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Cop Who Killed Alton Sterling Caught on Video Slapping Handcuffed Man: Report
The now former Baton Rouge, La., police officer who shot and killed an already subdued Alton Sterling now faces charges that he slapped a handcuffed suspect because the cop feared for his life, something something … his safety was threatened, yada yada … it’s a dangerous job. According to the New York Post, Blane Salamoni,…
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LAPD Releases Video of Cops Shooting Unarmed Homeless Man After Keeping It Secret for Years
On Sunday, March 15, 2015, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department pulled a homeless man from his tent in a section of Los Angeles known as Skid Row. What happened next is still up for debate. The LAPD says that the man resisted, fought with the cops and eventually tried to grab an officer’s…
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City of Topeka, Kan., Trying to Bar Black Man’s Parents From Seeing Video of Fatal Shooting, Lawyers Say
The city of Topeka, Kan., is accused of trying to stop the parents of a black man who was fatally shot by police from looking at bodycam footage, family lawyers said Monday. The city’s excuse? State law permits only his four children, whose ages range from 3 to 13, to see it, the city argued,…
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NYPD Releases 1st Bodycam-Recorded Video Showing Officers Shooting Mentally Ill Bronx Man
The New York City Police Department has just made public its first-ever recorded video of a police shooting. The footage shows officers opening fire on a mentally ill Bronx, N.Y., man holding a knife after police repeatedly warn him to drop his weapon. According to the New York Daily News, NYPD officers were called to…
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Baltimore Drops 43 Police Cases After Cops ‘Fake’ Another Bodycam Video (Yes, That Makes 3)
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby has identified at least 43 cases that will be dismissed after a police officer basically admitted to faking a police video, leaving many people wondering, “Damn, are there any criminals in Baltimore, or are B-more cops out on the streets making their own episodes of The Wire every…
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Cops Release Bodycam Footage of White Privilege Gone Wild After Woman Claims Sexual Assault
I know one of the things white people get tired of hearing is the line, “If he were white, that never would have happened.” They heard it about Trayvon Martin. They heard it about Mike Brown. Most recently, after police partially justified the killing of Philando Castile by saying the officer smelled marijuana in his…
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Control+Assault+Delete: When Cops Destroy Video Evidence
Out of the rise of #BlackLivesMatter and the intense media scrutiny of police killings came a narrative about a brand-new, magical tool that could miraculously end police brutality by shining a light on law-enforcement misconduct. Somehow, as the public watched the endless stream of cop killings on video, everyone unquestioningly accepted the theory that more…