Police Use of Force

Charges against an Oklahoma City police officer who hospitalized an elderly Vietnamese man were dismissed late last year. The officer has now resigned, according to a OKCPD spokesperson.

Following the state Attorney General’s decision to dismiss the criminal charges filed against an Oklahoma City police officer involved in an incident which put an 71-year-old man in the hospital, a national civil rights lawyer is preparing to file a lawsuit.

A recent study found there wasn’t a relationship between race and Tulsa Police officers’ decisions to use force. Researchers from the University of Texas…