Local Colorado officials have reached an $8.5 million settlement with a woman who was hospitalized in 2022 after being left handcuffed in a police SUV that was then hit by a train. The city of Fort Lupton and town of Platteville, Colorado, agreed on the settlement with the victim, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, according to a release […]
Distressing video has circulated on social media showing New York City officers attempting to arrest a woman and a teenage girl who were selling fruit in Manhattan’s Battery Park over the weekend. Video of the incident was shared on X Sunday showing the altercation that unfolded at about 2 p.m. The clip, filmed by a […]
Police searched Saturday for a Union County man who ran from officers after he was arrested and handcuffed on a charge of attempted murder. People might recognize the man if only because “he may still be in handcuffs,” Monroe Police said on Facebook. “He is considered armed and dangerous,” police said about 42-year-old Waxhaw resident […]
The Canton Police Department in Ohio has released body camera video from the night a 53-year-old man died after he repeatedly told officers “I can’t breathe” as he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and he was pinned to the ground. In video of the encounter on April 18, the man, Frank Tyson, […]
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who was handcuffed and left facedown on the floor of a social club last week died in police custody and the officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave. Police body-camera footage released Wednesday shows a Canton police officer responding to a report of a crash and […]
Mar. 28—An apparent Alabama Law Enforcement Agency video presentation describing the shooting of Steve Perkins by former Decatur police officer Mac Marquette was published by conservative news outlet 1819 News on Wednesday and shows officers, after Marquette fired 18 rounds, cuff Perkins’ hands behind his back as he begs for an ambulance and tells them: […]
A man filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging he was paralyzed and needed his legs amputated after police officers in St. Petersburg, Florida, put him in restraints, placed him in the back of a police van without a seatbelt and then drove in a reckless manner. Heriberto Alejandro Sanchez-Mayen filed the lawsuit in US District Court […]
Tabitha Smith died in “unimaginable terror” as she sat handcuffed in the back of a Tennessee patrol car that a deputy drove into a river on Valentine’s Day, her family said. In the wake of her death, her son is seeking $10 million. Deputy R.J. Leonard had been with the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office for […]
Police in a New Jersey township who came under fire two years ago after officers handcuffed a Black teen at a local mall have settled a lawsuit with his family, reports say. Z’Kye Husain got into an altercation at Bridgewater Commons Mall in February 2022. A viral video obtained by WABC shows Husain in a physical scuffle […]
A Missouri man says he was sexually assaulted by a police officer while he was handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed this month. Former officer Marcellis Blackwell is accused of sexually assaulting at least 20 men between November 2022 and June 2023, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Missouri. […]
DENVER (AP) — The Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying “no” and “mommy” as a police officer who had pointed her gun at them then bent down to handcuff two of their wrists. The youngest wore a pink tiara as she held onto her teenage cousin’s hand. The 6-year-old Lovely watched as […]
Bride arrested for extortion, handcuffed in her wedding dress A bride was arrested on her wedding day in Mexico, authorities announced Friday, accused in an extortion scheme that included her would-be husband and six other suspects. The woman, identified only as Nancy N. by Mexico state prosecutors, was arrested last month in a joint operation […]