HELENA-WEST HELENA, Arkansas - August 10, 2008 - Helena-West Helena Mayor James Valley says he ordered a round-the-clock curfew and heavy police patrol in a ten-block section of town because the neighborhood was "under siege with repeated gunfire, loitering, drug dealing and other general mayhem."

GREENVILLE COUNTY, South Carolina - August 9, 2008 - An 18-year-old was punched in the face 13 times by a deputy sheriff, whose dashboard video camera caught the incident on tape, as reported on WYFF Channel 4 News.

TOLEDO, Ohio - July 25, 2008 - A minister claims security guards dragged him out of a Toledo, Ohio hospital and tasered and beat him because he told a joke.

DENVER, Colorado - August 7, 2008 - Protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Denver can be restricted to fenced-in areas, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, saying that security needs outweighed curbs on their rights.

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - August 6, 2008 - A Pennsylvania man has died after being tasered by local police, and the Civil Rights section of the FBI's Pittsburgh office has now opened a preliminary investigation. Although the cause of death has not yet been determined, witnesses insist the man was kicked and beaten by police officers after he was forced to the ground and handcuffed.

SEOUL, South Korea - August 5, 2008 - Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip.

LIMA, Ohio - August 4, 2008 - A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black.