$450,000 settlement for man hit by police flashlight in arrestThe City Council on Monday approved a $450,000 settlement with a car thief who was beaten by a police officer wielding a metal flashlight after an auto pursuit and foot chase.
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"This will put to end a very unhappy episode for the LAPD, and I'm glad we could get it resolved," said Miller's attorney, Browne Greene.
- What a name. I wonder if he's a colored person.
Officer shot at in bank robberyA gang of three men had raided the bank and were leaving when one of them got out of the getaway car, a silver Ford Mondeo, and shot at a police van.
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It is not clear if the male officer's injuries were caused by pellets from the shotgun or shards of glass from the windscreen.
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Police said their officers were not armed and no shots were fired by them.
Death penalty possible in police killingPolice believe Hinton, angered that Harper had broken up with him, shot her in the upper body and head from point-blank range and then fled.
Harper was off duty at the time and unarmed.
FBI to probe police shooting of 88-year-oldIt was that evening, according to police accounts, that plainclothes officers stormed the elderly woman's house. They were looking for drugs, and they had obtained a warrant that didn't require them to knock. Johnston allegedly shot and wounded three of them before they gunned her down.
Police tie family dog to tree, then shootThe incident happened after police in an unnamed "remote locality" went to a house to arrest a man's son on an outstanding warrant.
A struggle started and the family dog bit one of the officers. The police decided the dog was a "vicious animal" and should be put down.
Teens injured in crash after police chaseRoad spikes were laid across the road to stop the car.
But when the car hit the spikes, it rolled and slammed into a tree before catching fire with two teenagers inside.
Police: Teen led chase, hit officerWith Parratt attempting to box him in, Michel did a U-turn, crashing into three cars in the process. The Sentra then rammed into Parratt's stopped cruiser head-on, according to the report. As Parratt stepped from his cruiser, the Sentra hit him with a glancing blow as he dove out of the way.
Police kill four bank robbersIt began when 10 heavily armed men stormed into the TEBA bank in Roodepoort and told two tellers to hand over “all the money in the bank”.
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A third dead accomplice was lying next to them and a fourth dead man was found lying at a street corner with an AK-47, and blue gloves on his hands.
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An AK-47, an Uzzi and seven pistols were recovered along with R700 000 stolen from the bank.
EXCLUSIVE: POLICE PRAISED FOR BRAVERYPOLICE who defended Parliament from a pro-hunt mob should be recognised for their bravery, an independent report says today.
Sixty officers were injured when a Countryside Alliance rally turned violent as the House of Commons voted to ban fox hunting in September 2004.
Fox hunting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaClass issues.
Oscar Wilde once famously referred to "the English country gentleman galloping after a fox" as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable". Even before the time of Wilde, much of the criticism of foxhunting has been couched in terms of social class. They argue that while more "working class" blood sports such as cock fighting and badger baiting were long ago outlawed, fox hunting persists.
More recently the British anarchist group Class War has argued explicitly for disruption of fox hunts on class warfare grounds. Hunt supporters have often claimed that the associated legislation passed in the United Kingdom in 2004 banning hunting with dogs was motivated by a 'class war'.
Danville police 'impersonator' was real officer trying to slow driverScott Burneister thought he was fleeing from a police impersonator Thanksgiving night after seeing a metallic-gold Chevrolet Impala flash lights at him.
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Next, Burneister said, the Impala came up alongside his car, with the lights on again. Burneister said the driver looked to be in his 20s. He said the driver motioned to him to pull over. He and his passenger decided that was not safe and were afraid of getting carjacked. Instead, the passenger flipped off the officer and they sped away.
Two Tennessee Deputies Shot; Suspect DeadIt began around 11 A.M. near Moscow, TN in Fayette County. Deputy Doug Davis pulled over a motorist in a white van for "suspicious" behaviour. Officials say the suspect opened fire on him, shooting him in the face and torso.
Shot Illinois Officer Permanently BlindedBrough also underwent a tracheostomy on Saturday, the day after he was shot during a raid to arrest double murder suspect Larry J. Sicka in a Belleville house. He remains on a ventilator and is being treated with pain medications that keep him sedated.
11 Cops a Month Killed in MexicoAmong the officers killed this year were 13 police chiefs, four deputy chiefs, three operations chiefs, 21 precinct chiefs and 77 patrolmen.
Police: Amateur Videos Don't Tell StoryAmateur videos of police using force on suspects have sparked varying degrees of outrage from California to Philadelphia and Europe after onlookers captured incidents on cheap cameras or video cell phones and posted footage on the Internet.
Some law enforcement officials worry about the effect, arguing that showing only a tiny part of an event can't tell the whole story. They also fear widespread exposure of such video clips might give officers pause in the future, even when force is justified, and that could put people in danger.
Kazakhs rally against car banIt was a government plan to ban cars with right-hand steering wheels that led dozens of protesters to defy strict rules on public gathering and rally in the commercial capital as temperatures plunged to -10C.
Right-hand cars are a touchy issue for many Kazakhs who own second-hand cars imported from Japan. The Government thinks they cause too many road accidents and wants to ban them altogether.
UCPD TASER POLICYThe application of any pain compliance technique shall be discontinued once the officer determines that full compliance has been achieved.
Initial UCPD StatementThe CSO made an announcement that he would be checking for university identification. When a person, who was later identified as Mostafa Tabatabainejad, refused to provide any identification, the CSO told him that if he refused to do so, he would have to leave the library. Since, after repeated requests, he would neither leave nor show identification, the CSO notified UCPD officers, who responded and asked Tabatabainejad to leave the premises multiple times. He continued to refuse. As the officers attempted to escort him out, he went limp and continued to refuse to cooperate with officers or leave the building.
Tabatabainejab encouraged library patrons to join his resistance. A crowd gathering around the officers and Tabatebainejad's continued resistance made it urgent to remove Tabatabainejad from the area.
UCLA Student Tasered by UCPD Police[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officersVideo shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.
As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
Community responds to Taser use in PowellEditorial: UCPD’s use of force disturbing, unacceptableQuestions raised about safety, regulation of TasersOn the UCLA TaseringTasered student claims racial profilingAngry UCLA students demand probe of Taser incident[Online Exclusive]: UCLA community gathers to protest Taser incident, campus violenceUCLA Police DepartmentPowell Incident InvestigationUCLA Police Department - Mission StatementOfficer in Taser case identified Duren, who was named officer of the year in 2001, also has been involved in several controversial incidents on campus. "I patrol this area the same way I would want someone to patrol the neighborhoods where I live," he said. "People make allegations against cops all the time. Saying one thing and proving it are two different things."
"If someone is resisting, sometimes it's not going to look pretty taking someone into custody," he said. "If you have to use some force, it's not going to look pretty. That's the nature of this job." But Duren — who was back on duty at the UCLA campus Monday night — said he can roll with these punches and wants to explain himself to students critical of his actions.
"In this line of business, you have to have a thick skin," he added. "I am proud of my service as a cop."
