Las Vegas police held a press conference Monday to explain how they ended up shooting an unarmed man to death who refused to drop a cell phone on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve.
They also released footage from the body cam of one of the officers, but stopped short of showing the actual shooting.
A 23-year-old Texas man who killed four people in a drunk driving accident was sentenced to life in prison Friday, proving that penalties are harsh for those not afflicted with “affluenza.”
Rashad Owens had a blood alcohol content level of .114 when he plowed into a crowd of people during the 2014 South by Southwest festival in Austin.
On the other hand, Ethan Couch had a blood content level of .24 when he killed four people in 2013, resulting in the 16-year-old teen to receive a ten years of probation.
Las Vegas police shot and killed a man holding a cell phone Thursday, claiming they thought it was gun, which made them fear for their lives.
But they said it was his own fault because he kept the phone concealed as he advanced towards them, refusing to “drop the weapon,” according to the New York Daily News.
They were also under the impression that he was wanted for attempted murder, but that also was not the case.
As “affluenza” boy and his mother were caught south of the border Wednesday, once again the loopholes and bias of the United States legal system are making front page news throughout the world.
A Washington cop received a call about a drunk man sitting in his jeep in a movie parking lot, only to discover that he was a local deputy, so she offered him a ride home, which he refused.
Poulsbo police officer Danielle Branes then left, telling theater employees to keep an eye on him in case he decided to drive.
Almost two hours later, Kitsap County Sheriff Sergeant Jim Porter drove home anyway, a five-mile drive, but then was unable to step out of his jeep.
The grand jury announcement this week that it would not be indicting the Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice less than two seconds after they exited their car sparked rage, fury and despair for those seeking justice.
Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann, after all, had killed a child in a playground for holding an air gun that shoots pellets.
But Loehmann said he was in fear for his life, which was all the grand jury needed to hear.
A Miami jail guard who threw a cup of scalding water on an inmate, leaving him with second-degree burns pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery today.
Charlise Daniels-Wadley, who agreed to resign from her position, received one year of probation and will be required to do 50 hours of community service.
The incident took place in 2012 after Daniels-Wadley got into an argument with inmate Joshua Wiggins, who was released from prison last month after serving two years for cocaine trafficking.
Travis Terez Hubbard, a North Carolina prison guard, was arrested for trying to smuggle marijuana and prescription drugs into a prison earlier this week.
Get this, he even tried to run once police showed up.
But he was already inside the prison, so that made things tricker.
Now, he is sitting in the Anson County Jail under an $80,000 secured bond.
Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke pleaded not guilty to the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald on Tuesday.
Although McDonald had a knife during the shooting, he was deviating away from Van Dyke, who was about 20 to 25 feet away.
The Chicago cop shot the young man 16 times in October 2014, but he was not even criminally charged until 13 months later.
And only because the dash cam video took 13 months to be released to the public.
Van Dyke was the only officer on scene to fire his gun.
A man with no shame about his racist beliefs allowed himself to be recorded while he was insulting a group of activists in Pennsylvania, calling the black videographer a “chimp,” a “nigger” and making monkey sounds to further berate him.
Neither the videographer, Tom Jefferson, nor the other activists, allowed themselves to be sucked into a physical confrontation with the man, which seems to have been his goal.
