Website Archives Police Misconduct. Here’s a recap from the last three days.

Now, here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, February 17, 2011:

* Midland TX police are being sued by the family of a man they claim was unarmed when police shot him to death as he stepped out of his door during a standoff. [0]

* An Anaheim CA officer-involved shooting is under investigation after a police officer who was apparently on duty in his own neighborhood shot an unarmed man he accused of burglarizing stuff. The man was apparently carrying a bag of mail and a cell phone but was not armed and neighbors claim the man sounded surprised at being shot but investigators are not disclosing any possible reason for the shooting and the man who was shot hasn’t been charged. [1]

* An Edmonton AB police officer has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for assaulting a handcuffed man in the back of a cruiser. [0]

* The St Ann MO police and the Missouri state patrol are being accused of withholding information about an officer-involved shooting incident that occurred weeks ago. [4]

* A Pennsylvania state trooper has been arrested on allegations that he sent explicit videos of himself to a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl in a chat room. [0]

* A Walnut Creek CA police officer has been charged with dissuading a witness and unlawful sex with a minor involving a teen between 16-18. [1]

* A Biloxi MS police officer has been indicted on sexual battery charges on allegations he had sex with a teen. He resigned while he was under investigation over the allegations. [0]

* A Midland MI police officer has been suspended while under investigation on unspecified sexual assault allegations. I didn’t want to add this at first as the initial news reports were citing an anonymous phone call as a source of the story but subsequent stories indicated that evidence is being analyzed as part of the probe. [1]

* Oakland CA settled a lawsuit for $300,000 to a man who claims that an officer planted a gun on him in order to wrongfully put him behind bars for 22 months. [0]

* An FBI agent is under investigation on suspicion of being intoxicated when he crashed into a car, killing one teen and critically injured another. [1]

* An Evansville IN police officer has been sentenced to a $10 fine after pleading guilty to a battery charge for punching a retired deputy while both were drinking at an FOP lodge then kneeing him in the head when he was down. [0]

* The Lubbock ISD TX police chief has been suspended after police were called to a restaurant when employees were unable to get him to leave despite repeated requests and a female employee felt threatened since he was allegedly intoxicated while wearing his gun at the time. [1]

* A Maryland state trooper received a suspended sentence but must repay $5,502 he fraudulently claimed in overtime pay. [0]

* Two San Francisco CA cops were suspended for a year without pay over their roles in making videos described as “racist & offensive”. [0]

* And finally, the police chief of Houston TX is apparently claiming that videotaping cops is an act of “provocation” that he believes can lead to cops being assaulted or killed and that his officers are afraid because people are filming them… hopefully I’m reading all that wrong. [4]
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