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A high school teacher in Texas was caught on video slapping a student on the head five times while calling him an “idiot ass,” leading to her arrest.
Mary Hastings, 63, who teaches geometry at Ozen High School in Beaumont, was charged with assault.
She apparently had unspecified issues with the student that she assaulted because the video shows professional educator Mary Hastings in a furious rage walking in the student’s direction and swiping papers off his desk.
Then she began slapping him in the head.

A surveillance video showing Los Angeles police officers shooting and killing a woman was released today by the lawyer for the victim’s family, who is calling for the cops to be criminally charged.
LAPD said Norma Guzman was armed with a knife, which made them fear for their lives.
Guzman, 37, was homeless, mentally ill and a known drug user, according to news reports, but those who knew her said she was harmless and was known to carry around a “bread knife.”

A man with a shopping cart filled with paid merchandise attempted to walk out of a Texas Walmart refusing to provide his receipt, leading to a uniformed security guard blocking his path out of the store.
“Would you please move out of my path” the man holding the camera told the guard, who was blocking the doorway, preventing him and a female companion from leaving with the merchandise.
“I need to check your receipt first,” the guard said.
“I do not consent to a search,” the man responded.
“It is not a search, it is a policy, sir,” the man said.

A former Wisconsin police officer received 35 years in prison last week after pleading guilty to killing a woman he met on a bondage website, asphyxiating the 19-year-old woman before hiding her body in a suitcase he threw on the side of a highway in Warworth County, Minnesota.
Steven Zelich, 54, is still facing charges of killing a 37-year-old woman in the same manner.
Complaints against Zelich began mounting years before the murders took place but went ignored by the West Allis Police Department, which employed him from 1989 to 2001.

Albuquerque police released body cam video of an officer shooting another officer during an undercover drug sting operation last year that led to a $6.5 million settlement this week.
The video is graphic and shows an incompetent and trigger-happy Lieutenant Greg Brachle pulling up in his car, stepping out and yelling at an occupant of another car to place his hands in the air, who turned out to be a cop he had worked with before.

Albuquerque police released body cam video of an officer shooting another officer during an undercover drug sting operation last year that led to a $6.5 million settlement this week.
The video is graphic and shows an incompetent and trigger-happy Lieutenant Greg Brachle pulling up in his car, stepping out and yelling at an occupant of another car to place his hands in the air, who turned out to be a cop he had worked with before.

Demetria Campbell waited more than a year after she filed an excessive force complaint against Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw to also accuse him of pressing his erect penis against her from behind after he slammed her head into a wall.
And that new allegation was made almost a year after Holtzclaw was arrested and charged with raping several women while on duty, which eventually led to his conviction in December 2015, resulting in a 263-year sentence.

PINAC reporter Phillip Turner helped police catch an active shooter at Austin’s SXSW festival while cop watching on the city’s famed Sixth Street Saturday night.
It made for a pair of unlikely allies; a cop watcher seeking to hold police accountable for random acts of wanton violence who wound up capturing a citizen shooting his gun in a crowded area while he recorded with his camera.
If it wasn’t for the assistance of Turner, the police likely wouldn’t have arrested the suspect at all because they didn’t even know what he looked like.

Texas resident Lawrence Faulkenberry spent ten nights in jail on charges that he assaulted a Caldwell County sheriff’s deputy before footage from his home surveillance video camera proved he was the one attacked by deputies.
Now Fauklenberry is suing the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office.
However, if it wasn’t for his video camera, he would probably be sitting in prison today for the January 2015 arrest.

Ramsey Orta, the man who recorded the viral video of Eric Garner’s murder by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo that became the catalyst for the mantra “I can’t breathe” for the national police accountability movement, was arrested on Wednesday while recording a traffic stop.
Orta walked out of his home on March 16 and noticed a New York City police officer conducting the traffic stop, so he pulled up to the scene and started video recording.