Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke faces up to 45 years in prison for what police told a witness she didn’t see in their attempt to cover up a fatal shooting after they realized her attempt to record it failed.
In the wake of the Terence Crutcher police shooting, we’ve all been waiting to see what excuse Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby would settle on to justify the killing.
First, she claimed he was reaching into an open window, making her fear for her life, but the helicopter video showed the window to have been rolled up.
Responding to a call of a possible burglary in progress, North Carolina police encountered a man sitting on the front porch of a home, who told them he lived in the house with his mother, only he did not have the key to get inside.
The two Greensboro cops asked Dejuan Yourse a series of questions, then checked out his identification, but were still not satisfied that he lived there.
A Springfield, Massachusetts narcotics detective has been placed on leave for 60 days, but not fired, after videos surfaced showing him threatening to murder two teenagers and plant drugs on them — videos which have cast doubt on the detective’s numerous drug cases.
A Houston transit cop who was caught on surveillance video unmercifully beating a homeless man with his baton over a dozen times wasn’t fired, even after an investigation determined he used excessive force.
Instead, Jarius Warren submitted his resignation letter as if leaving on the best of terms after he was told an internal review board was moving to fire him.
Jairus Warren quit after learning his department had decided to fire him.
“The board recommended termination of the officer,” Metro Police Chief Vera Bumpers stated.
One of the El Cajon cops involved in Tuesday’s shooting death of an unarmed mentally ill man is renowned for texting photos of his genitals to female colleagues, resulting in a settlement with a fellow cop last year, according to a San Diego news station.
But that did not stop Richard Gonsalves from continuing the harassment against the officer who sued him, prompting her to file a second lawsuit against the officer last month.
Washington D.C. police claim they shot and killed Terrence Sterling after he drove his motorcycle into a patrol car as an officer was stepping out, making him fear for his life.
But witnesses say the officer shot and killed Sterling from inside his car with the window rolled down after Sterling had crashed his bike into the car.
Brian Trainer, the Metropolitan police officer who killed him, was wearing a body camera, so that should put the debate to rest.
If only he had turned it on.
California cops responded to a call of a man acting “erratically” Tuesday, only for him not to “comply,” which was when they shot him several times.
Alfred Olango
Witnesses say El Cajon police then confiscated phones from citizens who recorded the incident, a claim they later denied, insisting the citizens voluntarily gave them the phones.
The man has been identified as Alfred Olango and he was unarmed and apparently having a seizure, which was when his sister called police for help, according to witnesses.
A distraught 21-year-old Maryland man called 911 for help last Sunday, thinking an ambulance would transport him to the hospital, only for Baltimore County police to arrive and kill him.
It was a common scenario considering the number of people killed in this country after their family members call 911 for a medical emergency.
But Tawon Boyd’s case is unique in that he was the one who called 911 for help.
The Amherst Police Department in Massachusetts has refused to comply with a public records request from PINAC that asked for the internal affairs records for two police officers who were named in a civil rights lawsuit this month.
