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UK: Lying police officer caught punching off-duty soldier eight times on CCTV faces jail
A police officer is facing jail after assaulting an off-duty soldier as he arrested him and then lying under oath to cover up his actions.
Special Constable Peter Lightfoot, 40, was captured on CCTV striking Mark Aspinall's head on the ground, rubbing his face in the tarmac and hitting him with his... Read more
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Two New Orleans police officers indicted in 2005 beating death
Two officers in the troubled New Orleans Police Department have been indicted in connection with the beating death of a civilian in 2005, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
The federal indictment alleges that Officer Melvin Williams kicked the victim and struck him with a baton, fracturing his ribs and rupturing his... Read more
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Egyptians Protest Police Abuse
Thousands of protesters shouted antigovernment slogans Friday in an unusually vocal demonstration against the death of a man seen as the victim of police brutality.
Earlier this month, witnesses say, Khaled Saieed, a young Alexandria resident, was allegedly beaten to death by police officers. Police say he died trying to swallow illicit... Read more
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Newark Police Officer Indicted
Police Detective Angel Pared, 28, of Newark was indicted on charges of using excessive force in the arrest of a 15-year-old male juvenile.
It is alleged that on March 24, 2010 Pared assaulted a 15-year-old and then subsequently arrested the young man in the vicinity of 55 Spruce Street in Newark. Pared's... Read more
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Newark Police Officer Indicted
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced that an Essex County Grand Jury returned a four-count indictment charging Police Detective Angel Pared, 28, of Newark with using excessive force in the arrest of a 15-year-old male juvenile.
It is alleged that on March 24, 2010, at approximately 10 p.m., Detective... Read more
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Iraqi police face trial for ly
Iraqi police who appeared to lynch a failed suicide bomber in a beating broadcast by a satellite television station are to face human rights charges, the government said on Saturday.
Graphic pictures of the incident, which occurred on February 28, 2007 at the height of Iraq's sectarian clashes when security forces... Read more
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Streamwood cop charged with be
A Streamwood police officer faces charges of aggravated battery and official misconduct after a video from a predawn traffic stop March 28 showed him striking the driver 15 times with his baton and twice using a stun gun on the vehicle's passenger, prosecutors said.
The incident was captured on the squad car's... Read more
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"Policeman used excessive forc
A URANQUINTY man struck repeatedly with a police baton and sprayed in the face twice with capsicum spray has made an official complaint of excessive force, Wagga District Court was told yesterday.
The complaint was revealed by David Barron, solicitor for Lance Hume Hull, during 69-year-old Hull's appeal against jail terms handed... Read more
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City settles claim of police b
WORCESTER — The city has agreed to pay a city man $47,500 to settle his federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that a Worcester police officer unjustly beat him with a baton while he was defenseless on the ground, breaking his wrist and inflicting multiple bruises.
The police brutality lawsuit, brought... Read more
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Defense begins today in case o
The defense will begin presenting its case today in the official misconduct trial of Wildwood police Sgt. David Romeo.
Romeo, 39, is charged with kicking two handcuffed suspects without provocation while the men were on the ground in a North Wildwood parking lot July 24, 2007.
The two men, Gilbert Haege and Louis... Read more
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No bond for man who claims pol
Bond has been denied for a man who is awaiting a new trial for murder. Cortez Brown has been behind bars for almost 20 years for a 1990 double murder that he maintains he did not commit.
Brown was on death row until former Governor George Ryan gave him and others... Read more
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Man claims cop beat him in res
A south suburban man filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a South Holland police officer, claiming the officer beat him with a firearm in a restaurant bathroom and later gave false testimony about the incident.
Larry Hargrove, of Calumet City, claims South Holland police Officer Shawn Staples assaulted him in the... Read more
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CMC asked to probe alleged pol
POLICE crash tackled, kneed and punched an Aboriginal man with excessive force before falsely charging him and trying to cover it up, a judge ruled.
The Crime and Misconduct Commission have been asked to investigate alleged police misconduct and brutality in Cape York after the damning court judgment.
The family of Patrick Darren... Read more
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Tale of the tape? Trial begins
The video clearly shows a King County Sheriff's deputy pummeling a 15-year-old girl inside a holding cell after she had kicked her shoe at him.
But will the video prove beyond a reasonable doubt that then-Deputy Paul Schene used excessive force and should be convicted of a crime? Or, could jurors be... Read more
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Warrant Says Hartford Officer
HARTFORD - — A city police officer accused of assaulting a prisoner in November allegedly boasted to several fellow officers about beating the man.
One of those officers was Sgt. Robert E. Ford Jr., who is assigned to the internal affairs division, which investigates allegations of police misconduct.
Ford immediately began an investigation... Read more
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San Luis Obispo slated to pay
San Luis Obispo taxpayers are in line to pay $195,000 to a local business owner for alleged excessive force by police officers during a case of mistaken identity and police negligence.
Attorneys for both the city and Jeff Milne, owner of Babbo’s Pizzeria, have agreed to accept mediator Dave Peterson’s settlement suggestion.... Read more
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Mexico: Three Dozen Tijuana Po
Three dozen Tijuana police officers accuse the city’s police chiefs, and soldiers in the Mexican Army of using torture to try to force them to confess their ties to organized crime.
Tijuana's police Chief Julian Leyzaola is on a crusade to rid his force of corruption.
When he inherited the corporation two... Read more
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Chicago Police Board fires cop
Anthony Abbate was formally fired Tuesday, nearly three years after his off-duty pummeling of a female bartender was caught on video and blasted around the world, tarnishing the image of Chicago police.
The decision, by the Chicago Police Board, was long expected and brought relief to Karolina Obrycka, the woman he attacked,... Read more
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3 police officers among 5 peop
Five people, including three police officers, have been indicted on charges related to the beating death of a Latino man in rural Pennsylvania in July 2008, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Two indictments charge the five with federal hate crimes, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in what authorities are calling a racially... Read more
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Feds arrest city cop
WOONSOCKET — A city policeman was arraigned Thursday in federal court on criminal charges of beating a 16-year-old boy in police custody and then attempting to engineer a coverup by pressuring fellow officers to lie about his actions to FBI investigators, the U.S. attorney's office said.
Patrolman John H. Douglas, 34, a... Read more
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Nigeria: Amnesty International
Amnesty International has released a new report saying Nigerian police are responsible for hundreds of unlawful killings every year.
Under Nigerian law police officers are allowed to shoot suspects and detainees who try to escape or avoid arrest. Amnesty International says this law gives the police permission to shoot at will.... Read more
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Brazil's police killings conde
More than 11,000 people have died at the hands of authorities in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo since 2003. The rights group says the cities' police forces are fraught with mafia-like corruption.
The police killing earlier this year of 22-year-old clerk and expectant father Jose Carlos Barbosa in a Rio de... Read more
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Witness suggests brutality by
A friend of Kenneth Howe, the Worcester man who died after an alleged confrontation with police last week, has described to investigators a series of events that differs dramatically from authorities’ official version - and suggests that police brutality may have played a role in the death.
The friend, who witnessed the... Read more
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Greece: Agency to probe police
Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis yesterday heralded the creation of an agency to investigate alleged cases of abusive or violent treatment of citizens by police after sacking two officers for allegedly mistreating a 35-year-old immigrant in front of her child in central Athens.
“Those two gentlemen are to leave the police force... Read more
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Men in police uniforms beat ma
Three unidentified men dressed in police coats beat a man to death in southeast Moscow on Tuesday, a law enforcement source said.
"The attackers beat the man with batons and then disappeared. He died of his injuries at the scene," the source told RIA Novosti, adding that the attack happened near some... Read more
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BART Police Caught Brutalizing
The Bay Area Rapid Transit system has found itself in the midst of another incident after video surfaced showing a BART officer slamming a man into a glass barrier at a transit station, shattering the glass.
Though the man was acting unruly, this latest incident of police aggression by a BART officer... Read more
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Cop faces fresh brutality hear
THE Crime and Misconduct Commission wants allegations against a Brisbane policeman reheard, after the officer was twice cleared of slapping, punching and throwing handcuffed offenders across a room.
The CMC's Supreme Court application for a judicial review of the case of Constable Patrick Brian Gardiner may stoke the already high tensions between... Read more
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Sarasota police chief suspende
Sarasota has fired one of its police officers and suspended its police chief and another officer following a controversial arrest on June 26.
The disciplinary actions were taken based on an investigation conducted by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. The results of that investigation were released today.
On June 26, Juan Perez was... Read more
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Civil rights organizations cal
Local and state leaders of the NAACP, the Hispanic Organization for Progress and Education, and the Missionary Baptist State Convention of Tennessee called for an end to alleged “police brutality and misconduct” in Rutherford County Monday morning.
From the steps of the Murfreesboro City Hall, Gloria J. Sweet-Love, President of the Tennessee... Read more
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Mozambique: Watchdog decries k
Amnesty International is calling for an end to deadly police violence in Mozambique.
In a report released Sunday, the international human rights watch dog returned to a stubborn problem in the southeast Africa country. The report details the deaths of five people at the hands of police, saying they are representative of... Read more
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