CEBU CITY – A policeman is in hot water for allegedly assaulting a group of teenagers in Barangay Marigondon, Lapu-Lapu City on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 3. Police said Police Patrolman Celso Perecio Jr. was drunk during the incident, which happened around 3:15 p.m. The policeman is assigned to the...
CEBU CITY – A policeman was arrested for allegedly mauling a 23-year-old man in Barangay Sapangdaku here before dawn on Monday, April 7. LABRA’S mugshot. The suspect, Police Corporal Ivan Gabutan Labra, 31, assigned to Station 3 in Mandaue City, is facing charges for grave threat and physical...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The police chief of Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte and three of his colleagues were relieved from their posts after a video of a lawman hurting a complainant at the police station over the weekend went viral online. OBAR Ilocos Norte police chief Police Col. Frederick...
CAMP FLORENDO, City of San Fernando, La Union – Police Brig. Gen. Lou Evangelista, Police Regional Office-1 (Ilocos) chief, has ordered an immediate investigation on the viral video of police officers from the Pasuquin Municipal Police Station in Ilocos Norte who allegedly engaged in acts of...
CEBU CITY — The chief of a police station in Lapu-Lapu City and his two personnel were relieved from their posts over accusations of police brutality. LAPU-LAPU City Hall of Justice (Wikipedia) The three police officers from the Marigondon Police Station were transferred to the Regional Holding...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australian police will not release bodycam footage of an officer tasering a 95-year-old great-grandmother with dementia inside her nursing home, a state police chief said Saturday. The woman, Clare Nowland, is in a critical state in hospital, three days after being shot with an...
OTTAWA, Canada -- Five Canadian police officers have been charged with offenses related to an Indigenous man's death, which occurred shortly after his arrest in 2017. Prosecutors in British Columbia province announced late Wednesday manslaughter charges against two Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- Video that appears to show the moments before police officers shot dead a double amputee as he ran away from them on his stumps has emerged in California, as the United States grapples with high-profile episodes of police brutality. Footage taken by bystanders from...
MEMPHIS, United States -- US Vice President Kamala Harris led urgent calls for police reform Wednesday as hundreds gathered in a Memphis church for the funeral of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old African American whose fatal beating last month shocked the nation. Speaking before an audience including...
MEMPHIS, United States -- An African American man who died after he was brutally beaten by police in the southern US city of Memphis will be laid to rest Wednesday, as the shockwaves from his death keep pulsating across the country. The funeral of Tyre Nichols will be attended by civil rights...
MEMPHIS, United States -- The US city of Memphis on Friday released graphic video footage depicting the fatal police assault of a 29-year-old Black man, sparking small protests against police brutality in a number of US cities but none that flared into the violence that officials had feared. Five...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US authorities on Thursday charged five officers with second-degree murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in the eastern state of Tennessee following a traffic stop. Tyre Nichols, 29, was stopped on January 7 for what the Memphis Police Department said was...
