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.
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.
Shocking video shows NYPD cop Risel Martinez pointing a gun at a bystander for recording him making an arrest, then walking up to that same bystander and punching him in the face minutes later after the arrest was made.
“He held the gun out like he was one of them goddamn gangsters or like a gang member, you know, and saying, ‘Get away, get away,'”said tenant association president Deloris Johnson.
Upset over the murder of an unarmed teen, protestors in a Dallas suburb took over a city council meeting and then chased away the mayor, who fled in a police cruiser on Tuesday.
We reported about Farmer’s Branch police officer Ken Johnson back in March when the off-duty cop was charged with the murder of 16-year-old Jose Cruz after claiming to see the teen trying to break into his vehicle.
Nobody was surprised when the California cop who pulled a gun on a man last year because he was recording was cleared of any wrongdoing.
After all, police will always protect their own – even if the evidence against them is crisp and clear on video that their officer acted like a complete thug.
Two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies were convicted this week for beating a mentally ill male inmate to “teach him a lesson” after he had mouthed off to jailers in March 2010.
Bryan Brunsting, 31, and Jason Branum, 35, were both convicted on counts of conspiracy, falsifying records and violating the inmate’s civil rights, marking a total of 21 Los Angeles sheriffs deputies to have been convicted of crimes since the federal government began investigating the largest jail system in the country in 2011.
