getty image: Cavs guard Iman Shumpert is taking it upon himself to help improve relations between citizens and police. Shumpert said in an Instagram post on Wednesday that, for each steal he gets this season, he will donate money and time toward a foundation or foundations that work to “improve the struggle between the badge […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the police killing of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Friday, but his family isdemanding that the charges against the involved officer be filed immediately. Police were originally responding to an unrelated call when they approached Crutcher’s vehicle, which had been stalled in the […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Ohio Going Blue’s response to an inappropriate Facebook post about the death of Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper Kenneth Velez has gone viral. Velez died Thursday after being struck during a traffic stop. He was set to retire in three days. Ohio Going Blue posted a screenshot of comments from a […]
Sandra Bland’s family has reached a $1.9 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit, the family’s attorney said Thursday. The settlement includes compensation for Bland’s death as well as several changes to jail procedures in Waller County, Texas. Bland was found dead in her jail cell three days after she was arrested for failing to […]
photo: Brunswick Police: An Amber Alert has been issued for a Brunswick girl believed to have been abducted. Officials say Robin C. Roberts, 15, was taken by her biological father from K-Mart on Center Road in Brunswick at 7:49 p.m. Monday. She is 5-foot-10, 110 pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes. The father, […]
A man was shot outside of the First District Police Station Wednesday night. First District officers responded after a 21-year-old man was shot in the shoulder in the parking lot outside of their station around 8:40 p.m. Cleveland police say that it was a domestic incident, and the suspect, Isaiah Martin, surrendered to police. Martin is now […]
Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images Chris Brown was released on $250,000 bail Tuesday night after he was booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, following an hours-long standoff earlier that day between the singer and officers at his Los Angeles home, police said. Mark Geragos, Brown’s attorney, tweeted, “Thanks to everyone for their support and […]
Authorities say a criminal ring that netted hundreds of thousands of dollars from smash-and-grab ATM thefts could be responsible for stealing more than 50 cash machines in northeast Ohio since 2015. An indictment unsealed Tuesday includes charges connected to 10 thefts or attempted thefts since February 2015. A Cleveland police commander said Wednesday that eight […]
getty images Bryan R Smith After more than two hours of drama in the sky, NYPD Special Operations officers grabbed a man who was scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower in Manhattan, pulling him inside through a broken window. Police said that the climber is a 20-year-old man from Virginia who wanted a face-to-face […]
The latest smash and grab happened at a Strongsville 7-Eleven on Royalton Road early Monday morning. The motive is similar to a couple dozen other smash and grabs across Northeast Ohio in the last year, but unlike all the other ones, this time two robbers didn’t get away. The gas station was open at 4 […]
getty/instagram An “unprecedented number of threats” have been made against the Baltimore County Police Department since the fatal police shooting of Korryn Gaines on Monday, according to CBS Baltimore. Because of the increase, Chief Jim Johnson has chosen not to identify the officer who fired the deadly shot during the Randallstown incident, even though the department’s […]
Two East Cleveland patrolmen have been fired amid allegations they drove a suspect to a city park and beat him. The alleged attack left 28-year-old Jesse Nickerson hospitalized for parts of three days, his family and attorney said. Patrolmen Gerald Spencer and Denayne Dixon were fired Thursday after a swift investigation by Police Chief […]
