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'No excuse' for teen's Taser death, mother says
CNN - Wed May 27, 2009
DETROIT, Michigan - Renea Mitchell said her son Robert wanted "nothing to do" with police, a feeling she said is "nothing new" among teenagers in Detroit. More»

Caught On Tape: Cop Attacks Teen Girl In Cell
Associated Press - Sat Feb 28, 2009
SEATTLE, Washington - Surveillance video released in an assault case against a King County sheriff's deputy shows a deputy kicking a 15-year-old girl, slamming her to the floor of a jail cell, striking her and pulling her hair. More»

Documents reveal details in Johnston slaying, cover-up
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sat Feb 21, 2009
Jason Smith was losing it: "I [screwed] up; I think I killed this woman," the Atlanta narcotics cop told partner Arthur Tesler in the yard behind a small brick bungalow on Neal Street. More»

94-Year-Old Atlanta Woman Arrested, Shackled To Bed, Says Family
WSB-TV - Wed Jan 28, 2009
ATLANTA - Family members are outraged after they said their 94-year-old relative was arrested and shackled to a bed at Grady Hospital. More»

Conviction overturned for cop in 92-year-old's killing
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Thu Jan 15, 2009
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed the conviction of Arthur Tesler, the former Atlanta police officer sentenced to prison for lying to FBI agents about the botched drug-raid killing of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston. More»

Shooting by Oakland, Calif., officer sparks violent protests
Associated Press - Wed Jan 7, 2009
OAKLAND, California - Heavy police presence greeted Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters Thursday, a day after more than 100 people were arrested in violent protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a transit police officer. More»

3 NYC officers to surrender in subway sodomy case
Associated Press - Sun Dec 7, 2008
NEW YORK - After weeks of conflicting accounts about a shocking claim of police brutality in a subway station, three patrolmen were notified Monday they will face criminal charges in the case. More»

Disabled Man Who Can Barely Move His Arms, Under Arrest For Obstruction, Simple Battery
WSB-TV - Mon Oct 13, 2008
ATLANTA - A disabled man is under arrest following an altercation with police at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. More»

Diabetic man mistaken for drunken driver and brutally beaten by cops
Freep - Mon Sep 22, 2008
A diabetic Detroit man was mistaken for a drunken driver by Allen Park and Dearborn police, and brutally beaten to the point that he had to have part of his brain surgically removed, the man's wife and their attorney allege. More»

Charges dismissed against cyclist in YouTube shove
Associated Press - Thu Sep 4, 2008
NEW YORK - A judge dismissed charges Friday against the bicyclist who was body-checked and knocked to the pavement by a police officer in a widely viewed YouTube video. More»

Police Taser Boy with Broken Back 19 Times
KYTV - Sat Jul 26, 2008
OZARK, Missouri - A family wants answers about what happened to their son that left him hospitalized. More»

Ex-cop may be charged in case of man Tasered to death
Associated Press - Tue Jul 22, 2008
WINNFIELD, Louisiana - A police officer shocked a handcuffed Baron "Scooter" Pikes nine times with a Taser after arresting him on a cocaine charge. More»

NY policeman charged after woman body-slammed
Associated Press - Thu Jun 26, 2008
NEW YORK - A police officer who body-slammed an unarmed woman and broke her jaw during a medical call to a suburban restaurant last year was arrested Friday and charged with civil rights violations. More»

South Carolina trooper seen ramming man with car indicted
Associated Press - Tue Jun 10, 2008
COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper who was caught on video ramming a suspect with his patrol car was indicted Tuesday on a federal civil rights charge, the US Justice Department said. More»

Northern Calif. man dies after police use Tasers
Associated Press - Wed May 28, 2008
WOODLAND, California - A Woodland man has died after police officers fired on him with a Taser stun gun. More»

Philly police to fire 4 over videotaped beating
Associated Press - Sun May 18, 2008
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia's police commissioner said Monday that four officers will be fired and four others disciplined for their roles in the beatings of three shooting suspects, an encounter that was captured on videotape and drew widespread outrage. More»

TV video shows Philly officers kicking, hitting 3 suspects
Associated Press - Tue May 6, 2008
PHILADELPHIA - A half-dozen police officers kicked and beat three men pulled from a car during a traffic stop as a TV helicopter taped the confrontation. More»

North Carolina suspends Highway Patrol K-9 operations
WRAL-TV - Tue Apr 29, 2008
Raleigh, North Carolina - State officials suspended all K-9 operations in the Highway Patrol Wednesday afternoon, following testimony in an administrative hearing regarding controversial training techniques. More»

Oklahoma sheriff charged with using inmates as sex slaves
Associated Press - Thu Apr 17, 2008
ARAPAHO, Oklahoma - Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail. More»

Deputy seen dumping disabled man charged
Associated Press - Thu Feb 14, 2008
TAMPA, Florida - A sheriff's deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man from a wheelchair onto a jailhouse floor has been charged with abuse of a disabled person, a sheriff's official said Friday. More»

Video captures jailhouse struggle
Associated Press - Wed Jan 23, 2008
Santa Ana, California - A man who was arrested by Orange County deputies was stripped of his pants, strapped to a chair, Tasered repeatedly while in handcuffs and slammed to the floor with a knee to his head, a newly released videotape shows. More»

Police academy class slogan: Cause PTSD
Associated Press - Mon Dec 24, 2007
BOISE, Idaho - A state police academy leader has disavowed the slogan of the most recent graduating class urging one another to "go out and cause" post-traumatic stress disorder. More»

Taser probe: Trooper acted "reasonably"
Associated Press - Fri Nov 30, 2007
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - A Utah trooper who used a Taser to subdue a stubborn motorist who was walking away from him during a traffic stop felt threatened and acted reasonably, state officials said Friday. More»

Report: Police shoot, kill man holding hairbrush
CNN - Mon Nov 12, 2007
NEW YORK - Police shot and killed an unarmed young man outside his Brooklyn apartment Monday night after his mother reported a "family dispute with a gun," police and witnesses said. More»

Police allegedly hang quadriplegic man
Associated Press - Wed Oct 17, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him. More»

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear CIA Kidnapping Allegation
CNN - Mon Oct 8, 2007
A German citizen who alleges the CIA mistakenly kidnapped, detained and interrogated him was denied a hearing before the US Supreme Court when the justices rejected his appeal for review Tuesday. More»

Video Shows Cop Punching Teen During Arrest
WSB-TV - Fri Oct 5, 2007
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - A controversy is brewing in South Florida over a dash-camera video showing a Fort Pierce, Florida, police officer punching a 15-year-old girl while she is resisting arrest, reported WPBF-TV. More»

Elderly Woman Bruised, Arrested for Not Watering her Lawn
FOX News - Sat Sep 22, 2007
A 70-year-old Utah woman, who was arrested last week for refusing to accept a ticket for a dry lawn she couldn't afford to water, told FOX News Monday that the arrest was her "worst nightmare. More»

Officers, sheriff's deputies sued; brutality in county jail alleged
Joplin Globe - Sat Sep 22, 2007
CASSVILLE, Missouri - A Butterfield woman is suing three Barry County Sheriff's deputies and four Cassville police officers in federal court alleging they brutalized her July 23 in jail. More»

Police Chief Arrested On Rape Charges
Associated Press - Tue Sep 18, 2007
LUTHERSVILLE, Georgia - The Luthersville police chief has been arrested on rape and other charges. More»

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