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A law enforcement official in South Carolina is on leave after a video went viral this week showing him tossing a female high school student from her desk and dragging her across a classroom at Springfield Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. The confrontation, captured on students’ cell phone videos, was discussed Tuesday on […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Multiple sources confirm to the FOX 8 I-TEAM that a grand jury has started hearing testimony in the Tamir Rice case. We’ve learned witnesses, including police and  sheriff detectives, have gone before the grand jury since at least last week. This case has drawn national attention since last November. Cleveland police shot […]

CLEVELAND –  A Cleveland police officer who was charged with obstructing justice,  tampering with evidence, intimidation of a witness and bribery has been fired from the department. John Hall, a 19-year police veteran, was indicted on the charges in 2013. He was accused of tipping off a grocer that food stamp fraud investigators were about to serve […]

AKRON, Ohio — The man convicted of killing Akron police Officer Justin Winebrenner choked up while apologizing in court Friday. Kenan Ivery, 36, spoke during his sentencing hearing Friday. A jury must still decide if Ivery should face the death penalty or life in prison in the case. His entire statement is as follows: “First off I would […]

The family of unarmed 50-year-old Walter Scott, who was shot and killed by a North Charleston, South Carolina police officer, has reached a $6.5 million settlement with city officials, according to USA Today. The city council signed off on the deal Thursday night at a hearing that was attended by Scott’s family and their attorneys, […]

CLEVELAND – Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said in a press conference Friday that he knows what we need to do as a community to stop the violence in the city. He wants people to do something. “I want people to do something,” Williams said fighting back tears. “And if people step out and do […]

A Florida woman accused of speeding through a school zone shocked a Palm Beach County police officer when she insulted him during the traffic stop, The Huffington Post reports. Joy Feinberg, 62, was driving 51 mph through a 20 mph school zone on Sept. 1. She was pulled over by a deputy sheriff, with whom she pleaded to let […]

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio — A Cleveland police officer acquitted of charges in a deadly 2012 police chase and his twin brother were due in Rocky River Municipal Court Thursday morning. Earlier in June, Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo and his twin brother, Mark J. Brelo, entered a not guilty plea to assault charges through their attorneys. Mark Brelo appeared […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Attorneys for the family of Tamir Rice sent a letter to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Thursday, asking for aggravated murder charges to be filed against Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann. CLICK HERE TO READ THE LETTER On November 22, 2014, Tamir was shot by Officer Loehmann after police received a […]

FOX LAKE, IL (RNN) – Local, state and federal officials are conducting a massive manhunt in a Chicago suburb after a police officer was killed Tuesday morning. Despite earlier reports that a suspect is in custody, Fox Lake officials would not comment on whether anyone was in custody. Fox Lake Mayor Donny Schmit said off […]

A video of a Kentucky officer restraining an 8-year-old boy in handcuffs for over 15 minutes is the focus of a lawsuit enacted by the American Civil Liberties Union. Despite the visual evidence, the sheriff’s office in Kenton County in the state is openly defending the officer’s forceful actions. The Guardian reports that Sheriff Charles […]

*Nearly a year after he gunned down and unarmed 18-year-old Mike Brown and unwittingly started the #BlackLivesMatter movement, former Ferguson, MO policeman Darren Wilson has given his first interview. Wilson told The New Yorker that he and his family have to take precautions when they go out. “We try to go somewhere — how do […]