Civil Rights | Police Brutality

2010-09-03: Headlines

Huffington Post: The Denver Channel: Arvada Police Brutality Probe: 5 Officers Resign; 2 On Leave 2010-09-03
Two Arvada police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation looking into allegations of inappropriate conduct by members of the department. A total of five Arvada police officers have resigned: three related to the incidents under investigation and two others related to separate internal personnel matters.
Novinite.com: M3 Web - http://m3web.bg: Parliament Questions again Bulgarian Police Brutality 2010-09-03
A 20-year-old girl was injured at the end of July after policemen stormed an apartment and thrashed a family inside. | Tsvetanov is appearing on the request of 4 Members of the Parliament. | The family, who are ethnic Turks, are planning to sue Bulgaria wiht the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg. | Latest opinions · | Why Is EU Diplomatic Corps So Costly? | Do you support France€™s Roma crackdown?
York County Coast Star: Police found guilty of harming mans knee in Wells arrest 2010-09-03
Ogunquit Sgt. Matthew Buttrick and former Wells officer Jacob Titcomb have been ordered to pay Michael Fortin, 44, now of Haverhill, Mass, $125,000 collectively. | Buttrick and Titcomb both denied ever kicking Fortin. | The officers were responding to an earlier report of a domestic violence altercation in a red VW convertible spotted driving north on Route 1, according to court documents. | What happened next was disputed during the trial.
AFP: Indias Maoists execute police hostage 2010-09-03
Indian Maoist rebels in the east of the country executed a captured policeman and threatened to kill three others as they stepped up their demands on Friday for the release of eight prisoners. | Police said they had recovered the body of policeman Lucas Tete in an isolated forested district of Lakhisarai, in the eastern state of Bihar, about 150 kilometres (100 miles) from the state capital Patna.
MinnPost.com: Gangs vs. Chicago police: an open feud over blame for street violence 2010-09-03
CHICAGO €” The number of police officers shot in Chicago is escalating, most recently two wounded early Wednesday, and gang leaders here say they are being unfairly blamed for the escalating violence that has rocked the city this year. | Street violence €œis not always organized. It€™s spontaneous,€ community activist Wallace Bradley, a former member of the notorious Gangster Disciple gang, told the Sun-Times Thursday.
Seattle Times: Prosecutor to seek death penalty for Monfort in officers slaying 2010-09-03
The death penalty is on the table for Christopher Monfort, charged with killing a Seattle police officer, wounding another and attempting to kill others. | Monfort learned of the decision Thursday at a previously scheduled court hearing. When the announcement was read, Monfort, 41, looked down. His mother, in the court gallery, sat up straight and stared toward the judge.

2010-09-02: Headlines

York Weekly: Officer testifies against claims of police brutality 2010-09-02
Former Wells police officer Jacob Titcomb took the witness stand Wednesday in U.S. District Court on the second day of a scheduled three-day trial, to testify against claims he used excessive force during a 2007 arrest.
York Weekly: Former Wells resident alleges police brutality 2010-09-02
A former Wells resident took the witness stand in U.S. District Court in Portland on Tuesday, Aug. 31, alleging Wells and Ogunquit police officers used excessive force against him during a 2007 arrest.
News 10NBC: Rochester Police tackle family members at homicide scene 2010-09-02
Police Chief David Moore tells us his officers were doing their jobs. He says his focus is catching whoever shot and killed the 20-year-old man in broad daylight. | But as she prayed, the scene turned chaotic. Police tackled what appeared to be a grieving family member or friend. He was handcuffed and later taken to a police car. Moments later a man ran toward the grieving family and was also stopped and taken down by police.

2010-09-01: Headlines

Fight Back! Newspaper: Cop Fired for Shooting University of Florida Graduate Student Kofi-Adu Brempong 2010-09-01
In a dramatic development Aug. 11 surrounding the Justice for Kofi! campaign, the University of Florida fired police officer Lt. Stacy Ettel. Ettel wa...
Seacoastonline.com: Ex-Kittery resident alleges police brutality at trial 2010-09-01
A former Kittery resident took the witness stand in U.S. District Court Tuesday morning, alleging Wells and Ogunquit police officers used excessive force against him during a 2007 arrest.
Global Voices Online: Egypt: Utilizing Technology to Demand Accountability on Torture, Police Brutality 2010-09-01
The world is talking, are you listening? | The unfortunate emergency law in Egypt suspends personal rights and gives security forces unlimited power to unlawfully arrest, interrogate, and persecute anyone with unfavorable views. Perpetrators of police brutality and torture often go unpunished, but Egyptian bloggers and and tech savvy youth are not standing idly by. | Photo documenting police brutality courtesy of Torture in Egypt blog.
York Weekly: Jury trial begins in case alleging police brutality 2010-09-01
A former Wells resident took the witness stand in U.S. District Court in Portland today, Aug. 31, alleging Wells and Ogunquit police officers used excessive force against him during a 2007 arrest. | Plaintiff Michael Fortin, 44, currently of Haverhill, Mass., was clearly shaken as he choked up on the spelling of his own name seconds after he took the stand.
Sydney Morning Herald: OK to beat protesters 2010-09-01
Vladimir Put ... you have to have permission. | For the past eight months the small but vociferous opposition has held rallies in Moscow and St Petersburg. Organisers were due to go ahead with a planned rally in Triumfalnaya Square in central Moscow, despite the likelihood of arrest by riot police who have violently broken up previous gatherings. | If JS is disabled style in an accessible way using that class.
AXcess News: Voters question Hickenloopers ability to lead in Colorado gubernatorial race 2010-09-01
Keywords: var months=new Array(13) | Also hurting Maes chances were charges of political corruption and the drilling attack from Tancredo. | Denver Manager of Public Safety Ron Perea announced Monday that he will resign his post effective at the end of August. | Perea had been facing calls for his resignation following three cases of alleged police brutality by law enforcement officers under his watch at the Department of Safety.

2010-08-31: Headlines

Media Matters for America: OReilly ignores Becks own words in defending him 2010-08-31
Luther King was the sole property of African -- in fact, the opposite of it. | justice, but for economic rights as well. | Was there anything wrong with what Beck did? | the rally that he did. Anything wrong with that? | No, no, I know. But did he do anything wrong on Saturday? | He wants it for everybody. | and traveled all over the country with you for a year, no one criticized him. | positive thing for the country?