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1914 Nov 30 |
The SF Chronicle reported that police officers were being forced to trade in their helmets for new caps. The caps were being sold by George E. Gallagher, president of the Board of Education. Chief of police White had apparently slipped Gallagher information about the hats allowing him to place an advanced order from New York. Links: USA, SF, Mad Police 
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1967 Oct 17 |
In Oakland, Ca., police clubbed a bloody path through some 2500 anti-war demonstrators who had closed down the Oakland Armed Forces Examining Station. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Mad Police, Mad Crowd
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1976 Jun 16 |
In South Africa white police gunned down teenagers Hector Pieterson and Hastings Ndhlovu and caused a nationwide riot that left 700 people dead. Students at Morris Isacson High School in Soweto had marched to protest a new rule that called for Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. Photographer Sam Nzima (1934-2018) took an iconic image of a black high school student carrying a fatally wounded fellow pupil away from the gunfire of apartheid police. Links: South Africa, Mad Police
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1983 Sep 15 |
New York City Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting the subway. Links: USA, NYC, Mad Police
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1985 Mar 29 |
In Santiago, Chile, police killed Rafael and Eduardo Vergara. The 2 young brothers, active members of the often violent “Movement of the Revolutionary Left” (MIR), were peppered with bullets by military police during an anti-Pinochet protest in the low-income Villa Francia district. The event became known as the “Day of the Young Combatants.” Links: Chile, Mad Police, Mad Crowd
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1991 Mar 3 |
In Los Angeles police arrested ex-convict Rodney King after an 8-mile chase. King resisted arrest and the police used force to subdue him. A local resident captured part of the arrest and beating on video tape. The incident led to a police trial and acquittal that sparked a violent riot. In 1998 Lou Cannon published "Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD" documenting the whole affair. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1991 Mar 14 |
Speakers at a Los Angeles Police Commission hearing demanded the ouster of Chief Daryl F. Gates in the wake of the videotaped police beating of motorist Rodney King. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1991 Mar 15 |
An indictment was unsealed in Los Angeles, charging four police officers with beating black motorist Rodney King. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1991 Jul 3 |
A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was videotaped beating a handcuffed prisoner in his patrol car. The officer was suspended, but later reinstated after a grand jury refused to indict him. Links: USA, Texas, Mad Police
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1992 Jan 3 |
In California, police pursued a driver who had killed another motorist along Interstate 5 for more than 300 miles until the car ran out of gas in Westminster; the driver was shot to death after officers said he pointed a shotgun at them. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1992 Mar 2 |
A jury was seated in Simi Valley, Calif., in the assault trial of four Los Angeles police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1992 Mar 5 |
The trial of four Los Angeles police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King opened in Simi Valley, Calif. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1992 Aug 5 |
Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers acquitted of state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; two were later convicted. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1993 Feb 3 |
In Los Angeles, the federal trial began for four police officers charged with civil rights violations in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1993 Apr 16 |
A jury reached guilty verdict in the Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict was not read until April 17th. Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1993 Apr 17 |
A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King; two other officers were acquitted. Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Stacey C. Koon and officer Laurence M Powell were convicted for beating Rodney King. [see Apr 16] Links: USA, California, Mad Police
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1993 Aug 23 |
Former Detroit police officers Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn were convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal beating of black motorist Malice Green. Both convictions were later overturned. On retrial, Budzyn was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to time served; Nevers was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in April 2000, but had that conviction reversed by an appeals court in March 2003. Links: USA, Murder, Michigan, Mad Police
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1994 Apr 19 |
A Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million to beaten motorist Rodney King. Links: USA, California, Lawsuit, Mad Police
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1997 Apr 20 |
In Atlanta, Ga., Timmie Sinclair (27) was beaten by police officers in a scene that was captured on videotape and showed excessive use of force and baton beating. Links: GeorgiaUS, Mad Police
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1997 Aug 9 |
In NYC police officer Justin Volpe sodomized Abner Louima in the bathroom of the 70th precinct in Brooklyn. [see Aug 13] In 1999 Volpe was sentenced to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay $277,495 in restitution. In 2001 a tentative settlement awarded Abner Louima $9 million. Links: NYC, Lawsuit, Mad Police
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1997 Aug 12 |
Two New York City police officers were placed in desk jobs as authorities investigated the charges of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who accused police of sodomizing him after his arrest in a nightclub fight. Louima's subsequent civil suit against the city resulted in a settlement of $8.75 million on July 30, 2001, the largest police brutality settlement in NYC history. After legal fees, Louima collected approximately $5.8 million. Links: USA, NYC, Mad Police, Migrant
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1997 Aug 13 |
A NYC police officer of the 70th precinct in Flatbush was arrested for sexually assaulting a Haitian immigrant who was arrested in a nightclub fight. Officer Justin Volpe sodomized Abner Louima with a toilet plunger and then forced the handle into Louima’s mouth. Volpe’s partner, Thomas Bruder, was ordered off active duty and Mayor Giuliani ordered a shakeup and investigation. Officer Charles Schwartz was later arrested for his participation. Two more officers, Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder, were later arrested for beating Louima after his arrest. In 1998 federal civil rights charges were filed against the involved officers. Officer Volpe was jailed in 1999 after he pleaded guilty that he had sodomized Abner Louima. In 1999 Officer Schwarz was found guilty of holding Louima down. Officers Bruder, Wiese and Bellomo were acquitted. In 2000 officers Bruder, Schwartz and Wiese were convicted of covering up the assault on Louima. Schwartz was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison and ordered to pay $277,495 in restitution. Bruder and Wiese were sentenced to 5 years each. In 2002 a federal appeals court overturned the convictions against Schwarz, Wiese and Bruder. Links: NYC, Mad Police, Atrocities, Migrant
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1997 Oct 31 |
The FBI began an investigation into the use of pepper spray by law authorities in Humboldt County, California, after a video tape showed the spray applied directly to the eyes of protestors. Links: California, FBI, Mad Police
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1997 Dec 19 |
In NYC Reginald Bannerman died after he was struck by a train. He was fleeing a beating by 6 NYC narcotics detectives, who had been out drinking. He was dragged and kicked outside a Crown heights nightclub and was fired upon when he fled onto the tracks of the Steeling St. subway station. Links: NYC, Mad Police
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1998 Jan |
In South Africa 6 white police officers made a video tape showing a "training exercise" where they incited their dogs to maul 3 black men and beat the victims if they tried to protect themselves. The officers were arrested in 2000 on charges of attempted murder. 4 officers pleaded guilty in 2001. Links: South Africa, Mad Police
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1998 Jun 14 |
In NYC Antoine Reid, a squeegee man, was allegedly shot by off-duty officer Michael Meyer after soaping Meyer’s car window. Reid later filed a $100 million suit against the city and the police dept. Links: NYC, Mad Police
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1998 Sep 5 |
In NYC the Million Youth March ended in a wild melee as police rushed the speaking platform after the event ran minutes over the allotted time. An estimated 20,000 people were in attendance. Mayor Giuliani later supported the police action at the rally where 6,000 people had gathered. Some 3,000 officers were massed in the area. A grand jury was later asked to investigate. Links: NYC, Mad Police
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1998 Dec 28 |
In Riverside, Ca., Tyisha Miller (19) was killed by a hail of police bullets as she sat in her car with a gun. Her car had some 27 bullet holes. Miller died from bullets to her head and chest with a total of 12 bullets in her body. A coroner's report later said that she was legally drunk with traces of marijuana present. In May, 1999, four police officers were cleared of criminal charges in the killing. The case remained under FBI investigation for civil rights violations. In July officers Paul Bugar (24), Wayne Stewart (26), Daniel Hotard (23) and Michael Alagna( 27) were fired. Sgt. Gregory Preece (38), supervisor of the 4 officers, was told he would be fired July 27. Riverside agreed to pay Miller’s family $3 million in 2000. Links: California, FBI, Mad Police
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1998 |
In Brazil federal agents in Alagoas state arrested police Lt. Colonel Manoel Cavalcante for heading a 50-man police squad known as the "Uniformed Gang." They were charged with political assassinations, bank robberies, car theft and arms trafficking. They charged $440 to kill a rural union leader and $44,000 to kill a prominent politician. Links: Brazil, Mad Police
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1999 Jan 5 |
Malaysia admitted that former Deputy Premier Anwar was beaten by police after his arrest in September. Links: Malaysia, Mad Police
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1999 Feb 4 |
In NYC plainclothes police officers fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo (22), a Bronx street peddler and immigrant from Guinea, who was unarmed in front of his Bronx home. Police were searching for a rapist and Daillo was killed with 19 gunshot wounds. Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy were later indicted for 2nd degree murder. All 4 officers were acquitted by a jury in 2000. Further litigation under civil rights was planned. Links: USA, NYC, Murder, Guinea, Mad Police, Migrant
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1999 Feb 16 |
In South Africa the 4 policemen charged with the fatal beating of Steve Biko were denied amnesty. Links: South Africa, Mad Police
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1999 Mar 31 |
Four New York City police officers were charged with murder for killing Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, in a hail of bullets. They were acquitted in Feb 2000. Links: NYC, Murder, Mad Police, Migrant
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1999 May 4 |
Five New York police officers went on trial for the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. One officer later pleaded guilty; a second was eventually convicted of perjury; the remaining three were acquitted of brutality charges. Two of those three were later convicted of conspiring to obstruct justice; those convictions were overturned. Links: Haiti, NYC, Mad Police, Migrant
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1999 Aug 10 |
In Israel Akram Alkam (22) was shot and killed by Israeli police after he twice struck hitchhiking Israeli soldiers at Nachshon Junction with his car. Links: Israel, Mad Police
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1999 Aug 31 |
In NYC 5 police shot twelve times and killed Gideon Busch (31), a Jewish man and former medical student, who refused to drop a hammer he’d used to threaten neighborhood children. The officers were brought up on charges and, on November 17, 2003, a federal jury cleared the officers of civil wrongdoing in the fatal shooting. Links: USA, NYC, Mad Man, Mad Police
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1999 Dec |
In China Li Lusong, a villager from Lan county in Shanxi province, had half of his tongue cut off by police for cursing police during detention for writing anti-corruption slogans. Links: China, Mad Police
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2000 Feb 25 |
A jury in Albany, New York, acquitted four white New York City police officers of all charges in the shooting death of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo. Links: New York, NYC, Mad Police, Migrant
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2000 Jun 12 |
In St. Louis, Earl Murray, a drug dealer, and his friend Ronald Beasley were killed by police during an attempted drug arrest. The two men were unarmed and police fired 20 bullets into their car. Links: Missouri, Drugs, Mad Police
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2000 Jul 12 |
In Philadelphia a WPVI News camera showed city police beat and kick Thomas Jones (30) over nationwide TV. Links: Pennsylvania, Mad Police More
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2000 Nov 2 |
The Alameda County DA charged 4 Oakland, Ca., police officers, known as "The Riders," with 48 felonies that included charges of beating suspects and planting evidence. In 2003 a court acquitted the officers of misconduct charges. A retrial began in 2004. In 2005 a 2nd trial ended in a mistrial. Links: SF Bay Area, Mad Police
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2001 Apr 15 |
In China police opened fire on villagers who opposed high local taxes and fees in Yuntang. 2 were killed and at least 18 wounded. Links: China, Taxes, Mad Police, Mad Crowd
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2001 Jul 11 |
In NYC the city and police union made a tentative agreement to pay $9 million to settle a suit by Abner Louima over his 1997 police beating. Links: NYC, Mad Police
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2001 Jul 12 |
Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement. Links: NYC, Lawsuit, Mad Police, Migrant
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2002 Jul 6 |
In Ingleside, Ca., police officer Jeremy Morse was caught on video tape beating Donovan Jackson (16), who was already subdued and handcuffed. Jackson's father, Coby Chavis, was being investigation for expired registration tags. The video led to federal involvement in the case. Mitch Crooks (27), the man who made the tape, was arrested July 11 on an outstanding warrant for petty theft. Officers Morse and Bijan Darvish were indicted July 17. Morse was dismissed Oct 14. Links: California, Mad Police
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2002 Dec 30 |
Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, including a gunman, while Israel's Supreme Court ruled that reserve soldiers have no right to refuse service in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Border policemen Shahar Botbeka and Denis Alhazov and 2 others abducted several Hebron residents, among them 17-year-old Amran Abu Hamadiya, and took them for a ride in their jeep. They abused the men and beat them with truncheons and rifles. They hurled Abu Hamadiya out of the moving vehicle, causing his death. In 2008 Botbeka and Alhazov were convicted of manslaughter for their part in the kidnapping and wrongful death of Hamadiya. Links: Israel, Palestine, Mad Police
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2003 Apr 16 |
In Jahangir, Brazil, 4 young men were killed by police in the Borel shantytown on Rio's poor north side. The community was unanimous that they were not gang members and had no involvement in crime. More than 800 civilians died from police bullets in Rio during the first eight months of this year. In 2006 Capt. Marcos Duarte Ramalho was the third police officer to stand trial and the first to be convicted in connection with the killings. Two more officers awaited trial for the killings. Links: Brazil, Murder, Mad Police
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2004 Jun 29 |
Gustavus Rugley (21) was killed by SF police at the Mission St. overpass of Alemany Blvd. following a chase. Rugley had fired at police with a .38-caliber semiautomatic and police returned fire hitting him 35 times. In 2006 6 officers faced charges of violating department policy in the confrontation. Links: USA, SF, Mad Police
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2005 Aug 18 |
Nigerian media quoted Pres. Obasanjo as saying police violations "ranged from extra-judicial killings to torture and unlawful detention." He singled out an incident in June in which policemen in the capital, Abuja, allegedly killed six people returning from a night outing after branding them armed robbers. Six policemen were charged in the killings. Among those accused is Danjuma Ibrahim, the second-ranking policeman in the city. Links: Nigeria, Mad Police
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2005 Aug 31 |
A new report said police last January in Papua New Guinea had collared a teen suspected of picking the pocket of a soldier and dispensed their own justice. The officers beat him, slammed his head into a truck and burned him. Links: Papua New Guinea, Mad Police
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2005 Oct 1 |
Police in Petaluma, Ca., killed James Anthony Decosta (72), a suspected child molester, after Decosta allegedly brandished a gun following a short car chase. An autopsy showed Decosta had 27 bullets in his body. Links: California, Mad Police
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2005 Oct 8 |
In New Orleans Robert Davis, a retired elementary teacher, was repeatedly punched in the head by police in an incident caught on videotape. Davis was not drunk, put up no resistance and was baffled by what happened. In Dec two police officers were fired for the incident. Links: Louisiana, Mad Police
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2005 Nov 10 |
Violence in France fell sharply overnight after the government toughened its stance by imposing emergency measures and ordering deportations of foreigners involved in riots that have raged for two weeks. The national police said 8 French police officers had been suspended for their suspected role in the beating of a young man in a Paris suburb. Links: France, Mad Police
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2005 Dec 6 |
In SF police officer Andrew Cohen (39) was suspended for producing department videos that mocked minorities. 24 other officers were soon suspended for their involvement in the video productions. In 2006 18 officers filed a $20 million lawsuit against SF for defamation and discrimination. Links: USA, SF, Lawsuit, Govm’t Scandal, Mad Police
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2005 Dec 21 |
In Maryland 2 off-duty Baltimore police officers were shot to death at a suburban townhouse in Randallstown by a state officer for the Dept. of General Services. Eugene Victor Perry Jr. (33) surrendered shortly after the shootings. One of the victims was his former fiancee. Links: USA, Maryland, Murder, Mad Police
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2005 Dec 26 |
New Orleans Police officers shot and killed a man brandishing a knife in a confrontation that was partially videotaped by a bystander, setting off another internal investigation of the embattled department. Links: USA, Louisiana, Mad Police
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2005 Dec 28 |
Police blocked a Chinese family from holding a news conference in Beijing to publicize complaints of police brutality in their village. The Fengs and a fellow villager complained that police in Xiong County, 50 miles from Beijing in Hebei province, beat two of them and refused to pursue complaints of rape and assault. Links: China, Mad Police, Rape
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2006 Jan |
In Egypt El-Kabir (21), a Cairo minibus driver, intervened in an argument between police and his cousin. Kabir was arrested by police, who sodomized with a wooden pole and filmed the incident on video. The tape later made it onto the Internet and in 2007 a judge ordered 2 police officers into custody pending trial. Links: Egypt, Mad Police
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2006 Feb 10 |
SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, in response to the SF Chronicle’s use-of force series, said he will push the SF Police Dept. to create a computerized tracking system for identifying problem officers. Links: USA, SF, Mad Police
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2006 Feb 16 |
A top official said Iraq's Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into claims that Shiite-led death squads have been operating in the country. Attacks around the country killed at least 19 people, including six Iraqis in a car bombing and three sheiks in a drive-by shooting. Links: Iraq, Mad Police
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