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  • Little Rock Officer Put Gun To Unarmed Man’s Head

    He was face down. He was complying. And Officer Thomas Shook pressed his muzzle to the back of his head.

    Little Rock police responded to a gas station on South University Ave on August 9 after Gregory Williams, 23, allegedly threatened a store clerk. Williams complied with arrest. But bodycam footage obtained by KATV shows Shook pinning him prone and pressing his firearm against the back of his head.

    The arrest report never mentioned the gun-to-head contact. The clerk declined to press charges.

    Thirteen days later, Channel 7 obtained the raw footage. Shook was relieved of duty. Mayor Frank Scott Jr. called the footage disturbing. Nonviolence advocates are demanding transparency as the internal investigation continues.

    Note: police were responding to a real call — Williams had threatened the clerk. The question isn’t why they were there. It’s what Shook did once the man was already down.

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  • Mississippi Police Chief Harold Vanderford Fired Over Racist Texts

    Mississippi Police Chief Harold Vanderford Fired Over Racist Texts

    Mississippi Police Chief Harold Vanderford Fired Over Racist Texts

    Senatobia, Mississippi Police Chief Harold Vanderford was fired September 1 after the Mayor and Board of Aldermen REJECTED his resignation. A week earlier, the same board called his responses to a racist text message scandal “sincere” and expressed full confidence in him.

    Mississippi Today, co-publishing with Verite News and the New York Times, published his private messages in August: a racial slur used more than a dozen times, including a message boasting he had almost beaten two people minutes earlier. The texts ran from summer 2025 to after he was sworn in as chief.

    The texts surfaced while the department was already under scrutiny over the June incident that took the life of one-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Senatobia Walmart. Ben Crump represents the Wiley family.

    Why did the board refuse his resignation? So the firing would go on the record.

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  • Sampson County Corporal Joseph Rusk-Madison Fired And Charged

    Sampson County Corporal Joseph Rusk-Madison Fired And Charged

    Sampson County Corporal Joseph Rusk-Madison Fired And Charged

    A North Carolina corporal was arrested at his home and fired by command staff within the same weekend, after a woman came forward over a May incident in neighboring Harnett County.

    Joseph Jerome Rusk-Madison of the Sampson County Sheriff’s Office now faces charges of striking a female and communicating threats, and is being held in the Harnett County Detention Center under a 48-hour hold.

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  • Texas Cop Fired For Dragging Mom By Her Hair At Pool — She’s The One Facing Charges

    Texas Cop Fired For Dragging Mom By Her Hair At Pool — She’s The One Facing Charges

    Texas Cop Fired For Dragging Mom By Her Hair At Pool — She's The One Facing Charges

    A Royse City, Texas police officer was fired after viral video showed him dragging 35-year-old Janiaca Wheeler across a lawn by her hair at the Creekside community pool on August 3, 2026. But in the same announcement, the department referred Wheeler — the woman whose hair he pulled — to the Collin County District Attorney for resisting arrest and interfering with public duties.

    Her 18-year-old daughter, Amaiyah Allen-Smith, was cleared. Three other officers at the scene were cleared. The officer-worn camera footage remains sealed — the family’s attorney says it shows something worse than the viral video.

    Advocates with the Next Generation Action Network identify the fired officer as Robert Crider. The department never released his name.

    What’s your take — should the DA charge her, charge him, or drop the whole thing?

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  • Massachusetts Detective Tracked A Woman Who Changed Her Identity

    She moved. She changed her phone number. She changed her entire identity. He still found her.

    Stow, Massachusetts police detective Jason Rogers — also an acting sergeant — used Flock license plate cameras and state law enforcement databases to track a woman who had fled their relationship, according to the department’s own investigation.

    The investigation found Rogers accessed CJIS records at least five times with no legitimate law enforcement reason, and ran her vehicle through police systems across 2024 and 2025. He also drove by her home.

    When she filed a complaint on June 18, the department revoked his access within three hours and opened an internal affairs case. A criminal complaint was filed July 17. The town moved to unpaid leave July 31. An employment hearing that could end his career is set for August 26.

    As a direct result of his conduct, the Stow Police Department terminated its relationship with Flock Safety and physically removed the town’s last license plate camera.

    The victim, speaking to Boston 25 News: “I just don’t think somebody like that should be out there with a badge and a gun.”

    She has a restraining order against him. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office and the Massachusetts POST Commission have both been notified.

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  • Katy Cop Searched His Ex-Wife’s Plate 2,386 Times – Then Put A Tracker On Her Car

    Katy Cop Searched His Ex-Wife’s Plate 2,386 Times – Then Put A Tracker On Her Car

    Katy Cop Searched His Ex-Wife's Plate 2,386 Times - Then Put A Tracker On Her Car

    A ten-year Katy, Texas police officer ran his ex-wife’s license plate through Flock cameras 2,386 times in eleven months – and investigators say he also attached a tracking device to her car. A Fort Bend County grand jury indicted Sergio Guadalupe Rodriguez on two third-degree felonies: stalking and misuse of official information. Katy PD fired him. Now Houston police are auditing their own officers’ Flock searches. His next court date is September 2.

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  • Court Docs Reveal What Phoenix Cops Felix And Vasquez Did During Unreported Stop

    Court Docs Reveal What Phoenix Cops Felix And Vasquez Did During Unreported Stop

    Court Docs Reveal What Phoenix Cops Felix And Vasquez Did During Unreported Stop

    The probable cause statements are out on the two Phoenix officers arrested after a traffic stop that was never reported to dispatch. Antonio Luis Felix and Luis Vasquez Jr. face kidnapping and aggravated charges for what prosecutors say happened on August 5th.

    Court documents say their Tahoe rammed the victim’s Charger. A window was shattered by hand. Felix’s Taser was forensically downloaded and recorded 29 discharges that night. Vasquez drew his handgun and counted down from three before the driver ran.

    Then the pair took the Tempe recovery call on the victims’ own car and closed it themselves, records show.

    The victims escaped and reported everything to Tempe PD. Both officers were arrested and fired.

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  • Prosecutor Reviews Every Case From Phoenix Cops Felix And Vasquez

    Prosecutor Reviews Every Case From Phoenix Cops Felix And Vasquez

    Prosecutor Reviews Every Case From Phoenix Cops Felix And Vasquez

    Two fired Phoenix police officers are out on bond, and Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell says her office is now reviewing every open AND closed case involving Antonio Felix and Luis Vasquez Jr.

    Court documents say the officers admitted the traffic stop happened — they just never reported it. No radio call. No dispatch entry. No body cameras turned on.

    The forensic download of Felix’s Taser showed 6 safety activations and 29 separate discharge events in one encounter. Both men are now on the Brady list — meaning any conviction built on their testimony is in question.

    Plus: ABC15 uncovered a separate lawsuit against Felix over a 2023 on-duty crash where the OTHER driver got cited. That case goes to arbitration September 18.

    Chief Matt Giordano: “It’s concern of mine that there might be other victims out there.”

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  • St. Pete Wellness Check Turns Fatal: Brian Pepal, 48

    St. Pete Wellness Check Turns Fatal: Brian Pepal, 48

    St. Pete Wellness Check Turns Fatal: Brian Pepal, 48
  • Baltimore Cop Drove A Domestic Violence Victim Home. Then His DNA Surfaced

    Baltimore Cop Drove A Domestic Violence Victim Home. Then His DNA Surfaced

    Baltimore Cop Drove A Domestic Violence Victim Home. Then His DNA Surfaced

    Baltimore Police Officer Daniel Oxendine, 32, was trusted to drive a domestic violence victim home after a June 2 call. Prosecutors say he sent her son outside, claimed he needed to “check the apartment” — despite no jurisdiction and, by his own admission, a radio that didn’t even work there — and then attacked her. His body-worn camera was off.

    A search-warrant DNA sample matched evidence from a hospital forensic exam. Fox45 reports the DNA statistic at one in forty octillion. When detectives told him he was on camera for roughly 40 minutes, he said he “wasn’t sure how long he might have been in the area.”

    On August 27, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office charged him with two counts of first-degree rape, two counts of second-degree rape, two counts of a law-enforcement officer engaging in a sex act with a witness, burglary with intent, and misconduct in office. A judge denied bond the next day, calling him a danger to the community. BPD suspended him without pay. Sheriff Jeff Gahler says investigators believe there may be other victims.

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