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The Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the city of Bakersfield, California, in the United States. It has over 590 officers and professional staff, covering an area of 151.2 square miles (392 km 2) serving an urban population of more than 400,000. The current chief of the department, since ...
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on the I-210.
He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, the second time a Philadelphia police officer was convicted of killing a Black man. [167] 5 May 1977: Terry W. Danson 7 October 1977: Houston Police Department (Texas) Several officers, including Danson and Orlando, beat Joe Campos Torres at a secluded spot near a bayou. When a jail officer refused ...
Nov. 28—The Kern County coroner's office on Tuesday released the name of a man killed in an officer-involved shooting Sunday night. David Oh, 35, of Bakersfield was shot at 7:51 p.m. in the 2100 ...
Aug. 10—A Bakersfield man was acquitted Wednesday of strangling, beating, pushing and kicking his girlfriend of four years, according to the Kern County Public Defender's Office. Damian Cuevas ...
A suspected drunk driver last week slammed into spectators waiting to watch a Christmas parade in downtown Bakersfield, injuring three people, police said.
The family contended that the deputies beat Lucero to death. In November 2012, Lucero's family was awarded a $4.5 million judgment in a wrongful death lawsuit against the deputies, the sheriff's office, and Kern County. [11] On May 9, 2013, it was reported that Bakersfield resident David Sal Silva died after resisting arrest.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A pedestrian has died after he was hit by a pickup truck next to Union Cemetery in east Bakersfield Wednesday evening. The fatal collision happened at 7:30 p.m., on ...