Four active San Jose police officers were placed on administrative leave Saturday as the department launched an investigation into alleged racist posts in a Facebook group for officers, CBS San Francisco reports. The group was brought to light Friday night in a Medium post written by somebody claiming to be the "partner of an active law…
Four police officers in San Jose, California, have been placed on leave while the department says it is investigating alleged racist and anti-Muslim posts on Facebook.The investigation apparently grew out of a blog post Friday on Medium by an anonymous author who claims to be "the partner of an active law enforcement officer in a…
London police are investigating the stabbing deaths of sisters Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46 in a park June 6. (London Metropolitan Police)Two London police officers have been arrested on misconduct charges amid allegations they took selfies next to the bodies of two stabbing victims who were sisters, according to reports.Mina Smallman told the BBC…
Shortly after four Minneapolis police officers were fired over the death of George Floyd, the president of the city's police union wrote a letter to his members signaling that he was working to restore the officers' jobs."They were fired without due process," wrote Lt. Bob Kroll, of the Minneapolis Police Federation.Kroll's union has had great…
More than a dozen New York City Department of Correction officers will be disciplined for their conduct surrounding the death of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, 27, a transgender woman who died last year while in solitary confinement at Rikers Island jail.Three officers and one captain will be suspended without pay immediately, the department said in a…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…