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Home camera catches U.S. Marshal slugging unarmed, handcuffed black suspect

Footage from a door-mounted camera in Jackson, Missouri, shows three U.S. Marshals and a detainee in handcuffs. One of the three officers looks around, evidently fails to see the camera, then clubs the...

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Minnesota wants drivers to use these "document pouches" to avoid getting...

Simon says keep your hands where I can see them. "License and registration, please." It's what we expect to hear when law enforcement stops us for a moving violation. But today, many motorists ask...

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Cop nicknamed "The Rapist" by colleagues jailed for life for rape and murder

Wayne Couzens, a police officer in London, was nicknamed The Rapist by his colleagues on the Metropolitan force. Couzens, 48, was today sentenced to spend his whole life in jail for the kidnapping,...

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Indianapolis cop charged with battery after stamping on handcuffed suspect's...

Disturbing bodycam video shows an Indianapolis police sergeant stamping on a handcuffed suspect's face during his arrest. Sgt. Eric Huxley was suspended without pay and charged with battery and with...

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Watch body cam footage of police bragging about hunting activists

On May 30, 202, just days after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a Black US Army veteran named Jaleel Stallings was also brutally beaten by Chauvin's colleagues....

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$4.9m settlement for family of unarmed man executed in his car by California...

In 2018, Danville, Ca., police officer Andrew Hall leaped in front of a car making its way around a police cruiser during an attempted stop. Hall fired 9 times into the car, killing its driver, an...

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U.S. cops aiming for 1000-kill year

After shooting, beating, choking and kicking their way to 1,021 kills last year and 2019's near-miss count of 999, U.S. police officers are racing to bring 2021's death toll over the the line: Statista...

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$650k settlement for black man stomped on by South Carolina cop

When a 58-year-old disabled man didn't instantly drop to the ground on-demand, Orangeburg cop David Lance Dukes knew what to do: stomp on his head. But his victim, Clarence Gailyard, could not easily...

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George Floyd murderer Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to federal charge

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who choked George Floyd to death and was convicted of his murder in April, pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating George Floyd's civil rights....

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Cop who killed Daunte Wright convicted of manslaughter

Kim Potter claimed that she thought she was firing her taser when she shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black driver pulled over for having an air freshener dangling off his rear view mirror...

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NYT declares "bullet" killed 14 year old girl, not the cop that fired it

Last week LAPD officer William Jones Jr. barged past his fellow cops and shot dead a man who had attacked and injured another patron at a North Hollywood department store. Firing his rifle into the...

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U.S. cops killed "at least 1,134" people last year

Police in the U.S. killed "at least 1,134" people last year, a significant rise on 2020. Nearly half the killings were mental health/welfare checks. Black and latino people were killed in...

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ATF encourages Americans to snitch on ex-partners as a "Valentine's Day...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, among America's most puppy-killy Federal agencies, today tweeted that it would be "fun" to turn in ex-partners who buy or sell firearms illegally, so that...

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Cop convicted of killing Daunte Wright gets a 2-year jail sentence, will be...

Expectations for convicting bad cops may have improved, but sentencing is another matter. Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer convicted of manslaughter for killing Daunte Wright, an unarmed black...

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Video: California cops rough up black mom and grandma filming them—then get...

Police officers in Hemet, California, are facing a federal civil rights lawsuit after arresting three members of a family, including a grandmother, who filmed them in public. Video shows cops yelling...

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Arizona legislators approve ban on filming police

Arizona's Republican-majority legislature took one look at the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin and set out to make sure it could never happen there: accordingly, it's approved...

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Footage shows Grand Rapids cop executing man with shot to back of head

After a week of refusing to do so, Grand Rapids police today released footage of one of its officers kneeling on the back of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya, who is resisting arrest after a traffic stop,...

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Report concludes Minneapolis cops are racist

Police in Minneapolis 'engaged in a pattern of racism' for at least a decade, according to a state inquiry conducted by Minnesota's civil rights enforcement agency. It's so out of control that cops...

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Grand Rapids cop who shot Patrick Lyoya in back of head charged with murder

Christopher Schurr, the Grand Rapids officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya after he ran from the scene of a traffic stop, was charged with second-degree murder Thursday. Schurr unsuccessfully tried...

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After killing the mentally ill man she was called to help, cop complains...

A portrait of impunity and indifference: after killing Michael Trappett, the mentally ill man she was summoned to help, Sheriff's deputy Brittany Brokop is annoyed at the realization she will not be...

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