NYPD Police Officers Pepper-Spray Baby In Subway Arrest Incident, Lawsuit Alleges
Three NYPD officers have been named in a lawsuit alleging they “needlessly, and without warning pepper-sprayed a mother, father and their three small children,” including a 5-month-old baby, in a New York City subway station in August, 2012.
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New York, New York: An off-duty police officer gunned down his wife before turning the weapon on himself. He chased her down a street and shot her with a shotgun.
An off-duty police officer gunned down his wife on a Queens street last night before turning the weapon on himself…
Sherlon Smikle, 33, chased his wife, an NYPD school-safety agent, down the block outside their St. Albans home at about 7 p.m., then blasted her four times with a shotgun, the sources said. Her name was not immediately released.
The eight-year NYPD veteran then went back into his Camden Avenue house and fatally shot himself, according to the sources.
Smikle flew off the handle when his wife came home late from work and didn’t cook dinner, a source said.
Cleveland, Ohio: The police fired a sergeant and meted out demotions and suspensions for a car chase that involved five dozen cruisers, 137 rounds of ammunition fired by 13 officers, and the death of two people who, it turned out, were probably unarmed.
Cleveland, Ohio: The police fired a sergeant and meted out demotions and suspensions for a car chase that involved five dozen cruisers, 137 rounds of ammunition fired by 13 officers, and the death of two people who, it turned out, were probably unarmed.
Dozens of cruisers became involved in the chase without permission from superiors and with little direction, according to a state report released earlier in the year. The episode damaged the department’s relationship with residents and must be repaired, Chief Michael McGrath said at a news conference Tuesday.
“That means we have to work a little harder on our end,” he said.
In March, the U.S. Justice Department said it was opening a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the use of force by Cleveland police, looking beyond the chase to analyze several years of excessive force claims and police policies, training and procedures.
But the upheaval from the Nov. 29 chase alone is likely to spread through the ranks. More than 100 patrol-level officers involved in some way face disciplinary hearings beginning in July.
And 13 officers who fired their weapons as the chase ended in a blocked-off school parking lot in East Cleveland face a county grand jury investigating possible criminal wrongdoing.
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Man arrested for writing "fuck your shitty town bitches" on his speeding ticket
June 13, 2013 — The New York Civil Liberties Union and the law firm of Bergstein & Ullrich, LLP today filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a driver who got a speeding ticket in the Catskills town of Liberty and ended up arrested and prosecuted under New York’s aggravated harassment statute for exercising his right to free speech and expressing his dissatisfaction with the ticket. The driver was prosecuted after writing expletives on the ticket payment form and crossing out the town’s name of “Liberty” and replacing it with “Tyranny.”
Connecticut resident Willian Barboza, 22, was pulled over for speeding in the Sullivan County Town of Liberty in May 2012. He pleaded guilty by mail, and when he paid his fine expressed his frustration by scratching out “Liberty” and replacing it with “Tyranny” and writing “fuck your shitty town bitches” on the payment form. His payment was rejected, and he was instead ordered to travel the two hours from his home to make a court appearance. At that October 2012 court hearing, a judge berated Barboza about his language, and he was handcuffed and arrested for violating the state “aggravated harassment” statute. He was booked, fingerprinted, handcuffed to a bench and forced to pay $200 bail.
A North Ridgeville “Humane Officer” pulled his gun and executed 5 kittens in front of children and nearby residents. The director says the behavior was appropriate.
http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/302822/45/SPCA-wants-humane-officer-who-shot-kittens-fired
Female police officer murders male suspect with her baton, the man was already on the ground, subdued by another officer.
California police strike again
Cops in Phoenix Arizona ram suspects house with an armored vehicle.
Cops in Phoenix Arizona ram suspects house with an armored vehicle.
We Need to Stop Arresting So Many Children | VICE United States
The law-enforcement system isn’t designed for children—just about the only thing it can do is send people to jail, which in nearly every case is a horrific overreaction when it comes to kids being dum…“just about the only thing it can do is send people to jail.” haha yes.
Police officer pulls a knife on a homeless man and slashes up the homeless man’s tent; hit only shelter.
Florida Man Flees Seatbelt Stop on Foot, Cop Runs Him Over and Kills Him
Two DeLand police officers got behind the car as it headed west on Beresford Avenue. Brown did not stop and made a left turn on South Delaware Avenue, a dead-end street that ends near an empty lot. Brown stopped the car and ran from it, as one DeLand patrol car stopped behind Brown’s Toyota Camry. The other patrol car, driven by Officer Harris, drove past on the left of the other stopped patrol car and struck Brown, who was running, with the right front, Montes said.
Harris then ran over Brown, killing him on the spot, Montes said.
At the scene behind some apartment buildings at 901 S. Delaware Ave., tire tracks lead from the paved road into the empty lot for more than a hundred yards, running over bean plants and knocking down a chain link fence. This is where witness Sabrina Waldron said the car stopped on top of Brown.
Waldron said Brown’s car pulled along the woods and stopped.
“There was no need to run him down,” Waldron said. “After the car hit Marlon and landed on him the back end of it was up in the air.”
San Diego, California: A reserve deputy was charged with smuggling undocumented people through a checkpoint while wearing her uniform and carrying a gun. She was arrested and charged with transporting illegal aliens and aiding and abetting.
And she’s just a lone cop… doing this all by herself, right?
