Month: August 2017

A businessman from Westchester has filed a lawsuit against the White Plains police claiming police brutality. The multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleges that authorities brutalized the man without any reason. A lot of the incident was caught on surveillance camera. The video shows the 72-year-old man attempting to enter the elevator of an apartment building last January. Next, White Plains police can be seen stopping him. He was headed to assist his fiance who was in the throes of a dispute with her adult daughter. The man tried to tell the police that he could bring resolution to the matter...

A Baltimore police officer has been accused of planting evidence at the scene of an arrest. The accusations come following police body camera footage that appears to show the officer throwing a bag of illegal drugs on the ground near where officers arrested a man on drug charges in January. In the video, the officer turns on his body camera and walks into an alley, where he finds a small bag of white capsules. However, 30 seconds before the officer turns on his body camera, some footage remains -- due to the way Baltimore body cameras save their footage. In this footage, which doesn't have...