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A Vermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed son, who is Black and has behavioral and intellectual disabilities. After he failed to hand over the last of the stolen e-cigarettes, two officers physically forced him to do so, then Cathy Austrian’s son was handcuffed and pinned to the ground as he screamed and struggled...

Bodycam footage shows the moment Vermont police officers restrained a 14-year-old boy on the floor after his mother called the police on him for stealing electronic cigarettes.

A former San Jose cop dismissed after numerous racist texts were uncovered is now in more legal hot water.

“They aggressively confronted, attacked and repeatedly kneed Mr. Jackson in the groin as he pleaded with the officers,” an attorney said about the incident in California.

DUBLIN — About a dozen Alameda County residents last week protested a proposed $81 million expansion of mental health facilities at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, saying their tax