Cop Block contributors recently obtained Officer Joseph Mensah’s employee file, from the Wauwatosa Police Department. WPD’s silence largely spared Mensah public scrutiny after killing Jay Anderson in 2016. According to his file, Mensah was reassigned to a brief desk job under WPD’s detective bureau. Oddly enough, that occurred less than a month after the slaying. […]
Former Michigan “Officer of the Year” Who Accidentally Shot Teacher Then Tried to Cover It Up Indicted
Bay County (MI) Sheriff’s Deputy Adam J. Brown was arraigned yesterday on on three separate charges relating to an incident last month in which he accidentally fired of a round from his personal .380-caliber Sig Sauer. Those charges consisted of tampering with evidence, a four-year felony; careless discharge of a firearm causing injury, a two-year […]
Citizens of Portsmouth Forced to Pay $1,000,000 to Compensate Family for William Chapman’s Murder
Earlier this week, a judge in Portsmouth, Virginia approved a $1 million settlement offer from the city to the family of William Chapman II. As has been reported previously at the CopBlock Network (see “related posts” below) by myself and several other CopBlock Network contributors, Chapman was murdered outside of a local Walmart by Portsmouth […]
Florida Policeman Pleads Guilty To Firing Gun at Another Cop; Tampering With Evidence in Road Rage Incident
Miami-Dade Police Officer Jonathan Lang has agreed to plead guilty to shooting at another car during a road rage incident in July 2014. The other car, which Lang had cut off prior to firing a gunshot into the back of their car, was driven by Miami-Dade Corrections Officer Georgina Illa. Via NBC 6 Miami: Lang’s […]
Deputy Fired After Planting Evidence On Suspect For Criticizing Police
A Florida deputy has been fired from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office after being accused of planting drug paraphernalia on a New Port Richey man in order to frame him. Officials say Stephen LeBlanc may face obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence charges in a November case where he went after Thomas Parisi – who spray painted messages […]
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. […]
Indiana Police Assault Man, Point Gun at Wife in Labor, Then Discuss Destroying the Video
A dash cam video was released last week which shows a husband rushing to get his wife to the hospital after she has gone into labor. After they pass a pair of cops engaged in a traffic stop, those cops began chasing them. The husband, James Reiner, then called 911 and attempted to explain that […]
Arrest Video – Cop Who Tackled James Blake Has History of Excessive Force and False Arrests
James Blake, a former tennis star, was tackled and detained/arrested earlier this week for ‘looking like a black guy’ the police were after. It was the latest example of the NYPD’s blatant disregard for law and civil rights. According to Blake, the cop who arrested him slammed him down to the ground, causing him to suffer at […]
Karma: Cop Arrested for Meth Possession after Lying about Fast Food Worker Spitting in Drink
(ROSWELL, N.M.) A former Roswell Police Officer is now facing criminal charges after falsely accusing a Sonic employee of spitting in his drink. Shortly after the false accusation was made, Roswell police officers shut the restaurant down for two hours to execute the search warrant only to find that Officer Chris Ray Moreno had made the entire thing up. Investigators […]
AJ Huntsman Steals Jewlery & Cash Off Driver Killed in Crash
The video and text below were originally published at nbcconnecticut.com on 2012.11.30. When reading it ask yourself – is this really such an isolated incident as is claimed? Huntsman and his colleagues are involved daily in the shaking-down of people. Just because they don’t always strip dead bodies of property doesn’t lessen the fact that […]
