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The police department faces several lawsuits over the treatment of detainees. A Baton Rouge police deputy chief was placed on leave a week after his son, an officer with the department, was arrested for allegedly tasing and handcuffing a suspect, according to a source familiar with the situation. Troy Lawrence Sr. was placed on administrative leave while the department looks into the use of force claims against the BRPD, the source said. Baton Rouge Police Department Deputy Chief Troy Lawrence, Sr. Baton Rouge Police Department The police department faces several lawsuits over the treatment of detainees, including at a now-shuttered police warehouse that officer s allegedly called the " brave cave," according to complaints made against the department. The FBI announced over the weekend they are investigating the Baton Rouge Police Department following allegations that some officers "abused their authority." The New Orleans FBI Field Office, the Civil Rights Divi...

An Ohio K-9 officer has been put on administrative leave after his dog was captured on body-camera footage attacking a suspect with his hands up. An Ohio K-9 officer has been put on administrative leave, and his dog placed in a kennel, following an incident this month in which the animal was captured on body-camera footage attacking a truck driver as he was surrendering to state troopers with his hands up following a highway chase, an official told ABC News on Monday. Circleville, Ohio, K-9 Officer Ryan Speakman was placed on leave as the city's five-member Use of Force Review Board investigates the circumstances of the incident that occurred on the Fourth of July on a highway outside Columbus, Circleville Mayor Donald McIlroy told ABC News. "It's an unfortunate situation and we look to get it resolved very, very soon," McIlroy said. McIlroy said he had viewed parts of the body-camera footage released by the Ohio State Highway Police that captured the police dog mau...

The attorney for Greg Capers, the Mississippi police officer suspended for shooting and injuring 11-year-old Aderrien Murry, says the incident was unintentional. The attorney for Greg Capers, the Mississippi police officer who was suspended for shooting and injuring 11-year-old Aderrien Murry, says the May 20 incident was unintentional. "The shooting was not intentional, it was not reckless, and [Capers] wishes none of this happened. It was a pure accident," attorney Michael S. Carr told "GMA3" co-anchor DeMarco Morgan in an interview that aired on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. Aderrien was shot in the chest by Capers in the early morning of May 20 after the boy called 911 when his mother's ex-boyfriend showed up at their home. The boy's mother, Nakala Murry, said she asked Aderrien to call police. Following the shooting , Aderrien was rushed to the hospital where doctors discovered a bullet had collapsed his lung and cut his liver, accord...