Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Toledo Blade journalists who were detained and whose cameras were confiscated by military security have filed complaints with the FBI, saying their First Amendment rights were violated by the Department of Army Police. The Blade reports that reporter Tyrel Linkhorn and photographer Jetta Fraser shared their experience with the FBI on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com On the surface, it looks pretty suspicious. It’s “definitely bizarre and defies logic at first glance,” Jonesboro, Ark. Police Chief Michale Yates said, reports Huffington Post. Chavis Carter, 21, was shot in the head while handcuffed in the rear of a police car in Arkansas. Police said Carter committed suicide with a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Deputy U.S. Marshal Stephen Linder stepped way over the line, federal authorities say. A Chicago fed grand jury last week indicted him for civil rights violations for allegedly assaulting handcuffed prisoners. The Justice Department alleged that Linder, 36, choked a handcuffed man on July 8, 2010, and head-butted a handcuffed man…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baltimore cop Gregory Mussmacher was convicted in state court of assault after he used his police baton to strike a handcuffed and shackled juvenile in the head and face. But the conviction was reversed. So in stepped the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which convicted Mussmacher in May for the 2004…
