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Cop Sentenced to 7 Yrs After Arresting People for Heroin, Stealing It from Dept and Selling It

commwatcherFebruary 21, 2020

by commwatcherFebruary 21, 20200308

Former Haywood County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Smathers will be spending at least the next seven years behind bars. Smathers was charged with several felonies in...

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Video: Lawsuit Alleges Police Beat Unconscious Man, Then Falsified Reports to Charge Him With a Crime

commwatcherFebruary 21, 2020February 21, 2020

by commwatcherFebruary 21, 2020February 21, 20200280

Contra Costa County, CA – Ricardo Hernandez has filed a lawsuit against Contra Costa County and the sheriff’s deputies in reference to his arrest that...

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Cop Being Investigated After Cell Phone Video Shows Him Choking Handcuffed Man

commwatcherFebruary 21, 2020February 21, 2020

by commwatcherFebruary 21, 2020February 21, 20200338

A Mobile, Alabama police officer has been taken off patrol duty and is under investigation after a cell phone video showed him placing a handcuffed...

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Police Officer With Charged Raping Woman at Police Station And Exposing Her to HIV

commwatcherJanuary 24, 2020January 24, 2020

by commwatcherJanuary 24, 2020January 24, 20200720

A former Maryland police officer is facing new charges after it was determined that he was HIV positive when he allegedly forced a woman to...

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Cleveland Cop Who Recorded Himself Urinating On 12-Yr-Old Girl Gets 4 1/2 Years In Prison

commwatcherJanuary 23, 2020January 23, 2020

by commwatcherJanuary 23, 2020January 23, 202004102

The Cleveland, Ohio police officer who was charged with attempting to kidnap a child and then urinating on her at a bus stop has been...

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Cop Slams 76-Year-Old Woman To Ground During Arrest; Police Are Investigating Incident

commwatcherJanuary 17, 2020January 17, 2020

by commwatcherJanuary 17, 2020January 17, 202001313

On Friday afternoon police arrived at 76-year-old Rena Mellerson’s home in search of her granddaughter Cierra Floyd. Cierra was wanted on charges of disorderly conduct...

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Cops Repeatedly Taser 70-Year-Old Woman In Her Home After She Asked For Warrant

commwatcherJanuary 6, 2020January 6, 2020

by commwatcherJanuary 6, 2020January 6, 202009779

After a 70-year-old woman in Florida refused to let police in her house she was shot with a taser three times and arrested. It was...

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North Carolina Sheriff’s Deputy Fired After Caught On Video Body-Slamming Child

commwatcherDecember 17, 2019December 17, 2019

by commwatcherDecember 17, 2019December 17, 201901270

A sheriff’s deputy has been fired after surveillance footage showed him violently slamming a student at a North Carolina middle school to the ground twice...

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School Cop Gets 10 Years in Prison for Violently Raping 12yo Girl, Filming It

commwatcherDecember 7, 2019December 7, 2019

by commwatcherDecember 7, 2019December 7, 201901123

A 22-year-old school district police officer trainee who pleaded guilty to raping a 12-year-old girl from Deer Park, Texas, has been sentenced to 10 years...

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LAPD Cop Under Investigation After he Is Caught Fondling a Dead Woman’s Breasts By His Own Body Cam

commwatcherDecember 5, 2019December 5, 2019

by commwatcherDecember 5, 2019December 5, 20190541

A Los Angeles police officer is under investigation after his body-camera showed him allegedly fondling a deceased woman’s breasts. According to LAPD officials, the officer...