Police Beating
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Police Department has opened an internal affairs investigation into an April arrest after video surfaced showing mostly white officers repeatedly punching and kicking the black suspect. The department launched its inquiry into the forceful apprehension of 22-year-old Tyree Carroll on Thursday, a day after a political commentator who chronicles police […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The head of the California Highway Patrol said he was shocked and the agency’s reputation is hurt by a video showing an officer repeatedly punching a woman he pinned on the side of a Los Angeles freeway. CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow vowed to complete a comprehensive investigation in weeks instead of […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former police lieutenant caught on video punching a woman in the face while responding to a disturbance at a Puerto Rican Day parade festival was charged Thursday with simple assault, prosecutors said. Jonathan Josey, a veteran supervisor who has since been fired, was charged with the misdemeanor count after prosecutors carefully […]
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Defense lawyers say a former Spokane police officer should not spend any time in prison for using excessive force against a mentally disabled janitor who died after being arrested on suspicion of stealing money from an ATM. Public humiliation and the loss of his career are punishment enough for Karl F. […]
A former Georgia prison guard faces up to 25 years behind bars and as many as six of his cohorts remain under intense investigation amid an ongoing federal probe. The charges allege inmates were so viciously, yet routinely beaten the state’s entire prison system may now border on the brink of anarchy. The terse, […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The lawyer for a black high school student who said he was beaten and wrongly arrested by three white city police officers told a jury Tuesday that the police version of events is a "fairy tale." J. Kerrington Lewis, the attorney for Jordan Miles, 20, opened the civil rights case with Miles' […]
HOUSTON (AP) — As he testified last month at the first of potentially several trials of ex-Houston police officers accused of beating him during a 2010 burglary arrest, Chad Holley explained to jurors that his brush with the law was an aberration and that he was planning to go to college to get his life […]
Atlantic City, New Jersey, has long been regaled as the "world's playground," where sun, surf, sand, eager tourists and anxious gamblers meet. Yet it is also, black residents for decades have alleged, a haven for rampant police brutality and excessive force. Over time, scores of African-Americans have charged that city officials have consistently ignored police […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer was found not guilty Wednesday of official oppression in the videotaped beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect, prompting an outraged response from black community leaders who called the verdict an injustice. Andrew Blomberg, 29, was the first of four fired police officers to stand trial for their […]
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