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just read about this one

Once again the largest criminal gang executes an innocent elderly man. When will these hitmen and ruffians pay for their hideous crimes?

Police Kill 73yo Unarmed Grandpa with Dementia Then Lied About Him Having a Gun

Bakersfield, CA — At 12:30 am on Monday morning, Bakersfield police shot and killed 73-year-old Francisco Serna as he stood in his driveway. Immediately following the shooting, police released details noting that Serna was killed for ‘brandishing a gun.’ However, early Tuesday morning, we’ve now learned that there was never a gun and police fabricated that vital piece of information.
When police arrived on scene, they fired multiple shots at Serna, hitting and killing him.

According to Serna’s family, he was in the beginning stages of dementia and occasionally experienced delusions. Serna’s oldest son told the LA Times that Serna had difficulty sleeping and frequently went on late-night walks to tire himself out before bed.

Police were called to his home at least two times before because Serna had accidentally activated his medical alarm, Rogelia Serna said. However, those incidents were resolved without the need for any violence or charges.

Bakersfield police Sgt. Gary Carruesco did not confirm if police had ever responded to Serna’s residence before.
Police are remaining tight-lipped in this incident releasing very few details, including the actual reason for the call. It is not known whether police were responding to the medical alarm or not as the Bakersfield police have changed their story about the gun.

Originally, police claimed that the call was prompted by a report of a man with a firearm. However, much to the police department’s chagrin, investigators canvased the area and found no such weapon.
When police initially claimed Serna brandished a firearm, his family was quick to negate this falsehood.

“My dad did not own a gun. He was a 73-year-old retired grandpa, just living life,” Rogelio Serna said. “He should have been surrounded by family at old age, not surrounded by bullets.”
Police also searched inside Serna’s home and found no evidence of a firearm.

The LA Times reported that when police arrived, a witness pointed to a man in the driveway of a residence. An officer fired several rounds at the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
However, this detail suggests no reason for the officer to have discharged his weapon a whopping 9 times, according to the family.

Bakersfield police have been hinting at the implementation of body cameras for well over a year now. However, they have yet to make the purchase, because they say the cost is too high. Aside from the high cost it also makes it easier to exonerate cops who kill mentally ill grandpas in the middle of the night.

The officer who killed this innocent grandpa is now on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

Bakersfield police also have a tainted and violent history.

In November 2014, 22-year-old Ramiro James Villegas, who went by the name James De La Rosa, was killed by jumpy police in Bakersfield after allegedly “reaching for his waistband.” He was unarmed.

In June of this year, video surfaced of multiple Bakersfield Police Department officers using batons and tasers to bring down a mentally ill man for the heinous crime of jaywalking. For crossing the road in a manner unfit for the police state, an unarmed mentally ill man who had harmed no one was hospitalized after being severely beaten by cops — who were ruled justified in their actions for enforcing jaywalking laws.

In October of this year, a high school student filed a lawsuit claiming a Bakersfield school police officer tasered him twice for being late to class after having an anxiety attack.

Tyson Reed and his mother, Linda Reed, sued Kern High School District, KHSD Officer Luis Pena, and teacher Brett Bonetti on Sept. 22 in Kern County Superior Court, alleging disability discrimination and civil rights violations.

And the list goes on.

Francisco Serna is a retired father of five children and beloved grandpa and because of trigger happy police, his life was stolen.

On Monday night, Serna’s son Roy broadcast on Facebook live decrying the police killing his dad. “We want the truth to be told,” said Roy. “My father was murdered by Bakersfield Police Department.”

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-kill-73yo-unarmed-grandpa-dementia-lied-gun/

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They should be prosecuted as a criminal organization and be made to pay everything (with interest) out of their pockets.

VICTORY! State Disbands Cops Who Robbed Innocent People’s Life Savings, Victims Reimbursed

One of the worst states engaging in civil asset forfeiture, better known as “policing for profit,” suffered a blow in its campaign to rob innocent people of their cash and assets. After withering criticism and a lawsuit it couldn’t win, Iowa’s “Drug Interdiction Team” was disbanded on December 6.

“The so-called “interdiction” unit’s key focus was to stop vehicles traveling along Interstate Highway 80 suspected of being involved in drugs or other crimes. It was a part of the Iowa Department of Public Safety and had become a target in recent years from critics who alleged the team used unconstitutional practices to seize private property for law enforcement profits.”

This special group of State Troopers used every trick in the book to engage in warrantless searches of people’s vehicles, after pulling them over for minor “offenses” like failure to use a turn signal. Using flimsy excuses such as a dirty car, the odor of air freshener, or fidgeting, the cops would ransack vehicles in hopes of finding any amount of suspected drugs or paraphernalia.

The cops would then make up suspicions about “criminal activity” and use Iowa’s broad civil asset forfeiture laws to seize cash, assets and vehicles of the occupants – with no charge or proof of a crime. Even if no charges are filed or the person is found innocent, he or she must prove to a court they obtained their cash or property legally, incurring attorney and court fees.

Using these devious methods, Iowa law enforcement has raked in more than $55 million in cash since 1985 and 4,200 vehicles since 1991. It’s entirely unknown how much the cops took in other valuables such as guns, jewelry, furniture and artwork, as no records are kept for those items.

The Des Moines Register began exposing Iowa’s egregious use of civil asset forfeiture after a 2013 incident. Two California gamblers were traveling through Iowa with $100,000 in cash, and were pulled over for allegedly not using a turn signal. Having a California license plate, this was a golden opportunity for the “interdiction” team.

The cops used alleged “fidgeting and nervousness” to justify their search, which found a small bit of cannabis. It didn’t matter than both the men had California medical cannabis cards. After arguing the search was illegal, $90,000 was returned to the men, who filed a federal civil lawsuit in 2014 for damages, stating “the troopers had no probable cause to detain the men for a search of their vehicle and that officers had been taught improper techniques for justifying the search.”

Iowa settled the case by awarding the men an additional $60,000, on the same day it disbanded the Drug Interdiction Team.
“The true importance of this lawsuit was that it forced the state of Iowa to re-examine its decades-long practice of pushing the constitutional boundaries of the state’s civil asset forfeiture law and to disband the Iowa Drug Interdiction Team,” said Glen Downey, attorney for the gamblers.

Four days after the announcement that the “interdiction” team was disbanded, Iowa’s policing for profit was struck another blow. The state’s Supreme Court ruled that cops wrongly detained a driver in a case that “will restrict the ability of state patrol troopers and deputies to do the type of warrantless vehicle searches…using controversial civil forfeiture laws.”

“Friday’s ruling came in the case of Robert Pardee, who’s fighting to get back $33,100 that a trooper seized after stopping a vehicle he was riding in and finding a small amount of marijuana during a search. The trooper called for a drug dog and searched the vehicle, partly because he believed the car had a “lived-in” look that could indicate cross-country drug trafficking.

But Justice Edward Mansfield in his opinion for the majority dismissed that evidence as “unremarkable” and clearly not evidence of criminal activity.

“There were water bottles, an energy drink, a metal coffee cup, chips and dip, apples and bananas, a trash bag with some trash, a sleeping bag draped on the rear seat and a guitar case,” Mansfield wrote. “Many vehicles are more lived-in than that.”

Pardee, a California resident, was acquitted of the drug charge, but even after the court ruling in his favor, he still has to convince the Poweshiek County District Court to give him his money back.
The insidious nature of civil asset forfeiture is being exposed across the country. In the last two years, 18 states have reformed their forfeiture laws, in some cases requiring a criminal conviction to seize assets. With these two cases being highlighted and the disbanding of Iowa’s “interdiction” unit, that state may be joining the list soon.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/state-disbands-forfeiture-team-of-cops-robbing-motorists-reimburses-innocent-victims/

[illuminati]

They should be prosecuted as a criminal organization and be made to pay everything (with interest) out of their pockets.



That is exactly what should happen.

They are the organised crime gang.

[Skeletor]

Too bad he wasn't a good shoot so he could effectively protect himself from the armed intruders.

Texas Man Found Not Guilty for Shooting Three Cops During No-Knock Raid

A Texas man who shot three cops breaking into his home during a no-knock raid last year was found not guilty Tuesday.

Ray Rosas said he did not know the armed intruders were cops because his sight and hearing was affected by the flash grenade they tossed into his bedroom window.

After two hours of deliberations, the jury found him not guilty, according to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

The incident took place on February 19, 2015 as a Corpus Christi SWAT team was serving a search warrant on his home to arrest his nephew, who was suspected of selling drugs.

His nephew, Santiago Garcia, was not home during the raid, but police did find a small amount of drugs in the home, according to KZTV.

However, his mother and brother were home, the latter who suffers from dementia.

Rosas, whose home had been shot at in the past during drive-by shootings, believed he was being robbed, so he pulled out his gun and fired 15 times, striking three officers, all whom survived the shooting.

Rosas, who has been in jail since the incident, was charged with three counts of attempted capital murder, which could have sent him to prison for life.

But those charges were reduced during the trial to three counts of aggravated assault on a public official.

Prosecutors argued that Rosas was well aware they were cops because they yelled “police” at some point during the raid.

They also argued that Rosas should have known they were cops because he had a surveillance camera that allowed him to view outside him home from his bedroom.

But Rosas had always maintained he did not know they were cops, telling cops as he was being arrested that he did not know they were cops. He also told jailers the same thing that night as they were booking him.

His mugshot shows him with a black eye, indicating cops punched him during his arrest.

Rosas’ attorneys argued that he had been wary of attacks from gang members since testifying against one in 2001 for a violent crime committed on his home, resulting in him receiving death threats since then.

The three cops who were shot, Steven Reubelmann, Andrew Jordan and Steven Brown, all sustained minor injuries. They were treated at a local hospital and released a short time later, according to KRIS-TV.

The surveillance video that supposedly captured the raid has not been released.

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/12/13/texas-man-found-not-guilty-for-shooting-three-cops-during-no-knock-raid/

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First Ever Police Victim Memorial to be Erected in the U.S. and Cops are Furious

San Francisco, CA — When police officers die while doing their job, the community comes out en masse to pay their respects. Roads are closed, miles-long processions fill the streets, and the entire community mourns the loss of life.

However, when we compare that treatment to how a person who is killed by police is treated, a glaring difference arises. The victims of police violence, even when entirely innocent, have their pasts dragged through the media to shame them, the absolute worst pictures of them plastered across the web, and they receive little to no sympathy from their community — who is always quick to claim ‘they deserved it.’

What happens when communities go against the paradigm of victim shaming and unquestioning support of police though? Well, people become less blinded by their apologist indoctrination, and they look at these killings with an objective mind. This is the case in San Francisco, who’s community members have just decided to erect the first ever government-sponsored memorial to a victim of police violence.

Naturally, this choice to remember a victim of police, outside of the normal smear campaigns in the media, is causing quite the sh*t storm among cops.
This week, according to CNS, the Board of Supervisors voted 9 to 1 to erect a memorial for Alejandro “Alex” Nieto, a 28-year-old Latino man, who was shot and killed by four police officers at Bernal Heights Park on March 21, 2014.

Nieto was shot 14 times after police mistook the taser from his security job for a pistol.

Lt. Jason Sawyer and Officers Roger Morse, Richard Schiff and Nathan Chew were cleared of any wrongdoing, despite the excessive amount of shots fired at this innocent man who posed no threat.

Before being brutally executed, Nieto was a practicing pacifist and Buddhist. He was particularly active in trying to make his community a better place for everyone, as a member of the Mission Peace Collaborative.  He was attending college on a full scholarship while studying criminal justice and worked security at a night club to provide for his family.  His goal was to become a probation officer to help guide troubled youth in a positive direction.

Nieto’s death and the officers’ exoneration sparked a massive outpouring of resistance during which citizens held mock trials to show what would have happened if these cops were actually held accountable.
The death was divisive among police and the citizens, which is why District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell, the single ‘No’ vote on the memorial, is so outspoken against it.

Farrell says the memorial sends the wrong message to “the men and women of our police department who put their lives on the line every day.”

However, according to Courthouse News, District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen vehemently rejected Farrell’s insinuation that supervisors could not memorialize the tragic shooting death of Nieto while also recognizing the contributions and sacrifices of police officers.

“If law enforcement wants to be recognized, all they have to do is ask, the same way the community has asked,” Cohen said.

The police union is highly outspoken against memorials for their victims of any kind. Union president Martin Halloran voiced his objection to such things as “hurtful” to the families of law enforcement officers.
However, one council member took that notion and blew it apart.

“We specifically rejected that false choice,” District 9 Supervisor David Campos said. “We take the loss of life of one of our citizens as seriously as we take the loss of life of one of our officers.”
With so much unaccountable killing and violence from police, this memorial will serve as a reminder to the community that police are not perfect, and blindly referring to them all as ‘heroes’ is a slippery slope down the path of tyranny.

“This means everything,” Oscar Salinas, a member of the Justice for Alex Nieto coalition said. “But this is just the beginning. Parents and kids for generations can walk to that hill and talk about what happened to him.”

With so many memorials devoted to those who’ve served their country, it is certainly heartening to begin memorializing those whose country destroyed them.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/first-police-victim-memorial-erected-cops-livid/#U5xOZkTI1vdyc1hy.99

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Graphic Video Shows Cops Use K9 to Torture Unarmed, Non-Violent Naked Man

San Diego, CA — A gruesome body cam was just released this week showing cops needlessly and sadistically sic a K9 on an unarmed naked man who posed absolutely zero threat to the half-dozen cops who had him completely surrounded.

The incident happened in August of 2015, however, the body camera footage was kept secret until now. If you have the strength to watch the entire video, you will know exactly why it was kept a secret.
At 8:30 that August morning, police received a phone call about a naked man walking through a canyon. This man had not attempted to harm anyone and the only ‘crime’ he’d committed when police arrived was to simply be naked.

The man, a 25-year-old businessman who was in San Diego for a convention, admitted that he ended up naked in the canyon after a particularly hard night of partying. However, when seeing how police reacted upon confronting the man, you would think he was a serial child murderer.

When police found the man, who wishes to remain anonymous, they called for him to come up from the canyon and he quickly obeyed. When he got up to where the officers were, they asked him to turn around so they could place him in cuffs.

“Turn around, turn around!” yell the officers at the obviously delusional man.
“No!” angrily replies the man.

Then, only seconds after the unarmed, nonviolent, and naked man had obeyed the officers’ instruction to walk toward them, the sadistic K9 cop gives his dog the command to attack — entirely unprovoked.

The naked man is immediately brought to the ground as the other San Diego cops pile on top of him. By all definitions, this man was subdued. However, he continued to squirm as it is impossible to remain completely still as a vicious attack dog tears your flesh from your body.

“Stop resisting!” the cop yells as his dog mutilates this man.

For almost an entire minute, cops held the naked man down while allowing the K9 maul his legs to shreds.

“It wasn’t necessary to use the dog to begin with and it sure as hell wasn’t necessary or needed or appropriate to let the dog continue to bite,” said noted civil rights attorney Donald W. Cook to NBC Los Angeles.
“It’s barbaric,” he said, and he is correct.

When NBC Los Angeles spoke to the victim, he admitted that he shouldn’t have been naked in a canyon, but the police had no reason to attack him like they did.
“I take some responsibility because I was under the influence,” said the man. “But nothing justifies the cops use of such force,” he said.

Sadly enough, San Diego police have justified the attack, claiming they believed the man “posed an immediate threat to officers due to the fact he was clinching his fists and walking towards them.”
They also noted that the “subject was under the influence of a controlled substance and was very agitated with officers.”

However, when watching the video it is clear that the naked man was not walking toward officers and he posed no threat to the multiple armed men in body armor who had him surrounded.
The video also shows that police violated their own policy when deploying the K9.

According to the San Diego Police Department’s own policy, officers “if possible, give at least two warnings in a loud and clear manner” before allowing a dog to bite. This did not happen — and it would have been entirely possible to do so.

The victim has since sued the police department for excessive force and Cook, whose sued the city in multiple instances of police K9 attacks said the force is worse than excessive.
“Not only excessive, but animalistic,” said Cook. “In this case, you had your subject, you had him surrounded. All you had to do was simply take him into custody.”

In his legal complaint against the department, the man’s attorney says the officers “acted with unnecessary, cruel and despicable conduct and in wanton disregard for the civil rights, health and safety” of his client, according to NBC Los Angeles.

After savagely allowing the K9 to maul this man, he wasn’t charged with any crimes. However, thanks to the officers’ sadistic nature, the taxpayers of San Diego have been charged with a hefty fine — a $385,000 settlement to be exact.

That amount, however, is not nearly enough as the attack has left the now-26-year-old permanently disabled as he no longer has full use his right leg.
“No dollar amount is worth having a disability for life,” he said.

After this video became public, the San Diego police department released a callous and insulting statement to justify their actions:
“This video shows the agitated and defiant demeanor of a man under the influence of LSD. When played in its entirety, the video shows our officers trying to gain his compliance before he became defiant. While the split second decisions of police officers are easy to second guess when you know the outcome, keep in mind the deployment of our K9 is intended to prevent the situation from escalating.”

WARNING: The full video is extremely graphic and disturbing. It includes footage of a police dog biting a subject’s leg until blood and other injuries are visible.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/graphic-video-shows-cops-k9-torture-unarmed-non-violent-naked-man/

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Graphic Video Shows Cops Use K9 to Torture Unarmed, Non-Violent Naked Man

San Diego, CA — A gruesome body cam was just released this week showing cops needlessly and sadistically sic a K9 on an unarmed naked man who posed absolutely zero threat to the half-dozen cops who had him completely surrounded.

The incident happened in August of 2015, however, the body camera footage was kept secret until now. If you have the strength to watch the entire video, you will know exactly why it was kept a secret.
At 8:30 that August morning, police received a phone call about a naked man walking through a canyon. This man had not attempted to harm anyone and the only ‘crime’ he’d committed when police arrived was to simply be naked.

The man, a 25-year-old businessman who was in San Diego for a convention, admitted that he ended up naked in the canyon after a particularly hard night of partying. However, when seeing how police reacted upon confronting the man, you would think he was a serial child murderer.

When police found the man, who wishes to remain anonymous, they called for him to come up from the canyon and he quickly obeyed. When he got up to where the officers were, they asked him to turn around so they could place him in cuffs.

“Turn around, turn around!” yell the officers at the obviously delusional man.
“No!” angrily replies the man.

Then, only seconds after the unarmed, nonviolent, and naked man had obeyed the officers’ instruction to walk toward them, the sadistic K9 cop gives his dog the command to attack — entirely unprovoked.

The naked man is immediately brought to the ground as the other San Diego cops pile on top of him. By all definitions, this man was subdued. However, he continued to squirm as it is impossible to remain completely still as a vicious attack dog tears your flesh from your body.

“Stop resisting!” the cop yells as his dog mutilates this man.

For almost an entire minute, cops held the naked man down while allowing the K9 maul his legs to shreds.

“It wasn’t necessary to use the dog to begin with and it sure as hell wasn’t necessary or needed or appropriate to let the dog continue to bite,” said noted civil rights attorney Donald W. Cook to NBC Los Angeles.
“It’s barbaric,” he said, and he is correct.

When NBC Los Angeles spoke to the victim, he admitted that he shouldn’t have been naked in a canyon, but the police had no reason to attack him like they did.
“I take some responsibility because I was under the influence,” said the man. “But nothing justifies the cops use of such force,” he said.

Sadly enough, San Diego police have justified the attack, claiming they believed the man “posed an immediate threat to officers due to the fact he was clinching his fists and walking towards them.”
They also noted that the “subject was under the influence of a controlled substance and was very agitated with officers.”

However, when watching the video it is clear that the naked man was not walking toward officers and he posed no threat to the multiple armed men in body armor who had him surrounded.
The video also shows that police violated their own policy when deploying the K9.

According to the San Diego Police Department’s own policy, officers “if possible, give at least two warnings in a loud and clear manner” before allowing a dog to bite. This did not happen — and it would have been entirely possible to do so.

The victim has since sued the police department for excessive force and Cook, whose sued the city in multiple instances of police K9 attacks said the force is worse than excessive.
“Not only excessive, but animalistic,” said Cook. “In this case, you had your subject, you had him surrounded. All you had to do was simply take him into custody.”

In his legal complaint against the department, the man’s attorney says the officers “acted with unnecessary, cruel and despicable conduct and in wanton disregard for the civil rights, health and safety” of his client, according to NBC Los Angeles.

After savagely allowing the K9 to maul this man, he wasn’t charged with any crimes. However, thanks to the officers’ sadistic nature, the taxpayers of San Diego have been charged with a hefty fine — a $385,000 settlement to be exact.

That amount, however, is not nearly enough as the attack has left the now-26-year-old permanently disabled as he no longer has full use his right leg.
“No dollar amount is worth having a disability for life,” he said.

After this video became public, the San Diego police department released a callous and insulting statement to justify their actions:
“This video shows the agitated and defiant demeanor of a man under the influence of LSD. When played in its entirety, the video shows our officers trying to gain his compliance before he became defiant. While the split second decisions of police officers are easy to second guess when you know the outcome, keep in mind the deployment of our K9 is intended to prevent the situation from escalating.”

WARNING: The full video is extremely graphic and disturbing. It includes footage of a police dog biting a subject’s leg until blood and other injuries are visible.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/graphic-video-shows-cops-k9-torture-unarmed-non-violent-naked-man/

Just What The Fcuk is Wrong with these Gangs of Thugs.
And there Bosses trying to Justify what they are doing..!!

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Atlanta Cop Arrested on Home Invasion Charges After “Accidentally” Kicking Door Down and Threatening Occupants Inside

An Atlanta cop who kicked down a door and entered a home with his hand on his gun to threaten his ex-fiancee said it was all an accident.

But Atlanta police officer Phillip Barresi was arrested on home invasion charges anyway.

Now the rookie cop, who was sworn in on March 17, is on paid administrative leave until further notice.

Barresi was in uniform on November 28 when he drove to the home of his ex-fiancee’s parents and began repeatedly ringing the doorbell and kicking the door until it broke open.

He then entered the home with his hand on his gun and began making threats, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Fuck the police,” Barresi said after his ex-fiancee’s father threatened to call police before running out the door he had kicked down.

When police caught up to him, he told them he had “accidentally kicked the door open.”

He also told them he “”regretted his actions” but was “extremely upset” because his ex-fiancee had broken into his home first.

His ex-fiancee, who is not named in the news reports, said she did not break into his home, but had merely entered the home to retrieve some personal possessions after having moved out with her baby.

Barresi was also charged with second degree criminal damage to property. He was released from jail Wednesday after posting $15,000 bond.

He is due back in court on December 30 for his preliminary hearing.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/12/15/atlanta-cop-arrested-on-home-invasion-charges-after-accidentally-kicking-door-down-and-threatening-occupants-inside/

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What a travesty; but not surprising anymore. Members of the largest criminal gang can get away with crimes that would have average citizens imprisoned for many years or even executed.

Miami-Dade Cop Receives 10 Months Probation for Shooting Corrections Officer in Road Rage Incident, then Trying to Destroy Evidence

Miami-Dade police officer Jonathan Lang could have received more than 20 years in prison for shooting at a car driven by a corrections officer in a 2014 road rage incident.

Especially considering he was caught on camera tampering with evidence in the hours after the shooting.

But he cried before the judge during his sentencing Thursday, blaming his actions on his “personal demons.”

And that apparently was enough for the judge to spare him any prison time, sentencing him to 10 months probation instead.

He must also forfeit his law enforcement certificate and his firearms, abstain from drugs and alcohol and perform 500 hours of community service, the latter which can be a cakewalk if you know the right people.

And somebody with his Blue Privilege will always know the right people.

Lang was riding in the passenger seat of a car driven by his wife in July 2014 when he became angry at the driver of another car driven by Miami-Dade Corrections Officer Georgina Illa.

She said they cut her off. He says she cut them off. At one point, she flashed her high beams at them before trying to pass them on the Florida Turnpike.

Lang, who was 42 at the time, rolled down his window and threw a plastic bottle at her car.

He then pulled out his gun and fired, the bullet tearing through the rear of the car and ending up lodged in the passenger seat.

Illa, who was not injured, flagged down a Miami-Dade cop, not realizing her attacker was also a Miami-Dade cop.

A Florida state trooper then pulled Lang and his wife over and noticed a fuse panel behind the glove compartment appeared “to be disturbed,” which led him to be believe Lang had hidden the gun there.

The car was impounded at a tow truck lot while the Florida Highway Patrol waited to obtain a search warrant from a judge.

But before that could happen, Lang snuck into the tow truck lot, entered his car and appeared to be removing the gun, according to a surveillance video.

By the time cops searched it, they found two loaded 9 mm magazine cartridges, including one with a single bullet missing – but they never found the gun.

They did, however, find Lang’s DNA all over the area in the glove compartment where the gun was believed to be hidden, according to the Miami Herald.

The passenger side also tested positive for gun residue.

His wife, Christine Lang, also called a friend, Miami-Dade Sgt. Matthew Fryer, and told him her husband had been involved “a road rage incident.”

Lang also called Fryer and told him, “I fucked up” and “I’m going to lose my job.”

He was right about that as he will no longer be allowed to work as police officer in Florida.

Lang pleaded guilty in October to charges of discharging a firearm from a moving vehicle, assault and tampering with evidence.

“It’s true I had personal demons,” Lang told the judge during his sentencing Thursday.

“I was fighting and I was using alcohol as my drug to cope with the pain I was feeling. I knew it was wrong, but it was the only way I knew how.”

Lang also told the judge through tears that we will now wear a “badge of shame.”

As for Illa, she will never forget his face.

“I remember his face and I remember the hatred in his face as he was pointing his gun, and we were next to each other because he was on the passenger side and I was on the driver side,” Illa testified.

Lang could have received a minimum sentence of 20 years for the charges, but prosecutors asked the judge to wave that standard, seeking five years in prison instead.

But Miami-Dade County Judge Daryl Trawick found that too harsh of a sentence.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/12/15/miami-dade-cop-receives-ten-months-probation-shooting-corrections-officer-road-rage-incident/

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Once again the criminal gang is exposed.

Two Entire Police Depts Shut Down During FBI Raids Over Massive DEA Drug Ring Conspiracy

“They’re basically treating these buildings like crime scenes.”

Tangipahoa Parish, LA — A massive raid was carried out by the FBI on Thursday of  Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Hammond Police Department. The raids were part of a year-long investigation into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency task force accused of a massive conspiracy to rob drug dealers and profit from selling the stolen narcotics.

According to the Advocate, two former members of the New Orleans-based task force — both of whom worked for the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office — are facing federal charges, and one pleaded guilty earlier this year to state drug conspiracy charges.

During the raids on Thursday, both departments were completely shut down as FBI agents seized computers, cellphones and case files. The raids involved an earlier investigation the Free Thought Project reported on in March.

After Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office Deputy and DEA task force member Johnny Domingue took a plea deal and began rolling over on his co-conspirators, the FBI has nabbed more crooked cops.
Before he started selling out his fellow criminal DEA cops, Domingue acknowledged that drugs had been stolen “with the dual purpose of ingesting them and selling them for profit.” He also admitted to selling cocaine that had been stored in evidence bags at the DEA’s office in Metairie.

During the raid on Dominque’s house in January, authorities found a whopping 300 grams of cocaine hydrochloride, oxycodone pills, methadone, Xanax and “a voluminous number of manila envelopes that contained additional prescription medications,” according to court documents.

According to the Advocate, the materials taken during Thursday’s raids included a computer from the office of Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards, said one law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the operation. Edwards is the brother of Gov. John Bel Edwards.

“They’re basically treating these buildings like crime scenes,” the official said.

When multiple police departments are treated like crime scenes there might be a problem.

“The investigation is ongoing, with many more investigative actions to take place,” Jeffrey Sallet, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans office, told reporters.
As the Advocate reports, Thursday’s searches marked an escalation of the misconduct investigation, which has been steeped in secrecy for months as investigators dug into the background of several task force members, including Chad Scott, a longtime DEA agent.

The investigation into Scott goes back decades, as this corrupt cop, who’s since been stripped of his badge, is accused of manipulating witnesses in murder cases as well as leading the crooked drug task force who robbed people and sold drugs.

In fact, as reported by the Advocate, Scott helped to create a pipeline of task force officers who began their careers in Tangipahoa Parish, having recruited Domingue and others to join the narcotics team.
Scott was literally building his own gang of criminal cops.

On Thursday, the FBI refused to elaborate on why they raided the Hammond Police Department. However, DEA task force member, Karl Newman worked for the department. In March, Newman was implicated in the drug and cash conspiracy and is currently facing charges, including robbery and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and Oxycodone.

What this case illustrates is the criminal incentive created by the war on drugs and the monopoly of power granted specifically to those tasked with carrying it out. Making arbitrary substances illegal, and then tasking individuals with the control of those substances creates a temptation of easy money that is hard to pass up.

This case is hardly isolated as this scenario is but a broken record of corruption, playing over and over again in departments across the country.

As the Free Thought Project reported in January, a California police officer was busted after driving 247 pounds of marijuana all the way across the country. Yuba County Deputy Christopher M. Heath was caught in York, Pennsylvania with a shipment of marijuana that was worth over $2 million.

This cases were similar as Heath was an officer on a narcotics task force, meaning that he was responsible for putting nonviolent people in prison for using and selling drugs as well. Meanwhile, he was selling drugs and taking part in the same actions that he was locking people up for. State hypocrisy at its worst.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/entire-police-dept-raid-fbi-massive-dea-drug-ring-conspiracy/#5ls2IL0ejwmrw8zp.99

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Once again violent goons exposed but not suffering any real consequences.

Cop Pokes HIMSELF with a Syringe, So 2 Cops Beat a Handcuffed Man for 3 Minutes

Evansville, IN — Three Evansville, Indiana, police officers won’t face any charges for beating a handcuffed man and lying about it in official reports — even though body cam footage proves their blatant lies.
Nick Henderson, Mark DeCamps, and Marcus Craig said they confronted 36-year-old Mark Healy during an investigation of a garage burglary — but Healy, they claimed, resisted to the point a physical confrontation ensued. Healy then tried to flee — and stabbed one of the officers with a syringe of liquid methamphetamine — but the trio managed to restrain the man and place him under arrest.

As Radley Balko reports for the Washington Post, those officers filed that report with Sergeant Kyle Kassel three hours afterward, who reviewed the information and deemed the use of force justified.

And that account stood, according to local media citing the police use-of-force report  — until the Evansville Courier & Press obtained body camera footage of the incident disputing nearly every facet of the story. Balko explains:

“In the footage, Healy doesn’t resist at all. And the officer who was stuck by the syringe wasn’t stabbed by Healy, he was pricked by the needle while Healy was handcuffed. Contrary to department procedure, the officer failed to ask Healy if he had anything in his pockets before searching him. As you can see in the video, as one of the officers searches Healy, he pricks himself on the syringe. He then calls Healy a ‘motherf—–’ and strikes him. As Healy lays on the ground, Henderson and another officer then spend about three minutes beating him, yelling at him and threatening to kill him. The third officer just watches.”

Evansville Police Chief Billy Bolin reacted appropriately after viewing the footage, accusing the cops of multiple department violations, including official misconduct and excessive force. Bolin immediately suspended the three officers involved and the sergeant who signed off on their report. Further, he recommended Henderson, DeCamps, and Craig be fired and Kassel be demoted.

But the cops beat the handcuffed man on October 29 — and they’re still on paid vacation otherwise known as administrative leave six weeks later.

Indiana State Police investigated the incident and sent Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Nicholas Hermann — and last Thursday, Hermann dropped the ball, announcing no charges would be filed against any of the officers.

“During the news conference,” the Courier & Press reports, “Hermann explained at length his reasoning behind the decision — without outright saying he wasn’t pressing charges until several minutes in. He said his office could not prove Henderson purposefully struck Healy in a malicious manner. According to talks with Henderson and his attorney, Hermann said the officer struck the suspect with his elbow after pricking his hand on a needle that was in Healy’s pocket.

“He said there was no evidence Healy was ever punched. Hermann played a statement Healy gave to police immediately after the incident in which he said there were ‘no punches thrown.’”
Whether or not punches, specifically, were thrown, Healy clearly was thrust to the ground after the officer exploded at having stuck his finger on the syringe. In fact, Hermann’s analysis of the body cam footage is disingenuous at best, as it ignores the officers attacked the man while he was in handcuffs, and fails to address that the cop who poked himself on the syringe did not follow proper search procedure.
But it gets worse.

Despite flagrant lies in the use-of-force report, the Courier & Press explains:
“Hermann was also asked about possible perjury charges related to a section of the report that states Henderson, Craig and DeCamps were all working to handcuff Healy while he struggled to get away. That section directly contradicts the video, which shows one officer handcuffing Healy without incident.

“Hermann acknowledged the contradiction but characterized it as a ‘discrepancy’ during the news conference, citing the three hours between the incident and the time the report was filed as a possible cause. He also speculated the officers who wrote and signed the probable cause affidavit under penalty of perjury, Craig and DeCamps, may not have watched the body camera footage before writing the affidavit.
“Because of this, Hermann said it would be difficult to prove the officers intended to give false information.”

Balko cautions the hasty charging of perjury would be remiss as actual discrepancies on police reports aren’t uncommon — eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable — and the trauma of an incident and memory colored by self-interest can worsen that effect. He continues:

“But these aren’t discrepancies. They’re lies. The police claimed Healy resisted. He didn’t. They claimed he broke free and tried to flee. He didn’t. They claimed Henderson was struck by the syringe as Healy attempted to flee. He wasn’t. He was struck while searching Healy, while Healy was stationary and handcuffed.”

Balko points out that, under Indiana law, “A person who makes a false, material statement under oath or affirmation, knowing the statement to be false or not believing it to be true commits perjury.”
Henderson, DeCamps, Craig, and Kassel, all indisputably — even to the casual observer — committed perjury.

Hermann went out of his way to, in essence, nullify the law in order to clear the four lying cops of all wrongdoing. By his particular interpretation of the law — or, more accurately, his gymnastics routine to thwart it — the officers would have had to view the body cam footage prior to writing their report in order to have committed perjury.

As Balko notes, Evansville police procedure dictates officers must write reports prior to viewing any video of an incident — by definition that would mean Hermann’s strictures effectively render the law moot. Further,
“Hermann’s interpretation would seem to suggest that no Evansville officer could ever be charged with perjury for mischaracterizing a use-of-force incident in a police report. And this case only underscores the point. If this isn’t perjury, there is no perjury.”

Hermann asserted, “I have to show that they knowingly or intentionally lied for some reason. It’s common that they not watch the video prior to writing supplements. That’s an issue that we get all the time. And if we start going after police officers because there’s a line in a probable cause affidavit that contradicts what we see in the video, quite frankly we wouldn’t have any more Evansville police officers.”
Evansville Police Department officials dispute Hermann’s creatively-interpreted narrative of the beating — as well as the suggestion there exists a stunningly high number of discrepancies between reports and video footage.

But, for now, it seems Henderson, DeCamps, Craig, and Kassel, to varying degrees, will get away scot free for beating a handcuffed man and arrogantly lying about it in official reports. Following is the body cam video that should have given Healy a shot at justice — instead it serves as further reminder of the definitive American Police State:

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-syringe-beating-body-cam/

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Violent killers who gloat about murdering people.

Cop Kicked Man to Death Then Framed a Picture of News Article to Hang Over Bed as a Trophy

MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal jury delivered a guilty-on-all-counts verdict Thursday against a former corrections officer who kicked an inmate at Rikers Island to death.
Ronald Spear died on Dec. 19, 2012, in the infirmary at Rikers Island where he had sought treatment for his late-stage renal and kidney disease.

Growing frustrated with his denial of care, Spear got into a heated altercation with corrections officer Brian Coll. It is undisputed that Spear started the fight, but also that the inmate was sickly and walked with a cane.

Prosecutors say other Rikers guards had already de-escalated the situation – holding Spear face-down on the ground with his hands behind his back – when Coll started kicking the inmate in the face repeatedly.
Just before the inmate died, Coll allegedly pulled up Spear’s head to deliver a chilling warning.

“That’s what you get for fucking with me,” Coll has been quoted as saying. “Remember that I’m the one who did this to you.”

In connection to Thursday’s verdict, the 42-year-old Coll could spend the rest of his life in prison.

At summations Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brooke Cucinella told the court that, for years after the jailhouse killing, Coll kept a Village Voice newspaper article with a picture of his victim framed in his bedroom.

“Let’s call it what it is: a trophy,” Cucinella said.

Cucinella urged the jury to show no hesitation in convicting.

“We’re here to finally, finally hold the defendant, that man, accountable,” she said, pointing at Coll.

In addition to the newspaper article, Cucinella said the guard had joked to his colleagues that he should get a tear-drop tattoo, a well-known gang symbol to signify that one has killed someone.
Coll’s attorney Sam Schmidt meanwhile spoke only of the “alleged” blows in his closing argument, though the jury heard from multiple eyewitnesses that Coll killed Spear.

One key witness for the government, corrections officer Anthony Torres, wept on the witness stand for two days as he described Spear’s death and his own role in covering up what happened.
Depicting a brutal assault, Torres said Coll had kicked Spear’s head as if trying to make a “field goal” with a football.

But Schmidt insisted that the autopsy evidence proves otherwise.

“These are not football kicks,” Schmidt said. “There is absolutely no proof of what Mr. Torres says.”

Speaking of his client, Schmidt said: “We’re talking about a man who was attacked, who defended himself, and who was embarrassed and humiliated by a sick inmate putting him on the ground.”
Among graphic autopsy photographs, the prosecution focused on images that showed Spear’s skin pulled down his face to expose his brain, which appeared to be dotted with bloody hemorrhages.
New York City Medical Examiner Michael Greenberg had testified that those red spots showed Spear had been alive before the beating.

Torres and fellow correction officer Byron Taylor both pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice trial kicked off on Dec. 2. They are awaiting sentencing for their charges.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska presided over the trial.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-kicked-death-picture-trophy/

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Remember this case? Once again cops investigating and clearing themselves of murder. Even in castle law states, some home owners who shot more than once at armed intruders have been prosecuted for murder. But it seems like cops have free pass to kill anyone they want without consequences.

Dyer: Noble shooting justified, but officer did not follow proper tactics before firing 4th shot

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article119931858.html

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Remember this case? Once again cops investigating and clearing themselves of murder. Even in castle law states, some home owners who shot more than once at armed intruders have been prosecuted for murder. But it seems like cops have free pass to kill anyone they want without consequences.

Dyer: Noble shooting justified, but officer did not follow proper tactics before firing 4th shot

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article119931858.html

I remember that one. Unbelievable. Fuck cops.

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And yet some cops object to being filmed, especially when they're committing crimes, and will arrest people for doing so. How long will this criminal gang threaten, terrorize and abuse citizens?

“We Take Your Picture or You Go To Jail!” Cops Caught on Video in Ominous New Practice

Austin, TX — Police in Austin, Texas have been caught in an unscrupulous practice that looks more like something out of Nazi Germany than the supposed land of the free. In a video uploaded to Facebook this week, Austin cops are seen humiliating an innocent man in public as they poked and prodded his body to take photos of it for a database.

Cody King was on his way to school earlier this month when he was targeted by Austin cops for the alleged ‘crime’ of not using his turn signal. Officers, apparently not having proof of the incident could not or chose not to issue King a ticket. However, the ticket would have been far better than what happened next.

It is important to note that at the moment the officer told King that he was not being given a ticket, the remaining detainment became illegal.

Instead of letting King go on his way, police told the innocent man that they were now going to take photographs of him. King promptly rejected the idea, noting that this is a clear violation of his rights as he had not committed, nor was he suspected of committing any crime.

When King objected, the officer told him that he either lets him take pictures or King goes to jail. In no way is this threat just and it certainly is not standard procedure for traffic stops — at least for now.
“If you don’t allow us to take your pictures down here, we’re gonna go to the jail to take your pictures,” says the tyrant officer.

“Can I call my lawyer?” asks King.

“No, you can’t call your lawyer right now,” replies the cop.

Apparently, this officer forgot the part of the law which allows people, who are innocent until proven guilty, the right to have an attorney present during questioning. Photographing a man’s body is most certainly an instance in which an attorney should be present. However, this cop denied King his right to provide one.

King, who is now under duress and threatened with being kidnapped, eventually concedes and allows these tyrants to take pictures of him.
The officers surround King and begin lifting up his clothing to take pictures. The effect of such police action is nothing short of degrading and dehumanizing.


King, according to the video has no criminal record and was simply on his way to school. He was then singled out, apparently for his appearance, and then photographed for some police database — a practice fit for 1930’s Germany.

Please share this story so that this humiliating and tyrannical practice is exposed and immediately brought to a halt — before it becomes the norm.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-biker-pictures-jail/

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Cop Pulls Gun on Cashier and Customers in McDonald’s Because Food Took Too Long

New York, NY — This weekend, US Marshal Charles Brown showed up drunk to a McDonald’s location in Brooklyn and then pointed his gun at the cashier and several customers because his food was not being prepared quickly enough. Brown was off-duty at the time.

According to a report from the New York Post, Brown arrived at the McDonald’s after 1 A.M and was obviously drunk. Witnesses say that he was stumbling and slurring his words while making his order.

At some point while waiting for his food, Brown became impatient and became belligerent with one of the employees. One report indicates that it was a 41-year-old female employee, while another report indicates that it was a 25-year-old male employee. It is possible that one of these accounts is incorrect, but it is also possible that two separate employees were threatened in the attack.
According to witnesses, one of the customers attempted to intervene, and Brown quickly turned the gun on the customer as well.

Brown quickly left the McDonald’s when employees threatened to call police, and was later found and arrested on the side of the road. Brown was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a firearm and menacing in the second degree.

Despite the horrific scene caused by the officer, there were still witnesses who were attempting to make excuses for him.

“[U.S. Marshals] are under a lot of pressure. They’re under a lot of stress. They risk their lives every day,” one customer told the post.

In situations where government agents commit crimes, it is typical for them to avoid any type of serious legal penalties, and this situation will likely be no different. Despite the seriousness of his crimes, Brown was released from his holding cell without bail, showing that the officer is receiving special treatment before his court date even arrives.

Police officers pulling guns on food workers in not uncommon. In fact, they happen so often, the Free Thought Project has reported on multiple instances captured on video.

In July, a video was posted online showing a Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputy involved in a standoff with police after he decided to pull his gun on a Jack in the Box employee.
Officer Benjamin Lee, 33, was arrested about 2:40 a.m. earlier this year after he drunkenly drove into the Jack in the Box order line and apparently thought his status as a cop could speed up his service.

In January, the Free Thought Project was given a video by a Pizza delivery driver who was held at gunpoint by a cop and nearly killed while delivering pizza.

In 2014, officer Scott Biumi pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to 10 years probation for pointing a gun at teenagers in the drive-through line at yet another McDonald’s.

Also in 2014, Tuscon Police Officer, Kyle James McCartin, was drunk and belligerent when he walked into a Giant Gas Station wearing his bulletproof vest and began pointing his pistol at the clerk.
For assaulting innocent people with deadly weapons, none of the officers mentioned above spent a single day in jail.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-cashier-customers-pistol-mcdonalds/

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Texas Judge Declares Mistrial in Case of Cop who Shot at Unarmed Man 41 Times, Despite Fellow Cops Testifying Against Him

Once again, a jury found itself unable to convict a cop for killing an unarmed man – even with fellow cops testifying against the cop.

This time, it was a Texas jury which ended up deadlocked Monday in the case of Garland police officer Patrick Tuter, who was charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a man named Michael Allen after a high-speech pursuit in August 2012.

Tuter rammed Allen’s truck with his patrol car, then fired 41 times – reloading twice – striking Allen three times, killing him.

Tuter claimed he feared for his life because he saw Allen “reaching” for something, which is a standard excuse cops use to kill besides “lunging” and “charging.”

But his fellow cops testified that they were the ones fearing for their lives because Tuter was shooting so recklessly.

According to WFAA:

Veteran Garland Officer William Norris says the only time he felt in fear for his life was when Officer Tuter was shooting more than 41 rounds into the truck.

“I didn’t know where he was,” he said.

Veteran Garland police officers took the stand Wednesday for the prosecution, testifying against their former fellow officer.

“Tuter’s shooting was reckless,” Officer Mathew Perry testified.

But that was not enough to persuade the jury to convict, leaving the judge no choice but to declare a mistrial.

It was at least the third mistrial of a police officer in the shooting death of a citizen since October, including the mistrial of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager in the shooting death of Walter Scott, the mistrial of Albuquerque police officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez in the shooting death of James Boyd and the mistrial of Ohio cop Ray Tensing in the shooting death of Sam DuBose.

So while we’re now seeing a higher rate of cops having to stand trial for killing citizens, we are seeing those juries unable to convict the cops, despite video evidence.

Jurors in this case viewed a dash cam video of the shooting, which has not been released but we are working on obtaining it.

Garland police say the video contradicts Tuter’s initial claims that Allen had rammed his truck into his patrol car, showing, instead, Tuter ramming his patrol car into Allen’s truck before opening fire, which is what led to him being fired and charged with manslaughter.

But Tuter took the stand and stuck to his original story, telling the jury that Allen had rammed his patrol car with his truck, never mind whatever the video may show.

According to WFAA:

Patrick Tuter looked directly at the jury as he tried to convince them to find him not guilty of manslaughter Thursday in court.

His attorneys showed video as Tuter pursued Michael Allen on Aug. 31, 2012. At times, they hit speeds of more than 120 miles per hour.

“Mr. Allen was being extremely reckless and showing no sign of pulling over,” Tuter said.

He eventually chased him eventually into a cul-de-sac in Mesquite.

“I believed based on what I saw, and experience, that he was going to injure or kill someone,” Tuter said.

Tuter said Allen drove recklessly into a yard and rammed his squad car. He thought Allen’s truck was a deadly weapon and he also thought he saw him reach for a gun.

“I believed he was armed with a gun and was about to shoot me in the face so I drew my weapon,” he said.

He fired 41 rounds at Allen, shooting him three times. On cross examination, prosecutors brought up the fact that Tuter testified he couldn’t see what was happening as he got out of car because there was too much smoke from Allen’s tires as he revved his truck.

“How did you see Allen reach for an imaginary gun if there was so much smoke?,” Prosecutor Juan Sanchez asked Tuter. He also accused of Tuter of lying by claiming he thought he saw a gun.

Three Garland officers testified they never felt their lives were in danger, and thus they didn’t fire their weapons.

One man who witnessed the shooting and began recording said Mesquite police officers seized his camera and returned it four days later with the footage deleted as we reported at the time of the shooting.

But Mesquite police, who took over the investigator, later said they only seized the camera, downloaded the video, then returned the camera without the video – which is still a violation of his rights, but they claim he gave them written consent, which is many obtained through police intimidation tactics.

At this time, it is not even clear if that video was introduced as evidence, but a prosecutor accused the Mesquite Police Department of conducting a shoddy investigation.

“That’s the shoddiest crummiest investigation. Rest assured, most of the time they’re a better department than that. But they have no problem covering for cops,” said Phillip Hayes, a special prosecutor, according to Fox 4.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/12/19/texas-judge-declares-mistrial-in-case-of-cop-who-shot-at-unarmed-man-41-times-despite-fellow-cops-testifying-against-him/

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Innocent Mother Kidnapped by Cops, Jailed 7 Weeks, Because of 20yo Clerical Error

Chicago, IL — A Chicago mother of a six-year-old boy found herself behind bars for 49 days, without bail or recourse — missing his birthday and Thanksgiving — because inept bureaucrats made an egregious clerical error.
Indeed, Latasha Eatman might be lucky she didn’t have a lengthier stay in a cage — the error was only discovered when a Cook County Sheriff’s Official ordered an audit of first time offenders currently housed in the jail.

More than two decades after a judge dismissed a community service order for minor marijuana possession, Eatman’s nightmarish captivity began, courtesy of a series of blunders that never should have happened.
“I’m thinking in my mind, like, what have I done?” the mother told CBS Chicago in an interview, discussing a raid by two Chicago police officers on October 14, who were attempting to determine if the store where she’d worked for 15 years was selling illegal — read: untaxed — cigarettes.

Officers wrote the store a ticket and placed Eatman in cuffs — but she had no idea they would be stealing the next seven weeks of her life without any conceivable just cause.

CBS reports, “The officers had discovered a 1994 warrant that said Eatman was wanted for not completing the community service, which she was originally ordered to perform after a low-level 1993 marijuana arrest. Eatman had tried to perform the community service repeatedly at the time, but the organization she was supposed to work for was closed or had no room for her whenever she showed up. Her judge at the time acknowledged the effort she put in and terminated her probation, according to Cara Smith, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office’s chief police officer.

“But somehow a warrant for Eatman’s arrest remained on file.”

Smith told the outlet it took ten days before a judge even heard Eatman’s case — but that he seemed hostile and suspicious of her story — and even threatened to send her to prison. He denied bond, and she spent an additional 39 days locked up — missing her son’s sixth birthday and Thanksgiving.

For seven weeks, Eatman desperately tried to prevent the child from finding out where she actually was.

“I told my son I was at work, out of town for my boss,” Eatman explained to CBS. “I told him at first I was at school. And he was like, ‘You’re at big girl school?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah.’”

Eatman had committed no crime — and the officers responsible for locking her up had merely been acting as armed tax enforcers and victimless crime investigators — “beat cops to ensure vice taxes are being adhered to,” as Reason describes.

Cara Smith accidentally became Eatman’s savior after ordering an examination of instances in which women were behind bars for the first time — staff stumbled upon the innocent mother’s case.
“We raised holy hell with the prosecutor’s office,” Smith told CBS.

Eatman was freed the following day.

“You wonder why these communities don’t trust law enforcement. Can you imagine a more thoughtless, cruel way to handle this? She was treated like a real criminal,” Smith noted of Eatman, who is African American.

Eatman’s stay in jail tragically isn’t an aberration, Smith explained, as shoddy communication between police, sheriff’s departments, prosecutors offices, and other agencies isn’t infrequent.

Add to that unfair laws, bias on every level, and a whopping number of people serving time for nonviolent offenses, and it’s readily apparent why a massive swath of the populace prefers the term ‘injustice system’ to characterize the incarceration-industrial complex.

“This case terrifies me,” Smith added. “Let’s remember, her bills continued. Her rent and her heat, all those things continued to accrue despite the fact that she was in jail.”

Eatman will probably never be recompensed for the time lost locked in a cage for literally no reason — but what is really appalling is how easily this happened to an innocent person. A shamefully voluminous number of federal, state, and local laws — and a callous court system, indifferent to much of anything but expedience — have crafted a juggernaut of a backlog and a swiss cheese complex of ways to fall through the holes in the barely-functioning system.

“Without so much as an apology or an explanation, it took 49 days of her life away,” Smith said of the Eatman fiasco. “For no reason at all. And that included 49 days she wasn’t with her son. It included 49 days she wasn’t working. Without so much as an explanation of what happened to her.”

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-mother-jailed-7-weeks-error/

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The same organization that takes kids away from parents and can destroy lives.

North Carolina Foster Child Sues CPS Supervisor who Adopted Him, Only to Abuse Him

A North Carolina foster child, who was discovered by a sheriff’s deputy cuffed to a front porch with a dead chicken tied around his neck, filed a lawsuit last month against the Child Protective Services worker who adopted him, only for her and her boyfriend to spend several years abusing him.

“A lot of times I would bleed. Sometimes they wouldn’t clean it up. Sometimes, they didn’t care, they just left it bleeding,” the boy revealed in an interview with the Huffington Post, adding that his former foster parents never called for medical help despite enduring severe injuries like a broken wrist while attempting to escape the chains of the abusive home.

Wanda Sue Larson was a Gaston County Social Services CPS Supervisor when she adopted the boy at the age of four in 2006. The boy, now 14, is referred to as “J.G.” in the lawsuit, which can be read the embed below.

Larson’s boyfriend, Dorian Lee Harper, reportedly tied the dead bird around J.G.’s neck after he killed it at the 5-acre farm where they lived. J.G.’s lawsuit claims Larson never intervened and allowed it to happen.

Investigators say Larson submitted false statements in order to manipulate the “process and substance” of the legal hearing determining J.G.’s custody, manipulating the juvenile courts into removing the child from his biological mother, Maria Harris, by deceiving the juvenile court judge overseeing the case.

Harris regained custody of her son in 2015 after the information about Larson came to light.

In 2006, Larson had used her position as a department supervisor to manipulate the courts to terminate Harris’ parental rights. She also required subordinates to conduct post-removal assessments to qualify the child’s status for funding as well her qualifications so she could adopt him.

North Carolina pays foster parents at least $432 a month for each child, which increases with disabilities. Larson had five foster children in her custody.

The end of J.G.’s abuse finally began in 2013 when Union County Sheriff Deputy Robert Rucker responded to a call about a hog that escaped a farm and had been running loose through the community.

While searching for the hog running amok, Rucker approached Larson’s farm house where he found J.G. handcuffed to a railing on the porch. He also discovered the child would be regularly chained to a railroad tie in his room.

And he discovered J.G., along with four other foster children, were living in “shocking conditions” inside the CPS supervisor’s home where she allowed her boyfriend free reign of abuse against the children.

A further investigation revealed Harper would also starve “J.G.” and tie his ankle to a railroad tie, cut his face knife as well as burn his face with electric wire.

Harper remains in prison after he pleaded guilty to being the primary abuser of J.G. and was sentenced to six to 10 years of hard time.

In 2015, Larson was given time served for 17 months in prison after she pleaded guilty for her role in J.G.’s abuse, so she is no longer incarcerated.

“I want to do whatever it takes to get her back in jail,” J.G. told WBTV. “Cause she deserves to be in jail for a long, long time.”

Financial Incentives

In addition to monetary assistance provided by the federal government for adoptive parents to assist with the costs raising adopted children, local CPS departments across the country receive thousands in federal funding.

Each CPS department’s budget is based on how many children social workers remove from the custody of their families to place in foster care, which is viewed as a Fourth Amendment violation by most parents who have their children removed.

The incentives increase significantly for foster parents and departments if a child is determined to have special needs through federal title IV-E adoption assistance.

Others criticize removal-based incentives saying they corrupt departments by driving their focus towards the bottom line instead of protecting children, resulting in department supervisors driving subordinates initially drawn to the job to protect children to lie about abuse that’s not occurring, removing them from their families to generate money for the department instead.

Others add the incentives provide no reason for departments to work to keep families together, but rather motivate supervisors to push for removals.

The annual total of child removals is tallied up to determine the department’s budget for the following year as Orange County CPS Director Michael Riley explains to a civil rights attorney in the video deposition below regarding the case of former Miss California Deanna Fogarty, who had lost her parental rights in 2000 after social workers engaged in a”pervasive pattern of lies and extensive cover-up” to justify removing her daughters.

Do Social Workers Have A Right to Lie?

An Orange County jury found social workers Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak were liable for the “unconstitutional removal and continued detention” ajnd warrantless removal of her daughters, who were nine and six at the time, awarding Fogarty $4.8 million for violating her right to parent her children.

Attorneys for Orange County appealed the jury’s ruling.

Although they did not contest to the jury’s finding the social workers had lied to remove Fogarty’s two daughters, attorneys argued the decision should be overturned because while the social worker’s deceptive statements to the court might have been ethically wrong, they were not illegal because no prior court ruling had been established against social workers lying to the court in order to remove children.

They also argued that Vreeken and Dwojak were protected by qualified immunity from liability in federal court unless Fogarty could prove the social workers’ lies violated her Constitutional rights.

But that argument fell flat with the judges hearing the case, who upheld the jury’s decision, boosting Orange County’s payout to $10.6 million after attorney’s fees for fighting the appeal were added up, which is the most expensive case ever paid by Orange County, according to the Orange County Register.

“How in the world could a person in the shoes of your clients possibly believe that it was appropriate to use perjury and false evidence?” 9th Circuit of Appeals Judge Stephen Trott asked.

“How could they possibly not be in notice that you can’t do that?  You mean due process is somehow consistent with a government worker introducing perjured testimony and false evidence? I can’t even believe for a microsecond that a caseworker wouldn’t understand you can’t lie and put in false evidence.”

The $10.6 awarded in Fogarty-Hardwick also resulted in a steep increase in liability claims cost for Orange County.

“It was pretty amazing. They succeed in taking a $5 million award and doubling it for us,” Shawn McMillan, the civil rights attorney who represented Fogarty, told the Register.

“In my view, the taxpayers in Orange County should be pissed. This never should have gone this far.”

In November, a jury awarded Lina Duval, who is also represented by McMillan, $3.1 million for “malice, oppression, and fraud” for the unwarranted removal of her 15-month old son, who was also taken without a warrant.

“The law is very clear and the social workers get training on this, you can not seize a child from its parents unless there’s an emergency.”

According to McMillan, an emergency would be exigent circumstances that pose a significant risk of death or serious bodily harm in the half hour or so it would take social workers to get a warrant from a judge in an abuse case that would warrant seizing a child.

However, that fact isn’t widely known due to the secret nature of juvenile courts, which are not open to the public to protect the minors in involved.

“The basic purpose espoused by the legislature, and the courts is protection of the child’s privacy,” McMillan told PINAC during an interview.

“In the vast majority of the cases I review, secrecy only protects the workers from liability.”

Marcie Vreeken, one of the two social workers named responsible for committing judicial deception, was promoted to a supervisor position.

In 2013, Vreeken earned $103,441.48, according to the OC Register.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/12/21/north-carolina-foster-child-sues-cps-supervisor-who-adopted-him-only-to-abuse-him/

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Those killers should've been sent to the electric chair.

Georgia Cop Sentenced to Life in Prison for Tasering Handcuffed Man to Death

In a judicial decision that is sure to send shock waves throughout the law enforcement community, a Georgia cop was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for tasering a handcuffed man to death in 2014.

On April 11, 2014, East Point Police Sergeant Marcus Eberhart was upset at having chased Gregory Towns through the woods after responding to a call of domestic violence.

But Towns, 24, became winded and had given up by the time Eberhart and his partner, Corporal Howard Weems, caught up to him as we reported last year when the cops were indicted.

The cops handcuffed him and ordered him to walk, but Towns said he was too tired to walk, so he asked the cops ten times for a few minutes to allow him to catch his breath.

But the cops started tasering him in an attempt to get him walk, tasering him 10 times within a 30-minute period, including one point where he was in the water in a creek.

He ended up dying on the scene.

A witness photographed the above photo, which was used as evidence against the cops.

Weems was sentenced to only five years in prison and will only have to serve 18 months because he was found not guilty of felony murder and aggravated assault, but guilty of involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct and violation of oath of office.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the judge did not have the leeway to offer Eberhart a lighter sentence because he was found guilty on all charges, including felony murder and aggravated assault.

An autopsy determined that Towns suffered from heart disease, which was used as an excuse by the officers’ attorneys for his death, but the jury did not buy it.

The defense attorneys also argued that police have the right to taser people when they are not complying, but the jury did not buy that excuse either, which is surprising considering how often juries succumb to the Blue Privilege theory.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/12/21/georgia-cop-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-tasering-handcuffed-man-to-death/

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Cops Shoot Woman’s Dog Then Warrantlessly Ransack Her Home to Justify It

New York, NY – Brooklyn resident Raven Garcia is filing a lawsuit against the NYPD after the police entered her house without a warrant, shot her dog and then ransacked her home in an attempt to find evidence to justify their intrusion. Police were called to Garcia’s house over an unpaid cab fee, but they had no warrant or justification to enter her home without permission.

Garcia had been out drinking with her friends on that night, and when realizing that she was too drunk to drive home, she did the responsible thing and took a cab. Unfortunately, Garcia forgot to pay the cab driver when they arrived at her house, likely due to her intoxication. It is true that Garcia was in the wrong for stiffing the cab driver, but this hardly justifies a warrantless search and the shooting of an animal, this is a very simple matter that could have been resolved very quickly and easily if the police were not so quick to escalation and aggression.

However, it is important to point out that all charges regarding the unpaid cab fare have since been dropped — making the dog shooting and subsequent raid — entirely unjust.

According to witnesses, police arrived at Garcia’s apartment with large numbers in an extreme show of force. They let themselves into the home and carelessly allowed the dog to walk out of the house. Witness testimony has stated that the dog, named Macho, was calm and friendly while outside and was shot by one of the officers for no reason. When neighbors asked about the condition of the dog, the officers on the scene told the neighbors to call for help, because they hadn’t done so.

Meanwhile, a gang of cops began ransacking the house in an attempt to find drugs which would justify their raid and the shooting of the dog. They even went on to search a neighbors apartment that was not even owned by Garcia. After a long search, police found absolutely nothing, but they still arrested Garcia.

According to the lawsuit, “NYPD officers did unlawfully imprison Plaintiff as they ransacked her apartment and shot her companion animal with an unnecessary and gratuitous display of physical force, as they cordoned off the area and prevented witnesses from reporting the unjust nature of the shooting, despite witnesses’ attempts to do so.”

The lawsuit also stated that the officer who shot Macho, Officer Abiola Enrico, was taunting Garcia about her weight, and was so aggressive with her that she was restrained by other officers at one point.
Garcia was then taken jail, where she was deprived of food and water and shackled to a bench in a cold and empty room. The lawsuit states that the temperatures in the room were “frigid.”

One of Garcia’s friends, whom she had been out drinking with that night, had even attempted to pay the cab fee and was told that it was too late, even when she showed up to the police department with the cab driver, who would have been willing to accept the late payment.

Garcia has since retained an attorney and has filed a federal lawsuit against the department for the unlawful search and the shooting of her beloved dog.

“This is a perfect example of the type of incident that has eroded the public’s faith in law enforcement,” said Matthew Albert, Garcia’s attorney. “The most benign of phone calls resulted in a dog being shot, and an entire platoon trying to cover up the brutal crime of a fellow Officer and then torturing an New York University Graduate student and artist. The NYPD, and too many law enforcement officials in general, have a unique ability to escalate events so that everything ends in bloodshed. It’s disgraceful.”

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-shoot-womans-dog-and-rip-apart-her-house-without-a-warrant-to-justify-it/

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Can citizens also legally execute police dogs if they make any attempt to approach them, bark at them or attack them?

Court Rules Police Can Legally Execute Your Dog if It Does Anything But Sit Silently

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded Monday that police officers are justified in killing citizens’ pets — even if those animals are not attacking or attempting to attack them.
Judges MOORE and CLAY (Circuit Judges), and HOOD (District Judge) heard an appeal from the plaintiffs Mark and Cheryl Brown, of Battle Creek, Michigan. The Browns filed a lawsuit against the BATTLE CREEK Police Department, the City of Battle Creek, and officers Jeffrey Case, Christof Klein, and Damon Young for the death of their beloved dogs at the hands of sadistic cops.

The incident occurred on April 17th, 2013, when police were attempting to execute a search warrant on the home where the Browns were living because a police informant reported another man, Vincent Jones was distributing heroin, cocaine, and marijuana from the residence. Jones was apprehended before police arrived on the scene.

Mark Brown, who was not a suspect in the search, had gone home on his lunch break to let out his two pit bulls. After doing so, he locked the door and headed back to work when police arrived and detained him. He told them he had a key, and that they didn’t need to destroy the front door to gain entry into the home. But destroy it they did.

The Browns dispute the claims by police that the dogs were barking. Mark Brown even testified the smaller of the two dogs had “never barked a day in her life.” Officer Klein said the larger dog was barking and “lunged” at him, but later admitted the pet “had only moved a few inches.”

Despite there being no attack, Klein fired a round at the dog. Both dogs ran away from the officers to the basement, obviously fleeing in fear. There, the two dogs were shot and killed by the officers who felt that they could not properly clear the room and effectively execute the search warrant on the home, explaining they “did not feel [the officers] could safely clear the basement with those dogs down there.”
Going further, the officers stated the “basement was loaded. You’ve gotta look under beds, you’ve gotta do everything, and [the dogs] basically prevented us from doing that, and they were protecting that basement.” Klein testified the smaller pit bull was “just standing there” when it was shot and killed.

In spite of these sadistic admissions, the appellate court ruled in favor of the officers, the police department, and the other defendants. They agreed with the lower court ruling that the police officers were covered under “doctrine of qualified immunity” and were therefore not liable for compensating the plaintiffs in the case.

The precedent has now been set. Cops can legally kill your dogs for the sole act of being a dog. If your dog moves, it is dead. If your dog barks, it is dead. If your dog does anything but sit silently in the other room, it is dead. However, as the above case illustrates, even if they are silent in the other room, police can still kill them — just to make their search for arbitrary substances deemed illegal by the state — that much easier.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-can-now-kill-dog-barking-getting-way/

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This mob boss is a dangerous and vindictive criminal. He should be in prison and also be held accountable for anything that happens to this woman from doxxing.

Police Union Chief ‘Reprimanded’ for Doxxing Innocent Woman Who Made Video of Him Speeding

Miami, FL — In late January, Claudia Castillo pulled over Miami Police Lieutenant Javier Ortiz and accused him of speeding. She filmed the encounter and posted it to YouTube, where it went viral.

In response to being caught breaking the law, Ortiz, leader of the Miami FOP, used his police powers to access and post Castillo’s personal information and photo online. He had doxxed her.

According to the Miami Herald‘s report in March, Castillo received so many calls at work that she became concerned about her job security. “They sent me home yesterday,” the project manager said.

For ten months, not so much as an inquiry took place into Ortiz’s misconduct. This was in spite of the media coverage and a complaint filed by Claudia Castillo herself notifying the department that this tyrant officer had been doxxing her.

This was also in spite of the fact that after he doxxed her, Ortiz continued to harass the innocent woman. In February, Ortiz went to Facebook with a photo of Castillo holding a Pepsi can and posted to his followers that they should  “call Claudia Castillo at her cell… and let her know drinking and driving on a boat isn’t safe.”

Last Thursday, however, the department managed to wrap up their ‘investigation’ and noted that Javier Ortiz, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, was ‘reprimanded’ for “discourtesy” and “improper procedure,” according to the internal affairs report, as reported by PINAC.

In spite of the ‘investigation’ finding Ortiz was in the wrong, this problem cop will not be fired, demoted, or even suspended. In fact, the ‘reprimand’ consists of little more than a paper entry into his record.

According to PINAC, Ortiz had no idea that he’d even been reprimanded. When the police accountability group contacted Ortiz, he replied with the following statement:
The woman is a danger to my members and law enforcement as a whole. No regrets. She’s an officer safety risk pulling over a vehicle on the side of I-95. I’m in the process of appealing my write up as a violation of my first amendment rights.

It is important to note that doxxing, an abbreviation for document tracing, the Internet-based practice of researching and publishing personally identifiable information about an individual — is illegal.

However, this officer faced no legal repercussions. Instead of adhering to his public service and protecting the rights of citizens, this cop became the bully.

When we look at his past, it becomes evident that Javier Ortiz was always a bully.

In December of last year, this hero police officer made headlines when he took to his Twitter account and declared that Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was killed by Cleveland police for playing with a toy gun, was a thug.

According to the Miami New Times, Ortiz criticized Marilyn Smith, a woman who posted a video of Miami police beating a man in handcuffs. Smith claims that police tried to knock her cellphone out of her hands and demanded that she delete the video. When he’s not attacking black people for protesting police killings of children, this stand-up officer is demonizing an entire religion.

It seems that no matter what police do these days, they simply will not be held accountable. It is this very lack of accountability that is currently driving a wedge between the police and the policed. Until it is brought to an abrupt halt, we can only expect this divide to grow.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-doxxing-innocent-woman/

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This case has been mentioned before. 41 shots and no consequences. Meanwhile the criminals keep saying about #blueliesmatter and "war on cops".

Police Testify Against Fellow Cop Who Killed Unarmed Father with 41 Shots, He Still May Get Job Back

Garland, TX — In a travesty of justice, a mistrial was declared Monday in the latest trial of an officer who shot and killed an unarmed father — dumping 41 rounds into him, reloading twice.

Late on August 31, 2012, Michael “Mookie” Allen, 25 was running from the police while driving his white pickup truck. “Michael was terrified of the police, first of all,” Randy Allen, Michael’s father, said reflecting on his son’s state of mind. Garland, Texas police officer Patrick Wayne Tuter was giving chase that night.

The pursuit ended in a Mesquite, TX cul-de-sac when police cruisers had boxed Allen in, but Tuter opened fire on Allen who was still sitting inside the truck. In a hail of bullets, 41 in all, Tuter killed Allen, who was unarmed. Investigators said the officer reloaded at least twice during the shooting. Two other officers were on-scene. They did not fire their weapons, only Tuter did. Witnesses said the officer gave no time for Allen to exit the vehicle, opening fire three seconds after being told to “get out” of the truck.

An investigation into the officer involved shooting revealed Tuter claimed he ‘feared for his life.’ But instead of getting a pass from the police department for murdering Allen, he was fired, and later a grand jury indicted him for Manslaughter. According to the Dallas News, it was the first time in 15 years a grand jury had indicted an officer involved in a fatal shooting.

“He didn’t deserve the death sentence. Patrick Tuter was not judge and jury and that’s what he made himself out to be,” Stephanie Allen, Michael’s mom told reporters after learning he was fired in 2013.
According to the Dallas News, “Tuter was later determined to have lied about the encounter, claiming Allen rammed his squad car twice, when in fact, Tuter had slammed into Allen’s truck at the end of the chase.”
During the trial, which concluded last week, Tuter took the stand at his own defense and said, “It’s a very intense situation…Your adrenaline dumps, and you’re shaking, and you have to remain calm.” He defended his actions on the night in question saying, “Mr. Allen was being extremely reckless and showing no sign of pulling over…I believed based on what I saw, and experience, that he was going to injure or kill someone.”
But fellow officers did not feel their lives were in danger and testified against him. “Tuter’s fellow officers told jurors they were more scared of him (Tuter) than of the man they were chasing that night,” the DN writes adding, “Prosecutors alleged that Tuter was a ‘rogue cop’ who ‘acted recklessly’ by firing 41 shots, three of which struck and killed Allen.” Prosecutor Juan Sanchez admitted Allen may have committed a felony by evading police but said in closing arguments, “The question here is, was it reasonable to kill him? That’s really what this case comes down to.”

Toby Shook, Tuter’s attorney, stated in his closing statement, “Anyone with an ounce of common sense, one small ounce of common sense, knows Michael Allen was a danger to anyone he might have encountered — and he wasn’t going to stop for anyone.”

The defense’s argument was enough to sway the jury. After deliberating five hours on Friday, and one hour Monday, the jury returned to inform the judge that they could not come to a unanimous decision as to whether or not they believed Tuter was guilty of manslaughter.

“Special prosecutor Juan Sanchez said five jurors told him they wanted to convict Tuter. He said the jurors who sided with Tuter thought he had used reasonable force, but the ones who wanted a conviction believed he had the intention to harm Allen when they reached the cul-de-sac,” the DN reported. The prosecution will decide over the holidays whether or not to retry Tuter. If they decide not to conduct another trial, the former Garland, Texas police officer could conceivably be hired with another police department to continue his career in law enforcement.

Randy Allen said he was hoping for closure but told reporters a mistrial was better news than a jury verdict of not guilty. “It’s been a nightmare for four and a half years…We were really hoping for some closure today…I wouldn’t wish this on anybody,” he said. Michael Allen’s granddaughter is now 8-years-old, remembers her daddy and prays to him every night, Allen told reporters. Tuter is also a father and his wife is expecting.

America is quickly waking up to the reality their police force is not held to the same standards as the rest of the general population. While the populace cannot brandish weapons, point weapons at unarmed individuals’ heads, and execute people when and if they feel threatened, the police most certainly can, will, and do. All too often, as The Free Thought Project faithfully reports, when a brave district attorney files charges against a peace officer for his/her actions in officer-involved shootings, the police officer is exonerated and allowed to go back to work.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mistrial-officer-may-return-work-killing-unarmed-father/

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Award-Winning Florida Deputy Arrested for Identity Theft

For $10,000-a-month, Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy Frantz Felisma would obtain the personal information of luxury car owners through a law enforcement database, then hand it over to another man, who would then use that information to swindle the car owners out of money.

But the scheme caught up to the 42-year-old deputy and he will now spend the Christmas weekend behind bars because he is considered a flight risk.

His attorney, however, said nothing could be further from the truth because his client recently received the Deputy of the Quarter award.

“Deputy Felisma contests the government’s allegations that he is a flight risk and a danger to the community,” Jason Kreiss said.

“To the contrary, Deputy Felisma was awarded Deputy of the Quarter and has been a highly regard member of the Sheriff’s Office and the community.”

But we all know law enforcement awards are nothing but participation awards for adults.

According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel:

An investigation found Felisma worked with a man, identified in documents as K.J., who went around looking for people driving high-end cars, court documents show. K.J. gave Felisma the vehicle’s license plate, make and model on a piece of paper, according to the documents.

Felisma allegedly used his Palm Beach sheriff’s laptop to put that information into a law enforcement database to get a driver’s name, Social Security number and other personal information. He would then give it back to the man, according to court documents.

K.J. created credit cards and bank accounts using that stolen personal information, investigators said. Information from more than a dozen people was used to steal about $197,000 from them, according to the documents.

Investigators also found more than 200 text messages between the deputy and the other man from January 2013 to September 2014, with many of the messages confirming meeting locations, authorities said.

Confronted Wednesday with the allegations against him, the deputy “gave about four hours of statements” to investigators, a prosecutor said.

Felisma is believed to be a flight risk because he was born in Haiti and frequently travels there to visit friends and family, including his mother.

In fact, last year he posted a photo on his Facebook page, showing him in full uniform posing with the police chief of Haiti.

Felisma, who is currently on paid administrative leave, will remain incarcerated until at least Wednesday, when he will attend another hearing.

Felisma, who joined the department in 2009, was charged with aggravated identity theft, access device fraud, access of a protected computer for furtherance of fraud, and conspiracy to commit identity theft.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/12/22/award-winning-florida-deputy-arrested-identity-theft/