A New Jersey state trooper is accused of pulling over two women and threatening to arrest them if they didn’t give him their number. In a statement issued to The Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that Eric Richardson, 32, is facing various charges, including official misconduct, criminal coercion, and tampering with …
A former 911 operator in Houston, Texas, who hung up on countless people seeking help learned her fate this week. Crenshanda Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls Wednesday and was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation. For a year and a half, Williams took calls at …
Authorities in Utah have released footage from body-mounted cameras being worn by the three officers involved in a fatal shooting earlier this month. According to KSTU 20-year-old Elijah Smith was fatally shot on April 8 after West Valley City police officers chase the suspected thief on foot to a nearby residence. At that location, police …
Authorities in Texas have released footage from a dash-mounted police camera revealing the moment a residence exploded as officers dispatched to the location approached. According to KTRK, the incident occurred in Hurst, a Fort Worth suburb, on April 7. Local police were called to the scene to investigate reports of a car that had crashed …
A New York man made his situation worse following a car crash this week, according to police who say he physically attacked a responding officer at the scene. According to WHEC, 46-year-old David F. Woods Jr. was involved in a collision Thursday that left his car in a ditch. An officer from the Attica Police …
Court records showed Latanowich had been charged with more than 100 crimes in the past and was on probation after completing a prison sentence in 2014.
By JEFFREY COLLINS and JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A white North Carolina officer is shown putting a black pedestrian in a chokehold in video released Monday that offers more footage of a police beating that has sparked outrage over use of force. City officials in Asheville, North Carolina, released nine body camera …
An ex-Georgia officer who reportedly had ties to drug dealers is accused of seizing money from their rivals during traffic stops then splitting the money with her shady associates. Per the Atlanta Journal-Consitution, Lori Monique Johnson, 33, is accused of conducting at least two stops between April 29, 2014, and March 13, 2015, involving drug dealers. The …
A nurse in California who said an unarmed black man whom police shot to death “deserved” to die has been fired, the Sacramento Bee reports. The nurse, Faith Linthicum, reportedly wrote a comment on her since-deleted Facebook about the March 18 police-involved shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark. “Yeah but he was running from the police …
Along with the release of four videos detailing the graphic shooting death of Alton Sterling in July 2016, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police confirmed Friday that the officer who fired the fatal shot has been fired. According to CNN, video evidence shows an officer identified as Blane Salamoni yell that the suspect had a gun prior …
Sacramento police fired 20 shots at Stephon Clark last week, resulting in officers wounding the unarmed man six times in the back and eight times in total, lawyers for Clark’s family revealed Friday. The Sacramento Bee reports that pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu performed an independent autopsy on Clark, 22. A statement said that Dr. Omalu located “four …
A Texas police officer reportedly took deadly force on at a traffic stop in Pasadena on Thursday after a driver got out of his vehicle and took shots at him. Click 2 Houston reports that according to authorities, Pasadena police officer Marc Adams, 40, signaled for a man driving a white Nissan Altima to pull …
