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Fort Lauderdale hotel guest caught on camera punching out valet

Employees identified the puncher as ex-cop John Kiernan of New Smyrna Beach. No charges were pressed for the attack. Sign this petition to make your voice heard: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) – Surveillance video captured what appears to be a hotel guest punching and knocking out a valet, and the employee said the physical confrontation […] »

Florida Man tries to steal police car with officer in it

FORT PIERCE — A 20-year-old man was arrested after police say he tried to steal a car. Not just any old car… He tried to steal a Fort Pierce police patrol vehicle. At the Fort Pierce Police Department. With a Fort Pierce police officer in it. »

Florida deputy fired after taking naked photos on duty

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) – A Florida sheriff’s deputy has been fired after authorities say he took partially naked photos of himself while on duty at a county courthouse. Indian River County spokesman Eric Flowers said in a news release that Lt. Macen LeVan was fired July 19. »

Florida Woman grabs deputy’s crotch, won’t let go

CRESTVIEW – A woman who grabbed a deputy’s crotch and refused to let go was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and simple assault. The 35-year-old Crestview woman, whose house was too cluttered to allow officers to enter safely, also armed herself with a hammer before coming out of the house. Okaloosa County […] »

Pinellas County Deputy boasts online, “Nothing Like Almost Shooting Someone to Set Your Head Right”

A Florida sheriff’s deputy is out of a job after a photo surfaced of him boasting about almost shooting someone to “set [his] head right.” The Snapchat photo, which was posted June 25, shows Deputy Austen Callus, 23, sitting in a vehicle in plain clothes. The caption read, “Nothing like almost shooting someone to set […] »

Jacksonville Cop Threatens Jail Time for Jay Walking

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is reviewing video of an officer’s heated interaction with a man cited for crossing the street illegally. Action News Jax brought the video to JSO — and spoke with the man who shot the footage. It happened Tuesday near the intersection of Arlington and Lillian Roads. The man involved crossed the […] »

Immunity For Cop Who Raided Wrong Home, Shot Man’s Dog As It Ran Away

A Florida police officer responsible for killing a man’s dog after he entered the wrong apartment in a botched raid committed no rights violations and is entitled to immunity, a federal court has ruled. According to a federal lawsuit, Officer Michael McBride was one of six Hollywood police officers and two Broward Sheriff’s deputies that […] »

Florida Cop accidentally shoots up wrong house

An award-winning Florida cop who fired into an occupied home after responding to a wrong address, forcing an innocent family out at gunpoint in the middle of the night and ordering them to sit handcuffed on the curb for ten hours, was indicted by a grand jury. Ocoee police officer Carlos Anglero turned himself in […] »

Florida Woman purposely defecates in a cop car after being arrested for beating up an old man

Meet Paula Sarkowski, resident of Hernando County, Florida. On November 29, 2015, police showed up at her home on Mitchell Road in Brooksville in response to a domestic disturbance. She said nothing physical happened, but in fact she grabbed a family member by the hair and hit him in the head several times. She dug her nails […] »

Florida police accused of racial profiling after stopping man 258 times, charging him with trespassing at work

Earl Sampson, 28, has been stopped by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years, searched more than 100 times, and jailed 56 times at the store where he works for no reason. (CBS Miami)

A Florida police department is facing racial profiling charges after stopping a man 258 times and repeatedly charging him with trespassing at the convenience store where he works. »

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