The Tulsa police officer who shot Terence Crutcher thought that he was on PCP and behaving erratically, according to the officer’s attorney. Officer Betty Shelby had very recently undergone drug recognition training and believed that Crutcher was high before firing a single shot at Crutcher, according to attorney Scott Wood. However, the attorney for the […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A 37-year-old man was charged Friday in the death of State Highway patrol trooper Kenneth Velez. A driver crashed into the veteran trooper Thursday on Interstate 90 near the Cleveland-Lakewood border. Joshua Gaspar appeared in court Saturday morning on charges in Velez’s death. The judge placed the Columbia Station man on a $500,000 bond. Gaspar […]
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio– It is an image police officers see just about everyday: People slumped over from an opiate overdose. Often small children are near the person who used drugs, and officers try to save the adult while they attempt to shield young eyes from the ugly side effects of narcotics. So on Wednesday, when officers found […]
The President gave a moving speech about the fallen officers and also the state of violence and guns in the country. Almost a week after the tragic events that took place in Dallas and claimed the lives of five police officers, a memorial service was held today to formally lay them rest and attended by […]
SHREVE, Ohio – A local police sergeant is on indefinite, unpaid suspension after a post he made on Facebook last week was perceived to be racist. Shreve police Sgt. Robert Biddle, 34, wrote on Facebook: “Been at work for ONE HOUR and the monkeys have already exceeded their limit of snark I’m gonna take for the […]
“The video is disturbing to say the least,” Edwards said. Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-Louisiana) on Wednesday announced the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division will investigate the shooting of Alton Sterling, a Black man killed by police in Louisiana on Tuesday evening. Edwards added that the Middle District of Louisiana’s U.S. Attorney’s office and the […]
NEWBURGH HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) – It began when Newburgh Heights Officer Sarah Bittner questioned two men who had been arguing outside a bar on Harvard Avenue. The younger man took offense because the officer had a Taser in her hand, which she did not use. He repeatedly asks “why was you gonna taze me” and refused […]
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury awarded a man $22 million Tuesday after he sued East Cleveland police for beating him and locking him in a closet. Now, East Cleveland Law Director Willa Mae Hemmons says she believes that verdict won’t stand. She filed an appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court before the […]
“To know that 20/20 had access to Holtzclaw and we are being denied knowledge of his whereabouts is a great injustice, and re-victimizes the innocent women he sexually assaulted,” attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons said. Ex-Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who was sentenced in December to 263 years in prison for raping Black women, proclaimed […]
Judge Barry G. Williams said Monday that there were “no credible facts” in the charges against Officer Edward Nero. In his decision to acquit Baltimore Officer Edward Nero in the arrest and subsequent death of Freddie Gray, Judge Barry G. Williams said Monday that there were “no credible facts” to prove that he was […]
Four of the officers accused have yet to have a trial, while the van driver involved has one set up in June. Baltimore, Maryland (CNN) [Breaking news update at 11:04 a.m. ET] Baltimore police Officer Edward Nero has been found not guilty of all charges for his part in the events leading to the […]
The indictment includes charges for a federal civil rights offense, using a firearm during the commission of the civil rights offense, and obstruction of justice. Afederal grand jury on Wednesday handed up a three-count indictment against former North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager in the fatal shooting of Walter Scott on April 4, […]