police abuse

Responding to a fight that broke out in a Brooklyn Ecuadorian restaurant Saturday, New York City police officers proceeded to arrest an employee not involved in the fight after he told them not to kick a handcuffed patron.
That suggestion prompted NYPD officers to turn their aggression on him, slamming him to the ground and punching him several times before striking his head with a blackjack.
Then after they had taken him and two other men to jail, the cops returned to the restaurant and proceeded to delete surveillance video that captured the incident.

More than a year after a Chicago police officer shot and killed a teenager in an incident that has already resulted in a $5 million settlement, the cop is now expected to be charged with murder.
But only because a judge ordered the release of a dash cam video that police have tried their hardest to keep under wraps.

The city of Fullerton agreed to pay $4.9 million to the father of Kelly Thomas, the mentally ill homeless man who was viciously beaten to death by police in a shocking video made even more shocking that the officers were acquitted.
The incident took place in 2011 and Thomas’ father, Ron Thomas, filed the suit a year later.
But it was not until the day of the trial that the city council folded, agreeing to the settlement.

Wearing full military gear and wielding high-powered rifles, Delaware state police broke into a home Friday, shooting and killing a dog who was running from them in fear.
The entry was captured on Mark Reedy’s security camera, who says police were looking for guns, but the shooting takes place off-frame.
The video shows the dog running up to the door as they are trying to break in, yelling “state police … search warrant.”

No pay for killer cops!
That is what the family members of Malissa Williams were chanting earlier this week in front of Cleveland’s city hall in response to news that Michael Brelo – one of the 13 cops who fatally shot both Williams and her friend Timothy Russell 137 times earlier this year – will be back policing the streets any day now.

A drunken Massachusetts police officer choked and put a gun to the head of a woman in his house. Earlier on the same day the officer was cited for drinking alcohol while driving.
Now, four months later, Dalton police officer James Scace has been charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, domestic assault and battery, strangulation and witness intimidation.

A man who was attacked by three San Antonio police officers last year while taking photos of his wife’s business is now paralyzed from the neck down.
But San Antonio police have already wiped their hands of the matter, saying they  had merely confused Roger Carlos with a violent felon whom they were chasing when they hopped out of a van and attacked him before realizing he was the wrong man.

After more than a decade of accusations of abusing citizens, falsifying reports and planting drugs and weapons, the Michigan police officer known as Robocop was convicted today, putting an end to his less than stellar law enforcement career.
And it was only because the incident was captured on dash cam video.
William Melendez, who was fired from the Inkster Police Department in April after a dash cam video surfaced showing him pull over and beat a man named Floyd Dent, was found guilty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and of misconduct in office.

In a controversial ruling this morning, Judge Melissa Phinn rendered a not guilty verdict to a Baltimore police officer accused of killing a dog by slitting its throat last year.
Jeffrey Bolger, who has since retired from the department, was found not guilty on all charges, including animal cruelty, mutilating an animal and misconduct in office in connection with the June 2014 killing of a Shar-Pei dog named Nala.

Canadian police claim they were responding to a call about a burglar with a knife when they encountered  a random man in a parking lot and ordered him down at gunpoint, proceeding to kick, punch and knee him repeatedly in a disturbing incident caught on video.
“I didn’t do anything,” yelled Santokh Bola. “Officer please. Let me go please.”
“I beg you!”
Turns out, Bola had no knife nor was he burglarizing any homes.
And Toronto police had no excuse other than to say he matched a description.