A jury in the US has convicted two young brothers of battering their sleeping father to death with a baseball bat in an unusual case in which a family friend was acquitted of the crime under a completely different prosecution theory.

A WHITE police officer videotaped punching a black teenager during an arrest in Los Angeles has been charged with assault.

A white police officer videotaped punching a black teenager during an arrest in Los Angeles has been charged with assault.

A LOS ANGELES police officer has been suspended from duty after he was caught on video smashing the head of a handcuffed black teenager into the back of a car and punching him in the face during an arrest.