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DAYTON, Ohio (CN) - Dayton police "mistook" a mentally handicapped teenager's speech impediment for "disrespect," so they Tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat him and called for backup from "upward of 20 police officers" after the boy rode his bicycle home to ask his mother for help, the boy's mom says. Worthy of note is the fact that Dayton recently lowered its police entry exams score requirements due to pressure from the Federal government...

A police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in prison for using excessive force against a mentally disabled janitor who died after being erroneously suspected of stealing money from an ATM.

The Anaheim police officers who killed two men in back-to-back shootings in July have returned to their jobs and are no longer on paid administrative leave, a police spokesman confirmed Thursday. Anaheim Police Sgt. Bob Dunn said he did not know exactly when the two officers returned but said it had been "a couple of weeks." He declined to provide their names but described both as veteran police officers.

Man with Down syndrome suffocated to death in police custody

A Maryland court has ruled that police are responsible for the death of a mentally disabled man. The homicide occurred after the man refused to leave a movie theater, prompting police to pin him down on the ground until he suffocated to death.

In this lovely video, the violent psycho (aka police officer) decides that punching a young woman in the face over an incident involving a jaywalking ticket is the appropriate level of force. It isn't just a little smack either, he winds up and hits her full in the face with a closed fist. Seattle Police Officers Guild President Rich O'Neil says the officer's use of force was appropriate.....

ARVADA, Colo. -- 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.

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An eyewitness to a fatal police shooting in Miami Beach last week claims police officers attempted to confiscate the video he filmed of the incident, and even crushed his phone underfoot in an attempt to destroy the recording.
"When he noticed me recording, one of the officers jumped in the truck, put a pistol to my head," he said. "My phone was smashed - he stepped on it, handcuffed me."

When 17-year-old New York City resident Alvin faced repeated harassment from Police, he took matters into his own hands. He secretly recorded his encounter with two police officers...

Alvin asks the officers, who threatened violence if he didn’t stop asking questions, “What am I getting arrested for?” One of the officers harshly responds: “For being a f*ck#$%g mutt! You know that!?”

The Seattle Police Department opened an internal investigation Friday into the 2010 arrest of a 20-year-old man who was punched by an officer after police stopped to question him about leaving his car running outside a store. Sgt.