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Video of police at bicycle incident
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Public Safety remains mum on a video circulating online of four police officers trying to subdue a 20-year old male. The video in question was posted on social media  on Saturday and is going viral on Facebook. It appears from the video the incident...
DPS Central Station
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — DPS Deputy Commissioner, Jerry Letuli explained that the reason why a total of six police officers in two separate incidents investigated by DPS in the past year have been charged with assault is because they used “excessive force” to take down a suspect after the...
U.S. Federal District Courthouse in Honolulu
Honolulu, HAWAII — A written decision by a federal judge in Honolulu provides some details of civilian and medical experts’ testimonies during the trial of 3 Honolulu police officers who, according to a federal jury, didn’t use excessive force against an American Samoan man who died 4 years ago in...
Federal District Court Building in Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, HAWAII — A federal appellate court has ruled that a Honolulu police officer’s use of a taser gun — three times — on an American Samoa man who later died at a hospital, “was excessive” and “violated... established law”. The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued July 10th “...