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Minneapolis Oversight Board Says Police Department Should Ditch 'Excited Delirium' Training 6 January 2022 Excited delirium isn't a medical condition. It's just post-death rationalization that shifts the culpability for deaths at the hands of law enforcement to the corpses the cops created...

'Excited delirium' cited as factor in many fatal police restraint cases. Some say it's bogus. 13 June 2020 One of the Minneapolis police officers involved in the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd voiced his concern about “excited delirium” while helping hold down the 46-year-old man until...

Opinion: Daunte Wright's killer faced a jury in Minnesota. In Iowa, Autumn Steele's killer did not. After an accidental killing by police in Iowa, one prosecutor substituted her judgment for the judgment of 12 jurors. 27 December 2021 Minnesota and its government officials delivered an...

Big Trouble in Little Rock A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard 18 December 2021 1 - Backlash: On the morning of May 28, 2020, a Black sergeant with the Little Rock, Arkansas, Police Department woke up, turned on the news, and saw the George Floyd video for the...

The Murderapolis death squad: Murder scene on Minneapolis' Chicago Avenue Derek Michael Chauvin J. Alexander Kueng Thomas Lane Tou Thao

You'd think that cops in the city that brought us the George Floyd murder and riots would have learned a few lessons, but apparently not all of their brutes received the memo: Calls For MPD Officer To Be Disciplined After Video Of Arrest Goes Viral 4 December 2021 There are calls for a...

U.S. Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Police in New York Suburb The inquiry will focus on whether the Mount Vernon department engaged in a “pattern or practice of unlawful policing,” officials said. 3 December 2021 Federal prosecutors have opened a civil rights investigation into whether...

The Supreme Court Declines To Determine if You Have a First Amendment Right To Film the Police 1 November 2021 The Supreme Court has just refused to hear a case at the nexus of police abuse and the First Amendment, declining to consider a petition from a man who says his free speech rights...

With federal oversight in short supply, state AGs step in to probe troubled police 23 November 2021 Police in Aurora, Colo., shot 20-year-old Jamaal Bonner in the back three times with a submachine gun during a sting operation, killing him. Four years later, the department formally apologized...

Four reports of law-enforcement misfit out of New Haven, Connecticut, in four days! Connecticut: New Haven police officer Christopher Troche charged with patronizing prostitute Connecticut: Former New Haven cop Gary Gamarra’s ability to be an officer in CT revoked over alleged sex coercion...

Woman who filmed arrest of person near Whole Foods says Richmond police assaulted her. Police say she injured herself 21 November 2021 Khalah Sabbakhan was walking to Whole Foods on West Broad Street on Oct. 4 when she encountered two police officers speaking to a woman who appeared to be...

Federal Appeals Court Denies Qualified Immunity for Police Officer Who Shot Service Dogs 15 November 2021 The lawsuit against a Minneapolis police officer who shot two service dogs in their owners’ backyard can continue, after a federal appeals court said Monday that the officer cannot claim...

ACLU, NAACP allege Vancouver police, Clark County sheriff’s deputies use excessive force, urge federal DOJ investigation 10 November 2021 Community groups called Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into the Vancouver Police Department and Clark...

ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone 11 November 2021 The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive. This time the charm seems a bit more...

A Cop Was Indicted for Homicide After Shooting a Fleeing Driver. He Still Got Qualified Immunity. 9 November 2021 Bau Tran, a police officer with the city of Arlington, Texas, is currently facing up to two years in state jail for criminally negligent homicide after killing a motorist who was...

Newark cops, with reform, didn’t fire a single shot in 2020 10 January 2021 Newark Police officers did not fire a single shot during the calendar year 2020, and the city didn’t pay a single dime to settle police brutality cases. That’s never happened, at least in the city’s modern history...

Race takes center stage as jury questioning begins in hate-crime trial of former South Jersey police chief 10 November 2021 Should the use of racist slurs by a police officer be a crime? The question was among the thorny topics posed Tuesday to potential jurors in the federal hate-crime...

Minneapolis Votes to Keep Its Police Department 2 November 2021 Nearly a year and a half after a white Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, voters in the city have decided not to replace their police department with a new public safety agency that would have relied less on armed...

Cleveland Votes for More Police Oversight, While Minneapolis Rejects Abolishing, Replacing Cops 2 November 2021 Minneapolis voters Tuesday rejected the activists who had been trying to get rid of the city's police department and replace it with a new department intended to provide a public...

Former MPD officer found guilty of civil rights violations, stealing controlled substances 2 November 2021 A former Minneapolis police officer has been found guilty of stealing controlled substances and violating civil rights through unconstitutional searches and seizures. The U.S...