Apr
It was a police encounter that made headlines around the world: a plainclothes officer caught on cell phone video wrestling Eric Garner, a towering Staten Island dad, to the ground with what appeared to be a chokehold — except it wasn’t, the NYPD’s top doctor has said, according to the cop’s lawyer. The NYPD’s chief […]
Apr
Shocking footage shows a mentally ill inmate being savagely beaten and tasered by correction officers inside his cell at a US prison. The brutal assault on Beau Bangert in 2017 – as well as other abuse allegations – led to the sacking of three officials at the Auburn Main Jail. Video of the attack was […]
Mar
Shots were fired through the office window of the attorney for a white police officer acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, before several hundred people gathered in protest on Saturday over a verdict that left Pittsburgh on edge. Police put officers on 12-hour shifts until further notice. The jury’s decision late […]
Mar
Thousands of anti-government protesters staged a rally outside President Aleksandar Vucic’s residence on Sunday to press their demands for greater media freedom and free and fair elections, a day after they briefly broke into the state television building. Riot police used pepper spray against a small group of the protesters after they tried to bring […]
Mar
The UN rights chief on Wednesday called for a “full investigation” into the possible use of excessive force by French police during the often violent “yellow vest” protests. “The ‘Gilets Jaunes’ have been protesting what they see as exclusion from economic rights and participation in public affairs,” Michelle Bachelet said in her annual address to […]
Mar
Subjected to police violence during Yellow Vest protests, nearly 370 people were injured since last November, an online investigative French journal said on Tuesday. According to Mediapart, one person was killed and 368 others injured after getting shot by tear gas capsules of French police during the nationwide Yellow Vest protests against the government. The […]
Feb
A young California man fatally shot by police after they found him unresponsive in his car with a gun in his lap was hit about 25 times — with bullets striking the center of his face and throat and blowing off part of his ear, a lawyer for his family said. Oakland attorney Melissa Nold, who […]
Feb
Two police officers from one of France’s elite units have been sent to jail for seven years for the gang-rape of a Canadian tourist. The officers took Emily Spanton back to their headquarters at 36 Quai des Orfèvres after an alcohol-fuelled evening at an Irish bar in April 2014. Once in their fifth floor office, […]
Jan
French interior minister on Tuesday objected to the call by a rights defender for prohibiting the use of tear gas on protesters. Speaking on France’s BFM TV channel, Christophe Castaner argued that police need to use gas canisters in order to protect themselves. He said that more people will be injured when police does not use tear gas. […]
Jan
An undercover St. Louis police officer reported that his colleagues beat him “like Rodney King” when they mistook him for a protester following the acquittal of a white former officer in the fatal shooting of a black man, according to newly released court documents. Det. Luther Hall, who is black, also described the attack as […]
