police misconduct

INDIANAPOLIS — A suspended IMPD officer has been sentenced to 180 days in the Marion County Jail after pleading guilty to battery. Former Sgt. Eric Huxley received a 180 day jail sentence after entering a plea agreement this week on a charge of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury. The charge of Official Misconduct against […]

  INDIANAPOLIS — A federal grand jury has indicted an Indianapolis police sergeant on allegations he violated a man’s civil rights by using excessive force during a September 2021 arrest. The indictment alleges that Sgt. Eric Huxley, 44, kicked the man in the head and face “without lawful justification”, causing bodily injury to that person, according to […]

WEST LAFAYETTE — The Purdue University Police Department has launched an internal investigation into the arrest of a man Friday night following a third-party report stating it appeared a woman was being held against her will. In a statement Wednesday evening, John Cox, chief of the university police department, said an officer responded to an […]

One of the nation's largest police organizations apologizes for historic mistreatment of minorities. The group's president urged law enforcement to acknowledge its role in causing poor relations with communities of color.

The St. Louis police secretly settled dozens of cases. Many of those cases have not been reviewed for possible criminal charges.

An Ohio man was awarded $22 million after being beaten and locked in a storage closet by two East Cleveland police officers for four days. Arnold Black was arrested in 2012 for allegedly transporting cocaine in his pick-up truck while traveling through East Cleveland. One of the two arresting officers severely beat Black and took him […]

The video above shows Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson announcing the $6 million settlement for the November 2014 shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice at the hands of Cleveland police. The Rice family sued the city of Cleveland, the officers, and the dispatchers for wrongful death after a grand jury declined to indict Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson […]

This week, I walked out of the barber shop this week and asked a friend, an African-American professional, to name his top concern of 2015.…

The 13 black women who say Daniel Holtzclaw raped them while he was on duty as an Oklahoma City police officer have largely been ignored by…

The Daniel Holtzclaw trial is now into its fourteenth day. It is a trial that mainstream media has essentially ignored, possibly because of who the…

A Black man who spent six weeks in jail has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for jailing him for wearing a hoodie.

John Felton, an African-American man from Detroit, was pulled over by an Ohio police officer for making “direct eye contact” with him.