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First Amendment audit. First Amendment audits are a largely American social movement that usually involves photographing or filming from a public space. It is often categorized by its practitioners, known as auditors, as activism and citizen journalism that tests constitutional rights, in particular the right to photograph and video record in a ...
October 3, 2024 at 3:49 PM. Three former Memphis police officers charged over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols following a traffic stop in 2023 have been found guilty on some counts and acquitted ...
10 October 2022. James "Jay" Keith Steward. 13 August 2024 (pleaded guilty) Tuscumbia Police Department (Alabama) Police responded to reports of a crash where an on-duty officer, Steward, had struck pedestrian Terry Hinton. Steward was found to be under the influence and driving on the wrong side of the road.
Dewitte was charged in 2001 with impersonating a police officer, while a member of a police explorers’ program. [6] His 2003 impersonation of a police officer resulted in an almost two year state jail sentence. [4] In 2005 he was arrested for sexual battery of a teenage girl, mandating him to register as a sex offender. [4]
Contents. Killing of Tyre Nichols. On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [ a ] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him.
On January 28, 2019, in the Pecan Park area in the East End district of Houston, [ 1 ] Houston Police Department (HPD) officers initiated a no-knock raid on a house, killing the two homeowners, a husband and wife: Dennis Wayne Tuttle and Rhogena Ann Nicholas. [ 2 ] They were aged 59 and 58, respectively. [ 3 ]
Torres v. Madrid, 592 U.S. 306 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case based on what constitutes a "seizure" in the context of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, in the immediate case, in the situation where law enforcement had attempted to use physical force to stop a suspect but failed to do so.
Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014), is a United States Supreme Court case involving the use of force by police officers during high-speed car chases.After first holding that it had jurisdiction to hear the case, the Court held that the conduct of the police officers involved in the case did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches ...