In yet another reminder of why we should only call police as a last resort, police in Kansas shot a woman dead after rousing her from her sleep and demanding her gun, killing her when she complied with their orders.
The woman’s boyfriend had called Gardner police to report that she was suicidal.
Now the woman’s daughter is suing.
According to Courthouse News:
A North Carolina police officer is under investigation for using excessive force during an arrest in an incident caught on camera.
The excessive force situation transpired on Tuesday, when 26-year-old Malcolm Glenn Elliott II fled the scene of a hit-and-run.
When the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers caught Elliott, he was told to put his hands up and get on the ground. All the officers then descended opon Elliott to make the arrest.
But one officer, as seen in the video, decides to repeatedly hit Elliot in the face and backside.
A Baltimore City School police officer was seen beating a student on a video that surfaced Tuesday.
In the video, the student is with his back against the wall as the officer is cursing and yelling at him.
The officer then pushes the student against the wall, strikes him three times, then kicks him, telling the student to “get the fuck out of here.”
The Baltimore City School Police Force is a separate agency from the city’s police department.
The school board said that the officer was reassigned, but would not identify him.
New footage has surfaced from Monday’s incident of a U.S. Secret Service agent grasping a TIME photojournalist by the neck and slamming him down to the ground during a Donald Trump rally in Virginia Monday – showing the agent grabbing him from behind in the moments prior to the body slam.
PINAC reported back in April of 2013 about Jonas Correia who was arrested in Massachusetts for recording Northampton police arresting alleged “unruly bar patrons” outside of a downtown bar.
The city of Northampton has since settled a civil rights claim in the amount of $52,000.
Video of the incident was taken by an attorney and bystander who accused police of arresting the man because he was black.
In order to build trust in the community, a Delaware cop who was caught on video kicking an innocent man in the face, shattering the man’s jaw, will be paid $230,000 to resign.
The city of Dover says this the settlement with Thomas Webster IV is in the “best interest of the community” because it guarantees he will no longer work as a city police officer.
Detroit police shot and killed a man’s dog chained up legally at his home for ‘no reason‘, now the deteriorating city’s taxpayers will pay the price.
A few weeks ago, I posted a comment in our private Facebook Newsroom group informing the PINAC team that I will mostly be quitting soon because the site is not just financially sustainable.
The group, consisting of about 100 members, mostly volunteers, a few paid writers and investigators, were not happy with the announcement and stated they would do what they could to keep it afloat.
Another case of a man “lunging” towards police officers with a knife has proven to be false by an autopsy.
The autopsy, conducted by the San Francisco Medical Examiner, proves Amilcar Perez Lopez was shot four times in the back by San Francisco police exactly one year ago today.
Amilcar Lopez Perez
California cops shot and killed a man and woman Sunday after finding them unconscious in a car and spending 45 minutes trying to “deescalate the situation” before they “felt threatened,” according to Inglewood Mayor James Butts, a former police chief.
But Butts did not explain how Inglewood police felt threatened by an unconscious couple before opening fire on the couple.
All he said was that the woman, Kisha Micheal, had a gun in her right hand, which is what police have been saying all along.
However, Michael’s family said she did not even own a gun.
