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In January, an Onondaga County sheriff's deputy pulled over Audra Harmon, who had two of her kids with her in her minivan. A routine traffic stop escalated quickly. The deputy, Sean Andrews, accused her of talking on her cell phone. She said she could prove him wrong. He said she was speeding. She denied it and got out of the van. He told her to get back in. She did, then he ordered her back out. He yanked her out by the arm, knocked her down with two Taser shots and charged her with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. His...

Responding to a call from a homeowner, Boonton, NJ, police were forced to arrest a Marmotan-American male ... The Marmota was combative from the moment the officers arrived on the scene ... According to the police report, the Marmota was exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior, directed at a police officer, and accused the officers of profiling, demanded their names and badge numbers and insulted the mother of one of the officers. It was then that police maced the Marmota and took him into custody. Authorities later euthanized the Marmota, and shipped the carcass to the Department of Health and Senior...

Demonstrators call for firing of officer videotaped striking mentally disabled man   More than 100 people gathered today outside Passaic City Hall to demand that the Police Department fire an officer who was videotaped striking a mentally disabled man repeatedly with a baton and his fists. Ronnie Holloway, the man beaten in the May 29 incident, and his mother, Betty, attended the peaceful demonstration, which was organized by various community leaders.  “This man should never have gone through what he did,” said Zachary McDaniel, pastor of the Second Timothy Baptist Church in Passaic. “Cops are here to protect us. How can...

I told them I was a US citizen. I told them I was on a business trip. I told them I had no drugs or humans in the car. That wasn't enough. They wanted to search the car, and I invoked my 4th am...

Immigrants rally in Prince William County against an alleged incident of police brutality.

PUMMEL RAPS VS. LADY COPS AP Posted: 3:42 am October 28, 2008 Two NYPD policewomen have been indicted on charges of viciously assaulting two men in a traffic dispute. Bronx prosecutors say Michelle Anglin and Koleen Robinson are charged with kicking, punching and pistol-whipping a 25-year-old driver whose open car door was blocking their traffic lane. They say the off-duty officers also assaulted a man who tried to break up the violence. The driver, Marlon Smith, said that during the beating, the two officers screamed at him, "Do you know who you are f- - -ing with? We are the...

<p>WALKIE-TALKIE 'RAPE'</p> <p>The man who said cops sodomized him with a walkie-talkie antenna had injuries consistent with that type of assault, according to his hospital discharge papers.</p> <p>And law-enforcement sources said Michael Mineo suffered a torn rectum among other severe injuries.</p>

PHILADELPHIA - Fifteen Philadelphia police officers have been taken off the street as authorities investigate a video showing three suspects being kicked and beaten by city police. A spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter says the mayor stands behind the police department but his first glance of the video does appear to show the officers overstepping their authority. The video was shot Monday night by WTXF-TV. It shows three police cars stopping a car on the side of a road. The tape shows about a dozen officers gathering around the vehicle and pulling three men out. About a half-dozen officers hold...

Troubling Times If FreeRepublic stands for America, the real Anerica where the Constitution means something, where you have the right to be let alone in peace as a law-abiding citizen, where you have a right to defend yourself and your family then I need and beg for your help. Please ping any ping lists that apply. I’m posting as a newbie – I signed up in November 2000. I probably started lurking in late 1998. Before I post I’m alerting an Admin with my one and only original handle of this upcoming post to establish my bonafides. At first I...

TAMPA - Sheriff's officials are investigating why a deputy in a jail booking video appears to dump a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair. Hillsborough sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said the agency is looking into what happened to Brian D. Sterner, 32, during his Jan. 29 booking at the Orient Road Jail, after a television reporter confronted Callaway with the jail's own video. Footage aired on WTSP-Ch. 10 Monday night showed a uniformed officer unseating Sterner from his chair, then searching him as he lay on the floor where he had fallen. "She said, 'Stand up.' I said, 'I can't...

MANKATO, Minn. - Police shot and killed a naked man who apparently broke into an apartment and threatened the officers with broken glass.

ABC 7 has learned the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority have charged Representative Robert Filner of California with assault and battery following an incident at Dulles International Airport Sunday night. Police say they were called to the baggage claim area around 6 p.m. when a passenger attempted to enter an area authorized for airline employees only. ABC 7 spoke with several witnesses who say they saw Filner push aside an United Airlines employee and refused to leave the office. When officers arrived on scene, they found Filner waiting outside the office and informed him the airline employee would be pursuing charges....

In hearings held this week Sutton blamed the decision to prosecute the border agents and to pursue an excessive punishment on his superiors at the Justice Department. He also attempted to explain his use of the federal statute which normally applies to the use of a firearm in a violent crime by bringing up various other examples of law officers prosecuted under the statute, but all of the examples differed significantly from the case in question, because Osvaldo Aldrete Davila (the drug smuggler) was attempting to evade arrest. In the other cases where the statute has been used which Sutton...

The U.S. attorney whose office won convictions against two U.S. Border Patrol agents for shooting a fleeing drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks yesterday described as "the big lie" accusations that the prosecutions were not justified. During a rancorous Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton defiantly said agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, now serving lengthy prison terms, committed "serious crimes" in a case that was not about immigration issues or the Border Patrol but the rule of law. "Agents Compean and Ramos crossed the line. They are not heroes," Mr. Sutton said. "They deliberately shot an unarmed...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Border Patrol agents should be allowed to shoot at fleeing drug traffickers, a Republican senator suggested Tuesday. The patrol's deadly force rules were questioned at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing concerning the conviction of two agents who shot a fleeing, unarmed drug trafficker and covered it up. "Why is it wrong to shoot the [trafficker] after he's been told to stop?" asked Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma. Johnny Sutton, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, said the Supreme Court has ruled that using deadly force in that way is illegal. Agents also may not know...

WASHINGTON — Tackling a case that has become a flashpoint in the immigration debate, senators today denounced as excessive the prison sentences for two Border Patrol agents from Texas who shot and wounded a fleeing, unarmed Mexican drug smuggler. Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee criticized the 12- and 11-year prison sentences given to ex-agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, respectively. And they strongly questioned federal prosecutors' decision to charge the pair with using a weapon during the commission of a crime — a 10-year penalty that most...

On Friday March 30, 2007 at around 3:00pm, Mr. Kuldip Singh Nag, a Sikh American who was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the U.S. Navy during the first Gulf War, was at his home in Joliet, IL when a local police officer noticed that a van parked on Mr. Nag’s private property had expired registration tags. Upon being confronted with this, Mr. Nag’s wife, Vera Kaur Nag, informed the officer that the van is parked on their driveway and was inoperable.

The spin about the inspector general’s report is belied by what is in the inspector general’s report. A report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general is the occasion for the latest offensive by champions of Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, the former Border Patrol agents currently serving lengthy sentences for assault and obstruction of justice in connection with their 2005 shooting of an unarmed, fleeing drug dealer. I say the report is the occasion rather than the grist for the offensive because, quite obviously, the agents’ apologists would prefer that people not actually read the report. DHS has made...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The footage is shocking: A man lies screaming on the floor of a police station as officers sodomize him with a wooden pole. Compounding the shock, it turns out that it was the police who made the film, and that they then transmitted it to the cell phones of the victim's friends in order to humiliate him. For Egypt, the ordeal of 21-year-old Emad el-Kabir has been something of a Rodney King moment _ a sudden, stark glimpse of a reality which authorities routinely deny, but which human rights groups say is part of a pattern...

Tuesday, July 11, 10 am National Lawyers Guild Office at the Peace Center 8124 W Third St, Los Angeles (Corner of Crescent Heights and Third) http://www.answerla.org/ For more info call 323-464-1636 or e-mail answerla@answerla.org. Join the National Lawyers Guild, ANSWER Coalition, Latino Movement USA and other progressive organizations for a press conference to denounce last weekend's attack by the Los Angeles Police Department on the immigrant rights movement. Speakers will include Jim Lafferty and Carol Sobel, National Lawyers Guild; Juan Jose Gutierrez, Director, Latino Movement USA; Ian Thompson, Attorney, ANSWER Coalition; victims of police violence at the protest and other...

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. (April 25) - A woman in a wheelchair who swung knives and a hammer at relatives and police died after being shocked by a stun gun, officials said. Police tried to talk Emily Marie Delafield, 56, into dropping the weapons before they used the Taser to subdue her Monday, Police Chief Robert Musco said. Delafield lost consciousness after the electric jolt and later died at Orange Park Medical Center. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating and an autopsy will be conducted to determine a cause of death. The two officers involved have been put...

A Milwaukee man recalled for jurors Wednesday the "torture" he suffered at the hands of several off-duty police officers who allegedly beat him bloody because they believed he had stolen a police officer's badge. "I thought I was going to die," Frank Jude Jr. testified in the battery trial of three former Milwaukee police officers. "All I was thinking about was my little daughter, who was just born." With a scar on his nose still visible from the surgery he underwent as a result of the incident, Jude described the brief yet violent encounter on Oct. 24, 2004, outside a...

Deputy Faces Charges in Airman's Shooting By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer 47 minutes ago SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A sheriff's deputy who was videotaped shooting an unarmed Iraq War veteran after a car chase will be charged with attempted voluntary manslaughter, authorities said Tuesday. The decision to charge Deputy Ivory J. Webb, 45, was announced by San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos. Sheriff Gary Penrod said Webb will remain on paid administrative leave during the investigation into the shooting of Air Force Senior Airman Elio Carrion, 21. "I respect the decision of the district attorney's office," Penrod...

First let me say this: There is no excuse for the police to verbally harass or physically assault innocent black youth (or anyone for that matter). And the use of excessive force against criminal suspects should not be tolerated either. But this video parodies something that I have said for years. Anytime a policeman pulls a car over or in anyway interacts with a criminal suspect, it is already a highly charged situation. DON’T MAKE MATTERS WORSE! Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

In some cases, Tasers can kill, company warns The stun gun maker says subjects in a state of excited delirium are at risk, and law enforcement officials say they are training users to recognize symptoms.

An 11-year-old girl who threw a stone at a group of boys pelting her with water balloons is being prosecuted on serious assault charges in California. Maribel Cuevas was arrested in April in a police operation which involved three police cars and a helicopter. She has since spent five days in detention, in which she was granted one 30 minute visit by her parents, and has spent a month under house arrest. Her lawyer accuses the authorities of criminalising childhood behaviour. "They're treating her like a violent parole offender," Richard Beshwate said. "It's not a felony, it's an 11-year-old acting...

When opponents of the “Real ID” legislation announced a rally for illegal immigrants and their allies in Montgomery County, MD, there was one immigration-related group I was absolutely certain would not show up: The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the people responsible for actually enforcing our immigration laws. Casa de Maryland and others claimed 5,000 people would gather on Saturday to protest the “Real ID” Act working its way through Congress, and many of these people would be illegal immigrants themselves, we were told. If I were looking for immigration criminals, it’s exactly where I would be. That’s why...

I have been a little out of the loop lately but I just seen pictures of the alleged cop killer in a rhode island courtroom. What the hell happened to his face? I am not excusing what he may or may not have done. (Yes, I know, he did kill that cop.) But this is way over the line, I could not believe what my eyes were seeing. I am disgusted by what I saw but maybe I don't have the whole story. Any Freeper insight is appreciated. And yes, I did search, look etc....I can never find anything on...

Some home schoolers say they were having a meeting in Simpsonville Park when an officer started bullying them. The group of home schoolers included 6 mothers and about 15 to 20 kids, every Wednesday for the past 5 years the group has come to Simpsonville Park to socialize and meet with each other, but they say this past Wednesday was like no other. One of the mothers in the group, Jan Blanchard says, "We were just sitting there talking..." "I heard a man yelling take your hands out of your pocket and I turned around and he was yelling at...

NEW YORK -- Police arrested state Sen. Kevin Parker on Thursday after he allegedly punched a traffic agent who was writing him a ticket. The Brooklyn Democrat was charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, police said. He was being held at the 67th Precinct stationhouse. Witnesses told police the dispute began at about 3 p.m. after the agent found Parker's car double-parked on a Brooklyn street. When the agent started to write a ticket, the senator allegedly grabbed it, crumpled it up and threw it in his face. During an ensuing struggle, Parker allegedly punched the agent. Police officers responding...

FIDE PRESS RELEASE FIDE – International Chess Federation - Vice President held in custody by Spanish Police, after being heavily beaten up FIDE Vice President and European Chess Champion 2003, Grand Master Zurab Azmaiparashvili is being held in custody by the Spanish police at a federal police station in Palmanova, Mallorca, without charges after a serious incident where he was severely beaten up by security guards towards the end of the Closing Ceremony of the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvia on October 30th 2004. As the Chess Olympiad Closing ceremony came to an end, a special prize bearing the name...

The 2nd August at 11.00 AM in Moscow 23 members of the National-Bolshevik party forced their way into the building of the RF ministry of Health, protesting against the law on the replacement of social advantages with monetary compensations. The minister Zurabov’s reception room and some other offices of the ministry were captured. The national-bolsheviks protested against the so-called “monetization of advantages” and demanded the resignation of the RF government. Portraits of official individuals were thrown out of the ministry’s window into the street, including the portrait of president Putin. The national-bolsheviks who captured the building have scattered leaflets of...

Ever since the Macedonian government decided to wed decentralization of power with territorial realignments, the 64 million dollar question has been whether or not the people would someday rebel. Up to now, the gradual whittling away of the country has been met with at most dark grumblings and complaints. Yet while continuing to richly deserve their label as the most apathetic, fatalistic and lethargic people in the Balkans, the disgruntled Macedonians are starting to show some signs of life. Thursday night riots in the southwestern city of Struga left over 30 injured, including 17 police officers, numerous wrecked cars, and...

Even blind old ladies terrify the cops Sunday, April 25, 2004 S he was 71 years old. She was blind. She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her rescue. And in the middle of the dogfight -- in which Eunice Crowder was pepper-sprayed, Tasered and knocked to the ground by Portland's courageous men in blue -- the poor woman's fake right eye popped out of its socket and was bouncing around in the dirt. How vicious and ugly can the Portland police get? Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner. This 2003 case is so blatant, the...

PORTLAND, Ore. - The city of Portland has agreed to pay $145,000 to an elderly blind woman after police pepper-sprayed and shocked her with a stun gun. The altercation began as an attempt to remove shrubs and appliances from 71-year-old Eunice Crowder's yard, and ended with police citing her for harassment and disobeying an order. This week, the city agreed to settle her excessive force lawsuit out of federal court, a month after a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge dismissed the violations against her. "This case goes to show that police misconduct and excessive force can happen to anybody outside...

March 7, 2004 As Shocks Replace Police Bullets, Deaths Fall but Questions Arise By SARAH KERSHAW SEATTLE, March 6 — The police here have had their share of high-profile violent or deadly run-ins with protesters, mentally ill suspects and other lawbreakers. But in 2003, for the first time in 15 years, no one here was shot and killed by the police. Miami, a city with a long history of police shootings and ensuing civil unrest, had no police shootings last year, fatal or otherwise, for the first time in 14 years. In Phoenix, where such shootings reached a level over...

<p>The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office Wednesday charged two rookie Palo Alto police officers with felony assault and battery for a July 13 incident in which the officers allegedly beat up a black motorist who was parked at the side of the road.</p>

NEW YORK -- The tape tells the story: A man already in handcuffs was struck and maced by a New York City Police Department officer. The incident happened in the very same precinct where Abner Louima was brutally attacked. In fact, the officer involved was assigned there right after the Louima torture case to diversify the stationhouse. Now, that officer is charged with a vicious assault that was all captured on home video. In the video, one can see 26-year-old Anthony Carty, already in handcuffs, being subdued by at least six police officers. Many of the onlookers shouted to officers...

Sometimes the only way to understand how another person feels is to walk in his or her shoes. Recently, Jimmy (and I'm not giving his last name for reasons that will become clear later), a white reader, inadvertently stepped in the shoes most black people walk in every day. Before I get to his story, though, I need to tell you a little something about Jimmy. At age 32, he probably means it when he says he has black friends. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago west of Western, the imaginary boundary line that 20 years ago...

Indian Police Fire at Peaceful Sikh Protestors India Again Shows It Is Not a Democracy WASHINGTON, D.C., August 5, 2002–The Times of India reported on August 1 that police in Malout fired on a crowd of peaceful protestors, injuring many of them. Several have been admitted to Civil Hospital, Malout. Eight protestors were arrested. The police used tear gas on the demonstrators. Two people suffered bullet wounds, according to the article. The demonstrators were protesting against a so-called religious function organized by the Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan which was aimed at undermining the Sikh religion and slandering the Sikh gurus,...

A problem-plagued Denver police officer is under investigation for allegedly beating a woman half his size during an April arrest captured on jailhouse videotape. Jerome Powell, a 29-year veteran officer, appears to throw drunken-driving suspect Laura Crihfield against a wall, onto a hard bench and down to the floor in the fuzzy black-and-white tape.The 114-pound Crihfield said Powell also hit and kicked her as she crouched in the corner of a cell, although that is mostly obscured by shadow on the tape."I screamed, and he laughed at me," Crihfield, 40, said Thursday. "He was laying on me, hitting me on...

WHAT IS THIS, SAUDI ARABIA?CNN just reported that amateur video cameraman Mitchell Crooks -- seized by cops outside CNN's Hollywood offices on Thursday -- called a friend and a lawyer after his jailing, claiming he had been beaten by jailers. And the District Attorney's office now says Crooks was hospitalized at USC Medical Center after being beaten by police ... er, after "complaining of injuries." Yes, Crooks is said to be wanted in Placer County on various warrants. And of course the usual place to catch some alleged petty criminal is at the CNN building on Sunset Boulevard. Somebody needs...

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The man who videotaped a police beating near Los Angeles that enraged black leaders and then dodged a grand jury inquiry into the matter was arrested on Thursday as he prepared to grant a television interview. Photos Reuters Photo Slideshows Audio/Video (AP) Mitchell Crooks was taken into custody on warrants issued in northern California for petty theft and drunken driving. Authorities also served him with a subpoena to testify before the Los Angeles County grand jury. Crooks' arrest was videotaped and broadcast on local KCAL-TV, showing undercover officers hustling him into a sports...

Well, here we go again. In Inglewood last Saturday, a white police officer was videotaped dishing out a bit of the rough stuff to a black teenager, setting the stage for the no-justice-no-peace crowd to carry on and howl about it right through the dog days of summer and then some. There will be no shortage of decibels devoted to the subject in the days and weeks to come. It seems dispassionate discourse is all but impossible when the matter is discussed, with the talk shows devolving into shouting matches at the mere suggestion that there might be more...

<p>The Associated Press Monday, July 8, 2002; 10:21 AM LOS ANGELES ?? An amateur video shows Inglewood police officers punching a teenager and slamming his head against the hood of a patrol car, and the department said it will investigate.</p> <p>The probe was announced Sunday after the tape, taken a day earlier from a nearby motel, was turned over to police and local media.</p>

I have never published a vanity before and hope freepers won't mind helping me out. I have an extremely close friend in another state who last month was manhandled by some police for a traffic violation in a not-so-large town. They actually broke her hand. She feels her rights were violated (the traffic ticket was actually dismissed) and she went to an attorney. The attorney told her she can count on not only losing the case but being tormented by the police the rest of her time in that town (and her children, who are just starting driving) if she...

Wednesday, May 29, 2002 N. Fairmount man's suit claims two officers kidnapped him, dumped him in city park By Dan Horn, dhorn@enquirer.com The Cincinnati Enquirer A North Fairmount man claimed in a federal lawsuit Tuesday that two Cincinnati police officers kidnapped him, drove him to a park and sprayed chemical irritant in his face. Courtney Evans, 22, said the incident occurred April 13 after police handcuffed him in the front yard of a South Cumminsville house and ordered him into their police cruiser. Mr. Evans said the officers sprayed him with irritant and left him in Mount Airy Forest at...