The most dramatic moment in the deposition came when Roderick Gadson, an Alabama prison guard, was questioned under oath about an incident in which he and other officers used such devastating force against a prisoner that the man had to be airlifted to hospital to treat his injuries. Gadson was shown a photograph of the man, Steven Davis. He was lying in an ICU bed breathing through a tube, his cadaverous face bruised and covered with blood, his eyes black and sunken. Gadson was asked whether he felt that the amount of force used had been appropriate, given the way Davis looked. He replied: I don't feel like nothing. I just did my job.
And now, in what may be his most career-defining moment yet, Hegseth is confronting questions about the use of military force and demands he release the videotapes after a special operations team reportedly attacked survivors of a strike on an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela. Some lawmakers and legal experts say the second strike would have violated the laws of armed conflict.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote the footnote in a 223-page opinion issued last week, noting that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents' credibility and "may explain the inaccuracy of these reports." She described what she saw in at least one body camera video, writing that an agent asks ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report after giving the program a brief sentence of description and several images.
Vulnerable migrants held in UK detention centres are routinely being handcuffed, with some detained for hours, a damning report has found. Examples of unnecessary force included a 70-year-old small and frail man being handcuffed during a hospital visit, despite having no history of being disruptive, and another man subjected to rigid bar cuffs, a waist-restraint belt, as well as thigh and ankle restraints, for over four and a half hours.
Carlos Jimenez, a father of three, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week after prosecutors accused him of trying to "reverse" his car into a Border Patrol agent conducting an early morning Oct. 30 immigration stop near the Ontario mobile home park where he lives. An accompanying ICE agent, according to a complaint filed shortly after the incident, had ordered him to leave and pulled out a gun and pepper spray.
A two-hour-plus standoff between Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies and a man who wouldn't exit his car during a traffic stop ended with the driver fatally shot when he emerged holding a knife. Sheriff Bob Jonsen has discussed the "numerous attempts" deputies made to reach "a peaceful resolution," including the use of "several less-lethal tools and projectiles to prevent the use of deadly force."
The person whom federal authorities believe was shot while accelerating a U-Haul truck backward toward federal agents at a Coast Guard Island protest two weeks ago has been charged in federal court with assaulting federal officers. Bella Thompson, who also goes by Bella Castillo or Brendan Munro Thompson, according to prosecutors, is accused of assault on a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon.
As the video shows, as Bacchus stands in the middle of the street facing the cops, Custodio yells at him to "drop it" 10 times. Several other officers also all simultaneously shout at him, "Drop the gun!," "Drop the f-ing gun!" and "Don't be stupid! Drop the gun!" As Custodio gets closer to him, Bacchus starts to back up toward the curb, all the while clutching a gun in his left hand.
Leon Wilson, 51, blasted a half-dozen rounds at a fleeing BMW after chasing it for a mile from the Sunset Park jail's staff parking lot in the wee hours of Sept. 4, 2023, firing a bullet into the back of a man sitting in the rear seat. He then continued to follow the shot-up BMW to the Brooklyn Bridge, and returned to work without calling 911 or reporting the shooting to his superiors.
Advocates warn of ongoing isolated ICE raids after an undocumented immigrant was detained in front of his San Jose home Saturday despite the Trump administration calling off the mass deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area earlier this week. As NBC Bay Area reports, federal agents with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement approached Gerardo, 42, in his driveway as he was leaving for work at 7:45 am Saturday, which was captured on the family's Ring camera (included in the below video clip).
Michael Dietrick, the former Sonoma County sheriff's deputy who shot and killed burglary suspect David Pelaez-Chavez in 2022, will receive $5,226 per month as part of lifetime retirement benefits approved earlier this year through the county's pension system, The Press Democrat has learned. The fatal shooting sparked recurring protests and calls by Pelaez-Chavez's family members and activists for greater accountability, and, years later, is now at the center of a heated debate over the authority and reach of Sonoma County's civilian law enforcement oversight office.
Yet federal agents are responding with increased force. Federal police unleashed a volley of weapons and chemical agents on anti-ICE protesters and journalists on Saturday, October 11. It was a notable escalation in the response to protests at the Portland immigration processing facility that led to violent arrests, a photojournalist getting shot with a pepper ball, and a large group being sprayed indiscriminately with tear gas.
In the video, the officer's car had a minor collision with a car driven by Wilks. As soon as both cars came to a stop so the drivers could assess the damage, Wilks got out and immediately walked toward the driver's side of the officer's car. Wilks was seen yelling at the officer. When the officer got out of his car, he walked in front of it to look at the spot where the collision had occurred. As he walked, Wilks trailed behind him and continued berating him. Then, Wilks suddenly brandished a handgun and hit the officer in the head with it. The officer pulled out his own firearm and shot Wilks multiple times.
The Special Investigations Unit had been looking into the shooting that took place in the early morning of June 11 in a condominium complex on Buchanan Drive. The SIU says York Regional Police officers were investigating a disturbance at a unit and they knocked on the door several times while hearing "concerning sounds" coming from inside. The watchdog says a building security guard unlocked the door and the officers saw a woman lying face down on a massage table, uninjured.
The attorney for a woman who was shot by federal agents in Chicago over the weekend after she allegedly rammed a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicle has claimed that body-camera footage captures one of the officers saying, Do something, bitch, before opening fire, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The shooting occurred on Saturday morning in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood, as immigration agents, at the behest of the second Trump administration, have been scouring Illinois's largest city for people to deport.
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The return of the controversial paid bonus, eliminated years ago due to civil society pressure, comes at a time when Rio has its lowest police lethality rates in a decade. The paid bonus was introduced in a bill reforming the career path of civil police officers, who focus mainly on investigations rather than street patrols. Under the law, officers could receive a bonus of 10% to 150% of their salary for seizing high-caliber or restricted-use weapons and neutralizing criminals, according to O Globo.
