Six police officers in Detroit are being accused of acting like they were straight out of “Super Bad.”

Cops who thought three teens were interfering with a prostitution sting posted a picture of one of the handcuffed boys online, drove them in unmarked cars at “reckless speeds” on residential streets and dumped them off in an unsafe area before ordering them to walk home, a lawsuit claims.

The suit, filed on Nov. 18 in federal court in Detroit, alleges a “blatant abuse of authority” on behalf of the officers on Aug. 26, when Hassan Abdallah and Ibrahim Bazzi, both 17, picked up their friend Ali Chami, 18, after his shift at the Coney Island restaurant in Detroit. As the three were about to leave, Hassan spotted a relative pull into a nearby CVS and waved to the man, who drove over and greeted the teens.

But cops thought the teens were discouraging the man from talking to an undercover prostitution “decoy,” according to the suit alleging a slew of bad behavior and police hijinks that got out of hand. The suit seeks unspecified damages.

The horrific moment an injured kangaroo was shot by a police officer seconds before a child passed by was captured in graphic footage by a shocked onlooker in Mernda, Melbourne.

Dashcam video shows the moments before a man, stopped during a traffic stop, gets busted for trafficking 17 pounds of marijuana by Officer's of the Woodstock Police Department.

The man, identified as Philip Williams, with the help of an attorney, was able to obtain the dashcam video of his arrest. The video shows longtime Woodstock Police Officer, Eric Schmidtke, illegally calling for a K-9 unit during a traffic stop without any sort of reasonable suspicion, and inferred that he smelled pot in the vehicle.

When the K-9 handler arrived, she talks to the driver who claims that he is being harassed. She quickly realizes that the man has not been told about the suspicions. She then questions Officer Schmidtke as to why he didn't tell the suspect that he smelled marijuana in the car, and then continued on to say that he would have been able to search the vehicle himself.

Officer Schmidtke then explained the real reason as to why he called for a K-9, which was actually for William's criminal record, which is not a justifiable reason to call a K-9 unit to check his car for drugs.

Obtaining the dashcam video resulted in drug trafficker having all charges dropped, and the Officer being placed on administrative leave, followed by his resignation.

A civil lawsuit is being filed by Philip Williams, and prosecutors are also investigating the incident to see if criminal charges will be placed against the Officer.

A man accused of abducting a woman on the north shore surrendered to authorities late Tuesday night following a police pursuit that zigzagged more than 40 miles and an intense gun battle in which law enforcement unleashed more than 500 rounds.

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In all, 21 Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies and one state trooper fired at Garcie, using 28 weapons.

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Garcie was taken to University Medical Center with three gunshot wounds to his side and back. One Jefferson Parish deputy suffered a graze wound to his finger.

Normand defended his deputies' response, though acknowledging that the number of rounds fired might raise questions about the level of threat Garcie presented.

A 15-year-old high school student was forced to ask for help on Facebook after she reported her rape to police only to be completely ignored. After being exposed for ignoring the girl, police then blamed her for their mistakes.

The alleged attack happened in December 2015, right near the school. Because the child felt ashamed and guilty after the attack, she was scared to tell her parents. After hearing that her attacker had done the same thing to several other girls, she finally broke her silence and told the school police.

Her reports of rape, however, fell on deaf ears as police took no action.

According to FOX 4 News, Fort Worth ISD filed a report with police, but the detective assigned to the case did nothing with it from there.

In July of 2016, that detective, Dennis Hutchins was fired for mishandling multiple child abuse cases just like this one.

“We’ve discovered there were several cases where the detective dropped the ball,” said Sgt. Marc Povero, Fort Worth Police Dept. “We’ve done our due diligence to go back through all the cases not properly handled or mishandled and we’re re-investigating those cases, this was one of them.”

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A former police officer was arrested Wednesday after attempting to hire two hitmen that were actually undercover detectives, the Pasadena Police Department said.

Clarence Michael McNatt, 63, is charged with conspiracy to commit capital murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping with intent to commit sexual assault.

The suspect tried to hire hitmen to kidnap and sexually assault to women in early November, officers said. McNatt asked that one of the women, a 31-year-old, be killed afterward, investigators said.

A former Roanoke police officer has resolved the two criminal cases against him, both involving sexual assault claims by prisoners who were in his custody.

Francisco Alberto Duarte, 30, was indicted earlier this year on charges of aggravated sexual battery and forcible sodomy.

He was due to go to trial on the former case on Thursday morning and on the latter case in January.

At a hearing Thursday in Roanoke Circuit Court, Duarte pleaded no contest to amended counts of felony carnal knowledge with an inmate and misdemeanor sexual battery.

Through a plea agreement with prosecutors, Duarte received six months to serve on each charge, with five years in suspended time. He likely will end up serving about three months on the misdemeanor offense and another six on the felony. He was taken into custody as soon as the hearing ended.

Based on the statute under which Duarte was charged, he will not have to register as a sex offender, his lawyer said.

A Robertson County School Resource Officer has been charged with sexual battery by an authority figure.

Charles Logan Abernathy, a SRO at East Robertson High School was arrested in Portland, Tennessee on Friday, TBI agents said. He's facing five counts of sexual battery by an authority figure.

TBI said since Aug. 11, Abernathy committed sexual battery of a minor while on-duty as a police officer and while serving as the minor's School Resource Officer.

Abernathy was arrested by TBI Special Agents, assisted by the Robertson County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team and the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office.


He was booked into Robertson County Jail on a $200,000 bond.

Dashcam video footage shows an on-duty New Jersey State Trooper, Sgt. First Class Michael Roadside, being revealed as a drunk driver after crashing his Police Car into a woman stopped at a stop sign near the Garden State Parkway service area in October 2015.

The woman, identified as Kimberly Wilson, frantically called 911 reporting that the Trooper was scaring her after crashing into her vehicle. She suggested to the 911 and State Trooper dispatcher that the poorly dressed Trooper appeared drunk, approached her very erratically, dropping ammunition and a beer bottle cap, then attempted to bribe her with $1000 and advised her not to call the Police.

As the first responding trooper arrives to the scene, his dashcam shows Roadside exiting his vehicle immediately stating "I'm not drunk". He then proceeds to tell the Trooper that his impairment and slurred speech has to do with a recent surgery and claimed he was on anesthesia. When asked "What happened? You hit her from behind?", Roadside then seemed to avoid the question and stated "I've got to get home".

A breathalyzer test later showed that Roadside was double the blood-alcohol limit. He was charged with drinking and driving, careless driving, and having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle. That same day, he checked himself into an in-patient treatment facility for alcoholics.

In December of 2015, Roadside pleaded guilty to drinking and driving, and had all other charges dropped after a plea deal. He was ordered to surrender his license for 7 months, spend 12 hours in a Intoxicated Driver Resource Center, as well as pay $386 in fines. His attorney advocated him by saying he was a 29 year veteran who was dedicated to his job and previously had no issues.

The last publicly released statement shows that the Trooper is under internal investigation, and remains suspended without pay.

Homewood police department has launched an internal investigation after video of their officers assaulting a 59-year-old mother in Walmart has gone viral.

The victim, Brenda Rivers had done nothing wrong, committed no crime, and was minding her own business when she was targeted by police who mistook her for a criminal.

Without a warrant or reasonable articulable suspicion, as Rivers did not match the description of the actual suspect, police detained her and demanded they be allowed to search her belongings.

Knowing she had done nothing wrong, Rivers refused.

“He just accused her,” Rivers’ husband said, trying to explain to cops that they had just entered the store. “He wanted to go through her purse without a search warrant or anything. Our rights are being infringed.”

For demanding police get a warrant to search her, Rivers was assaulted, wrestled to the ground, placed in handcuffs, and humiliated as police detained her for nearly thirty minutes. All the while, her husband is demanding they stop the abuse.

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Instead of simply reviewing the Walmart security camera footage, police went off half-cocked and just started grabbing and searching people. Rivers was the second woman to wrongfully be accused by police.

According to the bystanders in the video, even the woman who had her wallet stolen tried to tell police that it was not Rivers. However, they had already smelled blood in the water.

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According to AL.com, activist Carlos Montez Chaverst Jr. said Rivers’ clothing didn’t fit the description of the suspect. The victim told police the suspect was wearing a skirt and boots, and Rivers was wearing burgundy pants and shoes. “She shouldn’t have been detained to begin with. There’s a lot of missing pieces to this deal,” Chaverst said.

“We’re ready to galvanize,” he said. “We want the mayor to speak out, we want the police chief to speak out. We’re asking for transparency. We want honest and full, complete details as to what happened.”

When AL.com asked about Chaverst about the police statement that accused Rivers of failing to comply with police, Chaverst said, “Comply? Police make up their own policies. Comply is whatever they say comply is. That’s how comply works.”

Cop Fired After Threatening Teen at Traffic

StopSocial Circle, GA - A police officer in Social Circle, Georgia, has been fired after urging a teenager to fight him during a traffic stop, as seen in a dashcam video.

Records show that in 2014, the same officer was disciplined for allegedly threatening to “blow up” a high school.

James Sanders, formerly of the Social Circle Police Department, was relieved of duty Thursday after footage emerged of the Nov. 23 traffic stop, the town’s police chief confirmed.

THERE are many reasons why you might have been stopped at an American transport hub and your bag searched by officials. You might have be chosen at random. Perhaps you matched a profile. Or you could have been flagged by an airline, railroad or security employee who was being secretly paid by the government as a confidential informant to uncover evidence of drug smuggling.

A committee of Congress heard remarkable testimony last week about a long-running programme by the Drug Enforcement Administration. For years, officials from the Department of Justice testified, the DEA has paid millions of dollars to a variety of confidential sources to provide tips on travellers who may be transporting drugs or large sums of money. Those sources include staff at airlines, Amtrak, parcel services and even the Transportation Safety Administration.

The testimony follows a report by the Justice Department that uncovered the DEA programme and detailed its many potential violations. According to that report, airline employees and other informers had an incentive to search more travellers’ bags, since they received payment whenever their actions resulted in DEA seizures of cash or contraband. The best-compensated of these appears to have been a parcel company employee who received more than $1m from the DEA over five years. One airline worker, meanwhile, received $617,676 from 2012 to 2015 for tips that led to confiscations. But the DEA itself profited much more from the programme. That well-paid informant got only about 12% of the amount the agency seized as a result of the his tips.

While the DEA and its informants may have profited nicely, travellers no doubt paid the price in increased searches. We have no idea as to the extent of the problem because the DEA did not keep records on tips and searches that did not lead to seizures. As Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz put it at the tribunal: “We don’t know, for example, whether they were batting 1.000 or batting .050.” For every successful seizure, there might have been 10 passengers inconvenienced by a search. Or 100. Or 1,000.

That is not merely an inconvenience. It is probably a violation of protocol and the law. According to the Justice Department report, paying TSA employees to spy on travellers was a clear violation of DEA policy: those working for law enforcement agencies in their official capacity can’t also be confidential sources. Likewise, encouraging TSA and other employees to search bags and parcels may have infringed people’s constitutional protection under the Fourth Amendment, against “unreasonable searches and seizures”.

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