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http://www.wndu.com/news/052003/news_20118.php

The investigation into claims of police brutality leveled against a South Bend police officer is now closed, according to the South Bend Police Department [which]... concluded an internal investigation into the matter. Columbus, Indiana Police Officer Roderick Ivory alleged a South Bend officer got too rough with him in September of 2002. He says after an argument at a traffic accident, he suffered a chipped tooth and stiff neck. South Bend police say... there was no evidence of misconduct.

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http://www.news4jax.com/news/2235646/detail.html

LAKE CITY, Fla. -- A former city police officer received a year of probation and was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for driving under the influence of alcohol in a fatal motorcycle accident. Misty Mechelle Gable, 37, of Lake City, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading no-contest to DUI last month for the Nov. 10 crash that killed Anthony Cericola, 35, of Daytona Beach... Her driver's license also was suspended for a year. She must pay $943 in fines and costs.

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http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/05/29ky/met-7-fifer0529-3741.html

A Louisville Metro Police sergeant who caused a wreck and was charged with drunken driving last month must serve a 29-day unpaid suspension, the department confirmed yesterday... Fifer was sentenced to four days in jail, but he was credited for a day he spent behind bars after his arrest and served three days of home incarceration. Fifer's blood-alcohol level was 0.24 percent, three times the threshold at which a person is considered drunk under state law, when he crashed his personal car into a minivan April 2... Fifer could have been fired.

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http://www.news-journal.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2003/05/29/1054181408.03033.4640.1689.html

The 25-year-old police chief of Easton was arrested early Wednesday in Longview, accused of drunken driving, kicking the window out of a police car and threatening the Longview officer who arrested him. Joshua Tate Vestfals was pepper-sprayed by police during the encounter with officers at 12:25 a.m. Wednesday... His driver’s license also has been suspended for at least three months because he refused to take a breath test on the drunken driving charge... Investigators seized two pistols and a knife from the 2000 Chevrolet pickup that Vestfals was driving, but he does not face any charges involving the weapons.

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http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/nh/hc-malik0529.artmay29,0,6718107.story

A New Haven woman testified in the Malik Jones civil rights case Wednesday that a state trooper, hospital employees and several East Haven police officers abused her while placing her under arrest. Patricia Snowden, 58, said she passed out five times while being arrested three years ago for failing to appear in court. Police called her insulting and racist names, poked and rudely prodded her, dragged her by the arms from place to place, gave her no medical treatment for her heart condition and allowed her no access to medicine for her diabetes, she said.

...Snowden said her troubles with that town's police started Sept. 27, 1998, after she bought clothes at the Ames Department Store in East Haven and spotted a police cruiser following her as she drove about two blocks to a gas station... Once she reached the gas pumps, Snowden said, the officer pulled up... The officer then charged her with failure to have auto insurance, improper use of a registration marker, operating an unregistered motor vehicle and operating while her license was under suspension.

...On Nov. 18, 1998, said Snowden, she failed to appear in court to answer the charges because she was in the hospital. She was placed in custody Jan. 7, 2000... When the trooper handcuffed her hands behind her back, said Snowden, she asked to have him reset them in front of her because she told him she had a heart condition and diabetes. The officer refused to do so, said Snowden, and she passed out. She regained consciousness inside Griffin Hospital in Derby, she said... Although her blood pressure was dangerously high, said Snowden, she was taken to the East Haven Police Department. Once there, said Snowden, she was physically and verbally abused from about 11: 45 p.m. to after 3 a.m., when she was released on bail posted by her daughter.

...Eventually, said Snowden, all the charges against her were dismissed in court, although while under cross-examination she conceded her motor vehicle registration was outdated.

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http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1298661&nav=0RaPG5Oy

A former Anderson Police officer has been charged with assault and battery with intent to kill after a woman was stabbed inside her home. Police say Tony Vandiver, 44, of Anderson, was arrested Wednesday morning at Donna Dean's home. Police say Dean had been stabbed when she stumbled out of the doorway toward officers. Police say they were responding to a 911 report of domestic disturbance.

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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/75946.htm

The NYPD cop accused of raping a female police recruit from Virginia... faced a judge in a Washington Superior Court yesterday as he was arraigned on charges of second-degree sexual abuse stemming from an incident at a police convention in the nation's capital last week.

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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/5850834.htm

TACOMA, Wash. - The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office have joined state officials in a growing investigation into the career of the late Tacoma Police Chief David Brame, who killed his wife and committed suicide last month. U.S. Attorney John McKay said Monday that a preliminary State Patrol investigation indicated "a possible violation of federal criminal laws."

...Brame, 44, shot his wife in the head in a shopping center parking lot April 26, then turned the gun on himself. Crystal Brame, 35, died a week after the shootings, which took place in the presence of the couple's two young children... Brame, the son of a Tacoma police officer, reportedly was hired even though he had failed a psychological exam for a police job in 1981. A second screening found him to be a "marginal" applicant. A rape accusation in the late 1980s did not slow his career, and city officials ignored his wife's claims of domestic violence in the contentious divorce.

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more on tacoma

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/120248_robert02.html

As if that wasn't enough violence for one story, there is this week's death threat that a Tacoma cop allegedly made to a journalist covering the story... [John] Hathaway... put the court allegations about Brame's spousal abuse in the public eye. Hathaway posted his findings on his Web site early last week after court documents in the case "mysteriously" showed up at his house... His scoop went up last Tuesday on the Web site of The New Takhoman, his online publication... Big media eventually followed in Hathaway's footsteps.

...Hathaway says he got an email this week from Pat Frantz, the head of the Tacoma police union... The email said: "If you want to throw stones you had better live in a bullet proof glass house." Scared to death, Hathaway dialed up the police chief's office. A sheriff's deputy came to his home and took a report... Frantz, who is on paid administrative leave pending an investigation, told The News Tribune: "I made a mistake."

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http://www.newarkadvocate.com/news/stories/20030522/localnews/347520.html

PATASKALA -- A Pataskala police officer [who was] demoted for allegedly failing to take the proper action, as a supervisor in an alleged excessive use of force incident, has filed suit against the city. Patrolman Francisco Fernandez, a six-year-veteran of the police department, filed suit through the Fraternal Order of Police, demanding reinstatement to his previous rank of lieutenant, back pay and to have the written reprimand removed from his personnel file... Fernandez "failed to act in a supervisory manner" concerning a June incident, where officers... used excessive force when arresting a man... The Fernandez lawsuit claims Pataskala officials failed to follow the proper procedures in the disciplinary action against him.

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http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/local/5918171.htm

Police won't ease off enforcement during this weekend's annual Atlantic Beach Bikefest despite allegations made in one of two NAACP discrimination lawsuits... In Myrtle Beach, local and visiting officers won't be instructed to be heavy-handed, but they will enforce the law to help maintain a peaceful atmosphere, said Police Chief Warren Gall.

"The police say they are offering protection, but too many of them use police brutality. That is why we are around - to be sure brutality is not part of their tactics," said the Rev. H.H. Singleton, president of the Conway Branch of the NAACP. The group has monitored the bike festival for at least seven years. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and six others filed suit Wednesday against Myrtle Beach and Horry County, saying an overwhelming police presence during the event, and aggressive police tactics, intimidate and discourage people who attend.

...Singleton said it's discriminatory because police don't use the same strategy any other busy times of the year, including during the annual Carolina Harley-Davidson Dealers Association Myrtle Beach rally, which attracted about 250,000 people earlier this month... Authorities say police handle the Atlantic Beach event differently because of the influx of about 400,000 predominantly black visitors who attend, many of whom ride motorcycles... Roughly a third as many officers from other agencies worked during the 2002 Harley-Davidson event, which lasted six days longer than the Atlantic Beach festival.

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http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/052203ADAMS_M22.html

MAYS LANDING - Less than a month after an indictment against suspended Northfield Police Chief Kenneth Adams on 14 counts of theft and misconduct was dismissed, he has been re-indicted by an Atlantic County grand jury, Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey S. Blitz said.

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http://www.theomahachannel.com/news/2222020/detail.html

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- A Council Bluffs police officer emptied an entire can of Mace on a shoplifting suspect Wednesday night. Police said the off-duty officer noticed a man shoplifting items and followed the suspect outside. According to police, as the officer drew closer, the man reached in his jacket and pulled out a screwdriver... The alleged shoplifter escaped. If you know anything about this incident, you're urged to call Council Bluffs police.

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http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2003/052003/05292003/1054226550

A Fairfax County police officer is a crime victim today... The unidentified officer was off-duty overnight when he discovered his assigned patrol car burning in a residential neighborhood in Annandale. The incident occurred around 3:30 am.

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http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~1406973,00.html

FONTANA - A national police misconduct expert says [that]... three in-custody deaths in less than a year may be a sign of trouble. "I would say that (three deaths) in one year is more than odd, it is extraordinary,' said John Doherty, chairman and assistant professor of criminal justice at Marist University in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a retired Poughkeepsie Police Department captain... "It signals that it has gotten out of hand and that they are unlucky.'

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http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=1289703&nav=0s3dFyI7

From complaints of excessive force to allegations about police negligence, the city of Austin's police monitor has finalized her annual report about the Austin Police Department... Some groups in Austin seem to have more complaints about police than others.

...The monitor's office fielded 126 complaints about officers, who seemed to lack a sense of responsibility to community. Seventy-seven people complained of police bias. Sixty-six were about negligence, and 59 people complained about excessive force and failure of duty, oppressive behavior and a lack of honesty. "Thirty-three percent of our complainants are African-American. African-Americans represent less than 10 percent of Austin's population, based on census population data," Jones said.

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http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/editorial/35652

It sure looks like police powers are growing. We hear horror stories about heinous police abuses such as the Ramparts Division scandal in Los Angeles, stories of innocent Americans having heart attacks after their doors are kicked in during the middle of the night by police with a warrant for a different address. Stories like the tale of Patton, the beloved family pet gunned down in a traffic stop gone horribly awry in Tennessee.

...It's easy to sympathize with the call issued by Asheville Justice Watch for a citizens' oversight board for the Asheville Police Department... The failings of humanity can be found any place one cares to look. The creation of the oversight board, as proposed by Justice Watch, would likely create more problems and conflicts than it is setting out to address [bla bla bla]... There are some bad apples in law enforcement. There are some among the rest of us as well. That's why there's law enforcement in the first place. It's up to all of us to make sure it works.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/29/BA305781.DTL

The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury on Wednesday found systematic problems in the city's police accountability system -- adding a new layer to a growing pile of complaints about the Police Department's response to charges of officer misconduct. The Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC) -- the city's police watchdog agency -- and City Controller Ed Harrington issued separate reports last month that found chronic problems in the system. Among the concerns: the OCC lacks true independence to thoroughly investigate civilian complaints against cops and the Police Department hampers the investigations by foot-dragging in cooperating with OCC investigations.

The Civil Grand Jury's findings echoed those concerns... Because of a one-year statute of limitations on most complaints of police misconduct, some cases in which the OCC has sustained a complaint and forwarded it to the Police Department for review have have been dropped, with the officer avoiding discipline.

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http://www.statesman.com/aponline/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V1562.AP-Player-Killed.html

SAN DIEGO (AP)--A report criticizing two police officers in the 1999 shooting death of a former professional football player... will be removed from personnel records... The city Civil Service Commission discredited the May 2000 report by the Citizens' Review Board on Police Practices on Wednesday after the board failed to justify its findings.

The report indicated that San Diego officers Tim Keating and Robert Wills agitated Demetrius DuBose when they tried to handcuff him during a burglary investigation, although he had not been resisting arrest. After a pursuit, DuBose was shot 12 times, including five times in his back... The officers were cleared by state and federal prosecutors.

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http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/auto/epaper/editions/wednesday/metro_state_19.html

A federal judge has dismissed seven of the 14 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse in the suburban Haltom City Jail, ruling that the women couldn't prove that the abuse was the city's fault... The lawsuits say an organized ring of uniformed police officers and detention officers targeted the women, who were arrested on suspicion of minor traffic offenses and misdemeanors. Once in jail, the lawsuits contend, jailers verbally harassed female inmates and videotaped them in the showers.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_052203_judgeindict.html

The district attorney in Brooklyn has just announced a local judge, Justice Gerald Garson, is indicted. Accused of fixing divorces in exchange for expensive gifts and cash... The evidence just shown to us by the district attorney includes more than 800 audio tapes of conversations, hundreds of hours of videotaped surveillance... Garson was not indicted for bribery, but "official misconduct," which is still a felony.

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http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0305/29/m17.html

A Madison County constable, accused of being a peeping Tom, has been indicted. James Eddie Gilmer is charged with 12 counts of voyeurism and 10 counts of illegal videotaping of a young woman in her residence, said Madison County District Attorney Rick Mitchell... Ridgeland Police Chief Jimmy Houston said in an earlier interview following Gilmer's arrest that police observed Gilmer watching the woman through her windows as he sat in his marked patrol car... Gilmer, elected in 1999, is currently seeking re-election.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_051403_coptrial.html

Four Bloomfield police officers [have been] indicted in the death of a 35-year-old man from the Dominican Republic... Officers Richard Chiarello, Vincent DeFabrizio, Gerald Fillipone and Frank Furfaro are accused in the death of Villanueva. The 35-year-old Dominican native was suffering a violent seizure when the officers arrived at Villanueva's job on April 16 of last year, they encountered language barriers and had to use measures to subdue him. Villanueva was taken to the hospital where he died of mechanical asphyxiation [a.k.a. strangulation]... Supporters of the cops say the four officers were just doing their job, and there was a tragic accident. Michael Ruggiero, Bloomfield Police Union: "They were trying to control this individual so he did not further injure himself."

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this is filed as a "weird, funny, and strange" report by reuters. we are not amused

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZKJ0HYZGNPJZACRBAEZSFFA?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2752193

PENSACOLA, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida policeman has resigned after a teenager complained that he made her do jumping jacks while topless to avoid arrest, Pensacola police say. The 16-year-old and a 19-year-old man were kissing in a parked car when Officer Patrick Shields confronted them, police said. The officer told them they could be arrested on trespassing and lewdness charges... When questioned, Shields said he was trying to scare them and had never intended to arrest them... Shields, 31, resigned on Wednesday and was still under criminal investigation, police said.

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http://www.sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/05/1611347.php

Ingrid Chapman, Josh Warren-White, and Brian Lowe were attempting to photograph at least a dozen police officers as they brutalized a young woman, choking her as she bled from the mouth, and breaking her arm. Ingrid, Josh, and Brian were placed under arrest and taken to the Oakland City Jail on charges of obstructing an officer.

After loading the young woman police whom had been beating into an ambulance, the same officers then proceeded to a nearby residence and illegally entered and searched the house, without a warrant or consent from the residents. Another young man, Tim Barsky who had filmed officers as they illegally entered the house, continued to film police as they pulled away in patrol cars and vans. Police then stopped, jumped out of their cars, placed Tim under arrest and confiscated his camera. Police then grabbed an 11 year old girl at the scene, twisting her leg, arrested her, and confiscated the camera she was holding. The child was later released.

Tim Barsky, along with Josh Warren-White, Brian Lowe, and Ingrid Chapman are still being held under $1500 bond each. Please call the Oakland City Jail... to demand that these four young men and woman be released.

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http://www.clickonsa.com/ant/news/stories/news-223604820030529-130548.html

SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio police officer who arrested an off-duty officer for alleged drunken driving told jurors Thursday he made a mistake when he turned off his patrol car video camera shortly after he pulled over the officer... The patrol car dash camera... films sobriety tests.

...Castro's attorney said without the sobriety test video, jurors can't form an opinion on how his client performed on the sobriety test. Castro did register a 0.16 blood-alcohol level, twice the legal limit in Texas, on a breathalyzer test.

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http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/2222436/detail.html

LOUISVILLE -- A former Louisville police officer was sentenced Thursday for stealing from people he arrested... Manning admitted to stealing a total of $1,000 from eight people during a three-year period while he was working as an officer in Louisville's south side. He was caught when the department ran a sting on him and he took money from an undercover cop he'd arrested... Prosecutors said the money was used to buy controversial Nazi-related items over the Internet.

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http://www.beaufortgazette.com/local_news/story/2557436p-2374097c.html

The Beaufort Police Department would like to set up more checkpoints like the three last Friday night... On Friday, officers issued 48 traffic tickets and made one arrest of someone who was driving without a driver's license... More than a third of the citations were for not having proof of insurance... Officers also wrote 15 tickets for not being in possession of their registration and four tickets for having open containers... A federal grant aimed at reducing crime near public housing paid for the checkpoint.

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5919988.htm

KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Homeless advocates are outraged by an operation where undercover police officers dressed as vagrants, observed drivers running red lights or committing other traffic violations, then radioed ahead to other officers who stopped those cars and wrote tickets... Undercover deputies stood along streets and gave the indication they were vagrants by pushing shopping carts and wearing fake teeth and tattered clothing. They also carried small cardboard signs, which read, "Sheriff's traffic sting in progress. Buckle up."

...Robert H. Brown, president and chief executive officer of the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, said... "I just think it shows that the community's aware of the homeless problem. I wish they would solve it, rather than masquerading."

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http://www.rochesterdandc.com/news/0529story121332_news.shtml

Two city police officers stood before a Rochester City Court judge this morning to answer multiple charges of drug possession and theft following an internal investigation that led to their arrest Wednesday... Rochester Police Chief Robert Duffy said it was the result of three-week investigation initiated by complaints about the two officers from "people involved in the drug trade."

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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/May/29/ln/ln13a.html

A Honolulu police officer accused of illegally distributing a drug containing a human growth hormone was released yesterday after posting a $50,000 signature bond. Eddie Belluomini, 32, was arrested Friday and charged Tuesday with selling the drug Serostim on at least five occasions between November and May... Some of the sales took place while he was wearing his Honolulu Police Department uniform and driving his police-subsidized privately owned vehicle.

Serostim [is sought]... by some bodybuilders who use the drug illegally to develop muscle mass... Belluomini has been suspended by the police department... U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Chang ordered Belluomini to stay off the streets from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly, not to touch the money in his police pension account, and not to touch illicit drugs or have any contact with people who do. He also was ordered to surrender any firearms and to submit to electronic monitoring.

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http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1054215950209780.xml

More than 100 protesters gathered last night in front of the Manhattan storage warehouse where an unarmed African immigrant was shot and killed by a Midland Beach police officer during a raid last week... Attorneys for the family of 43-year-old Ousmane Zongo and community activists again called for an independent investigation into the May 22 shooting.

The Police Department said Officer Bryan Conroy, a cop with the Staten Island Task Force, shot Zongo four times... The Task Force had raided a locker inside the warehouse where suspected counterfeit videos and compact discs were being stored, authorities said. Police said Conroy was guarding a cache of merchandise when Zongo, an art dealer, approached him and the two started arguing... Zongo, a father of two, was hit four times in the chest, back and arm, authorities said... "The killing of unarmed, innocent people in this city by police must stop," said Sanford Rubenstein, an attorney representing Zongo's family.

...The Manhattan district attorney's office is investigating the shooting and will present the case to a grand jury in the coming days. But critics said the district attorney is unable to objectively investigate the shooting because prosecutors rely on the police to help win cases in court... Conroy... is on modified duty while the case is investigated... Zongo... emigrated from the West African nation of Burkina Faso about two years ago. Zongo dealt in African art and kept supplies in a locker on the third floor of Chelsea Mini-Storage. He was described by friends as a peaceful man.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--sergeantcharged0529may29,0,6181308.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

GREENPORT, N.Y. -- A police sergeant was accused of assaulting and threatening to drown his wife, authorities said. Sgt. Paul M. Robertson was suspended without pay pending the results of an internal investigation... The woman, whose throat and arms were bruised, tried to call 911, but her husband ripped the phone out of the wall, police said... "We just hope people remember that you are presumed innocent until proven guilty," Michael Howard, Robertson's lawyer, said.

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http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=61933

PORTLAND — National police experts say there were a number of oversights and questionable decisions by Portland officers in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old woman who tried to flee arrest following a traffic stop. Officer Scott McCollister fired the fatal shot May 5 after Kendra James jumped into the driver’s seat of the car and tried to escape... McCollister told police he fired because was falling and was afraid he would be struck by the moving car. Other officers at the scene and witnesses who were walking by the traffic stop said they did not see McCollister fall. Initial reports from officers at the scene suggested McCollister first said his foot got stuck in the car.

...Experts also criticized a dinner that McCollister had with Officer Kenneth Reynolds and another officer following the shooting. General police policy calls for witnesses to a shooting to be separated until after they have been interviewed.

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details, details

http://www.oregonlive.com/metro/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/10524823409090.xml

Kendra Sarie James, the 21-year-old woman who was shot and killed by Portland police early Monday after a traffic stop in North Portland, was five months pregnant, a family spokesman confirmed Thursday... James leaves two sons, a 3-year-old and an 18-month-old... Police union leader Officer Daryl Turner has said McCollister feared for his life and those of the other officers, who were "entangled in the car."

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http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-21012130.apds.m0597.bc-ct--polimay21,0,7648088.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire

HARTFORD, Conn. -- A witness testified Tuesday that she was "dumbstruck" by the reactions of a white police officer when he fatally shot a black suspect after a car chase six years ago in New Haven. Cheryl Bell, a 29-year-old health care worker, said she saw East Haven Officer Robert Flodquist rush up to the car he had been chasing, bang on the driver's window and fire several shots in to the car. Malik Jones, 21, of New Haven, died.

...Flodquist, who was cleared of any wrongdoing by federal and state authorities, has said that he fired at Jones in self-defense when Jones tried to run him over with the car. Flodquist has since been promoted to sergeant and is now the spokesman for East Haven police.

...The officer "ran to the car. He was screaming and banging on the window. Then, the gunshots rang out." Bell said. She said she was "dumbstruck" by the officer's reaction to the driver. Bell, of New Haven, said she drove away from the scene seconds after she heard the shots. She did not come forward to be interviewed by state police Detective Thomas Murray until about two months after the shooting... Bell, who is black, testified that East Haven police had stopped her 30 to 40 times since 1991 for what police considered suspicious activity or traffic violations. In either 1994 or 1995, Bell said, she was stopped five times within one month. During all those occasions, said Bell, she was ticketed three times: once for failing to fasten her seat belt, once for a stop sign violation and once for speeding. The speeding and stop sign summonses, she said, were later dismissed. She could only conclude that the stop sign summons was racially motivated, said Bell... The civil lawsuit, seeking unspecified punitive damages, also claims East Haven police have a pattern of targeting blacks and Hispanics for motor vehicle stops.

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http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.fbi29may29,0,3392881.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

An FBI agent who mistakenly shot an unarmed Pasadena man in the face last year says in court papers that he believed the unwitting victim was a wanted bank robber who was reaching for a weapon when, "in a split-second decision," the agent fired "a single shot for his and his fellow officers' safety."

..."That the person arrested was not, in fact, the suspect is regrettable, but not actionable," David B. Irwin, a Towson attorney, said in Hanburger's motions... Schultz, 21, was shot in the face after agents stopped the car his then-girlfriend, Kristen M. "Krissy" Harkum, was driving... The lawsuits filed by Schultz and Harkum also described Braga as having exhibited a "startling propensity for shooting unarmed persons," [and]... criticized agents for laughing in the backseat of a bureau car after the March 1, 2002, event, a moment captured by a local television station's camera.

...Two FBI vehicles forced the young couple to the side of the road and four FBI agents approached the Grand Am, according to court records and police accounts. The Schultz lawsuit claimed that the agents first ordered Schultz and Harkum to "show your hands." A moment later, the agents allegedly issued a second order: "Unlock the doors." ...Schultz and Harkum claimed that Braga fired his M-14 rifle when Schultz moved to unlock the car door, his hands visible.

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http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1298827&nav=15MVG5Zv

Police say he tried to solicit sex from young boys in two states. Today, former Las Vegas DEA agent Steven Kinney is behind bars in Mississippi... Kinney was arrested again while he was out on bail for similar charges right here in the valley... Kinney, out on bail facing a June sentencing on 15 counts of attempted child molestation in Nevada, was caught trying to have sex with young boys in Mississippi... Police are still trying to determine why Kinney was in Mississippi, but are clear on his motives.

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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/57964.htm

Residents of a Bronx building are outraged after getting an unexpected morning "greeting" yesterday from a police drug squad, which burst into their homes, waved guns at children and then left after finding nothing.

...They smashed open a door, handcuffed several people and put a gun in the face of 12-year-old Jennifer Espady before going though everyone's belongings, witnesses said... The [NYPD] spokesperson said the information that led them to [the apartment building] was "accurate," unlike a May 16 raid in which a bogus tip led cops to the home of 57-year-old church volunteer Alberta Spruill, who died of a heart attack after a stun grenade was tossed into her home.