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Homan Square detainee: I was sexually abused by police at Chicago 'black site'
For psychological reasons, Angel Perez does not call what happened to him rape. But he vividly recalls being taken to Homan Square, a warehouse used by the Chicago police for incommunicado detentions, where police inserted something into his rectum. “I felt the coldness and the metallic aspect of it,” Perez, 33, told the Guardian.
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Tased Motorist to CBP Agent: 'What the Fuck Is Wrong With You?'
Jessica Cooke, a 21-year-old from Ogdensburg, New York, recently graduated from SUNY Canton with a degree in law enforcement leadership and had already applied for a job as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent when she was surprised by an impromptu final lesson at a CBP checkpoint on Route 37 in Waddington last week. What she learned—that people who insist on their constitutional rights in this setting run the risk of being roughed up and shot with a stun gun...
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Obama administration bans some military-style assault gear from local police departments
The Obama administration announced Monday it will ban federal transfers of certain types of military-style gear to local police departments, as the president seeks to respond to a spate of incidents that has frayed trust in communities across the country.
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New cellphone footage contradicts Freddie Gray police report
On the morning of April 12, Michelle Gross woke up to screaming. Gross, known as "mom," in West Baltimore's Gilmor Homes area, left her home to find Freddie Gray — someone she called "son" — being dragged into a police van. As police drove away with Gray, she gave her phone to a neighbor who wanted to call 911 and report the incident. But soon, Gross and the neighbor were headed to the corner of Mount and Baker streets, where the van had stopped.
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Ohio patrolman acquitted in 2 deaths amid 137-shot barrage
A white Cleveland patrolman who fired down through the windshield of a suspect's car at the end of a 137-shot barrage that left the two unarmed black occupants dead was acquitted Saturday of criminal charges by a judge who said he could not determine the officer alone fired the fatal shots.
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I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with.
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Why Are American Cops So Bad at Catching Killers?
Earlier this week, NPR reported that more than one-third of homicides in America go unsolved and examined why police investigators don’t close more murder cases. The Marshall Project asked Thomas Hargrove, the founder of the Murder Accountability Project and murderdata.org, to talk about what he’s learned in a career of studying data on homicide investigations across the country. After 37 years as an investigative reporter, Hargrove recently retired...
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Abu Dhabi police get £2m 239mph supercar as their new patrol vehicle
The Lykan HyperSport, which featured in the latest Fast and Furious movie, costs £2.16m and is one of the world's rarest supercars.
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Owner of Greenwood Village house blown apart by SWAT says: 'This is an abomination. This is an atrocity'
"There was one gunman with a handgun and they chose to turn this house into something that resembles Osama Bin Laden's compound." Leo Lech is more than a little upset, and he is not afraid to express it with colorful language. After all, the house he purchased for his son now has gaping holes where it once had walls and windows. Past the exposed studs and insulation of the condemned structure, you can see artwork on the wall of a 9-year-old boy's bedroom.
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San Francisco Woman Killed in 'Random Shooting'
A San Francisco woman was recently shot and killed in a seemingly "random shooting" while she was strolling and taking photos with her father in a tourist-heavy area of the city, according to the authorities and the victim's family. Kathryn Steinle, 31 -- a medical sales rep on her way to see her sister-in-law, who was expecting a baby -- was shot in her upper torso at Pier 14 in San Francisco on Wednesday around 6:30 p.m., police said.
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In the first 5 days of July American police killed 20 people. More than most nations this year.
It's going to be a long, deadly summer in the United States. In the first five days of July, American police astoundingly killed 20 people from coast to coast, including five deaths in California, two each in Texas, Florida and Oregon, and one each in North Carolina, Tennessee, Nevada, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia and Massachusetts. These killings by police are so common, with an average now more than three people killed by police...
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Norway's police only fired two bullets last year... and no one died
Police in Norway fired their guns only twice last year – and no one was hurt – new statistics which reveal the country’s low level of gun use have shown.
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The first statewide police body-cam law comes with a major caveat
Last week, Nikki Haley of South Carolina became the first governor to sign a state law directing every police department in the state to implement the use of body-worn cameras. Just one thing: The footage captured by all those cop-cams won’t be subject to the state’s open records laws...
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Spain Government Goes Full Police State; Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, 'Unauthorized' Photography Of Law Enforcement
Well, Spain's officially a police state now.
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Behind Dark Justice’s crusade to bring down pedophiles
On June 11, 2015, the sun shone down on the River Tyne, and Colin Patterson was led handcuffed out of the courtroom at U.K.’s Newcastle upon Tyne Combined Court Centre to serve a two-year jail sentence, his name added to the sex offenders register for the next decade. The heavyset 51-year-old, a former shipyard worker, would soon change out of his gray-green polo shirt and into the regulation prison uniform of gray sweatpants and a gray sweatshirt.
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NYC reaches $5.9 million settlement in chokehold death case
New York City has reached a settlement with the family of Eric Garner for $5.9 million, almost a year after the 43-year-old died in police custody.
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There have been 500 people shot and killed by police in the U.S. so far in 2015
Police officers in the United States have shot and killed at least 500 people so far in 2015, according to a Washington Post analysis. The 500th gun death at the hands of police officers came Thursday night in Boulder Creek, Calif., after officers were dispatched to a home on reports of a family fight. Police officials told local media that when they arrived, they encountered a man with two firearms whom they shot and killed.
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Son of Boston Police Captain Arrested as Possible Terrorist
The estranged son of a respected Boston police captain was arrested July 4 by FBI agents as part of a counter-terrorism operation against alleged ISIS-inspired domestic terrorists, federal officials told ABC News today. Alexander Ciccolo, 23, of Adams, Mass., was taken into custody on gun charges after buying two pistols and two rifles from an undercover FBI confidential informant, federal officials said.
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Miami police officer under investigation for being a porn star
Sabine Raymonvil, 30, performed in a number of adult movies with pornographer Emerson Callum, who was convicted of drugging and raping women who auditioned for him.
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McDonald's customer sought over hate crime 'goth' attack
A McDonald's customer is being sought by police after he punched a teenage girl when she confronted him for calling her a…
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