All posts tagged "Police Brutality"

An officer captured in a video widely circulated on social media that shows him repeatedly punching a suspect who is on the ground acted “within policy,” according to Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea, The Idaho Statesman reports.

Officer Donald Heida is seen in the video punching Colt James Seward in the head and face while he was pinned to the ground. Fellow officer Sean McDonald detained and arrested Seward.

The officers were identified in a probable cause affidavit the news outlet obtained and subsequently confirmed by Basterrechea. ...

Just 50 days before Brazil hosts the World Cup, authorities beefed up security in Rio de Janeiro after a violent clash between residents and police in a slum near the tourist haven of Copacabana beach.

Two Egyptian policemen were sentenced to 10 years in jail Monday for the killing of a blogger whose death rallied protesters in the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

A 32-year-old documentary filmmaker alleges that Chicago police beat him and sodomized him with the barrel of a gun in order to intimidate him into acting as an informant. Vice magazine spoke to Angel Perez against the advice of Perez's lawyers, but the purported police brutality survivor said that he wants to keep what happened to him from ever happening to anyone else.

Police moved into a series of favelas in Rio de Janeiro Sunday, continuing a drive to pacify the poor neighborhoods despite a police brutality scandal that has raised questions about the tactic.

Authorities in the Canadian city of Montreal said they briefly detained more than 240 people and arrested a dozen for more serious offences during a protest against police brutality late Friday.