California Cop Who Shot 18-Year-Old Had His Bodycam Off, But Surveillance Footage Captured Him Shooting Suspect in the Back as He Fled (wiredposts.com)
Officer Kiersten Oliver frames an innocent person (lemmy.world)
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I have played several games in my Steam library for more hours than it takes to become a police officer. (lemmy.world)
Texas cops arrest 11-year-old honors student and put him in solitary confinement for three days (www.texasobserver.org)
New York City Children’s Services pays $75,000 settlement for removing newborn from home because black mom smokes marijuana — which is legal in New York (gothamist.com)
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Missouri man found a lost dog, and called the police. Cops came, took the dog to a park, shot it, and dumped it in a ditch. (fox2now.com)
“We don’t have any way of taking care of a dog,“ an officer told the dog’s owner, Bryan Pennington.
Bodycam shows Ohio cops were in no danger as they killed black pregnant woman for alleged shoplifting (www.bbc.com)
One officer is seen standing at her door and repeatedly telling her to “get out of the car”....
Georgia cops proudly show off ecstasy pills, after high-speed freeway chase over traffic violation, and crash caused by PIT-maneuver (www.fox5atlanta.com)
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Federal police shot a homeless man living on national forest land. He's now suing. (www.yahoo.com)
You can debate the need to arrest, but creating a ruse that ends up with the man being shot several times?
Delaware police chase, shoot, and kill suspected shoplifter (6abc.com)
“While attempting to take the man into custody, he did not comply with multiple commands to stop, and he physically resisted when troopers tried to remove him from the car,” a state police statement said....
Over broken taillight, Texas cops chase pickup into wreck; 6 people hospitalized including a 3-year-old (1ft.io)
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/12/31/16-year-old-driver-charged-after-leading-police-on-chase-sending-6-people-to-the-hospital-including-a-3-year-old/...
Family fights for older minimum arrest age, after Orlando girl, 6, was arrested, zip-tied, and jailed for tantrum (www.wesh.com)
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SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street (www.riverfronttimes.com)
Around 6:30 p.m. on May 26, Brittany Shamily was at home with her children, including an infant, when police used a battering ram to bust in her front door. “What the hell is going on?” she screamed, terrified for herself and her family. “I got a three-month-old baby!”...
Kentucky jail made a Muslim woman remove her hijab and televised her strip search in its lobby, lawsuit alleges (www.cnn.com)
Schizophrenic man, armed with a stick that had a knife on one end, is shot and killed by California police (www.nbclosangeles.com)
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbclosangeles.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ffamily-says-man-shot-dead-by-police-in-inglewood-had-schizophrenia%2F3229687%2F, if you’re paywalled or region-blocked....
Black cop fired for stopping abuse from another cop on a black youth (masto.ai)
Smashing the boys face into a cactus
Pennsylvania township can’t ban 'thin blue line' flag, federal judge rules (web.archive.org)
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/springfield-montgomery-county-police-union-thin-blue-line-flag-ban-judge-ruling-20231115.html...
With new law taking effect next year, California police must tell drivers why they’re being stopped (1ft.io)
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2023/12/19/california-police-must-tell-drivers-why-theyre-being-stopped-starting-next-year-under-new-law/
DOJ says police officer justified in killing 22 y/o over 2 magic mushroom chocolate bars. (www.delawareonline.com)
An undercover police officer arranged to buy 2 magic mushroom chocolate bars over Instagram then opened fire within seconds, killing the driver and injuring the passenger for selling $100 worth of antidepressants. Perfectly justified.
Bodycam footage inside classroom shows Massachusetts cop saying they could "search every room and ask every teacher" for *Gender Queer* book (1ft.io)
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/great-barrington-bodycam-footage-shows-police-sought-book-in-classroom-advised-it-be-turned-over-when-returned-gender-queer-book-banning/article_80701ec4-a5c3-11ee-b6d5-2badd19ecf52.html
‘Didn’t State Who He Was’: Federal Drug Agents Seize Millions from Passengers at Atlanta Airport While Posing as Regular Travelers In Plainclothes In ‘Cold Consent Encounters’ (news.yahoo.com)
Colorado cops seek 'qualified immunity' from lawsuit over man who died after being tasered eight times in 90 seconds (web.archive.org)
https://www.courthousenews.com/colorado-springs-police-officers-ask-10th-circuit-to-grant-qualified-immunity-against-fatal-tasing-suit/
11-yo called the police and they shot him, and now they're trying to take her other kids away (www.npr.org)
After arriving at the Murry family home, police instructed everyone inside to come out with their hands up. Nakala Murry says that’s when Aderrien emerged from around a corner, running toward the door. Capers then opened fire.
After cop with bodycam switched off kills teenage boy, New York sheriff says he's thinking about maybe requiring cops to switch bodycams on as they respond to calls (ghostarchive.org)
https://dailyorange.com/2023/10/onondaga-county-police-sheriff-toby-shelley-body-cam-protocol/
Family demands Mississippi cops be fired for arresting Black boy, 10, who allegedly peed in parking lot (www.theguardian.com)
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