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A man has taken legal action against police officers from two suburbs of Chicago, alleging that an officer Tasered him when he involuntarily struck an officer in the midst of a diabetic seizure. The Raw Story Reports that 40-year-old Prospero Lassi, an employee of Southwest Airlines filed suit over...

When police arrived at a potential crime scene on a busy road Gold Coast of Australia, they expected the worst. Emergency services had been swamped with calls reporting a man dressed in camouflage carrying an assault rifle. Later calls said that he seemed to have shot himself. As it...

When a man in line at a Joliet, Illinois bank texted his girlfriend, who was waiting in the car, that there was a man with a gun about to rob the place, he expected that she would get the joke. Instead, 33-year-old Jeremy S. Donaldson’s girlfriend did what most...

It has been reported that a police officer in Ozark, Arkansas used a “very, very brief” shock from his Taser to help subdue a 10-year-old girl so that she could be taken to a youth shelter. Officer Dustin Bradshaw came to the home of the girl at the request...

A Michigan police officer has been suspended without pay for two weeks over an incident in which he deployed a Taser on a man who was already handcuffed and was offering no resistance. Lansing Police Chief Mark Alley reported that the incident occured on August 16, when police were...

One of the last places that you would think that had issues with stealing would be a police station, yet a bunch of “local youths” of South Australia’s Christies Beach apparently have been breaking into one of the state’s biggest police complexes to steal cannabis from an evidence storage...

A burglar in Victoria Park, Western Australia proved an easy catch for police when he fell asleep at the doorstep of a pharmacy that he was allegedly trying to rob. The 35-year-old an was found asleep at the entrance to a pharmacy after trying to open the front door...

A major anti-drug operation in Leamington, Ontario, netted at least one innocent person. Businessman Sarkis “Sam” Yousseff’s only crime was to have the same name and nickname as one of the alleged criminals who had the same name. Police knew in advance of the operation that there were two...

Police were called to a McDonald’s “restaurant” in American Fork, Utah, because four teens chose to rap their orders through a drive-through window. When a McDonald’s employee told the group that they were “holding up the line” and had to order or leave. They left without buying anything and...