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Records show that Lemay’s injuries were the topic of conversation in subsequent communications between Officer Bush and Officer Brandon McHale.

“YOUR BITE OR (Dietz’s)?” McHale inquired.

“I LET (Dietz) HAVE IT,” Bush said.

“NICE, HOW BAD?” McHale asked.

“BAD,” Bush replied. “FACE AND BACK.”

“SKIN GRAFT BAD?” McHale asked.

“NO,” Bush said.

“COULDA BEEN WORSE THEN, HE SHOULD HAVE COMPLIED,” McHale said, ending the exchange.

The Herald-Tribune obtained a memorandum of the counseling that Bush received in relation to the incident. It states that the officer’s messages to Dietz when responding to the call concerning Lemay were unprofessional and violated departmental policy.

“E-mails and Messages sent via the (mobile digital terminal) are public record, and employees will be held accountable for the content of the messages,” the memorandum states. “This memorandum of counseling shall be characterized as a corrective rather than punitive action. Further violations will result in progressive discipline.”

However, no internal affairs investigation was ever conducted regarding the communications or the attack on Lemay.

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A Bronx man who spent three nightmarish years as a teen in Rikers Island awaiting trial killed himself just days before he was due back in court to face new charges his lawyer blasted as “baseless.”

Kalief Browder, who hanged himself with an air-conditioning cord on Saturday, suffered flashbacks from his Rikers experiences when busted in April for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to his brother. “It definitely brought back some bad memories,” Kamal Browder told the Daily News.

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The mother of a police officer is recovering from her injuries after being shot by her own child and in-law with whom she lives.

North Las Vegas police announced last week that no charges will be filed against the officer and her husband who fired more than two dozen rounds at their mother as she returned home around 11:30 pm.

The officer claimed that the 27 rounds were fired “accidentally” and so the department said there is no need for charges.

Of course, shooting at an intruder in your home is a justified measure. However, what does it say about the trigger-happy nature of this officer who would unleash 27 rounds at her own mom, who had to have been screaming for her life upon hearing the first round being fired?

Those who are familiar with firearms know that it takes, at a minimum, several seconds to unload the magazine of a standard pistol. This scene must have looked like a war zone during the shooting.

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Instead of simply doing their jobs, officers exposed the blatant double standard between themselves and ordinary citizens by refusing to arrest a deputy who admitted to driving drunk on body cam video after vomiting on himself. Although the cops had probable cause to arrest the inebriated deputy, one of the officers shut off her body camera while apparently discussing how to cover up the embarrassing incident with the police chief.

...Later on in the video, Corn informed Porter, “I just came to make sure you made it home, but seeing you in the vehicle I had to check on you. I’m wishing I hadn’t, but now I’m stuck.”

“No, you’re not stuck, Jen,” Porter retorted.

“I am, because somebody saw you drive out of there,” Corn replied.

“No, we’re good,” asserted Porter.

“You’re drunk,” Corn observed.

“Yeah,” stated Porter.

“And you just drove here from…from the theater,” Corn noted.

“Yes…two miles,” admitted Porter.

“Yup, I know,” acknowledged Corn. “And I’m really hoping that there’s nothing in the law that will stick here.”

According to Corn and Krebs, Porter had vomited on himself and clearly appeared drunk. After repeatedly attempting to walk away, Porter was forced to remain near his vehicle while waiting for Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Dickson and Poulsbo Chief Al Townsend to arrive. Instead of administering field sobriety tests or conducting further questioning about his admitted DUI, the officers stood with Porter in awkward silence for nearly 20 minutes while waiting for their bosses.

During this time, Porter did several things that would have gotten a normal citizen, tasered, handcuffed, beaten, or killed. Getting out of the car when told not to, repeatedly putting hands in pockets, and refusing to obey the officers’ commands have proven to be death sentences for otherwise completely innocent people.

Immediately after Chief Townsend’s arrival, Corn informed her boss that she was shutting off her body camera before discussing the details of Porter’s DUI and subsequent detention. Instead of ordering Corn to leave the video running, Townsend allowed his subordinate to shut off her camera in order to secretly devise how to let Porter off the hook without arresting him.

Instead of chastising Porter for driving drunk and endangering lives, Corn apologetically whimpered at Porter, “I…I’m just gonna be straight to up for you…with you, because I respect you. Um, right now, we have the reasonable suspicion to detain you. Ok? But we don’t, at this time, have probable cause for your arrest. Ok?”

After obtaining the body cam video and police report from the city through a public records request, the Kitsap Sun also discovered that Corn never asked Porter to perform any sobriety tests, take a field Breathalyzer, search his car, or inform him of his Miranda rights before conducting further questioning after his initial confession. Although Corn claimed they did not have enough probable cause to arrest Porter, Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim McDonough disagreed with her assessment.

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Eleven days prior to the incident, Porter rear-ended a car waiting to make a left turn at an intersection at 8 a.m. on October 5. He returned to work on November 11, after learning that no criminal charges would be filed against him.

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The prosecutor in Netflix's true-crime docuseries Making a Murderer is getting trashed on Yelp as viewers learn about his role in Steven Avery's subsequently overturned sexual assault conviction.

The show, which began streaming on Dec. 18, has quickly become a hot topic online, leading to bad reviews for Ken Kratz's law firm's Yelp page.

The former district attorney, who resigned in 2014 when it was revealed that he had sent lewd text messages to the girlfriend of a man he was prosecuting for domestic abuse, prosecuted Avery, the main subject of the series, for sexual assault in 1985.

In 2003, after Avery served 18 years in prison, DNA evidence linked the crime to another suspect and Avery was released. Avery's lawyers alleged law enforcement planted evidence that led to his conviction. Two years after his conviction was overturned, however, Avery was arrested and subsequently convicted for another murder.

Today Kratz is a criminal defense lawyer in Wisconsin with his own shingle, Kratz Law Firm, which currently has a rating of only one-and-a-half stars on Yelp as people have flooded the business with scathing reviews now that he's returned to the spotlight with Making a Murderer.

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...Wang runs from behind Rice and pepper sprays him in the face, and then strikes Rice’s hand repeatedly at full force with his baton. Rice stands there without flinching, calmly taking the beating from this maniacal cop.

This lack of reaction infuriates Wang even further, as he pepper sprays Rice again and again. Then he strikes Rice’s other hand at full force with the baton, causing him to drop his bag. Wang continues striking Rice with the baton until Rice collapses in the sand. Wang gives him a final blow to the back and then stomps on the limp man’s body.

Rice suffered broken bones in his right hand from this beating. He rightly claims that Wang used excessive force, and the defendants “took steps to write reports that altered the events as they actually took place so as to justify Wang use force [sic] against the plaintiff to effectuate his arrest.” Wang deceptively attempted to charge Rice with resisting arrest too.

“Prosecutors initially declined to press charges against Wang, but chief prosecutor Keith Keneshiro disagreed and ordered his staff to re-examine the case, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.”

Rice pleaded no contest to obstructing a government operation—a misdemeanor—and prosecutors declined to charge him with resisting arrest. He seeks punitive damages for negligence, civil rights violations, conspiracy, assault and battery, false imprisonment and emotional distress.

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The death of a 74-year-old man who suffered neck injuries during a struggle with security guards last fall at MedStar Washington Hospital Center has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Monday.

James E. McBride, who had been a patient, was restrained by guards who were trying to bring him back to the hospital after he left without signing out on Sept. 29. He died two days later.

The D.C. medical examiner’s office said Monday that McBride’s cause of death was “blunt force injuries” of the neck. It also said the injuries involved “cervical spinal cord transection” and “vertebral artery compression.” They did not offer a further explanation.


D.C. police officials said they continue to investigate the death but they declined to comment further. Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in the District, said Monday that there is an ongoing investigation into the case. He said no charges have been filed.

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FIVE MONTHS AFTER Limerick man Jason Corbett died, his American wife and her father have been charged over his death.

Last night, Davidson County Assistant District Attorney Greg Brown confirmed both Molly Martens Corbett and Thomas Michael Martens were to face charges of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter following a grand jury indictment.

The pair are not in police custody. However, it is believed that they are in the family home in Tennessee and will hand themselves into authorities within the coming days.

Corbett, 39, sustained fatal head injuries during an alleged assault in his North Carolina home on 2 August 2015. Shortly after the incident, police said they were not looking for any suspects outside the home, naming Molly and Tom as ‘persons of interest’.

In a call to emergency services, Tom – a retired FBI agent – said he hit his son-in-law with a baseball bat during a dispute. When paramedics arrived, Jason was unresponsive. He died later from his injuries.

Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast this morning, Molly’s uncle Mike Earnest insisted the father and daughter were acting in self defence.

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A Yuba-Sutter drug task force agent is suspected of illegally transporting 200 pounds of marijuana while on vacation in Pennsylvania.

Officials said Yuba County sheriff's Deputy Christopher "Mark" Heath, 37, was arrested Monday by the York County Multijurisdictional Drug Enforcement Unit in York, Pa., on suspicion of conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance and delivery of a controlled substance.

He was booked into jail in York County and released Tuesday night after posting a $1 million bail. York County sheriff's Lt. Gregory Ickler said Heath contacted a bail bondsman Tuesday and likely paid a bond of between 5 and 10 percent. There was no inquiry into where the funds came from, he said.

Heath is a Yuba County sheriff's deputy who has been assigned to NET-5, the bi-county drug and gang task force, for three years. He wrote search warrants, investigated drug crimes and served as a witness in marijuana-trafficking cases.

He was placed on administrative leave and will receive his salary pending the results of an administrative investigation, which is usually completed before a criminal case, according to Undersheriff Jerry Read. Last year, Heath's total pay and benefits were $122,179, according to Transparent California.

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