Police Brutality"
In the criminal justice field one of the most debated issues centers on the use of certain techniques when trying to subdue combative suspects. Since incidents like the Rodney King ...
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The FBI is investigating accusations of police brutality and misconduct in the historic village of Sleepy Hollow after officers used stun guns on a 16-year-old boy and another man on separate occas...
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NAIROBI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Pastor Isaac Mujete was talking
with women and children from his church in Kenya's biggest slum
on Thursday when police opened fire, spraying bullets as
residents ran f...
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A federal lawsuit filed Thursday accuses a group of police officers of attacking four men during a traffic dispute, including one man who tried to stop the beatings.The excessive force complaint al...
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The Detroit Police Department says its effort to reduce police brutality and other abuses has been so expensive that it now wants a federal court to lighten up on its oversight.The U.S. attorney sa...
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CAIRO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The video-sharing Web site YouTube
has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture
activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour
by some ...
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The government of the southern state of Oaxaca apologized for the first time Friday for a police raid on protesters last year that led to the country's worst political unrest in years.Oaxaca Interi...
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A federal appeals court refused to dismiss a lawsuit against a former Louisville police officer Monday, saying he acted in "bad faith" when he fatally shot a 19-year-old man three years ago.McKenzi...
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A protest of the city's reinstatement of a police officer involved in a fracas with skateboarders drew more than two dozen chanting protesters to the scene where the boarders were arrested.About 25...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rodney King, whose
videotaped beating once made him an international symbol of
police brutality, suffered minor injuries after getting hit by
a shotgun blast, authorities i...
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Berlin (dpa) - Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga accused
President Mwai Kibaki and the police of turning the East African
country into "killing fields" in their attempt ...
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