A police officer with incriminating information in connection with the jailhouse death of Sandra Bland says that he was threatened by county prosecutors into staying silent, the AP reports. Sandra Bland died in jail, under troubling and suspicious circumstances, three days after she was pulled over for a traffic…
Speaking at an African Methodist Episcopal church in Philadelphia Friday evening, Hillary Clinton vowed to strengthen bonds between communities and cops and create national guidelines to do so.
Yesterday, the Los Angeles County DA’s office announced that it would not be pressing charges against highway patrol officer officer Daniel Andrew, who was filmed punching 51-year-old Marlene Pinnock in July 2014. It may go without saying but needs to be noted regardless: Pinnock is black.
In Sept. 2013, Dontrell Stephens was shot four times by a West Palm Beach, Fla., sheriff’s deputy, allegedly for running away from law enforcement. But newly released dashcam footage of the shooting, which left Stephens paralyzed from the waist down, shows he was just riding his bike and talking on his cell phone when…
The only thing NYPD officers love as much as hitting people in the face with their fists, feet, and other assorted objects, it sometimes seems, is a well-placed F-bomb. According to deputy commissioner for training Michael Julian, all that stuff's on its way out.
The video below shows a plainclothes NYPD officer cranking back his leg and driving the toe of his boot into another man's head. "So what?" you might be saying. "Cops beat the shit out of people all the time." In this case, however, the victim was another cop.
Marlene Pinnock, the woman whose brutal beating at the hands of a California Highway Patrol officer was captured on video in July of this year, will receive a $1.5 million settlement in a deal reached this week, the Associated Press reports. The officer will resign.
In July, NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo put Eric Garner in a chokehold, and Eric Garner died. This is bad, commissioner Bill Bratton admits, but the answer isn't making chokeholds illegal. It's making cops sit in a classroom for a few days, then letting them back out.
Earlier today, the chief of the St. Louis County police issued what I think he imagined as a call for sanity:
The California Highway Patrol has seized the medical records of Marlene Pinnock, the woman seen being held down and repeatedly punched by a CHP officer in the video above, the Associated Press reports.
