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A chokehold used by a police officer on a New York City man during his arrest for selling untaxed, loose cigarettes last month caused his death, the medical examiner announced Friday, ruling it a homicide.
Defense attorney Alane Roby stressed repeatedly that Ore did resist arrest by asking {officer] Ferrin why she was being apprehended, though should be granted leniency given she has no criminal history and that extended probation time would
The US Dept of Justice has grown fat and lazy. They figured out a really cool trick: use their ever-increasing clout to beat people into submission with threats of life plus cancer sentences, and turn them into snitches.
Police and FBI agents investigating the disappearance and death of 14-year-old April Millsap haven't solved the case, but they did manage to impose a blockade around the entire town of Armada, Michigan.
6 Philadelphia Police Dept.'s narcotics unit have been federally indicted, charged with using robbery, kidnapping and other tactics to shake down more than a half-million dollars worth of cash, property and drugs from suspected drug dealers.
If the cops are going to break into your house at night, or beat the living daylights out of you before figuring out if you're the guy they even want to beat, then must we not resist?
After publicly fantasizing about blowing a protester's head off with his sniper rifle, Officer Laws (yes, that's his real name) was transferred out of the SWAT team and placed on patrol duty.
While shopping with her husband in Quincy, Florida, on July 19, 2010, Mickey Goodson stopped by a Winn-Dixie drugstore to pick up some allergy pills. The pharmacist on duty suggested she buy two boxes of Sudafed, which she did. Thus began Goodson's e
Knowles, 37, was shot to death Thursday afternoon after Henry police entered her home after receiving several 911 calls from the house. Police report they entered after hearing screams from inside the house.
We have been following the seemingly endless cases of shootings of dogs. The latest is in El Monte, California where the police entered a family's front yard (passed "Beware of Dog" signs) and fatally shot the family's German shepherd.
Petersburg police and prosecutors have been under fire after an internal memo surfaced from 1st Sgt. Carl Moore, telling officers not to speak with defense attorneys and they could lose their jobs if they help strength defense cases
Police cracked down on Times Square's menacing pack of costumed creeps over the weekend after a Spider-Man punched an NYPD officer — busting five more panhandlers and trailing many others to warn tourists about them.
In addition to being an engine of misery, corruption, and bloodshed, the War on Drugs should be seen as a multi-tiered criminal enterprise. At the top echelon are found the political figureheads who recite pious bromides. That's likewise where we
Orange Co., Florida sheriff's deputies waging an armed raid for a suspected pot dealer entering a family's home guns blazing and shot a teen girl and her dog, only to find the suspect they were looking for hadn't lived in the home for
Officer Fry says she was doing 61 MPH in a 50 MPH zone. He pulled her over, issued a ticket and asked if he could search her truck. She refused. Officer Fry said he "smelled marijuana" so a drug dog was called in, and when
Upon arrival, police dash camera recorded an officer saying, "The only thing I'm going to do is shoot it. I do not like dogs. I don't do snares. I don't do dogs. I'll shoot the thing" and "I'm gonna shoot it anyway." 20 minutes later he did.
The State charged Smith with disorderly conduct and with unlawful use of a computerized communication system. Smith moved to dismiss the charges on First Amendment grounds.
Investigators are running license plate numbers, scouring social media, examining cellphone transmissions and collecting DNA as part of their investigation into who climbed the Brooklyn Bridge in the middle of the night to plant two bleached-white Am
Sheriff's deputies in Colorado ended a two-hour crime spree by a couple suspected of carjacking when a lone officer tackled a gun-toting man following a dramatic pursuit that was caught on camera.
In light of the inane efforts of the clueless (and police) to rationalize the killing of Eric Garner, suggesting there is no possibility of the police doing their job with a "noncompliant" person that doesn't end in harm, presents an alternative.
Scianni took over as Chief in 2012, earning a salary of $234,000 a year. His retirement package — which includes "terminal pay" for his decades of "service" – amounts to $444,450.40, to be paid out in three annual installments.
Massachusetts resident Paul Manganelli is a confessed child pornography collector, part of "an international web of people trading child pornography over the internet" and was arrested without using a multi-agency military-style raid.
Federal agents, backed by local law enforcement, raided a home in rural [area]. Among the assets were tactical vehicles, a mobile command center, an ambulance, an ARCH medical helicopter and a US Customs and Border Protection helicopter.
A 3-year federal investigation found that the Newark Police Department engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional practices, chiefly in its use of stop-and-frisk tactics, unwarranted stops and arrests, and discriminatory police actions
Accused of violating 1st Amendment rights of victims
Enfield, a department with nearly 100 sworn officers, has had 26 civilian complaints in the past 4 years. One-third of those were against Worden, records show. In 2013, Worden had half of the 6 citizen's complaints against the department.
Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who used a chokehold on Staten Island resident Eric Garner shortly before his death, has been sued twice within the past two years for alleged civil rights violations, according to SILive.com.
Russo, publisher of MauiTime, was filming and questioning the Maui police during "Operation Recon," a traffic stop aimed at ticketing citizens for driving vehicles with over-sized tires and illegally tinted windows backing up traffic for miles
They might have ended up like the Connecticut mother who earned a misdemeanor for letting her 11-year-old stay in the car while she ran into a store. Or the mother charged with "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" after a bystander
"Every time you see me, you want to mess with me! I'm tired of it! It stops today!" Eric Garner, a peaceful and productive citizen, had suffered years of pointless and unnecessary harassment by the costumed predators employed by the NYPD. He told on
