Dramatic body cam video emerged from Utah showing police entering a home and finding a shirtless man armed with a machete who was lighting a curtain on fire.
The officer tasered the man as another officer kicked the machete away while the curtain fire grew stronger.
The West Jordan police officers called the fire department, then dragged the man out of the house, leaving the fire to continue spreading.
As “affluenza” boy and his mother were caught south of the border Wednesday, once again the loopholes and bias of the United States legal system are making front page news throughout the world.
A Washington cop received a call about a drunk man sitting in his jeep in a movie parking lot, only to discover that he was a local deputy, so she offered him a ride home, which he refused.
Poulsbo police officer Danielle Branes then left, telling theater employees to keep an eye on him in case he decided to drive.
Almost two hours later, Kitsap County Sheriff Sergeant Jim Porter drove home anyway, a five-mile drive, but then was unable to step out of his jeep.
A man with no shame about his racist beliefs allowed himself to be recorded while he was insulting a group of activists in Pennsylvania, calling the black videographer a “chimp,” a “nigger” and making monkey sounds to further berate him.
Neither the videographer, Tom Jefferson, nor the other activists, allowed themselves to be sucked into a physical confrontation with the man, which seems to have been his goal.
The Cleveland cop who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice for playing with a pellet gun last year will not face criminal charges, an Ohio prosecutor announced Monday.
After all, said Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty, it was “indisputable” that Rice pulled the gun out of his waistband.
A Florida deputy resigned last month after another deputy came forward, accusing him of using excessive force on a handcuffed suspect sitting in the back of a patrol car.
The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office this week released the video from inside the car that led to an internal affairs investigation.
Sergeant Timothy Bammert resigned in the midst of the investigation rather than wait for its outcome.
The video shows the handcuffed suspect sitting in the back of the car when he starts kicking the side of the door, yelling at deputies to “leave my old lady alone.”
Chicago prosecutors are taking the mother of Ronald Johnson to court, accusing her of communicating threats against the officer that killed her son.
Chicago police officer George Hernandez killed Johnson during a foot pursuit in October 2014 by shooting him in the back.
A New York City police officer who walked up to a woman and began pawing her in a suggestive manner, only to arrest her male friend who pulled out a phone to record, was indicted today on several charges, including two felony counts.
The California man who was shot by a police officer after sticking his head out of his vehicle after rolling it over – only for the Paradise police officer to be exonerated after claiming it was an “accident” – died Saturday.
Andrew Thomas, 26, was facing DUI and manslaughter charges from the November 26 incident in which he rolled over the vehicle after leaving a bar with his wife, whom was ejected from the vehicle and eventually died.
The Albuquerque Police Department is being sued again for refusing to release body camera footage showing police shooting a man to death.
The ACLU of New Mexico is representing Burque Media and other plaintiffs in a suit against the police department for denying public records requests.
The Albuquerque Police Department has encountered several other similar lawsuits in the past.
