The Department of Justice will decline to charge two white police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last year, four sources close to the situation told The Washington Post. Alton Sterling, 37, was killed last July when officers Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni pinned him down and shot him …
A South Carolina officer’s dash cam reportedly caught him using his SUV to ram into a motorcycle during a deadly Wednesday night chase. The video, which the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office posted to YouTube on Thursday, showed Deputy James Vansant striking the motorcycle twice. After Deputy Vansant collided a second time, the video captures the motorcycle …
In addition to punching and elbowing an unarmed man, a video captured a North Carolina cop placing a gun to a man’s head and threatening to kill him. WBTV reported that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) stopped a car they believed was connected to a string of larcenies on March 26, 2016. During the stop, James …
A psychologically troubled inmate in Sheriff David Clark’s Milwaukee County Jail made it clear to prison staff that he was desperate for water, prosecutors say, but the staff ignored his pleas and let him die of dehydration. As Crime Online previously reported, Terrill Thomas died on April 24, 2016, while in solitary confinement at the Milwaukee …
A former California police officer is facing charges that he sexually assaulted multiple women — including a teenager. Noah White Winchester, 32, a one-time member of the San Mateo Police Department, will stand trial for the sexual assault of five women while he was on duty. Winchester previously served as an officer with the Los …
A Tennessee county sheriff has admitted to using his position to have sex with jail inmates on several occasions since July. Fentress County Sheriff Charles Cravens, 47, pleaded guilty to three counts of honest services fraud and one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. Cravens confessed to having unprotected sex with female …
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Dallas police are in the process of trying to figure out the identity of a person found floating in Mountain Creek Lake on Saturday. Dallas News reports that someone found the body on Saturday afternoon, while at the 7600 block of West Kiest Boulevard, and promptly called the police. When authorities arrived, they discovered that the human remains …
Officers checking on the welfare of a resident stumbled upon a possible homicide, an apparent suicide and a large-scale marijuana growing operation, authorities said.
Grand Prairie police are looking for a man who ran over a little girl on Friday night, then fled the scene without rendering aid or alerting authorities. Dallas Morning News reports that a 5-year-old girl was severely injured after someone driving a dark green 2000 Honda Accord EX coupe ran over her in the Budget Suites …
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Late last month, a police officer reportedly rescued a 3-year-old girl having a seizure on the morning of his wedding. On March 28, Indiana University officer John O’Rourke was in a Sanford, Florida, Donuts to Go getting breakfast when he noticed a crowd gathered around a little girl who was acting irregularly. Instructing a bystander to call …
