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A Muslim woman is suing the City of Yonkers after local police allegedly forced her to remove her hijab. According to the civil lawsuit obtained by the Huffington Post, 42-year-old Ihsan Malkawi has accused the police department of violating her religious rights after she was taken into custody last year. The complaint states Malkawi and her husband were […]
Baltimore officials are investigating a video in which an officer appears to intentionally cough around residents of a public housing complex. The footage was posted on social media this week and shows an unidentified sergeant walking outside the Perkins Homes in East Baltimore. The woman behind the camera taunts the approaching officer, shouting: “Hey officer friendly with the cherry cheeks.” The sergeant […]
The city of Crowley, Louisiana implemented its coronavirus curfew last week, and in an effort to alert residents of when the curfew was in effect, the police department wanted to use a siren that could be easily differentiated from the identifiable sound of a police car. Little did they know at the time that their choice of siren was taken from the […]
A man from Florida Washington was arrested on Sunday after leading police on a high speed chase. According to early local reports, police believe the man’s pet pit bull may have been driving for part of that incident. Updated reports state that the man was attempting to teach that dog to drive. The suspect has […]
With the surging popularity of Netflix’s Tiger King docu-series, police are looking for new leads on the disappearance of Carole Baskin’s husband. Jack “Don” Lewis was last seen on Aug. 18, 1997, and his disappearance is still an active cold case. Multiple people in the doc have accused Baskin of killing him, and then feeding him to […]
The Intercept has uncovered a video that appears to show a New York Police Department officer planting marijuana inside someone’s car as he conducted a search of the vehicle. It was the second time that he had allegedly done so in just a two-month span. Officer Kyle Erickson conducted a routine traffic stop in March 2018, claiming that the car had a broken […]
Louisiana authorities are investigating a viral video that allegedly shows an officer planting drugs on a black male suspect. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office says the incident occurred at around 3 p.m. local time in the area of Commerce Street and 6th Street in Bridge City, Louisiana. Authorities were reportedly responding to a call about a man in […]
Disturbing footage of a young man’s violent arrest has prompted the NYPD to launch an internal investigation. The incident occurred at around 7 p.m. Wednesday in Brooklyn, when a passerby noticed a young black man being detained by a plainclothes officer. The woman pulled out her phone and began recording, as the detainee—later identified as 20-year-old Fitzroy Gayle—repeatedly asked the […]
Footage has surfaced on social media showing Migos rapper Offset being detained by police. The tense exchange, which you can watch below, reportedly took place at Los Angeles’ The Grove shopping center on Wednesday. According to TMZ, Offset was detained after police become aware of a report that someone had a firearm in the shopping center’s parking garage. […]
A Maryland police officer was suspended this week over an unsettling video in which Delonte West was seen in handcuffs. The video was recorded earlier this week, after the former NBA player was seen getting beaten in the middle of a street. One of the responding officers allegedly filmed his interaction with West as he sat on […]
