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To protect and to serve is the motto of police departments across America, but who protects Americans from bad police and bad policing. To some, police are good to others police are nothing more than crooks with a badge, while others see police as a taxpayer funded extortion racket. Police are human and make mistakes like the rest of us but they should be held to a higher standard if they are to uphold the law, you cannot be a crook nor can you violate people’s rights or the law and uphold the law. When a bad police officer is caught, they tell us there are only a few bad officers, but that is not true whole units and whole departments have been found to be guilty of committing crimes. How many times have officers violated the law but not held accountable for their actions? How many times have police said one thing and videos show something completely different from the official police version? How many times have police officials had to walk back what they said after a video comes out showing what really happened? How many times have police office lied before a video came out to show they were lying. Now wonder police do not want you to film them and may explain why some office turn off their cameras to prevent the truth and protect the lies. Now some places want to protect police by stopping citizens from filming police to protect the police at the expense of innocent citizens. If we do not hold police accountable for their actions, they will not stop and it will become more dangerous for citizens if they are held to account for there actions. When a city tires to hold an officer(s) accountable how many times have police unions threaten the blue flu to prevent the city from taking any action against a bad officer(s). Taxpayers pay the police to protect us we do not pay them to threaten not to protect us. Because taxpayers pay the police to protect us, we have the right to hold bad officers accountable for their actions. Police watch is dedicated to keeping an eye on police corruption, police misconduct and bad police for you.
Story by SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — A deadly traffic stop where plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in under a minute has raised serious questions about the use of force and role of tactical officers in departments.

As family and community members mourn 26-year-old Dexter Reed, a police oversight agency and Cook County prosecutors are investigating.

Here’s a deeper look:

‘GRAVE CONCERNS’
Videos and documents released this week by the Chicago Office of Police Accountability paint a harrowing picture of what happened during the March 21 traffic stop.

But about a week ago, the oversight agency’s leader expressed “grave concerns” about the officers’ actions in a letter to Police Superintendent Larry Snelling.Fourth ex-Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ officer gets 40 years for torture of Black men
Christian Dedmon described by one victim as ‘the sickest’ of six former officers who pleaded guilty to torturing two Black men
Associated Press

A fourth former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced for his part in the racist torture of two Black men by a group of white officers who called themselves “the Goon Squad”. Christian Dedmon was sentenced on Wednesday to 40 years in federal prison, hours after Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17.5 years.

Dedmon, 29, did not look at the victims as he apologized and said he would never forgive himself for the pain he caused.

All six of the white former officers charged in the torture pleaded guilty, admitting that they subjected Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture in January 2023 after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman.
Hunter Elward, former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year.
By The Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. — A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy who was part of a self-described "Goon Squad" was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year, after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman.

Hunter Elward was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee, who handed down a 241-month sentence. Lee is also due to sentence five other former law enforcement officers who admitted to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture.

Before sentencing, Lee called Elward’s crimes “egregious and despicable,” and said a “sentence at the top of the guidelines range is justified — is more than justified.” He continued: “It’s what the defendant deserves. It’s what the community and the defendant’s victims deserve.”
Story by N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY

Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi are set to be sentenced in federal court this week over the beating and sexual assault of two Black men, one of whom was shot in the mouth.

Five former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies and another officer pleaded guilty to more than a dozen federal charges in August after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker accused them of bursting into a home without a warrant, beating them, assaulting them with a sex toy and shocking them repeatedly with stun guns last year. Jenkins said one of the deputies shoved a gun in his mouth and fired the weapon.

"I relive this everyday," Parker, who is expected to testify in court this week, said at a news conference Monday. "I relive this every time I turn on the TV, anytime I get on my phone, I'm on social media and I'm seeing everybody telling my story, everybody telling my story."
Eric Dolan

A police officer in Michigan has been fired after body cam video showed him punching a mentally ill 13-year-old teen, who was handcuffed at the time, according to Local 4 News.

The Albion Police Department arrested Da'veon Cieslack on November 24, 2018, after his grandmother called 911, saying that the child was acting unruly. He was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser.

The newly released video shows Cieslack pleading with officers to be let go.
Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.
By Jon Schuppe

JACKSON, Miss. — Seven months of searching for her lost son brought Bettersten Wade to a dirt road leading into the woods, past an empty horse stable and a scrapyard. The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said.

It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue. Now it was early October, and Bettersten had finally been told where she could find her son.
Story by Bethan Sexton For Dailymail.Com

Two former police chiefs in North Carolina and North Dakota are among five people who have been charged with conspiracy to illegally buy and sell machine guns and other regulated firearms. Matthew Jeremy Hall, 53, and James Sawyer, 50, who were Chiefs of Police in Coats, North Carolina and Ray, North Dakota respectively, are facing up to five years in jail over the federal charges.

They have been accused of obtaining the weapons, which included restricted short-barreled rifles, by falsely claiming they would be used in demos to their respective police forces over a two year period starting in June 2018. Ray resigned from his post in February of this year citing health reasons. Hall became Chief in 2011 according to his LinkedIn profile which still lists him as in charge, although he is absent from the Coats police website.

The cops were indicted by the DOJ on Friday along with Sean Reidpath Sullivan, 38, of Gambrills, Maryland; Larry Allen Vickers, 60, of Charlotte, North Carolina and James Christopher Tafoya, 45, from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Story by Tim Dickinson

Sam Bushman wears many hats. All of them scream extremist. Bushman is the new CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association - a far-right group, with far-reaching influence, that preaches that the nation's sheriffs have authority to judge the constitutionality of laws, and to block enforcement of any they deem objectionable.

Bushman is also the owner of Liberty News Radio, a right-wing radio and podcast network that provides a soapbox for white separatists, including airing shows that platform former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and Charlottesville Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler. Bushman hosts his own radio show on the network, and used his airtime on Juneteenth 2023 to blast Martin Luther King Jr. as a "thug." In an interview with Rolling Stone, he doubled down, calling the civil rights icon "a bad guy in many, many, many ways." This July, Bushman broadcast from a neo-Confederate carnival called Dixie Fest, where he platformed an author who called for the South to "secede from what is really a degenerate empire."

Bushman's intersection with white separatists is concerning on its own terms. "Folks that Sam runs with are seeking secession and the creation of a white nationalist entity in the South," says Chuck Tanner, research chief for the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a Seattle-based nonprofit that watchdogs far-right movements.
MPR News

At 10 a.m. Friday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is scheduled to announce the results of an extensive investigation into the city's police department — particularly officers’ use of force. The probe is widely expected to result in long-term federal court oversight of the MPD.
By JENNIFER PELTZ

NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s top prosecutor on Tuesday disavowed over 300 convictions tied to police officers who were themselves found guilty of crimes, the latest in over 1,000 dismissals citywide of cases connected to officers who were charged or convicted.

The latest abandoned convictions, almost all misdemeanors, date back as far as 1996. Each involves one of nine officers who were later convicted of on-the-job offenses — among them taking bribes, illegally selling guns, lying under oath and planting drugs on suspects — and are no longer on the force. The cases put more than 50 people behind bars and imposed fines on 130, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.

“We cannot stand by convictions that are built on cases brought by members of law enforcement who have violated the law,” Bragg, a Democrat, said in a statement after 308 misdemeanor cases were thrown out Tuesday. A similar proceeding was planned for eight felony cases Wednesday.

Since the start of 2021, Bragg and at least three of New York City’s four other district attorneys — in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens — have arranged the dismissal of a total of more than 1,200 cases connected to officers who had been convicted or charged, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press.
Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey

Mississippi sheriff’s deputies are being accused of sexually assaulting Michael Corey Jenkins in addition to forcing a gun in his mouth, and firing after nearly two hours of “torture.” Dr. Rashad Richey and Sharon Reed discuss on Indisputable. Tell us what you think in the comments below.
Story by Kerry Breen

ANew York district attorney said that she will seek to vacate the convictions and charges of over two dozen people who allegedly sold drugs to undercover officers in her region after a conviction review unit found a "pattern of inconsistencies, errors and disclosure issues" in the operation.

Miriam E. Rocah, the district attorney for Westchester County, about an hour outside of New York City, said in a news release Wednesday that a criminal investigation into the Mount Vernon Police Department's Narcotics Division had begun after "secretly-recorded conversations among various" officers and complaints from the public came to light. Mount Vernon is part of Westchester County. The district's Conviction Review Unit, which Rocah established, also examined the cases in a seperate investigation.  
CNN

Three years ago, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot by officers of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) in Kentucky as they executed a middle-of-the-night raid of her apartment during a drug investigation of her former boyfriend. Shortly after midnight, a team of four police officers used a battering ram to force their way into Taylor’s home, where she slept alongside her then-boyfriend Kenneth Walker on March 13, 2020.

Walker, who at the time was armed with a legally owned gun, alleges that officers did not announce themselves before entering the home, which LMPD disputes. Fearing that the police were intruders, he fired his weapon, striking one officer in the leg. Police returned fire, killing Taylor. At around the same time that night, Taylor’s former boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, was being taken into custody in a police operation in another part of town.
Story by insider@insider.com (Christopher Woody)

When Russian President Vladimir Putin assumed power in 1999, the Russian military had gone through a decade of post-Soviet decay. Over the next 20 years, Putin and his military leaders rebuilt that force into one capable of a range of operations around the world, with advanced warships and aircraft and well-armed troops — all backed up by the world's largest nuclear arsenal.

In his book, "Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine," Mark Galeotti, a scholar of Russian security affairs who has studied the country since the final years of the Cold War, documents how Russia under Putin reformed and revamped the military and put it to the test in combat in Europe and the Middle East. In the interview below, which has been edited lightly for clarity, Galeotti describes those reforms, what they achieved, and how Putin has squandered the military he built in a devastating war in Ukraine.
Story by Matthew Chapman

An ongoing investigation into 17 police officers in Antioch, California revealed a series of new racist text messages, reported SFGATE on Friday. "The new report by the DA’s office, first covered by the East Bay Times and obtained by SFGATE, outlines a pattern of racism and celebration of violence in messages sent by officers during and after the investigation and arrests of Terryon Pugh and Trent Allen, two Black men who were later charged with attempted murder," reported Alec Regimbal.

This comes after a previous report revealing other disturbing messages from the officers, including the celebration of violence against Black suspects and a mock offer to buy dinner for whoever would shoot the city's Black mayor with non-lethal bullets.
Story by Marisa Sarnoff

Police body-worn camera footage shows then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of John Pope. Chauvin was convicted in April 2021 for murdering George Floyd in May 2020 by putting his knee on his neck for more than nine minutes. The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay Pope $7.5 million. (Image via Robins Kaplan LLP.) The city of Minneapolis has agreed to settle the longstanding lawsuits of two people, including a 14-year-old, who were brutalized by former police officer Derek Chauvin, the convicted murderer of George Floyd.

John Pope and Zoya Code sued Chauvin separately in 2022 for injuries stemming from encounters with the disgraced officer several years prior. In those confrontations, Chauvin exhibited the same behavior as he had on May 25, 2020, when he was filmed pinning his knee into Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes. Video of the incident showed bystanders pleading for Chauvin to stop as Floyd’s pleas grew quiet. His death sparked months of protests worldwide demanding accountability for police brutality against Black people. Chauvin was convicted of murder in state court and pleaded guilty to two federal charges for violating Floyd’s civil rights and was sentenced to decades behind bars.

Now, the city where Chauvin once served as a police officer has agreed to settle Pope’s and Code’s civil cases against him for a total of nearly $9 million. The plaintiffs in both cases, like Floyd, are Black and were unarmed when Chauvin, who is white, pinned them down by pressing his knee on their necks.
Story by Brad Reed

Newly revealed text messages sent by police in Antioch, California show that officers for years engaged in racist conduct and celebrated their own brutality while facing no pushback at all from superiors. Among other things, the Mercury News reports, officers in Antioch made racist jokes about offering a "prime rib dinner" to anyone who shot Mayor Lamar Thorpe with projectors often used on protesters.

Other messages show officers boasting about violence they inflicted on others while at times lamenting they didn't go further in making alleged perpetrators suffer. One particularly egregious text sent by Antioch Officer Eric Rombough lamented that the injuries he inflicted on a suspect wouldn't be as readily visible as he had hoped.
Story by 24/7 Wall St. Staff

The LAPD has killed more people than any other police department in the country, according to Mapping Police Violence, a research collaborative that collects data on police killings from the nation’s three largest comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases.

The department has a long history of excessive force and violence. In 2015, the department was responsible for 23 documented killings, the most of any police department in the country that year. During the period studied by MPV, 2013 and 2022, the total number of those killed by the LAPD was 167. Of those victims, 19.5% were Black, a disproportionate percentage since only 9% of L.A.’s population is African-American.

Additionally, 54.4% of those killed did not have a gun, so could conceivably have been subdued without the use of deadly force. Nevertheless, in only two cases of police killing was the officer responsible disciplined or charged with a crime.
Story by The Badger Project

BY PETER CAMERON, The Badger Project
At least 12 law enforcement officers currently working in La Crosse County and the surrounding areas have been fired or forced out from previous jobs in law enforcement, according to an investigation by The Badger Project.

One major study found that these “wandering officers” who were fired or forced out from one law enforcement agency and hired at another were more likely to commit violations and be fired again. Most of these officers in western Wisconsin were young and failed to pass their new-hire probation, a period that can last up to 18-24 months when the bar to fire an officer can be very low.

But some were forced out for more serious conduct. Christopher R. Larson, currently employed by the Norwalk Police Department in Monroe County and by the Army as a police officer at Fort McCoy, resigned prior to completion of an internal investigation from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in 2019, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Story by Justin Rohrlich

The executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association (SJPOA) is accused of importing massive amounts of fentanyl and other illicit prescription drugs into the U.S.—even using her organization’s official UPS account as part of the alleged scheme—then blaming it all on her housekeeper when confronted by the feds.

For eight years up until January, Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, used her home and work computers to get multiple-kilogram shipments of medications, including Zolpidem, Tapentadol, and Tramadol, sent to her home and office from China, India, and other far-flung locales, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in federal court. The packages were labeled as “Wedding Party Favors,” “Gift Makeup,” “Chocolate and Sweets,” and “Health Product,” the complaint states.

Segovia was swept up in a broader investigation by Homeland Security agents into a trafficking network shipping Indian-produced drugs into the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the complaint. When investigators searched and decrypted a “network operative’s” smartphone, they discovered two messages that identified a “J Segovia,” with an address in San Jose, it says. Agents then found dozens of parcels had been sent to Segovia’s home, according to the complaint.

Prosecutors have announced new charges of unlawful conduct against 11 current or former officers in the troubled police department in East Cleveland, one of Ohio's poorest cities.
Story by rcohen@insider.com (Rebecca Cohen)

A narcotics detective with the Louisville Metro Police Department was accused multiple times of using charges against female drug addicts to extort them into sex, but he was allowed to resign and was never charged for his actions, a Department of Justice investigation into the LMPD's conduct found. The report, released Wednesday, followed an investigation launched in April 2021 to investigate whether the LMPD practices a pattern of unlawful policing.

In the report, the DOJ accused the LMPD of not appropriately investigating officers accused of sexual misconduct and domestic violence. The report also found that units tapped to investigate claims of domestic violence do not conduct "thorough" investigations and often disregard evidence.

In one example, a woman accused an LMPD narcotics detective of having sex with her daughter, whom he had previously charged with drug possession. The daughter told investigators that the detective sent her nude photos and then leveraged her charges to get her to return the favor. "If he's doing it to me, he's doing it to somebody else," the daughter told investigators.
Story by Tim Dickinson

A blistering new official investigation decries violent, lawless “deputy gangs” that continue to wield extraordinary power within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. The report delivers a call to action for new Sheriff Robert Luna: “It is time to eradicate this 50-year plague upon the County of Los Angeles.” The report identifies at “least a half dozen” active gangs and cliques — and names them: the Executioners, the Banditos, the Regulators, the Spartans, the Gladiators, the Cowboys, and the Reapers.

These groups pose a threat to the general public — deputies hoping to prove themselves worthy of gang membership routinely seek out violent encounters with the public, the investigation reports — as well as to the internal command-and-control structure of LASD. The gangs “undermine supervision, destroy public trust, are discriminatory, disruptive, and act contrary to … professional policing,” the report concludes.

Perhaps most alarming, the investigation reveals that in recent years “tattooed deputy gang members” have risen to “the highest levels” of department leadership. It calls out recent former Sheriff Alex Villanueva (who lost his 2022 reelection bid) for betraying promises of reform by installing gang members as his right-hand men. Villanueva, the report says, “at minimum tolerated, if not rewarded deputy gangs.”

The new investigation describes a deputy-gang culture that is “deeply embedded” within LASD, calling it a “cancer” that “must be excised.” Conducted by the special counsel to the Civilian Oversight Commission — the county body that watchdogs LASD — the 70-page investigation relied on interviews with nearly 80 witnesses as well as dozens of depositions, court exhibits, and civil lawsuits.
Story by Alicia Victoria Lozano

LOS ANGELES — The embattled Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is under fire once gain, this time in a scathing 70-page report by a special counsel tasked with investigating secretive groups, or deputy gangs, that have operated within the agency for decades.

The report by the Civilian Oversight Commission condemned the cliques, whose members engage in “egregious misconduct” like using excessive force and threatening colleagues, as a “cancer” that must be banned immediately. It also accused the the union that represents the sheriff's deputies of failing to stop the gangs and protecting alleged members.

The report said that although the groups may have started decades ago with "benign intentions," they have evolved into deputy gangs "whose members not only use gang-like symbols but engage in gang-type and criminal behavior directed against the public and other Department members,” the report stated.
Andrew Buncombe Seattle

The video showing George Floyd being choked to death by police in Minneapolis in 2020 lasts an excruciating nine-and-a-half minutes. The cell phone footage captured by a passer-by of Eric Garner being wrestled to the ground in Staten Island in 2014, placed in an illegal chokehold and heard to gasp  “I can’t breathe” eleven times before he loses consciousness, is of a similar length.

Despite their different geographic location, and the angles at which the incidents were filmed, both pieces of footage revealed the same truth - that an unarmed Black man was being killed by the police, even as he begged for help. And now we have seen the video of the arrest of Tyre Nichols, beaten, kicked in the head, struck by a baton and pepper-sprayed, by officers who detained him in what should have been a simpe traffic stop. He is heard calling for his mother.
by: David Royer, Melissa Moon

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Personnel files for the five Memphis police officers fired in the Tyre Nichols case show past disciplinary complaints. The files were released by the city Tuesday evening. Here is a summary of what they show:

Demetrius Haley
June 17, 2021
Accused of excessive/unnecessary force following a February 21 arrest where Haley used force to put handcuffs on a woman. Haley was assisting another officer who was accused of dislocating the woman’s shoulder. Violation of regulation for not turning in Response to Resistance form. Received written reprimand.
by: Zaneta Lowe

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — WREG Investigators have confirmed the Memphis Police Department has requested the five former officers terminated after the beating and death of Tyre Nichols be decertified. The decertification request from MPD was submitted to the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards & Training Commission (P.O.S.T.) a spokesperson with the state confirmed. POST handles certification, standards and training for law enforcement across the state.
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Memphis authorities released video footage Friday showing Tyre Nichols being beaten by police officers who held the Black motorist down and repeatedly struck him with their fists, boots and batons.

Story by H. Drew Blackburn

It’s a story as old as time: A police officer does something very, very bad, resigns or gets fired, then in no time, they’re back on the streets with a badge and a gun, just a few towns over. One of the latest and most disturbing examples of this phenomenon is the curious case of Matthew Luckhurst, a former bike patrol cop in Charles Barkley’s favorite city: San Antonio, Texas. In 2016, he gave an unhoused person a sandwich with feces in it, and after a long arduous process, he was fired. Now he’s employed by the Floresville Police Department.
HHV Editor

Disabled Marine assaulted in wheelchair by cops in his own yard. Reports of police brutality have dramatically increased, over the past decade. Ironically, Chamillionaire rapped about this on his hit single, “Ridin’,” nearly a decade before the reports increased. However, since 2012, there has been an uptick in reports, and an uptick in video footage. As a result, many police officers are forced to turn on their bodycams. The hopes have been that the police violence slows down significantly, or even stops.

Much of the police force is viewed as excessive and unnecessary. In addition, there are fringe political groups calling for a complete overhaul of the system. While it is unclear exactly what the solution should be, the nation should be willing to admit that there is a problem going on. Yesterday, there were reports of a man who was beaten by those who are supposed to protect and serve, while on his own property. This is not the first time there has been a person victimized by law enforcement in own their property, either.
HHV Editor

Police officer arrests man for rolling car window up
In Texas, a couple of police officers have gone viral for their actions, a year ago. There was a young man who was apparently driving his car. When the video begins, a cop can be heard questioning the young man. The cop asks the man why he rolled up the window to his vehicle. In addition, the cop tells the young man that he rode for miles with it down, only putting it up when he saw him.

While the officer maintains that this was a routine traffic stop, things quickly escalated. The man begins acting nervously, because of how out of hand police violence has gotten. When the cop asked him why he was acting funny, the man admitted to being nervous. After that, the cop placed him under arrest. As a result, the man’s father arrived, and tried to defend his son. Nevertheless, the cops told him to leave, or he would get arrested.
By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN

(CNN) Ten Chattanooga police officers have been reassigned to non-enforcement positions and will no longer be allowed to testify in court after they "misrepresented the truth or filed a false report," according to a police department press release. Police Chief Celeste Murphy reassigned them after the US Attorney's Office asked "for a list of officers who had sustained allegations of untruthfulness or misrepresentation, for the purposes of identifying officers who would not be allowed to testify in court," according to the release obtained by CNN affiliate WRCB.

Murphy supplied the names to state and federal prosecutors. The chief said she reassigned the officers because they would not be allowed to testify in court, the statement reads. "Chattanooga residents, our fellow CPD officers, as well as the state and federal prosecutors who present these cases should have full confidence that officers who investigate crimes, apprehend suspects, and testify in court uphold the highest standards of integrity," Murphy said in the release.
60 Minutes

A small Texas town saw 13% of its black population arrested and charged with dealing cocaine. But a state judge in 2003 said the investigator behind the arrests was "the most devious, non-responsive law enforcement witness this court has witnessed in 25 years on the bench in Texas."
By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG, Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is opening a “pattern-or-practice” investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. The federal action, which officials familiar with the matter told The Associated Press will be announced later Thursday, comes more than three years after white troopers were captured on long-withheld body-camera video beating, stunning and dragging Greene on a rural roadside near Monroe. Despite lengthy, ongoing federal and state investigations into a death that troopers initially blamed on a car crash, no one has yet been charged. An AP investigation found Greene’s arrest was among at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers said the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotism and, in some cases, outright racism.
Police take an oath to protect and serve the public. But in Brookside, Alabama, a top-down scheme pushed by its police chief, mayor and council has prioritized something else instead: generating money. Hundreds of people tell similar stories about being pulled over for dubious reasons and charged with bogus violations. Many motorists were left stranded on the side of the road when their cars were towed without justification, often at night and with small children.
A former Minneapolis police officer has pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS -- A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, admitting that he intentionally helped restrain the Black man in a way that created an unreasonable risk and caused his death. As part of Thomas Lane's plea agreement, a more serious count of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder will be dismissed. Lane and former Officers J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao have already been convicted on federal counts of willfully violating Floyd's rights. While they have yet to be sentenced on the federal charges, Lane's change of plea means he will avoid what could have been a lengthy state sentence if he was convicted of the murder charge.
By Robert Legare

Washington — A Marine Corps veteran who also served on former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's protective detail was found guilty of assaulting law enforcement outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and other counts. In the weeks following the Capitol attack, Thomas Webster turned himself into a New York FBI field office. He was arrested and charged, and a superseding indictment was filed late last year accusing him of multiple counts, including violence and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. A Washington, D.C. jury convicted him on all charges, including assaulting a police officer, on Monday after only a few hours of deliberation, WUSA's Jordan Fischer reported.
CBS News

Nearly two years after violently arresting a 73-year-old woman with dementia, former Colorado police officer Austin Hopp was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday as part of a plea agreement to lessen his jail time. The June 2020 arrest left Karen Garner with a broken arm, sprained wrist and separated shoulder, CBS Denver reported. In Larimer County Court in early March, Hopp pleaded guilty to an assault charge that was punishable by 2 to 8 years in prison. That avoided the minimum 10 to 30 or more years in prison he would have faced with a trial and conviction. Hopp first encountered Garner after being dispatched to a report of an attempted theft at a Loveland Walmart, according to CBS Denver. Garner, who has dementia, allegedly tried to steal less than $15 worth of goods from the store. When confronted by Walmart staff, she returned the items and walked out of the store.
Jane Harper, The Virginian-Pilot

Former Norfolk sheriff Bob McCabe was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison after his conviction last summer on nearly a dozen bribery and public corruption charges. U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen issued the sentence at the end of a lengthy hearing in federal court attended by several friends and family members — and a few former colleagues — of McCabe’s. “In the court’s opinion, you were guilty beyond all doubt,” Allen said to McCabe, calling his bribery scheme “sophisticated and very intricate.” Allen disputed his previous claims that he’d simply made some mistakes. “It’s not a mistake, it’s a crime — a 22-year crime.” Before the sentence was issued, McCabe tearfully apologized to the court. “I deeply regret, and I’m truly remorseful for, my misguided and reckless decisions,” he said. “I alone take sole responsibility for my selfish actions.” McCabe was ordered into custody in August after a jury convicted him of all 11 charges he faced at the end of 3 ½-week trial. He was threatened on his first day at Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Suffolk, according to his attorney, and has been in solitary confinement in a Hanover County facility since for his own protection. When the 63-year-old walked into the courtroom Friday, hunched over and pushing a wheeled walker in front of him, his wife of 20 years, Janet, began sobbing loudly. He appeared frail and much thinner than at his trial.
Jack Alban

It's hard to feel comfortable whenever you're pulled over by a police officer. For some, the first thought they have in their minds is: "how much is this going to cost me?" For others, it's "will I be victimized today?" Health Data reported that Black Americans are most likely to experience fatal police violence. These statistics, and experiences, have culminated in a variety of socio-political movements. While some of these non-profits have been marred by controversy, many studies indicate that Black Americans are disproportionately on the receiving end of violent and fatal encounters with police officers in the United States. A viral clip of a white male police officer performing a body search on a black female citizen during a traffic stop in 2019 is re-circulating on social media, sparking debate on Reddit. In the video, bodycam footage shows then officer-in-training Tyler Gelnett performing a body search on Kali Coates after she was pulled over.
By CBSMiami.com Team

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A Miami-Dade police officer has been arrested and is facing serious charges. Layla Perez, 46, is facing charges related to grand theft and official misconduct, according to legal documents. Interim Miami-Dade Police Director George A. Perez released the following statement on the arrest:
The officer was allegedly under the influence of alcohol during a crash on I-880
By Summer Lin

A San Jose police officer was arrested last week on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol before a two-car collision, according to authorities. The California Highway Patrol responded about 3:43 a.m. Friday to a crash on southbound Interstate 880, just north of Tennyson Road in Hayward, according to a CHP report. No one was injured in the collision. Officers spoke with witnesses and suspected a driver was at fault for the crash. They conducted a DUI investigation, determined the man was under the influence of alcohol and arrested him suspicion of DUI. He was cited and released the same day. San Jose police Officer Steve Aponte confirmed Tuesday that CHP officers arrested an off-duty SJPD officer on suspicion of DUI over the weekend but declined to provide his name, citing an ongoing internal investigation and a personnel matter. The officer had not been placed on administrative leave as of Tuesday morning, Aponte said.
By Lindsay Watts

WASHINGTON - A D.C. police officer is accused of first-degree assault and use of a firearm in a violent crime after Prince George’s County police say he brandished a weapon and threatened an employee at a Beltsville business early Friday morning. Sources tell FOX 5’s Lindsay Watts that he allegedly used his D.C. police issued Glock and pointed it at a security guard. As of Friday evening, Dennis Sfoglia was still being held at the jail in Upper Marlboro, according to the jail. Sources say Sfoglia was at a bar with his girlfriend around 2:50 a.m. when she got in a fight with another woman. When security intervened, Sfoglia allegedly threatened the guard with the gun.
City News Service

TORRANCE, Calif. (CNS) -- A 23-year-old former Torrance police officer is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 3 following his arrest for allegedly possessing child sex abuse material. Evan Robert Dahl was arrested at 11:15 a.m. Friday at the Torrance Police Station on suspicion of felony possession of the material following a Los Angeles Police Department investigation. He was released at 3:45 p.m. Friday, police said. "The city of Torrance and its police department are aware of the troubling allegations leading to Evan Dahl's arrest. Evan Dahl no longer works for the Torrance Police Department," said Sgt. Mark Ponegalek of the Torrance Police Department.
By Caitlin Antonios

A Torrance Police Department officer was arrested Friday on suspicion of possessing child sex abuse material after uploading pornography using a social media platform, officials said. Investigators with the LAPD served a search warrant at Dahl’s house and several other locations in Torrance after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified LAPD that child pornography was uploaded using a social media platform and investigators identified Dahl, a news release from LAPD said. Evidence was seized from Dahl’s residence and he was arrested at the Torrance Police Department.
Corbin Bolies, Rachel Olding

Two Lawton, Oklahoma cops were charged with first-degree manslaughter on Friday after they fatally shot an unarmed Black man who was complying with their orders to get on the ground and had his hands raised. Comanche County District Attorney Kyle Cabelka said his office had determined that the shooting of Quadry Sanders by Officers Robert Hinkle and Nathan Ronan was unjustified “after review of the entire case file.” Hinkle and Ronan responded to Sanders’ home just after 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 5 after a call about a man, who was subjected to a protective order, entering the home of a woman named in the order. The woman’s husband was also home at the time, officers could be heard saying on body-cam footage released Friday. The footage shows the officers parked outside the woman’s house, trying to call her husband’s cell phone. One officer can be heard saying police have been called out to the address before, and the person inside has a handgun. A dispatcher then tells the officers that the husband said the person was getting ready to leave.
By Ray Sanchez and Omar Jimenez, CNN

(CNN) A state investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department launched after the Memorial Day 2020 killing of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer revealed a pattern of "discriminatory, race-based policing" by officers going back a decade, according to a report released Wednesday. State Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero, whose agency's probe determined the city of Minneapolis and its police engaged in a "pattern or practice of race discrimination," lambasted the organizational culture of a department marred by "flawed training which emphasized a paramilitary approach to policing," a lack of accountability and the failure of police leaders to address racial disparities.
rcohen@insider.com (Rebecca Cohen)

Minneapolis Police Department trainers used racially biased tropes to impersonate Black people during training scenarios, a new report from the Minnesota Department of Human Rights found. "Observations from MPD's recent Academy training sessions in 2021 provided additional evidence of MPD's deficient training," the agency said in the report. "Some trainers relied on racist tropes to impersonate Black community members as part of scenario-based training and other trainers used racist or sexist tropes." The report, released on Wednesday, also said that the agency's investigation found training in the MPD furthered race-based policing and encouraged rookie officers to use these practices in the field.
Shaila Dewan

The Minneapolis Police Department routinely engages in several forms of racially discriminatory policing, fails to hold officers accountable for misconduct and has used fake social media accounts to target Black people and organizations, according to a damning investigation released on Wednesday by the state’s Department of Human Rights. The department has a “culture that is averse to oversight and accountability,” and city and department leaders have failed to act with “the necessary urgency, coordination and intentionality required” to correct its extensive problems, the investigation concluded. The Minneapolis police have been under intense scrutiny since cellphone cameras captured the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a police officer during an arrest on May 25, 2020. The state’s human rights investigation began about a week later. The department is also under a similar investigation by the federal Justice Department.
Jake Epstein

Prosecutors struggle to use the body camera footage of Minneapolis police officers in court because cops say such offensive things in the videos, an explosive new investigation has revealed. According to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, which published the results of a sweeping civil rights probe into the Minneapolis Police Department on Wednesday, officers often say disrespectful and offensive things to criminal suspects, bystanders, and witnesses. Prosecutors in Minneapolis and Hennepin County said this makes it difficult to use body camera footage in court, according to the report, adding that MPD officers are "much less professional and respectful" than those in neighboring departments.
In Exchange for Bribes, Two NYPD Officers Steered Damaged Vehicles to a Tow Truck Company Operated by a Former NYPD Officer

An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging James Davneiro, Giancarlo Osma, and Michael Perri with one count of conspiracy to violate the Travel Act and one count of using interstate facilities to commit bribery.  During the relevant period, Davneiro, Osma, and Perri were New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) officers assigned to the 107th Precinct in Queens.  Perri retired from the NYPD in June 2020. The defendants were arrested this morning and are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom. Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Dermot Shea, Commissioner, NYPD, announced the charges.
Redacted files were from a mid-90s investigation into child sex abuse allegation

BOSTON — A former Boston Police Department officer who later went on to become head of the police union is pleading guilty to several charges of child rape. Patrick Rose Sr. faces 33 charges in connection with the rape and abuse of at least six children in the 1990s. Some of the charges include statutory rape and indecent assault and battery on a child. Rose pleaded not guilty in 2020 to several charges. Rose was sentenced to 10 to 13 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation. Upon release, Rose cannot be unsupervised with children, must stay away from victims and must register as a sex offender. “This case of child sex abuse is likely the most egregious the Commonwealth has ever seen,” the prosecutor said after the court listened to victim impact statements.
By Cherranda Smith

Earlier this year, a Florida police department released silent body camera footage showing a white male officer threatening a Black man who was being arrested. The footage also captured the moment the officer turned and choked a female junior colleague who'd tried to pull him off the man. Now, newly-released audio is adding even more context to the shocking incident. Officers with the Sunrise Police Department responded to a call in November 2021 that a man was attacking people outside of a convenience store. The officers were attempting to get the man in the vehicle when Sgt. Christopher Pullease arrived at the scene, aggressively taking over the arrest.
By Josh Cain | Southern California News Group

A federal judge this week unsealed a California Highway Patrol video depicting the death of Edward Bronstein, a Burbank man who pleaded for help as officers kneeled on top of him while drawing his blood following a 2020 traffic stop. Bronstein, 38, lost consciousness while six officers restrained him face down on a mat in the garage of the CHP’s Altadena station on March 31, 2020. Video of the incident, apparently recorded through a cell phone by a supervising officer and unsealed this week by a federal judge over the objection of the Attorney General’s Office, shows Bronstein on his knees inside the garage as officers command him to give them a sample of his blood. “I’m not fighting it at all,” says Bronstein, wearing a sweater and jeans..
By  Brian Krans

On February 9th, 2019, the manager of the Taco Bell on Admiral Callaghan Lane in Vallejo, California, called police to report that a car with darkly tinted windows was parked in the restaurant’s drive-thru. Dispatch: Four Paul Five… welfare check at the Taco Bell at 974 Admiral Callaghan… a silver Mercedes, unknown license plate with a driver slumped over at the wheel. Officer Mark Thompson, badge number 621, was one of the first officers to arrive. He was working Four David Three: Four, meaning he was working alone, David for dog because he was a K9 handler, and three meant beat three. He radioed that he wanted another car to go through the drive-thru in the opposite direction to keep the Mercedes from moving if the driver woke up.
By Caitlin Antonios | cantonios@scng.com |

Newly released video footage of a man fatally shot by police in a Lake Forest neighborhood on Feb. 10 after a three-hour standoff shows him charging towards officers while holding a knife. Body camera footage released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department on Thursday, March 24 also reveals some of the negotiations between deputies and Hunter Tice, 23, of Mission Viejo, during the standoff.
Video of the March 11 incident was released the same day the deputy was charged in the 2018 death of a Filipino man who was shot nine times.
By The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — A white sheriff’s deputy in the San Francisco Bay Area shot and killed a Black man in the middle of a busy intersection about a minute after trying to stop him on suspicion of throwing rocks at cars last month, newly released video showed. Graphic body camera footage showing Deputy Andrew Hall shooting Tyrell Wilson, 33, within seconds of asking him to drop a knife was released Wednesday, the same day prosecutors charged Hall with manslaughter and assault in the fatal shooting of a Filipino man more than two years ago. The charges came a day after former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man whose death last May helped spark a national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality.
By Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Police shot and killed three people Thursday and an officer was stabbed in a series of Southern California confrontations, authorities said. A man armed with a garden claw was shot in a Los Angeles suburb, police in Anaheim killed a man armed with a gun after an hours-long standoff and a woman was shot at a San Diego condominium after she stabbed a police officer in the chest, authorities said. After midnight in Bellflower, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies answering reports of illegal street racing were approached by a man who said he’d been stabbed by someone with a garden claw, the Sheriff’s Department said. The victim pointed out the man, who ran off but was confronted nearby. He then came toward the deputies and was shot while swinging a 3-foot-long (0.9-meter) garden claw with spikes on it, authorities said. The other man was treated at the scene.
Rachel Wegner Nashville Tennessean

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Police released a video late Thursday showing body camera footage of a standoff with a man on Interstate 65 who pulled out a "metal, cylindrical item" from his pocket before nine officers fired their guns, killing him. Landon Eastep, 37, was killed after a standoff with officers about 10 miles south of downtown, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. It began around 2 p.m. Thursday when a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper stopped after he saw Eastep sitting on a guardrail on the side of the interstate. Eastep pulled out a box cutter as the trooper tried to negotiate with him, said Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson Don Aaron in the roughly 8-minute video released late Thursday.
By Vikram Murthi

Almost 20 years ago, methodical detective Lester Freamon doled out this (paraphrased) piece of advice on an episode of The Wire: "You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, you don't know where it will take you." That line encapsulates journalist and television writer David Simon's modus operandi as a dramatic storyteller. From shows like The Wire and Treme, through miniseries like Generation Kill and Show Me a Hero, all the way to the criminally underrated The Deuce, Simon and his writing/producing partner George Pelecanos have committed to depicting the wide-reaching systemic rot of institutional failure and corruption.
By Amy Simonson, CNN

(CNN) A former Delaware officer seen on surveillance footage appearing to slam a suspect's head against plexiglass has been indicted on multiple charges, including two felonies, officials announced Monday. The state's Department of Justice's Division of Civil Rights and Public Trust secured the indictment against former Wilmington Police Officer Samuel Waters, 27, Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced in a news release.
William Anthony Spivey, 36, allegedly staged his own death in the Lumber River in North Carolina on Feb. 21 and was arrested three days later in South Carolina.
By Marlene Lenthang

A former North Carolina police chief who was charged with more than 70 felony crimes is accused of staging suicide and fleeing to South Carolina, where he was arrested, officials announced. William Anthony Spivey, 36, who served as chief of the Chadbourn Police Department, was relieved of duty last spring due to a misconduct investigation by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations, the Horry County Police Department said in a news release. His charges included evidence mishandling, drug trafficking and embezzling, police said.
James Queally

The caption read "hanging with the homies." The picture above it showed several Black men who had been lynched. Another photo asked what someone should do if their girlfriend was having an affair with a Black man. The answer, according to the caption, was to break "a tail light on his car so the police will stop him and shoot him.” Someone else sent a picture of a candy cane, a Christmas tree ornament, a star for the top of the tree and an "enslaved person." "Which one doesn't belong?" the caption asked. "You don't hang the star," someone wrote back. The comments represent a sliver of a trove of racist text messages exchanged by more than a dozen current and former Torrance police officers and recruits.
“This is my neighborhood and I run this shit the way I want to,” police Capt. Javier Ortiz allegedly told a man who wanted to file an Internal Affairs complaint against him.
By MARC CAPUTO

In a police department with a history of brutality, Captain Javier Ortiz holds a special distinction as Miami’s least-fireable man with a badge, a gun and a staggering history of citizen complaints for beatings, false arrests and bullying. Over his 17 years on the job — including eight as the union president of the Fraternal Order of Police in South Florida — 49 people have complained about him to Internal Affairs as he amassed 19 official use-of-force incidents, $600,000 in lawsuit settlements and a book’s worth of terrible headlines related to his record and his racially inflammatory social media posts, many of which attacked alleged victims of police violence.
TMZ

Minneapolis police officers were pumped up to fire non-lethal bullets at protestors during the unrest after George Floyd's murder, and boldly talked on camera about "hunting" people out past curfew. The new body cam footage, from late May 2020, provides a shocking look at the cops' forceful response to the protests and riots in the city on the evening of May 30 into May 31. A cop is heard saying how it's a "nice change of tempo" for officers to be out actively hunting people instead of just chasing them around. Another officer replies, "F*** these people." In another clip, Minneapolis cops are enthusiastically ordered to shoot non-lethal rounds on "the first f***ers we see."
By Jessica Lussenhop

For the past four years, Jessica Lussenhop has been reporting on the rise and fall of a corrupt squad of Baltimore police officers. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. It's propped up on top of a suitcase sitting on top of a plastic tub, and I'm holding my recorder and microphone at the ready. When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. You will not be charged for this call. This call is from…" A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins." "...an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes.
A new civil lawsuit filed in federal court accuses law enforcement officials from at least four different agencies of conspiring to steal marijuana, cash and guns from Mendocino County motorists and marijuana growers
By Bigad Shaban, Michael Bott, Christine Ni, Michael Horn and Mark Villarreal

Three Mendocino County marijuana farmers and a former police officer from Texas have filed a new federal lawsuit alleging widespread theft, corruption, and coverups among law enforcement officials policing the Emerald Triangle, the Northern California region world-renown for the cannabis grown there. The lawsuit alleges “hundreds of acts of extortion, theft, and robbery of marijuana, guns and cash” by law enforcement officials from at least four separate agencies, including the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Rohnert Park Police Department.  
Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads
BBC News

Four vehicles fly down a darkened, rain-soaked street. It’s summertime, nearly midnight in downtown Baltimore. The lead car, a white Chevrolet, is driven by a 34-year-old man, his foot pressed to the pedal. On his tail are three unmarked police cars driven by members of the Gun Trace Task Force, a plainclothes gun recovery unit. The chase started after the Chevrolet ran a red light. Pursuing the vehicle would be a violation of Baltimore Police Department policy, but the detectives suspect the man in the Chevy has guns, drugs, cash or all three. “Might be able to get somethin’ dirty,” detective Daniel Hersl says excitedly. “Light him up,” detective Jemell Rayam responds.
Grace Hauck | USA TODAY

More than half of police killings in the U.S. are not reported in official government data, and Black Americans are most likely to experience fatal police violence, according to a new study released Thursday. An estimated 55% of deaths from police violence from 1980 to 2018 were misclassified or unreported in official vital statistics reports, according to the peer-reviewed study by a group of more than 90 collaborators in The Lancet, one of the world's oldest and most renowned medical journals.
At least six people were fatally shot by officers across the United States in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict in the murder case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press

Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America’s streets. And even then, some of that blood was shed at the hands of law enforcement. At least six people were fatally shot by officers across the United States in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict in the murder case against Chauvin on Tuesday. The roll call of the dead is distressing:
In the mid-aughts, the police sergeant Ronald Watts knew how to exploit the lawlessness of the Ida B. Wells Homes. The Exoneration Project believes that he and his officers wrongly arrested hundreds of people.
Former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter receives lesser sentence after shooting Wright at traffic stop.
Aljazeera

Former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter has been sentenced to two years in prison for first-degree manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright, an unarmed Black man at a fatal traffic stop in April 2021. Potter said she had intended to shoot him with her Taser. Judge Regina Chu said Potter must serve at least 16 months in prison and the rest of the sentence on supervised release and gave her credit for 58 days served since being found guilty in the killing in December. Potter had faced a potential seven-year sentence for her conviction on first-degree manslaughter in the shooting. She was also convicted of second-degree manslaughter, but was sentenced only for the more serious charge in accordance with state law. “A 26-year veteran police officer made a tragic error by pulling her handgun instead of her Taser,” Chu said in sentencing Potter. “She was acting in the line of duty in effectuating a lawful arrest.”
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