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Incompetent buffoons.

DA: Pct. 4 destroyed more than 20,000 pieces of evidence, scope of problem unclear
Office has already dismissed 142 cases, more than 1,000 may be affected

The Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office destroyed more than 20,000 pieces of evidence, forcing the District Attorney's office to dismiss nearly 150 pending criminal cases and potentially endangering more than 1,000 others, District Attorney Devon Anderson said Friday.

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The revelations brought new light to a Precinct 4 evidence room scandal which developed after deputy constables destroyed the evidence from pending cases while trying to clean out the property room.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Deputy-fired-in-Precinct-4-evidence-scandal-9199911.php

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Outrageous how when armed criminal gangs murder and execute innocent people it's always "an accident" and rarely face any charges.

Massachusetts Town Settles With Family of Innocent Grandfather Killed by “Accident” During SWAT Raid

Eurie Stamps, 68, a grandfather and retired Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority worker, was not suspected of any crime when police assaulted him inside his home and shot him dead shortly after midnight on January 5, 2011.

Now, more than five years later, Stamps’ family has reached a settlement with the town of Framingham, which to this day employs Stamps’ killer.

Details of the settlement, which was made Friday, have not yet been made public.

But the one thing that is clear is that Stamps is one of the countless victims of the government’s war on drugs.

The night he was killed, the Framingham SWAT team was serving a warrant targeting Stamps’ stepson, Josesph Bushfan, who police suspected of selling crack.

Bushfan was arrested outside the apartment, but police decided to raid it anyway, smashing the door down with a battering ram and setting off a flashbang grenade — a dangerous weapon that can injure, kill and start fires.

Inside the apartment, Framingham police officer Paul Duncan confronted Stamps, who was lying face down on the floor in an act of surrender.

Then Duncan shot Stamps in the head.

After the shooting, Duncan told investigators that he tried to kneel on Stamps’ back to restrain him, but tripped and somehow unintentionally shot Stamps.

In March 2011, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office issued a press release calling the shooting an “accident” and declined to pursue charges against Duncan.

In April, the police department put Duncan, who had been on paid leave since the shooting, back to work.

“There’s no reason for him not to come back to work. He didn’t commit a crime,” then-Police Chief Steven Carl said at the time.

“That sounds like a pretty low standard for someone entrusted with keeping the public safe,” the MetroWest Daily News responded in an editorial.

According to MetroWest Daily News, which was first to report on the settlement:

U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor on Friday dismissed the suit, according to court records, writing that the parties have settled the case out of court.

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Leonard Kesten, who represented the town and Framingham Police Officer Paul Duncan, a former SWAT team member who fired the fatal shot, said the terms of the settlement will be released publicly once they are finalized.

“The Defendants are pleased that the parties have reached an acceptable resolution of this unfortunate matter,” Kesten wrote in an email Sunday.

Cheryl Tully Stoll, chairwoman of the Framingham Board of Selectmen, said she had not yet seen the details of the settlement but she hoped the Stamps family could find some closure in ending the case.

“I believe this tragic accident is going to leave a stain on the town,” she said. “My thoughts and prayers go out to the Stamps family because whatever the settlement is, it could never be enough to replace a loved one. I personally can’t imagine they could ever be able to truly put this behind them, so I hope they are able to find peace.”

Chief Carl disbanded the SWAT team in 2013 shortly before he left the department to take a job as campus police chief at Assumption College.

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/06/massachusetts-town-settles-family-innocent-grandfather-killed-swat-raid/

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Another update on this horrible case. Instead of this criminal being sent to death row, he got his job back.

BREAKING: Cop Who Paralyzed Innocent Grandfather On Video — Just Got His Job Back!

Birmingham, AL — Although the governor of Alabama formally apologized to the Indian government last year and promised that justice would be served, Madison police officer Eric Parker, the cop who left an innocent elderly grandfather paralyzed, not only escaped justice — but is now back on the job.

In what can only be described as the epitome of everything wrong with police in America today, this brutal monster, who attacked and left severely disabled, an innocent old man out for a walk, will have his badge reinstated, his gun given back, and put out on the streets to strike again.

In a statement Tuesday morning, by Major Jim Cooke, the acting Madison police chief, it was announced that Parker will return to work following a long-term paid vacation.

“Officer Eric Parker will return from administrative leave today and will be assigned to the MPD Training Unit until he completes his required re-certifications. After his training is complete, he will receive his duty assignment,” reads the statement.

Despite the fact that two separate police dashcam videos recorded the blatant use of excessive force on an elderly man, major Cooke went on to justify this disgusting move.

“I have extensively reviewed all of the documentation regarding the case, and I have made the factual determination that Officer Parker’s actions in February 2015 did not amount to a policy violation,” said Cooke.

The acting chief said that the Memorandum Opinion, issued by Federal Judge Madeline H. Haikala after Officer Parker’s second federal trial, helped him to get to this decision.

“[T]he evidence demonstrates that Officer Parker complied with MPD policy regarding preliminary investigations of suspicious individuals and MPD’s ‘Response to Resistance’ policy…Officer Parker made a split-second decision in a rapidly evolving situation rather than a premeditated decision to use violent force.”

These statements, to those who’ve seen the video below, are outright denials of reality. Sureshbhai Patel in no way resisted or otherwise posed any threat whatsoever, when he was brutally attacked by this public servant.

At 9:00 a.m. on February 6, 2015, Patel had been visiting his son’s family in Madison, Alabama, when he decided to take a morning walk through the neighborhood. Although the Indian grandfather had committed no crime, Madison Police Officer Eric Parker and his partner confronted Patel on the sidewalk in an attempt to question him. Unable to communicate with the officers or understand their commands, Patel tried to speak in broken English.

“He’s saying, ‘No English,’” Parker’s partner observed as they continued to interrogate Patel.

Parker later testified that Patel’s actions and appearance were “in sequence” with those of a burglar because the Indian grandfather did not answer questions and attempted to walk away during their encounter. Although Patel had not broken the law and was not carrying any weapons or burglary equipment, Parker suspected he was a burglar. At no point did he consider the possibility that Patel was visiting the country from India, struggling to communicate, and could not speak English.

Two police dashcam videos recorded Parker restraining Patel’s arms behind his back before suddenly sweeping the man’s legs out from under him while simultaneously slamming Patel face-first into the ground. With blood pouring down his face, Patel remained on the lawn unable to feel his arms and legs.

As another officer approached them, one of the cops acknowledged, “He don’t speak a lick of English.”

While recovering from surgery after doctors performed a cervical spinal fusion, Patel filed a lawsuit against the city and the two cops who initially confronted him. Since Patel does not have health insurance, his family launched a fundraising campaign at GoFundMe.com to accept donations towards his medical expenses. Luckily the campaign was successful.

Six days after the incident, Parker was charged with third-degree assault and later fired from the department. On March 26, 2015, a federal grand jury decided to indict Parker for use of unreasonable force. Even though Parker was caught on video clearly violating Patel’s civil rights, his two previous trials ended in hung juries.

In September, U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision. A second mistrial was declared two months later. Arguing in January that the prosecution did not eliminate reasonable doubt that Parker had used excessive force in his prior two trials, Haikala decided to throw out the case against the cowardly cop who felt threatened by an unarmed, innocent elderly man.

Last year, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley formally apologized to the government of India for the brutal assault. Referring to the use of excessive force, Governor Bentley assured the Indian government that justice would be served while expressing regret for Patel’s spinal cord injuries.

“I wish to assure you and the government of India that we will see that justice is done,” Governor Bentley wrote last year. “I deeply regret the unfortunate use of excessive force by the Madison Police Department on Sureshbhai Patel and for the injuries sustained by Mr. Patel. I sincerely hope that Mr. Patel continues to improve and that he will regain full use of his legs.”

Instead of fulfilling Bentley’s promise, the U.S. justice system and police have once again failed an innocent person abused by an incompetent coward who should never have been given a badge and a gun in the first place.

Beware Madison residents — a violent criminal with the authority to violate your rights is posing as a public servant.

Please feel free to peacefully voice your concern with the department’s choice to welcome back this violent officer.
Madison, Alabama Police Department: (256) 772-5685

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/eric-parker-paralyzed-grandfather-job/

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Cop Gets Into Fight With His Own Son, Shoots Him TWICE — Dept Says it Was ‘Accidental’

Philadelphia, PA — A 19-year-old man is in critical condition suffering gunshot wounds inflicted on him by his father — a Philadelphia cop. In spite of the officer admitting that he fired the weapon, no charges have been filed against him — for obvious reasons.

Monday afternoon, at approximately 6:30 pm, police responded to multiple calls about shots fired at a northeast Philadelphia residence; home of the unnamed police officer. Police say the officer got into an argument with his son, which then escalated into a physical altercation. During the altercation, the officer brandished a gun and fired, striking his son in the torso.
According to police, there were four people inside the home.

On Tuesday morning, Police Commissioner Richard Ross said in a statement to ABC6 News, that the shot was ‘accidental or inadvertent.’ This claim was made in spite of any evidence as the officer involved has not been interviewed by internal affairs.

“Apparently, they got into some type of a scuffle, argument or something. The off-duty (sic) accidentally or inadvertently discharged his weapon,” claimed Ross.

To assert from the get go that the officer’s decision to fire his gun at his son was accidental, speaks to the nature of the thin blue line of protection. This cop admitted to shooting his own son, hasn’t been questioned yet, but here’s the commissioner immediately claiming it was an accident.

The commissioner’s claim of an accidental discharge, or an inadvertent stray round would likely hold more water — had the cop not shot him twice.

That’s right. According to police, the officer’s gun was fired twice, striking the 19-year-old man in the torso.

The officer is enjoying special treatment and was not even interviewed by internal affairs. Instead, according to ABC6, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office will decide whether the officer will be charged. Must be nice.

As for the other two occupants of the home during the shooting, including the officer’s other son, they have not been afforded the same convenience. Both of them have been held for questioning.

Had the man inside the home not been employed as a Philadelphia police officer, you can rest assured that he would be in jail, or, at the very least, he would’ve been questioned.
However, this man did have a badge which granted him the privilege of police circling the wagons and protecting him.

Shockingly enough, this is not an isolated incident. Last year Palm Beach police officer Shatara K. Shatara was afforded the same blue privilege after he too killed his own son.

On Christmas Eve, Shatara killed his son Khamis, 21, during a domestic dispute. Ironically, Khamis was aspiring to be a cop. However, he was apparently mentally ill.

For 9-months, and without ever facing a single charge, Shatara enjoyed a paid vacation, only to be quietly placed back on regular duty last September.

Nothing exposes the tendency of police to quickly escalate to deadly violence quite like police officers shooting their own children.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/philadelphia-cop-shoots-son-accident/

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North Carolina Cop Indicted for Manslaughter After Tasering Man to Death

A North Carolina cop who tasered an unarmed man to death earlier this year was indicted by a grand jury on manslaughter charges Tuesday.

The incident took place on March 3 when Kenly police officer Jesse Craig Santifort tasered Alexander Warren Thompson after a high-speed car chase through two counties that ended when Thompson wrecked his vehicle.

Santifort claims Thompson came charging towards him, which was when he tasered him four times.

“Central, I have tased him,” Santifort reported to dispatch, according to an audio recording.

“Uh, a little electrified at the moment, but I think we’ve come to an understanding.”

Thompson was transported to a hospital and died three days later.

According to ABC 11:

The short-form indictment doesn’t explain the grand jury’s reasoning and only says Santifort “unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously did kill” Thompson.

While most cops who taser citizens to death never even have to go before a grand jury, a state investigation on the cop after the incident led to 27 charges dropped against 12 people he had arrested in unrelated cases.

According to the News & Observer:

The State Bureau of Investigation launched an investigation of the death, and Johnston County District Attorney Susan Doyle was reviewing a report from the SBI to determine whether she would file criminal charges related to the death.

Following an internal investigation, Santifort was allowed to return to duty by Kenly Police Chief Josh Gibson.

But the Johnston County Clerk of Superior Court and the DA’s office released a list of 27 charges that were dismissed because “the state is ethically prohibited from calling the charging officer to testify given a recent review of personnel records,” according to Assistant District Attorney Paul Jackson.

The DA’s office declined to comment further “to preserve the integrity of an ongoing investigation.”

The 27 charges filed against 12 people included three DWIs, four drug charges, two child abuse charges, a felony charge of obtaining property by false pretense, two misdemeanor larceny charges and several others.

Thompson, a father of three who was engaged to be married, led police on a pursuit after arriving at a home that police were monitoring for drugs. An autopsy said he marijuana and amphetamines in his system.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/06/north-carolina-cop-indicted-for-manslaughter-after-tasering-man-to-death/

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When will this violent criminal gang be put to prison?

Chicago Cops who Attacked Man in Restaurant Might Finally Get Fired … or Maybe Not

The three off-duty Chicago cops were apparently drunk when Obed “OJ” DeLeon walked into a taco joint late one night and began complaining about a driver who had left a Camaro blocking the entrance to the parking lot.

“Yeah, that guy’s an asshole for parking like that,” DeLeon told another two men he did not know, whom were also waiting in line to place an order.

Overhearing DeLeon’s comments was the owner of the car, Jason Orsa, one of the three cops sitting at a nearby table with a fourth friend.

“What if I’m an asshole?” Orsa replied.

“You need to quit acting like an asshole and go move your car,” DeLeon responded.

That was when one of the cops sitting at the table, Brian Murphy, pulled out a gun and pointed it at DeLeon’s face while shoving him against a wall.

A series of surveillance videos show Orsa and the third cop, Daniel McNamara, joined in the assault, beating DeLeon along with their friend, Matthew Walsh, a Marine who had just returned from Iraq.

Witnesses say the cops never identified themselves as cops, so somebody called 911 to report “a white man with a gun.”

However, when the uniformed on-duty cops arrived, they arrested DeLeon, who by then, was beaten and bruised and had his shirt ripped off from him.

Also arrested were two witnesses, Joseph Mularczyk and Shawn Nelson, the two men whom DeLeon was conversing with while waiting to place an order.

They had tried to tell the responding cops that DeLeon was the victim, not the aggressor. But they ended up charged with assaulting Walsh, even though the surveillance videos show that never took place.

Meanwhile, the off-duty cops who started the melee were allowed to leave through a back door, never once providing an official statement.

The incident took place on March 24 2006, leading to a lengthy investigation by the Independent Police Review Authority after DeLeon filed a complaint only days after the incident.

During the investigation, the cops claimed that DeLeon had walked into the restaurant shouting gang slogans and threatening to kill cops, making them fear for their lives.

However, after reviewing the video evidence and statements from witnesses, the Chicago Review Board decided to terminate two officers in January 2011; Murphy, who drew his gun, and Orsa, whose comments started the altercation.

The sergeant who responded to the incident, Louis Danielson, was also suspended for six months for his failure to conduct a proper investigation into the melee.

But as they always do, the cops appealed the decision and won their jobs back after Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen M. Pantle overturned the review board’s decision in 2012, awarding them back pay for the year they were out of work. Danielson’s suspension was also lifted after the judge’s ruling.

However, last month, a state appeals panel overturned Pantle’s ruling, determining that the two cops deserved to be fired.

The city appealed the judge’s decision and, four years after her decision as well as ten years after the incident, a state appeals panel sided with the city, ruling that the cops deserve to be fired.

According to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin:

A state appeals panel on Tuesday upheld the firing of two Chicago police officers who assaulted a man inside a Northwest Side restaurant more than 10 years ago while off-duty.

But the 1st District Appellate Court took the extra step of criticizing Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen M. Pantle, who ruled in favor of officers Jason Orsa and Brian Murphy, finding their version of events credible despite contrary video evidence.

“Not only does the circuit court disregard the board’s determination that the testimony of the two witnesses was particularly credible and the testimony of the police officers was not worthy of belief, but it also interprets what occurs on the surveillance video in ways that twist the facts and defy reason,” Justice Michael B. Hyman wrote.

“Our careful and close review of the video leaves us dumbfounded by the circuit court’s rejection of the board’s prima facie true and correct findings,” Hyman added.

But that doesn’t mean the cops will actually be fired. No, that would be too easy.

It just means that the Chicago Police Board can fire them if it wishes, but only after it receives the appellate court order, which apparently it does not have, even though it’s been nearly a month since the decision was made.

According to the Chicago Tribune:

DeLeon and the two eyewitnesses who were arrested as well that night in 2006 were surprised to learn from a Chicago Tribune reporter that both officers were still on the force. All three said the handling of the investigation was another example of the city’s reluctance to root out police misconduct.

“My (then-unborn) son is 10 years old now!” DeLeon, 32, said recently on learning the officers had been reinstated on the force and given back pay after the judge reversed their firings in 2012.

“The amount of evidence that they had against these guys, it’s amazing to me that it’s still going on,” said Shawn Nelson, 37, a restaurant patron that night who tried to intervene on DeLeon’s behalf. “I can’t even believe it.”

“This is the reason why the general public has issues with police officers,” said Joseph Mularczyk, 36, the other eyewitness. “It’s misbehavior like this. It’s covered up. It’s pushed under the table, and here we are 10 years later (and) these guys are still on the Police Department.”

Even if the Chicago Police Board finally decides to obtain the appellate ruling and proceed with the termination process, the officers can still file another appeal with the Illinois Supreme Court, so this is probably not over yet.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/05/chicago-cops-who-attacked-man-in-restaurant-might-finally-get-fired-or-maybe-not/

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Once again a criminal gang conspiring to cover up their crimes.

Oklahoma Cop Says, “We Can Spin It,” After They Pepper Spray 84-year-old Woman

In the ensuing moments after Oklahoma police pepper sprayed an 84-year-old woman after kicking her door down without a warrant to arrest her son for running a stop sign, one cop tells another cop that “we can spin it” in order to justify their questionable tactics.

But Muskogee police are having a tough time spinning the incident considering it was all caught on body cam video.

And they will have an even tougher time spinning it with the latest revelations, which were reported today by Fox 23, the Oklahoma news station that first reported on the story a month ago after obtaining the body cam videos, and apparently finally  got around to viewing it all.

Muskogee police and the city’s mayor are not saying much about the incident, saying it is under investigation, but Fox 23 did interview a couple of city councilman who are bothered by what took place on the night of August 7.

That night, Muskogee police were patrolling the streets when they noticed 56-year-old Arthur Blackmon running a stop sign. They said they tried to pull him over, but he continued driving until he pulled up to his mother’s home and ran inside.

Police knocked on the door for several minutes while voices on the other side of the door said they were calling 911, even though it is not clear if they actually did.

Police then decided to kick the door down, later claiming they suspected Blackmon had committed a home invasion and that they were just trying to keep everybody safe.

But once inside, they not only tasered Blackmon, they pepper sprayed his 84-year-old mother, Geneva Smith, after she refused to turn her head away from them arresting her son.

Both Blackmon and Smith were handcuffed and transported to jail where Smith ended up having a panic attack, resulting in her needing to be hospitalized.

Smith was not charged with anything, but her son was charged with driving under the influence, obstructing an officer, driving with a suspended license and carrying a weapon.

Smith is now contemplating filing a lawsuit.

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/07/oklahoma-cop-says-we-can-spin-it-after-they-pepper-spray-84-year-old-woman/

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When will this violent criminal gang be put to prison?

Chicago Cops who Attacked Man in Restaurant Might Finally Get Fired … or Maybe Not

The three off-duty Chicago cops were apparently drunk when Obed “OJ” DeLeon walked into a taco joint late one night and began complaining about a driver who had left a Camaro blocking the entrance to the parking lot.

“Yeah, that guy’s an asshole for parking like that,” DeLeon told another two men he did not know, whom were also waiting in line to place an order.

Overhearing DeLeon’s comments was the owner of the car, Jason Orsa, one of the three cops sitting at a nearby table with a fourth friend.

“What if I’m an asshole?” Orsa replied.

“You need to quit acting like an asshole and go move your car,” DeLeon responded.

That was when one of the cops sitting at the table, Brian Murphy, pulled out a gun and pointed it at DeLeon’s face while shoving him against a wall.

A series of surveillance videos show Orsa and the third cop, Daniel McNamara, joined in the assault, beating DeLeon along with their friend, Matthew Walsh, a Marine who had just returned from Iraq.

Witnesses say the cops never identified themselves as cops, so somebody called 911 to report “a white man with a gun.”

However, when the uniformed on-duty cops arrived, they arrested DeLeon, who by then, was beaten and bruised and had his shirt ripped off from him.

Also arrested were two witnesses, Joseph Mularczyk and Shawn Nelson, the two men whom DeLeon was conversing with while waiting to place an order.

They had tried to tell the responding cops that DeLeon was the victim, not the aggressor. But they ended up charged with assaulting Walsh, even though the surveillance videos show that never took place.

Meanwhile, the off-duty cops who started the melee were allowed to leave through a back door, never once providing an official statement.

The incident took place on March 24 2006, leading to a lengthy investigation by the Independent Police Review Authority after DeLeon filed a complaint only days after the incident.

During the investigation, the cops claimed that DeLeon had walked into the restaurant shouting gang slogans and threatening to kill cops, making them fear for their lives.

However, after reviewing the video evidence and statements from witnesses, the Chicago Review Board decided to terminate two officers in January 2011; Murphy, who drew his gun, and Orsa, whose comments started the altercation.

The sergeant who responded to the incident, Louis Danielson, was also suspended for six months for his failure to conduct a proper investigation into the melee.

But as they always do, the cops appealed the decision and won their jobs back after Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen M. Pantle overturned the review board’s decision in 2012, awarding them back pay for the year they were out of work. Danielson’s suspension was also lifted after the judge’s ruling.

However, last month, a state appeals panel overturned Pantle’s ruling, determining that the two cops deserved to be fired.

The city appealed the judge’s decision and, four years after her decision as well as ten years after the incident, a state appeals panel sided with the city, ruling that the cops deserve to be fired.

According to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin:

A state appeals panel on Tuesday upheld the firing of two Chicago police officers who assaulted a man inside a Northwest Side restaurant more than 10 years ago while off-duty.

But the 1st District Appellate Court took the extra step of criticizing Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen M. Pantle, who ruled in favor of officers Jason Orsa and Brian Murphy, finding their version of events credible despite contrary video evidence.

“Not only does the circuit court disregard the board’s determination that the testimony of the two witnesses was particularly credible and the testimony of the police officers was not worthy of belief, but it also interprets what occurs on the surveillance video in ways that twist the facts and defy reason,” Justice Michael B. Hyman wrote.

“Our careful and close review of the video leaves us dumbfounded by the circuit court’s rejection of the board’s prima facie true and correct findings,” Hyman added.

But that doesn’t mean the cops will actually be fired. No, that would be too easy.

It just means that the Chicago Police Board can fire them if it wishes, but only after it receives the appellate court order, which apparently it does not have, even though it’s been nearly a month since the decision was made.

According to the Chicago Tribune:

DeLeon and the two eyewitnesses who were arrested as well that night in 2006 were surprised to learn from a Chicago Tribune reporter that both officers were still on the force. All three said the handling of the investigation was another example of the city’s reluctance to root out police misconduct.

“My (then-unborn) son is 10 years old now!” DeLeon, 32, said recently on learning the officers had been reinstated on the force and given back pay after the judge reversed their firings in 2012.

“The amount of evidence that they had against these guys, it’s amazing to me that it’s still going on,” said Shawn Nelson, 37, a restaurant patron that night who tried to intervene on DeLeon’s behalf. “I can’t even believe it.”

“This is the reason why the general public has issues with police officers,” said Joseph Mularczyk, 36, the other eyewitness. “It’s misbehavior like this. It’s covered up. It’s pushed under the table, and here we are 10 years later (and) these guys are still on the Police Department.”

Even if the Chicago Police Board finally decides to obtain the appellate ruling and proceed with the termination process, the officers can still file another appeal with the Illinois Supreme Court, so this is probably not over yet.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/05/chicago-cops-who-attacked-man-in-restaurant-might-finally-get-fired-or-maybe-not/

Fcuking utter crap -- Arsehole cops should of been prosecuted & jailed 10yrs ago.

No doubt agnostic will be along shortly to say -- We should wait till all the evidence is in
& These honourable cops were in fear of their Lives.

Oh and it's just The odd 1 or 2 rogue cops -- The Rest are All Honest & Good..
Yeah right.

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Fcuking utter crap -- Arsehole cops should of been prosecuted & jailed 10yrs ago.

No doubt agnostic will be along shortly to say -- We should wait till all the evidence is in
& These honourable cops were in fear of their Lives.

Oh and it's just The odd 1 or 2 rogue cops -- The Rest are All Honest & Good..
Yeah right.

We are talking about a criminal gang here: they go around attacking and terrorizing people and then have their cronies arrest and intimidate the victims and witnesses. And this whole ordeal has lasted 10 years.

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Laws? Just apply however you see fit. Will these criminals face consequences?

Louisiana Man Charged with Hate Crime for “Verbally Attacking” Cops

Less than four months after Louisiana gave cops hate crime victim status with the nation’s first Blue Live Matters bill, New Orleans police made what appears to be the state’s first arrest under that law Monday.

A drunk man who yelled racist and sexist slurs at officers after they arrested him for disorderly conduct and damaging property in the French Quarter

New Orleans police say Raul Delatoba called a black cop a “dumb ass black” and a female cop a “dumb ass girl,” which in their eyes, is a hate crime – punishable by an extra five years in prison.

That is, if New Orleans police are able to make the charge stick against the homeless man.

According to NOLO:

Raul Delatoba, 28, was booked Monday (Sept. 5) on charges of simple criminal damage to property, disturbing the peace and a felony-level hate crime, his arrest warrant says. During his arrest, but after he had broken the window, Delatoba is accused of using sexist and racial slurs against police officers, the document shows.

The regional director of the Anti-defamation League, an organization that trains law enforcement agencies to enforce hate crimes, said she does not believe a hate crime occurred in this incident, based on the circumstances described in Delatoba’s warrant.

Allison Padilla-Goodman, the group’s director, said she believes Delatoba is possibly the first person charged with a hate crime under the “blue lives matter” provision the Legislature recently added to the state’s hate crime law. The provision adds law enforcement occupation to the list of targeted victims for which a hate crime applies.

According to arrest documents, Delatoba was drunk and banging on a window at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon St. around 5:15 a.m. Monday, when a witness who heard the banging told him to stop. Delatoba’s warrant says he yelled at the witness, “calling him a n—–.”

That witness, a security guard who works at a nearby building’s mezzanine, along with a security supervisor for the Royal Sonesta, flagged down two Louisiana State Troopers who then escorted Delatoba to NOPD’s 8th District station, the warrant states. Once at the station, the warrant states, Delatoba began to verbally “attack members of the New Orleans Police Dept.” The warrant states Delatoba called one female officer a “dumb a– c—” and another officer a “dumb a– n—–.”

As explained by the regional director of the Anti-defamation League in the above excerpt, it takes a little more than just hurling racist and sexist epithets while drunk and angry to make it a hate crime.

But is anybody surprised they would waste no time in abusing this law?

UPDATE: The New Orleans Police Department issued a statement late Thursday that they had misapplied the law in this man’s arrest.

“After reviewing the initial facts of the case, it is clear that the responding officer incorrectly applied the law relative to a hate crime in this incident.”

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/08/louisiana-man-charged-with-police-hate-crime-after-verbally-attacking-cops-during-drunken-arrest/

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We are talking about a criminal gang here: they go around attacking and terrorizing people and then have their cronies arrest and intimidate the victims and witnesses. And this whole ordeal has lasted 10 years.

Sadly -- What you are saying is So Very True.

And Not so much a Gang as an Army.

By Agnostics own Low Estimate of 5-10% of Cops out of around 1,000,000
That's 50,000 to 100,000  
And He doesn't Reconize That as A Major Problem.,!!!

Says it all really.

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Cop With Broken Headlight Wrongly Stops Man to Cite Him for a Broken Headlight

Forest City, PA — A Forest City police officer was caught on camera in a glaring display of hypocrisy and abuse when he pulled over a man for an alleged headlight violation — only to be shown up as the one with the headlight out.

Brian Karwowski, the man who took the video, explained to the Free Thought Project that the police in his town are notorious for stopping people who drive nice vehicles to fish for evidence of drug dealing. Karwowski, who is a diesel mechanic, has a brand new Toyota truck which happened to make him a target.

In March of this year, Karwowski was targeted by a lying officer who claimed he had a headlight out. However, Karwowski happened to be returning home from the dealership after receiving his free service for his new vehicle, and he has the paperwork to prove it.

While servicing his vehicle, the dealership conducted a multipoint inspection, part of which included checking the headlights. Karwowski has the paperwork to prove that his truck, with only 8,000 miles on it, was in full working order prior to being stopped by this cop.

In fact, during the stop, as illustrated by the video, Karwowski showed that his headlights were fully functional.

However, as shown in the video below, the cop should have pulled himself over — as it was he who was in violation — not the innocent motorist.

Sadly enough, this was the second time this officer stopped Karwowski for the same fake violation.

Karwowski explained to the Free Thought Project that this officer had previously targeted him in a fishing expedition because he somehow thinks that driving a new vehicle is suspicious.

Karwowski says he filed a complaint with the department but noted that he doesn’t think anything will come of it as the rest of the town’s government is also corrupt.

Below is what “protecting and serving” looks like in a police state.

When police aren’t kidnapping, caging, and killing people for possessing substances deemed illegal by the state, in turn creating a criminal black market for them which drives up crime, they are out enforcing traffic laws.

Any number of arbitrary traffic infractions will lead to your extortion, arrest, imprisonment, or in the case of Philando Castile, death.

Policing for profit in the United States is the norm. And, although Karwowski wasn’t given a ticket, this flagrant abuse of power was used in an attempt to generate revenue by fishing for other supposed violations.
The total number of people who receive speeding tickets only, is 41,000,000 a year with an average cost of $152.00 each. That is 1 in every 5 licensed drivers in the US.

The total number of speeding tickets paid each year is $6,232,000,000, which breaks down to around $300,000 generated per police officer for speeding alone. Tack on seat belt violations, license plate lights, window tint, rolling stop signs, headlights, and expired state-mandated stickers and that number skyrockets.

Police departments need you to break traffic laws. Revenue generated from traffic tickets is not for your safety, it is necessary for the survival of police departments and county officials alike, as seen in the above example.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-cop/

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Once again the ruthless criminal gang trying to frame and destroy an innocent man.

Confession in 1989 abduction clears man under scrutiny

MINNEAPOLIS –  An elementary music teacher who has lived under a cloud of suspicion since 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped from his Minnesota driveway in 1989 can breathe easier now that another man has confessed to the boy's abduction and killing.

Dan Rassier was questioned about Jacob's abduction several times over the years and was subjected to lie detector tests and hypnosis. In 2010, authorities got search warrants to dig up his farm after they said he made suspicious statements to investigators and to Jacob's mother. He was then named a person of interest.

"I became toxic," Rassier said.

The case that haunted Minnesota for decades and devastated the community of St. Joseph, 80 miles northwest of Minneapolis, impacted Rassier's life in ways that he says are hard to explain.

On Tuesday, Danny Heinrich, 53, of Annandale, confessed in federal court that he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed Jacob. The confession "essentially cleared Dan Rassier as a person of interest in the Jacob Wetterling case," Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner said in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday.

Heinrich said he buried the boy's body in a field in Paynesville, where Jacob's remains were recovered last week.

Rassier, now 60, was just days shy of his 34th birthday and home alone at his family's farm when Jacob was abducted from the road at the end of Rassier's driveway on the night of Oct. 22, 1989. He was questioned that night and told authorities about a car that had turned around in his driveway. Later, he told them he might have seen Jacob inside.

Court documents made public Friday show why authorities had Rassier on their list of potential suspects. Although he was highly organized, he couldn't account for time surrounding Jacob's abduction. He acted strangely under hypnosis, crying when Jacob's abduction was mentioned. He also made comments that authorities found unusual — for example, pointing out that there were many places on his property where someone could hide a body.

In 2009, authorities asked Jacob's mother, Patty Wetterling, to talk to Rassier while wearing a recording device. According to the documents, Rassier told Wetterling he didn't know what happened to Jacob and insisted that the driver of the car he saw was the abductor. He also expressed a fear that if someone buried Jacob on his property, he'd be blamed.

Those statements and others were enough for the search warrant, a judge found.

After his name came out in 2010, parents at one school where he teaches got nervous, and an aide was put in his classroom. People stopped asking him to play the trumpet at weddings. His private music lessons virtually dried up. He lost some friends. All the while, Rassier, whom students call "Mr. BeBop," maintained he had nothing to do with Jacob's abduction.

Ann Reischl, a lifelong resident of St. Joseph Township and the town clerk, said she always knew Rassier couldn't have harmed Jacob, but she knows some people wondered about him.

"I just don't think any apology (from law enforcement) is going to be big enough," she said. "The continual interrogation, and asking Dan to admit it ... and he kept saying, 'No, I didn't do it.' It's got to be frustrating."

Rassier says because of the experience he no longer trusts law enforcement. The stress impacted his health, leaving him with headaches and causing him to miss work. As his relationships changed, he had to adapt and do more things on his own.

Yet he looks for the silver lining: Because of the scrutiny, he started helping his ailing father more. His dad died last year, two days after authorities announced Heinrich was a person of interest.

"I got to spend more time with my dad because of this happening," he said. "You try to look for something good out of it."

And while Heinrich's confession cleared Rassier, the case still haunts him. He feels for the Wetterlings, and now the truth has him wondering whether he could have done anything to stop the abduction.

"Would there have been anything that could've been done that could've saved him — if I would've done something differently?" he paused. "The only thing that could've saved him would've been me chasing the car."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/09/confession-in-18-abduction-clears-man-under-scrutiny.html

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Cop Who Savagely Beat Footbal Fan on Video, Used Unnecessary Force 56 Times, Injured 17 People

Pittsburgh, PA – Caught on video savagely beating a teenage football fan and falsifying arrest reports, a fired police sergeant has recently been accused by the district attorney of using more force than necessary at least 56 times. Establishing a pattern of violence and falsifying reports, Allegheny County prosecutors introduced the new evidence on Monday in preparation for the ex-cop’s upcoming state trial.

On November 28, 2015, a surveillance video captured off-duty police Sgt. Stephen Matakovich ordering 19-year-old Gabriel Despres to leave Heinz Field. In his arrest report, Matakovich falsely claimed that Despres adopted an “aggressive posture” and appeared ready to attack him.

But according to the video, Despres calmly stood with his arms down at his sides when Matakovich suddenly shoved the teen to the ground and began punching him in the head. Although Despres did not provoke the attack and did not appear to fight back, the off-duty cop repeatedly struck him while several other security guards watched.

Treated for a bloody nose, Despres eventually pleaded guilty to trespassing and public drunkenness. After watching the video of the incident, Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay fired Matakovich and opened an investigation that led to his state trial.

Charged with simple assault and official oppression in state court for attacking Despres, Matakovich also faces federal counts of deprivation of civil rights and falsification of a record. Even though the state charges are only misdemeanors that carry no more than two years in prison, Matakovich could be sentenced up to 30 years for the federal charges.
In an attempt to establish the ex-cop’s history of violence, county prosecutors introduced a motion on Monday detailing Matakovich’s use of unnecessary force against 56 other people and another case in which he assaulted a security guard then arrested him on false charges.

On December 28, 2014, Matakovich had been assigned to work as a plainclothes officer at Heinz Field. After an altercation broke out, Matakovich responded to the scene and tried to break up the fight.

Due to the fact that Matakovich was not in uniform, security guard Dylan Burton failed to recognize the cop before tapping him on the shoulder and questioning him. When Matakovich ignored his questions, Burton grabbed his shoulder a moment before the plainclothes cop turned around and began repeatedly punching Burton in the face. Although the security guard had committed no crime, Matakovich arrested Burton and charged him with aggravated assault.

Instead of going to trial, Burton ended up pleading guilty to a summary count of harassment. By showcasing Matakovich’s actions against Burton, county prosecutors will also be able to present a pattern of violence stemming from at least 56 other incidents since 2011 in which Matakovich claimed that a person had resisted.

Out of those 56 reports, 20 cases involved strikes to the face and head, with 17 of those resulting in injuries including broken noses, broken jaws, and loss of consciousness.

“In both cases, the defendant charged aggravated assault on a police officer when neither Despres nor Burton had come anywhere close to committing such an offense,” the motion said. “Furthermore, in an attempt to support this felony charge and justify his excessive force, in each case the defendant concocted a version of events to fit his narrative. Finally, in an attempt to clear himself of potential accusations of wrongdoing and put the incidents to rest, the defendant offered Despres and Burton pleas to summary harassment.”

According to the prosecution and video footage, Matakovich brutalized innocent people and arrested them under false charges in order to cover up his own violent provocations. Instead of succumbing to the proliferation of Big Brother watching us, the public continually finds ways to use those electronic eyes against corrupt members of our government.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-beat-teen-unnecessary-force-56-times/

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Of course nothing comes out of this dangerous cop's pocket. The sad thing is that this girl's medical bills in the future might exceed the settlement amount.

Innocent Family Gets $780K After Cop Tries to Kill Their Dog & Shoots Their 4yo Daughter Instead

Columbus, OH – Responding to the house of a woman requesting medical treatment, a Columbus police officer arrived at the front door and immediately shot her 4-year-old daughter when attempting to kill their dog. Fearing that a jury would award the family substantially more money, the Columbus City Council unanimously approved a $780,000 settlement with the innocent girl’s family on Monday.

After interviewing the victim of a hit-and-run incident on June 19, 2015, Officer Jonathan Thomas was returning to his patrol car when he heard a woman from another house calling for help. Andrea Ellis had cut her arm on a piece of broken glass, and her sister, Brandie Kelly, called 911 to request an ambulance. While Kelly was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, she noticed Officer Thomas outside and called out to him for medical assistance.

Arriving at Ellis’ front door, Thomas suddenly pulled out his gun when he noticed the family dog approaching him. Although the pet did not attack Thomas, the officer abruptly opened fire and missed.

Instead of gunning down the dog, Thomas had mistakenly shot Ellis’ 4-year-old daughter, Ava Ellis, in the thigh.

While the paramedics began treating her gunshot wound, their daughter Ava reportedly asked, “Mommy, am I gonna die?”

“It hit her pretty much square in the middle of her leg and went through and broke the bone. She had to have a plate and screws to help pin the bone in place,” Ava’s father, Brad Ellis, told ABC6. “Emotionally, mentally she has nightmares. You could see it affects her now and again. I pray with her being young it will fade out.”

According to City Attorney Richard Pfeiffer Jr., Ava was hospitalized for nine days while accruing more than $250,000 in medical bills. Ava will also require future surgeries to remove a plate and screws in her right leg.

Neither Thomas nor the dog suffered any injuries.

Instead of firing Thomas or arresting him for negligently shooting an innocent child, police supervisors merely recommended a three-day suspension and retraining. Thomas is disputing the decision, claiming that he fired at the pet in self-defense even though the dog never attacked him.

Seeking $1.6 million in damages, Ava’s family agreed to settle their lawsuit on Monday for $780,000. Despite the fact that Thomas almost killed a 4-year-old girl, the taxpayers will once again be held financially responsible for another cop’s cowardly mistake.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/780k-settlement-cop-shoots-4yo-daughter/

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Hidden Cameras Catch Cops in Illegal Smash and Grab Raid on Legal Pot Shop

Costa Mesa, CA – The Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) is trying to pull a fast one after a lawsuit was filed against it for the illegal raid of a medical cannabis dispensary. Knowing they have little chance in state court to defend their actions, which were caught on hidden cameras, the CMPD is attempting to move the case to federal court because cannabis is prohibited under federal law.

In January, cops busted into the Costa Mesa Collective in militaristic fashion, pointing guns at customers and telling them to get on the ground. They immediately began removing surveillance equipment, but didn’t know about the four hidden cameras which caught them damaging store property, interrogating customers and seizing cannabis, money, confidential patient records and other property.

These seizures were done with no legal justification, as police Chief Robert Sharpnack said they had obtained an inspection warrant, “which is used to enter a premises to investigate whether it is complying with building, fire, zoning and civil codes.”

According to the Orange County Register:

“If a business refuses access, a city can obtain an inspection warrant and seek a judge’s permission to make forcible entry, but investigators can’t seize evidence for a criminal case, said Jen McGrath, another attorney representing Costa Mesa Collective.”

But there’s more. The OC Register has not been able to find any type of warrant for the operation, and Chief Sharpnack has refused to provide a copy of the supposed warrant used to carry out the raid.

Even if such an inspection warrant exists, it does not allow for the seizure of cash, assets and medical records that was recorded by the hidden cameras.

Cops involved in the raid, believing they had removed all video recorders in the store, proceeded to violate the law and the constitutional rights of people inside the store.
Video shows one officer interrogating a female in a separate room, attempting to get her to admit to a crime as she repeatedly says she wants an attorney.

“Were you being a lookout outside? Were you a lookout? Were you asked to look out for people?” said the unidentified officer. As she hesitates, he says, “…you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to…”

The subject then says, “Oh, ok, that means you can just speak to my lawyer then.”

But the cop continues prodding her, saying, “If you’re the lookout, then that means you’re an employee here. You’re helping these people out. Unless you care to tell me what your involvement is.”

Five people were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and they spent four days in the county jail before being released with no charges.

Two hours of hidden camera footage was provided to the OC Register by the attorney representing Costa Mesa Collective, Mathew Pappas. Footage shows a cop breaking the ceiling open in the room and other cops looting the place for cash, including the tip jar.

The same cop who interrogated the female subject is heard telling another subject, “The reason why we’re here is because we’re conducting an inspection.”

But the hidden cameras clearly show this is not just an inspection.

In the main room of the dispensary, other cops are taunting a customer laying on the floor.

“Don’t be dumb, dude. Don’t tell me, dah, dah.”

Patient: “You asked if I ever got arrested.”

Officer: “I’m just asking a simple question. You ever been arrested before for anything? It’s a yes or no question. It’s not hard. I’m not interrogating you. Just asking if you had a…”

Patient: “Then let me talk to my lawyer.”

Officer: “That’s a pretty libertarian thing to say.”

Officer 2: “Who’s your lawyer? Call him right now. Phone is right here.” (Tries to hand a phone to the customer) “You don’t have a lawyer dude. I love when people say that. Who’s your lawyer? We’ll call him up.”

They can later be heard making jokes about the fact that cannabis is used as medicine, with one cop pretending to be the salesperson and another cop the customer.

“Looks like you’re gonna be busy counting money,” one cop says as he hands the loot to another cop.

It’s no wonder that attorneys for the CMPD filed a motion to move the case from state to federal court, which is an attempt to dodge the fact that their actions – unknowingly recorded by hidden cameras – violated the law and constitutional rights.

“Costa Mesa’s effort to move the case to federal court is meant to prevent any recovery for their illegal actions because marijuana is prohibited under federal law,” Pappas said. “However, the lawsuit filed is based on state law in an area that should be decided by state courts.”

…The lawsuit filed last month in Orange County Superior Court seeks unspecified damages and the return of marijuana, money, confidential patient records and other property seized Jan. 27 at the now-closed Costa Mesa Collective on Harbor Boulevard.”

The footage provides a rare glimpse into the modus operandi of law enforcement who feel they can get away with anything in their vendetta against peaceful people providing medical products. The Costa Mesa Collective was clearly a target for these cops, but the raid may turn out to be one of their biggest mistakes.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/hidden-cameras-cops-raid-pot/

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So now the criminals are in the business of executing animals and demanding a ransom for the carcasses...

Idaho Cop Murders Dog In Own Yard, Demands Cash from Owner for Remains

An Idaho cop murdered a dog in its own front yard while serving an arrest warrant on a compliant citizen after officers took advantage of a door left ajar.

The arrest warrant turned into a death warrant for the beloved family pet named Targaryan.

Now Caldwell police are threatening to charge an innocent woman with “having a vicious animal at large.”

And they sent her a $200 bill before they’ll release the remains of her deceased beloved pet dog.

But the body camera videos released today show a very different story.

After the August 18 incident, Caldwell police told the local news that the dog “lunged” at the officers but the video reveals an officer who is apparently afraid of dogs who fires his gun after his partner seemed to have no issues with the mixed-breed 85-pound dog who barked but did not charge or lunge.

Alinah Stelly’s sister was wanted on a warrant and the Caldwell Police knocked on her door to serve it, but they didn’t alert the young woman who was drying her hair with a maroon towel as she casually chatted with them for a few seconds to the real reason for visiting her townhouse.

They had an arrest warrant for Stelly’s 31-year-old sister on a probation violation.

“I’m looking for Crystal, Crystal Holden,” said the Idaho cop.

It was a subterfuge on the part of the officer, but one that they are legally allowed to use when serving an arrest warrant.

“What is this for?” asked Stelly.

“I’ve just got to talk with her… for some follow up,” replied the Caldwell police officer.

The 20-year-old Stelly dutifully went upstairs to get her sister, and accidentally left her front door slightly ajar

That’s when the Caldwell police officer quite literally crossed the line from acceptable to probably unconstitutional policing.

He crossed the threshold of Alinah Stelly’s private residence to push the front door wide open so he could visually search her residence.

An arrest warrant is not a search warrant

Moments later, Targaryan, the 85-pound German Shepherd and Pitbull mixed breed dog trotted downstairs and started barking, he faced a wide open front door in his own yard.

The nearest Caldwell cop wisely pulled out a rather large baton, and held it at nose height for the barking dog, which ran up to the cop, and then continued to move to his left while barking.

That’s when the second officer on the scene lost his cool.

Targaryan the dog came near him, while barking.

The gruesome end result nearly took off the foot of the officer, since the dog was sniffing the cop, as most dogs do when strangers visit their homes. According to the Statesman:

Later, as the officer who shot the dog is looking for the shell casing, he can be heard telling another officer, “I was almost shooting my own damn feet, that thing was right at me. Scared the crap out of me.”

After seeing the video, Stelly, who said she is considering filing a lawsuit, believes her dog wouldn’t have been shot if the first officer hadn’t pushed the door open. “I would have had more control of him and put him in the kennel,” she said.

But Stelly couldn’t have guessed that police would open the front door to her home so they could conduct a visual search of her apartment.

Nor should she have had to.

The officer used terrible judgement in testing the boundaries of constitutional policing, and now his department will likely face a lawsuit over his partner’s dog murdering ways.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/16/idaho-cop-murders-dog-routine-call-nearly-shoots-partner/

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Wow.

Grandmother files $5M suit after Florida jail puts her in an all-male cell
By Rebekah Sager
Published September 15, 2016
Fox News Latino

When Fiordaliza Pichardo, an attorney and city councilwoman from Bonao in the Dominican Republic, was detained at the Miami International Airport en route to see the birth of her first grandson on an old New York warrant, she never imagined she would end up in a Miami jail for 10 hours surrounded by at least 40 male inmates.

On Thursday Pichardo’s attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the Miami-Dade Corrections Department seeking $5 million in damages and an effort to repair her reputation.

Despite the fact that Pichardo, 50, has been married to her husband for 32 years, has three children, and is also a grandmother, a nurse employed by Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, examined her and determined that she exhibited “non-traditional male characteristics and male reproductive organs,” and placed Pichardo in an all-male jail cell.

According to the suit, as a correctional officer was placing her in the cell, he said to her in Spanish, “Suerte si te veo viva manaña.” (You’ll be lucky if I see you alive tomorrow.”)

Her attorney, David M. Kubiliun told Fox News Latino that correctional staff asked her repeatedly if she’d had a sex change, and every time she answered no emphatically.

Pichardo reports being sexually harassed and tormented during her 10-hour stay in the jail and fearing she’d be raped or worse. At one point she urinated on herself to avoid using the toilet in front of the men.

Her family wasn’t able to find her for hours. Once they discovered she’d been placed in the male cell, the family told guards she was not a man.

Pichardo’s lawsuit claims she has suffered continued physical and psychological damage from the incident, and she has been under the care of a psychiatrist, affecting her personal and professional life. Since the incident she has neglected to seek re-election to the Bonao city council for fear of further humiliation. 

Pichardo was eventually extradited to New York to settle the 1988 warrant, which she believed had been resolved, and returned to the Dominican Republic.

“Back at home they’re teasing her children, saying their mother has a penis," Kubiliun told FNL. "She was an elected official and very well-respected. I can’t imagine this happening to a woman.”

The Miami-Dade Department of Corrections told Fox News Latino that they don’t comment on pending litigation.

“The lady was wronged," her attorney said. "Why or how this could have happened is anyone’s idea. No one can explain it. We think they made a big mistake and then tried to cover it up.”

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/09/15/woman-files-5m-suit-after-jail-reassigns-her-gender-to-male-puts-her-in-all/

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Mafia don ordering his goons to rough up people. Why doesn't this constitute a criminal organization?

Louisiana Sheriff Faces More Charges for Ordering Deputies to Beat Inmates

Iberia Louisiana Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal, Lt. Colonel Gerald Savoy and former Captain Mark Fredrick were named in a second superseding indictment handed down today by the United States Western District Court in Lafayette.

Ackal was originally indicted in March on civil rights violations related to the beating of five inmates in the chapel of the parish jail.  Another indictment was also handed down in June for other civil rights charges related to the beating of a prisoner in retaliation for the assault of one of Ackal’s relatives.

In June, after the first superseding indictment against him, Ackal defiantly told a KLFY reporter the following:

“What they have cannot be substantiated. It’s bull as far as I’m concerned. I’m very disgusted and aggravated that this is continuing and continuing. There still running grand jury which is costing the taxpayers quite a bit of money. But, let’s see if they can come up with anything else.”

But it looks like investigators and the grand jury did come up with something else. The indictment includes new allegations that Ackal instructed his employees and supervisors to “work over” anyone who “sassed or spit” on them, among other things.

According to the indictment:

“Ackal further directed IPSO employees and supervisors during various staff meetings that if they ‘worked over’ a person, hey should charge the person with resisting arrest. Ackal instructed senior IPSO officials involved in Internal Affairs (IA) that, if a use of force complaint came in and the paperwork indicated that the subject ‘resisted arrest,’ the IA official should find the complaint unfounded.”

 Ackal’s directives may not have sat well with internal affairs investigators after a November 2008 altercation between three drunk off -duty narcotics agents that encountered two African American men and violently assaulted them. An Iberia Parish deputy responded to the incident and listed the agents as suspects of the assault in the report he filed.

The indictment alleges that Ackal then directed a “high-ranking official” to delete the report. He didn’t stop there though. In early 2009 Ackal also directed all of the internal affairs files to be destroyed to avoid them becoming public and in March of that same year he disbanded the internal affairs unit altogether.

The allegations don’t stop there. The indictment also mentions another incident between Savoy and a suspect who assaulted a deputy during an earlier arrest. Savoy is said to have driven the suspect to a remote location, forced him out of the car to kneel on the ground. The suspect was forced to hold one of Savoy’s bullets in his mouth before the deputy put his gun in the suspect’s mouth and threatened to kill him for assaulting the deputy.

Nine former deputies have already pleaded guilty to reduced charges in exchange for their testimony against Ackal, Savoy, and Mark Fredrick. The trial is set to start on October 31 in Shreveport.

You can read the new indictment here.

https://www.scribd.com/document/324260400/Louis-Ackal-Superceding-Indictmnet-2

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/16/louisiana-sheriff-faces-more-charges-for-ordering-deputies-to-beat-inmates/

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The child must have assumed a "combative stance" and the brave cop was in dire fear for his life.

Horrifying — School Cop Handcuffs 7yo Child Shoves Him Around — For Crying After Being Bullied

Kansas City, MO — The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a 7-year-old boy who was a victim of unnecessary and cruel punishment at the hands of a school cop. Kaylb Wiley Primm, who is now 9, was yanked out of class, forced into handcuffs and shoved down the hall — for crying.

Children cry, it is what they do and Kaylb is no different. After he’d been bullied, Kaylb started crying just as the officer was walking by the classroom. Instead of allowing the teacher to simply calm Kaylb down, this hero public servant yanked the child out into the hallway. He then handcuffed him and dragged him to the principal’s office where he’d sit for 15 minutes in handcuffs waiting on his mother.

According to the police officer’s account, which sounds like any number of justifications for police violence, the child had been “out of control in his classroom and refused to follow my directions.”

Apparently unable to calm down a 3′ 10″ 45 lb child, this officer violated Kaylb’s right to be free from unreasonable seizures and excessive force, according to the lawsuit.

“Our children need trained and concerned figures in schools that know how to intervene. It’s not okay to abuse your authority and handcuff kids as a means of discipline,” said Tomesha Primm, Kalyb’s mother. “As a parent, I want to make sure no other child – in Kansas City or anywhere else in the country – experiences what my son did.”

When she got to school, Primm was horrified, as any parent would be, when she saw her little boy in handcuffs after being assaulted by a police officer.

“I couldn’t believe it because I couldn’t imagine they were allowed to do anything like that, or I would never have put him in there,” said Primm. “He knew he didn’t do anything wrong. He didn’t know if the man was going to take him to jail.”

“This child committed no crime, threatened no one, and posed no danger to anyone,” said ACLU of Missouri Legal Director Tony Rothert. “Gratuitously handcuffing children is cowardly and violates the constitution.”
After this incident, Kalyb was too scared to return to school, so Primm made the wise decision to pull him from the school as she was concerned for his safety. She homeschooled her son for the next two years.
According to the ACLU, this incident also violated state policy, which says that the use of restraints for elementary and secondary students should be used only in extreme circumstances or emergencies.

However, the police were quick to defend the actions of their officer and released a statement noting how the Kansas City Police Department can apparently assault children as part of their job.

“Contrary to reports that KCPS security officers violated certain [Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education] regulations, all KCPS officers are commissioned by the Kansas City Police Department in accordance with state law. This important distinction alters the parameters of their capacity to act in certain situations. Notwithstanding the expanded scope of their authority, the school system’s present administration is taking numerous steps to ensure that our security officers are focused on de-escalation, conflict resolution, trauma intervention and relationship building.”

“What happened to this child is simply wrong,” said ACLU of Missouri Executive Director Jeffrey Mittman. “This is a call to action for all of us to stop the unnecessary punishment that happens to young boys of color all across our nation – and particularly in Missouri.”

The lawsuit, filed last week in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, seeks to get better training for school police officers and asks for compensatory damages.

Handcuffs for 7-year-old child for crying shows that the mere act of being a child is now criminalized.

As the Free Thought Project previously reported, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Education and published by NBC News, in the 2011-2012 school year, teachers called the cops on students a total of 31,961 times in the state of California alone, leading to 6,341 arrests.

With 175 school days lasting eight hours each, that means that every 2.6 seconds a cop is called!

At one California school district, in particular, East Side Union High School District in San Jose, police were called on students 1,745 times during the 2011-2012 school year. This one school called the police on students more than ten times a day!

In May, we reported on the video showing a San Antonio Independent School District police officer body slam a 12-year-old girl. In February, the Free Thought Project brought you the story of the Baltimore School cop who was seen beating a student who had done nothing wrong.

In fact, recent videos have revealed a myriad of school cops attacking unarmed students. In December, Officer Rigo Valles was cleared of any wrongdoing after grabbing a student by the neck and slamming him to the floor. In October, Richland County Deputy Ben Fields was fired after students recorded him flipping over a girl’s desk and dragging her across the floor. Oklahoma City Master Sgt. Thomas Jaha was charged with assault and battery in October as well, after repeatedly punching a student in the face for not having a hall pass.

In November, prosecutors agreed to dismiss assault charges against Louisville Metro Police Officer Jonathan Hardin for punching a student in the face if the former officer completes anger management classes. Hardin still faces wanton endangerment, official misconduct, and assault charges for choking another student unconscious in a separate incident five days later. In separate incidents earlier this year, school cops have also been caught attacking an autistic boy, body-slamming a child, and raping nearly two dozen students.

And these are the ones the public knows about. How many more incidents, just like this one, go unreported and unpunished?

Instead of attempting to solve a problem with logic and reason, schools are now taking the easy road and turning to the barrel of a gun to force compliance. This is not only dangerous and lazy, but entirely unnecessary.

A study of more than 185,000 private and public school users from 2010 to 2014 revealed that violence is largely a problem in the public school sector. Private schools, unlike public schools, have an incentive to create a safe and caring environment for their students, so they take a far more proactive approach to prevent bullying — and it works.

Without using police force, private schools are able to reduce bullying and violence to levels far below that of public schools. Imagine that.

What this data illustrates is the societal dependence on the state to solve matters that should be handled without government. Being dependent upon the state to solve one’s problems is a de facto dependency upon violence.

“The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If you truly want a glimpse into the horrid effects of the police state on all school children, take a scroll through our archives, at this link.

Until people wake up to the reality of relying on a system of violence to maintain “order,” we can expect this problem to get worse.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/horrifying-7yo-forced-handcuffs-crying/

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It seems like the police chief did his job properly.

Watch: Louisiana Cop Punch, Kick And Drag Compliant Suspect, Landing him in Jail

A Louisiana cop was caught on a store surveillance camera in April kicking, punching and dragging a handcuffed suspect who appeared to offer no resistance.

Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson fired Robert Wallow Thursday just before charging him with simple battery and malfeasance in office on Friday. Wallow was booked into the Jefferson Parish Jail.

The officer was responding to a burglary call at a local gas station when Carlos Gustavo Pineda, 21, exited the station wearing a black ski mask. Wallow took Pineda into custody but not before trowing him on the ground and delivering three hard blows to his head and neck.

After Pineda was placed in handcuffs, Wallow is seen kicking him several times while another officer looks on and does nothing.

As reported by NOLA.com

Wallow was placed on administrative leave on Aug. 26. The department terminated him Thursday.

“We certainly have acted swiftly upon discovering this information,” Lawson said.

At least one other officer has been placed on administrative leave, Lawson said, though he did not name the officer.

Lawson is also investigating why it took so long for police administration to learn of the excessive force allegation in light of an internal investigation opened by Wallow’s supervisors in the Field Operations Bureau on April 25.  

“It all had been documented, it just did not move as quickly as it should have,” Lawson said.

And because the investigation didn’t move as quickly as it should have the chief has opened an internal investigation into how the original investigation was handled.

Pineda pleaded guilty to five counts of simple burglary and was sentenced to probation.

Wallow faces five-and-a-half years in jail and fines of up to $6,000.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/17/watch-louisiana-cop-punch-kick-and-drag-compliant-suspect-landing-him-in-jail/

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Entire Police Department Just ‘Accidentally’ Deleted Massive Chunk of Body Camera Video

Oakland, CA — Body cameras should hold police accountable when questions about excessive force are raised — or they would, unless you’re the Oakland Police, who managed to delete a quarter of five years of footage the department had stored during a software upgrade two years ago.

Considering Oakland had been one of the first departments in the country to outfit officers with body cams beginning in 2009, the quantity of irretrievable footage constitutes a tremendous loss.
Sgt. David Burke revealed the astonished flub as he testified Tuesday in the trial of two men accused of murdering Judy Salamon in 2013. Though body cam footage represented only a minor facet of that case, the revelation nonetheless evidences pitfalls common with fledgling technology.

“Nothing should have ever been lost from the system,” Burke told the court, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “The settings were set to never delete.”
However, human error — not the technology, itself — was responsible for the vanishing the recordings.

Deputy District Attorney Butch Ford, prosecutor in the Salamon murder trial, told the court information technology workers attempting an upgrade of the police department’s computer system — that stores ‘dozens of terabytes of the body-worn camera footage’ — checked the wrong box.

Instead of hitting “preserve everything,” Ford explained, the hapless workers chose only “preserve.”

The Chronicle reports:

“A month later, Burke said, officers realized there was a problem when they searched for a video and couldn’t view it. Metadata revealed that 25 percent of all videos that had been captured since the start of the body-camera program in 2009 were wiped out. A backup system had been purchased but hadn’t been set up, Burke said.”

Oops.

Fortunately, some footage escaped the accidental mass deletion: anything specifically marked as evidence and footage also stored on an external hard drive. Ford insisted the inept expunging hadn’t significantly affected any cases, though how the department discovered the mistake — searching for a specific tape — would seem to show otherwise.

In fact, having the history of an officer’s behavior as captured by body cam could be imperative to determining guilt or innocence if allegations of misconduct or excessive force occur in the future.

Oakland, a trailblazer in police body camera policy, didn’t necessarily score so well in an August report on such policies in departments nationwide, as RT reported.
In fact, Oakland Police were dinged for — you guessed it — footage retainment policy.

Although activists and advocates have zeroed in on the need for federal law requiring the use of body-worn cameras to reduce police violence, a surprising study published in August found that might not be such a good idea.

Researchers with Temple University’s Fox School of Business wrote:

“Surprisingly, we found that the use of wearable video cameras is associated with a 3.64% increase in shooting-deaths of civilians by police. We explain that video recordings collected during a violent encounter with a civilian can be used in favor of a police officer as evidence that justifies the shooting. Aware of this evidence, the officer may become less reluctant to engage in the use of deadly force.”

On May 1, 2015, the Justice Department announced $20 million would be expedited as part of President Obama’s three-year, $75 million plan to outfit 50,000 officers with body cameras.
Whether or not violence increases when police use the wearable technology, body cams are becoming commonplace everywhere in the United States.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-delete-body-camera-video/

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“Put Your Hands Up” — BOOM — Cop Gave Man Less than a Second to Comply Before Killing Him

Tustin, CA — Tustin Police Officer Osvaldo Villarreal didn’t give 31-year-old Benny Herrera more than a second before shooting him dead, an appeals court asserted in refusing to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit Friday — but the undoubtedly disturbing dash cam video remains under court seal.

“Less than a second elapsed between Villarreal commanding Herrera to take his hand from his pocket and Villarreal shooting him,” the Los Angeles Times quoted the court’s statement. “Just as Herrera’s hand came out of his pocket, Villarreal fired two shots in rapid succession … The command and the shots were almost simultaneous.”

Because he acted so swiftly, a three-judge panel for the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco found Villarreal could not have reasonably feared for his life — a finding which directly contradicts a 2013 determination by the Orange County district attorney’s office claiming Herrera had ignored the officer’s demands to raise his hands.

Villarreal encountered Herrera as he responded to a 911 call made by the man’s ex-girlfriend on December 17, 2011. Hilda Ramirez told the dispatcher Herrera, who had never been violent before, stole her cellphone and hit her in the head, but added he did not have a weapon.

Villarreal and Officer Brian Miali were told Herrera might have a traffic warrant and that he was on parole for drug charges — two obviously nonviolent offenses — but when they approached the man in the street, Villarreal nearly immediately opened fire.

In deposition, the officer testified he believed Herrera had a weapon in his sweatshirt pocket — despite having received the information the man was unarmed. Both officers, according to Courthouse News Service, admitted they never saw anything in Herrera’s hands. A cellphone was later found in the man’s pocket.

“It has long been clear that ‘[a] police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead,” Circuit Judge William Fletcher wrote for the panel, as cited by CNS.
“[T]he traffic warrant and drug possession conviction were relatively minor crimes, neither of which entailed violence or gun possession,” Fletcher continued, “and the dispatcher’s information included a statement that Herrera was not known to be armed.

“Villarreal commanded Herrera to take his hand out of his pocket immediately upon driving up beside him. Villarreal then shot Herrera just as he was taking his hand out of his pocket. Less than a second elapsed between Villarreal commanding Herrera to take his hand from his pocket and Villarreal shooting him.”

In other words, the fatal shooting is yet another case of a cop so hell bent on using deadly force, Herrera most likely was in the act of complying when Villarreal gunned him down.
Villarreal had thus far claimed qualified immunity should prevent the civil rights lawsuit filed in 2012 by Herrera’s family and four children — all under the age of seven — from proceeding.

Disturbingly, the Orange County district attorney’s seven-page review of the fatal shooting, according to the Times, did not cite or mention the existence of perhaps the most crucial evidence: dash cam video — but appeared to rely almost solely on Villarreal’s statements about the incident.

Further, “Sonia Balleste, the senior deputy district attorney who wrote the review, said Friday she didn’t immediately recall the case or why the review didn’t mention the video but that she was sure she ‘looked at all the evidence that was available,’” wrote the Times.

“As a general practice it wasn’t my custom and habit to write down everything I looked at,” Balleste dismissively stated, adding the review procedure has since been reformed for thoroughness.

Tustin City Attorney David Kendig confirmed the D.A. had received the critical video, but had no explanation for why it hadn’t been cited in the review.
Attorney for Herrera’s family, Dale Galipo, justifiably called that investigation a “farce.”

“Are they not getting all the information from the agency? Did they not get the video, or are they just ignoring facts that support that the shooting was excessive?” Galipo queried. “The whole process is flawed. It really is a joke.”

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/52066-2/

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Award-Winning Oklahoma Cop Shoots Man with Hands in the Air, then Claims he was Not Complying

Oklahoma police initially said Terence Crutcher would not comply, which is why he had to die, never mind the fact that his only crime was driving a car that had stalled in the middle of the street, which, of course, is not a crime.

But police videos released today shows he was complying when he was shot dead on Friday, raising both arms in the air after police had pulled up to his stalled vehicle.

The videos, one from a dash cam, the other from a police helicopter, appear to show one Tulsa police officer tasering him, prompting another Tulsa cop to shoot him. Not that the videos show he even deserved to be tasered, but perhaps it had something to do with “officer safety.”

Tulsa police have not explained why they demanded he place his hands in the air after responding to the stalled car, but we imagine it also has something to do with officer safety, that notion where every possible threat must be neutralized – even if there is no obvious threat – before police can breathe easy.

It’s all part of their training. That assurance that they can make it home to their families even if it means keeping somebody else from doing the same.

But Crutcher had no gun. And the video shows he was no threat.

And to the dismay of the Tulsa Police Department, he didn’t even have much of a criminal record, pleading no contest back in 1996 to carrying a concealed weapon and resisting an officer, receiving a suspended six-month sentence for those charges, according to the Associated Press.

Crutcher was just a 40-year-old father of four that had the misfortune of breaking down on a Tulsa street after attending a music appreciation class at a local college; a man who sang in his local church choir and whose last traffic infraction was in 2005.

But he was black. And he was heavyset. So even if he was complying with police who found it suspicious that his car would break down on a public street – to the point where they had to dispatch a helicopter – he was still deemed a threat.

That is evident from the helicopter video that shows Crutcher walking back to his car as three cops hold him at gunpoint.

“That looks like a bad dude, too,” one cop in the air says. “Can be on something.”

And even after he was shot dead, three officers appeared to still be fearing for their lives as they slowly walked backwards from the bleeding body, clutching each other with their guns drawn as if Crutcher’s lifeless body could prop itself up at any moment and come after them.

It took more than a minute after shooting Crutcher that they gathered their courage to walk back and handcuff the body, also in the name of officer safety.

And it was only then that they began to act like they were trying to save his life, but by then, it was pointless. He was dead.

And now the United States Department of Justice is investigating.

THE AWARD-WINNING COPS WHO FEARED FOR THEIR LIVES

The cop who shot him is Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby, who has been with the department since 2011. Before that, she worked for the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office since 2007.

The cop who tasered him, Tyler Turnbough, has been with the department since 2009.

Both Shelby and Turnbough are award-winning officers, which doesn’t mean much considering police departments hand out awards out to every officer at one point or another, but it does sound good to the police-adoring public, especially those that have the fortune of not being threatened at gunpoint for having a car stall on them.

Here is how the Associated Press reported the shooting on Saturday after interviewing a Tulsa police spokesperson:

A police officer shot and killed a black man who ignored repeated requests to put up his hands before reaching into an SUV that was stalled in the middle of a street, the police department said.

Terrence Crutcher, 40 years old, died in the hospital after he was shot by the officer around 8 p.m. local time Friday, police said.

Police spokeswoman Jeanne MacKenzie earlier told reporters that two officers were walking toward the stalled SUV when Mr. Crutcher approached them from the side of the road.

“He refused to follow commands given by the officers,” Ms. MacKenzie said. “They continued to talk to him, he continued not to listen and follow any commands. As they got closer to the vehicle, he reached inside the vehicle and at that time there was a Taser deployment and a short time later there was one shot fired.”

The video contradicts the claim that he “ignored repeated requests to put his hands in the air.”

And while the videos released do not show include the segment where they first pulled up, let’s just say that perhaps it’s true that he “approached them from the side of the road” because maybe he did not feel like remaining in the middle of the street for safety reasons.

But, of course, one must never approach a police officer unless granted permission because that makes them fear for their lives.

However, both videos begin with Crutcher walking towards his car with his hands in the air as cops train their guns on him, so it appears that he was following their orders after committing the faux pas of walking up to them without permission.

We will probably never know what words were exchanged between the cops and Crutcher because even though the Tulsa Police Department was supposed to receive a $600,000 match grant last year for body cameras, they say none of the officers were wearing a camera that day.

So despite the two videos that show he did nothing to deserve to be shot and killed, we can imagine the scenario they will now create to justify the killing.

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/19/award-winning-oklahoma-cop-shoots-man-with-hands-in-the-air-then-claims-he-was-not-complying/

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Cops investigating themselves? Or they just don't investigate at all.

San Diego Cop who Lied About Shooting Unarmed Homeless Man, then Cleared, was Never Interviewed by Internal Affairs

A San Diego cop who was allowed to change his story after he watched surveillance footage that captured him fatally shooting an unarmed, mentally ill homeless man in an alley was never interviewed by internal affairs investigators.

Nor did the California cop have to answer to any superior officers in his department because none of them were interested in investigating the shooting.

He did speak with homicide detectives five days after the shooting, but they were only investigating whether he broke any law. Internal affairs would have determined if he had violated departmental policy.

But even giving conflicting statements to homicide detectives did not arouse any interest from internal affairs to conduct their own investigation.

Not even his claim that his body cam was turned off, which is a violation of departmental policy, was enough to launch an internal affairs investigation.

In December of 2015, PINAC’s Maya Shaffer reported about video evidence showing an interview with homicide detectives just hours after San Diego cop Neal Browder shot Fridoon Rawshan Nehad dead in an alley.

That footage reveals Browder telling investigators he didn’t see any weapons on Nehad when he shot him dead in the alley.

But after viewing the surveillance his shooting, days later, and apparently consulting an attorney, Browder changed his story saying, “He was going to stab me. There’s no doubt in my mind that he was going to stab me.”

Nehan was holding a shiny pen.

The video actually shows Browder charging Nehad, while he appears alive, immediately after he shoots him.

On Sept 19 2016, The San Diego Union Tribune reported officer Browder was never questioned by internal affairs after interviewing with San Diego homicide detectives five days later.

In a deposition, reported about last month by the Voice of San Diego, Browder stated in a deposition that he knew up to 10 other cops who’d been involved in fatal shootings.

And none of them had been questioned by internal affairs before returning back to work.

Browder testified he was not disciplined over the shooting nor did any department official or any internal affairs investigator speak to him about his actions that night.

Officer Browder also stated he hadn’t been drug tested, and that nobody ever asked him to take a drug test.

Jeffrey Noble, the former Irvine deputy police chief and expert on police matters, said testing ideally should be a “routine part of any investigation when there is deadly use of force.” Other public employees are subjected to drug testing, especially when involved in fatalities.

This May, PINAC’s Carlos Miller reported that after Browder was cleared and put back on duty, he was involved in a shooting at an apartment while checking on a probationer.

A bullet from his gun was shot through a baby’s crib.

Luckily no baby was in the crib at the time, but after that incident, he was assigned to a desk job at the Field Training Office.

San Diego police also resisted making the video of last year’s shooting death public, saying it would put police at risk, but finally released it eight months later.

A newly released,  much clearer, higher-quality video of the shooting can be seen below.

Attorneys who filed a lawsuit for the Nehad family say officer Browder is a “repeat offender.” They requested all records for fatal and non-fatal shootings committed by San Diego cops for the past three years and argued it was to sh0w “the extent to which SDPD has or has not improved its policies and practices as to the investigation of police shootings and the discipline of those involved.”

The city contested the request, saying it would cost the city approximately $12,000 to assemble and redact confidential, private or legally privileged information from 15,000 documents, 403 compact discs and 217 DVDs.

Former Irvine deputy police chief Jeffrey Noble said the fact that internal affairs investigators never interviewed Browder separately from homicide investigators is troubling, because homicide investigators focus on whether the use of deadly force was criminal; internal affairs investigators focus on training and policy issues and whether or not they were followed.

“These investigations are very different,” Noble said. “It tells me the department is turning a blind eye to training and policy issues.”

Officer Browder’s body cam was turned off, which is against SDPD’s policy.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/20/san-diego-cop-who-lied-about-shooting-unarmed-homeless-man-then-cleared-was-never-interviewed-by-internal-affairs/