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Two people were shot yesterday afternoon by a Columbus police officer who opened fire after a door was slammed on his hand at a South Side home.

Brian Bates, 44, was charged last night with felony assault on a police officer, whose name hasn’t yet been released. Police say that Bates pinned the officer’s hand in the door.

Bates, of the East Side, was hit in his neck by the officer’s bullet, which also passed through his cheek.

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One of the two officers knocked on the back door, and Bates answered. Weiner said that Bates slammed the door on the officer’s hand.

The officer yelled repeatedly, “Let me go!” but Bates held the door shut.

The officer pulled out his gun with his free hand and fired multiple times through the wooden door. At least three bullet holes were visible in the door.

Police said at least nine others were inside the house when the shooting occurred; no one else was injured.

Neighbors say they saw police escorting people out of the green duplex, which is west of the Parsons Avenue intersection.

Weiner said the officer fired his gun because he was in a “vulnerable position.”

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Al Avignone, defense attorney for Madsen, says the video has been edited and only tells part of the story.

"In the United States of America we judge people on the whole story like we should," Avignone said. "The entire story is not on those five minutes. So the public is not seeing the entire story."

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At some point Jeremy began trying to film the encounter to protect himself.

Officer Padilla reacted by kicking Jeremy to the ground; and as the kick smashed into Jeremey’s testicle, it was so hard that it literally caused his testicle to break apart, according to reports. Jeremy has since lost the testicle due to the incident.

Jeremy thought that he had captured the abuse on his phone.

But that’s when Officer Pablo Padilla reached into Jeremy’s car and grabbed his phone away.

Officer Padilla’s own lapel camera then captured him going through the footage on Jeremy’s phone and deleting the part where he kicked Jeremey to the ground.

After playing the footage in court, a judge has now decided that Officer Padilla was indeed tampering with evidence.

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Officer Clorenzo Griffin has been a police officer in Miami for four years.



He was a hardcore advocate for the US government’s War on Drugs.

His reason for becoming a cop was so that he could “counsel children,” he said, “about the dangers of drugs.”

Surprisingly — or perhaps expectantly, depending on how you look at things — Officer Griffin has been caught speeding with 24 pounds of marijuana packed into his car after he was involved in a drug deal.

It began in the parking lot of a motel in Yuba City, California.

Although he was supposed to be off-duty at the time, Officer Mack was fully decked out in his police gear, sources say.

At the Best Western Inn parking lot on Highway 99, Officer Griffin and two of his accomplices were supposed to meet a dealer and pay for marijuana, but instead used guns to rob the dealer and take off with all of the marijuana.

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Chief Richard L. Castle said in a statement that Glans was suspended without pay after officials were alerted to the footage of his encounter with Fitch and Roberts.

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A Saratoga County sheriff's sergeant abruptly resigned Monday as he was charged with official misconduct and harassment after a video was posted on the Internet over the weekend that purportedly captured him slapping a man whose car he wanted to search.

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A Charleston police officer is expected to resign after he threw a homeless man’s backpack into the Elk River during a confrontation in August, according to several sources close to the investigation. The man’s backpack contained a laptop that had the only photographs he had of his late wife, the sources said.

Patrolman Brian Lightner has been suspended with pay since Sept. 9 — about four weeks after an incident that resulted in the arrest of Andrew Joel Hunt, 26, of Charleston on disorderly conduct and public intoxication charges. The charges against Hunt were dismissed on Oct. 28, according to documents on file in Charleston municipal court.

The backpack and laptop were recovered from the river by the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office dive team, according to several officials, who agreed to speak anonymously about the allegations against Lightner.

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• One city attorney called his legal documents a “masterpiece of deception” and has won 96 percent of his forfeiture cases.
• An assistant district attorney takes property, even from owners who have been acquitted, because “people are not found innocent, they are found not guilty.”
• One government official doesn’t want to disclose information about civil forfeiture, because it might become a “bullet-point for people that are trying to fight the program.”
• A prosecutor teaches other attorneys how to take property from innocent people. He even offers this piece of advice, “IF IN DOUBT…TAKE IT!”

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A traffic stop along Interstate 40 is raising new questions about your constitutional rights. Among the questions: what happens to your right to say "no" to a search when police are looking for cash?

The traffic stop occurred west of Nashville, along a stretch of interstate in Dickson County that's become well-known for a controversial practice known as "policing for profit."

For three years, our investigation has documented how drug interdiction agencies in that area target out-of-state drivers. Those agencies fund their operations under a state law that lets them seize cash from drivers based on the suspicion that it's drug money.

"It seems like Nazi Germany, you've got to have the paperwork and the proper authorities to come through Tennessee," said San Diego resident Ronnie Hankins.

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POULSBO, Wash. -- A new Youtube account is pushing local police agencies to reconsider their use of body-mounted cameras.

Despite considering officer accountability a top priority, police say records requests from that new website may make the programs too expensive and too invasive.

Poulsbo Police have been wearing body cameras for about a year, and the department says the results have been good.

"It ensures accountability for the officers," said Chief Al Townsend, "but it ensures accountability for the people the officers are encountering, too."

It's the same thing for Bremerton police, who finished a six week pilot project this summer and expect to receive funding to start a regular program in 2015.

"We had a great experience," said Bremerton Police Chief Steve Strachan. "The video that we had was very very good and we would like to go full steam ahead."

But last month reality hit, in the form of a new YouTube user website, set up by someone under the name, "Police Video Requests." The profile says it posts dash and body cam videos received after public records requests to Washington state police departments. There are just a couple of police videos there posted within the past week.

People can set up user accounts and if there are enough subscribers and page views they can make money -- think of crazy animal videos. But in this case, it's videos of people the police have stopped or interacted with for one reason or another.

It doesn't sit well with local police departments.

"They're just using it to post on the internet," said Chief Townsend, "and I suspect it's for commercial purposes."

In September, "Police Video Requests" anonymously asked Poulsbo PD for every second of body cam video it has ever recorded. The department figures it will take three years to fill that request. And Chief Townsend believes it is a huge privacy concern, as officers often see people on their worst days.

"People with mental illness, people in domestic violence situations; do we really want to have to put that video out on YouTube for people? I think that's pushing it a little bit," he said.

Now the city of Poulsbo says it may have to suspend or even end its police body cam program. Bremerton PD is, at least temporarily, shelving its plans to start up its own body cam program because of the blanket requests received by Poulsbo and other agencies in the state.

"In a perverse way," said Chief Strachan, "this is driving us the opposite direction of where we should be."

Both departments say they have no problem with legitimate video requests from either the media or people with police complaints. But they don't want someone making money by posting police videos that could be an invasion of privacy.

Both departments also plan to ask the state legislature during it's upcoming session to amend public records laws to specifically prohibit these types of blanket video records requests.

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A Vancouver man who called 911 to report a suspicious car on Halloween was fired upon several times — and hit by one round in the leg -- by law enforcement officers who mistook him for an armed suspect, the Vancouver Police Department said Tuesday.

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