Bodycam footage was just released following an $8 Million Dollar settlement against the City of Pittsburgh, after Jim Rogers, a homeless man, was tased over 10 times by a Pittsburgh police officer, resulting in his death. The footage had been previously sealed by order of the court. It was released by the law firm that represented the Jones family. The entire graphic footage is available directly here.
Category Archives: Police
Cops Enter Wrong Hotel Room | Arrest Half-Nude Woman AND Her Dog!
54-year-old Sheri Meyer was arrested by West Jordan police officers on Sept. 26, 2022, for felony charges of assault by a prisoner and misdemeanor charges of assault on a police officer, refusing to provide information, and interference with an arresting officer. The officers arrived at her door after a 911 caller reported “that people in the neighboring room (and possibly a child) have been yelling and screaming at each other since around 10 p.m. The problem was, the officers went to the wrong hotel room door.
DJ Plays “Bad Boys” Song | Ends Up ARRESTED!
This footage was submitted by Rhet. It involves the Manistee Police. Rhet is a DJ. Earlier in the evening, he played the song “Bad Boys” when this officer walked into the club. Well, later in the evening, the same officer pulls him over for what was seemingly not an actual traffic offense. One thing leads to another, and Rhet ends up arrested.
Rhet’s original video is here.
Cop Escalates, Then Exaggerates to Supervisor
This footage was submitted by Malik (full video here) showing him being stopped by Savannah Police over allegations that he wasn’t wearing a seat belt. He was getting out of his car when the officer jumped out of the police cruiser and immediately escalated the situation. Malik claims racial profiling. Fortunately, the officer was captured on his own bodycam explaining the situation to his supervisor. Does the footage match-up?
Cop Grabs Kids at School | ACLU Fought a Year to Get This Video!
This incident happened near a high school in Nevada, involving school district police officers and students. Officers later claimed they were investigated reports of the presence of a firearm. But the video shows something else entirely. The government fought release of this video for over a year. Even after being sued by the ACLU, they only released it after a court order. The police union claims it exonerates the officers. What do you think?
Media report here.
Case law and discussion from my video on police handcuffing a child in school, referenced in my video can be found here.
Cop Caught LYING By His Own Camera | Charge DISMISSED
This happened in Texas. Brittany Trevino was driving down the road, when she saw a police officer whom she really disliked, so she gave him the middle finger. In obvious retaliation, the officer jumped in his police cruiser, sped down the road, and stopped her – allegedly for failure to signal a lane change. The only problem was, however, the officer was lying, as indicated by not one, but two, of his own cameras.
The protections of the First Amendment are not limited to spoken words, but rather include gestures and other expressive conduct, even if vulgar or offensive to some. For example, in Cohen v. California (1971), the Supreme Court held that an individual wearing a jacket bearing the words “F**k the Draft” in a courthouse corridor could not be prosecuted for disturbing the peace.
Consistent with this precedent, although “the gesture generally known as ‘giving the finger’ … is widely regarded as an offensive insult,” Bad Frog Brewery, Inc. v. N.Y. State Liquor Auth. , (2d Cir. 1998), it is a gesture that is generally protected by the First Amendment. See, e.g. , Cruise-Gulyas v. Minard (6th Cir. 2019) (“Any reasonable [police] officer would know that a citizen who raises her middle finger engages in speech protected by the First Amendment.”); Garcia v. City of New Hope (8th Cir. 2021) (“[Plaintiff’s] raising his middle finger at [a police officer] is a rude and offensive gesture but nonetheless, under current precedent, is a constitutionally protected speech activity.”); Batyukova v. Doege(5th Cir. 2021) (same); accord Swartz v. Insogna (2d Cir. 2013) (holding that giving the middle finger could not support arrest for disorderly conduct); see generally Ira P. Robbins, Digitus Impudicus: The Middle Finger and the Law , 41 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1403, 1407–08, 1434 (2008) (observing that the middle finger can express a variety of emotions—such as anger, frustration, defiance, protest, excitement—or even “possess[ ] political or artistic value”).
Brittany Trevino’s original videos, including her update, are posted here.
Cops ROUGH UP Cancer Patient | $300,000 Lawsuit
The City of Long Beach has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who sued, alleging he was threatened, beaten and detained by police officers over an expired car registration in 2022. In a lawsuit filed in October, Johnny Jackson says he had just gotten out of the hospital after getting surgery to treat prostate cancer and had driven to Staples to make a copy of a doctor’s note for his employer when police pulled him over on the way back to his Long Beach home.
Cops Kick DYING Man Out of Ambulance!
This happened in Rochester. Cops arrived to the scene of paramedics requesting that their patient be ejected from the back of their ambulance. The man complains that he was “freaking out” because he couldn’t breathe. So they kick him out and he basically lays down on the sidewalk to die. They just leave him there for several minutes, flat on his face, on the sidewalk. Eventually they take him to the hospital. He died a couple of weeks later. The mayor has ordered an investigation. If police officers see someone in medical distress, do they have a constitutional obligation to help?
Cops Confront Upset Woman | In HER Driveway | Shoot 10 Times!
This footage comes from Rancho Grande, California, where the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office responded to a set of 911 calls regarding a woman with a knife who was looking for her dog, which she believed to have been stolen. The woman was reported to have a butcher knife. When the cops found her, she was sitting in her driveway in her muscle car. She refused to get out of her car and attempted to speed away. However, the two cops collectively fired ten rounds at her.
Cops Paralyze Handcuffed Man and Mock Him | He Later Dies!
This poor guy was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication and then had his head slammed into concrete while handcuffed. One of his family members sent me the raw bodycam footage that was just recently released. His mother has now filed a wrongful death lawsuit. In the video, you can see that the man, Anthony Silva, tries to tell the officers that he’s paralyzed. But they tell him he’s fine, and mock him. Apparently he spent nearly a year in the hospital, ultimately dying as a result of this.