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Connecticut State Sen. Martin Looney (D-New Haven) has introduced a short bill (PDF) that not only acknowledges the right of citizens to record on-duty police officers, it also provides for a civil action against police officers who violate that right.

She said her husband opened the door to multiple officers in raid gear with guns drawn. "We were completely shocked, upset," she continued. She said the officers demanded to come inside her home. "And my husband asked, 'Do you have a warrant?

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.

An entire 20-man police force resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials said Thursday.

The officers' resignation Thursday left the 13,000 people of Ascension without local police services

Tarpon Springs, Florida -- It's called "Cop Watching," where people tape police officers as they make stops and arrests. Tommy Frane says it's not that people who do the taping are against police officers, but they want to hold them accountable, like they do all public officials.

Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland went on the defensive Thursday during a meeting with local journalists, saying officers have made recent traffic stops in which residents leave their vehicles to take pictures or shoot video — encounters he says could endanger officers and that have increased following the release of the Chad Holley beating footage.

Ft Worth police officer in the city jail slams a hand cuffed man's head into a wall and then slams his head into the concrete floor. And if that is not enough, I counted at least 5 additional police officers just standing around watching. This prisoner is laying on the floor bleeding from his head and no officers appeared to call for medical assistance. These six police officers should be fired immediately and locked up in cages for awhile. Other officers were coming and going in this hallway and they had to walk around this individual and did not stop to assist the injured man.

On September 8, Gregory Koger was sentenced to 300 days in jail for videotaping a brief political statement at a public event in Skokie, IL. When Gregory was asked to stop, he put down his video camera. Trespass charges were brought because he started filming with his iPhone. But videotaping is not a crime! Filming has nothing to do with the legal definition of trespass. The trespass law states that you must be ordered to leave, and then show that you intend to remain after you have been given notice to leave.

This is EXACTLY what they did to me (Sam Dodson) as well.

Two NYPD cops accused of punishing a Staten Island teen by dumping him in a swamp without his shoes or shirt will have to dip into their pockets to help settle a federal lawsuit, the Daily News has learned. Officers Richard Danese and Thomas Elliassen will each kick in $5,000 on top of the $140,000 the city agreed to pay to plaintiff Rayshawn Moreno, according to papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

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