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San Jose police officer charged with punching woman in alleged road-rage assault on freeway George Brown accused of assaulting a woman on the side of Interstate 680 in July 27 October 2021 A San Jose police officer has been charged with repeatedly punching a woman during an alleged road-rage...

California Activists Sue Marin County Sheriff for Illegally Sharing Drivers’ License Plate Data With ICE, CBP and Other Out-of-State Agencies Immigrants’ Privacy, Security Threatened by Sheriff’s Practice, Which Violates California Law 14 October 2021 Community activists in Northern...

A Drug Dog's Nose Poking Through The Open Window Of A Car Is Unconstitutional, Says Idaho's Top Court 22 October 2021 How much of a violation needs to take place before it's a Constitutional violation? It's a trick question, at least in the hands of the right judge. With the wrong judge, a...

Tiny wrists in cuffs: How police use force against children 19 October 2021 Royal Smart remembers every detail: the feeling of the handcuffs on his wrists. The panic as he was led outside into the cold March darkness, arms raised, to face a wall of police officers pointing their guns. He was...

California prison guard dies by suicide after reporting officers faked documents, planted drugs 7 October 2021 A California prison guard killed himself after reporting corruption and harassment to authorities and cooperating with attorneys suing the state, a newspaper reported Wednesday...

WATCH: Cops Shoot and Kill Mentally Ill Father of 3 for Holding a Broomstick 25 October 2021 Since August 9, the family of Luis Manuel Garcia has been demanding answers from police as to why they shot and killed their mentally ill family member. This week, body camera footage was released...

Sounds as though the couple (both cops) perhaps were accused of assaulting a 3rd family member. Bay Area police chief on leave after restraining order filed: 'Unfolding family situation' 15 October 2021 Richmond Police Chief Bisa French is on paid administrative leave "because of an...

Cop Walks Into a Bar And…Arrests You. For Having a Drink. 25 February 2010 LATE ON A BALMY Saturday night last June, six Fort Worth cops and two officers from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission went looking for trouble. They had just raided two Hispanic bars in an industrial stretch of...

Sheriff charged with falsely reporting Black newspaper carrier to police 21 October 2021 A sheriff in Washington state has been charged with two misdemeanors for falsely accusing a Black man delivering newspapers in January of making threats against him — an incident that led to a significant...

LAPD Sees Your Reform Efforts, Raises You $20 Million In Bullets, Snacks, And Surveillance 18 October 2021 The Los Angeles Police Department is reform-resistant. This isn't the same as reform-proof, but more separates "resistant" from "proof" in this case than the misleading labels promising...

Considering how the cops assassinated her son and paid out almost $5,000,000 for it, the kids in Fresno obviously need some protection and self-defense. As he was fleeing, Sgt. Ray Villalvazo shot the teen in the back of the head. Body-camera footage released by Lopez’s lawyers recorded a...

Police created an elaborate web of lies and used the lies to railroad Stallings. Thankfully, however, unlike the cops, the video footage did not lie. Video Shows Why Army Vet Was Acquitted After Shooting at Cops—It Was Self Defense 10 October 2021 Last year, after the death of George...

WATCH: Cop Calmly Tells Veteran to Put Gun Down, He Does, Cop Shoots Him Anyway 14 October 2021 On a fateful September day back in 2017, Kristopher Velez, an honorably discharged veteran of the US Army, missed a court date for a misdemeanor offense. Hours later, this veteran, who was in a...

Top Cop Who Presided Over Deadly Corruption in Houston Loses His New Job in Miami 6 Months After He Was Hired Art Acevedo provoked many complaints, but they paled in comparison to his prior record of negligence and obliviousness 12 October 2021 Art Acevedo, who presided over deadly corruption...

Former San Bruno police officer faces potential jury trial 10 October 2021 A former San Bruno police officer accused of punching a man he arrested because the man spat in his face will appear in court Oct. 13 for jury trial assignment, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said...

Dozens of states have tried to end qualified immunity. Police officers and unions helped beat nearly every bill. 7 October 2021 In the months after George Floyd’s murder, state legislators across the country tried to undo a legal doctrine that makes it virtually impossible to sue police...

Sniper killer Justin Rapp A Cop Killed an Innocent Man After a 'Swatting' Prank Call. The City Can't Be Sued. 7 October 2021 On a chilly December evening in 2017, a group of Wichita cops surrounded a modest house on West McCormick Street. They were there in response to what was purportedly...

Stockton's killer cops Ronald Zalunardo (left) & John Afanasiev (right) Dad in Need of Help Got Cops Instead, Who Handcuffed and Then Suffocated Him to Death 6 October 2021 Shayne Sutherland was a father of two, a peewee football coach, and worked at the local union. He also had mental...

Hacked Data Exposes Law Enforcement Officers Who Joined Far-Right Oath Keepers Group 5 October 2021 Some more unsettling news about law enforcement's close relationship to (or at least professional tolerance of) far-right groups linked to the January 6th raid of the Capitol building has come...

100s of Cops Convicted of Child Rape & Murder Still Collect Millions in Taxpayer-Funded Retirement 4 October 2021 Imagine for a moment that your job description involves arresting people for murder and rape. Then imagine that you violate that description by committing murder and rape. Then...