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HOUMA-CHOCTAW TRIBE DEMANDS FBI INVESTIGATES LITTLE ROCK POLICE DEPT. AND CHIEFS Dick Pic Cop Greg C. Key LR CHIEF'S ORDER INVESTIGATORS TO COMMIT CRIMINAL FRAUD Federal Law: Title 42, U.S.C., Section 14141 makes it unlawful for state or local law enforcement agencies to allow officers to engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives persons of rights protected by the Constitution or U.S. laws. This law, commonly referred to as the Police Misconduct Statute, gives the Department of Justice authority to seek civil remedies in cases where law enforcement agencies have policies or practices that foster a pattern of misconduct by employees. This action is directed against an agency, not against individual officers. The types of issues which may initiate a pattern and practice investigation include: --Lack of supervision/monitoring of officers’ actions; --Lack of justification or reporting by officers on incidents involving the ...

A recent ruling in the Sebastian County Circuit Court could affect the methods of the Arkansas State Police in releasing dash camera videos through Freedom of Information Act requests. Circuit Judge Stephen Tabor ruled Monday that an Arkansas State Police public information officer committed five civil violations of the Freedom of Information Act last year when he relied on a “blanket policy” and failed to give valid reasons for not releasing the videos. Circuit Judge Stephen Tabor ruled Monday that an Arkansas State Police public information officer committed five civil violations of the Freedom of Information Act last year when he relied on a “blanket policy” and failed to give valid reasons for not releasing the videos. Bill Sadler, the state police public information officer, did not provide evidence there was an ongoing investigation in five of the six cases related to the FOIA requests for dash camera videos made by local attorney William Whitfield Hyman. Sadler’s “...

Jury finds ex-Arkansas officer liable in fatal shooting A federal jury on Thursday found a former Arkansas police officer liable in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy and awarded $415,000 in damages to the teenager's mother. The jury ruled in favor of the mother, Sylvia Perkins, in her wrongful death lawsuit against former Little Rock officer Josh Hastings. The verdict in the lawsuit comes after two manslaughter trials against Hastings, 31, ended in hung juries and prosecutors declined to try him a third time. Perkins is the mother of Bobby Moore III, who Hastings shot and killed in 2012 when he fired into a car carrying burglary suspects outside a Little Rock apartment complex. Hastings testified that the car was driving toward him and he yelled for the driver to stop before he opened fire. "As the vehicle gets five feet away, I thought they were going to run over me," Hastings testified. "I fired my weapon at the driver to eliminate the threat...