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Merced police taser (twice) Gregory Williams, an unarmed man with no legs in a wheelchair, drag him from the chair, injure his shoulder, and leave him lying on the ground handcuffed with his pants down and genitals showing. He spent six days in jail before being released without criminal charges.
Polk County, Florida cops play bowling game on Wii for hours in suspect's home, recorded on hidden camera. Good advertisement for Wii.
Virginia Beach officer Bryan Womble, who won awards for DUI arrests was convicted of DUI and hit and run himself on Monday.
ER nurse Lisa Hofstra was handcuffed and detained by a police officer when she insisted that she needed to wait until his suspect was admitted to hospital before drawing blood.
Chicago police round up, either they watched the Shield a bit too much or the writers of the Shield were inspired by these guys:
Former police officers Bart Maka, Guadalupe Salinas, Brian Pratscher pleaded guilty to felony theft, and former officer Donovan Markiewicz pleaded guilty to official misconduct, in deals that called for each to be sentenced to six months in jail and various terms of probation in exchange for their cooperation in ongoing state and federal investigations.The four stood quietly as a prosecutor read a 17-page synopsis of what they admitted to, providing a glimpse into a rogue operation in which officers pulled over motorists without cause, grabbed their keys and stormed into their homes, falsified reports, pocketed huge sums of money and even shook each other down for money.
Five members of the once elite drug and gang unit called the Special Operations Section still face charges, including Jerome Finnigan, who is accused of plotting to hire someone to murder another member of the unit to keep him from talking to the government. Finnigan and the others have pleaded not guilty.
H/T Balko, Greenfield, Draughn.
