GERMANTOWN, Md. (WJLA) - The Montgomery County Police Department launched an investigation Monday night into whether one of its officers acted appropriately in the arrest of a teen in Germantown that was caught on video. An image from video taken by an ABC 7 News I-Team photographer shows what some think was an overly aggressive arrest.

Posted: Police officers in Southern California are under fire for allegations that they beat, shocked and arrested a deaf man who was trying to use sign language to communicate with them. Jonathan Meister, a deaf and non-verbal resident of Manhattan Beach, Calif., claims that the Hawthorne Police Department discriminated against him when they ignored his American Sign Language communication during a Feb.

Published time: July 27, 2011 19:05 Edited time: July 27, 2011 23:38 Darren Ring suffered four cracked ribs and a punctured lung after Tennessee police stripped him naked, beat him in the show and used pepper spray and a Taser on him. Now the FBI wants to know why it happened.