Tagged police

A new video taken by a bystander's cell phone shows New York City police officers shooting and killing a man they say was threatening them with a knife on Saturday. The witness caught the last several sec...

Citizens, citizen journalists and activists have run afoul of the police before, when recording police activities. This is despite the fact that police have all manner of recording equipment of their own, ...

Criminals are not known to be all that bright. Case in point: a man who stole gasoline from a police car.  No, that's not the stupid part. The stupid part was when he posted a picture of it to Facebook. ...

Pocket dialing is when a cell phone stuffed in someone's pocket accidentally dials an actual number. In perhaps the worst example of pocket dialing ever, three larceny suspects were arrested after police ov...

According to the Associated Press five current or former New Orleans police officers were charged Friday in the shooting death and burning of a New Orleans man during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Accord...

May 13th, 1985  Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on to a small Philadelphia community located on Osage Avanue. The result, 11 people killed including 5 childern, two blocks of homes destroyed, and over $50...

When this story first broke of Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black Harvard professor and Sgt. James Crowley, the white Cambridge police officer, I thought it was pretty cut and dry. More jerks with badges abus...