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A Homewood Honor Student who was beaten by three white police officers is U.S. Attorney's General's office and the FBI to bring Federal Civic Rights charges against the three officers. He is seeking to have the officers removed from the Pittsburgh Police Force. The officers beat the seventeen year old, but found no weapon, lied in their report, used excessive force and sent the teen to West Penn Hospital. Officers threatened to stage a "Blue Flu" when the teen showed up for court. He resisted the officers lawful ass kicking.

Seaside Heights police department hit with new excessive force lawsuit. Story also covers several out of court settlements that the town tried to hide but were dug up by John Paff, chairman of the New Jersey Libertarian Party's Open Government Advocacy Project,

A Boston man filed a federal lawsuit against the city and four police officers today alleging he was beaten after he used his cellphone to record their actions as they arrested his friend.

Guy tells cop to shut up at a gas station and then is beaten with a billy club and pepper sprayed while on the ground. Witness uses camera phone to film the incident from a nearby car.

Garry Kasparov was speaking to reporters outside the Moscow courthouse where the sentencing of the band Pussy Riot was taking place. Suddenly he was violently seized by police and forced onto a bus. Later he was beaten by a group of police.

A state Supreme Court ruling last year that “there is no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers,” when a man was charged with assaulting an officer during a domestic-violence call. The NRA pushed for a new law that allows residents to use deadly force in response to the “unlawful intrusion” by a “public servant” to protect themselves and others, or their property. Police lobbied against it. The measure requires those using force to “reasonably believe” a law-enforcement officer is acting illegally and that it’s needed to prevent “serious bodily injury.”

Remember Gilberto Matamoros, the Miami man who was shown on YouTube being beaten by police as he lay on the ground? After the government said he wouldn't be charged, they changed their mind, charging him with "resisting arrest without violence" because he tried to cover his head while the police beat him. He finally stopped covering his head once he was knocked out and had to be rushed to a hospital.

This is why you should only call the police if it is your absolute last resort...

Man beaten and charged with felony after calling the cops to report his son's suicide. All he did was ask a police offer not to touch him after the officer came up behind him, grabbed his arm, and told him that he had to sit down.

The police officer who casually maced a handful of Occupy Wall Street protesters at the University of California, Davis, is a retired Marine who has twice been lauded for his police work. His use of pepper spray earlier this week has brought into question how much force is too much force.