A California FBI agent has been sentenced to three years in prison after admitting to stealing more than $136,000 seized during drug investigations in order to fund a lavish spending spree that included the purchase of two cars and cosmetic surgery for his wife. Former special agent Scott M. Bowman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in May […]
Arrested Smoking Pot in the Police Station Parking Lot
Riverside, IL – Elizabeth Klebba was arrested in March for smoking cannabis in her car, outside of the police station, while she waited for her friend who was picking up a vehicle that had been impounded. Around 9am an officer pulling in for the morning shift noticed her car parked in a police spot only designated for […]
Video: Police Beat Handcuffed Man
Jovan Jimenez has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office after an officer beat Jimenez for saying something ‘rude’. That incident, which was caught on video, shows Jimenez being grabbed by the neck, thrown against the wall and onto the ground, then being hit on the head by the officer’s […]
Meddling Kids: And They Would Have Gotten Away With It…7/20/15
Every week at CopBlock.org we bookmark many stories of police abuse, corruption and brutality; as well as other stories of an entire justice system gone awry. Unfortunately we do not get to write about all of them in detail due to time constraints. Yet we often feel like we forgot something at the end of […]
Video Shows Police in Riverside CA Beating Defenseless Man at Walmart
Residents of the Los Angeles suburb of Riverside recently captured video footage of police brutally beating a homeless man for no apparent reason. The man being beaten is clearly no threat to the much larger, healthier and violence-versed officers. Yet that doesn’t prevent them from hitting, elbowing, kneeing and kicking the man as he pleads […]
False Arrest by Riverside Sheriffs Leads to Stolen Property/Inability to Work
Jeremy White shared the content below, about the “service” he received from those at the Riverside (CA) police outfit, which negatively impacted his ability to earn a living via the Cop Block Submissions page. Date of Incident: March 11, 2014 Individuals Involved: Deputy Sell, Deputy Garcia, Detective Pierson Outfit: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Phone: 800-950-2444 […]
Police Officer Blinds a Mother with a JPX Device
A Riverside, CA District Attorney has announced that police officer Enoch Clark has been charged with three felony counts of assault and one felony count of use of force causing great bodily injury for a routine traffic stop that resulted in permanent damage. “On Feb. 21, 2012, Clark was on duty, working patrol in the […]
