Chicago Bartender Gets Her Day in Court — 5 Years Later
A drunk, off-duty cop, Anthony Abbate, beat up a petite lady bartender, Karolina Obrycka in 2007. The video below went viral at the time. The case is now back in the news because the civil lawsuit...
View ArticlePolicing in Prince George’s County, Maryland
From the Washington Post:Other Maryland students were roughed up and badly injured by the police after the basketball game. At least three were knocked unconscious; two of them required medical care....
View ArticleThe David Silva Case
UPDATE: “Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said he asked the FBI to get involved after learning that one of two phones seized from witnesses had no footage on it.” Hmm.The David Silva Case is a...
View ArticleChicago to Pay $10 Million for Police Misconduct Case
From the Chicago Tribune:Caine’s case was the latest in a series of lawsuit settlements involving disgraced former police Cmdr. Jon Burge and detectives under his command that have brought the tab to...
View ArticlePhoenix Police Taser Man, Drag Him Down Stairs By His Feet
I do not know what the anchorman is talking about when he says the police had to make a “split second” decision. I’m skeptical the use of the taser was really a “split second” situation. And leaving...
View ArticleLong Beach Police Beating Caught on Tape
More here. Long Beach Police Beating Caught on Tape is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
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Christina West
Christina West was pulled over for possible DUI. She apparently touched one of the officers and he loses his temper and reacts violently. Watch the video and reach your own conclusions. H/T:...
View ArticleGroups Protest Dallas Police Dept
From the Dallas Morning News: The families of several men killed or wounded by Dallas police officers lambasted the department Thursday for what they said was a pattern of excessive force, civil rights...
View ArticleTeaching Them a Lesson
From the New York Times: The confusion and trouble began that day when Officer Anthony Giambra arrived at the apartment door a few minutes after the 911 call, as an ambulance and fire truck pulled up...
View ArticleBuffalo Police Officers Suspended
From the Buffalo News: Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda this afternoon announced that six police officers have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation into an...
View ArticleProblems with the Border Patrol
From the New York Times: On Feb. 16, 2010, a Mexican teenager caught trying to cross into the United States near Douglas, Ariz., filed a formal complaint accusing a Border Patrol agent of punching him...
View ArticleTrouble in the LA Jail System
From the Los Angeles Times: The deputy described beating inmates unprovoked, slapping them, shooting them with a Taser gun and aggressively searching them to pick a fight — something he learned “on the...
View ArticleProblems in San Diego
From NBCSanDiego.com: The San Diego Police Department enforced an “unwritten policy” that encouraged police misconduct and led to scandals involving former officers Anthony Arevalos and Christopher...
View ArticleRefresher on Stop & Frisk
The Michael Brown shooting has brought attention to certain police policies and how those policies scramble the opinions of liberals and conservatives. Thus far, most of the attention has been on the...
View ArticleThousands of New Yorkers Protest
From the New York Times: Thousands converged on an overcast Saturday at the site of the encounter, the start of a protest march linking Mr. Garner’s death to lethal police actions past and present,...
View ArticleJudge Beverly J. Woodard
From the Washington Post: IN PRINCE George’s County, it is now clear that the police, without provocation, can beat an unarmed young student senseless — with impunity. They can blatantly lie about it...
View ArticleWill ‘Community Policing’ Help?
From the New Republic: On January 30, the USCM released a report on strengthening “police-community” relations in American cities. The six-page report came full of recommendations for everything from...
View ArticleThe Martese Johnson Case
From the Chicago Tribune: Virginia’s governor has ordered an investigation into the arrest of a black college student from Chicago seen in photos and video with a bloody face as he was held down by an...
View ArticleSan Bernardino Deputies Filmed From News Helicopter
From the Los Angeles Times: Charles “Sid” Heal, retired Los Angeles County sheriff’s commander Heal, who has testified in dozens of force trials, said that when the man “fell off the horse and lay...
View ArticleChicago Plans Reparations Fund For Torture Victims
From the New York Times: [T]he City Council this week began considering a $5.5 million reparations package for scores of victims of abuse and torture by the police here in the 1970s and ’80s under the...
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