STORY BY : MAX BLAU City Hall will pay out a six-figure settlement to a man who claimed three Atlanta Police officers repeatedly punched and kicked him during a 2011 traffic stop in northwest Atlanta. The Atlanta City Council today unanimously voted to pay Clemmin Davis $150,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against Mayor Kasim […]
FOREST PARK, Ga. — Jodie Fleischer WSBTV Officers are supposed to pull drivers over for traffic violations, but a Channel 2 Action News investigation found traffic stops leading to a violation of another kind. Driver after driver told investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer officers searched inside their pants while they were stopped for minor traffic […]
Click Here for video Link He was supposed to protect and serve. Instead, a DeKalb County police officer has resigned in disgrace after admitting he solicited a bribe and became violent after he noticed someone shooting video of the transaction. Officer Brandon Brown had just finished working a part-time job at Meskerem, an Ethiopian restaurant […]
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A Dunwoody business owner claims the city’s police department violated his civil rights during a recent traffic stop. Jermaine Muhammad told Channel 2’s Mike Petchenik it happened in mid-June as he drove to pick up supplies for his barber shop on Winter’s Chapel Road.“He tells me the reason I pulled you […]
WSBTV NEWS A federal appeals court has ruled that a man’s lawsuit against the city of Atlanta can go to trial. Attorney Mark Bullman said the Atlanta Police Departments now-disbanded Red Dog Unit strip searched Rickey Sampson in 2010. “They just walked up, grabbed a hold of this guy, a bunch of police officers, and […]