Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car (jalopnik.com)
Florida deputy Jesse Hernandez screamed “shots fired,” and frantically fired his gun after an acorn fell onto the roof of his squad car, making him jump.
Officer who stood trial for death of Freddie Gray to oversee Internal Affairs for BPD (www.cbsnews.com)
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Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says (www.nbcnews.com)
Anjelica Lee said police were called to a Save A Lot store in Lakeland after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana.
New Videos Contradict NYPD Account of Lead-Up to Times Square Attack on Cops (www.thecity.nyc)
Florida Police Decide To Pit Maneuver On Highway Filled With Innocent Humans (old.reddit.com)
Can I see your ID? (youtube.com)
YouTube Shorts is throwing me in a rabbit hole of policeman seemingly overstepping the boundaries when stopping citizens for a routine check. The discussions often revolve around asking and not wanting to show their ID (“unless you can tell me what crime you accuse me of”). Is there a particular reason why they’re so...
Man sues Paulding County sheriff, ex-deputy over body slamming incident (www.11alive.com)
Sheriff’s office fires deputy seen on video body-slamming man to ground during arrest
Police officers mock body-worn video of semi-naked woman (www.bbc.com)
None of the officers faced a misconduct hearing but a student officer who reported them was later dismissed....
Police Say They Won’t Reopen Case of Alaska Woman Found Dead on Mayor’s Property (www.propublica.org)
Kirk, 25, died May 23, 2018, at a home owned by then-Mayor Clement Richards Sr. According to police reports, the Alaska medical examiner’s office initially told a city police investigator that “signs of strangulation” had been found on Kirk’s body. The man who said he found her body — Anthony Richards, one of the...
RCMP withholding records in historic child sexual assault investigation, survivor and lawyer say (www.cbc.ca)
Jamie said she never revealed to police the full extent of the abuse she said she endured between the ages of nine and 11. Her stepfather was never charged with sexual assault and Jamie believes he was not properly investigated for the crime she reported: touching her vagina....
RCMP withholding records in historic child sexual assault investigation, survivor and lawyer say (www.cbc.ca)
Jamie said she never revealed to police the full extent of the abuse she said she endured between the ages of nine and 11. Her stepfather was never charged with sexual assault and Jamie believes he was not properly investigated for the crime she reported: touching her vagina....
Witnesses believe Winnipeg police used excessive force in restraining intoxicated man, who later died (www.cbc.ca)
Following the call, police were dispatched to the suite for a “domestic situation” at 12:09 a.m. In the meantime, the woman fled to another suite in the building, Smyth said....
A group of Japanese citizens launches a lawsuit against the police to stop alleged ‘racial profiling’ (apnews.com)
A group of Japanese citizens, including a man of Pakistani descent, launched a civil lawsuit against the country’s police on Monday, accusing the authorities of racial profiling and discrimination and demanding an end to the alleged practice.
After LA police raid home of Black Lives Matter attorney, a judge orders photographs destroyed (www.independent.co.uk)
A judge has ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to get rid of photos of legal documents that were allegedly taken during an unannounced raid on the home of an attorney for a Black Lives Matter activist
21 Bodycam Videos Caught the NYPD Wrongly Arresting Black Kids on Halloween. Why Can’t the Public See the Footage? (www.propublica.org)
ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky started investigating police oversight after an NYPD officer hit a teenager with a car in 2019. In the years since, he’s learned how police departments have undermined the promise of body-worn cameras....
Internal audit slams shoddy investigations of police shootings. St. Louis keeps it secret. (www.stltoday.com)
ST. LOUIS — For six years, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has been sitting on a secret: a unit created to investigate police shootings did such shoddy work that its reports were often late, missing key information or not filed at all.
Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users (www.eff.org)
Remember, it’s very easy to announce something, keep an eye on them to make sure they follow through
Former police officer used positions of authority to abuse children for three decades, report finds (www.abc.net.au)
Oregon State Police hid repeated use of racist slur by supervisor, other misconduct in field office (www.oregonlive.com)
215 bodies, known to the police, found in unmarked graves behind jail in Jackson, Mississippi, US (lemmy.world)
Inmate died after jail medical staff denied him HIV medication for months, lawsuit alleges (lawandcrime.com)
An inmate whose HIV-positive diagnosis devolved into AIDS died because the medical staff at the California jail where he was housed denied him lifesaving medication even though they had his prescription and were told he needed it to survive, a new federal wrongful death lawsuit alleges
A Colorado town’s newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief’s house (apnews.com)
14-year old Hong Kong inmate was sexually assaulted by prison officer with a wooden rod resulting in completely destroyed rear and intestines. (slrpnk.net)
Via HongKong on Reddit...