Detroit police officer faces third trial in death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones

Joseph Weekley, 38, faces a misdemeanor charge in the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was shot as police executed a search warrant for a murder suspect in a home on Detroit’s east side.

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In a Fit of Road Rage, Houston Cop Shoots Woman In The Head

Houston, Texas – Kenneth Caplan, a reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6 has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after shooting a woman in the head during a fit of road rage. The officer was reportedly driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link about two weeks ago, when he cut off a 20-year-old…

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Police Shoot Peaceful #Ferguson Demonstator in Her Eye Socket and Cause Her to Lose Eye

 

Dornnella Conner was inspired this week to travel to Ferguson, Missouri and join along in the ongoing protests there against police brutality in the wake of the non-indictment of Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown.

 

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WATCH: Car runs over protesters during Michael Brown rally in Minneapolis

 

An unidentified motorist in Minneapolis drove into protesters at a rally in solidarity with the family of slain Missouri teen Michael Brown, leaving one woman in need of medical attention, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.

 

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Lawsuit claim: San Jose cop accused of rape sexually assaulted another woman just months earlier

SAN JOSE — The woman who prosecutors contend was raped by an on-duty San Jose police officer has made an explosive new accusation in a lawsuit, alleging that the cop had sexually assaulted “at least one other woman” just months earlier.

The lawsuit further alleges that the department knew or should have known about his conduct but failed to make sure he was accompanied by a second officer “at all times.”

Officer Geoffrey Graves’ lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. The woman’s attorney also did not respond to requests for more information to support the new accusations, which are described only briefly in the lawsuit.

Geoffrey Graves, a San Jose police officer, appears in court for his arraignment with attorney Darlene Bagley at Santa Clara County Hall of Justice in San Jose, Calif. on Monday, March 24, 2014. (Jim Gensheimer)

Earlier this year, Santa Clara County prosecutors charged Graves with raping an undocumented woman in September 2013, whom he first encountered during a disturbance call. The criminal complaint also charges Graves with two counts of felony domestic violence for allegedly injuring his then-girlfriend in incidents unrelated to the alleged rape.

 

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A Recent Spate of Cops Sexually Assaulting Multiple Women Leads Some To Question Just How Pervasive Such Practices Could Be

 

While the American public obsesses day after day about each and every scandalous act involving an athlete in the NFL, with even the most meticulous data being collected and analysed many times over, they seem to be less concerned about a similar, possibly more widespread, pattern of behavior by officers of the law, the same people entrusted with ensuring public safety and accountability. After several arrests occurred in the past month alone of police officers accused of sexually assaulting, kidnapping, or raping multiple women (four of them in Oklahoma), many observers are quite rightly inquiring about how common such crimes committed by law enforcement officers are. Unfortunately it is rather impossible to say for certain how common sexual assault by cops truly is because there exist no national database from which accurate statistics can be derived. In fact this nation has shown itself particularly inefficient when it comes to tallying or keeping track of any crimes committed by cops, let alone taking the further of holding them accountable. If a national debate can ensue around the issue of domestic battery and criminality in the National Football League, then surely it should be possible to have that same debate regarding issues of rape and sexual abuse in the nation’s police departments.

 

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Brutal: Florida officer tases 62-year-old woman in the back just for the hell of it [VIDEO]

 

After police arrived on the scene of her Tallahassee, Florida, neighborhood, 62-year-old Viola Young asked them why they were there. Told to turn around, Young did so and walked away. While walking away, at just about 2:31 in this video shot by a local resident, the officer brutally uses his stun gun to tase Young in the back. Immediately, she falls flat on her face. It’s brutal.

 

No charges have been brought and the officer is currently on paid leave.

 

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