A Northern California woman said she suffered a miscarriage after Bay Area Rapid Transit police officers forced her down on her stomach, placed a knee on her back and cuffed her hands behind her back, even after she told them she was pregnant, which violates a department policy forbidding the handcuffing of pregnant women behind their backs.
An Atlanta cop who kicked down a door and entered a home with his hand on his gun to threaten his ex-fiancee said it was all an accident.
But Atlanta police officer Phillip Barresi was arrested on home invasion charges anyway.
Now the rookie cop, who was sworn in on March 17, is on paid administrative leave until further notice.
Barresi was in uniform on November 28 when he drove to the home of his ex-fiancee’s parents and began repeatedly ringing the doorbell and kicking the door until it broke open.
A New Jersey state police officer was arrested and suspended from his job without pay for conducting traffic stops on young women so he could ask them out on dates.
Trooper Marquice Prather, 37, has been charged with tampering with or falsifying public records for attempting to cover up his improper stops.
He was arrested Friday.
An internal investigation found that on several occasions Prather deactivated his microphone while asking the women out, then lied to supervisors claiming it had malfunctioned.
A Baton Rouge police officer was cleared of any wrongdoing for striking a restrained 16-year-old boy several times in the head at the city’s annual Earth Day event in an incident caught on video last April.
The department found there was “insufficient evidence” to support a complaint against Sergeant Todd Bourgoyne in the beating of Ja’Colby Davis, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate.
Georgia deputies shot a man after he refused to put away a tablet computer inside a courtroom during a child support hearing Wednesday.
Clayton County sheriff’s deputies say they only shot Benarvis Johnson after tasering him, which had no effect on him.
They also say he ignored their orders to put away the tablet computer, which is why they had to drag him out of the courtroom and taser him.
A witness recorded deputies with tasers in their hands struggling with the 27-year-old man outside the courtroom, but did not capture the actual shooting or any of the tasering.
South Florida cops were arresting a legless, wheelchair-bound woman for trespassing when they dropped her on the ground, leaving the handcuffed woman on the ground for more than a minute as the woman demanded they help her up.
But instead of helping her up, one Miami-Dade police officer turned to a man video recording the incident, demanding to know what he was doing.
A New Jersey cop seen on video last month slapping a man dressed in a bunny costume for blowing an air horn inside police headquarters was charged with assault last week.
Sussex County prosecutors charged Hopatcong police officer Nicholas J. Maresca, Jr., 44, with simple assault on December 2, two weeks after he was caught on video slapping Kevin Hemmerich, 27, inside the Hopatcong police station on November 17.
A male inmate was handcuffed in his cell when three guards stabbed the inmate multiple times. The stabbing occurred at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.
Jarrell Boyan, 26, Pernell Fogle, 24, and Jaquan Smith, 24, have now been arrested for attempted murder and misconduct in office. And they have all been fired from the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
The charges against the three officers were announced on December 1st just one day after they were fired.
Homestead Police Department (HPD) has silenced the First Amendment with false stalking charges and restraining orders.
Their abuses leading to two of my three false arrest, and to me being served with four frivolous restraining orders.
Sadly, such abuses are not limited to Florida, and occur nationwide.
I have researched this new trick in the police playbook being used to stalk away the First Amendment.
PINAC presents this series as a case study on such stalking abuses in Florida and across the country.
What happens in the closet stays in the closet, right?
At least that’s what a Massachusetts cop was hoping for when he forced a drunk, naked inmate into a closet and performed oral sex on him before raping him on Halloween night.
Salem police officer Brian Butler, 56, said he simply “gave into temptation.” And insists the sex act between him and the 28-year-old man was consensual.
Considering he is married to the department’s police chief, he should be protected, right?
Except there’s video.
