Kansas City Cop Dies After Being Shot In Police Car

It’s the second time a Kansas City, Kansas, police officer has been shot and killed this year; in early May, a detective was fatally shot near the Kansas Speedway.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Kansas City, Kan., police officer Brad Lightfoot, right, walks Susan Goble to the shooting scene of a police officer in Kansas City, Kan., Tuesday, July 19, 2016. Goble knows the family of the fallen officer and hoped to place a wreath near the site of the shooting.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — An officer with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department died Tuesday after he was shot in his car as he approached people matching the description of suspects in an earlier shooting. Capt. Robert Melton was brought to the University of Kansas Hospital just before 2:30 p.m., but resuscitation efforts did not work, trauma

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Lawsuit: Police Sic Dog On Man, Hogtie Him Face Down Until He Died

According to the lawsuit, Goode’s treatment by police was nothing short of torture. In regards to the police and their use of the K-9, the lawsuit exposes downright sadistic and inhumane behavior by the officers.

The Free Thought Project
By The Free Thought Project
Troy Goode

Troy Goode had taken LSD at a concert he and his wife attended in Southaven, Mississippi, but must have been having a bad trip and began acting erratically, running around the parking lot. Though the Memphis, Tennessee, man’s behavior wasn’t violent or threatening to anyone, someone felt it necessary — likely out of misguided concern — to summon

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UPDATE: Federal Judge Grants Immunity To Texas Cop In ‘Accidental’ Shooting Death Of Larry Jackson

“This is a legal technicality that will allow a killer to walk free … It is one of the most horrendous moments in the history of civil rights in this country.”

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Larry Jackson Jr (left) was caught and shot by Charles Kleinert (right) after seeing him flee a bank. Photograph: Family photo; booking photo

Update October 30, 2015: Yesterday, a federal judge granted a form of prosecutorial immunity to Charles Kleinert, the police detective that shot and killed Larry Jackson, Jr, an unarmed black man, in Austin, Texas in 2013. U.S. District Court Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that because Kleinert was acting within his duties as a member of a FBI joint

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Video: Cop: ‘Either You Buy These Tickets Or I Take Your Car”

The 9-year veteran was placed on desk duty pending an investigation.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
© Matthew Zagursky via Facebook

"Either you buy these, or I take your car, because it's unregistered," the officer, identified as Officer Charles Zagursky, 32, says in the video. Facebook user Rob Stay Faded, who apparently is the driver, posted the video on his account before it was removed by the social media site. The apparent shakedown video was posted Saturday

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Cop Caught On Video Holding Woman’s Head To Lit Stove, Breaking Her Nose

The officer was soon “relieved of duty” and placed on administrative leave, according to the Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Amber Smith.

Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News
By Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy was recently arraigned and charged with several felony counts that included setting fire to a domestic companion’s hair, threatening to murder her with his firearm and breaking her nose. The allegations come from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, which tells us that Deputy Alejandro

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