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Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison Feb. 3 Former Chicago police officer spent more than three years in prison for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. 14 January 2022 Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke will leave prison next month after serving more than three...

Police Misbehavior Is a Crucial Threat to Liberty Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock. 14 January 2022 Whenever I write about police abuse and use-of-force issues, I often...

Portland Releases Police Training Material That Encouraged Beating Protesters A presentation included a meme pushing violence against left-leaning demonstrators. 16 January 2022 [fairuse Portland, Oregon’s mayor announced just before the weekend that the city’s police department is...

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...

Investigation: Accidental shootings like one in Iowa show police training gaps 11 December 2019 When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, firing his weapon as a dog approached. The...

Iowa police body camera video is sometimes revealing — if the public is allowed to see it 1 February 2021 When an Iowa City police officer in 1996 accidentally shot and killed Eric Shaw, an artist working late in his father’s office, Troy Kelsay wasn’t the one who fired the gun but knew...

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...

Cops should have enough brains & common sense not to allow themselves to be used by these bozos. The branch manager, who had not actually yet called to ascertain if the check was valid, should have been cited for making a false report. John Askwith, racist U.S. Bank branch manager 'Banking...

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...

Is the Fear Factor Overblown in Police Shootings? 22 November 2021 At issue in the review of every police shooting, whether it’s at night or in daylight, whether it’s an officer’s first shooting or third, or whether the person has a gun, a knife or no weapon at all, is one factor. Fear. For...

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...

Former Rochester cop who was charged with child sex crimes arrested again for allegedly crashing vehicle into residence 8 November 2021 Multiple alcohol-related crashes were reported over the weekend, including a hit-and-run that resulted in a vehicle running into the concrete steps of a...

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...

Jury deadlocks on whether rifle-butting Nebraska trooper violated motorist's rights 11 November 2021 A federal jury could not agree on whether a former Nebraska state trooper violated a motorist’s civil rights when he bashed him in the head with the butt of an AR-15 rifle. Jurors deadlocked...

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...