A white Little Rock police officer who fatally shot a black motorist during a traffic stop last year resigned on Friday, accusing the police chief of making his working conditions ‘intolerable’ since a judge ordered him reinstated. Officer Charles Starks was fired last year over the fatal shooting of Bradley Blackshire during a traffic stop, … Read more
An Alabama woman formerly on the state’s ‘Most Wanted’ list saved the life of a cop who threw her in jail eight years ago by donating her kidney. Jocelynn James, a recovering drug addict, reached out to former officer Terrell Potter when she saw on Facebook he was in dire need of a kidney transplant. … Read more
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd, has requested a judge dismiss the murder charges as prosecutors push for longer prison sentences. On Friday, an attorney for Chauvin filed a motion in court that argued there was no probable cause to support the second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter … Read more
Manchester United star Harry Maguire was staying at an eight-bed luxury villa costing £29,000 a week on the south coast of the Greek island of Mykonos before he was convicted of attacking police officers. The stunning waterfront property overlooks the golden coastline of popular Paradise and Paraga Beaches – the island’s two most famous beaches. It is … Read more
Manchester United captain Harry Maguire racked up a £63,000 bar bill before his alleged attack on a policeman while on a night out with pals on the Greek island of Mykonos, fresh reports claim. The England international was arrested after being accused of punching an officer in a brawl which broke out after his sister, … Read more
George Floyd ‘contributed to his own death by intentionally taking a lethal dose fentanyl as he resisted arrest’, attorney for one of the officers charged in his killing claims Thomas Lane is one of the three officers charged with aiding and abetting murder in George Floyd’s May 25 death Another officer, Derek Chauvin, is charged … Read more
Kindergarten Cop is CANCELED: Schwarzenegger’s 1990 comedy is pulled from film festival for ‘romanticizing over-policing children’ and is compared to Birth Of A Nation Kindergarten Cop was pulled from drive-in festival in Portland this week Critics denounced it as ‘celebrating the school-to-prison pipeline’ Compared the 1990 comedy to the explicitly racist 1915 film Birth Of … Read more
Jed Mercurio has revealed Line Of Duty was almost rejected by the BBC amid fears a series documenting police corruption ‘might be problematic for a mainstream audience’. The screenwriter, 54, told how he had to fight tooth and nail for some of his work to be made and claims the television executives who initially turned the … Read more
A New York cop knelt on a black man’s neck until he passed out as the victim’s distraught dad begged the officer to stop, fearing his son ‘was going to die just like George Floyd‘. Shocking footage surfaced on social media Monday of an unnamed officer kneeling on the neck of Yugeshwar Gaindarpersaud, 31, during an … Read more
Seattle police officers were filmed kneeling on the necks of two CHOP demonstrators as they were being arrested for squatting at a downtown intersection on two separate occasions on Thursday. Seattle police officers continued to gradually reclaim the streets from the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) as one video shows cops dive-tackling a group of … Read more