Carter’s pickup truck had a dashboard camera, but it had become unglued from its mounting after a cold front blew through San Antonio. But Carter was wearing a body microphone, and police have reviewed an audio recording of what happened next:
Pruitt said the recording could be released at a later date with the district attorney’s approval. On Wednesday, First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herbert said his office needs to receive the case, review it and conduct its own investigation. That could take months, he said.

DURHAM, N.C. — Durham's police chief says that Jesus Huerta, the 17-year-old who died in police custody last month, shot himself in the head after he had been searched, handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car.

DURHAM, N.C. — Durham's police chief says that Jesus Huerta, the 17-year-old who died in police custody last month, shot himself in the head after he had been searched, handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car.

Former town police Officer Jason Zullo is expected to be sentenced Monday in federal court for obstruction of justice and could be sent to prison for 24 months.

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Zullo pleaded guilty in October 2012 to one charge of obstruction of justice after admitting that he purposely left out of a police report the fact that his cruiser had repeatedly hit a motorcycle driven by Robert Salatto, with Salatto’s helmetless girlfriend riding on the back, when he was chasing them on Oct. 18, 2008.

An unidentified police officer has been suspended after footage surfaced online of a 70-year-old woman being thrown to the ground face-first after being dragged out of her car.

The Boston Police Department (BPD) has indefinitely halted its use of license plate readers (LPR) following an investigation published on Saturday into their use by the investigative journalism organization MuckRock and the Boston Globe.

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One Harley Davidson motorcycle that had been reported stolen passed license plate scanners a total of 59 times between Oct. 19, 2012, and March 13, 2013. It was often recorded on sequential days or multiple times in a single day, all by the same scanner and almost always within the same half-hour span in the early evening.

Boston police chief technical officer John Daley indicated that each of these scans prompted an e-mail alert to the department’s Stolen Car Unit, but there is no indication that the motorcycle was ever apprehended or even stopped.

Some of the most frequent hits in the database were scanned in Boston police’s own employee parking lots. More than two hundred vehicles parked in the police substation lot in South Boston, a mix of official and personal vehicles, triggered scanner alerts over the six months. Police declined to discuss why they would be scanning the parking lot or why there would be so many potential violations.

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The national office of the ACLU also recently published an analysis showing that of the over 204 million plates that were scanned in Washington, DC during 2012, just 0.01 percent of them even registered as being on the “hot list,” which can range from a minor infraction to being wanted of a major crime.

“It’s clear that in fact the reason that police departments are using this technology might not actually be the reason that they say they’re using it for,” Crockford added. “We found that in this case that they’re not following up on the stolen car hits and to us that says: the only [reason] that it’s being used is to collect huge troves of people’s movements.”

Brian Sloma, Addison Weeks, Kenneth Chan and Eugene Lee were driving on the 71 Freeway when off-duty Huntington Park police officer Ricardo Curiel allegedly began tailgating the four.

Sloma claims in court documents he tapped his brakes to get Curiel to back away, but that action allegedly enraged the off-duty officer.

Court records say Curiel allegedly became more aggressive and was tailgating the four in a dangerous and unsafe manner.

Sloma again tapped on his brakes which finally forced Curiel to distance his car from theirs, according to the civil complaint filed July 17 in Los Angelels Federal Court in Los Angeles.

Sloma drove the car into the parking lots of the Shoppes shopping center and after circling the parking lot being closely followed by Curiel, he pulled his car in a parking stall, according to reports.

Curiel pulled up behind the car in a felony stop formation, according to the complaint. That’s when shots were fired.

Authorities said the shooting was sparked by road rage but did not say who detectives believed was the aggressor or provide details of the incident.


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The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office announced Thursday it would not prosecute anyone involved in the Oct. 4, 2012, shooting that sent two young men to the hospital following an apparent road rage incident involving an off-duty Huntington Park police officer at the Shoppes Center.

Authorities say a woman was killed in an accidental shooting by a law-enforcement officer during a drug raid in rural central Ohio.

A prosecutor in Ross County, south of Columbus, said 35-year-old Krystal Barrows, was accidentally shot in the head Wednesday night after officers entered a home to conduct the raid.

Prosecutor Matt Schmidt tells the Chillicothe Gazette ((http://ohne.ws/1c0PJMe ) that it wasn't clear whether the gunfire was the result of a weapon malfunction or user error. The county sheriff's office wouldn't answer questions about the shooting.

A sheriff's office news release said six people were charged during the raid and "large amounts" of heroin were found, along with cash and guns.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating.