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[Link] Cops Pulled Their Guns on Unarmed Teen Filming Them: ‘What Weapon?’
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, pointed guns at an unarmed teenager and screamed at him to get on the ground as he recorded them detaining another group of teens.
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[Link] AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
The identified groups make up less than 4 percent of Chicago's police force but account for a quarter of all complaints, settlements, and shootings.
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[Link] Wu-Tang Clan Producer Suing NYPD After Wrongfully Spending 4 Years in Rikers
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Former Wu-Tang Clan producer “True Master” spent four years at Rikers Island after being falsely accused of a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. Now, he wants justice—with the help of star civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
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[Link] England and Wales police bosses will not admit to institutional racism in their forces
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Police leaders in England and Wales will decide not to accept that their forces are still institutionally racist, as they try to battle their way out of a race crisis.
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[Link] Police officer who assaulted teenager spared jall because of own trauma at work
Read: 1/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Andrew Allan Jaunay was handed a three-month suspended sentence with a year-long good behaviour bond for the 2013 assault of then-17-year-old Matthew Odgers. Jaunay was with other police officers when they stopped and searched Mr Odgers in a Whyalla Stuart street in October of that year.
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[Link] Zachary Rolfe trial: no ‘reasonable’ grounds for shooting Kumanjayi Walker second and third time, court hears
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Police officer Zachary Rolfe did not have “reasonable” grounds to shoot Kumanjayi Walker a second and third time, and the second and third shots provided no tactical advantage in the attempted arrest of the Aboriginal man, a former Northern Territory police defensive tactics trainer told Rolfe
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[Link] Amir Locke shooting: hundreds protest in Minneapolis after police killing of Black man
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis on Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man, Amir Locke, during a “no-knock” raid on an apartment earlier this week.
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[Link] 3 Cops Charged in Shooting Death of 8-Year-Old Girl After Gunfight
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Three Pennsylvania officers have turned themselves in to authorities after a grand jury decided to bring charges against them in the death of an 8-year-old killed during a firefight they had with two teens.
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[Link] Cop Caught on Video Shooting Man in Wheelchair 9 Times From Behind
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
The officer, Ryan Remington, has since been fired from the Tuscon Police Department as a result of the deadly shooting, police said Wednesday. Remington, a four-year veteran of the force, also faces possible charges in the fatal incident. Police say that sometime before 6 p.
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[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears
Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.
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[Link] Off-Duty Cop Allegedly Hit a Guy With His Car and Took the Body Home to Mom
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ultimately, the cop’s father—who’s also a police officer—called 911, according to local officials.
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[Link] Fundraiser for US man exonerated after 43 years in prison tops $1.4m
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
By mid-afternoon on Saturday, a fundraiser for a man who spent 43 years in prison before a judge in Missouri this week overturned his conviction in a triple murder had raised more than $1.4m.
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[Link] ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive.
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[Link] Police presence at music festivals can lead to ‘panic overdoses’ of drugs
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police presence at music festivals leads some people to “panic overdose” in their attempt to avoid getting caught, an Australian study has found, with experts calling for a change in policing culture at festivals.
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[Link] Police Say TV Star Killed Himself Driving. His Family Say Cops Are to Blame.
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Since former child star, Octavio Ocaña, died from a bullet wound following a car chase with police, many Mexicans have been consumed with the question of who fired the fatal shot. Police said the 22-year-old TV actor accidentally shot himself in the head with his own gun last week.
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[Link] Why are so many NYPD officers fighting vaccination?
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
In New York City, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) tried and failed to block the city’s vaccine mandate for all city workers. New York City police officers have been on the wrong side of public health for most of the pandemic.
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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.
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[Link] Alabama Judge Loses Job After Saying George Floyd ‘Got What He Deserved’
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Randy Jinks, the Talladega County Probate Judge, was removed from his position Friday.
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[Link] It Took 7 Years To Charge Cops Who Shot Jamarion Robinson 59 Times
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Members of a U.S. Marshal’s task force shot Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old Black man with paranoid schizophrenia, 59 times during a raid on his girlfriend’s home in 2016.
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[Link] Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be, Too?
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Peaceful protest isn't curbing the rapidly worsening crisis. Some activists say it’s time to attack the actual tools used to destroy the planet. Violence can be a flimsy word—so broad as to be devoid of meaning.
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[Link] This Black Cop Got Kicked Out of Her Union for Supporting BLM
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Optimum distance to use a taser 3-4 metres, police shooting murder trial told
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The murder trial of a police officer who shot and killed a woman armed with a knife has been told the best distance to deploy a taser is from 3 to 4 metres — around the same distance some witnesses put him at when he fired his gun.
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[Link] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.
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[Link] Long Beach School Cop Shot and Killed a Teen Mom
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A Long Beach, California, school resource officer fatally shoting an 18-year-old mother in the head as she fled a fight in her car. Now, two days after died, police are investigating the shooting as a homicide.
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[Link] Fifty police officers contacted woman arrested at Sarah Everard vigil on Tinder
Read: 6/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A campaigner whose photograph during her arrest became the defining image of the vigil for Sarah Everard has said she felt afraid after about 50 police officers and security guards then “liked” her profile on the Tinder dating app.
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[Link] Queensland police officer who leaked domestic abuse victim’s address resigns
Read: 4/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A Queensland police officer who leaked the address of a domestic abuse victim to her violent former partner has resigned, more than five years after first admitting to hacking into a confidential police database.
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[Link] Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Is Officially Dead in Congress
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Age photographer pepper-sprayed at anti-lockdown protest
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The conduct of some Victoria Police is being investigated after a newspaper photographer was pepper sprayed and video was published online showing a woman being pushed to the ground and sprayed by an officer at a violent anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne at the weekend.
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[Link] A Cop Killed Another Cop. A Woman Was Charged Instead.
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jenna Holm, who’s now 35, was holding the tip of a machete under her chin and walking down a Bonneville County street when two sheriff deputies confronted her in May 2020.
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[Link] Why Won’t the Cops Fight Each Other in 'Grand Theft Auto 5'?
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Last year, the video of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd sparked another wave of of protest against police violence and its role in upholding systemic racism.
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[Link] Explosive Video Shows Police Wrapping Bag Around Suspect’s Head in Thailand. He Later Died.
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thailand has detained several police officers after a viral video showing the alleged torture and death of a man in custody, a gruesome scene that has shocked the country after it leaked online. Uproar spread across social media after the nearly 10-minute clip was first posted earlier this week.
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[Link] Statement of Concern: Police use of projectile weapons
Read: 22/8/2021 melbactivistlegal.org.au
Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) expresses concern regarding use of projectile weapons at Melbourne protest on 21 August 2021.
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[Link] US-Trained Cops in Mexico Killed Migrants, Set Them on Fire, Say Prosecutors
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
New evidence obtained by VICE World News paints a chilling picture of the killing of 19 migrants by pnear the U.S border in January. MEXICO CITY — Two trucks carrying migrants sped through dusty roads a few miles south of the U.S. border as four armored police cars gave chase.
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[Link] 5-Year-Old Had to Get Stitches After Police Dog Bit Him in the Face
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The 8-year-old Dutch Shepherd, whose name is Barry, was off his leash and bit the left side of the boy’s face on his ear and near his eye during what was supposed to be a routine demonstration at a community event in South Pasadena.
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