Police Brutality

Australian woman forcibly strip searched and paraded naked by police

Australian woman forcibly strip searched and paraded naked by police

  An Australian woman was forcibly strip-searched by both male and female police officers and then paraded naked around the police station, it has been revealed. Joanne Martin had tried to to help her boyfriend during a fight with a group of people in Northbridge in Western Australia, when she was arrested by the police for disorderly behaviour. Despite the[Read More…]

Deaths in custody at an all-time high

Deaths in custody at an all-time high

Deaths in police custody are at their highest level for five years, it has been revealed. The figures from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) show that 17 people died in or following detention by the police in 2014-15 – six more than during the previous year. The last time the figure was higher was in 2010-11 when it stood[Read More…]

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Chicago police filmed beating a pregnant woman and shouting racist remarks

Chicago police were filmed punching a pregnant woman in the stomach and calling her a ‘black bitch’, it has been reported. The woman, Nicola Robinson, who is eight months pregnant, says that she was just an innocent bystander and had witnessed police chasing a suspected drug dealer, when the incident happened. However, the plain clothed officer was too slow to[Read More…]

LAPD police filmed fist bumping each other after beating a handcuffed nurse

LAPD police filmed fist bumping each other after beating a handcuffed nurse

Police in LAPD were filmed laughing and fist bumping each other after brutally beating a handcuffed nurse, it has been reported. Several Los Angeles police officers are under investigation after the incident was captured on camera. The video shows the officers pushing her into a squad car, then giving congratulatory fist bumps to each other. Michelle Jordan, a 34-year-old mother[Read More…]

Police beat unconscious man before encouraging their dog to maul him, witnesses claim

Police beat unconscious man before encouraging their dog to maul him, witnesses claim

Philadelphia police repeatedly punched and stomped on a handcuffed and unconscious man and then allowed a police dog to maul his face, witnesses have reported. Phillip White, of Cumberland County NJ, was arrested at a home in Grape Street when witnesses say the officers proceeded to beat him brutally after he was already restrained and on the ground. After this[Read More…]