As hundreds of activists took to the streets of Chicago yesterday to protest the homicide of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, one protestor took an usual but phenomenally effective route: He had a staring contest with a cop.

Just hours after Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last year, Chicago police released dash-cam footage of the incident. Here is the video, via DNAinfo Chicago.

Did you know that in the state of New York, you’re technically allowed to carry up to 25 grams of pot on your person without fear of arrest, and have been for almost 40 years? No? That’s probably because—in New York City, at least—cops will usually lock you up for it anyway.

A video allegedly depicting a black teenager being shot and killed by a Chicago police officer last year will be released, The Guardian reports, after a Cook County judge ruled Thursday that it was not exempt from requests made under the state’s Freedom of Information Act, as city officials had previously claimed.

A plainclothes NYPD detective shot an 20-year-old man in the stomach on Sunday after he tried to rob him at gunpoint, CBS News reports. The suspect was shot once in the stomach and is in stable condition. The detective was also hospitalized, with tinnitus.

Several videos emerged on Twitter Sunday purporting to show Tuscaloosa police violently subduing three University of Alabama students. Police were apparently responding to a noise complaint.

Authorities said Wednesday evening that a Missouri man shot himself in the fact after exchanging gunfire with police officers near the Normandy-Ferguson city line, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The 18-year-old man was hospitalized and is in critical condition.

A video circulating on social media today shows a South Carolina school officer choking a student, slamming her to the ground and then dragging her across a classroom floor while attempting to place her under arrest.

Around 3 am on Sunday, police divers in the Harlem River, near 123rd Street, found a semiautomatic .40-caliber weapon that authorities believe Tyrone Howard used to shoot and kill NYPD Officer Randolph Holder earlier this week, the New York Times reports.

A man accused of masturbating near a woman in a Manhattan subway station Monday night, then pulling a gun on man who tried to catch him on video, has been arrested and identified as a retired NYPD cop.

An East Harlem drug dealer and addict also wanted in connection with the September shooting of an area gang member stands accused of killing a police officer in New York on Tuesday, Police Commissioner William Bratton said Wednesday. Charges against Tyrone Howard, 30, are pending.

Plenty of people agree that America should stop throwing every last shoplifter or weed-smoker in jail. On the right they get to talk about reducing incarceration’s burden on taxpayers; on the left it’s a victory for civil rights. Now, even the country’s top law enforcement officials—those who you’d think would be driving mass incarceration in the first place—are getting in on the act.

Police said that an NYPD officer has died after being shot in the head around 8:30 pm on Tuesday evening in East Harlem, the New York Times reports.

In February, the Guardian published a deep investigation into Homan Square, a shadowy facility where the Chicago Police Department takes suspects without booking them, entering them into any official database, or giving them access to a telephone or their lawyer. A new Guardian report claims that more than twice as many people have been “disappeared” into Homan as officials initially disclosed.

NYPD officer Michael Ackermann was convicted Thursday on a felony charge of of falsifying a record to justify the 2012 arrest of a New York Times photographer in the Bronx, the New York Times reports.

A police officer in Round Rock, Texas grabbed a 14-year-old student by the throat and threw him to the ground on Thursday, as shown in a video that surfaced some time later that night.

Yesterday in front of the NYPD’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, a police captain pled guilty to pointing his gun at a pair of tweenage boys who were playing tag in their Bed Stuy street in 2013. He received just 30 days of lost vacation time for threatening deadly force against two innocent children. You might think he got off pretty easy. His union does not.

A man pushed to the ground by a police officer because he was locked out of his apartment. A cop who punched someone in the face for riding his bike on the sidewalk, and another who pulled his gun on a man for filming him. These are a few of the horror stories contained within a new report on NYPD use of force.

Next time you have your ass handed to you by a member of New York’s finest—be it a hotheaded rookie who plays by his own rules or a grizzled veteran who’s too old for this shit—you’ll have the comfort of knowing that the officer is under strict orders to carefully report every aspect of the smackdown. Will he actually do so accurately? That’s a good question.

According to a report from the New York Daily News, a 25-year-old nursing student from Seattle is suing the NYPD after alleging earlier this year that two police officers—who had been assigned to investigate her rape case—got her drunk in a hotel room and sexually assaulted her.