Posted:
08 Jan 2013 10:09 AM PST
Here
are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked from Saturday, January 5, to
Monday, January 7, 2013:
• Blackville, South Carolina: A police
officer is out of a job after he was arrested for DUI. http://ow.ly/gBPSR
• Sacramento County, California:
According to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed in federal court, a jail inmate
died a year ago because a sheriff’s deputy and a nurse refused to give him help
for constant vomiting of blood over at least 12 hours. http://ow.ly/gC1Bd
• Deptford Township, New Jersey: A
police officer has been charged in a shooting of a 27-year-old man, in the
head, at the officer’s home. He is now on paid leave http://ow.ly/gBMsY
• Jackson, Mississippi: A state trooper
has been arrested and charged with statutory rape. He is now on administrative
leave without pay. http://ow.ly/gBJBZ
• Seattle, Washington: A man has filed
a formal complaint against the police, claiming that he was bullied into a
beating at the hands of police officers. http://ow.ly//bGHPR
• Vernal, Utah: A resident has filed a
federal lawsuit against the city, police officials and two police officers who
showed up at his home shortly after his wife died of an illness to count and
confiscate her prescription drugs. The man was still by his wife’s side in
their bedroom, saying goodbye and crying, while waiting for a mortician and
hospice workers. When they arrived, two police officers showed up at the home
at the same time, and made him to help them with the prescription drugs.
http://ow.ly/gBy0P
• Muscle Shoals, Alabama: The mayor has
upheld the termination of an officer who was accused of shooting and killing a
dear on federal land, while he was on duty. http://ow.ly/gBlzT
• Windsor Locks, Connecticut: The
officer whose vehicle hit and killed a 15-year-old boy on a bike was arrested
and charged with first-degree manslaughter. http://ow.ly/gBaJ0
• Clark County, Nevada: A jail sergeant
was booked on charges of felony child abuse or neglect. He has been suspended
without pay. http://ow.ly/gB8Zj