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Vacaville cop filmed beating police dog

A police dog was 'removed from the home' of an officer who was filmed beating it, reports SFGate's Katie Dowd. A clip of the incident was posted to Facebook by a local resident [facebook.com]. The...

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Louisville Police are actually trying to fire the cops who killed Breonna Taylor

It's a New Year's miracle! From the Louisville Courier-Journal: The Louisville Metro Police Department is seeking to fire two more officers in the police shooting of Breonna Taylor — one who sought the...

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Two of the cops who killed Breonna Taylor fired

Louisville Police Department Detectives Myles Cosgrove (right), who shot Breonna Taylor in her apartment, and Joshua Jaynes (left), who lied to get the warrant for the March 13 raid, were fired...

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Tacoma terror cop plows through crowd in police SUV

A police officer in Tacoma plowed into a crowd of people Saturday night, hospitalizing at least one of those run over. The crowd, of about 100 people, were gathered late at night to watch drivers do...

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Teaching police departments about autism

According to KPIX CBS 5 in the Bay Area, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department has made it mandatory for all 1,000+ officers on the force to attend an autism workshop as part a 3-day crisis...

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Police in Rochester, NY, handcuff and pepper spray 9-year-old girl

A 9-year-old child was handcuffed and pepper sprayed by police responding to a report of "family trouble" in Rochester, NY. In the bodycam footage embedded above, you can watch the cops there showing...

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Police in Barrie, Ontario, "looking into" video of officer beating...

Canadian cop plays "Simons says" with a skateboarder, then beats him with a taser.https://t.co/dWWgFFTf2M pic.twitter.com/OxZzDS1Zrr— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) February 5, 2021 Disturbing video taken...

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Killer cop Derek Chauvin received whites-only guard detail in jail

A lawsuit alleges that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin received a whites-only guard detail while he was briefly jailed after killing the unarmed black man George Floyd last year. Jail...

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Charges dropped against cops who shoved elderly man over and cracked his skull

Martin Gugino spent nearly a month in hospital after a Buffalo cop pushed him over, cracked his head on the pavement and left him to bleed there with a fractured skull. Though charged after the...

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Police union loses bid to keep list of bad cops secret

The New York Times reports that New York's police unions have lost a legal bid to keep disciplinary records secret. This moves the state closer to revealing a "vast trove" of information about police...

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75-year-old protestor sues cops who fractured his skull

Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old Black Lives Matters protester who was shoved to the sidewalk by Buffalo police in June, causing his skull to shatter, filed a lawsuit against the officers and the...

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Database of police settlements

Five Thirty Eight published a database of police settlements at Github—a unique body of information that reveals the financial costs incurred by America's excessively violent cops. But it cautions...

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Cop quits after home camera shows he lied about confrontation with driver

Colt Black, a police officer in Lake Wales, Florida, arrested driver Chris Cordero after a traffic stop and claimed in his report that Cordero "charged" at him with closed fists. Fortunately for...

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British Lord praises police brutality at protests: "I hope they didn't damage...

Ian Austin, formerly a legislator with the center-left Labour Party in the UK, was rewarded with a lifetime seat in the House of Lords after switching his support to the right-wing Conservative Party...

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Cop fired after footage of him pepper-spraying uniformed U.S. Army lieutenant...

A police officer in Windsor, Va., has lost his job after footage of him pepper-spraying a uniformed U.S. Army lieutenant went viral. Caron Nazario, who is black, was pulled over in December 2020 by...

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Cop who shot and killed Daunte Wright charged with manslaughter

Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center Police Officer who shot and killed black motorist Daunte Wright, was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter. Potter faces up to 10 years imprisonment...

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U.S. policing budgets would rank as the world's third-highest military...

$118bn was spent funding police forces in the U.S. in 2018, according to the Security Policy Reform Institute. It collectively makes American police forces the world's third-most expensive military...

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Cop filmed punching teen with autism: "You're gonna get hurt. Don't make me...

Doorbell video captured a police officer in Vacaville, California, angrily pushing a teenager with autism onto the ground, punching him in the face, then yelling "You're gonna get hurt. Don't make me...

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Video shows sadistic Colorado cops laughing at elderly dementia patient after...

A lawsuit filed against the Loveland, Colo. police department claims that officers broke the arm and dislocated the shoulder of Karen Garner, a 73-year-old dementia patient, while arresting her for...

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Federal judge rules that Columbus police "run amok", orders them to stop...

A federal judge in Columbus, Ohio, has condemned police violence there and restricted the use of tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets against nonviolent protestors [PDF]. Judge Algenon Marbley of...

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