A 34-year-old man was in critical condition after police said he was shot by an officer early Monday when he brandished a knife and barricaded himself in a room during a domestic disturbance at a Piedmont Heights home.

The man, who apparently had cut himself, was bleeding out and refused to obey officers’ commands to drop the weapon before he was shot shortly after...

I have a video I'd like to share with you guys. I actually was handcuffed and held for 40 minutes. For apparently making their presence too know. I got a disorderly conduct charge for simply asking why he was parked out side of my house for an hour and a half. After I was let out of cuffs they told me I should've moved down the sidewalk and filmed them. Which I asked to do. My conclusion is that they were just upset they were forced to abide by the rules. Because a citizen was filming

The Posse Comitatus Act is the United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) that was passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1981. Its intent (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) was to limit the powers of Federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce the state laws.

Woman is thrown to the ground then repeatedly beaten as onlookers yell for police to stop.
Reason being: "She mouthed off at him".

Tuesday's double fatal head-on crash on the state Thruway has police and family members perplexed about why a New York City police officer reportedly drove the wrong way and slammed into another vehicle driven by a Newburgh chef who only months earlier had lost his wife to cancer.

The Huffington Post's Ryan J. Reilly and the Washington Post's Wesley Lowery were arrested Wednesday evening while covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, who was shot by a police officer last week. The journalists were released unharmed, but their detentions highlighted the town's ramped up police presence, which has left numerous residents injured by rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas during protests held every night after Brown's death.

SWAT officers roughed up the reporters inside a McDonald's, where both journalists were working. Reilly snapped a photo, prompting cops to request his identification.

"The officer in question, who I repeatedly later asked for his name, grabbed my things and shoved them into my bag," said Reilly, who appeared on MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes" shortly after his release to recount the arrest. "He used his finger to put a pressure point on my neck."

"They essentially acted as a military force. It was incredible," Reilly said. "The worst part was he slammed my head against the glass purposefully on the way out of McDonald's and then sarcastically apologized for it."

The FBI later arrested Derrick Murray, a suspected local gang leader who lived nearby in his mother’s house and was using his smartphone to access the Milan's unsecured wireless network.

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City attorneys contend that the force used to execute the search warrant, was “objectively reasonable” and that officials are immune from liability.

SAYREVILLE – A state appellate court has overturned the conviction of a bar owner on charges that he assaulted a police officer because the trial judge denied the businessman an opportunity to argue self-defense against police who injured him.

In overturning the conviction of Cagney's Pub owner Michael Mauro Jr., 38, the judges relied on a 1970 state Supreme Court ruling that a citizen can use "reasonable force" for protection if a police officer is using "excessive and unnecessary force." The precedent protects the citizen from criminal prosecution even if the officer is injured.

Mauro was sentenced to four years probation after he was found guilty of assaulting Sgt. Robert Lasko and resisting arrest during an incident at the bar in January 2009.

McDonald grabbed a firearm because he heard a bang and other sounds from inside the attached garage. When he opened the door, he allegedly fired at the person he saw coming toward him, the Winchester Star reports.

After he turned on the light, he realized the intruder was his daughter, who had snuck out earlier in the evening and was possibly trying to get back in without getting caught.

The girl, whose name has not been released, suffered bullet wounds in her torso.

McDonald attempted to drive his daughter to a local hospital, but wrecked his car on the way there.

A fire and rescue team took the girl the rest of the way to the hospital where she is recovering, Raw Story reports.