Badge Abuse

“Corruption – it’s embedded in Lincoln Heights. They need a house cleaning. The only way to get rid of the cancer is to cut it out – all of it. You can’t leave any of it, because it will fester and re-grow. What we have here is a cancer.” Lincoln …

“I just watched him go like this and just stiff-arm this guy right in the chest,” neighbor Easton Richards said. “And I was like ‘man that’s police brutality!’” \Bonney Lake, WA — A Bonney Lake man says he was assaulted, arrested and his cellphone stolen by police, because he was …

Yeah, so you’ve read the headline. No criminal activity. No charges brought. And a cheap shot fired across the bow of the Fourth Amendment, not to mention Vermont’s own Constitution. Tech Dirt But let’s travel back further to set this up. Twenty-one-year-old Gregory Zullo was supposedlypulled over for having his license plate …

Despite widely clearing both the state’s Senate and Assembly, California Governor Jerry Brown shot down a bill on Sunday that would have imposed restrictions on when law enforcement agencies can use drones for surveillance. RT.com Brown, a Democrat, said in a statement over the weekend that he was vetoing the …

A Pennsylvania couple is suing three Collingdale police officers for entering their home without permission in an effort to confiscate a cell phone legally used to record the officers during a February confrontation in front of their home. RT.com In the lawsuit, Kia and Michael Gaymon say that Officer Carl …

“That’s the best way I could describe it. As I flipped from one picture to the other it was so offensive on every front.” A Boston police officer was suspended with pay after it was revealed that he was the man behind an offensive Facebook page that targeted a wide …

After police came in, threw a kid through a window and roughed the rest of the family up, they began arresting them all. Denver, CO — Denver tax-payers will be shelling out $1.8 million for the negligent and abusive actions of Denver PD. A jury awarded Daniel Martinez Jr. and …

4 Memphis police officers were recently suspended after they tipped over a portable toilet that had a human being inside.  31-year-old Joseph Hampton was allegedly being chased by police when he ducked into a construction site and hid in one of the toilets. According to Reuters, Hampton was at the …

“For this f***ing lunatic?  I’m going to shoot him in the penis with a shotgun here in a second.” Back in March, Officer Keith Sandy of the Albuquerque police brutally executed 38 year old  James Boyd, a mentally ill and homeless 38 year old man.  All of this over “illegally …

“They heard me get shot. They heard me scream for assistance. They were just two blocks away – but they were fifteen minutes from the end of their shift, and they went back to the station instead of coming to my aid.” By William Norman Grigg Pro Libertate Blog Yakima, WA …