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The 15-year-old spent two nights in custody until his family provided a time-stamped photo showing he was not involved in the shooting he was arrested for.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department recently released footage of a mistaken-identity incident last year in which officers handcuffed a local teacher instead of the person they were trying to apprehend. For the first time, the teacher, Jasmine Horne, watched the bodycam video and shared her thoughts.

When a Boca Raton man thought a burglar was on his property, he grabbed his pistol and ran after him. But it was no burglar, it was a police officer on patrol, and the man was arrested.

Earlier this year, a man, wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for murder, was finally able to prove his innocence by producing rental car...

A Littleton woman says a former State Trooper threw her to the ground and broke her wrist during an alleged fender bender investigation. She is now suing him in Federal Court.

Justice, not dignity, for man wrongfully arrested for murder and rape It’s been 16 years since Johannes Mahlangu’s arrest, but despite top court ordering he be paid out, scars remain 24 May 2021 - 19:19 Johannes Eugene Mahlangu still walks with a dark cloud over his head, forever tainted by murder and rape charges that should never have been. It has been 16 years since he and a friend, Fanie Johannes Mtsweni, were arrested and beaten into confessing to crimes they did not commit....

Father arrested for rushing to buy baby formula during curfew to sue police 18 January 2021 - 14:19 AfriForums head of private prosecutions, Gerrie Nel, described the manner in which the police handled the case of a father who was arrested for rushing to hospital to buy baby formula, as appalling. Image: Supplied A Centurion father, who was arrested for rushing to a nearby hospital during curfew hours to buy formula milk for his newborn baby, is planning to sue the SA P...

Update: The original report from NJ.com and the man's lawyer said that Clearview was involved, however the NY Times has now...

That this cant be used in these kind of police officers cant be encouraged to be back out on the streets. i think the issue of race is a bigger one for a whole different interview. i dont want to muddy this situation and incident that really needs to create change in the police brutality in the accountability of these police officers with the racial issue. i think theres probably -- there probably is a gray area with bill bratton being so clear one way, and my mom so clear the other way. im sure...