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Baltimore Prosecutor Asked Police to Target Area Where Freddie Gray was Arrested

"State's Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St," Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby's Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to Major Osborne Robinson, a Western District police commander.

June 9, 2015

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Pennsylvania Officer Fired, Charged with Beating 2 Suspects

Six months later, the officer reportedly beat another suspect — this one handcuffed — at the end of a police pursuit, court records show. That man, suspected of driving a stolen car Dec. 18, suffered a head wound that needed staples to close, authorities said.

March 17, 2015

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Kansas City Officer Indicted for On-Duty Shooting

In an internal message to department members, Police Chief Darryl Forté said he believed the officer was “acting in the best interest of public safety when he was placed in that situation.”

February 23, 2015

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Ohio Sheriff Found Guilty of Corruption, Sent Immediately to Jail

Suspended Athens County (Ohio) Sheriff Pat Kelly was led away in handcuffs yesterday after a jury found him guilty of 18 crimes, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.

February 13, 2015

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Toledo Officer Charged in Shooting Plot

A Toledo police lieutenant was arraigned this week on charges that he helped to plot the shooting of a woman who testified in a high-profile murder case.

February 12, 2015

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Video: Rookie NYPD Officer Indicted on Manslaughter Charges

The rookie NYPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed Brooklyn man in an unlit housing project staircase has been indicted for manslaughter.

February 10, 2015

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Oklahoma Officer Faces Trial on 13 On-Duty Sex Assaults

Holtzclaw faces six counts of first-degree rape, which is punishable by life in prison. The other counts against him include second-degree rape by instrumentation, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, burglary, stalking, indecent exposure and procuring lewd exhibition.

November 20, 2014

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Fired South Carolina Trooper Charged with Shooting Unarmed Motorist

A former South Carolina state trooper faces a felony charge in the shooting of an unarmed man during a traffic stop in Columbia earlier this month. More Here.

September 25, 2014

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Fired South Carolina Trooper Charged with Shooting Unarmed Motorist

A former South Carolina state trooper faces a felony charge in the shooting of an unarmed man during a traffic stop in Columbia earlier this month.

September 25, 2014

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Baltimore Officer's Lawyers Defend His Cutting Throat of Loose Dog

Lawyers for veteran Baltimore officer Jeffrey Bolger said he was legally authorized to kill a shar-pei named Nala in June and was acting to protect the unborn child of a woman the dog had bitten.

September 12, 2014

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Missouri Trooper Not Charged in Drowning

A special prosecutor said Monday that she wouldn't criminally charge the Missouri state trooper who handcuffed 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson before he drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks while being transported by boat.

September 9, 2014

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DA to Take NYPD "Choke Hold" Case to Grand Jury

A grand jury will hear evidence in the death of Eric Garner, a man who died after being put in an apparent chokehold by a New York City police officer during an arrest, to determine whether charges are warranted, the Staten Island District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday, reports CBS New York.

August 18, 2014