Police Use of Force
Police use of force for blacks is 7 times higher than whites in Minneapolis. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or other forms of muscle — nearly 60 percent of the time the person subject to that force are black. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/police-use-of-force--4436193/support.
Episodes
January 6, 2024 • 57 mins
Top Use Of Police Force Episodes 2023, Police Shoot 90 Times, Excessive Use Of Force, and Ranting Police are our top episodes for 2023.
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March 20, 2023 • 14 mins
A Las Cruces man who is alleging Las Cruces police officers shot him 90 times while unarmed is suing the police department. Jonathan Strickland and his attorney John Burris announced the federal civil rights lawsuit at a press conference on Wednesday
Strickland's wife had made a false abuse complaint to the Las Cruces police that she later recanted."I never threatened any of the officers I was unarmed never threatened any of them a...
Strickland's wife had made a false abuse complaint to the Las Cruces police that she later recanted."I never threatened any of the officers I was unarmed never threatened any of them a...
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January 24, 2023 • 6 mins
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Memphis Police Department announced Friday that five officers were fired. Each one was involved in a traffic stop and the subsequent “excessive force” death of Tyre Nichols, according to the agency. The terminated officers were identified as Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith. They are accused of using unlawful force against Nichols, who reportedly fought and...
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January 20, 2023 • 6 mins
A Butler Twp. A police sergeant has been placed on leave after a video surfaced of him punching a woman during an arrest at a local Mcdonalds'. The customer's order was wrong, a dispute occurred with a worker and she s given a refund. Management of Mcdonald's calls the police to have the customer cited for trespassing.
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January 20, 2023 • 15 mins
When you are white and you do wrong, you can use your white privilege not to get terminated.
Tempe, Arizona - A cop was informed by hotel staff that the suspect was a white male wearing a black shirt, but Officer Kerzaya pulled EVERY black person he encountered. He later tazed a black man holding his child and enters his home without probable cause. Rather than being charged with a criminal offense, he gets his license to be a polic...
Tempe, Arizona - A cop was informed by hotel staff that the suspect was a white male wearing a black shirt, but Officer Kerzaya pulled EVERY black person he encountered. He later tazed a black man holding his child and enters his home without probable cause. Rather than being charged with a criminal offense, he gets his license to be a polic...
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December 26, 2022 • 38 mins
Top Use of Police Force Stories of 2022.
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November 22, 2022 • 23 mins
Sayce Holmes-Lewis was assaulted by the Metropolitan Police at age 14, and since then he has been stop-and-searched over 30 times.
Holmes-Lewis speaks to Insider about his experiences and the racism within UK policing. He now runs training sessions for police officers to change how they interact with the public. He is the founder and CEO of Nativity, a mentoring organization for young people.
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Holmes-Lewis speaks to Insider about his experiences and the racism within UK policing. He now runs training sessions for police officers to change how they interact with the public. He is the founder and CEO of Nativity, a mentoring organization for young people.
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May 27, 2022 • 14 mins
The Police response in the school shooting in Uvalde was a complete cluster fuck
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April 19, 2022 • 7 mins
The Grand Rapids Police Department released video Wednesday of the fatal police shooting of Patrick Lyoya. He was shot in the back of his head.
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March 12, 2022 • 9 mins
Delaware County's district attorney announced charges against three officers in connection with the death of an 8-year-old girl and the wounding of three others after a football game on August 27, 2021.
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March 12, 2022 • 2 mins
Police profiles a Black Man again. Whats new about that. Its par for the cours
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March 2, 2022 • 5 mins
It was a dream wedding day, until a 911 call came in that a guest was physically assaulting other guests. When cops arrived, they ended up fatally shooting the man, who turned out to be the bride's uncle. Now, the heartbroken newlyweds and other family members are speaking out. It happened when Janisha and Gionni Paul were celebrating their nuptials at a popular venue outside Orlando. Janisha insists her 39-year-old uncle was not o...
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February 23, 2022 • 13 mins
In a special report, MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on how local pressure and a damning video forced the resignation of Rochester’s chief of police and other command staff. Melber puts the police killing of Daniel Prude in the wider context of other police reports that proved to be misleading or false – which undercuts some recent claims by Pres. Trump and A.G. Barr deferring to police accounts in arrests -- and explores how these case...
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February 22, 2022 • 9 mins
To be stopped and handcuffed and made to stay on the ground for 2 hours is excessive use of force and authority for the notion that the car, they were driving was stolen because they were black. There was no probable cause for the stop from the get-go, just another illegal stop, and arrest.
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February 22, 2022 • 10 mins
Two Ohio police officers harass a lawyer on his own property, another officer tased a child, and a third tried to run someone out of their town. The driving force behind all three encounters? Prejudice.
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February 7, 2022 • 11 mins
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is investigating a deadly-officer involved shooting Thursday afternoon on Interstate 65 in South Nashville. The shooting happened around 2 p.m. on I-65 between Harding Place and Old Hickory Boulevard. Metro Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron said a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper responded to a man sitting on a guardrail on the side of the interstate and offered him a ride home.
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February 4, 2022 • 9 mins
Situations where the police were out of control and out of line and did not represent what law enforcement should stand for.
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February 4, 2022 • 9 mins
Cop fired for using his taser on a man in a wheelchair and lied on his report indicating that the man was violent. His body wore camera suggested a different story.
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January 3, 2022 • 17 mins
Five Miami Beach police officers will face criminal charges in a rough arrest that took place last week at a South Beach hotel, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced Monday
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October 11, 2021 • 8 mins
Officer Harry Dunn describes being "absolutely scared" while watching rioters invade the government building on Jan. 6. This was an attempt to disrupt democracy.
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