The Franklin County Sheriff's SWAT deputy who shot and killed Casey Goodson Jr. on Dec. 4 is also a Baptist pastor and has used his faith to justify law enforcement's use of force. Michael Jason Meade, a 17-year sheriff's department veteran who goes by Jason, described use of force as "righteous release" in a 2018 video interview posted on YouTube by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.

“I’VE NEVER HAD any run-ins with the cops before. I’ve never been to jail and have no criminal record, so when the FBI showed up to my workplace, it scared the piss out of me,” says Katy, a 22-year-old who works for a custodial services company in Cookeville, a small college town in middle Tennessee. “I really thought I was going to lose my job. The whole experience was terrifying.”

"I am press," I said. It didn't matter.

The government is being urged to suspend the sales of British tear gas, rubber bullets and riot shields to the United States amid fears they are being used against civil rights protesters. The US has been rocked by angry demonstrations for nearly a week following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died pleading for air while a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for eight minutes.

Most of the world’s hazelnuts are harvested in Turkey. The workers harvesting them don’t earn enough to live, according to a New York Times report.

A senior Environmental Protection Agency administrator responsible for nine southeastern states has been indicted by an Alabama grand jury on charges he conspired to violate ethics laws, reportedly in connection with a messy bribery scandal that has links to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and has roiled local politics.

The president can't stop complaining about Jeff Sessions over the Russia probe, immigration, Hillary Clinton and other disappointments.

At 92 years old, Virginia “Jean” Wahab hadn’t lost any of the vitality and health she maintained throughout her life. She raised two daughters as a single mom and made a home for them in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, Michigan. Wahab worked on her feet and didn’t retire from her job at a local family restaurant until she was 88.

Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana. Freeman said he was carrying 47 pounds of marijuana in his rental car that day, Dec. 29, 2016, but said he wasn’t too worried about the weed because he had a permit to grow medical cannabis in Mendocino County. He was driving it down to his client, a licensed dispensary called The Higher Path in Sherman Oaks, near Los Angeles. And, he said, he had the paperwork to prove it.

The suspect in a car theft was face down on the ground and motionless. A Miami police officer had him handcuffed. Then, as seen in a video recorded by a witness earlier this week, another officer came running towards the suspect, David Vladim Suazo, kicking him in the head before joining the other officer in pinning him to the ground. It seemed to many on Facebook to be an entirely unnecessary use of force, as the man showed no resistance to the arrest.

A state trooper accused of trying to date the female drivers he stops and falsifying records to cover up the alleged abuse was indicted on six charges Wednesday, according to the state attorney general's office. Eric Richardson, 32, of Camden, faces up to 33 years in prison and $350,000 in fines if convicted. He was charged with:

Nicholas Kristof wonders if Trump is our first president with autocratic tendencies. Where has he been for the past 15 years? By Matt Purple. (Jan. 19, 2018)

Disturbing footage of US jail guards firing Tasers at inmates has prompted calls for a criminal investigation. A series of videos obtained by the Reuters news agency allegedly shows stun guns being used inappropriately against inmates at Franklin County Jail in Ohio. The footage includes Sergeant Mychal Turner firing a Taser at a mentally-ill man multiple times for refusing to stand in his cell, according to Reuters.

A man admits that he flipped off an Adams County deputy, but he claims that didn’t give the lawman the right to intentionally break his middle finger in retaliation. Jeffrey Woodfork has sued Adams County Sheriff’s Deputy Travis Wilson accusing him of excessive force and several Adams County jail nurses and their employer, Corizon Health Inc. of Tennessee, claiming the nurses didn’t treat his finger and it healed in a permanently malformed position.

A surgeon has admitted burning his initials on to the livers of two unconscious patients during transplant operations. Simon Bramhall, 53, admitted two counts of assault by beating at Birmingham Crown Court but pleaded not guilty to alternative charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. In a statement, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Bramhall wrote his initials on the livers of the two patients without their consent and for no clinical reason while working as a liver transplant surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

4th Circuit: We can’t “perceive any circumstance that would justify” such a search. By Cyrus Farivar.

Former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager faces 19 to 24 years in prison for the deadly shooting of unarmed black man Walter Scott, according to sentencing guidelines announced by a judge this morning. U.S. District Judge David Norton will announce later today the amount of time Slager will serve, which is expected to be within that range. The former officer could have faced life in prison. Norton ruled that Slager committed second-degree murder and obstruction of justice.

“You can’t do this to me,” the cop allegedly messaged over and over. “You can’t.” By Kelly Weill.

When Anthony Sevy got a parking ticket in Royal Oak, he wasn't pleased. When he went to pay his ticket with pennies, he was turned away, choked, and then defecated himself - his attorney claims. "I don't think that in everyday course of business, we poop our pants or go around defecating ourselves," his attorney Jonathan Marco said. Let's back up. Sevy went to pay his $10 parking ticket in Royal Oak's 44th District Court in February, but was told he'd have a $1.75 surcharge on his credit card. He wasn't happy and left.

Salt Lake City police Detective Jeff Payne’s body camera footage confirms Logan police Chief Gary Jensen’s assertion that his officers did not push to get blood from the victim of a fiery crash in Cache County. Payne ultimately handcuffed and arrested University Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels on July 26 after she refused to allow the blood draw on the grounds that the patient was unconscious and Payne had no warrant.