A woman brutalized by a former Las Vegas police officer after she was handcuffed during a January 2015 arrest, has received a $200,000 settlement. On Monday, the Metropolitan police Committee on Fiscal Affairs approved the amount for Amanda Vizcarrondo-Ortiz in order to bring an end to an excessive force lawsuit she filed in February against […]
Man Beaten by Las Vegas Police For Not Moving Fast Enough Awarded $31,500 Settlement (Update)
About a year and a half ago, Las Vegas Attorney Stephen Stubbs submitted a story to the CopBlock Network about a man who had been beaten by members of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. That man, Dominic Gennarino, could be seen on surveillance video (embedded below) from the Vanguard Lounge, a bar/nightclub located on […]
LVMPD Sued By Man Shown on Video Being Attacked by Police at Hard Rock Casino
Ian Tuuamalemalo, a man who was visiting Las Vegas from Southern California, has filed a police brutality lawsuit over an incident in which he was violently attacked by a group of officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Tuuamalemalo had been attending a reggae concert at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in January […]
Masturbating Janitor Case Exposes Cover-Up of Las Vegas School Cop’s Sex Crimes
In December, a complaint by a Las Vegas elementary school teacher led to the arrest of Michael Timothy Skelton, an overnight custodian, for masturbating on school property. However, within the course of researching that story Darcy Spears, a local news reporter, uncovered information that shows the school police officer in charge of investigating the allegations […]
Lawyer Says Portsmouth Police Shooting Video Has 15 Second Gap
On Wednesday, the lawyer representing the family of William Chapman II, an unarmed man who was shot by Portsmouth police Officer Stephen D. Rankin in April, claimed that the video recorded by Rankin’s taser contains a 15 second gap. Coincidentally, those “missing” 15 seconds just happen to be during the time that Chapman was killed. […]
Happy (Belated) Third Birthday to Nevada Cop Block!
June 4th is what I would consider to be the three year anniversary of the founding of Nevada Cop Block, back in 2012. Technically, NVCopBlock.org launched a few weeks earlier on May 25th, when I posted a “Help Wanted” request asking if anybody was interested in getting involved with the website. There were a few […]
Las Vegas Metro Cop Joins the Growing List of Police Pedophiles/Rapists
On Wednesday (May 27, 2015), Patrick Taylor turned himself in on charges involving child pornography, stemming from a March 19th raid on his house after investigations by the LVMPD’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Internal Affairs Bureau. According to Metro, he is being charged with a single count of possession of child pornography […]
Cops Harass and Arrest Sick People at Las Vegas Medical Marijuana Event
Last weekend (May 16-17, 2015), the LVMPD, who constantly complain about how understaffed they are, managed to find enough people on their payroll to stake out, threaten, and harass or even arrest a group of sick people, because they didn’t jump through some of the proper hoops relating to the medication that they are actually […]
Putting Revenue Generation Above Public Safety at Las Vegas’ “Money Hungry” Municipal Courts
The Las Vegas Review Journal is the latest media outlet to point out the already painfully obvious tendency toward revenue generation that law enforcement has degenerated into. Citing current and ex-employees, as well as lawyers and people that have been defendants within the court, the LVRJ states in a recent article: “It’s a question of […]
Las Vegas Police Review of D’Andre Berghardt Jr. Murder Scheduled for Today
This post was originally published at the Nevada Cop Block website and was shared via the CopBlock.org submission page. At 9:00 AM this morning (March 2, 2015), the Clark County District Attorney’s office will be conducting a “Police Fatality Public Fact Finding Review” for the murder of D’andre Berghardt Jr., who was shot to death […]
