State Records Suggest Multnomah County Deputies Let Hoover Gang Members Beat Up Jailhouse Rivals

Hoover-affiliated inmates would enforce discipline for the deputies and, in return, deputies would allow them to exact bloody revenge on their rivals. [...] The central allegation in the report is that jail deputies did favors for members of the Hoover gang—including running drugs, bringing in contraband, and buzzing inmates into cells to beat up their …

A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims?

Two years after an attacker shot five volunteers before a Black Lives Matter march in Portland, Oregon, killing a 60-year-old woman and leaving one of her young friends paralyzed, a new visual investigation of the attack reveals that the assailant tried to provoke a stand-your-ground situation, daring three women to fight him, before suddenly opening fire …

2023 saw record killings by US police. Who is most affected?

Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group, catalogs deaths at the hands of police and last year recorded the highest number of killings since its national tracking began in 2013. The data suggests a systemic crisis and a remarkably consistent pattern, with an average of roughly three people killed by officers each day, with slight upticks in …

Story Of Mississippi Man Hit By A Cop And Buried Without His Family’s Knowledge Somehow Just Got Much Worse

Bettersten Wade Robinson spent more than five months searching for her son Dexter Wade after he went missing only to find out that not only was he dead, but he had been hit by an off-duty Jackson, Mississippi police officer and buried in a pauper’s grave without her knowledge. Why the Jackson Police Department never told …

Cop Who Killed Breonna Taylor Slams His Cruiser Into A Truck, Points Gun At Bystanders

Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in 2020, is in trouble again for doing something really shitty. Cosgrove, who is now a sheriff’s deputy in Carroll Country, Kentucky, rammed someone’s truck with his police cruiser and then pointed a gun at its owner and several bystanders, according to The Courier Journal. https://jalopnik.com/cop-who-killed-breonna-taylor-slams-his-cruiser-into-a-1850950148 -Jalopnik; 10/23/2023

‘She Had Limited Value’: Officer Caught Laughing About Grad Student Killed By A Cop Doing 74 In A 25

A Seattle police officer has been caught on bodycam footage laughing at and making fun of the death of a young woman who was struck and killed by a cop responding to a call in his cruiser. In the two-minute-long video, reported on by The New York Post, we can hear Officer Daniel Auderer — who serves as the Seattle Police Guild’s Vice …

Six white ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to racist assault on two Black men

Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the “Goon Squad” have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth, federal prosecutors say. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/03/mississippi-police-officers-guilty-racist-assault-goon-squad -The Guardian; 8/3/2023

Louisiana State Police Officers Charged in 2019 Death Of Black Motorist

The state of Louisiana has finally brought charges against the five officers involved in the death of black motorist, Ronald Greene, AP News reports. Green died in 2019 at the hands of those officers after they escalated what should have been a normal traffic stop. The five officers - Kory York, John Clary, Dakota Demoss, …

Colorado Woman Left in Squad Car Parked on Tracks Expected to Survive Freight Train Crash

A police officer in Colorado is on paid administrative leave after he parked his patrol car on a set of train tracks, leaving a young woman in the back to be struck by a freight train. The incident occurred last Friday around 7:30 p.m. in the small town of Platteville, Colorado, on Highway 85 and Weld …

Body Camera Shows LAPD Officer Firing on Unarmed Suspects in Drive-By-Style Shooting

It's the second time this summer LAPD officers have been recorded firing on unarmed suspects from a moving patrol car. https://jalopnik.com/body-camera-shows-lapd-officer-firing-on-unarmed-suspec-1849559426 -Jalopnik; 9/20/2022