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Open Letter to Chancellor Birgeneau, the UC Berkeley administration, and the UC Regents:
We, the undersigned faculty, lecturers, and graduate student assistants—all of whom teach at Berkeley and are invested in the educational mission of this university—are outraged by the unnecessary and excessive more »
By: www.sitfu.com
A man and his fiancé recently boarded a bus while filming, just as a polite female passenger was told to get off the bus by law enforcement that was on the scene.
The female passenger (a special needs person according to eyewitnesses) then started yelling profanity at the officers.
After a short time, more »
By: J.D. Tuccille www.reason.com
Welcome to Colwyn, Pennsylvania, where copstaser each other for giggles, and the mayor declares a state of emergency after county agents raid the police department in the course of an investigation into the torture of a local teen in a jail cell. Followed, of course, by a fistfight between residents and police at a borough more »
Oakland police brutality was was at the forefront of the crackdown Occupy Wall Street protests as police fire tear gas at crowds full of children and beating protestors with batons.
By: Alexander Higgins www.blog.alexanderhiggins.com
May 2, 2012
On Tuesday, the celebration of May Day in Oakland, California led to the arrests of 25 more »
Petition Link: http://www.change.org/petitions/pardon-wrongfully-convicted-autistic-youth-neli-latson
Reginald “Neli” Latson, is a 20 year-old autistic young man, who on the morning of May 24, 2010, sat in the grass outside the local library with a hoodie on waiting for the library to open. What happened next landed then 18 year-old Reginald “Neli” Latson in jail more »
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Police Chief David Brown is defending his department after having to place an officer on administrative leave following accusations that he drove drunk and shot at another vehicle while having marijuana on him.
“You can often paint the entire organization with a broad brush as if we’re out of more »
A Conway police officer, who was arrested early Monday morning on a DWI investigation after wrecking his truck, has been fired for an unrelated issue.
According to Conway Police Department Public Information Officer LeTresha Woodruff, officer Jason Gregory Davis was fired Monday afternoon.
“As of 5 p.m. this afternoon, Jason Davis is more »
Newark Police Department officers arrested Demetrius Sharp, a 31-year-old officer with the University of Delaware Police Department, on Wednesday, May 2, following an investigation initiated on Feb. 21, 2012.
The investigation began when a 21-year-old female University of Delaware student reported that Sharp, a resident of Kennett Square, Pa., was harassing her.
LUSAKA, Jan 14 (IPS) – Juniper Mwale was attending a funeral in another town when her husband jumped bail and fled the country. Despite not being aware of her husband’s escape, police tracked her down and detained her illegally in an effort to force her spouse home.
Detaining someone without cause is more »
BOULDER, Colo. – Boulder Police Officer Christian Dale McKracken was under arrest Tuesday accused of stalking his former girlfriend.
The woman lives in a condo complex in Broomfield and told police last Thursday he was banging on her front door making threats.
The next day he checked both of guns out of more »
North Arlington - The North Arlington Police Department (NAPD) has placed one of its own under arrest. The arrest of Officer Paul Casale, a 24-year-old male from Newark and a patrol officer on the NAPD, was arrested at 2 p.m. today, earlier today on May 1. He was charged with one theft and more »
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NYC Mayor and Police Commissioner:
The response of the NYPD to the Occupy Wall St. peaceful movement is shameful. This is America. We have a right to peaceful assembly. You are not protecting and serving the people of New York who are bravely standing up against corporate more »
Mesquite ((CBSDFW.COM)) - A Dallas police officer has been arrested in Mesquite on multiple charges Sunday.According to Gerardo Monreal from the Dallas Police Department Officer Rafeal Mendoza was arrested by Mesquite police on charges of driving while intoxicated, aggravated assault and possession of marijuana.
Mendoza is assigned to the Northeast Patrol Division and more »
A Dallas police officer is on administrative leave after being arrested in Mesquite. He’s also accused of firing a shot into another car.
According to a statement from Bill Hedgpeth of the Mesquite Police Department, off-duty Dallas Officer Rafael Mendoza was taken into custody early Sunday Morning.
“At about 2:40am more »
Assistant Police Commissioner Mark Murdoch has conceded police would have been feeling the pressure of a highly charged situation during the police shooting involving teenagers in Kings Cross over the weekend.
Responding to claims of brutality in the arrest of Troy Taylor Assistant Police Commissioner Mark Murdoch said, “Adrenalin is going to be more »
(Beirut) – Bahrain’s police are beating and torturing detainees, including minors, despite public commitments to end torture and police impunity, Human Rights Watch said today following a five day visit to the country.
While in Bahrain, from April 15 to 19, 2012, Human Rights Watch interviewed 14 young males, including 7 children, who said more »
OLYMPIA — A tribal police officer is on leave after being arrested early Friday morning on suspicion of driving drunk.
A tribal leader called the local police force one of the most respected in the nation, but that reputation is now tarnished with the arrest of one of their own.
Nisqually police officer Shane more »
(WMC-TV) – The sign posted outside a club in Clarksdale says it all, “Come in peace or leave with police.” But a Mississippi cop is now under investigation after Queston Skipper claims he was the victim of police brutality.
Skipper’s face is bruised and battered. He has since filed assault charges against more »
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