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(Courthouse News Service) posted 08/20/2013 MILWAUKEE (CN) - Milwaukee police abusively strip searched at least eight black men, including a minor, the men say in five federal lawsuits. 'The Internal Affairs D ... Allegation: Utah Police Wrote Phony Tickets To Tourists, Pocketed The Cash (InformationLiberation) posted 06/14/2012 ... phony tickets to tourists and pocketing the cash. Via The Salt Lake Tribune: Police in the town that promotes itself as 'The Gateway to Zion National Park' wrote c ... Break-in Reported At Detained Huawei Executive's House as She Fears For Her Health in Jail (RT) posted 12/10/2018 Police have responded to a break-in at the Vancouver house said to belong to the husband of Meng Wanzhou, the detained Huawei CFO who says she is suffering from health problem ... Standoff in Ferguson After Death of Michael Brown (The New York Times) posted 08/14/2014 ... Five days after the death of Michael Brown, protesters continued to face off with the police as more racially charged demonstrations gripped the streets of Ferguson, Mo ... New York's 'stop-and-frisk' policy under fire (YouTube) posted 03/19/2013 The New York City police practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is about to face its biggest legal challenge. A civil rights group is taking po ... Houston police chief announces punishment for hitting pedestrian with car: One-day suspension (Houston Chronicle) posted 10/08/2013 Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland will be taking a defensive driving course and has accepted a one-day suspension from Mayor Annise Parker, stemming from a traffic incid ... VIDEO: Distracted Cop Typing While Driving Crashes Into Motorcyclist (KHOU) posted 08/21/2012 ... aren’t the only ones guilty of distracted driving. First responders, including police officers, have also been caught texting, typing, or talking on their cell phon ... Brazil's police 'execute thousands' (BBC) posted 11/25/2005 Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil, a BBC investigation has found. The authorities say it is mainly criminals caught in milita ... $10,000 Goes Missing From Connecticut Police Evidence Safe (Police State Daily) posted 11/17/2015 It was revealed Sunday that almost $10,000 has disappeared from a Bridgeport Police Department evidence safe in Connecticut. The Connecticut Post reports that $9,535 was ... Woman Records Police Barging into her Home in Case of Mistaken Identity (PINAC) posted 05/30/2013 A disturbing video of police barging into a woman's home without a search warrant, demanding her identification -- only to learn she was not the person they were looking fo ... Journalist: Toronto Police Sexually Molested Women At G20 (YouTube) posted 06/29/2010 ... Media Centre on Harbord Ave. on Monday. Miller says that women arrested by Toronto police were threatened with rape, that numerous women were strip-searched by male offi ... Citizens Out Undercover Cops Infiltrating Anti-Police Brutality Protest in Wisconsin (PINAC) posted 05/14/2015 ... in Wisconsin outed a pair of undercover cops who were trying to blend in their anti-police brutality protest Tuesday afternoon. The citizens walked up with cameras r ... Tucson Cop Leaves Photographer Hospitalized after Claiming he was Blinded by Flash (PINAC) posted 09/19/2014 With more than two decades of police experience under his belt, you would think Tucson police officer Bobby Nielsen would be able to conduct his job without being distra ... Police accused of using provocateurs at summit (Canadian Press) posted 08/23/2007 OTTAWA - Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que. Such accu ... Police used 'dum dum' bullets to kill de Menezes (The Telegraph) posted 11/16/2005 The Brazilian man shot dead by police in the mistaken belief that he was a suicide bomber was killed with a type of bullet banned in warfare under international convention, Th ... Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations, immune from open records laws (Radley Balko) posted 06/27/2014 As part of the American Civil Liberties Union's recent report on police militarization, the Massachusetts chapter of the organization sent open records requests to SWAT teams ... NY Police Caught Throwing Waste From Ebola Scene Into Public Trash Can (Truth Revolt) posted 10/27/2014 Police officers tasked with working the scene around the Manhattan apartment of Dr. Craig Spencer, diagnosed with Ebola yesterday, were caught on camera tossing the gloves ... FBI Data Show Assaults On Police Officers Dropped Sharply in 2014 (Washington Post) posted 10/30/2015 The FBI recently released its data on assaults on police officers in 2014. The good news is that reported assaults are down sharply. Unarmed and assaults with guns both droppe ... German Police Take Turns Beating Defenseless Disco-Goer (InformationLiberation) posted 07/12/2013 ... are apparently outraged. A public prosecutor is investigating the incident and the police apparently even filed a complaint against their own officers saying police brut ... |
