A Kansas City man is facing assault charges after allegedly repeatedly hitting a police officer over the head with a metal chair at a downtown grocery store, seriously injuring him. Jorge I. Arroyo, 39, has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action, according to Michael Mansur, a spokesperson for the Jackson County Prosecutor’s […]
KEANSBURG – A man who was shot by a police officer in the borough on Memorial Day while coming at officers with a running chainsaw has been identified, authorities said. Willem Roman, 46, of Keansburg, died June 14 from the injuries he suffered during the encounter, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office said Monday in […]
A man posing as an NYPD cop accused of pepper-spraying a tourist at a lower Manhattan subway station has been identified as an ex-con who did six years in prison, cops said Saturday. Dominic Ogrady, who also goes by the alias Domingo Diaz, sparked the bizarre incident at 6:35 p.m. June 23 at the Whitehall […]
The Broward NAACP and Public Defender’s Office strongly urged Friday that a Fort Lauderdale police officer be fired after a police investigation determined he spewed racial slurs and instigated a fight with group of Black men outside a club following a night of drinking. Last month, Fort Lauderdale Police Chief William Schultz and a civilian […]
As the City of Memphis worked to pass its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Memphis Police Department interim Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis took about a 12% cut to her salary. As the city passed its budget, including Davis’ pay cut, one of Memphis’ own lt. colonels was on the West Coast to speak with […]
A Lexington police officer and the top prosecutor misled a grand jury to secure a trumped-up indictment for sex crimes against their client, two defense attorneys allege in a new court filing. Now, they’re asking a judge to throw out the charges. Jerry Wright and Noel Caldwell, attorneys for William Henry Clay, filed a motion […]
NEW YORK — A vigilante posing as an NYPD cop pepper-sprayed a tourist he caught entering a Manhattan subway station without paying the fare, police said Thursday. The bizarre incident sparked off 6:35 p.m. Sunday at the Whitehall St.-South Ferry station on the uptown R train platform. The vigilante saw the family enter the station […]
Georgia’s deputy attorney general violated the attorney-client privileges of multiple defendants in its case against 61 people accused of organizing a criminal conspiracy in their opposition to the “Cop City” police training center, according to a motion filed this week and the Guardian’s reporting. The motion filed Monday petitions Fulton county superior court to dismiss […]
An unhinged Queens dad who tried to drown his two young children at a Connecticut beach has been arrested, while the toddlers remain hospitalized and fighting for their lives, police said. A police officer patrolling near a West Haven, Conn. beach heard screams coming from the water around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. The officer […]
Witnesses at the scene described the woman as “highly intoxicated” Wildwood Crest Police/Facebook A Wildwood Crest Police Department car A pool day took a dark turn after an intoxicated woman allegedly attacked a 10-year-old boy and bit a cop who was arresting her, authorities said. The woman, identified as Philadelphia resident Fallan Turner, attacked the […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Body camera footage released Friday shows a chaotic encounter on a Minneapolis street last month, as officers ran toward a man who just shot one of their own, while bystanders took cover behind a car as gunfire rang out. Edited video released by the Minneapolis Police Department shows the moments before Officer […]
Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama — on leave pending an investigation into an inappropriate relationship — is one of 32 people who have applied to lead the Austin Police Department, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The Texas newspaper reported the 32 names of the applicants after obtaining them through a public information request, according to […]