Three police officers surrendered and were charged with felonies Tuesday for an attack on a tattoo parlor worker who authorities say was sodomized with a baton in a subway station.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced an indictment charging Officer Richard Kern with aggravated sexual abuse and assault for allegedly ramming the baton into the victim’s [...]
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Three New York Cops to Surrender in Sodomy Case
Posted in Brutality, Rulings on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Suspicions of Altered Video Evidence in Brutality Case (White Plains, NY)
Posted in Brutality, Rulings on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The lawyer for a Yonkers police officer accused of brutalizing a woman said today that a videotape of the incident appears to have been doctored.
Attorney Andrew Quinn said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in White Plains that he intends to ask for a dismissal of the indictment against the suspended police officer, Wayne [...]
Excessive force trial delayed (Chicago, IL)
Posted in Rulings on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The trial of a pair of Calumet City police officers accused of using excessive force has been delayed to Jan. 14.
Keith Paprocki and Steven Lundy face charges of felony official misconduct and felony battery.
The trial was originally scheduled to start Nov. 6. On Thursday, Cook County Judge James B Linn said he was rescheduling the [...]
Slain son’s family sues city, officer (Fort Wayne, TX)
Posted in Rulings on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The family of a 24-year-old Guatemalan man shot and killed by Fort Wayne police last December is suing in federal court.
On Dec. 23, Jose Baudilio Lemus-Rodriguez was shot to death by Fort Wayne police officer James Arnold after a traffic stop. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne, the estate [...]
Transgender Victim of Police Beating Died Before Case Went ot Trial (Memphis, TN)
Posted in Deaths, Rulings on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A transwoman whose videotaped beating at the hands of police helped spark a movement to fight police brutality in Memphis was found shot to death Nov. 9.
A Nov. 11 article at the Memphis Commercial Appeal said that Duanna Johnson, 43, suffered a gunshot wound to the head and died at the site of the shooting [...]
92 Yr Old Womans’ “Polce Related” Death Still Unsolved (Atlanta, GA)
Posted in Deaths, Rulings on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two years later, the Kathryn Johnston case is back where it started —- with the Atlanta Police Department.
The November 2006 killing of the 92-year-old woman by a rogue drug squad in her own home has been solved. Early on, federal investigators echoed suspicions of the community that such corruption was widespread. But in closing the [...]
The Heampstead 15: Iraqi War Veterans Harassed By Police (Heampstead, NY)
Posted in Brutality, Rulings on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ten members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and five of their civilian supporters will be arraigned here Monday, November 10th for “Disorderly Conduct” stemming from arrests at a non-violent demonstration at Hofstra University during the final presidential debate.
The peaceful demonstration, designed to force veterans’ issues into the campaign spotlight, was responded to with [...]
Alleged Police Sodomy Victim Testifies Before Grand Jury
Posted in Rulings on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Mineo, 24, says the officers beat him and sodomized him with a foreign object, after they tried to arrest him at the Prospect Park subway station.
After giving his testimony today, Mineo thanked all of his friends who have supported him through the ordeal. He said he has gained strength from their belief in what [...]
Logan troopers sued over alleged beatings (Danville, West Virginia)
Posted in Rulings on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two Danville men are suing the West Virginia State Police over beatings in separate incidents they say occurred in the Logan detachment while both men were handcuffed and shackled to the floor.
According to two lawsuits filed Wednesday by Charleston attorney Mark French, troopers detained Donald Bradley and William Ball following traffic stops on March 15 [...]
Three Schenectady officers charged in alleged brutality case
Posted in Brutality, Rulings on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three Schenectady police officers are facing charges tonight in connection with a case of alleged police brutality — but that’s not what they’re being charged for.
Instead, they could face jail time for not turning on a patrol car camera and for not filing a departmental form.
This stems from an incident back in December — when [...]
