Shreveport board clears officers in fatal shooting of Unarmed Black Man

Two officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last year have been cleared of wrongdoing by Shreveport's civil service board. 25-year-old Marquise Hudspeth was shot in the back eight times after a chase. The officers said they believed the cell phone Hudspeth was holding was a gun. [more]

Grand Jury to Indict Officer in Fatal Shooting

A grand jury in Manhattan handed up charges of second-degree manslaughter yesterday against a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed West African immigrant in a Chelsea warehouse last year. [more] Pictured above: Ousmane Zongo's wife, Salimata Sanfo, and brother, Daouda Zongo, held a news conference last August to announce a lawsuit against the city.

Victim of Police Shooting Files Lawsuit in York County Pa.

Sutherland was shot while hanging out with friends in Windsor, Pa. The militarized SWAT team kicked in the door, and trooper Broaddus, aiming to kill, shot an unarmed man. [more]

Unarmed White Man shot in the back after traffic stop-

NAACP, Jackson interested in probing the issue of Police Brutality in Brownsville
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Attorneys probing police shooting of Centerville man

A team of private attorneys says it will investigate whether a Brownsville police officer was racially profiling when she attempted to pull over a man who was later shot and killed during a police chase. The family of Kermith Sonnier Jr., 37, of Centerville, also claims the Rev. Jesse Jackson is alleging the man's civil rights may have been violated when he was killed by police May 5 off a dead-end road on the outskirts of Brownsville. [more]

PA. Study finds racial disparity in state police's arrest and search rates

A study funded by state police found no pattern of racial bias in the decisions by police about which motorists to pull over, but noted that once they are stopped, whites are far less likely to be searched or arrested than blacks and Hispanics. [more]

Feds Won't Prosecute Minneapolis Police officers in Plunger case

A federal investigation has cleared two police officers accused of putting a toilet plunger in a drug suspect's rectum, Police Chief William McManus said Friday. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division found no evidence of "prosecutable violation" federal criminal civil rights laws, McManus said at a news conference where he stood side-by-side with one of the officers, Jeff Jindra. [more]

Disgraced Police Officers Still Getting Paid:

2 who resigned over tapes get thousands in disability
Two state troopers who resigned last year after the discovery of two videotapes showing them making offensive remarks about minority motorists are now receiving disability pensions worth tens of thousands of dollars annually. [more]

Officer pleads not guilty after kicking caught on tape

Every Single Day Police Officers LIE in Court:
Officer pleads not guilty after kicking caught on tape
A  Chicago  Police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday in Cook  County  Criminal Court  to charges he kicked and beat a man during an  arrest --caught on home videotape -- at the Cabrini-Green housing  complex last  spring. [more]

B-More Police Get Buck Wild at a Festival-Reports of brutality are probed

Baltimore police  officials  have   launched an internal investigation after reports  of  police    brutality  last weekend at the conclusion of the   annual SoWeBo   Festival.Witnesses who  attended Sunday's music and arts  celebration said they saw police  officers   use a stun gun on a man  and throw   a   pregnant  woman  to  the  ground, an  action that they  said  caused her to hemorrhage.  They also said  police  dragged   a  middle-aged woman  by  her   hair. [more]