she decided to take the elevator to her sixth-floor classroom instead of the stairs.
A Houston cop was convicted by a jury last week and sentenced to the maximum of 20 years in prison for shooting a woman in the head during a road-rage incident while he was on paid leave for several other road-raging incidents.
He was also one of thousands of cops deemed mentally stable by a psychologist who this month pleaded guilty to not conducting face-to-face evaluations with police recruits.
In other words, there are probably many more like him patrolling the streets of Houston.
One of six Baltimore cops charged in connection to the Freddie Gray death was found not guilty today.
Edward Nero was one of three police officers who chased Gray on bicycles on April 12, 2015, placing him unrestrained in a police van where the 25-year-old man ended up with spinal injuries, leading to his death a week later.
He was facing four misdemeanor charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office. The 30-year-old police officer opted for a bench trial over a jury trial.
The city of Tukwila in Washington agreed to settle a lawsuit for $100,000 plus attorney’s fee after officers punched a restrained man in the face and head, shocking him with taser darts and then siccing a police dog on him in what the department calls “pain compliance” – a use of force tactic they say falls “within policy.”
What began as a routine trip to the zoo with her children turned into a frightening encounter with an Ohio cop who accused her of “suspicious activity” for strapping her children in their car seats and walking back inside her home to retrieve snacks.
Brunswick Police Sergeant Jonathan Page appeared in Ginger Borshov’s open doorway as she was about to step back outside, demanding her identification, obviously accustomed to getting what he wants.
But Borshov was not certain if she was required to hand over identification, so she grabbed a camera and began recording.
