Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-02-11 to 07-04-11

Injustice Everywhere

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By David, on July 4th, 2011

Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Independence Day weekend of July 2 through July 4, 2011:

• Los Angeles County CA makes a tentative $500k settlement offer to the family of a teen who was fatally shot by a deputy in an incident where two different videos contradicted his version of events at two different points. [0] http://lat.ms/kX0h1o

• Moreno Valley CA & Riverside Co CA lose a wrongful arrest and excessive force lawsuit for $325k to a man claiming he was beaten into unconsciousness during a racial profiling traffic stop [3] http://bit.ly/izM19q

• 10-12 New York NY cops are accused of excessive force for allegedly beating a man & macing an entire family over what started as a littering citation [3] http://bit.ly/mrfA6m

• Chattanooga TN Housing Authority settles suit on unspecified terms to a woman claiming a cop slapped her for calling 911 on him when she witnessed a rough encounter between the officer and a teen. [3] http://bit.ly/iBDwlL

• Parker FL police are being sued by a man claiming a cop who shouldn’t have been hired after he was fired from his previous deputy job for lying to judge had falsely arrested him on three different occasions. [3] http://bit.ly/kKOAna

• A Miami Beach FL cop is accused of drinking on duty with another cop before he injured three people when he ran into a couple while joyriding on a departmental ATV with a female passenger. Recent reports citing interviews with witnesses indicate he begged people not to report him before he fled the scene without checking on the injured victims. [0] http://bit.ly/mzOsl6

• Memphis TN cop was arrested on aggravated assault charges for allegedly pointing gun at her husband’s face during a domestic dispute [0] http://bit.ly/jYkGoV

• Another Memphis TN cop was also arrested on aggravated assault charges for allegedly pulling her gun during an off duty road rage incident [0] http://bit.ly/m8Hqwl

• Greenwich Twp NJ cop sues that department claiming he was fired for investigating the possible cover up of a Pohatcong cop’s DUI accident [4] http://bit.ly/mIoiXt

• Monterey County CA sheriff is sued by an ex-deputy claiming retaliation & obstruction involving that sheriff’s son’s drug arrest [3] http://bit.ly/jKQBBW

• Oregon state trooper has harassment charges dismissed in a settlement agreement by paying $11,500 to victim [0] http://bit.ly/kOD4eb

• Boynton Beach FL cop arrested by feds on methamphetamine trafficking charges involving “large amount of drugs” [0] http://bit.ly/mDYiAD

• 3 San Diego CA sex crimes unit detectives accused of sexual harassment & retaliation against female cops [3] http://bit.ly/mBYAte

• New Orleans LA police cmdr reassigned while investigated over alleged unspecified racially inappropriate orders [2] http://bit.ly/leP7QI

• Austin TX cop was arrested for boating while intoxicated after his passenger allegedly broke into a home to make a sandwich when the homeowner called police to report it. [0] http://bit.ly/ihTP1I

• Philadelphia PA cop pleads guilty to drunk driving charge in a crash that crushed a trooper’s legs between 2 cars [0] http://cbsloc.al/mUhhxX

• South Carolina state trooper gets time served in a guilty plea to a driving while intoxicated charge [0] http://bit.ly/mLKXBH

• Los Angeles CA police department’s “conditional official reprimand” policy that replaces disciplinary actions with warnings is drawing criticism because officers aren’t being disciplined regularly even after their first free pass warning. [0] http://lat.ms/jbGDqV

That’s it for this weekend, stay free out there!