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Chief Charged With Murder Of Unarmed Man Gets One Year Of House Arrest

September 2, 2015December 18, 2015 Asa J 1721 Views Accountability, Brutality, Chief Richard Combs, Circuit Judge Edgar Dickson, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Eutawville, Eutawville police, Eutawville police chief, Eutawville police department, Eutawville Town Hall, JoAnn Bailey-Lawton, misconduct in office, murder, obstruction of justice, plea deal, police chief killed unarmed man, south carolina, Traffic ticket, unarmed man, unarmed man murdered by police, Walter Bailey, wrongful death, wrongful death lawsuit

In what appears to be an obvious show of favoritism between prosecutors and law enforcers, a South Carolina police chief

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Two Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputies Murder Man on Video; News Responds in Defense of Airing Video

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015 Ademo Freeman 3452 Views Accountability, Ademo Freeman, bexar county sheriff's department, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, double-standards, excessive force, film the police, Filming police, freedom, gilbert flores, government transparency, killer cops, michael thomas, officer involved shotting, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Texas, Transparency, wrongful death

Michael Thomas was conducting his usual business route when he noticed two Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies chasing a man around. That

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Witness: Cops ‘High-Fived’ Zachary Hammond’s Dead Body

August 15, 2015February 29, 2016 Asa J 3697 Views Accountability, Angie Hammond, assault, attorney Eric Bland, Body-cam footage, Brutality, Chief John Covington, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, cops high five dead body, Corruption, Dishonesty, Double Standard, excessive force, FBI, Featured, federal civil rights probe, Hardees, Lt. Mark Tiller, no victim no crime, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police kill teen, police shooting, SC State Law Enforcement Division, Seneca, Seneca Police Department, Seneca South Carolina, SLED, south carolina, U.S. Attorney General, Update, wrongful death, Zachary Hammond

A witness saw Seneca, SC police officers celebrate the shooting of Zachary Hammond by “high-fiving” his dead body, a letter

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DeKalb Police Taser Man Atop Wall Knocking Him Off And Killing Him

August 7, 2015 Alia Atreides 1740 Views DeKalb County, DeKalb County Police, excessive force, fell from wall, Flat Shoals Road, fleeing police, foot chase, Georgia, humpty dumpty, Joshua H, knocked off wall, robbery suppression detail, taser, taser death, weapon surrendered, wrongful death

On the night of Thursday August 6th, 2015, DeKalb County Police in Georgia were conducting a ‘robbery suppression detail’ on

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Killer Cop Ray Tensing Knows He’s Going to Walk Away a Free Man

August 7, 2015August 7, 2015 Ademo Freeman 1732 Views Accountability, bail, bond, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, david lindenschmidt, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, false reports, film the police, Filming police, Homicide, indictment, Justice System, killer cop, phillip kidd, Police State, ray tensing, rights, samuel dubose, strike the root, uc, university of cincinnati campus police, wrongful death

You’ve probably heard the name Ray Tensing; in case you haven’t, he’s the former University of Cincinnati Campus Police officer who

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Lawsuit Alleges Body-Cam Contradicts LAPD Claims In Skid Row Killing

August 7, 2015February 29, 2016 Asa J 1909 Views attorney Dan Stormer, autopsy, Body-cam footage, Body-cam video, Cameroon, Cameroonian national, Charly Keunang, Chuck Wexler, civil lawsuit, civil rights violations, copblock, copblock.org, homeless, homeless man killed by police, lapd, Los Angeles, Los Angeles California, Los Angeles Superior Court, mental illness, mentally ill, mentally ill man killed by police, negligent supervision, officer Chang Syed, officer Daniel Torres, officer Francisco Martinez, officer Joshua Volasgis, Police Chief Charlie Beck, Police Executive Research Forum, police lawsuit, police training, prison mental hospital, skid row, the LAPD, washington post, wrongful death, wrongful death lawsuit

A civil lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday claims that police body-cam footage contradicts LAPD officer accounts regarding

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Man Dies After Jailers Refuse To Give Him Prescription Medication

August 3, 2015February 29, 2016 Asa J 1106 Views Accountability, anxiety, Benzodiazepine, Benzos, civil litigation, copblock, copblock.org, Diane Jacobs, Dr. D.M. La Grone, dwi, Galveston County coroner’s office, Galveston County jail, Galveston County Texas, Jesse Jacobs, Man dies in jail, panic disorder, Psychology Today, seizure, Sheriff Henry Trochesset, Texas, wrongful death, Xanax

Parents of a Texas man who died while in custody of the Galveston County jail earlier this year are speaking

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Cost of Police-Misconduct Cases Soars in Big U.S. Cities (REPOST)

July 17, 2015July 17, 2015 Ademo Freeman 2719 Views Accountability, Brutality, chicago, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, dallas, dan frosch, Eric Garner, freedom, Harassment, Justice System, kami chavis simmons, Los Angeles, national association of police organizations, New York, New York City, no victim no crime, Philadelphia, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police department pay outs, police misconduct, police shootings, Police State, Public records, settlements, taxpayer, us attorney, Wall Street Journal, Washington, wrongful death, wrongful imprisonment, zusha elinson

*THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By ZUSHA ELINSON and DAN FROSCH* The cost of resolving police-misconduct cases

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Cop Tries To Shoot Dog, Slips, Kills Dogs Owner- Burlington, IA

June 15, 2015 Alia Atreides 2173 Views accident, Accountability, Amy Beaver, Autumn Steele, burlington, burlington police department, Des Moines, Des Moines County, Des Moines County Attorneys Office, dog, domestic violence, fell, Gina Klinner Waters-Corbet, Involuntary Manslaughter Misdemeanor, Iowa, Iowa Department of Public Safety, Iowa State Legislature, Jeff Peterzalek, Joshua H, Officer Jesse Hill, ryan bolinger, shoot dog, shooting, slipped, Transparency, wrongful death

On the morning of January 6, 2015 Officer Jesse Hill of the Burlington Police Department (Iowa) responded to a domestic

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Why Just Filming the Police and Body Cameras Aren’t Enough

May 27, 2015January 21, 2017 Georgia Sand 1190 Views Accountability, body cameras, California, Civil rights, Confiscation of Video, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Destroying Footage, Destruction of Evidence, Dishonesty, Fair Trial, Film, film the police, Filming, Filming police, Footage, Gardenia, judge, mainstream media, mearkle, media, Pennsylvania, Personal Injury, police, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, rights, settlement, Spoliation of Evidence, strike the root, Surveillance, Transparency, video, wrongful death

Body cameras for police officers are a hot topic these days. Police accountability groups have pushed for body cams in

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Justice for Charles Burns

May 19, 2015May 19, 2015 Alia Atreides 2222 Views Antioch, Attorney Peter Johnson, Bobby Lawrence, California, Charles Burns, concord police department, conspiracy, Contra Costa District Attorneys Office, cover up, drugs, gang unit, Joshua H, Justice For Charles Burns, lawsuit, police cover-up, police killing, wrongful death, wrongful death lawsuit

Charles Burns was killed in a hail of bullet fire by police in Antioch, California; a killing his family say

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Tallahassee, FL Killer Cop David Stith on Paid Leave Again

February 25, 2015March 4, 2015 Ademo Freeman 3115 Views assault, Brutality, Civil rights, Commissioner Scott Maddox, cop block, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, david stith, Dishonesty, fl, Florida, Homicide, jed lett, Jeremy Lett, killer cops, murder, paid leave, paid vacation, police, police abuse, Police brutality, police shooting, Tallahassee, Tallahassee Police, wrongful death

The following story was sent in via CopBlock.org’s submission tab by Skyler Chandler, who’s high school friend Jeremy Lett was