A Massachusetts police officer and the Worcester teenager he was trying to save both drowned Friday afternoon at a pond in Green Hill Park. Police were called to the scene at about 1:30 p.m., Worcester Police Chief Steven Sargent said, and found three people struggling in the pond, particularly one boy in the center, MassLive …
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Recently-released footage shows last year’s death of a Tennessee county jail inmate who had several officers on top of him in the moments leading up to his death. WTVF, the news outlet that acquired the Marshall County Jail footage, reported that William Jennette’s daughter federal filed a lawsuit alleging officers fatally beat and suffocated Jennette, …
A video released on Tuesday appears to show a Virginia deputy lift an overturned car to rescue a woman trapped underneath. The Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that the incident occurred on May 7. Deputy Jon Holt reportedly responded to an overturned vehicle and discovered a woman trapped underneath with her …
A North Carolina district attorney is expected to announce whether any of the deputies involved in a fatal shooting last month will face criminal charges. As CBS reports, Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble will hold a press conference in Elizabeth City at 11 a.m. ET., to discuss the results of the investigation into the …
Four Alabama SWAT officers were shot early Sunday morning when they tracked the suspect in a double homicide to a Birmingham apartment, where the suspect opened fire on them as they entered. Birmingham Police Sgt Rod Mauldin said the team returned fire and struck the suspect, killing him, according to AL.com. Police have not yet …
Phoenix police have arrested a couple who reported their truck stolen with a toddler inside earlier this week after determining they had made up the story about the baby to prompt police to speed up the search for their stolen vehicle. Police launched an intensive search for the green, 1999 Ford F-250 pickup truck that …
A frustrated cop’s emotional TikTok video touched a few hearts over the weekend as he ranted that he was “so goddamn tired” of constantly hearing “that maybe law enforcement is just not a good thing.”
Maj Kelvin Dingle, the operational commander at the Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Public Safety in Atlanta, told Fox News that most police officers are “good-hearted people that want to make a difference” and that day he’d just “had enough.”
Lawyers representing Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd, have filed an appeal for a new trial, arguing that Chauvin did not have a fair trial this spring. NBC News reports that Chauvin’s attorney Eric Nelson filed the appeal on Tuesday, requesting a new trial after Chauvin was …
The North Carolina judge who denied a petition to immediately release the footage of Andrew Brown Jr.’s fatal police shooting previously posted messages in support of George Zimmeran, who was acquitted in 2013 of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. As CrimeOnline previously reported, on Wednesday North Carolina Superior Court Judge Jeffery B. Foster denied a petition …
The day after a North Carolina judge ruled that police body cam of a fatal shooting cannot be immediately released to the public, the officers involved in the shooting death of Andrew Brown, Jr. have bene identified. As ABC 11 reports, Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten identified seven deputies who were present at the time …
Federal authorities reportedly planned to arrest Derek Chauvin on federal police brutality charges if he was acquitted in George Floyd’s death or if the case concluded in a mistrial. A source told the Star-Tribune that federal authorities’ plan was to arrest Chauvin, 44, at the Hennepin County courthouse, but it was not necessary as he …
