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Cop Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, has been fired. The move comes five years after Garner’s death and will be announced Monday by New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill, per The Daily Beast. The termination, per the report, is the result of the department determining Pantaleo had violated policy by using […]
A woman in Oklahoma was tased by a police officer when she refused to sign an $80 ticket, drove away during the stop, and kicked the police officer. Given her repeated attempts to resist arrest, many aptly pointed out that her white privilege is what ultimately saved her life. During a routine traffic stop in […]
On Aug. 10, 2016, Tony Timpa called 911 from the parking lot of an adult video store, claiming he was scared and needed help. The 32-year-old reportedly told the dispatcher he was off his schizophrenia medication and admitted to taking illegal drugs. Dallas police arrived on the scene shortly after, and restrained Timpa using controversial methods: They placed him in handcuffs, zip-tied his legs, […]
Days after the Justice Department said it won’t be bringing civil rights charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the officer responsible for choking Eric Garner to death, the victim’s daughter, Emerald, launched a petition on Change.org demanding that he be fired from the NYPD. “Hello I am the youngest daughter of Eric Garner, Emerald Garner, please hear my message and […]
Even Axon, i.e. the company formerly known as TASER, is questioning the ethics behind the implementation of facial recognition technology in the policing industry. In a statement Thursday detailing the findings of a report from the Axon AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board, formed in April 2018, CEO Rick Smith pointed to a need for additional research […]
A retired NYPD detective said he was forced to pull out his gun when a bat-wielding man confronted him on a New York City subway. The tense moment, which took place Wednesday morning on the G train at Greenpoint Avenue, was captured in a now-viral video. The cellphone footage shows NYPD veteran David Morales arguing […]
NYPD union lawyers believe Eric Garner‘s poor health led to his death, not Officer Daniel Pantaleo‘s chokehold. Pantaleo’s attorney, Stuart London, told the court that his client should be cleared of all fault because Garner “died from being morbidly obese.” “He was a ticking time bomb that resisted arrest,” London said during an administrative hearing. “If he […]
The Phoenix Police Department has launched an investigation after several of its officers were accused of using excessive force on a black family. A portion of the incident was captured on a cellphone video that shows an unidentified officer handcuffing 22-year-old Dravon Ames before throwing him against a vehicle and sweeping one of his legs. The officer […]
Four years after the death of Sandra Bland, a new video showing the fateful 2015 traffic stop from her perspective has surfaced. WFAA points out that the existence of this video was never made public. Previously, the only footage of the traffic stop that was public was from former state trooper Brian Encina’s dashcam. This new video shows […]
A newly released report reveals more disturbing details about the murder of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by police more than a decade ago. On New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old Grant was forcibly pulled off a train by Bay Area Rapid Transit officers who were responding to reports of a fight. The father was […]
