A healthy man dies after being arrested, and the city’s insurer pays the family $900,000, but Key West police still insist their cops did nothing wrong. Charles Eimer, 61, was pulled over for a traffic infraction. He initially complied, but then took off in his vehicle and led police on a low-[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
January 30th, 2015 - 6:39 pm § in Misc.
Key West cops still deny fault after city’s insurer pays death claim
January 30th, 2015 - 1:42 pm § in Misc.
Bully cop arrests public defender for representing her client
A San Francisco cop who is already a defendant in a federal civil rights lawsuit — filed against him by a black cop who was racially profiled and arrested while off duty — arrested and handcuffed a public defender in court Tuesday for refusing to allow him to violate her client’s c[...]
January 29th, 2015 - 7:07 pm § in Uncategorized
Virginia police dog mauls peaceful black female Army Reservist
A 21-year-old Army Reservist and college student was mauled by a police dog early Sunday after police were called to break up a street fight involving a crowd of about three dozen people. London Colvin, 21, who is black, admitted attending a party that turned rowdy but said she wasn’t involve[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 8:50 pm § in Misc.
Cops kill 2 teen girls in 4 days
In two separate incidents, four days apart, police in C0lorado and Texas fatally shot 16- and 17-year-old girls this last week. Neither of the girls was innocent. One drove a stolen car into an officer, fracturing his leg; the other brandished a knife at a police station. The issue I want to discus[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 6:43 pm § in Uncategorized
Fire this Seattle cop!
William Wingate, 70, likes to go for walks. He uses a golf club as a cane. On July 9, 2014, SPD Officer Cynthia Whitlach pulled over her squad car where Wingate was waiting at a crosswalk, got out, and ordered him to put down his golf club. He asked why, and she said, “Because it’s [&hel[...]
January 24th, 2015 - 5:45 pm § in Uncategorized
San Diego PD punishes black cop for complaining about racist training materials
In San Diego, a black police officer was passed over for promotion, pressured into taking an undesirable transfer, and threatened with disciplinary action for making “frivolous allegations of misconduct.” The “frivolous allegation” refers to his complaint about a racist cartoon used[...]
January 24th, 2015 - 12:07 am § in Uncategorized
Free at last
A 70-year-old North Carolina black man framed by police was freed from prison today after serving 38 years of a life sentence for a double murder he didn’t commit. Joseph Sledge was convicted by testimony of a jailhouse informant who was coached by cops about what to say, and promised leniency[...]
January 23rd, 2015 - 12:03 am § in Uncategorized
White cop pushes black man in wheelchair off curb into street
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January 22nd, 2015 - 12:04 am § in America
NYPD union boss in denial after poll gives him 17% approval rating
“Just days after a poll was released showing that Pat Lynch, spokesperson for the largest police union in New York City, has a 17 percent approval rating, he has hilariously backed off the central tenet of his demands from Mayor de Blasio—an apology—claiming it was never really what he wa[...]
January 20th, 2015 - 11:21 pm § in Misc.
Woman wins $134,000 settlement from DEA identity thieves
A New York woman whose identity was stolen from her cellphone by DEA agents and used to set up a fake Facebook page to catch drug dealers has reached a $134,000 settlement with the federal government, CBS News reports. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-settles-with-justice-department-over-phony-fac[...]