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California authorities say they are investigating disturbing cell phone that shows an officer beating a teenage boy. The now-viral video, which was posted to social media Monday, captured an unidentified white cop struggling to detain the minor on the ground. A bystander filmed the 15-second clip and is heard shouting stop as the officer punches […]
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 […]
Body cam footage released this week shows police in Orlando, Florida arresting a crying six-year-old girl. An attorney representing the child’s family shared the footage, which shows the child being restrained by zip ties, with a regional NBC News affiliate. “Please let me go,” the child is heard pleading with the officers. According to the accompanying […]
Police have released new footage of a man driving his own vehicle that died after police believed he was a carjacker and placed him in a sleeper hold. KTVU obtained body camera footage of the incident, which you can view below. Warning: the video is graphic. In November, David Glen Ward, 52, was spotted by […]
A Chicago man was brutally slammed to the ground by police on Thanksgiving Day while he was being arrested and a citizen accountability group is now looking into the incident, BuzzFeed News reports. In the graphic video, an officer is seen lifting the young man up and slamming his head to the sidewalk. The man […]
The father of Atatiana Jefferson has died, the Associated Press reports. Spokesperson Bruce Carter told the Dallas Morning News that Marquis Jefferson fell victim to a heart attack and died on Saturday at a Dallas area hospital. “Less than a month ago, he was working at El Centro, mentoring kids twice a week,” Carter said. “He just couldn’t get […]
A teenager that was punched by a New York City police officer during a fight in the subway filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the city, the local NBC-affiliate reports. Attorney Sanford Rubenstein, who represents 15-year-old Benjamin Marshall and his parents, says that a $5 million lawsuit was filed at the Family Court in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Marshall was punched […]
The New York Police Department has agreed to pay a hefty settlement to Karim Baker, a Fed Ex driver who unknowingly gave directions to a suspected cop killer. The New York Daily News reports Baker sued the city months after he was allegedly beaten by two detectives. According to the outlet, the case stemmed from the murders of […]
Amber Guyger now faces a maximum of life in prison after being found guilty of murder for fatally shooting her neighbor Botham Jean. The 31-year-old Dallas Police Department officer was in uniform but not on duty when she burst into Jean’s apartment, allegedly thinking it was her own. She then fatally shot Jean. Prosecutors, per […]
Colin Kaepernick‘s attorney Mark Geragos criticized JAY-Z‘s newly announced Roc Nation and NFL partnership while speaking to ABC News. “This deal between Jay-Z and the NFL crosses the intellectual picket line,” Geragos said. The attorney, who also called the deal “cold-blooded,” said that Kaep wasn’t informed about it. “I can confirm to you that the deal was already […]
