Grand Jury Starts Tamir Rice Hearings
A grand jury has begun evaluating evidence to decide whether criminal charges should be filed against two white police officers...
Year: 2015
Deaf Woman Wins $750,000 After NYPD Abuse
A deaf woman who said she was wrongly arrested by cops who ignored her disability settled her case for $750,000...
Autistic Man Jailed for Talking to Kids. Just Talking. That’s All
Reason Magazine did a great write-up on this horrifying story. A man with autism is being held on $100,000 bail...
The Myth of Police Reluctance
FBI Director James Comey seems to believe that a recent uptick in violent street crime plaguing several major U.S. cities...
Body-Slamming Deputy to be Fired
South Carolina authorities will announce Wednesday that Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields, the school resource officer who was caught...
A California Police Department Adding Nunchucks to Their Arsenal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sgt. Casey Day was skeptical. The chief of his rural Northern California police department wanted him...
SC Student Arrested For Recording School Cop’s Violent Assault on Classmate
A South Carolina high school student who witnessed her classmate being physically abused by a school resource officer was arrested and held...
FBI Director Again Blames Citizens With Smart Phones For Increase in Crime
Twice in recent days, FBI Director James B. Comey has stepped to a podium here and asserted that police across...
Cop Block Founder, Activist Arrested For Chalking Sidewalk Outside Indiana Police Station
by Ian Freeman, for FreeKeene.com Ten days ago, Free Keene blogger and Cop Block founder Ademo Freeman was arrested in...
Murder Conviction Coerced by NYPD Overturned After 25 Years
After spending a quarter century in jail for supposed participation in the 1990 murder of a tourist on a New...
Fox News Claims ‘There hasn’t been any police brutality in America since the 1960s’
On “Fox & Friends” Monday morning, co-host Brian Kilmeade welcomed in Fox News’ unofficial police brutality correspondent, Milwaukee County Sheriff...
Church Drummer Killed by Cop Was Running Away, Never Fired Gun
A Florida musician who was fatally shot by a plainclothes police officer after his car broke down on a highway...
Atlanta Cop Immediately Releases Man When Realizing He Was Being Recorded
In the last few years, smartphones have become cheaper and more plentiful. According to recent statistics, the number of cellphones...
Changing Laws Will Not Stop Racist Cops
Our laws can help — but won’t save — victims of police brutality from racism. The most marginalized groups often...
Alabama Man Was Unarmed, On The Ground When Cops Shot
The man a Decatur police officer shot at in June said he was on the ground when the gun fired,...
NYC Subway Masturbator Was a Cop, Threatened Man With Gun
After police have been looking for a man accused of masturbating at a Midtown subway station—and then flashing a gun at...
Cops Claim The ‘YouTube Effect’ Hurts Their Job Performance
In a recent Washington Post column covering a meeting setup by the U.S. Attorney General with law enforcement leaders, cops conveniently blamed...
Proposed Bill Would Shield Cops From Public Scrutiny
State Rep. Nick Collins said he wants to prevent public scrutiny of all internal investigations of alleged police brutality or...
Minnesota Cops Claim Drinking Coffee While Driving is Illegal
A St. Paul woman is dumbfounded after getting pulled over for doing something everyone who drives a car has done —...
Corpse-Tickling Cop No Longer Employed in Bakersfield
A Bakersfield cop is no longer part of the police force after allegations that he mishandled and joked around with...
