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Police Launch Investigation Into Viral Video of Cop Kissing Woman and Joining Her in Backseat of Cruiser (UPDATE). September 5, 2023
Image via Getty/Douglas Sacha UPDATED 9/5, 10:10 p.m. ET: The cop in question—identified as Francesco Marlett—has been suspended by Prince George County Police. Police have identified the officer in this viral video as Francesco Marlett, who was just suspended...
Police Arrested, Beat The Wrong Black Man Inside Of An Applebee’s, Then Charged Him. August 10, 2023
Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are conducting an internal investigation after officers placed the wrong man under arrest at an Applebee’s restaurant in July but ended up charging him for resisting arrest anyway, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday. When a...
Colorado police release video of police car with suspect inside hit by a train. September 26, 2022.
A Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed suspect in a patrol SUV that was then hit by a train near Denver last year was found guilty of two misdemeanors Friday. Fort Lupton police Officer Jordan Steinke was convicted of reckless endangerment and third-degree...
‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by deputy during stop. Sun, July 23, 2023
Emmett Brock thought he was dying, and his mind raced. This isn’t supposed to happen to me. This doesn’t happen this way. I can’t die like this. He tasted the blood inside his mouth. He felt the fists land on his head. And he heard the shouts of the sheriff’s...
Body Cam Catches Glimpse Inside a Seattle Police Precinct and What You’ll See Will Disgust You. 2023
Well, well, well. The inside of the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct has been exposed for its disgraceful interior. I don’t mean that as in unclean (which it certainly could be). According to The Seattle Times, we’re talking “Trump 2020” flags and a mock...
Minneapolis police discriminated, used excessive force for years, DOJ says – 2023
The Minneapolis Police Department routinely used excessive force and discriminated against Black and Native American people in the years before one of its officers killed George Floyd, federal authorities said Friday. In an 89-page report that followed a more than...
Florida’s new database on cops with bad records has holes. 2022
One of the biggest cries during the police reform marches of the summer of 2020 was about the inability of the public — even some police departments — to accurately track cops with bad records. In Florida, for instance, without a court conviction, it’s extremely...
New WA police accountability law can now include past misconduct. 2022
The body that licenses police officers in Washington state has decided to apply a new police accountability law to past misconduct, instead of only to officer misconduct that occurred after the law took effect last July. The vote by the state Criminal Justice Training...
New York State Police Must Disclose Misconduct Records. 2023
The New York State Police (NYSP) must turn over decades of disciplinary records and complaints against troopers, a New York state judge ruled today. In response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), acting Supreme...
New Mexico police shot and killed a man after they went to the wrong house. 2023
Authorities are investigating the shooting of a man killed by police at his northwestern New Mexico home after they arrived at the wrong address, police said. Robert Dotson, 52, was killed Wednesday night by officers with the Farmington Police Department after they...