Officer
Schumanich was caught on camera cursing and screaming at a member of a
police watchdog group who went to his department asking to file a
complaint against an unspecified officer. Read more
A
former Chicago police officer pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges
Friday and could face up to 28 years in prison for causing a crash that
killed two teenagers.
Officer Jason Casper, 25, entered his plea to four counts of aggravated
driving under the influence in the death of another and one count of
aggravated DUI causing great bodily harm.
Last
month, New Mexico State Police and Michigan State Police refused to
work during hurricane detail with the police in Baton Rouge Louisiana.
The
two agencies refused to help out, due to complaints over the use of
force, unprofessional language and conduct by the Baton Rouge police
department.
Police Chief
Jeremy LeBlanc and an officer in his department have been booked for
malfeasance and two counts each of looting and felony theft.
They're
accused of stealing 23 T-shirts from the Jean Lafitte Gift Shop on
Bourbon Street, and suede and leather sports coats and a box of Ray Ban
sunglasses from Saks Fifth Avenue after they went to help police there.
Three New
Orleans police officers are entering pleas of innocent to charges of
battery. The charges stem from a videotaped incident over the
weekend, in which two patrolmen repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man
who was accused of public intoxication."
Two
officers, identified as Lance Schilling and Robert Evangelist, were
charged with battery in connection with the arrest of Robert
Davis. Officer S.M. Smith was accused of roughing up
a producer for Associated Press Television News.
Gun
rights groups won a temporary restraining order Friday preventing
police in New Orleans and a nearby parish from confiscating people's
firearms when seeking to evacuate residents. News reports quoted police
as saying: "We are going to take all the weapons, and only law
enforcement officials would be allowed to have firearms."
As Hurricane
Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff's department abandoned
hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city's jail. These inmates,
including some who were locked in ground-floor cells, were not
evacuated until, four days after flood waters in the jail had reached
chest-level.
During the
traffic stop on a street corner in Edgewater, an anonymous caller told
the cops that a woman had stuffed something down her pants. When asked,
the woman told officers that she was hiding crack cocaine in two small
bags and the officer searched the woman's genital area right on the
street.
A Louisiana
police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to block a
bridge over the Mississippi river and force escaping evacuees back into
the chaos and danger of New Orleans. Witnesses said the officers fired
their guns above the heads of the terrified people to drive them back.
An officer
shot a 12-year-old schoolgirl with a Taser gun and arrested her after
she became disruptive at school.
The
officers had trouble controlling the 12-year-old, who is all of 5 feet
5 inches tall and 120 pounds. So to calm down the young girl, the
officer shocked her with 50,000 volts of electricity.
A handful of
police in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans joined with looters in cleaning
out store shelves and pilfering merchandise that had nothing to do with
survival.
While the overwhelming majority of Big
Easy cops were performing admirably under staggeringly difficult
circumstances, an NBC camera crew filming looters at a local Walmart
captured two police women filling a shopping cart to the brim with
shoes.
Asked what she was doing, one of the
unidentified officers told reporter Martin Savidge: "I'm just doing my
job" - before abandoning her shopping cart to resume her patrol. Her
partner apparently continued looting unfazed by NBC's
presence.
Three Memphis police
officers and a Shelby County sheriff's deputy, get busted in a drug
sting by undercover F.B.I. agents. The police officers are charged with
stealing money they believed belonged to drug dealers. Officer Charles
Smith is charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a federal
officer. He's accused of warning another cop. Officer Roderick Smith is
charged with theft and attempting to possess cocaine. Officer Deshone
Skinner is charged with conspiracy and theft. Shelby County deputy
Marvin Wilson is charged with two counts of theft.
A cop who shot and killed an
unarmed invalid man was suspended for 90 days without pay. It was
concluded the fatal shooting was unreasonable.
Frank
Lobato, 63, was killed in cold blood by police officer Rich Ford Jr., as he lay in bed watching
television. Relatives said Lobato was disabled and needed crutches to
move around. Police Chief Gerry Whitman said that Ford mistook a soda
can Lobato was holding for a weapon and shot him.
