A Chicago officer is being investigated after allegations emerged that he punched a pregnant woman in the stomach. Apparently, the altercation occurred after the woman laughed at the the officer for failing to catch a suspect he was chasing on foot.

Allegedly, after failing to catch the suspected drug dealer, the unnamed officer turned on local resident, Nicola Robinson, for laughing at his efforts. After shoving the African-American woman, the officer punched her in the stomach, and made racist remarks.

Robinson claims the officer said “You black bitch, you better be glad I didn't hit you hard enough to make you lose your ******* baby.”

The incident occurred this past Friday. Apparently, the woman's sister witnessed the event, and a nearby security camera caught it on tape.

Chicago PD’s Independent Police Review Authority is now conducting an investigation. Authorities are calling the accusations disturbing and have said such behavior, if proven true, will not be tolerated.

Robinson spent five hours in the hospital before being released. She is eight months pregnant.

"I lost my temper," Honolulu Police Officer Vince Morre told a federal magistrate judge Tuesday morning when asked why he attacked two men in a game room.

Morre, a 9-year veteran of the force, pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of both men.

Only Hawaii News Now was able to obtain surveillance video from inside the game room that shows Officer Morre punch, kick, and slap the victims who were not resisting or confronting the officer. Morre even threw a chair that sent one victim to the hospital to get stitches. The video was a key piece of evidence in the case.

Neither man interfered when Morre and two other officers walked into the room looking for a fugitive. The plain clothes officers walked around the game room before realizing the fugitive was not there. But instead of leaving, Officer Morre attacked the others. One of the victims told me Morre was mad because they didn't open the door fast enough.

"He's not making excuses," says his attorney David Hayakawa, "Everyone sees the video, everyone is shocked by the video."

"When people see that, that trust and confidence in the department has been decreased," says HPD Chief Louis Kealoha, "But... I hope it reinforces our commitment to the public that whenever things like this happen we're going to investigate it and we're going to take swift and serious action that this won't happen again."

Morre faces 10 years in federal prison for each of the two counts. He will be sentenced in August.

He is resigning from the police department.

Last month, the Baltimore Police Department reportedly posted a series of videos to YouTube showing surveillance footage of a police van transporting Freddie Gray to a booking station after his arrest on April 12. The department has since taken one video down, while the others remain online.


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So what appeared in the video that caused police to take it down from YouTube? Baltimore police didn't immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment. They also didn't provide the Sun with an explanation.

According to the paper, at 8:46 a.m., the surveillance video captured the police van carrying Gray driving around the corner from Presbury Street, headed south on Mount Street. A minute later, the van is parked north of Baker Street. Gray isn't visible in the back of the vehicle, but the recording showed a witness who was shooting cellphone video at the scene.

The witness, who requested anonymity to the Sun, reportedly was accompanied by a local woman named Michelle Gross. Earlier, Gross said she had seen the police dragging Gray into a van before officers drove away with him. She lent her cellphone to her neighbor, who called 911 to report the incident. The pair then went to Mount and Baker streets, where the neighbor recorded Gray's encounter with the officers.

That cellphone recording, which Sun journalists viewed and posted online Wednesday, shows Gray's body halfway out of the vehicle with his stomach on the floor and his legs hanging off the back. Four officers standing over him placed shackles around his ankles.The short video shows police restraining Gray, as another officer enters the scene, exits his vehicle and walks toward the van. Gross yells to Gray to ask if he is OK, but no response is audible. Her neighbor shouts something at Officer William Porter, who the Sun notes later is one of the six officers charged in Gray's death. The neighbor told the newspaper that Porter pointed to Lieutenant Brian Rice, who eventually moved toward Gross and her neighbor with other officers and threatened to use a Taser if they didn't leave the scene.

The Sun credits the cellphone video, as well as the two witness accounts, as providing the most detailed public account of the van stop.

The Chief of Virginia Beach Police has requested an internal investigation into a Use of Force incident that occurred around 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning.

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Now Virginia Beach Police say there are two videos circulating on social media. In the second video, the suspect can be seen running after police tried to Tase him.

A witness says police caught up with him a few minutes later about two blocks away. He was then taken into custody and that’s when the encounter happened.

There is no footage of the initial alleged assault, which is why police responded to the scene.

The Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge in South Hackensack, N.J., had all of the accouterments: dancers in various states of undress, bouncers, bartenders and private stalls for lap dances.

But the club also had an unusual distinction: David Polos, an official with the Drug Enforcement Administration in New York City, and Glen Glover, a civilian D.E.A. employee, each had ownership interests and actively participated in its management, the authorities say.

On Wednesday, that secret connection was revealed when the two men were charged with lying during national security background checks about their ownership interests and their work in the strip club.

Mr. Polos, 51, had been with the agency for more than 20 years, most recently as an assistant special agent in charge. In that role, he helped supervise the New York Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Strike Force, a multiagency group that targets large narcotics traffickers.

Mr. Polos, of West Nyack, N.Y., resigned from the agency last month, a D.E.A. spokeswoman said.

Each man was charged with one count of making false statements, and if convicted, could face up to five years in prison. The men had claimed that they had no employment outside the agency, when in fact they had ownership interests in the lounge, and actively managed it while working for the D.E.A., according to a criminal complaint filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Both men had “important and sensitive” law enforcement jobs, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.

“They also had other secret jobs,” he added, “which they concealed from D.E.A. in order to maintain their national security clearance, betraying the oaths they had taken and creating needless risk for the agency they worked for.”

The charges were announced by Mr. Bharara; Diego Rodriguez, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York office; and Ronald R. Gardella, who leads the New York office of the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General.

The former Montgomery County Precinct 1 Constable’s deputy accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy in a drunken motorcycle crash earlier this year has been indicted for intoxication manslaughter.

A grand jury indicted James E. Selmser III, 26, on the second-degree felony charge April 30. He waived a formal arraignment Thursday afternoon.

The case was reset for another court setting on June 25.

Prosecutors and Selmser’s attorney, Brent Mayr, told The Courier on Thursday that the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office is still gathering reports and evidence for the defense to review.

Selmser is accused of operating his motorcycle after a long night of alcohol consumption at a Huntsville bar, leading to the crash that killed rookie MCSO Deputy Catherine Breeding, who was 21 years old.

What were the sweetest and most welcomed words I heard today? Those words would be "We the jury, in the case of Shimek v/s City of Burien, on the charge of Obstruction, find the Defendant NOT GUILTY. Similarly, on the charge of resisting arrest, we find the Defendant NOT GUILTY."

While Prosecution did their best to - at length - talk about anything but the applicable laws regarding my documenting police activity, the argument was simply not strong enough to sway a jury of my peers to see it the way the cops and prosecution saw it. I will say that the ONLY thing that saved me from conviction was the fact that I was rolling video and documenting my own arrest. The video was KEY, in deciding what was fact and what was not.

While step one, the criminal conviction, is now taken care of, there is still work to do. The City still has to answer for taking my memory card, using force against me, and throwing me in jail.

I'm being pulled over for following a crime scene vehicle. I followed and recorded her driving over 80 mph and tailgating people. She had the officers pull me over

Christian County Sheriff Joey Kyle has agreed to spend a year in jail after pleading guilty Wednesday to embezzling county funds and helping in a fraud scheme.

As part ofthe plea agreement, Kyle, 53, has resigned as sheriff and will pay more than $50,000 restitution to Christian County before going to federal prison for one year and a day.

The plea agreement, announced Wednesday, comes five months after federal investigators subpoenaed Kyle's credit card spending records and campaign finance information, along with county audit reports and records involving purchases the county made at six businesses dating back to 2011.

</p><p>Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and&nbsp;very nearly killed their 19 month old child. The no-knock raid was prompted by an anonymous tip which suggested there were drugs in the house. As the officers forced their way into the home, they lobbed a flash grenade which wound up landing in the crib where baby &ldquo;bou-bou&rdquo; was sleeping. As it erupted, the infant suffered severe burns and had to be taken to the hospital, and placed in a medically induced coma.</p><p>To any sane person, the sheriff&rsquo;s department would be responsible for the damage inflicted on this child. Not only were there no drugs in the house, but the suspect they were looking for was found elsewhere. And despite their claims that they had the house under surveillance for two days prior to the raid, somehow they had no idea that there were children who lived there.</p><p>Still, the family had to fight the county tooth and nail to have their $1 million in medical bills reimbursed. Last month they settled with the county, and received $964,000, half of which will be given to them now, and the rest will be given to baby after he turns 18. While it&rsquo;s great to hear that the family is getting something out of this, it&rsquo;s shocking to see how defiant the sheriff&rsquo;s department was, right to the very end. They never once admitted culpability for their gross negligence, and in a bizarre twist, their defense statement in court basically blamed the infant for his own injuries.</p><p>...</p><p></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Can you believe that? It gets much worse from here. When photographic evidence of the baby&rsquo;s horrific injuries were shown in court, the defendants denied that the photograph &ldquo;accurately depicts the injuries allegedly sustained.&rdquo; The statement goes on to the blame the parents and the baby because the damages caused to the child were &ldquo;directly and proximately caused by the contributory and comparative negligence of the plaintiffs and their failure to exercise ordinary care.&rdquo;</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">And as a last-ditch effort to avoid paying the bill, the sheriff&rsquo;s department invoked the principle of &ldquo;laches,&rdquo; which in the legal world, is a kind of use it or lose it statement. It basically means that you don&rsquo;t have the right to sue, if you waited a long period of time in the hopes that future circumstances would favor your case. It doesn&rsquo;t apply in this case at all because the family almost immediately filed a notice with the court after the incident.</span></p><p id="406">

</p><p><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">On May 14, 24-year-old New York resident Michael Barber captured disturbing video footage of two plainclothes NYPD officers harassing a 14-year-old girl near the intersection of 140th St. and Hamilton Place in the Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan. &nbsp;In response,<strong> Barber&rsquo;s image was posted to the NYPD&rsquo;s 30th Precinct Facebook page, which described Barber as &ldquo;a complete idiot&rdquo; before adding in a separate comment, &ldquo;F**k these Savages They should all die a nice slow death!&rdquo; </strong>&nbsp;In addition to stirring yet another wave of&nbsp;backlash against the Department, Barber&rsquo;s footage of the incident has also prompted NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton to call for members of the public&nbsp;to stop filming police officers.</span></p><p id="222">

</p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Tuesday evening, following a police chase that ended at the intersection of Sierra Vista and Belmont, a K9 officer attacked an innocent bystander standing in his own front yard.&nbsp;&nbsp; Abc30 reports the police K9 &ldquo;got loose&rdquo; and mauled 38-year-old Hanley Sell.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">According to Sell&rsquo;s niece and sister, Fresno police officers attempted to intimidate the family and told them they would be sued if they posted photos of the incident on the internet.&nbsp; A photo of Sell in the hospital bleeding from his arms was posted to Facebook by Sell&rsquo;s sister</span>:</p><p></p><p id="246">