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On Monday, an officer for the New York Police Department was charged for allegedly spying on Tibetan New Yorkers on behalf of the Chinese government. A criminal complaint spells out the accusations against 33-year-old Baimadajie Angwang, with that complaint saying that Angwang served as an illegal agent who was at the “direction and control” of Chinese government officials […]
A Utah officer has been charged with felony assault after he ordered his police dog to attack a Black man who was complying with officers’ orders. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, the incident took place on April 24, when authorities responded to a domestic disturbance report at a Salt Lake City residence. Bodycam footage shows […]
A Georgia sheriff’s deputy has been fired after a video showed him repeatedly punching and beating a Black man during a traffic stop in Clayton County. The New York Times reports that 26-year-old Roderick Walker was beaten by two deputies, both of whom are white, during an arrest on Friday, Sept. 11 for charges of battery and […]
A woman wearing egregiously patterned boots has been dubbed a “Karen” on Reddit and beyond after the sharing of footage in which she’s seen claiming to be calling police on a Black U.S. Census Bureau worker. The footage in question, per the Daily Dot’s report on Monday, first started taking off via the FuckYouKaren subreddit over […]
In yet another case of filmed police brutality against Black citizens, a video of police beating a ride-sharing passenger unconscious has surfaced. Clayton County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia launched an investigation on Friday into a viral video that shows two officers attacking a Black man who was reportedly a passenger in an ordered vehicle. An Instagram post […]
There’s been a huge influx of students at Miami University in Ohio testing positive for the coronavirus since August, and one group held a huge house party over Labor Day weekend despite just recently testing positive. CBS News reports that body camera footage from the Oxford Police Department showed an officer approach a group of students […]
The former officers who’ve been charged in George Floyd‘s death were met by an angry crowd of protestors following their Friday court appearance in Minneapolis. According to KTSP, defendants Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng, and Tou Thao appeared at a pre-trial hearing at a Hennepin County courthouse. The hearing took place more than three months after Floyd’s police […]
In the latest instance of a type of event that seems to happen with enough frequency to make you wonder if you’ve ever been pulled over by an impostor, a Florida security guard was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly impersonated a policeman in order to issue a warning/ticket for speeding. As has also been […]
Armando Perez, the police chief of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has resigned from his post after being arrested on federal fraud charges. The city’s mayor, Joe Ganim, announced the news in a video posted to social media Thursday afternoon, confirming Assistant Chief Rebeca Garcia will be the acting police chief until further notice. Perez and Bridgeport’s personnel director, David Dunn, were […]
An Ohio college student was cited for violating city health orders after he was busted for hosting a house party … one week after he tested positive for coronavirus. WCPO reports the citation was issued over Labor Day weekend near Miami University in Oxford, where officers had received a noise complaint and a report of a large gathering at a residence. According […]
