Once upon a time it may have been flattering to be compared to former Giants stud wide receiver Plaxico Burress. But now that the Super Bowl champ is serving hard time for accidentally shooting himself in the leg last year, things are different. And Christian Dudley, for one, resents any likening of himself to the embattled sports star.
Dudley, an 18-year-old from Manhattan who pl
Bernard Kerik - former NYPD police commissioner, one-time Homeland Security Secretary nominee, national Sept. 11 hero - has a new label. Inmate No. 210-717.
Kerik got his assigned number at the Westchester County jail after becoming the first NYPD commissioner to wind up behind bars when a judge revoked his bail Tuesday for trying to taint the jury pool in his upcoming corruption trial.
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RCMP and OPP change policy after maker urges stun gun users to avoid firing at suspects' chests
Police forces across Canada, including the RCMP and OPP, are immediately changing their Taser use policy after the manufacturer issued a directive that officers should not aim the weapon at a suspect's chest.
Taser International said in a bulletin that it's no longer advisable to aim the conducted energy weapon, which sends out a jolt of electricity, at a target's chest a
PHOENIX (CN) - A homeowner says a Phoenix police officer shot him six times in the back during a 911 home-invasion call, and the 911 tape recorded the officer's partner saying, "That's all right. Don't worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?… Continue
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Subject: G-20 protest: What the corporate media will not show you!
Police used teargas pepper spray and rubber bullets against University of Pittsburgh students during the Pittsburgh G20 Summit. Many of the students were not part of any demonstration but bystanders, curious to find a mass… Continue
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DENVER, Sept. 21 (UPI) --
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 during the incident, The Denver Post reported. The confrontation took place in f
Allegations of police brutality are being made in Regina after a 21 year old man was badly beaten in the city's North Central.
He's still recovering from injuries he believes were sustained at the hands of Regina Police officers. But
Regina Police say they were trying to break up a fight and have charged two brothers.
John Parisian admits he was very drunk during the ear
Erin Hawksworth
BOSTON - A 42-year-old former firefighter who was recently exonerated of assault charges stemming from an argument with his girlfriend, is alleging police brutality after he says he suffered an eye socket injury and facial contusions when officers beat him up.
Wayne
By Milton J. Valencia, Boston Globe | September 25, 2009
A Boston officer who was at the center of the notorious, near-deadly police beating of another patrolman nearly 15 years ago faces new allegations of police abuse, in a federal lawsuit that alleges the department
By George Anastasia
Philadelphia Inquirer
He chose friendship over his badge, a federal prosecutor argued. Yesterday, a jury agreed.
Now that choice, which has already cost veteran Philadelphia police officer Rickie Durham his career, could lead to a lengthy prison sentence.
Durham, 44, was found gui
By JASON NARK
Philadelphia Daily News
narkj@phillynews.com 856-779-3231
If animals could talk, a few cows in Burlington County might ask state legislators to hurry up and outlaw bestiality.
During a bizarre hearing there yesterday, a Superior Court judge dismissed animal-cruelty charge