A wealthy insurance executive who traded favors for a badge, gun, and false training records was sentenced to 4 years in prison for accidentally* killing an unarmed robbery suspect by grabbing his gun instead of his taser. At age 74 and in failing health, Robert Bates doesn’t have 4 years to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
May 26th, 2016 - 10:10 am § in Uncategorized
Honking at cops while Asian gets elderly woman a beating
CBS News reports that when an elderly Korean woman turning into a church parking lot honked several times at cops whose patrol cars were blocking the driveway, they followed her into the parking lot, harassed her, then manhandled and arrested her. While these are technically allegations in a lawsuit[...]
May 21st, 2016 - 9:45 am § in Misc.
Honolulu pays $80,000 to lesbians jailed for kissing
Two Los Angeles residents, Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero, who were harassed and then arrested by a Honolulu cop for displaying affection in a grocery store, will receive $80,000 from the city. On March 3, 2015, Officer Bobby Harrison, who was in uniform, took offense at Wilson and Guerrero hol[...]
May 19th, 2016 - 6:24 pm § in Uncategorized
SF police chief fired after cops kill black woman
San Francisco’s mayor fired the city’s police chief today after cops shot and killed an unarmed black woman in a suspected stolen car. Protesters have demanded the chief’s ouster for months in the wake of a series of racially charged incidents. Read story here. [...]
May 14th, 2016 - 8:29 am § in Uncategorized
Chicago takes another big step toward police reform
Chicago’s Democratic mayor, who recently replaced the police chief, has abolished the city’s ineffectual police-run review board and is replacing it with a civilian agency as a further step toward taming one of America’s most racist, violent, and out-of-control police departments. [...]
April 30th, 2016 - 9:27 am § in Uncategorized
Okla. jury convicts pay-to-play cop of killing unarmed black suspect
A millionaire insurance executive who provided equipment and fancy vacations to the Tulsa sheriff’s department in return for “reserve deputy” status, falsified training records, and being allowed to go on patrol with real officers was convicted of manslaughter by an all-white jury [...]
February 11th, 2016 - 6:05 pm § in Misc.
NY cop convicted
Maybe the tide is finally turning against killer cops. A jury has convicted a New York City cop with an itchy trigger finger who shot an innocent man in a dark stairwell in November 2014. The killing of Akai Gurley, 28, by Officer Peter Liang spurred angry demonstrations. Liang faces up to 15 years [...]
February 10th, 2016 - 10:07 am § in Misc.
California sheriff pays $7 million for deputy’s love triangle murder
A deputy sheriff who allegedly used his police authority to murder a romantic rival isn’t in jail, but his employer will pay the victim’s family $6.95 million. According to attorneys for the family of Luis Morin Jr. (photo), Riverside County deputy Oscar Rodriguez began dating Diana Pere[...]
February 3rd, 2016 - 9:59 am § in Uncategorized
Racist cops arrest school cleaning lady
From Collegedale, Tennessee, comes this bizarre story of police work gone awry. Two cops patrolling past a school building at 8:15 pm noticed an open door, so they stopped to investigate. Upon entering the building, they spotted a trash can and cleaning supplies outside a rest room and “briefl[...]
$6,000,000 for their son
The City of Cleveland has agreed to pay the family of Tamir Rice, 12, who was gunned down by an incompetent rookie police officer, two payments of $3 million each to settle their civil suit against the city. Rice was playing with a toy gun in a public park when he was killed by a […][...]