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Despite video capturing him breaking a man's jaw with a flashlight while listening to loud music, a cop was acquitted.

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A judge found Officer of the Year Adam Feaman not guilty of second-degree assault and armed criminal action. Feaman struck Jamal White in the face with his flashlight and broke his jaw. The officer was fired and charged after the incident but was found not guilty by a jury last week. The judge ruled that Feaman's actions were reasonable to subdue White and that his actions were justified. The strike to White's jaw was caught on a bystander's camera and went viral at the time of the attack, and the officer's lawyer argued it was in self-defense. The court had received no evidence that Officer Feaman aimed for White's head, or intended to hit him in the head or use deadly force, the judge found. The jury found Feaman was justified in using the physical force he reasonably believed necessary to effect the arrest of Jamal White, and that he did not intend to kill him, according to the judge. The police force protects itself while trampling on the rights of innocent peo

Cop forced a compliant man to be mauled for four minutes before the dog began licking his wounds.

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Michigan State trooper Parker Surbrook  33, was charged with felonious assault with a dangerous weapon. The lawsuit filed this week demanding more accountability. Surbrook is a 9 year veteran of the Michigan State Police. Driver Robert Gilliam broke his hip in the crash and says he was targeted because he was melanin. Gilliam says he ran because cops kill melanated people all the time and he was afraid of the police. The driver says he had no choice but to lie down on the ground and put his hands out in surrender after crashing his car. The K-9, Knox, followed Surbrook's orders and mauled the compliant man as he lay on the floor. He says he surrendered and could not get to his hands and feet to get up after the dog mauling. The video shows Surbrook yelling at his dog to attack Gilliam, who was unarmed and lying on the street. The dog followed Sur Brook's orders. The incident occurred on March 5. The man is suing the MSP and the police department. "He's got me…he's

After a good cop recorded him beating a cuffed teen and using the N-word, the chief was charged with a hate crime.

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Former New Jersey police chief Frank Nucera Jr. has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for lying to FBI agents who were questioning him about violating an 18-year-old man's civil rights during an arrest. One of these good cops risked persecution and his career to expose his racist and tyrannical police chief, Nathan Roohr, a patrol sergeant who helped to release recordings of Nucera's racist remarks. Nucera can be heard in recordings using the N-word to describe African Americans, and at one point saying they were "like ISIS, they have no value. They should line them all up and mow 'em down." The beating of the teen was a "clear senseless, bigoted, hate-filled," assault of a prisoner in custody, U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said at a press conference.

'I can't breathe,' say cops accused of murdering an innocent father as he walked home.

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Manuel Ellis, a father of two, was killed by police in March 2020. His sister, Monet Carter-Mixon, set out on a mission to expose the cops who killed her brother. She found a video that contradicted the official story and the officers involved were about to be cleared. The evidence came to light during a protest for George Floyd in her town, where she was trying to raise awareness of her brother's death, which happened there, not in another state. The police claim that Ellis randomly attacked two cops and was killed while doing so. But the family says this is not what his brother would have done and the video contradicts the police narrative. The officers involved have been cleared.  "The Story of the Death of Manuel Ellis," by Monica Carter- Mixon, will air on March 3, 2020, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC News Channel 10. Prosecutors: Ellis's only actions appeared defensive in nature as he tried to shield his face from the police. Prosecutors would admit that he never fought b

A cop was arrested after shooting an unarmed woman six times in a fit of rage on the highway.

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Copperas Cove police  officer Eric Stoneburner is charged with aggravated assault in the shooting of Lecresha Murray. Murray says she was shot six times by the officer for no reason. Murray and the officer got into an argument as she drove herself to the hospital on Sunday. Police say the officer followed her in his personal vehicle and then started tailgating her after she made a U-turn in the middle of the road. According to the police chief, the officer resigned just before turning himself in. The woman says she didn't threaten the officer and didn't do anything else to offend him. He just opened fire on her for no reason. "I started feeling sick. I started feeling ill, "Murray says. "I'm a victim that got shot by an off-duty police officer that did not identify himself," Murray said.    Police: "As a department, we can not support Mr. Stoneburner's decision to use deadly force in the moment and manner in which he did" An unarmed woman

A new video captures the moment when cops brutally beat a fellow officer who they mistook for a protestor.

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Four St. Louis police officers are on trial for the beating of Luther Hall, a 22-year veteran of the department who was working undercover as a protester. The officers were part of a "civil disobedience team" that was meant to crack down on violence at protests. They beat Hall after mistaking him for a protester for filming them. According to Hall's suit, one of the officers has since been promoted to sergeant, showing how police misconduct is tolerated. The trial for Dustin Boone, who was acquitted in the beating, will take place next month after his first trial ended in a mistrial, and will use the video of Hall's beating as evidence in the second trial. The beating occurred during the protests following the acquittal of Officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 murder of Anthony Lamar Smith, a melanin man who was killed by a white police officer, in which the officer used an AK-47 and planned to shoot him in the head. Smith's death sparked months of protests in the ci

Cops strip a melanin man naked in public and search his genitals for drugs.

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Clarence Green and his family were stripped nude on the side of the road by police after an illegal traffic stop. Officers stripped them and groped their genitals in broad daylight on a public roadway. The officers then went to Green's home and illegally searched it. The family was awarded a $35,000 settlement after their rights were trampled by Baton Rouge's finest. The incident is a testament to the untouchable nature of criminal cops and the violations they can commit, writes CNN's, Robin Cevallos. In the name of the drug war, police found a gun in Green's possession, which is entirely legal in the state of Louisiana, she says, except that he was on probation for possession of drugs, which prohibited him from having a firearm.  However, the gun was in his pocket, not behind his genitals where they were looking, Cevallos says, and it was in a different pocket, not where they searched Green's private parts.  Police also claimed to find marijuana on Green's teen

An Off-duty cop shoots an innocent woman on the way to the hospital, but he is not charged.

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Lecresha Murray says she was feeling sick so she decided to drive herself to the hospital. She says an off-duty cop followed her in his personal vehicle and began tailgating her. Murray says the officer shot at her six times, despite her being unarmed. The officer has yet to be arrested, despite shooting Murray six times. The cop has not been charged with a crime. "He just started shooting, all I could do was lean over and he hit me six times," Murray said. "I didn't do anything. He just opened fire for no reason, "she said. "I'm a victim that got shot by an off-duty police officer that did not identify himself," she added. "For no reason, I didn't approach him, didn't threaten him. I didn't do any of the things I did, "she told KWTX. "As soon as I did that, he pulled a gun, he pulled the gun," the officer continued to shoot at her. When residents saw the man firing at Murray, they began yelling at him to stop. &qu

Cops Assault a Helpless Deaf Mother for 'Constant Erratic Hand Movements' and 'Not Listening.'

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Andrea Hollingsworth, who is deaf, was detained by police and forced to use American Sign Language to communicate with her children. Police officer Michael Rose interpreted her attempts to communicate as a lack of cooperation. The incident was a "clear violation" of the Americans with Disabilities Act. NLVPD has a deaf interpreter on staff 24/7 available via phone or iPad or cellphone. The incident was captured on police body camera footage that shows the officers' point of view, not the deaf woman's. The officer who detained her used her deaf daughter as an excuse to shove her to the ground. A Deaf mother was stopped by police for trying to get money back from a friend. Her children told police their friend owed them $200 in rent money. Police detained her and made her children translate for them.

A cop shoots a woman through a window as she was playing video games with her nephew, prompting a lawsuit.

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Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was killed by a prowler in her own home. Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean was charged with her murder. Jefferson's sister has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Fort Worth, Mayor Betsy Price, former police chief Ed Kraus, and former officer Dean. It has been over a year since Dean murdered Jefferson and there hasn't even been a trial date set for the case. The suit says the city of Fort Worth "knew or should have known that Defendant Aaron Dean exhibited a pattern of escalating encounters with the public" and failed to adequately train or supervise police officers. The city says they are going to have to determine the actual executor of Jefferson's estate before moving forward with the lawsuit. The Probate Court has appointed an Attorney Ad Litem to determine heirs and will appoint an executor, who is the appropriate person to file suit, once all heirs have been determined, according to the city's statement. The case