Assault

Surveillance footage released Friday by the Escondido Police Department shows an officer shooting a man accused of charging the officer with a crowbar.

A man who was shot by police after allegedly charging at an Escondido officer with a 3-foot crowbar pleaded not guilty today to charges including assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.

A white couple face criminal charges after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan

A 26-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman was arrested Monday by the Santa Monica Police Department. After Santa Monica Police detectives conducted an investigation and presented the case to the LA District Attorney’s Office, an arrest warrant was issued for charges of rape and oral copulation. The victim met Kevin Yorkdan Suazo-Chavez through a dating app in...

Prosecutors say two Buffalo police officers have been charged with assault after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester

Former Los Angeles Dodgers star Carl Crawford has been arrested after his former girlfriend accused him of assaulting her during an argument over a man she had begun dating. An arrest affidavit filed Wednesday by Houston police states that the ballplayer-turned-record producer went to the home of Gabriele Washington on May 8, produced a handgun from which he unloaded the…

A man wanted for homicide in San Bernardino County was arrested in Oceanside on suspicion of attacking a 44-year-old woman outside her home, then breaking into a separate Oceanside apartment, police said on Friday.

A lawsuit accuses four white suburban St. Louis police officers of brutalizing a 68-year-old black woman and her adult son after wrongly accusing them of stealing a television

A Dodgers fan who says he was attacked in one of the stadium parking lots after a 2019 home game is suing the team, alleging the lighting was poor and security was lacking. Rafael Reyna’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges negligence, premises liability, assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. His wife, Christel Reyna, has a separate bystander…

Security camera video that shows a brutal surprise attack last month at a Los Angeles bus stop was released Wednesday in an effort to find the assailant.  The assault happened March 11 at about 2:35 p.m., as the victim was getting off an MTA bus near the 5000 block of Exposition Boulevard, near South La Brea Avenue, according to the…

A community youth soccer coach from Riverside suspected of sexually assaulting a female player was being held today in lieu of $150,000 bail. Jordan Russell Cohen, 25, was arrested Monday night and booked into the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside on suspicion of lewd acts on a minor, according to Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback. He said detectives were told…

One man has been arrested and authorities are searching for several others after an alleged attack on a 60-year-old man with a cane at an MBTA stop in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. The victim, who asked to be identified as “Alex,” says he has a disability and uses his cane to get around. “They hurt me, and I did everything I...

Maryland couple Cynthia Day, 50, and Nathaniel Holmes, 63, were found dead in their hotel room at the Grand Bahia Principe La Romana Hotel May 30th. This follows several other incidents in which American tourists have somehow died or been assaulted while on vacation in the region in recent months.

A man alleged he was assaulted by some men Monday at his home and told police they might still be holed up inside the residence, but police found no men inside, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was assaulted during a public appearance in South Africa on Saturday, but the 71-year-old appeared to quickly recover and say “I’m just glad the idiot didn’t interrupt my Snapchat.” Video shows the former California governor standing and filming children at a sporting event in Johannesburg when a man makes a flying kick into his back. Schwarzenegger stumbles...

The mother of a 38-year-old man who went into cardiac arrest during his arrest by Anaheim police officers last year has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the two officers involved for alleged civil rights violations and wrongful death, attorneys said Monday.

A Kentucky elementary school teacher has been removed from her school and faces charges of assault after she was seen on video dragging a student with autism down a hallway, NBC News reported. In the minute-long video, shared Sunday on Facebook by the child’s mother, Angel Nelson, the female teacher pulls the boy by his wrists down the hall in...

An arrest has been made in the case of a man caught on video seemingly pushing a stranger into the path of a truck in downtown Los Angeles, according to police