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Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (BATON ROUGE, La.) — When Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) leadership found out about the allegations of the “brave cave,” the police chief immediately went to the FBI in August, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The police department faces several lawsuits over the treatment of detainees, including at a now-shuttered […]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — Police said they’ve found a trap floor with drugs in the play area of a New York City day care where a 1-year-old boy died following exposure to fentanyl. Nicholas Dominici, 1, died on Friday and three other children, ranging in age from 8 months to 2 years, were hospitalized and […]

amphotora/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Washington, D.C., police have arrested a suspect in connection to the Mother’s Day killing of 10-year-old Arianna Davis. On Monday, D.C. police said they had arrested Karon Gregory, 19, and charged him with first-degree murder while armed. Davis was shot in the upper body while driving home with her family following […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Police in the Chicago suburbs are searching for former NFL player Sergio Brown after discovering his mother’s dead body following a call from family who reported both missing this weekend. Family members contacted the Maywood Police Department Saturday after they said they couldn’t locate Brown, 35, or his mother, Myrtle […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (REDAN, Ga) — A police chief who was allegedly seen on camera body-slamming a student has been put on paid leave, Georgia’s DeKalb County School District (DCSD) said Friday. In a video that has been circulating on social media, DCSD Police Chief Brad Gober allegedly slams a student to the ground after the […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (MADISON, Wisc.) — Police are urging people to send in surveillance footage after a University of Wisconsin-Madison student was found beaten off-campus over the weekend in a “horrific” attack. The woman was found around 3:20 a.m. Sunday on a block in downtown Madison, police said. A person who lives in the area called […]

STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (EAST POINT, Ga.) —  body found at a garbage collection station in Georgia Thursday is believed to be missing 2-year-old J’Asiah Mitchell, whose father reported the child had been kidnapped during an armed robbery last week. The toddler’s father was charged with lying about the robbery to police and has been identified […]

Irizarry Family (PHILADELPHIA) — The family of a 27-year-old man killed in an officer-involved shooting this week in Philadelphia is calling on officials to release body-camera video of the incident after police said their initial description of the event was not accurate. During a news conference Wednesday, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said Eddie Irizarry […]

Courtesy of the Marion County Journal Newspaper (MARION, Kan.) — A police raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper is prompting a First Amendment fight. Surveillance video of the raid on the family-owned Marion County Record newsroom obtained by ABC News shows a police officer reading Miranda Rights to a reporter and other officers taking photos […]

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Yenchun Chen, 44, repelled out a hospital window Wednesday afternoon using towels and linens he had requested from staff. Authorities are still searching for Yenchun Chen after he jumped out a fifth floor window and rappelled down Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York City to evade Department of […]