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Christopher Krickovich, a Florida deputy, was placed on leave after a video of him and fellow deputies slamming a 15-year-old boy’s head into the pavement during a trespassing arrest went viral this weekend. The video has sparked outrage from celebrities like LeBron James and Steve Kerr. One officer involved claims…
Andre Gladen, a father of five who suffered from schizophrenia, was shot dead on Sunday by Officer Consider Vosu of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), after an altercation in a home. Records confirm that he visited the emergency room of Adventist Medical Center in Southeast Portland a few hours before…
Andre Gladen, 36, had been in the hospital a few times after experiencing hallucinations, including trying to break into a car that he believed was on fire with his brother and cousin inside, his twin brother, Fonte Gladen, said. He suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was also legally blind. On…
Asah Glenn, a 14-year-old freshman at Alcovy High School in Covington, Ga., was allegedly brutally manhandled by deputies and a coach at his high school for taking a Snickers bar out of an open vending machine. Attorneys, who spoke on behalf of the student, accused the sheriff’s deputies of using…
A Cobb County police officer has been criticized for manhandling a 12-year old boy before his arrest at a Georgia mall earlier this month. The incident caught on video and posted on Twitter has gone viral. The officer, whose name is being withehld, detained 12-year old rapper Corey Jackson, better…
A controversial photo was shared on social media and it has caused some major concerns for Stanly County residents. A mugshot shows an Oakboro police officer with his hands around a man’s neck. The officer is white and the man taking the mugshot is Black. Jeff Crisco is a Republican…
Officers had been called to Custom House Avenue, outside Norma Jean’s club on the Block, at around 1:20 a.m. Sunday for a report of a disorderly patron, police said. After the woman, allegedly, refused to comply a male Baltimore police officer began punching the woman and it was all captured…
An 11-year old girl suspected of shoplifting at a Cincinnati-area Kroger was tased and subsequently lectured by a cop who felt he had no other choice. Adding insult to literal injury, a Cincinnati police officer, who used a stun gun, said that actions like hers hurts the “community,” according to…
NBA Milwaukee Bucks rookie Sterling Brown has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Milwaukee and multiple local police officers after they used a stun gun on him for a parking violation, and for an officer’s inappropriate memes on social media regarding the incident. Brown was stopped…
Three hours on the job in East Pittsburgh, Penn., and a white officer’s first response is to shoot multiple rounds into unarmed Antwon Rose, a Black 17-year-old, running away. The officer didn’t run after the teen or Tase him, but instead cuffed an almost lifeless body. Rose died on the…
