Police brutality

OGDEN — A bank robber shot by police following a dramatic crime spree that culminated in a quiet South Ogden neighborhood last year is suing the Weber County Sheriff’s Office.

Michael S. Ames, 46, alleges his civil rights were violated and that Deputy Todd Christensen used improper lethal force when he shot and wounded him.

“I’ve had incredible physical and mental injury,” Ames said in the handwritten complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. “I was shot five times total. This shattered my hip, destroyed my digestive tract, and (caused) numerous soft tissue injuries. I am suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder also. I now wear a colostomy bag and no longer have normal use of my bowels.”

OGDEN — Former Police Chief Jon Greiner says he was never informed Andrew L. Davenport had been fired from the Utah Highway Patrol for punching a 59-year-old female motorist before he was given a job in June 2011 as an Ogden patrolman.

“I had a recommendation that he should be hired,” Greiner said Friday, adding the recommendation would have come from the Ogden Police Department’s lieutenants and assistant chiefs. “I didn’t know of information that said he had been fired.”

Greiner also said if he had known of Davenport’s firing, he may have asked about the reason for the termination.

MOSCOW -- Russia's top investigative agency filed new charges Thursday against police officers accused of torturing detainees amid growing public outrage over police brutality.

The Investigative Committee said it had charged four officers in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk in the torture death of a detainee. It also leveled new accusations against a police officer in the Volga River city of Kazan who is already in custody on charges of torturing a man to death.

OAKLAND, Calif. — An Oakland man says a police officer shot him with a rubber bullet or beanbag while he was videotaping last week’s standoff between law enforcement and a small group that took over a building and lit fires after a day of peaceful anti-Wall Street protests.