Drunk and hungry, an off-duty sheriff’s deputy in California was exasperated with a fast-food employee who was slow in giving him his food.
So he pulled out his gun and threatened the clerk and manager with it.
And he ended up arrested, thrown in jail while still drunk and hungry.
Grand juries have the power to indict people on criminal charges, so it is no laughing matter when they fail to take a vote on the charges at hand.
That, after all, is the whole point of a grand jury.
But in a huge lapse of justice, the grand jury in the Tamir Rice case failed to vote on the charges against Cleveland police officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.
Yet even without a vote, the officers walked away free without an indictment.
New Mexico state police chased a 74-year-old man driving on the wrong side of the interstate earlier this month, forcing him out his van at gunpoint and tasering him, causing him to fall to the ground clutching his chest.
Roger Chalet died a week later.
Luna County sheriff’s deputies say he died of natural causes.
Two seasoned Texas cops are being investigated by the federal government for running an illegal off-shore gambling scheme for over five years.
Houston police officers Steve Glezman and Brian Jordan have both been in the police force for over 20 years.
An award-winning lieutenant of the Ohio State Highway Patrol was arrested Sunday for allegedly stalking the wife of a fellow colleague.
William Elschlager, Ohio State Highway Patrol Marietta Post Leader, was charged with one charge of menacing by stalking – a fourth degree felony in that state. He was also charged with one count of abduction – a third degree felony in Ohio, according to WTAP.
San Francisco police beat and pepper sprayed a man riding a bicycle, accusing him of texting while riding.
But Donovan Reid said he was only using a navigation app while trying to deliver a burrito for a company called Postmates.
It does not appear as if the burrito ever got delivered because Reid ended up hospitalized.
The incident took place on January 3, but it was only in the last few days that local media began reporting on it.
Reid started recording the traffic stop, but told local media that the cop ordered him to stop.
Denver police shot and killed a man on Monday, telling the media that he was sitting in a stolen car and stepped out brandishing a gun.
Cops fired multiple times, killing Ramone Lonergan, 32, who was listed in the media as the first police shooting fatality of 2016.
Then, days later, Lonegran’s girlfriend came forward and said he had been driving her car and that it was not reported stolen. She also said he was not involved in any fraud of any kind.
The Pennsylvania cop who shot a man in the back while repeatedly tasering him over an expired inspection sticker, capturing it all on her body cam, only for her to get acquitted last year before vowing to return to the department to continue patrolling the streets, has resigned.
But only because the borough of Hummelstown agreed to pay Lisa Mearkle $120,000.
That’s the price a community of just over 4,500 people has to pay to get rid of the hysterical murdering cop.
Madison police officer Eric Parker has escaped the hands of justice for a third time.
This time, U.S.District Judge Madeline Haikala granted an acquittal motion by the Alabama cop’s attorneys. Hence, ending the federal civil trial for Parker permanently.
However, Parker, who has been on paid suspension since last year, challenging the department’s decision to fire him, is still facing a misdemeanor assault charge for the incident as well as a civil suit from the victim’s family.
Maryland law enforcement officers were captured on surveillance video chasing a man into a store and beating him over an apparent small amount of heroin.
The video was sent to Cop Block from a source saying the officers were from the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.
But the patches they are wearing appear to match Maryland State Police more than the sheriff’s office. However, Maryland State Police tend to wear long-sleeve uniforms and these officers are wearing short sleeves.
