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Okla. Capitol cleared after incident at checkpoint
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | about 7 hours ago
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The offices of Oklahoma's governor and lieutenant governor were temporarily evacuated Monday after a man wearing a military fatigue jacket threw a briefcase onto a security checkpoint X-ray machine while attempting to bypass Capitol guards...Pete Norwood...
Tags: Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Oklahoma Capitol, Oklahoma City, Police misconduct, Political corruption, Oklahoma State Capitol, Oklahoma, Washington State Capitol, Government of Oklahoma, Police brutality, Norwood, Hamilton County Ohio
Man who was Tased on buttocks sues city of Boise
Boise :: ID :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Gerald Amidon is suing several Boise police officers for compensatory and punitive damages, claiming his civil rights were violated when he was shocked and threatened with a stun device last winter...Gerald Amidon filed a tort claim against the city in...
Tags: Gerald Amidon, City of Boise, U.S. District Court, Boise Police, police officer, amidon filed, tort claims, Boise, Boise Idaho, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Political repression, Law Crime
Canadian County commissioner killed in wreck
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Grant Hedrick, Canadian County commissioner for District 3, was killed in a single-vehicle wreck today, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. Hedrick, 46, of Calumet, was found dead at the scene of the crash on Walbaum Road near Britton Road and north...
Tags: county commissioner, Canadian County, Grant Hedrick, Tulsa, Political corruption, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Disaster Accident
Pedestrian struck by pickup on county highway
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility William Champlin, 43, of Springfield, Mo. was walking in the middle of U.S. Afton when the 2004 Dodge truck hit him about 3:40 a.m., the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. The driver, 19-year-old Jerod Gibson of Miami, Okla. swerved but was unable to avoid...
Tags: William Champlin, county highway, Tulsa, Political corruption, Dodge, Pickup truck, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Disaster Accident
Would-be helper struck, killed by car
Jay :: OK :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Holland, 63, died after he was struck by a car at 12:17 p.m. on Oklahoma 20 about four miles north of Jay, the patrol said. Troopers said Timothy Eyres, 54, of Grove, was driving a 2006 Kia at an unsafe speed on a wet road when his car failed to negotiate...
Tags: Jay, Political corruption, Kia Motors, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Disaster Accident
Mozambique police 'kill freely'
Maputo :: Mozambique | 8 days ago
Credibility Amnesty has produced a report with details of 46 people who died at the hands of police between January 2006 and June 2009. It says many cases were not adequately investigated and, in most cases, no officers were brought to justice. Journalists in Mozambique...
Tags: Mozambique, Maputo, Political repression, Human rights abuses, Counter-terrorism, Extrajudicial killings, Amnesty International, Criminal law, Amnesty, Police misconduct, ETA, Police brutality
Troopers cleared of excessive force use
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Two Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers who have been on paid administrative leave for six weeks because of a controversial arrest Oct. 3 at Holdenville have been cleared of accusations of using excessive force. Troopers Tommy Allen and Daniel Martin were...
Tags: Oklahoma City, Political corruption, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Law Crime, Holdenville Oklahoma
America Lynching
Lynching is most often associated with the ritual murder by hanging, to maintain white supremacy through the use of terrorism. Usually, African-American men dying at the hands of a European mob, but Europeans were also lynching targets, for...
Tags: America lynching, Darrick Collins, excessive force, Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, mistaken identity, police brutality, Racial Profiling
G-20 turning Pittsburgh into 'Tiananmen Square': Reports of police violence amid huge security measures
More reports flow from the G-infinity coverage of protests at the G-20 Summit via the interactive news wire they've set up on the Independent Media Center (IMC) open newswire network, at indypgh.org, and it appears that the massive police-security...
Tags: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, G20, G-20, police, police brutality, G-infinity, G-20 Summit, protesters, New York Times, Mail Online, rubber bullets, bean-bag rounds, sonic weapons, sound weapons, corporate media, bias, framing
Denver may settle a brutality lawsuit
Denver :: CO :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The Denver City Council may settle a police brutality lawsuit for $225,000, city officials said Monday. The federal lawsuit alleges Denver police brutalized and repeatedly used a Taser on Alberto Romero, 47, who died, allegedly from injuries he sustained...
Tags: Denver City Council, Denver Post, police brutality, Denver
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