In November of 2014, New York City police officer Peter Liang shot and killed Akai Gurley inside a darkened stairwell in an apartment building.
Now the officer may serve up to 15 years in prison after a conviction Thursday for manslaughter and official misconduct.
Those attending the trial inside the Brooklyn Supreme Court gasped when the verdict was read.
An Ohio man was sentenced to 240 days in jail Thursday for First Amendment-related activities, including attempting to video record police in public and warning drivers of an upcoming DUI checkpoint by holding up a sign.
Douglas “Deo” Odolecki of Cleveland Cop Block was whisked away to jail immediately after the trial.
His attorney, John Gold, plans to appeal.
“The judge far exceeded her authority today,” he said in a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime.
The Georgia Department of Corrections announced today that 46 current and former prison guards have been arrested for smuggling contraband such as drugs and cellphones into seven state-run prisons.
The FBI setup a sting operation to ensnare the sworn officers, some of whom merely provided protection, while others actually transported banned items into the jails.
UPDATE: The name of the mistress is Laura Rezk, according to Courthouse News Service. Her name has also been circulated around the internet since September when prosecutors filed a Brady Disclosure, identifying her as Laura Rezk.
The US Attorney’s office accepted a plea deal from former LASD head man Lee Baca, for lying to Federal investigators about his involvement in a prison abuse scandal, which has already claimed 18 prosecutions in Operation Pandora’s Box.
Baca served as the elected Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California for 16 years.
FBI Agents are surrounding the four remaining occupants of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in an ongoing situation that is being live streamed by activist Gavin Seim, who is on the phone with them.
The situation sound tense with the occupants saying they will not surrender.
Seim connected them with Nevada assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who said she has landed in Portland, and is trying to resolve the situation nonviolently.
On Tuesday it was noted the Paradise police officer Patrick Feaster, who shot an unarmed DUI suspect in November, is no longer employed at the Paradise Police Department.
By Wednesday morning, Feaster was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
According to the Paradise Post:
In 2014, Massachusetts Police Detective Kevin Burnham retired after 43 years on the job with the Springfield Police Department.
Local media celebrated him as a dedicated cop who could have retired ten years earlier, but chose to stay on out of pure love for his job.
Now it appears as if he stayed on solely for the purpose of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the department’s evidence room.
Burnham, who was the narcotics evidence officer, is accused of stealing nearly $400,000 from December 2009 until July 2014.
A video surfaced Monday showing a high-strung, agitated and paranoid police officer threatening a pizza delivery man out of his car at gunpoint as the man video records with his phone.
“Can you put your gun away, please, sir,” the driver asks as he records.
“Put your hands on the steering wheel,” the cop orders.
The cop has been identified as being from Maryland but not many other details are available at this time, including when the incident took place.
An Oklahoma judge dismissed three felony child sex abuse charges against a retired cop Monday despite forensic evidence proving he had molested a 3-year-old girl as well as evidence he had burned her diapers afterwards.
The judge also threw the girl’s father in jail for a year after he voiced objections to how his daughter was being treated on the witness stand.
Judge Matthew Sheets
