Tag Archives: misconduct

[ad_1] CNN  —  Attorneys for the family of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, said video footage shows the cops’ “non-stop beating” of Nichols. “He was defenseless the entire time. He was a human piñata for those police officers. It was an …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Six people were arrested Saturday evening in downtown Atlanta, authorities said, during protests that came in response to a proposed police training facility and the fatal police shooting of an activist earlier in the week. The protesters marched in a “peaceful manner” Saturday evening down a central …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Two Ohio police officers are under investigation after a video surfaced on social media of an officer punching a Black woman several times in the face outside a McDonald’s, their police chief said. Officers were dispatched Monday to the fast-food restaurant in Butler Township for a “report …

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn moved to dismiss charges against a New York Police Department officer who had been accused of acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Chinese government. Baimadajie Angwang, 33, was charged in September 2020 with acting as a foreign agent …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A homeless shelter in El Paso, Texas, released a video showing what the group said was Customs and Border Protection officials apprehending a person outside of its welcome center. The Opportunity Center for the Homeless posted the surveillance video, which shows someone who appears to be in …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Ibrahim Khan, the chief of staff to New York State Attorney General Letitia James, has resigned amid “misconduct” allegations, according to The New York Times. Khan was accused of “inappropriate touching and unwanted kissing by at least one woman,” and James hired a law firm to conduct …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A former Virginia police officer, believed to have murdered a teenager’s family in Riverside, California, after “catfishing” her online, was killed in a shootout while trying to flee authorities, the city’s police department said in a news release. The ex-cop was identified as Austin Lee Edwards, 28, …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A US District Judge has sentenced a former lawyer to 15 months in prison after she made a Molotov cocktail and threw it at an empty New York Police Department vehicle during a anti-Brooklyn police brutality protest in 2020. Urooj Rahman, 34, was sentenced on Friday by …

[ad_1] CNN  —  After about five hours on the witness stand, Kevin Spacey finished testifying in his defense in a sexual misconduct trial, stemming from allegations made by actor Anthony Rapp. Rapp, best known for his role in “Star Trek: Discovery,” claims that in 1986, Spacey, then 26, invited Rapp, …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations has launched a probe regarding a police officer shooting and killing a teenager earlier this month in the city of Gulfport, police said, as attorneys for the teen’s family call for video footage of the incident to be released. Law enforcement officers …