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A police officer (Trenton Garner) in (Cedartown) Georgia shot and killed HeeHaw, the one-year-old mini donkey, who lived at a children's petting zoo in Cedartown, Georgia. A federal civil rights lawsuit has already been filed. I already interviewed HeeHaw's lawyers, Solomon Radner and Chris McCormick a few weeks ago. Now, the bodycam has finally been released, and it's bad...

TULSA, Okla. - The Ella Langley concert scheduled for Friday night at Tulsa’s BOK Center has been canceled after Langley’s team called off the show following a false bomb threat call, according to Tulsa police. Officers said they conducted a preliminary sweep with K-9 officers and found no indication of a threat. Tulsa police said they did not advise the BOK Center or the artist’s team to cancel the concert. “We could not find anything that would make that a credible threat,” Tulsa Police Department Captain Richard Meulenberg said. “So we advised the concert folks here, not the BOK, but...

An 11-year-old’s ride to a fishing spot in Oviedo, Florida, ended with police stopping him, fingerprinting him, towing his electric dirt bike, and ordering him to appear in court. Cade Kirchner, a sixth grader, was riding toward a nearby pond with his fishing pole on Labor Day, September 7. His father, Chris Kirchner, said Cade was about 300 feet from home and traveling on the road’s shoulder. The family says the bike was limited to 20 miles per hour. FOX 35 Orlando reported that police classified it as a motorcycle under Florida law. They say the 4,500-watt machine has pegs...

A Florida woman who was wrongfully arrested and held in jail for nearly two weeks in connection to a deadly hit-and-run shared her story with U.S. Congress members. Lindsey Isaacs addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday, part of its hearing, called "Always Watching: Flock's Nationwide AI Surveillance Network." What they're saying: "I came here today because I want you to understand that surveillance technology does not exist in a vacuum. Information collected by technology can become part of an investigation that affects a real human being," she said. She's talking about her own story....

A federal lawsuit claims the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office used the Flock cameras without a legitimate government purpose and in retaliation against the vet for exercising his First Amendment right. {...} Jones was subsequently arrested "for resisting and obstructing," according to a federal lawsuit he filed against the arresting officers and police department. But after being held in custody for five hours, he was released with no citations or criminal charges. An internal post-arrest memorandum reviewed by Reason revealed that Shayhorn's supervisor informed him shortly after the arrest that he'd, in fact, illegally stopped Jones, and he therefore could not...

A police officer who shot and killed a New Jersey college student in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, faces criminal charges, officials announced. Upper Pottsgrove Police Corporal Sean Farrell, 58, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, is charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection to the deadly shooting of 22-year-old Glenwood Earl Pysher IV. The shooting occurred on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, around 12:30 a.m. when Cpl. Farrell responded to a report of a man in the back of a home on Snyder Road. According to footage from his body worn camera, Cpl. Farrell walked down the driveway with his department-issued firearm drawn. Farrell positioned himself...

From wrongful arrests to officers stalking exes, license plate cameras keep exposing police failures.On October 4, 2025, Joaquin Deno attended his granddaughter's birthday party in Sanford, Florida. At the end of the night, he headed to his daughter's house. Eight miles down Interstate 4, a speeding car swerved across multiple lanes at over 100 mph. It swiped Deno's motorcycle, then hit a Ford Focus, causing a pileup, before driving away. Deno died at the scene, as did a county official and his wife. Witnesses said the speeding car was a Dodge Durango. Police found that a Flock camera—a type of...

119,511 views Aug 3, 2026 Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd gives an update on an Uber driver who was shot and killed by deputies after they say he rammed their patrol vehicles and racked a stolen gun. "We shot him a lot."............. Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. 11:52 VIDEO

Prosecutors charge that LAPD officer Daniel Flores violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which prohibits recording others without their consent. Flores filed an internal affairs complaint against his LAPD colleagues after recording them making racist, homophobic and sexist comments. Flores’ lawyer said the case sends a message that “if you document bigotry inside the LAPD, you will be the one who ends up in a courtroom.” Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job. The officer, Daniel Flores, was...

Police in Florida arrested a man and held him in jail for nearly three months based on a bad facial recognition result. It's far from the first time such a thing has happened—in fact, it's at least the second time that the same sheriff's office was involved, according to Action News Jax. In April 2025, a man in Jacksonville, Florida, purchased a car from someone he met in a grocery store parking lot. When he learned the car was stolen, he reported the crime to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Using surveillance footage from the parking lot, investigators ran the suspect...

The Los Angeles Police Department said it's investigating an incident in which an officer shot and killed a dog while answering a 911 call, which turned out to be a false alarm over a woman celebrating the New York Knicks' historic championship win on Saturday. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said in a statement Wednesday that the department is thoroughly investigating the incident, which he called "incredibly tragic," and vowed transparency. Around 8:55 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to a 911 call of a woman screaming inside a condo in Canoga Park, the LAPD said. Witnesses and the son of the woman,...

A Milwaukee police officer resigned after investigators found he had used automated license plate reader technology to track a woman he was dating nearly 180 times in the span of two months. The Institute for Justice points to a Kansas police chief who allegedly ran an ex-girlfriend's plate more than 200 times. In Kentucky, another officer reportedly tracked an ex hundreds of times over a two-month period. In each instance, the searches were entered into the systems as investigative activity, which means databases built for legitimate criminal work were allegedly repurposed for deeply personal surveillance.

A sheriff's deputy has been fired after allegedly shooting an unarmed Texas freshman dead in his car. Brazoria County deputy Kevin Tippit was sacked this week following an investigation into the death of John Mendoza Jr, 18, on June 1. Protests erupted at Texas State University after it was claimed that Tippit fired at the student following a routine traffic stop near Lake Jackson, around 55 miles south of Houston. Police said Tippit tried to pull Mendoza over when he left a park, but the freshman allegedly tried to flee the scene and led the deputy on a mile-long pursuit....

The Pasadena Police Department released video on Thursday of an officer who accidentally shot a colleague while engaged in “unsafe and out-of-policy horseplay” with loaded firearms. It happened around 6:18 p.m. on Sept. 7, 2025, in the department’s parking structure, located at 240 Ramona Street, according to Chief Gene Harris. In the cruiser dashcam video, a police car can be seen pulling into the parking garage in front of two uniformed officers, who were standing at the rear of a police SUV that had its trunk open. As the cruiser approached, an officer could be seen drawing his gun and...

The Brief A judge who approved a search warrant that led to the arrest of a Henderson County resident over a Facebook post concerning Trinidad's water supply says he was misled by the Trinidad Police Department. Judge R. Scott McKee sent a letter to outgoing Trinidad Police Chief Charles Gregory that questions "the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of information presented" by his officers when he approved the warrant. The woman arrested has since filed a lawsuit against the city after her charges were dropped, while the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is investigating the city's water supply. SNIP

When Hugo Parra was arrested last year on felony charges, his pleas of innocence fell on deaf ears. San Diego police had a description of the Alfa Romeo car he was riding in and a witness who identified him during a curbside lineup as the man who brandished a handgun in Golden Hill. They had also checked the city’s automatic license plate camera system, run by the private company Flock, and got a “hit,” substantiating the claim. The problem, says attorney Alex Coolman, was that Parra was five miles away from Golden Hill at the time of the crime, and...

@shadowJ47 This is attempted murder caught on multiple angles by UK cops gone full rogue. A lone patriot stands there with arms folded when the riot squad swarms him, slamming shield edges into his head and neck over and over like they’re trying to crack his skull open. Blood flying, repeated rabbit punches with riot gear — the kind of blows banned in boxing because they kill. This isn’t “restraint.” It’s a pack hunting a native Brit in his own country while real criminals get kid gloves. Two-tier policing at its bloodiest: protect the imports, smash the locals who dare...

Violence breaks out in Southampton as police confirm that one person has been arrested during clashes between riot police and demonstrators. More than one thousand protesters gathered outside Southampton Central Police Station to demand action after the murder of Henry Nowak.

This is the moment a student dying from a 7cm stab wound to his chest is handcuffed by police. In body-worn camera footage, Henry Nowak says ‘I can’t breathe’ as police officers handcuff him. Weapons-obsessed killer Vickrum Digwa, 23, can be heard telling officers he was the victim with a swollen eye and insists his victim wasn’t stabbed. Nowak, dying in a pool of blood on the drive of a Hampshire home, can be heard calling out ‘I’ve been stabbed’ three times before an officer replies ‘You’ve been stabbed? Whereabouts? I don’t think you have mate’. He is placed into...

A Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy pulled over 36-year-old Kathleen Thomas in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, back in February. His accusation was simple. He said he saw her holding or working a cellphone with her right hand. There was one detail he had not accounted for. Thomas does not have a right hand. Her right arm ends at the elbow. She showed him. He kept going and wrote the citation anyway. The bodycam footage surfaced this week, and people online noticed fast. The video shows the deputy lecturing Thomas about distracted driving while she flashes the arm that physically cannot...