bet that happens more often than people would like to think it does. skip jail, it's the gator pit for him :D
they bulldozed the building and MELTED and BURIED the DOOR to the place the next day, so that nobody would ever be able to count the rounds fired INTO the waco complex.It's a double edged sword there.....had those people just come out fo the compound a couple of months earlier..........
It's a double edged sword there.....had those people just come out fo the compound a couple of months earlier..........
they bulldozed the building and MELTED and BURIED the DOOR to the place the next day, so that nobody would ever be able to count the rounds fired INTO the waco complex.that's not all, they also removed the portion of the concrete safe room that they blasted a hole in killing the remaining women and children that could have survived the fire otherwise. There's another documentary that goes through that in slow motion and shows the detonation separate the propane tank explosion. Pictures of the breach still exist but that they took the time to remove the breach area from any analysis says everything. When the went to do explosive analysis of the reinforced concrete safe room, the blast area was the only area missing.
lol. The CTs never end.this isn't really a nutty CT imo, but if you really want to call it that, you'll be calling out mostly conservative/right leaning people for it. back in the 80's they are the ones that raised the biggest questions, concerns and accusations. many I agree with and many put into rightwing funded documentaries. you should watch some of them, they're filled with testimony from both people involved and proffesionals who would know and or did know, cia, fbi etc.
lol. The CTs never end.
Every single time some whackos get corrected there's a conspiracy theory that turns them into martyrs.not sure I understand your point, who is the martyr in this? :-\
Waco was truly a disgusting act by the vile pigs in govt. Jack bootery at its worst.I'll have to remember that, call it "Jack Bootery" so people don't get their panties in a bunch ;D
Why do people get upset when we call them jack boots?well that's what I'm willing to call them when they are busting into some home with a full squad, shooting dogs and ruining lives over a little pot. But when they're saving someone from a psycho taking hostages, I don't call them that then. So there's a disconnect somewhere... You have all these states with masses of people trying to legalize pot. Even mothers forming groups to support it lol... That's probably because by now almost everyone knows someone or knows of someone that had their lives totally fucked over for smoking some fucking goddamned weed. how lame is that? People want them to go after the real criminals, not people just living their lives and blowing a little steam off with a bowl. The people have the power, it's time they start using it with the initiative power they have. Get what you want on the ballot and cram it down the department's throat
That's what most of these bitches are. Get any one of these punks alone wo a gun badge and ten of their buddies next to them and they aint swat.
Most of these agencies are nothing more than high paid street gangs.
well that's what I'm willing to call them when they are busting into some home with a full squad, shooting dogs and ruining lives over a little pot. But when they're saving someone from a psycho taking hostages, I don't call them that then. So there's a disconnect somewhere... You have all these states with masses of people trying to legalize pot. Even mothers forming groups to support it lol... That's probably because by now almost everyone knows someone or knows of someone that had their lives totally fucked over for smoking some fucking goddamned weed. how lame is that? People want them to go after the real criminals, not people just living their lives and blowing a little steam off with a bowl. The people have the power, it's time they start using it with the initiative power they have. Get what you want on the ballot and cram it down the department's throat
I would call it outright goddamned fucking retarded :D And I don't even smoke the shit. Beer man myself ;D But I doubt beer is any better than pot.
Couldn't agree more. It's a shame that a little bit of weed can fuck with a person for life.
this isn't really a nutty CT imo, but if you really want to call it that, you'll be calling out mostly conservative/right leaning people for it. back in the 80's they are the ones that raised the biggest questions, concerns and accusations. many I agree with and many put into rightwing funded documentaries. you should watch some of them, they're filled with testimony from both people involved and proffesionals who would know and or did know, cia, fbi etc.
they bulldozed the building and MELTED and BURIED the DOOR to the place the next day, so that nobody would ever be able to count the rounds fired INTO the waco complex.
The govt made outlandish claims to justify their actions and could have easily ended the situation by waiting it out. There was no justification for using the tank over there.And even that's a gross oversimplification of what and why, but I know what you mean. For those who have actually studied Waco, fucking balls it's hard to listen to jackasses just wave it off as a crazy CT... This is nothing remotely on the level of alien/ufo/reptilian shit etc...
This is an internet message board, so I will shoot my mouth off as much as I like. :)oh, aren't you special then ::)
So let me see if I understand this. Someone makes the ridiculous allegation that the federal government bulldozed the compound and melted and burried the door to cover up how many shots were fired into the building, and I'm supposed to disprove this? lol.
Uh . . . no.
No I did not watch the documentaries you posted.
oh, aren't you special then ::)
"No I did not watch the documentaries you posted"
Nothing much else needs to be said, you admit not giving enough of a shit to spend the time researching what happened. You don't care to listen to the people involved or the experts who brought valued testimony to the case.
By all means, shit on the right with this.
I dont know what the Waco "conspiracy" was ???
they bulldozed the building and MELTED and BURIED the DOOR to the place the next day, so that nobody would ever be able to count the rounds fired INTO the waco complex.
The worst is when they shoot those little dogs about 5-6 times for their own sick pleasure as I just cant figure out how a shitzu or a Russell Terrier or even a Lab, for that matter, could be a threat.
Looks legit to me. I don't have any problem with this one.
Come on skip. They did not have a warrant. The guy was probably thinking his place was being burglarized by people and screaming police.
These guys were armed to the teeth with helmets, assault rifles, kevlar vests etc.
Dude had a golf club.
Even if he did have drugs? So what? Its not like this was a hostage situation or thre was danger of imminent violnce to others.
I'm totally against the militarization of the police force.
Wonder why these "bravest" are not going after bloods, crips, ms-13, vatos loco, etc?
We all know why now don't we. Fucking pussies.
I thougfht the same thing. Was like a video game.
I think that guy had no idea what was going on.
They had a warrant, just not on them and didn't have to as it was no-knock. We know now he had a golf club, but the only thing the officers could see was a metal glint.
It's easy to sit back and play Monday morning quarterback. When you're the cop whose life is on the line, and you have a second to make a decision, it's completely different. Talk is easy.
We can agree that a lot of times the cops use way too much force, but in this case, I think they were justified (just going off the vid).
Wonder why these "bravest" are not going after bloods, crips, ms-13, vatos loco, etc?
We all know why now don't we. Fucking pussies.
I guess there is no comment from the morons that were all for this shit....
I agree with this. Cops had to make a split second decision.
Anything to support state authority, right Beach? ::)bb is pure neocon but doesn't even know what that means, what do you expect?
Just once I'm hoping for some dude like in the professional to take out a whole swat team when one of these bullshit no knock warrants go to the wrong house and terrorize some innocent family.great movie
Until that happens, these jackboots and bitches w badges will only get worse.
You're quickly becoming one of my favorites! Keep up the good work 333386!
What is funny is that people like Benny, mal, Blacken, et al attack me endlessly for attacking Obama. what they dont grasp is that obama is part of the police, tyranny, authoritarian police state, than anyone.
Because obama has darker skin than bush, these I D I O T S like benny, mal, blacken, straw, etc, think he has their interests at heart. They are suckers and dupes. People like Judge. Nap., RP, Celente, etc know the deal, yet because of racial alliegiance, the suckers still follow obama.
What is funny is that people like Benny, mal, Blacken, et al attack me endlessly for attacking Obama. what they dont grasp is that obama is part of the police, tyranny, authoritarian police state, than anyone.You get so convoluted when you try to tie shit to the left.
Because obama has darker skin than bush, these I D I O T S like benny, mal, blacken, straw, etc, think he has their interests at heart. They are suckers and dupes. People like Judge. Nap., RP, Celente, etc know the deal, yet because of racial alliegiance, the suckers still follow obama.
I've got an aunt that loved Obama, it boggles my mind. What's truly strange, is the worse Obama gets or the stranger his policy the more she supports him.
You get so convoluted when you try to tie shit to the left.
Just because you really want something to be doesn't make it so.
You should be more honest with yourself.
Anything to support state authority, right Beach? ::)
bb is pure neocon but doesn't even know what that means, what do you expect?
If you want to argue that the US is a police state, the biggest piece of evidence is the incarceration rate.
No one on Earth now or in history has put its people in prison like us. It really is out of control.
Teacher cleared of sex assault reveals his nightmare
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 5-15-11 | Katie Silver
A PE teacher falsely accused of molesting a 12-year-old schoolgirl has spoken of his pain at telling his children he was going to be arrested.
Sean Lanigan was pulled out of a class in Fairfax, Virginia, and told he was going to be arrested for allegedly carrying out the offences.
In reality his 'crimes' had been invented and the schoolgirl bore a grudge against him.
Despite being cleared of all the offences, the teacher’s $125,000 legal fees still haven’t been repaid by the state and he is struggling to get his life back.
The young girl claimed that the teacher had taken him into the gym and said he was going to ‘treat her like a Queen’ and briefly groped her.
This line, it turns out is a lyric from one or her favourite music bands, the Ataris.
He had told his ‘victim’ off for being abusive on the school bus and the girl apparently told her friends: ‘Mr Lanigan’s a jerk. I’m going to make him pay.’
When it came to trial, the jury took only 47 minutes to decide he was not guilty. Such a short deliberation in a child sex abuse case is extremely rare.
They described it as an ‘easy decision’ since ‘there was no evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
33 do you have inquest panels in NY for cases were cops are involved?
Like I said - I used to respect law enfocrcement and cops. No longer. I really consider them to be 99% pofs no different than the rude scum at the DMV.
I grew up with one asshole pofs thug who has 5 police brutality civil lawsuits against him for beating the piss out of people. it has cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements.
Guess what - the jerkoff was promoted to detective.
I have another friend who is a cop who has broken his hand five times on peoples faces, most of which were cuffed at the time. He was promoted to detective despite a ton of terrible crap he has done.
Its awful. Most people who dont know what goes on think its like Mayberry. Its not, most police departments are publicly financed street gangs and little else.
I certainly don't see them... Maybe once every year or so you might get a "good cop" story.
Cops don't protect shit... They don't stop crime... They just report on it.
I ask everyone who reads this to be honest with themselves and tell me a time when a cop actually HELPED you... I haven't got a SINGLE story and I'm 36 years old.
You guys?
You can find weekly stories about good cops too.
I certainly don't see them... Maybe once every year or so you might get a "good cop" story.
Cops don't protect shit... They don't stop crime... They just report on it.
I ask everyone who reads this to be honest with themselves and tell me a time when a cop actually HELPED you... I haven't got a SINGLE story and I'm 36 years old.
You guys?
???
Do they want a cookie for doing their job correctly?
Dupnik won't release more info about SWAT shooting of Tucson manI just watched this on the local news here. I have a dfeeling the cops are going to loose on this one.
Arizona Daily Star ^ | May 17, 2011 | Fernanda Echavarri
Posted on May 17, 2011 10:17:28 PM EDT by george76
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department will release no more information about the circumstances surrounding the killing of Jose Guerena during the serving of a search warrant by the department’s SWAT officers May 5 at his home.
Two weeks after the shooting the department has yet to disclose exactly what they were searching for in the Guerena home ...
...
On May 5, five members of the SWAT team fired 71 shots at Guerena while serving a search warrant at the 7100 block of South Redwater Drive. He was shot 60 times.
The 26-year-old former Marine was sleeping at about 9:30 a.m. after working the graveyard shift at Asarco’s Mission Mine when his wife woke him saying she heard noises outside and saw a man was at their window.
(Excerpt) Read more at azstarnet.com ...
Wait... You are saying that cops protect people? Who? They protected your CAR? That's what you have?
You think speaking at schools is "helping" people? Your view of how people are "helped" is what's small.
So you are saying that talking to kids and doing lectures and protecting your car in the event of a flat tire is helping people?
Hahahaha!!!
Hil-ar-ious.
BB - 99 percent of the ones I grew up w either were or later become thugs and power crazed psychos doing real bad stuff.
You gave one example actually... They watched your car for you.
I do not consider that "helping people" sorry... I can pay a valet attendant 20 bucks and he'll do that all night.
None of the other stuff you mentioned is actually helping people... It's not stopping crime what so ever.
I personally grew up with an know today in social settings a cop who have 5 police brutality cases against him. This guy is a roid freak and is worse than any gangster i have ever met, and what did the police department do for his service and hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements the taxpayers got stuck with?
They promoted him to detective.
I have another friend who is a cop who is even worse than him who made detective and who in no exaggeration is a one man crime spree all on to himself.
Their attitude towards the public ? Treat taxpayers and citizens like utter garbage and dirt.
Then you are the only person so far in this thread.
Pretty much the minority so far.
Well, we can sit around and hit refresh until someone else comes by to take up your stance on the matter.
It would at least give some credence to what you're saying... So far it's about 20-1 or so I'd say.
Police strip searched me last year on the NYC subway platform at 4 in the morning.
Fuckers.
Shit is crazy, There's a thread about this topic on the G&O...
They say that this killing is justified...
However, it doesn't look right in my book. They gave the guy no change to surrender.
It would at least give some credence to what you're saying... So far it's about 20-1 or so I'd say.
Unfortunate for the taxpayer who now has to shell out MILLIONS for these thugs with badges who simply could have waited till the guy went to work to pick him up.
This is total bs on the sheriffs' department. I wish I were on the jury - every one of these dirtbag cops would be walked to the gallows at high noon, including Sheiff Dipshit.
I know a LOT of good cops..
This.
Fire people actually HELP... show up to do good. Cops are the foot soldiers of the criminal justice enterprise system... Making money on the hard work of decent people.
Not many firemen show up to a bank robbery, aggravated assault in progress, Domestic violence, rape, shooting, bar riot etc etc. Love the firemen, I do, but there are a couple of guys on this thread who are unrealistic with their hatred of cops... sad..really is.
Not really - cops don't do dick in 99% of cases but write up a report after the real crap went down.
Actually if you look at job hazard stats - there are many more professions far more dangerous than police work. Many cops like to tell themseves they have the hardest job in the world and the most dangerous, etc, which is pure bullshit and nit supported by th facts.
Where I live - they now have these trucks that we call "end of the world" trucks to where its decked out with everything from soup to nuts, yet they never do a damn thing but sit at Dunkin donust on Central Ave., in Yonkers, NY.
Foot patrol? ha ha ha ha! ! ! ! most of these assholes are too busy giving tickets for drivers without seatbelts or cwell phones while they theselves sit all day on their own cell phones, bucking red lights and stop stop signs, doing nohing, etc.
Many more jobs are statistcally far more dangerous.
Ever hear of a deterrent? The idea that a cop is around deters people from doing stupid shit. The reason I haven't killed someone driving 155 mph on a regular basis has more than a little to do with cops.
Maybe it has something to do with no wanting to kill yourself or be sued into bankruptcy?
Most cops don't show up at any of those things in progress... They show up after the crime has been committed.
Cops report on crime... they do not stop it.
Not really... I know a lot of cops... Was even going to be one at one time... Changed my mind when I saw how you don't really do anything.
You never saw me not really doing anything. Don't know what town you are measuring by.. Probably worked out for both of us... you not being a cop..
lmao
There may be a few good cops, and I know they convince themselves of this, but what they don't get is that its the entire police structure that is the problem!if you feel like this.. dont come to LA and dont go to the south bay and mess with the lennox sheriffs dept.. they will let your ass know where you stand..
They act like zoo keepers more than anythig else and then wonder why the public barks at them. sorry - these cops, ALL OF THEM! are paid by the taxpayer and should treat those who pay their salaries, pensions, health care, etc, as a paying customer and and show a littl damn respect.
And this whole nonsense of "officer safety" trumping everything else is also getting way out of control too. I know it sounds harsh, but sorry, peoples' rights under the US const. come first. If a cop or other govt worker is notprepared to accept those risks, dont take the job.
if you feel like this.. dont come to LA and dont go to the south bay and mess with the lennox sheriffs dept.. they will let your ass know where you stand..
Cops like this are everywhere... Of course the only 2 people who think cops are good in this thread are a old white mega Christian and a cop.
Big shock they are giving each other reach arounds about how great cops are.
lmao
This guy didnt have a dog license.
Again - each of these cops is costing the taxpayer 125k and up a year in salary alone and will retire with crazy pensions at 45 years old.
Sorry - my sympathies are with the average homeowner payng 10k a year plus in property taxes alone in Yonkers, not the cop.
I grew up with and am friendly with tons of cops in yonkers/bronx NY. i know first hand how they treat the public. I actually know this guy. Thinks he did nothing wrong at all and attacks everyoneon his facebook and youtube who question him.Unacceptable. Plain and simple.
Seventy-One Shots: The Death of Jose Guereña
Pajamas Media ^ | May 25, 2011 | Bob Owens
Jose Guereña survived two tours in Iraq, but he couldn't survive his own government.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik infamously railed in January of this year that Arizona is a “Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.”
One must wonder if the “prejudice and bigotry” he considers endemic to Arizona is to blame for the death of U.S. Marine veteran Jose Guereña, killed when Dupnik’s deputies gunned him down in his home. They fired 71 shots. They hit him 60 times. And then, as if this wasn’t enough, Dupnik’s deputies blocked paramedics for an hour and 14 minutes from approaching the scene, denying Guereña treatment until he was assuredly dead.
Dupnik’s SWAT team initially claimed that Guereña fired at them while they were serving a warrant — as he slept. They claimed that his bullets hit the bulletproof shield that the entry team hid behind, and that the barrage of bullets they fired back was in self-defense.
Only, Guereña never fired his weapon. Awoken by his wife with screams that men with guns were invading his home and threatening his family, Jose Guereña armed himself with a AR-15 rifle and crouched in the hallway. The SWAT team unloaded upon Guereña on sight. He apparently recognized the home invaders as police. He took 60 rounds, but never — as the Pima County Sheriff’s Department was forced to admit — took off his weapon’s safety as he was being killed.
Prejudice and bigotry?
It was, you’ll recall, a claim Dupnik made in the wake of Jared Loughner’s bloodly rampage at a “Congress in your Corner” event at a Safeway supermarket in Tucson, where six were killed and 14 others were injured — including, gravely, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Dupnik was attempting to blame the conservative Tea Party movement for the shooting when he made the comment. And even after it was revealed that Loughner’s few known political views had been described as “quite liberal,” and were in fact muddled at best, he refused to retract his slur.
So when Dupnik’s teams attempted a complicated four-house raid of minority families looking for drugs, perhaps bigotry and prejudice really was in play.
Perhaps Dupnik’s officers assumed every Hispanic accused of being a drug dealer really was one, and perhaps they assumed that the tenant of a home protecting his loved ones must be a bloodthirsty cartel member waiting in ambush. Is that why they gunned down a tired, hard-working father sleeping off a night shift at the local copper mine? A Marine veteran of Iraq that had the discipline not to fire — a discipline that a trigger-happy SWAT team which has now killed three men in less than a year cannot itself exercise?
Not only has the Pima Sheriff’s Department tried to justify firing 71 shots at one man in a small hallway, hitting him (thankfully, just him) 60 times in a home where his wife and child were present. They’ve attempted to justify their refusal to let a team of paramedics treat Guereña, who was still miraculously alive after being sprayed mercilessly with bullets. It takes a competent SWAT team just a handful of minutes to “clear” a residential home during a raid. Dupnik’s SWAT team refused to declare the scene “clear” for an agonizing one hour and 14 minutes, and not until Jose Guereña had already died.
A cynic might be tempted to suggest Dupnik’s SWAT team was waiting for the only witness to their assault to die. Considering how the Sheriff’s Department has acted since they stormed the home, a rational person might be tempted to agree.
Not content to blame the victim for his own death, they attempted to insinuate he was a drug dealer, even though they were forced to admit under direct questioning that no drugs were found in his home, and that a clumsy cop falling down may have triggered the bloodbath.
Vanessa Guereña claims that neither she nor her husband heard the officers announce themselves as police. As anyone who has ever seen an episode of any popular police reality show knows, no entry team waits 15 seconds after announcing themselves to batter down a door and rush the inhabitants — as Pima County Lt. Michael O’Connor claims his SWAT team did. Identical scenes of immediate entry upon announcement (or after breaching), without giving those inside a chance to react, is a standard tactic captured again and again.
Why Lt. Michael O’Connor decided to tell a mistruth about a well-known, heavily documented, and highly standardized technique isn’t immediately clear. Perhaps it is because of the inevitable wrongful death lawsuit to be filed against the Pima County Sheriff’s Department on behalf of Vanessa Guereña and her two children. Or perhaps it is because of the possible DOJ civil rights investigation. Perhaps Dupnik’s employees simply are unable to act any more professionally after a raid than they do during one.
No-knock warrants are typically used to surprise the target of raids and keep them from disposing of evidence, with possible violence from the offender cited as justification for the military-style use of heavy armor and machine guns.
Jose Guereña’s death was entirely preventable. Over-armed, over-amped law enforcement is causing far more harm to the public than other tactics and techniques possibly could.
The over-militarization of law enforcement agencies and over-use of SWAT teams is an idea that needs to be revisited in a sane society. Too many good people have been traumatized, and too many killed, under the flimsiest of circumstances.
After surviving two tours of duty in Iraq, only to lose his life in an encounter with Clarence Dupnik’s keystone cops, Jose Guereña was buried with full military honors.
Ok here is what I am talking about -
My car got broken into an hour ago and they cleaned it out. Right in broad daylight. Probably took about 600 worth of stuff.
I called insurance and have window coverage and needed to make police report to file the claim. Cops come by and say to me "Bro - you know where you are right? This is the Box, this is how it is."
Now, I know my hood is not great at all and car thefts are huge near me. But the cops dont do dick around here, no foot patrols, no thing at all.
Sit in the damn car and dont do a damn thing while cimes get committed in broad daylight, then write a report afterwards ad tell me that I shoudaccept the thugs committing crimes because that is how it is.
It was in the trunk. They busted the side window and opened the trunk. Oh, they took a gym bag with dirty clothes, a water bottle and Axe deoderant in it too.
those bastards stole your axe deodorant??
It's similiar here in Austria.
If there's a fine e.g. parking ticket, driving too fast, license for your car expired, etc. the police is fast and furious.
If for example a citizen needs help then the tides turn...
...for example a friend of mine and some buddies of his were attacked by a dog from a shitty owner... they called police for help...
...answer: "Stop screaming and fuck off."
A patrolling police car didn't stop when taunted and asked for help.
After 30 minutes and numerous calls from many people in the same street police arrived...
a whole swat team(15+) for a single idiot with his dog.
This has been going on for a long time and the only difference is now it's becoming obvious... cameras everywhere, silent public unrest.
Ja? im Ernst?
New LAPD Patrol Car To Sport Infrared Night Vision, License Plate Scanner
May 26, 2011 1:03 PM
The Los Angeles Police Department is expected to debut the Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol Vehicle (PPV) in mid-2011. (credit: Translogic/AOL)
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — If you thought the patrol car in the 1987 action movie “Robocop” was high-tech, wait until you see what L.A.’s finest will be soon be driving.
AOL’s Translogic caught a sneak peek of the new squad car of choice for the Los Angeles Police Department: the Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol Vehicle (PPV).
Billed as the “sum total of all the law enforcement community has learned about patrol cars to date”, the PPV boasts a 6.0L V-8 engine with 355 horsepower, 18-inch steel wheels, and a host of gadgets that puts any Hollywood squad car to shame.
The Caprice, which replaces the long-used Ford Crown Victoria, is equipped with an infrared night vision camera, automated license plate scanner, and a touch-screen center console that replaces the older computers traditionally used by officers.
In addition to horsepower and firepower, the cruiser is also outfitted with the latest in information technology, with ethernet, Wi-Fi and an experimental wireless-mesh network in the trunk.
Even the bad guys can ride in comfort: cut-outs in the back seat are custom-made to accommodate any handcuffed suspect.
At a taxpayer cost of $20,000, LAPD officials say vehicle wrapping was used on the all-black sedans instead of the traditional paint to minimize repair expenses and protect resale value.
Drivers can expect to see the new 2012 Chevrolet Caprice PPV cruising city streets as early as mid-2011.
Love it how those assholes phrase it like it's a good thing.
Will be helpful "gathering" more money from the tax payers.
That plate scanner sounds pretty fascist to me. Just like DUI checkpoints.
That plate scanner sounds pretty fascist to me. Just like DUI checkpoints.
Here is the video.
Total bullshit.
http://azstarnet.com/online/video/vmix_79f8c3e2-8804-11e0-a06f-001cc4c002e0.html
I hope these cpps and dupnick go away a long time. Total nonsense.
They did not have a warrant for his house and found nothing at all in the house! Guess why Sheriff Dipshit wont release the warrant? Because there was none!
Please -that video is horrific.
The siren was only going for a few seconds and did not even sound lke a police siren. The van was unmarked and there were no marked cars identifying this as police.
Finally - they did not give the man an adequate time to come to the door before kicking it in.
This is total bullshit.
I saw the video. Looks legit to me. I will post a comment I saw on the site that pretty much echos my sentiment.Go fuck yourself
SWAT doesn't accidentally arrive at your house. They were there executing a just and valid warrant. They had corroborated information that the people involved in this investigation were violent and carried firearms. The shooting was ABSOLUTELY justified and any of you that are crying for this criminal shocks me. What would you do? Ask the guy if his safety is on and politely ask him to put the assault rifle down?
The Supreme Court has established that police shootings are not to be held to the reasonableness standard of the general public, and listening to you guys crying over this I am thankful for that. This shooting will be evaluated under the standard of what a reasonable OFFICER would do. And PCSO takes many pains to identify themselves, with markings, sirens, yelling police, etc..for the exact scenario that presented itself in this case.
Any subject who levels a firearm at these HEROS did it knowlingly and in wreckless disregard of the safety of him and that of his wife and child. He knew it was the police. His lying wife knew it was the police. And when the family, if they even try it, loses in court, I hope you all will apologive to the HEROS of the PCSO Regional SWAT Team.
I'll add that they were more than reasonable by running the siren. They took longer to make entry after announcing than was probably prudent. You have information there are guns and they may be involved in home invasions you really don't want to allow the suspects to arm themselves like this guy apparently did. When confronted with a suspect with an assault rifle during a dynamic entry you shoot. In fact, placed in that situation, everyone on this board would shoot or likely be dead within a couple years of working the street because you can't make a hard decision under pressure. That the gun was on safe plays no part of the overall situation.
The only thing technically wrong with that entry in my opinion is with the info they had, they waited too long to make entry.
Really? You know for a fact they had no warrant? I call bs on it.
Go fuck yourself
X2,
Only a cop could rationalize the way agnostic does.
Yes, they had a general neighborhood warrant because they claimed they were investing drug dealing or some shit. Total nonsense.All valid points. We talk a lot about cutting spending right now how about firing these fuckers. Lots of nutjobs with guns why do we have to pay their salary? And doesnt it say on the police cars: "To protect and serve?" How the hell is this protect and serve?
Why could they just get this guy on his way to work?
And since when is swat used to do general warrants?
Don't you see why the general public increasingly distrusts and has nothing but utter scorn for most cops?
Go fuck yourself
No they didnt. The warrant was not specifically for his house from what I understand. By law a warrant has to state certain criteria. It would not be for a nieghborhood as that is general. It can list more than one specific address, but they would contain specific addresses It was a neighborhood wide warrant and did they same thing to another house in the hood. Notice too how they did not find a damn thing in his house showing that the information supplied to get the warrant was most likely bullshit as well.
And again -why use SWAT and dynamic entiries for drug search? Seriously? It getting some drugs more important than the high likelihood of physical injury and death? Seriously? Is retrieving some drugs so important that you literally invade a mans' home with special forces operators in unmarked cars and having military weaponds and tactics? ?
Prior to running any warrant a threat assessment is done. At my department it's an actual checklist. If there are indicators that there are weapons in the house and the suspect(s) have a history of violence, in this case there were allegations of home invasions then SWAT runs them. So it would be SOP for SWAT to run such a warrant
And don't get me started with the "CI told m so nonsense". (no one said anything about CI, but even with CI's there is criteria that has to be met. CI has to have been in premise and observed specific things within a given period of time, usually the observation has to be within 72hrs )That is pure bullshit too. They get some junky to drop dimes on others to avid prosecution and the junky says whatever will keep his ass from getting a felony. Anyone with a clue knows the deal.
I grew up with tons of cops and know exactly what they do and the bullshit scams they pull in drug cases to get warrants. Additionally, most judges rubber stamp warrants anyway. Often times warrants are denied. But generally before a judge is approached with a warrant the officers have made certain they have enough information to meet the criteria. That is probably why you get the impression it is rubberstamped
Oh and if they thought this guy was involved in the crimes and had credible info - why not get an arrest warrant as well as a search warrant, pick him up at wok and do the search while he is in custody? Easier said than done. A confrontation at a Wendy's full of people isn't as easy or as safe as the home. Approaching and getting into position on many places of employment is not easily done. Many factors go into where and when to run a warrant.
Answer - because it was bullshit from day 1. Your conclusion ignores a lot of facts, but then, if you are prejuduced against something, it's expected.
I read in the article the wife saw the police outside through a window and yelled to her husband.... Now with the siren, knock on the door more than once with an announcement more than once that they were the police, and her visual that they were the police, care to explain why he still thought he should grab his assault rifle and meet up with em?
AGAIN - DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE AVERAGE PERSON HATES THE POLICE NOW?
I don't think the average person hates the police. It's usually people who have had bad experiences with the police who "hate" them.
Not where I live for sure. Did you watch the video I posted?
Which one?
The one of the ex-marine getting killed. Short of an active hostage situation or fugitive wanted for capital murder - I dont see how anyone condones that.
Here is the video.
Total bullshit.
http://azstarnet.com/online/video/vmix_79f8c3e2-8804-11e0-a06f-001cc4c002e0.html
I hope these cpps and dupnick go away a long time. Total nonsense.
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Thanks. How could you possibly draw any conclusions based on that 1:17 minute clip? Impossible for me to say whether they acted reasonably or not.
Why was the SWAT team called? What happened when they entered the home?
Very easily - SWAT should not have been there in the first place and is signs of a growing police state.
Why do you feel that it's OK for the police to point a gun at you, but you not to point one back?
Sounds like they had the right to be there if they had a warrant. A judge must have signed off on it. Police obtaining and executing a warrant isn't evidence of a police state.
I watched the second clip. Still not enough information. The wife saw the SWAT team. Pretty obvious it wasn't a home invasion. He shouldn't have pointed a rifle at armed men with "SWAT" signs all over the place. It's a tragedy that this guy was killed, but I would have shot him too if he pointed a gun at me.
If the police knock on my door with search warrant and guns drawn, I will not be stupid enough to point a rifle at them. That's essentially suicide by cop.
If I'm a cop with a search warrant and someone points a gun at me, I would shoot them in a heartbeat. Sounds like they followed proper use of force guidelines. You don't wait for someone to pull the trigger before you fire.
So what you're really saying is that if this were WW2 and the gestapo showed up, you'd just go willingly?
You do realize that this is exactly how that shit started.
Again - its the police state that enables this shit in the first place! Why couldnt they get this guy at work or in his car and then done the warrant? Mind you there were no drugs in the house.
Again - without an active hostage situation or horrific crime in prgress like terrr event or something of that nature - why would SWAT be employed for this?
ts utterly absurd.
A police state would be the police busting down the door without a warrant. Or a situation like Amadou Diallo.
I don't have a problem with cops who use the system to do their job. If they had no basis to search the guy's house, the judge wouldn't have given them a warrant (unless they lied to get to the warrant).
And we can't judge whether their search of the house was reasonable based on what they find or don't find after the search is over. I think we have to look at whatever information they had when they got the warrant to determine whether it was appropriate, followed by whether they followed proper use of force guidelines for their department.
How did know they were police? They were in an unmarked vehicle and dressed like commandos. Again - this goes to even something more basic - where do the police think its ok to do this for the sole purpose of retrieving some drugs with such a high liklihood of physical harm and danger to others?
Total bullshit. The war on drugs, and I dont or have ever used drugs in any form, is nothing but a massive scam on the taxpayer and does nothing but keep far too many govt workers employed at a tremendous cost to the taxpayer.
Even if he did have marijuana in his house - does that justify this crap? In a police state run by thug cops - yes of course they will justify anything.
This whole swat team nonseseis pure bullshit. Were they trying to apprehend a fugitive for murder? Responding to a hostage situation? Responding to a violent crime in progress like a violtent home invasion?
No. These wannabes were all jacked up to retrieve some drugs and killed a former marine and now two kids are without a father.
AGAIN - DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE AVERAGE PERSON HATES THE POLICE NOW?
So what you're really saying is that if this were WW2 and the gestapo showed up, you'd just go willingly?
You do realize that this is exactly how that shit started.
Yes, until a large number of uniform cops kept getting killed... now when there is a potential and articulable threat of violence SWAT, with better training and equipment does it. Makes perfect sense ..
I'm not arguing cops showing up to execute to do a search warrant. Im saying you dont send Spec Ops decked out for combat for stuff like this, which used to be done by uniform officers.
A police state would be the police busting down the door without a warrant. Or a situation like Amadou Diallo.
I don't have a problem with cops who use the system to do their job. If they had no basis to search the guy's house, the judge wouldn't have given them a warrant (unless they lied to get to the warrant).
And we can't judge whether their search of the house was reasonable based on what they find or don't find after the search is over. I think we have to look at whatever information they had when they got the warrant to determine whether it was appropriate, followed by whether they followed proper use of force guidelines for their department.
I'm not arguing cops showing up to execute to do a search warrant. Im saying you dont send Spec Ops decked out for combat for stuff like this, which used to be done by uniform officers.
Why not? If they suspect the person is armed, the police should do whatever they can to protect themselves.
Yes, until a large number of uniform cops kept getting killed... now when there is a potential and articulable threat of violence SWAT, with better training and equipment does it. Makes perfect sense ..
Why not? If they suspect the person is armed, the police should do whatever they can to protect themselves.
For real? Beach - the why not just shoot everyone first?
Why not? If they suspect the person is armed, the police should do whatever they can to protect themselves.
Sorry - you signed up for the job. You knew exactly what you were getting in to and "officer safety" IMHO is not nearly as important as the constitution and the presumption of innonence of people
Again - "reports" ? ? ? By who?
And if there were sufficient reports to warrant an arrest, why not go for an arrest warrant and take the guy at work or in his car instead of playing Navy Seal?
Bro - you may be a good cop, but you are like 99% i have ever met, you will defend almost anything othe cops do, even when it means innocent people getting killed like this ex marine who did two tours in Iraq.
"Officer safety" should not mean people having to give up their rights just because the "bravest" all of a sudden can't deal with
Because that would be murder.
So if the cops execute a search warrant in the middle of the night in my house, of which i have no idea about, and I have my gun because I think my house is being broken in to since its the middle of the night, I should be killed?
Sorry beach, that is bullsit - this is where I really dont give a damn when police get lit up when these raids go wrong. They bring it on themselves though these tactics yet they are so caught up in the culture of "bravest" bullshit which encourages his stuff.
Again - these cops needs to take a lot more lessons in con law, crim pro, basic common sense, and less playing wannabe navy seal.
Yeah - and in cases like this, and that guy with the golf club - that is exacty what happened.
Lets say this guy thought the house was being broken in to and realized it was the cops at the last minute yet still had the AR15, do you honestly believe he still would have walked out of there alive?
Sorry - peoples' rights to be secure in their house are more important to me than the cops' navy seal act. Its total bullshit and changing thenature of the society.
This is EXACTLY why the colonists started offing the red coats, and we will get there too before long unless these wannabes change their tactics.
If cops execute a search warrant in the middle of the night at your home, identify themselves, and you point a gun at them, then yes you or anyone else who does so should be shot.
Not sure that is a realistic scenario, because I doubt most search warrants are carried out in the dead of night.
Yeah cause at 2am and people screaming I can really ascertain what is going on.
Did you read my story about the West Point grad who was killed at COSTCO?
Cops gave conflicting instructions and he was shot because he was folloing the instructions of one and the other shot him.
Dude was totally innocent and the jackboots came blazing in like wild fire and killed him.
There are way too many of these cases happening lately, and its not the fault of the public.
Don't you need more information before concluding the police murdered the former Marine?
Do you really believe this guy thought his house was being invaded when his wife saw the SWAT team and told them she had a baby? This was broad daylight.
The peoples' right to be secure in their homes is the reason why police ordinarily have to get a search warrant from a judge before entering someone's home.
Did not see the story. I'm not going to defend cops who engage in misconduct. But I also will not say all or a majority of cops are bad, or we're in some police state, because a handful of cops break the law.
You've mentioned the "animals" who live in or around your city a number of times. How do you think law enforcement should deal with those folks?
What ih she was like "go downstairs and see what it is, I cant tell they have guns" He goes downstairs with the gun ON SAFETY not knowing what it is, they see him through the glass with the gun and just light him up.
Utter bullshit. No uniformed officers, no squad cars, nothing.
Again - why not call up the house and say they are there to conduct a search warrant? oh god forbid some drugs get tossed in the toilet -oh the horror, lets instead conduct a delta force operation to "preserve" evidence, mind you in a house to where the owner has no history at all but some tickets, etc.
Dont you see how nuts this is?
What ih she was like "go downstairs and see what it is, I cant tell they have guns" He goes downstairs with the gun ON SAFETY not knowing what it is, they see him through the glass with the gun and just light him up.
Utter bullshit. No uniformed officers, no squad cars, nothing.
Again - why not call up the house and say they are there to conduct a search warrant? oh god forbid some drugs get tossed in the toilet -oh the horror, lets instead conduct a delta force operation to "preserve" evidence, mind you in a house to where the owner has no history at all but some tickets, etc.
Dont you see how nuts this is?
Beach Bum will defend the State and state authority no matter what. Just a fact.
They were wearing clothes that said "SWAT." The wife spoke to them. I don't know all the facts, but based on what I've watched in the clips you posted, I find it hard to believe they didn't know SWAT was at the door.
It doesn't matter if the guy had his rifle on safe. The police don't know that. It's unreasonable to require police to determine whether someone actually intends to fire a weapon if the weapon is being pointed at them. I can't imagine their rules of engagement would require them to try and figure out whether a weapon is on safe.
Don't you think it's reasonable to assume that someone holding a weapon in a firing position has every intention to fire the weapon?
Wait.
What time of day was this?
You can see writing on things in pitch black darkness?
Again - they bashed the door down and started shooting after about 10 seconds. There is no evidence he knew they were swat.
He never fired a shot and they lied about that too, no to mention keeping EMT from him for an hour.
By the way - whatever happened to "drop your weapon" ? ? ?
That does not sound accurate to me. The wife said she saw them, held up something telling them she had a child, then went and woke her husband up. No way that happened in ten seconds. The fact the wife saw SWAT and they were wearing clothes identifying them as SWAT makes it pretty obvious they knew it wasn't some home invasion.
"Drop your weapon"? Seriously? Who says that outside of the movies? I would think pointing the weapon is enough.
You should only fire your weapon if you or someone you know is in imminent danger.
It's why you can't shoot someone in the back.
You are in imminent danger when someone points a weapon at you.
Another thing Beach - she clearly stated on the 911 phne call she had no idea who they were.
And the cops are lying again here. They are disgusting. They have already been caught in about 5 lies so far
Like the gestapo nazis who showed up at this innocent guys home?
Ha ha ha ha. Oh lord.
She said she saw mwn w guns attacking the house. She is supposed to assume they are cops when no marked cars or uniformed police are rthere?
How you defend this really is beyond my comprehension, especially since they have already been caught in about 5 lies so far.
That's not inherently true and it's not what is taught at most police academy training... at least not the ones I used to assist with.
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I don't believe there is any justification on a search warrant alone for these type of tactics in the first place.
Unless a person has killed someone already, there is no call for imminent danger, now if he has already killed someone, then you are well within legal law to kill that person.
It's often a judgement call, but considering who you are, and you are simply believing this on your own opinion, I'll let you slide.
This is not a "war" there Beach... These are citizens of the United States of America we are talking about... Not enemy combatants.
When a police officer kills an individual he is becoming the judge and jury and denying that citizen due process... So no... I don't think my training and education in the criminal justice field needs a refund.
You simply need to be educated.
You don't have to go far... A quick google will show you the extreme instances when the use of deadly force is warranted.
There are hundreds of cases to back my opinion and many less to back yours.
Since you disbelieve... and are in the minority, why don't you prove ME wrong... You're the one who says I'm full of shit... so you show me.
Being a cop doesn't give you some ability to choose to use deadly force more so than the average citizen.
Today a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that in a deadly force case brought under the Fourth Amendment, the jury must affirmative be instructed that: "The use of deadly force is inappropriate unless the police officer had probable cause to believe that the suspect posed a threat of serious harm to the officers or others."
Right... So you know more than me, even though I'm the one with experience, but I have to prove it because you choose to not believe it.
Bullshit.
If you had police training, and this is what you were taught and/or believe, then you should demand a refund.
I don't believe any legitimate law enforcement agency taught you that kind of nonsense. That is absolutely ridiculous.
You think I'm just hanging on to police policies... Fuck off Beach.
I have been involved in the scenarios... you haven't... go fuck yourself.
Of course you don't believe it... You just wanna claim you know everything. Guess what genius... You don't.
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You also believe that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was legitimate and real.
What?? lol. What the heck? lol . . . .
That's just another way of saying that you are incredulous when someone makes known that the government has done something fishy.The Gulf of Tonkin is just one example. Another would be multiple instances of our CIA helping to assassinate elected leaders of other countries, installing dictators and turning a blind eye to their crimes. You think it simply did not happen.
You think I'm just hanging on to police policies... Fuck off Beach.
I have been involved in the scenarios... you haven't... go fuck yourself.
Of course you don't believe it... You just wanna claim you know everything. Guess what genius... You don't.
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That's because you're scared to fucking look.
What I find the most funny... is that one day, you're gonna be fucked over, or your kid is going to get fucked over, and then you will be the one bitching and complaining.
That's how I look at it. Beach I am sure is well meaning, buts needs to realize that happened to that ex marine could happen to him or anyone just even the smallest change of circumstances.
That's how I look at it. Beach I am sure is well meaning, buts needs to realize that happened to that ex marine could happen to him or anyone just even the smallest change of circumstances.
No... I'm just tired of talking to you because you're a fucking idiot.
I ain't mad at you either... you're just a buffoon.
Abuse of police power can happen to anyone.
Probably not.... you're taking what happens to maybe .001% of the population and trying to act like it's happening all over the place.
No kidding TU. We are all guilty until proven innocent now.
It's just happens to the police with a greater frequency.
No... I will post in this thread, because it's in the right area and the topic starter is keeping it on point and not bitching and moving it to the girls board.
You can still go fuck yourself.
Look at the damn tape. 30 minutes my ass. More lying.
Did you watch the video I posted?
I'm gonna post the wifes entire statement later. I believe her over the cops.
I watched the video. Where are they saying the thirty min occured?
You should only fire your weapon if you or someone you know is in imminent danger.
It's why you can't shoot someone in the back.
According to the law, constiution, and presumption of innocence lik we are all afforded.
Most cops are of the mind set that you are guilty until proven innocent.
Another thing - cops are supposed to hand you the warrant for review and you let them in. If the guy smashes the dor closes, then they go in.
From what i can tell in the video - there was may 10 seconds at best of muddles yelling at the door before they bashed it in like gestapo jack booted thugs.
What typically happens in a case like this is some segments of the public immediatley condemn the officers before the investigation is complete. When that happens, you can pretty much discont their opinions as biased.
It really shows the level of ignorance when it is suggested in cases where there is a potential for violence that regular street cops knock on the door and announce they are there, then wait patiently while the people inside grab weapons and destroy evidence. That "it is there job they signed on for" is perhaps the most ignorant statement I have read on Getbig.
I've been in law enforcement over 25 yrs and I've assisted in removing unfit officers from the force. I've called a duck a duck in every case, weighing all the facts and circumstances. I wish some segments of the public would educate them on what it actually takes to arrest bad guys on a regular basis instead of running off at the mouth about shooting the guns out of their hands or judo chopping unconcious instead of firing at someone with a knife who is charging you, as I have actually heard ignorant people suggest.
The fact police officers have in the past killed innocent people in high stress situations making bad decisions is tragic and obviously something we train hard not to do. I have personally drawn my weapon in probably over a hundred instances making high risk felony stops, arresting people who are armed, or had committed violent crimes and likely armed. I've never shot anyone. Of the 1600 sworn on the force, only about 10 have ever shot anyone. There is a lot of restraint shown on a regular basis. I've had situations where I could have legally shot someone and at risk to myself took a calculated risk and did not. I know many others who have done the same
Lets let the facts come to light before we conclude what they should or should not have done in this case
I simply ask. Do you feel you have a right to point a gun at someone else more than the average citizen does?
If you think you do. Then I'm sorry. But you are in fact a fascist.
So you're saying you DO have more of a right to point a gun than I do?
I appreciate your specificity but I think its wrong. Maybe I own the warehouse. Maybe you aren't a real cop.
Perhaps I think you are the one who set the alarm off.
The fact that you feel that your badge allows you to point a gun at me is what's fucked up. I certainly wouldn't pull a gun on someone just because they are there.
Did you read the article about the guy in Pennsylvania I posted?
What do you have to say about that?
If the people just go with your word. Then you're saying that your word means more than mine and that all cops words mean more. That's how the police state starts.
I won't be silent. Sorry.
Question for beach and agnostic.
Do you guys agree with the statement
"it's better for 100 guilty men to go free than for 1 innocent man to be convicted"
"it's better for 100 guilty men to go free than for 1 innocent man to be convicted"I'm sure BB actually thinks it's better for 100 innocent men to be convicted because it feels better knowing someone is doing time for the crime regardless if they are actually guilty or not...
I'm sure BB actually thinks it's better for 100 innocent men to be convicted because it feels better knowing someone is doing time for the crime regardless if they are actually guilty or not...
THE BIGGER CRIME IS AN INNOCENT BEING CONVICTED. The true perpetrator is still out there AND an innocent man has lost his life.
If BB thinks that it's ok to trade an innocent life, then maybe he should step up and sacrifice himself. He'd be talking different if he was the one accused, that's for sure...
I'm sure BB actually thinks it's better for 100 innocent men to be convicted because it feels better knowing someone is doing time for the crime regardless if they are actually guilty or not...
THE BIGGER CRIME IS AN INNOCENT BEING CONVICTED. The true perpetrator is still out there AND an innocent man has lost his life.
If BB thinks that it's ok to trade an innocent life, then maybe he should step up and sacrifice himself. He'd be talking different if he was the one accused, that's for sure...
Question for beach and agnostic.
Do you guys agree with the statement
"it's better for 100 guilty men to go free than for 1 innocent man to be convicted"
BB - the statement is about how the legal system treats the accused. In theory, there are supposed to be adequate safeguards afforded the accused to where its far easier for guilty to get off than an innocent man convicted.
No, I don't agree with it. It's better for no innicent man to be convicted and all guilty people be convicted.
My of the yahoos I know get very little training after the academy and suffer from high doses of "group think" since the ones I know usually only spend time with each other before and after work and have adopted an "us vs them" mmentality.
I don't know why you think it's not like that today.
Cops hang out with cops... That's just the way it is...
All my cop "friends" are gone now that I don't deal with that line of work... It didn't take long either... I have a buddy who dated a cop for a bit... She told us on a double date once that almost all of her friends were cops and if it weren't for our group, she wouldn't have any non-cop friends.
Your observations seem very flawed.
How many of the guys you hang out with aren't involved in law enforcement in some way? That can even be rhetorical... You can just ask yourself honestly how many you really hang with that aren't.
The point of my thread here is no to say there are not individual acts of bravery, heroism, etc, its to show that in general as a society we are becoming more of a police state as a whole.
And we are. There is no denying that by any rational person.
If that is the point of your thread, you've failed miserably :-\
I really don't think you are the best person to make that assessment. ;D ;D
I dont listen to AJ.
I only know what I deal with on a day to day basis.
Give me an example of what you dealt with yesterday
Yesterday - lets see - County Cop stationed at the exit on to Bronx River PKWY backing up traffic at rush hour checking seat belts causing chaos.
Traffic madness backed up for a while. i dont blame the cop himself cause heis following directions, but seriously? Seatbelt check during rush hour at an already over used traffic area?
GMAFB.
How did you determing he was checking seatbealts? Just curious
I don't know if you are familiar with Alex Jones or not but he is a local here. Met him a few times, nice enough guy in person. I used to listen to his radio show just because I knew him and he would often talk about local law enforcement. I would listen to him on many occassions talking about an incident that I had intimate knowledge of, and he would be putting a ridiculous police state spin on it. It was funny at the time because it was so ridiculous. One example was a situation where we were looking for a couple guys who had committed an aggravated robbery of an individual and fled the scene in a vehicle. Cops located the car and a pursuit took place ending with the guys bailing out and running into the neighborhood where Alex happened to be living. A perimiter was established, and the police helicopter was up so we called for their assistance. The copter showed up, flew around the area we eventually located the guys on top of a shed in a backyard.
That Sunday Alex did 2 hrs on how black helicopters were spying on him because of what he does.
I say I used to find him funny. Now not so much because there are a lot of people out there just gullible enough to start believing half the things he says.
He's a nut. You are correct that there are a number of gullible people out there who believe what this nut says.
It's funny but people like Alex Jones, and many anti police folks like your ACLU and NAACP etc etc share something in common..
When they speak, they paint all cops with a broad brush. They will generalize and say how the cops brutalize the minorities, or the cops are nazi thugs in blue uniforms etc etc. But I notice that every once in awhile they let it slip that every cop they KNOW,or meet is cool, or a good cop. Kind of like a lot of bigots. They hate all blacks except Jim, and Joe and Bob and ...who are different than the other blacks... No, the fact is, you have an inaccurate preconception of blacks, or cops and you keep meeting good ones but can't get your mind around the realization that maybe it's not that you are just sooo lucky to meet the good ones, but that most of them are good, and you are simply wrong about them.
I hear it all the time. We have a local activist who is friends with half the force, but he can't help saying "APD is racist against blacks".. If you ask him, will what about officer Smith? "Oh no, he isn't" what about Officer Townes?" Oh, he's a good cop.."Well what about..." so on and so forth till you've named half the force. Ask them specifically who is racist and he doesn't have an answer, just that the police are...
Anyhoo, I've noticed that little gem over the years..
It's funny but people like Alex Jones, and many anti police folks like your ACLU and NAACP etc etc share something in common..
When they speak, they paint all cops with a broad brush. They will generalize and say how the cops brutalize the minorities, or the cops are nazi thugs in blue uniforms etc etc. But I notice that every once in awhile they let it slip that every cop they KNOW,or meet is cool, or a good cop. Kind of like a lot of bigots. They hate all blacks except Jim, and Joe and Bob and ...who are different than the other blacks... No, the fact is, you have an inaccurate preconception of blacks, or cops and you keep meeting good ones but can't get your mind around the realization that maybe it's not that you are just sooo lucky to meet the good ones, but that most of them are good, and you are simply wrong about them.
I hear it all the time. We have a local activist who is friends with half the force, but he can't help saying "APD is racist against blacks".. If you ask him, will what about officer Smith? "Oh no, he isn't" what about Officer Townes?" Oh, he's a good cop.."Well what about..." so on and so forth till you've named half the force. Ask them specifically who is racist and he doesn't have an answer, just that the police are...
Anyhoo, I've noticed that little gem over the years..
My point in starting this thread was not really about individual officers, but society in general on levels. There are plenty of good cops, but as a nation we seem to be going over the top in what we criminalize and penalize.
I generally don't have a problem with cops and my brother is one, but IMO most of this generalizing is brought on by yourselves. Lawyers, shrinks, and educators seem to have similar problems. Anyway, you all often fail to police yourselves. So, even though most of you are good, your failure to strictly weed out the bad ones causes those bad apples to overshadow a lot of what the good cops do.
I respectfully disagree. Again, speaking for my department, we do a very good job of weeding out the bad ones. We have a systems in place that help us do that. Everytime any force is used that requires more than just putting someone in handcuffs we are required to do use of force reports. A supervisor reviews them and depending on the seriousness it can be a level 3 which just requires notes be added to the report by the Sergeant, pressure points, pepper spray, wrist locks are an example. A strike to any part of the body is a level 2 and he Sergeant must respond, interview witnesses and suspect... a strike to the head, or any force that requires hospitalization is a 1 and a special unit investigates. Then there is the video cameras in every car and mikes on every patrol officer. We are just now starting to outfit our bike and walking beat officers with body cameras. I think we are going a little too far for the sake of being transparent and trying to show we are doing things right, but once in awhile you have an officer that does something stupid, or criminal and some segments assume it is a large portion of us.
So what is so bad about a police state? If they police and contain the shitbags that are causing the problems in society, isn't that a good thing?
The majority of issues and social rot that is taking place today is due to liberalism and scaling back the policing of society. If drug addicts wern't typically thieves and con-artists, then society probably wouldn't be so adverse to drug-use.
And another thing... the coast guard isn't going to waste time liek that for a bad fire-extinguisher. There is more to that story. You were probably being a prick and pissed them off.
Bellevue family sues FBI over 'terrifying' raid
Describing the fear
Keith Hodan | Tribune-Review
Brian Bowling is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-325-4301 or via e-mail.
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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The lasting impact of the raid on Gary Adams' home became clear in a comment from his 3-year-old granddaughter during a recent trip to the pharmacy.
"She said, 'Granddad. Police. Hide,' " Adams, 57, of Bellevue recalled Wednesday while discussing the federal lawsuit he filed against the officers who burst into his home March 3.
Led by FBI Special Agent Karen Springmeyer, about a dozen officers used a battering ram to enter Adams' rented Orchard Street home in a search for Sondra Hunter, then 35. But Hunter hadn't lived at that address for almost two years, while Adams and his family had been living there for more than a year, according to the lawsuit filed by Adams and 10 other family members.
The family crowded into a Downtown conference room with their lawyer, Timothy O'Brien, to discuss the case.
An FBI spokeswoman referred all calls to the U.S. Attorney's Office, where a spokeswoman declined to comment.
The lawsuit says that officers knew, or should have known, that Hunter no longer lived there. By executing an arrest warrant at a residence that wasn't Hunter's, they violated the family's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure, and their Fifth Amendment right to due process, the lawsuit says.
The officers were part of a local, state and federal task force rounding up more than three dozen people suspected of being members of the Manchester Original Gangsters street gang. Hunter was still at large at the end of the sweep, and court records show that she was living in Long Beach, Calif., at the time. She returned to Pittsburgh when she heard she was wanted by the police.
She is charged with conspiracy and heroin trafficking and is free on a $25,000 unsecured bond.
Adams said he knew Hunter's family from when they lived in Manchester, but there was no other connection between them and no reason for police to believe that Hunter lived in the house.
Other than citations for traffic violations and scalping tickets without a permit, Adams has been a law-abiding citizen.
The incident destroyed his confidence in the police and his ability to sleep through the night, he said.
"They had guns on my wife, my babies. I'd like to know how they would feel -- the people in my house -- if that happened to them," he said.
Denise Adams, 58, said seeing the red dots from the officers' targeting lasers crawl across her children's faces also has cost her faith in law enforcement.
"I don't want to, but this was terrifying," she sobbed.
Duquesne University law professor Bruce Ledewitz said arrest warrants don't give police carte blanche to enter any building because they think a suspect is inside. Instead, such warrants only authorize police to go to the person's residence.
Police usually enjoy "qualified immunity" from lawsuits even when they make mistakes, as long as they were carrying out their duties responsibly, he said. Entering a residence without probable cause, however, would strip the immunity away from those officers.
University of Pittsburgh law professor David Harris said the family faces several obstacles in winning. In particular, he thought it would be tough for them to overcome the officer's qualified immunity because the Supreme Court has repeatedly raised the bar for suing police officers.
"Not only do they have to make a mistake, it has to have been particularly egregious," for them to lose immunity, he said. "They have to be violating a law that was absolutely crystal clear, and they have to have known it."
Read more: Bellevue family sues FBI over 'terrifying' raid - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_742235.html#ixzz1PY4sMjQJ
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And some of you wonder why many hate the police?
No, we just wonder why a small percentage of you take relatively isolated incidents (10,000 search warrants a day are run throughout the nation, very few are like this) and try and paint a picture of a police state.
Yes, but the citizen didn't remove anyone's liberty... The officer did.
which is within an officers pervue. 2 things at work here... Had the citizen obeyed the cops reasonable request of vacating the yard into her home until the situation was over then it ends there. Or, had the officer, rather than using his authority to arrest when a lawful order is disobeyed, resolved the safety concern in another fashion, it would have been fine.
Exactly... This is her yard... She has to pay the taxes on that property, not him. He is the one trespassing.
Screw that. Its her home, not the officers' fiefdom to bark orders to people.
Why would anyone object to being photographed?...If you are doing nothing wrong,...why be afraid?...This would apply to red light cameras, police cameras in high crime areas... and yes I agree, why would anyone object. I didn't hear the officer though mention anything about objecting to being filmed. It was her close proximity presence while they conducted their business that concerned him. While I didn't share his concern from my computer desk, I don't think it was the filming
I disagree on all fronts... I don't think you should just go around randomly filming people in general, however, as the police state grows, the premise of having footage of the police during the course of their work is probably one of the more invaluable things the citizens have in their arsenal.
I think that filming me at the stop light and everything else is pretty much fascist... but I'm John Q. Public and I don't get to take away liberty without any repercussion like the police do. If I take away your freedom wrongly, even if I believe it's for the best of intentions, I get charged with a crime... I believe it's a felony as well.
Cops just get to say "Oh, I'm sorry, and move on."
So the idea of filming the public and filming a public servant (That is what you are right?) is not the same.
What the cop shuld have said is
"Mam - here is what is happeneing, we arrested the suspect for ____, he is being brought to the station for booking, this isthe procedure, I dont mind you filming us, but can you please just step back a bit as there may be some hostilities if the suspect tries to escape or flee"
and she would have said "why? I'm just getting fresh air, I'm in my yard, "
Then what would you say?
Maybe, maybe not. But when you start the conversation in an adversarial way, like most cops i have dealt with do, you get a predictable reaction from the person paying your salary and pension.
When the social neocons put up red light and survellience cameras they use the trite saying,.."If you are doing nothing wrong..." to justify it. Turnabout is fairplay...
Aren't you basically stating that you absolutely knew what was going to happen?
isn't that perpetuating the us vs. them mentality?
When the social neocons put up red light and survellience cameras they use the trite saying,.."If you are doing nothing wrong..." to justify it. Turnabout is fairplay...
Some one who is in favor of routine survellience of daily life fits here,...red light cameras, video survellience of public places, prohibition of marijuana, prohibition of Docotor's supervision of steroid cycles...
Doesn't seem like a good comparison, only because of course it's visible by the officers at the door.
The comparison is good because in both cases the person was wrong about their knowledge of existing laws
None the less, I don't agree with the "I know this is what would happen." in any scenario... people can, will, and have done what you don't expect.
You are kind of right. She could have responded by pulling out an uzi or hand grenade or she could have went inside when the officer again explained the situation. If you recall, he had already explained his position. But based on similar situations in the past, the outcome can be predicted with reasonable accuracy.
This is why people feel they can convict people based on belief and not fact... Innocent people going to jail.
Sorry, you lost me there..
Funny you have not commented on my ATF thread.
Funny you have not commented on my ATF thread.
I looked over the thread, watched a couple of the videos, what do you want to know?
What is your thought on that and do you accept that the fact that stories like this greatly undermine any respect whatsoever for law enforcement?
Based on just what I read on your thread it looks like someone probably had good intentions, i.e. they are going to get the guns regardless of whether we arrest someone for buying 5 or not, so lets let them operate, follow the supply line, then bring down the big fish.
This method is used daily when dealing with drugs and suppliers. Why arrest for a kilo when you can arrest for 2,000 kilos.
In hindsight and possibly forsight it wasn't well thought out. Were basic questions asked? How many guns do we plan on letting go through? How long will we continue this operation? What is the realistic outcome of taking this risk? What is the best case scenario, what is the worst case scenario?
As far as undermining respect for law enforcement and calling for all agencies to be done away with as you have called for, I think that;
1. Government agencies are accountable for their actions and should be held accountable. That doesn't happen all that often and its a shame. but most americans are sheeple and "scandals" are forgotten when the next season of American Idol airs. When errors like this are made, heads should roll if the facts support it.
2. The ATF and many Govt Agencies do an overall great job and the call for doing away with them is ridiculous and ill informed.
Are you kidding? Good intentions? Fucking really?
Good intentions my ass. GMAFB. Good intentions. ::) ::)
Yeah, give a 5 y/o a loaded gun hoping the kid will learn gun safety and after it blows its head off tell the judge and jury - "but we didnt mean for him to kill himself"
Fucking please. these disgusting pieces of trash with badges were playing russian roulette with others lives to fozster their own sick agenda and now people are dead. Fuck that good intentions.
Traffic tickets to cost Tennesseans more
WSVM ^ | 06/24/2011 | WSVM
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Tennesseans could be charged up to nearly $70 more for traffic tickets under a new state law that takes effect next month and is intended to fund crime lab services for law enforcement agencies.
The law that takes effect July 1 adds $13.75 onto each traffic violation, and motorists can be cited for as many as five violations on a single ticket.
The fee applies only to people who chose not to contest their tickets in court and pay the fine before a court date or a compliance date.
Proceeds will help offset the costs of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's crime lab services.
But motorists complain the extra charge is too much on top of already expensive fines.
Sen. Randy McNally, a Republican from Oak Ridge, sponsored the legislation, which he said was necessary to prevent massive TBI layoffs or increased costs to local law enforcement agencies that need the lab services to investigate crimes.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsmv.com ...
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And what happens if everyone drives as they say and no tickets get written? Oh wait - its abut safety, not revenue . . . . . . .
I got pulled over the other day for an expired safety sticker. My wife's car. >:( Got off with a warning. Cop was friendly. I was friendly. Not a big deal.
Now, if I had been pointing a video camera at him as he approached my car, I bet I would have gotten a ticket.
Beach - do you wear a high and tight?
Did you read the article? The funding for the lab is based on anticipated revenue by writing a certain amount of tickets. and you wonder why people feel this whole thing is a sham?
Documents indicate intentions were good. The idea, according to those documents, was to "allow the transfer of firearms" to pinpoint big cartel crooks rather than the small-time traffickers supplying them.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/10/earlyshow/main20070475.shtml#ixzz1QDq9f0Qv
Looky what I found.....
And? Their intentions are completely immaterial. If a guy's wife goes into labor on the freeway and rushes to get her to the hospital and kills people because of his rush, his intentions are good, but he's going to prison.
These guys should get exactly the same thing.
Intentions are taken into consideration in both cases. Called mitigating circumstances and used in court all the time
That is only sentencing. Not in innocence or guilt.
Not in the course of another crime. If I kill someone in course of robbing a bank or stealing a car. Even of it's an accident. That's murder. No matter if you meant to do it or not.
The cop was very professional in his demeanor, I'll give him that. The yard issue is irrelevant though it weighs in the citizens favor. For example, I can chase a bad guy, tackle him in your front yard, and be handcuffing him. You can be in your own yard, looking over my shoulder, and I would be right in telling you to get back if I felt exposed to you while performing my job of arresting the individual.
IN this particular case, reviewing the tape, arrest would not be the likely result in most cases. If an officer felt concerned they may ask to frisk the person for weapons before continuing if the person refused to leave the immediate area of the activity. They may position an officer in an "overwatch" position to keep the bystanders in observation. In this case the citizen was in error by refusing the officers request, but the officer was also in error by resorting to arrest to solve the safety concern.
Not in the course of another crime. If I kill someone in course of robbing a bank or stealing a car. Even of it's an accident. That's murder. No matter if you meant to do it or not.
Intentions are taken into consideration in both cases. Called mitigating circumstances and used in court all the time
Not the type of intent we were talking about. You're referring to the degree of responsibility, I was under the impression we were talking about responsibility period.
That may not have been what you meant, but when, right off the bat, you start talking about their intentions, it certainly comes across that you were trying to dismiss any responsibility they may bear for their actions.
Happened last year around the same day
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-chipotle-deputy-shooting,0,6720848.story
this is sad.. right by my house.. like i walk to this chiptole all the time
Happened last year around the same day
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-chipotle-deputy-shooting,0,6720848.story
this is sad.. right by my house.. like i walk to this chiptole all the time
There's not enough in the story. Was the guy trying to get away or made an innocent mistake and a corrupt cop shot him?
Chipotle got good food?
Chipotle will make you a burrito the size of an infant with 2000 calories, or you can go the bowl route and eat pretty healthy there. Food is not bad.
beach, can you merge this with my police state thread?
You know... There is are areas that cops are just to chicken shit to go.
I was talking to a local dispatcher the other day and they actually told me that there are areas where if there's a call for a shooting, the cops just ignore it and wait for the EMTs to show up first.
Talk about a bunch of punk ass bitches.
Of course, according to the anonymous cop on here, I'm lying, but whatever.
I don't know about ignoring it, but my brother has let me know that there are plenty of cops who cower when shit goes down. Not sure if I hold it against them or not. None of us really knows how we're going to react when bullets are flying at us (fortunately I've never been in such a situation).
But, if someone is in that situation and can't handle it, they need to get rid of them pronto. And as I noted before, the police repeatedly fail to police themselves.
Do you maybe think that sometimes people become cops to rape the system and help criminals? The movie "Departed" is serious.
There's not enough in the story. Was the guy trying to get away or made an innocent mistake and a corrupt cop shot him?
Chipotle got good food?
So I should believe the anonymous police officer over the dispatcher who I know and trust 100 percent?
apparently...
http://laist.com/2010/07/13/questions_arise_about_police_shooti.php
A deputy-involved shooting that left an 18-year-old dead has some questioning whether law enforcement should have used deadly force. On June 24th, plainsclothes officers from a multi-jurisdiction task force were meeting in a Studio City parking lot when they noticed a man apparently casing cars, including one of police's unmarked ones.
A task force member approached the man, who became uncooperative, prompting a struggle. A sheriff's deputy who came over in aid and drew his gun ordering the suspect to the ground was then hit by another vehicle. The driver, 18-year-old Granada Hills honors student Zac Champommier, was fatally shot.
The man being detained was 29-year-old Douglas Ryan Oeters. He told the LA Times that although Champommier hit a sheriff's deputy, he was driving slowly and didn't post a threat.
"They did not show any badge before rushing at me," Oeters explained of the officers, who more resembled red necks than police. "I am sure Zac was scared just like me and left the parking lot due to a panic they started for no reason. This has caused an innocent 18-year-old to be shot after he reacted to the group surrounding me."
Sheriff's officials told the Times that "the two officers who fired their weapons did not have time to identify themselves to" Zac. They also said they clearly identified themselves to Oeters.
Sorry... I don't trust the government.
So I should believe the anonymous police officer over the dispatcher who I know and trust 100 percent?
Hardly... You hate the idea that your amazing government paycheck profession might actually have faults in it.
I don't hate the idea, I hate that it does have faults. I believe I acknowledge that and have spoken about some of them. I call a duck a duck
It's commonly understood that these calls go unanswered and no one cares because it's the "ghetto".
The EMTs avoid the places too when they can... or just wait until daylight or what have you.
If that is happening, that's sad. Wouldn't and doesn't happen here.
Again, I can only speak for the police agencies I have worked for..
Over the 29 yrs I've been in the business, there have been ocassions when an officer failed to act due to being afraid. In every case I have been aware of or a witness to, that officer was immediatly dealt with. In most cases, cowardice is identified when an officer is new and on probation. Because usually, if you are in a department of any size, it doesn't take long before you are facing a hairy situation. Those officers are at will employees, on probation and are typically fired if they demonstrate they are scared and won't act. Nothing wrong with being scared, I've been scared many times, but you cannot fail to respond because you are scared.
So I am surprised your brother knows "plenty of cops" who cower when the shit hits the fan. I know of zero that are currently employed in this department who do. And tomorrow if one is identified, he/she will be terminated as they always are.
And Tu... your dispatcher mislead you. I don't think you are lying about this thing, but just fed some questionable information. EMS will NOT respond to a shooting if police have not arrived and deemed the scene safe to enter. So we don't have an option of waiting for EMS to go first. They will "stage" down the street and wait for us to give them the all clear. That is their protocol. Now if there is information there are no suspects on scene like a self inflicted wound, well that's different.
I've been to plenty of shootings. I've been to plenty of shootings in really bad areas. It's not something cops look forward to because you have million things going through your head as you are driving there. It's usually always chaotic, you don't know if the shooter(s) still there. If there is a crowd, you figure everyone is armed because you just don't know but there is little you can do about it. You have to give first aid to the victim and hope you have back up to watch the crowd. You have to gather suspect info and get that out over the air, find out who saw what and seperate the witnesses, establish a crime scene perimeter and make a lot of notifications. So its not an easy call but I've never seen or heard of any officers here shunning that call or any call because it's dangerous..
But I will tell you this... if there is a call of a large fight....cops usually don't kill themselves getting to those. The rookies will want to rush in, but then you have 20 people trading punches and it's impossible to control. The veterans know from experience most of them have the stamina of a 70 yr old and usually the fight runs it's course. You bump the siren as you get close and it helps break them up and scatter them. When we get there it's over with some bumps and bruises... If the info changes and weapons are involved, we do get there as soon as possible. but fist fights... not so much.
haha, please.
Dude what police agency do you work for? It's amazing the utopia going on. Bad officers are dealt with swiftly and firmly. Few, if any cops cower. Piss poor behavior is identified early and dealt with. Professionalism rules the day. There is no blue wall. Cops who cover for each other are harshly dealt with.
lol, I've never even heard of such a close to perfect police department much less encountered one.
Like I said, I don't have a bad view of you guys having a brother as cop. I don't even have a problem with you all giving each other passes for speeding and other minor traffic violations. But some of this is just nuts.
haha, please.
Dude what police agency do you work for? It's amazing the utopia going on. Bad officers are dealt with swiftly and firmly. Few, if any cops cower. Piss poor behavior is identified early and dealt with. Professionalism rules the day. There is no blue wall. Cops who cover for each other are harshly dealt with.
lol, I've never even heard of such a close to perfect police department much less encountered one.
Like I said, I don't have a bad view of you guys having a brother as cop. I don't even have a problem with you all giving each other passes for speeding and other minor traffic violations. But some of this is just nuts.
Exactly Skip... It's complete crap.
From Youtube below.
Not exactly the perfect department he makes Austin out to be.
(Note... I'm not saying the guy below is guilty or innocent, just that the same shit happens everywhere)
Dec 8, 2007 - Gary Griffin can now return to the force after he won an appeal after losing his job as a police officer with the Austin TX police department due to excessive force. He had been an officer for 10 years previous. It is not known when he will be back on the streets.
A man was restrained and beaten by a Austin TX police officer last year and now officer Gary Griffin can return back to the force after losing his job. Griffin appealed the decision by acting chief Cathy Ellison of the Austin police department.
The chief made the decision to kick Griffin off of the force for six months after reviewing a police dash cam video that showed Griffin using excessive force.
It took a whole year but Griffin has finally won the appeal and he is returning back to work and that is not going over well with the family of Joseph Cruz. Cruz is the man in the video who was beaten.
Cruz was sleeping at a bus stop when Griffin tried to wake him up and that is when things got out of hand.
Before Griffin returns to the force he will have to see a psychiatrist.
The Austin City Council on Thursday approved a $55,000 settlement for the family of a mentally ill man who was beaten by an Austin police officer.
According to court documents, Griffin responded to a "person down" call in July 2006 and found Cruz, who has schizophrenia, asleep on a bus stop bench. When Cruz did not wake up, Griffin repeatedly hit him with his billy club and then punched Cruz in the face, breaking his nose, the documents said.
a great example of what I was talking about. The officers actions were out of line. Another officer brought it to the attention of the supervisor. The supervisor reported it and the officer was terminated after an investigation. The officer excercised his right to appeal and against our wishes he was reinstated by the arbitrator. The arbitrator is independant and the department is bound by civil service law to abide by the ruling. He has since bneen removed from patrol
It doesn't matter, you could have 100 checks and balances. The only thing the public cares about is the end result, and in the end, the police do a horrible job of policing themselves. Rarely are cops terminated.
I'm not exempt by the way. As a public employee myself, we also do a horrible job of weeding out the incompetent lackies. Just trying to get one out is a bureaucratic nightmare. And the public does take notice.
You make a lot of us vs. them statements in this thread.
I'm with Skip on this one.
a great example of what I was talking about. The officers actions were out of line. Another officer brought it to the attention of the supervisor. The supervisor reported it and the officer was terminated after an investigation. The officer excercised his right to appeal and against our wishes he was reinstated by the arbitrator. The arbitrator is independant and the department is bound by civil service law to abide by the ruling. He has since bneen removed from patrol
But the cops DID police themselves. The cops did everything they were supposed to when this was brought to light by another officer.
Now it really seems that you are just being flat out dishonest.
3 supervisors got temp suspensions because they failed to acknowledge what this guy did was wrong. Only ONE cop, (acting Chief Ellison), found the guys actions out of line and took action to remove him.
Further, he was represented by Stribling, an attorney for the police union!! You don't get to argue the cops "did everything", when it's the cops' union representing the guy.
Finally, the arbitrator ruled that Austin PD (you know, the uber professional force) never gave the guy appropriate training in the use of excessive force and that's why he got his job back.
BTW, 3 supervisors supporting this guy = the blue wall.
So, one cop at the very top tried to do the right thing, 3 supervisors tried to cover for the guy, the department failed to correctly train the guy, and the police union argued and won on his behalf. Sorry, but to any reasonably objective person - that's a failure to police yourselves.
And as far as Stribling, he is a contract attorney for CLEAT which represents officers who are members of the Association. Any officer who is fired, or suspended for over 3 days has a right to an appeal. That's how it is set up with civil service. Most of the time the arbitrators ruling is correct, sometimes it is off in the administrations opinion. IN this case they obviously didn't agree with the arbitrator.
This incident was brought to the attention of I.A. by the supervisors.
In this case, the supervisors (which included a Commander) were disciplined because they did not watch the entire tape which ran for an hour. They watched the incident itself just before and after and addressed the incident. What they missed was comments made by the officer to another officer that appeared on tape well after the incident happened that I.A. found. And honestly, it would have caught most supervisors because until that point it wasn't common practice to watch videos well past the incident.
So? Police officers collectively negotiate for, lobby, and benefit from union representation like this. Just because it's codified doesn't mean a free pass. Like I said earlier,
"Nobody gives a shit about us crying about the bureacracy. The end result is we fail to police ourselves. Laws, rules, policies, negotiated agreements all need to be changed so that we can weed out the bad apples."
That's your claim, for all we know the guy that took the beating filed a complaint that brought it to light.
The facts released thus far don't support your claim. They were suspended because they failed to acknowledge what this guy did was wrong - they covered for a corrupt cop.
"Ellison also handed three of Griffin's supervisors – Cpl. Andrew Haynes, Lt. Deborah Sawyer, and Cmdr. Michael Nyert – temporary suspensions for failing to conclude that Griffin's actions in arresting Cruz were out of line"
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2007-01-05/433594/
Sorry, but I've little confidence in the Austin Chronicle. Had my own experience with Jordan Smith where she had access to the truth, but chose to ignore it because she does not like cops and the truth didn't fit her story. The supervisors failed to review the entire tape and missed a comment by the officer. Otherwise, had 3 supervisors had no problem with the officers actions, the chief would have never known about it. And the citizen didn't complain.
Bullshit. More flat out lying from you. The link below takes you to the memo written by acting Chief Ellison detailing all of the facts and why Commander Nyert was suspended. The "full video review" is a minute fraction.
The Chief found out about this from the District Attorney's office who reviewed the tape and recommended an investigation be launched!!
Not to mention that the civil rights suit was also against the 3 supervisors - not the acting Chief.
And, when the corrupt cop Griffin sued for discrimination, he only named the acting Chief, not the 3 supervisors.
How much more evidence is needed? They tried to cover for the guy. You're trying to cover for them.
lol, dude, you're a walking case study of the blue wall.
http://home.kxan.com/news_PDFs/Nyert_memo.pdf
Haha.. It's "the liberal media".
Skip I read the letter and you are right! I was talking about an incident that happened 5 yrs ago from memory but I do recall the officer direct filed the case to avoid getting it reviewed. The officer not only charged the guy with Public Intoxication, but he added Assault on a Police officer or resisting arrest, I can't recall which charge but had he not done that he may have gotten away with it. Because he placed that bogus charge on the guy it was reviewed by the D.A. who raised the flag.
I'm no blue wall, I'm just old. I remember viewing the tape in a room full of officers. I was appauled by the officers actions and to me he was clearly using excessive force. I was surprised that a few officer looking at the same tape thought it was "borderline". I didn't think it was borderline at all and I was not happy with the arbitrators decision. Most of the force wasn't.
I recall his lawsuit against the Chief. She was the decision maker and therefore the only one he could sue. Again, I thought it was a baseless lawsuit and it was.
No Tu, I didnt
Skip, here is the delimma. Without recourse, or arbitration, civil servants would not be able effectively enforce the law. Gave my wife a ticket? Your fired.. didn't vote for me for ____ your fired. Small group of citizens don't like how you handled that call? Your fired...
So I think it IS important to have some protections in place like arbitration so that an officer who is disciplined has recourse to in theory make sure he or she got a fair shake. I have seen where a particular officer was fired and reinstated by an arbitrator 3 times before a firing that held up. It does make it harder to get rid of officers who might better serve another career. I've been very frustrated at times by an arbitrators ruling I understand why it's there.
I was involved in a case where a cadet was terminated for incompetence and safety issues. He was also dishonest. He sued because he said the department was biased against christians. It went to federal court and we won, but I could not believe with 6 inches of documentation and video of his incompetence we had to go through a week of court hearings in order to get rid of him. THats a rare case, but it happens.
Yes you did... However, you are so warped you don't even see it.
Anonymous cop says he's right and everyone else is wrong.
Oh well.
I think your job is fascist and brings no real value to society at large.
Most cops don't do dick but pat themselves on the shoulder and cry a river why they are not paid 500k a year.
I grew up with tons of cops, they are by far the worst of the lot. Mostly overpaid bitches w badges who would be washing cars if they were not cops and will find any reason whatsoever to justify their rape of the taxpayer.
Thanks for sharing your opinion of cops. Fortunately your opinion is in the small minority.
I think your opinion is ridiculous on this point.... but you're welcome to it.
Thanks for sharing your opinion of cops. Fortunately your opinion is in the small minority.
Bump.... I understand Agnostic may have missed it the first time while he was out saving the citizens of Austin from themselves.
I can go through the thread and pull out specific pieces, but I don't really like to spend the time doing that.
And I could show you were wrong but if you don't have the time, I don't have the time to post them, that's cool
I don't find it worthwhile and if I make a point, such as your defensive nature against the media, the constant position of the "police policing themselves" even when it's quite obvious it's not, and your position in threads about how your rights to do certain things (such as point a gun at me) are much more valid than my right to defend myself, then I'm pretty sure that even quotations to that effect (which are all there) certainly won't matter to you, so why bother?
The above are your reasons you don't want to post examples. No response required. I don't agree with your reasons, but we already knew that.
You like your job. You think you do a fantastic job at it... Well, good. I'm happy for you.
Thanks. I love most aspects of my job, dislike others. I'm pretty good at it, not the best but above average
Here's some nice statistics for you... Look them up if you don't believe it.
Currently 1 dollar for every 15 dollars in tax money is spent on corrections AND while the US population has grown by less than 33% in the past 25 years, the incarceration rate has risen by 400%.
Don't doubt it. Not a fan of a multitude of laws we have on the books. But then I'm not a fan of people who beat up or shoot or rob other people. I'll take your numbers at face value for the sake of the argument.
In the Soviet Union, during the height of Stalin, Stalin had incarcerated 20 people per 100,000 in the Gulags for NON-VIOLENT crime. Today, in the FREE democracy of the United States of America, we incarcerate 19.7 per 100,000 for (again) NON-VIOLENT crime.
Again, for the sake of argument I'll take your numbers at face value. Personally, I am not in favor of incarceration for most drug offenses, but I'd like to see the guy who rips off the old lady out of her life savings with bogus construction scams get a few years in the slammer.
I think your job is fascist and brings no real value to society at large.
I think you would be hard pressed to arrest bank robbers, rapists, aggravated assault suspects, burglary suspects etc on your own or control traffic, work accidents, investigate child abuse, sexual assaults, forgeries, thefts and other various crimes without us. Who would respond to 911 calls?
Litigiation? WTF. No wonder we are so screwed! Even though I am a lawyer - I am sickened by many of the cases that make it to court without getting dismissed out right.
Me too. We moved for summary judgement but the Judge said something to the effect of because he claims he was fired due to religious beliefs, he deserves a trial. We had ample evidence to show he was fired for anything but religious beliefs.. but to no avail..
A former pro football player swinging a bag with 2 24 oz cans of beer at my head... sounds dangerous
Yeah, too bad most cops are pussies without the badge and gun and are woefully inept at unarmed self defense and disarming anyone without killing them.
I get cops in my self defense class all the time, most are really unable to handle themselves in unarmed combat situations.
Sure wish people realized that before taking swings at them.. bad things can happen. What with us being pussies and all..
you are suppoed to be trained for that and be able to deal with that. You signed up for the job knowing what it entails.
If you can't disarm someone with a beer can without killing them, quit and get another job or seek additional training.
Spoken like a guy who's only experience with violence is in a self defense class where fake guns miraculously come out of their hands, rubber knives are easily taken away, and no one is swinging a bag containing metal weights at your head. It says "after he was struck".. you need to consider he was likely dazed, big man may have been continuing the attack, officer felt he was in grave danger, might be passing out..
Don't know, it may be ruled a bad shooting. It may be ruled a good shooting. I wasn't there, haven't read the investigation or seen the video. But guys like you crack me up with your self defense class talk.
Dont' they give you tazers, pepper spray, batons, etc?
Yep... and we'll use them if given a chance.
Or a gun if its easier to shoot someone. ;D
Had a lady in a town meeting ask why the officer didn't just shoot the knife out of the suspects hand rather than shoot the suspect... you sound an awful lot like her ya know..
Police in Ga. shut down girls' lemonade stand
AP News ^ | 07/15/2011 | AP News
Posted on Friday, July 15, 2011 3:49:27 PM by The Magical Mischief Tour
MIDWAY, Ga. (AP) -- Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.
Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.
The girls had been operating for one day when Morningstar and another officer cruised by.
The girls needed a business license, peddler's permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year.
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With the above post I throw in the towel. Police State is apparently what we've come to. A lemonade stand for Christs sake!
ITS CALLED DISCRETION
Had a lady in a town meeting ask why the officer didn't just shoot the knife out of the suspects hand rather than shoot the suspect... you sound an awful lot like her ya know..
hahahahahahahaha
How the hell do you guys even respond to that kind of stupidity?
Fascism meets the 21st century... Holy shit.
And you shouldn't... I have no doubt that if people didn't speak up about it, this would be like Nazi Germany all over again.
It's bad enough now, but just imagine if we didn't have the Bill of Rights in the first place?
Little confused... is POLICE STATE - OFFICIAL thread for examples of a police state, or pointing out there are some bad officers among the rank and file? I suggest you start a different thread where you can post the reported allegations of corrupt cops and keep POLICE STATE for more clearer examples of your perception of Government officials, using the authority of the police, to supercede your constitutional rights and establish an enviornment where US citizens are helpless against the jack booted storm trooper thugs in uniform.
Wrong - its not a few - its WAY TOO MANY and its pervasive at all levels of this disgusting govt you are nothing but an enforcer for.
Cops are not protectors of the public, they are enforcers and henchmen for the govt. and the horrible policies that are put in place.
We all make choices in life, you make the choice to be an agent of the police state, it is what it is.
Whether its DHS making videos targeting whites, ATF & DOJ running gun scams, local police stealing cash and $$$ from dealers, etc, you are all part of the same bullshit and war on the average joe blow going to work and subject to this nonsense.
Yeah, like you would ever admit to anything else?
Talk to the average citizen off the record what they think of 99% of law enforcement and your eyes might open a bit.
Between bullshit speed points, onerous regulations on all levels of activity, over zealous arrests and prosecutions for what used to be minor crap, "zero tolerance" bullshit, etc, most law enforcement agencies are nothing more than a praetorian guard for the govt.
I am not kidding, i feel safer on the subway with the thugs and gangbangers than I do around a place with 3 or more cops.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2754875/posts
Check this out. Pics are heartbreaking. Disgusting.
She should sue the shit out everyone. Insane.I'm confused. You are against law and order but you want all the blacks in jail?
I'm confused. You are against law and order but you want all the blacks in jail?
Who's going to put them there, hotshot?
Unbelievable!
The guy had his liberty removed and got shot, yet it was totally justified?!
Where's Agnostic to tell us how it makes perfect sense?
Police shut down 4 year old girl's lemonade stand
Omaha.com ^ | 8/2/2011 | Omaha.com
CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Police closed down a lemonade stand in Coralville last week, telling its 4-year-old operator and her dad that she didn't have a permit.
An officer told Abigail Krutsinger's father Friday that she couldn't run the stand as RAGBRAI bicyclers poured into Coralville.
A city ordinance says food vendors must apply for a permit and get a health inspection.
Abigail's dad, Dustin Krutsinger, said the ordinance and its enforcers are going too far if they force a 4-year-old to abandon her lemonade stand.
another government agency growing to powerful.
Who the hell started the TSA anyway?
Who gave more power after it was started?
BTW, went through security a half a dozen times last week with liquids in my carry on and wasn't caught.
fucking posers lol.
Bush started it, obama doubled down on it.
What did Obama do to give more power?]
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He appinted napolitano
and what did Napolitano di?
Woman’s yard sale to pay medical bills gets shut downTea Party to this woman: Fuck you. You should have been rich. Don't be a socialist and try to get medical help. Die in the fucking ditch. God bless America.
Salem.katu.com ^ | 8/18/11 | Emily Sinovic, Reporter
A woman fighting a terminal form of bone cancer is trying to raise money to help pay bills with a few weekend garage sales, but the city of Salem says she’s breaking the law and is shutting her down.
Jan Cline had no idea, but the city of Salem has a clear law that states a person can only have three yard sales a year.
Cline has been selling her stuff in the backyard for a few weekends and said she thought she’d be fine by keeping the sale out of everyone’s way.
“It’s a struggle,” Cline says. “It’s a struggle for me because I’m very independent, used to taking care of myself.”
She’s run businesses and supported herself for years but this summer she was diagnosed with bone cancer.
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No, no, she should ask Michelle Bachmann to bail her out. After all, Bachmann voted yes to 190 Billion in bail outs.
Bachmann took care of 23 foster kids, so most likely she would have helped her out.
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Family gets $333,000 for 2009 raid in which cops killed dog
Chicago Tribune ^ | August 19, 2011 | David Heinzmann
Posted on August 19, 2011 7:20:35 PM EDT by Immerito
A federal jury awarded $333,000 to a Chicago family Thursday after Chicago police officers raided its South Side home with guns drawn and shot its dog in a search that found no criminal activity in the apartment.
Teenage brothers Thomas and Darren Russell were in their second-floor apartment in the 9200 block of South Justine Street in February 2009 when officers announced they had a warrant to search both units of the two-flat. Thomas Russell, then 18, opened the door and found officers with their guns drawn, according to the lawsuit. Russell said that he put his hands in the air and asked permission to lock up his 9-year-old black Labrador, Lady, before they entered.
Police refused the request and came into the house, the lawsuit said. When Lady came loping around the corner with her tail wagging, Officer Richard Antonsen shot the dog, according to the suit, which alleged excessive force, false arrest and illegal seizure for taking the dog's life.
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Did the cops lose their jobs?
Who pays for their fuck up, meaning where does the money cone from?
Did the cops have to pay any money out of their own pockets.
Seems like a hollow victory under tragic circumstances. I love dogs, especially lovable labs. Pisses me off. I'd wanna find the cop later and kick his face in.
Cops unlikely lost their job. It would depend on many things. Unfortunately in this case a dog was killed and that's horrible. I'm glad the family got compensation to ease the pain but I'm sure they'd rather have their dog back.
The money comes from the taxpayers. The cops likely didn't pay any of it. There are some protections for cops otherwise we would have none. In cases where the officer acts so far out of policy or the law, then they are not covered and have to pay. In this case, it COULD be argued on the cops behalf;
1. The cop who fired was part of a team and was operating in good faith that due diligence was done on the part of the person who secured the warrant.
2. It is NOT good policy when serving a warrant to allow the person answering the door to then leave your sight or control. This was learned by trial and error in which occupants would then retrieve a gun and shoot the officer or would destroy evidence. So you can understand their reluctance to let the person do that.
3. is "the dog wagging his tail" version from both parties or the plaintiffs only? I've entered many a residence in intense and stressful conditions and have yet to shoot fluffy or bowzer just because..
So when you find out those circumstances, it MAY not be the prudent thing to do. If you find that the officer was willy nilly set on blowing a way a lab just for fun, then not only should he pay, lose his job, I'd suggest a little prison time for cruelty to animals.
I've run search warrants many a time and I still can't figure out how I still read about cops who run them on the wrong address. There is no excuse for it.
I have a few friends that are officers, I understand some of the bullshit they go through but there seems to be an epidemic of dogs getting blown away by law enforcement.
In this instance the officers didn't just break the door open, they announced they were there and offered enough time for the kid to open the door for them and he obviously didn't have a weapon at that time. He was complying to their orders and had his hands up. He asked permission to do something. Doesn't sound like a situation where you have some belligerent asshole refusing orders that would create cause for concern. I also think officers need more training on dog breeds and what to look for. Why didn't they ask, is your dog aggressive after they were informed that there was one there? How many aggressive labs does a person come across in a life time and even so I don't feel threatened by one even without a gun, especially when I'm around a group of my peers, I'd rip its head off bare handed if I needed to.
I think there are way to many trigger happy or nervous police officers around that shou;dnt be in the position they are in. They aren't able to make proper decisions in a short amount of time. I see how some people react to my dog sometime, they shit themselves and he isn't even doing anything. Those types of people shouldn't be executing warrants like this.
This is the kind of cop you want doing what that other asshole cop was supposed to be doing. Stayed cool under pressure and didnt have to execute the dog, (even though the dog is probably toast after that incident). That lab probably would have been alive if they had just tazered it instead and the tax payer wouldnt have to dish out 300 000 dollars for the screw up.
When Heroes Become Bureaucrats: Why cops and firefighters stood by as a man drowned in San...
City Journal ^ | Summer 2011 | Steven Greenhut
Posted on August 27, 2011 1:50:33 AM EDT by neverdem
Why cops and firefighters stood by as a man drowned in San Francisco Bay
On Memorial Day, a suicidal man waded into San Francisco Bay outside the city of Alameda and stood there for about an hour, neck-deep in chilly water, as about 75 bystanders watched. Local police and firefighters were called to the scene, but they refused to help. After the man drowned, the assembled “first responders” also refused to wade into the water to retrieve his body; they left that job for a bystander.
The incident sparked widespread outrage in northern California, and the response by the fire department and police only intensified the anger. The firefighters blamed local budget cuts for denying them the training and equipment necessary for cold-water rescues. The police said that they didn’t know if the man was dangerous and therefore couldn’t risk the safety of their officers. After a local TV news crew asked him whether he would save a drowning child in the bay, Alameda fire chief Ricci Zombeck gave an answer that made him the butt of local talk-show mockery: “Well, if I was off duty, I would know what I would do, but I think you’re asking me my on-duty response, and I would have to stay within our policies and procedures, because that’s what’s required by our department to do.”
If you stand a better chance of being rescued by the official rescuers when they are off duty, it naturally leads people to question the purpose of these departments, which consume the lion’s share of city budgets and whose employees—in California, anyway—receive exceedingly handsome salaries. In Orange County, where I worked for a newspaper for 11 years, the average pay and benefits package for a firefighter is $175,000 a year. Virtually every Orange County deputy sheriff earns, in pay and overtime, over $100,000 a year, with a significant percentage earning more than $150,000. In many cities, police and fire budgets eat up more than three-quarters of the city budget, and that doesn’t count the unfunded liabilities for generous pension packages, which can top 90 percent of a worker’s final year’s pay. It’s hard to argue that these departments are so starved for funds that they’re entitled to stop saving lives.
After I wrote a newspaper column deploring the Alameda incident, I received many e-mails from self-identified police officers and firefighters. Though a few were appalled by the new public-safety culture they saw on display, most defended it; some even defended Zombeck’s words. Many made reference to a fire in San Francisco that week that had claimed the life of at least one firefighter. The message was clear: Don’t criticize firefighters, because they put their lives on the line protecting you. There’s no doubt that firefighters and police have tough and sometimes dangerous jobs, but that doesn’t mean that the public has no business criticizing them—especially as they become infected with the bureaucratic mind-set spread by public-sector union activism. The unions defend their members’ every action; to the extent that they admit a problem, they always blame tight budgets.
The unions that represent first responders also have a legislative agenda to reduce oversight and accountability. I recall when a state assembly member closely aligned with public-safety unions contacted me about a union-backed bill that was too egregious even for his taste. Sponsored by a firefighters’ union after a district attorney prosecuted an on-duty firefighter for alleged misbehavior that led to a death, the bill in its original form would have offered immunity to firefighters even for gross negligence on the job. The legislation failed after the media started paying attention and ignited a contentious public debate. Perhaps the outrage at the Alameda incident will likewise cause a far-reaching discussion—one that helps restore the principle that the real constituency for public safety is the public, not bureaucrats and government workers.
Steven Greenhut is the director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center, editor-in-chief of CalWatchdog.com, and a columnist for the Orange County Register.
http://www.dailypress.com/news/gloucester-county/dp-nws-gloucester-sheriff-abbott-0827-20110826,0,3563854.story
MIDDLESEX ——
Sheriff Guy L. Abbott was indicted Thursday on 25 felony criminal counts that include embezzlement and bribery following a nearly two-year investigation.
Abbott was arrested on the charges Thursday and processed at the Peninsula Regional Jail in James City County, said Brian Gottstein, spokesman for the Virginia Office of the Attorney General. Abbott was released on a personal recognizance bond.
A special grand jury that began meeting earlier this year in the basement of the Gloucester County Courthouse indicted Abbott on 18 counts of misuse or misappropriation of public assets, four counts of embezzlement and three counts of bribery. The crimes are alleged to have occurred from 2000 through 2008, Gottstein said.
Abbott declined to comment under advice of his attorney.
Abbott was elected to the office of Middlesex County Sheriff in 1999 and was sworn in on Jan. 1, 2000. He has continued in his capacity as Middlesex Sheriff throughout the investigation that's spanned nearly two years.
The Attorney General's Office authorized a criminal investigation of Abbott in November 2009 and his office was raided in March 2010. Affidavits filed in courts in York, James City and Chesapeake have sought Abbott's emails from a Gmail account, records of purchases with a credit card he used as sheriff and other documents.
Some search warrants and other documents related to the cased that have been filed in Middlesex Circuit Court remain sealed.
Affidavits filed in other courts by Jennifer S. Brown, special agent accountant for the Virginia State Police, list crimes related to the investigation as embezzlement, embezzlement by officers of public or other funds and other charges.
Abbott's first appearance in Middlesex County Circuit Court will be Sept. 7 at 9:30 a.m. Abbott has filed for re-election this year and is being challenged by three other candidates.
I know right... It only took 11 fucking years.
Wonder how many peoples lives he ruined in that time.
Surveillance photo shows officer in sex act: Some viewers may find this photo offensive
KOB.com ^ | 8/29/11 | E Garcia
KOB Eyewitness News 4 has obtained surveillance pictures of a State Police officer having sex with a woman on the hood of a car in broad daylight.
State Police aren't saying anything about the photos, but KOB Eyewitness News 4 is pressing for answers.
Two weeks ago KOB reported a story about an officer caught on camera having sex while in full uniform, an act shown on security camera at the Santa Fe Canyon Ranch.
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LMAO - I hope it was worth it for this guy.
:D
And had Vernon Howell not been a child molester. . . .
Solyndra execs to plead Fifth in hearing
The Daily Caller ^ | 9/20/11 | C.J. Ciaramella
The chief executive and chief financial officer of Solyndra will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer any questions at a congressional hearing on Friday.
According to letters obtained by Reuters, Solyndra attorneys have advised CEO Brian Harrison and CFO W. G. Stover to not testify at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. (RELATED: Rahm Emanuel on Solyndra: I don’t remember)
“I have advised Mr. Harrison that he should decline to answer questions put to him by this subcommittee based on his rights under the Fifth Amendment,” Harrison’s attorney, Walter F. Brown Jr., wrote to the the committee. “This is not a decision arrived at lightly, but it is a decision dictated by current circumstances.”
The House Energy and Commerce Committee opened an investigation into Solyndra after the solar panel manufacturing company — which received a $535 million loan from the Department of Energy — announced it would be declaring bankruptcy earlier this month.
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I don't get the connection?
I was reading this earlier. Below is a link to the DA's report, spelling out exactly what happened from their investigation and reasons for the charges.
It's really fucked up to read what was done to this guy.
2 officers charged, the others skated IMO.
http://documents.latimes.com/charges-kelly-thomas-police/
I don't get the connection?
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources-5-nypd-officers-arrested-gun-sting-121040308.html
This story is on all our news stations today. Also included cigarettes and slot machines.
Hundreds of union members back 16 NYPD cops in court over 'huge traffic ticket scam'
dailymail ^ | 10.28.11
Posted on October 28, 2011 10:22:49 PM EDT by InvisibleChurch
Hundreds of police union members turned up outside court today to support 16 New York policemen charged with abusing their authority by helping family and friends avoid paying traffic tickets.
The 13 officers, two sergeants, one lieutenant and five others were arraigned in a Bronx court on Friday after handing themselves in last night following a mammoth city investigation.
But union members made their voice heard by clogging the street near the courthouse, filling the hallways near the arraignment room and applauding in court after the officers left.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, said ticket fixing was sanctioned at the highest levels of the department, and he vowed that when the dust settled, they would prove it.
'Taking care of your family, taking care of your friends is not a crime,' he said. 'To take a courtesy and turn it into a crime is wrong.' The case began with a 2009 internal probe into Bronx officer Jose Ramos, who was suspected of associating with a drug dealer, officials said.
While listening to the NYPD officer's phone, investigators allegedly heard calls from people seeing if he could fix tickets for them. Ramos has been working for the department for nearly 18 years. He and his wife were arrested at their home on Thursday night. All other 15 policemen turned themselves in, reported the New York Post.
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WTF??
How can this be? Agnostic told me that there's no such thing as the blue wall anymore.
hahahahahaha
I think I have said many a time Skip, I can't speak for other departments. Plus, how again was this practice of fixing tickets uncovered? Oh yeah, by other cops..
In my self defense class tonight I got the whole skinny from a cop in the Bronx in one of the precincts. Told me five of the cops are in his precinct and detail. Hve known this guy for about 6 years.
here is what happened - cop who was on the take from a drug dealer got caught on a wiretap fixing a ticket. From there the whole thing unraveled.
cops did not uncover this, it was a dirty cop taking from the dealers that led to this.
So one bad cop decided to roll. I'm guessing to get his sentence reduced or plea bargain?
No one rolled at all. It all got started on wiretap and unfolded from there.
Ah, I see. Interesting.
Again??
Uh, I already clearly demonstrated you were a liar and the cops did not do shit. Better go back and read tool.
You decided to claim "bad memory". ::)
I have no idea who went after these cops and doubt you do either. But, maybe when I have some free time I'll look into it.
"While listening to the NYPD officer's phone, investigators allegedly heard calls from people seeing if he could fix tickets for them. Ramos has been working for the department for nearly 18 years. He and his wife were arrested at their home on Thursday night. All other 15 policemen turned themselves in, reported the New York Post.
And you know these investigators are cops? Or members of the DA's office? Or feds? Or are you trying to play the old DA = top cop, etc.?
Whatever. Yes, eventually other cops at some level have to arrest the bad ones. If that's your pathetic attempt at denying the blue wall exists, then bahahahahahaha....how sad.
The fact you are blind to the fact is laughable.
True story... I know this girl who was beat up by her bf... His cousin is a sheriff in a local county, that sheriff made a call to the Judge in the county of the infraction and the girl's domestic case was immediately dismissed.
She didn't even get to say her mind in court, the judge simply heard 2 questions and the commonwealth attorney requested a dismissal and they granted it!
You need some help skip.. you went from semi reasonable to unpleasant overnight..
I rail against it constantly.
However, I'm in the minority. Be honest.
Most people don't care because the system doesn't get everyone. It gets a small percentage and those people get shafted.
The powers that be are stalin-esque in that they follow a policy of benevolent dictatorship.
Take advantage of the few but allow the overall majority to feel as if it's working well enough for them.
When you screw over 1 in 50 or 1 in 100 the other 99 are happy and there is no upheaval. If you fucked over 1 out of 10 you would have a lot more malcontents.
Nope, same guy. I just see no point in lying. You, on the other hand, seem to be very dishonest. And if you're dishonest on a message board, I can only imagine what you're like at work.
I've said before, I think most cops are good. Hell, my brother's a cop not far from you (but he's honest too).
Yeah skip, you are honest, your brother is honest, but I'm not... awesome conclusion based on... well, nothing.. but hell, that hasn't stopped you from concluding many things on these boards has itSkip is probably one of the most reasonable people here IMO. He's more willing to listen to opinions he may not like and answer in an unbias way or an understanding way even though he doesn't agree. We would do good to have more people like Skip posting here.
Skip is probably one of the most reasonable people here IMO. He's more willing to listen to opinions he may not like and answer in an unbias way or an understanding way even though he doesn't agree. We would do good to have more people like Skip posting here.
His only fault that I can see, he's a Steelers fan :-\
You'll live ;D I'm a Broncos fan and look at what I've had to cheer for year after year... not much... If all you have to do is get a little shit.... lol... you can take it... ;D
Ouch. It's been a rough Mon and Tues too. I was shit talking at work about how it's going to be hard for Baltimore to beat us twice in the same season, yada, yada...
Now I'm getting smacked around every 10 minutes or so.
Sucks...
You'll live ;D I'm a Broncos fan and look at what I've had to cheer for year after year... not much... If all you have to do is get a little shit.... lol... you can take it... ;D
At least Ben wears number 7 in honor of Elway ;D That's about the only positive thing I see in that team lol...
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Occupy Blue Wall Street?
The American Interest ^ | November 6, 2011 | Walter Russell Mead
Posted on November 12, 2011 2:46:15 PM EST by neverdem
New Yorkers are getting an uncomfortable look at the ugly realities behind what we like to think of as the country’s bluest, most European and most enlightened city. A series of trials now underway in the Bronx reveal the harsh truth of embedded corruption and contempt for the public at the heart (if that is the right word) of the New York City police union.
A palpably shocked New York Times covered the story last week as union-organized cops hurled their venom and hate at the law they are sworn to uphold:
As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting “Down with the D.A.” and “Ray Kelly, hypocrite.”
Many of the approximately 1,600 allegations against the Bronx 16 are low level ticket-fixing charges. In the Bronx (as in many other American jurisdictions) it has been a police perk for many years that officers can quietly fix tickets for family, friends and, one supposes, the occasional generous stranger. Those perks seem to reflect an informal, parallel power structure in the police force which gives long serving cops and union connected officers what those involved no doubt see as just and fair recompense for services rendered and dues paid...
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Seriously dude?
So you read the entire article, and the one thing you mention is that that the statement of "the occasional generous stranger" isn't real news?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
You have got to be joking.
That cop really is a sadistic bully.
What these power craven union thugs in the pd don't grasp is that it is crap like this that will make those on the fence feel sympathy for some of these kids.
Maybe the next time this thug cop writes some bogus ticket or makes a false arrest to boost his bloated OT and pension, maybe, just, maybe, for once someone will pepper spray this thug till he coughes up blood.
In futile car search for drugs, Pompton Lakes police inflict $12K worth of damage (Asset Forfieture)
NJ.com ^ | December 29, 2011 | James Queally
When Pompton Lakes police seized Darren Richardson’s car on a rainy September afternoon, they told him it was headed for an impound lot. When they returned it three weeks later, he says, the 2004 BMW belonged in a junk yard.
The instrument cluster and leather dashboard were gone. The caramel-colored seats were torn up. The gear shift was ripped out and stray wires hung limp everywhere. Geico, Richardson’s insurance company estimated the damage at $12,636.42 — more than he paid for the car — and declared the vehicle a "total loss."
According to police reports, the damage to the black BMW 325i came in the aftermath of a traffic stop during which officers detected a "strong odor of raw marijuana" inside the vehicle. Searching for a cache of drugs, members of three different police agencies and a detective from a federal drug task force spent two days tearing the car apart, the reports said.
So what did police find after their $12,000 search?
Absolutely nothing.
Richardson, 28, of the Haskell section of Wanaque, filed a notice of claim against the department last week, seeking damages for false arrest and malicious prosecution. He also said Geico may sue the department to recoup the cost of the claim it has already paid to Richardson.
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Wake deputy kills dog while searching for runaway teen (another 'isolated incident')
WRAL (Raleigh-Durham) ^ | December 29, 2011 | Beau Minnick
A Wake County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a couple’s 3-year-old dog Wednesday night while searching for a runaway teenager.
John and Linda Super say two deputies came to their home on King Circle, looking for a 15-year-old neighbor who had run away and had often spent time with them.
One of the couple’s dogs, Elvis, forced his way out the front door and ran outside as the couple talked to the deputies, they said. One of the deputies shot Elvis twice, including once in the back of the head, killing him, according to the Supers.
“All we’ve got is a dead dog and a lot of questions that need answers,” Linda Super said. “(Elvis) came running out, never bothered a soul, never opened his mouth, never woofed or nothing when he came out the door.”
Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said the deputy, Roderick Belfield, said the dog was barking and running towards him. Belfield will not be punished for shooting the dog.
--SNIP--
Harrison said he is investigating whether Belfield or the other deputy, Kenneth Edward Kay, used profanity while subduing John Super, who was upset after the shooting. John Super says the deputies were rough with him.
One of the runaway teen's guardians said Elvis was "vicious" and had lunged for the deputy, something the Supers dispute
“(Elvis) was my fourth child,” Linda Super said. “He was like the center of our lives.”
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FBI Fliers Reveal Profile Of A Perfect Terrorist (They Pay For Coffee With Cash, Apparently)Wow.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/14/fbi-perfect-terrorist-coffee-cash_n_1276494.html?just_reloaded=1
Paying for coffee with cash might be a sign of a suspicious person, the FBI said
14/02/2012 17:28 Updated: 15/02/2012 14:47
If you're in Starbucks and notice a nondescript individual paying for their coffee with cash - watch out.
According to the FBI you might have found evidence of a terrorist plot.
A series of fliers distributed to companies around the United States by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Assistance appear to give workers and business owners exactly this advice.
The fliers, as highlighted by the miscellania blog BoingBoing, are intended to help various businesses from hobby shop owners to car rental services identify suspicious people who might be involved in terrorist activity.
They have been collected online by the Public Intelligence collaborative research project, and are not normally released en masse by the FBI.
The fliers include much salient advice, such as pointing out the need for valid ID from customers purchasing large quantities of chemicals.
Reassuringly each of them also states that "it is important to remember that just because someone’s speech, actions, beliefs, appearance, or way of life is different, it does not mean that he or she is suspicious."
However the fliers also reveal the slightly more bizarre side of counter-terrorism.
For one, the fliers advise internet cafe owners that "evidence of a residential based internet provider (signs on to Comcast, AOL)" could be a sign of a suspicious character. The FBI says that such services can mask IP addresses, and that may be a sign the person does not want their tracks followed.
The Huffington Post UK is owned by AOL - but thankfully we didn't make it onto the list.
People who pay cash for small purchases, including coffee, are also highlighted in the fliers. They may be attempting to avoid a paper trail of their whereabouts by not using credit cards.
Owners of electronics stores visited by regulars with missing fingers, chemical burns or strange odours are also told to watch out.
And if you're a paintball proprietor and you have a regular customer who alters his appearance ("beard shaved off, hair colour changed") on each visit, you might also have a dangerous character in your midst says the FBI.
Tattoo parlour owners are asked to watch out for groups requesting the same tattoos or placement of tattoos.
More obviously, perhaps, the FBI warns paintball range owners that if groups want to mimic security checkpoints, practice kidnapping or refer to jihadi training materials during games, that might also be a clue something's up. Which seems fair.
Proprietors of hobby shops are informed that anyone purchasing large quantities of model rocket motor igniters or model aircraft fuel might be suspicious.
The full range of fliers so far gathered together can be read at Public Intelligence.
Wow.....
Theyve conviently signed NDAA which lets them indefinatley detain citizens...
Now theyre conviently defining terrorists as any citizen who pays with cash....
And people laughed when I said the government has a larger plan judging by all the recent laws theyve passed (or tried to).
Theyre preparing for something big. And its the citizens that are gonna take the brunt.
I guess the best case scenario is that theyre preping for war with Iran.
This sure seems like it could be something to try and push everyone into using banks, as well.
The government doesnt like cash, cause they cant trace it. Banks dont like cash, cause they dont make any money off it.
Yeah, that's what I took away from that article... ::)Heres what I see - an FBI warning people to be wary of those that pay with "cash", check their email other than at home, or change their appearance as they might be terrorists.
'Tix Fix' In Reverse. Some NYPD cops ‘lie’ in court to avoid pay dock
NY Post ^ | 3/4/2012 | Brad Hamilton
Posted on March 4, 2012 11:47:19 PM EST by GreaterSwiss
Cops deemed to not have performed well risk losing as many as 10 vacation days or two weeks pay, sources said. “They manage this through a spirit of fear,” said one veteran cop. “Maybe the officer doesn’t present his testimony good enough. So they say, ‘OK, we’re going to take a week’s pay from you.’ ” The result is higher conviction rates — and a tense atmosphere in which officers sometimes falsify their notes and don’t tell the truth in court to avoid being punished, police and defense lawyers say. Defense lawyers say sympathetic judges even coach cops on what to say. “They see these cops every day, and they get to know them,” said one. “If a guy’s going to get into trouble, it’s, like, ‘I don’t want to let that happen.’ ”
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Seems to me that would be grounds to appeal a conviction.
Wonder what idiot in the PD decided to go after cops like that? Is the union cool with this?
What is more likely and I base this purely on my experience here, there was a time when some cops would go to court for the overtime, then simply tell the prosecutor at the beginning of the morning that they couldn't recall that particular stop. The prosecutor would then have to try and plead the ticket or lose the case. The cop was dismissed and on his way home in 20 minutes with 3 hrs of OT minimum in his pocket.
So I could see where they would want to monitor something like that, but trying to determine the other stuff the article eludes to doesn't add up.
That's not true... Every courthouse I've ever been in has the Cops sitting in the booth up front close to the bench, but still visible and accessible to the general public.
State agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords (Communism around the corner)One thing we know, its that the government fucking hates the idea of citizens being able to keep information private from them.
msnbc ^ | 3/6/2012 | Bob Sullivan
If you think privacy settings on your Facebook and Twitter accounts guarantee future employers or schools can't see your private posts, guess again.
Employers and colleges find the treasure-trove of personal information hiding behind password-protected accounts and privacy walls just too tempting, and increasingly, they are demanding full access from applicants and students.
In Maryland, job seekers applying to the state's Department of Corrections have been asked during interviews to log into their accounts and let an interviewer watch while the potential employee clicks through wall posts, friends, photos and anything else that might be found behind the privacy wall.
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You don't stagger your docket?
yes, but traffic court moves fast, cops coming in all day
Cops where I live pull scams regarding ot and traffic court near me like you can't believe.
come in for 30 minutes, make a few deals, get 4 hours OT.
lawyers pull the most unethical crap you've ever seen here...
I don't do crim law, but I have a few buddies who have mattered the art of testilying to a tee.
I gathered from your posts you don't do criminal law. No offense
Don't. I don't want to defend violent thugs.
And you have to have a grasp of what evidence means, often supporting your statements with facts. I can't recall too many cut and paste FOX news articles in criminal court.
I know crim procedure well. I loved law school. Great education. considering I am in the Bronx, the worst of the worst is in crime court in the Bronx and I don't want to deal w those apes.
You feeling okay tonight? You seem suspiciously coherent and civil.. Long day?
3333s hate for black > hate for police.3333, plays like that on the board, but is he really like that? I have my doubts... I don't think he's the racist he pretends to be. I have some speck of faith that 3333 actually judges people for who they are and not by their colour.
Enemy of my enemy and all that tonight.
Oh, I'm just busting his balls... I don't think it's race with him... It's attitude and action.
Didn't watch it all but did watch enough to know the narrator is clueless about drug dog handling. The officer is trained to start down wind of any area or object he is searching. In the case it was likely the front of the vehicleOk, big deal, he doesn't know the details of drug dog handling even though he posted videos to prove his point and you have only posted your opinion, but I trust you... He's a freaking trekkie geek coming from a trek show who obviously is a little upset that the officer made up a bunch of bogus crap to pull him over and search his vehicle. Are you saying that everything else is totally normal in this video?
The officer doesn't tell his dog to "sit". he gives the command to "seek" which is the command used to tell the dog to start sniffing for contraband.
The dog comes off the back of the suspect car towards the front of the police car only because an odor caught his curiosity. He satisfied his curiosity and moved on. Could be drugs had been placed on the hood of the patrol car in recent history during another arrest, could be the cop ate breakfast off the hood that morning.
The video showing the dogs sitting passively as an alert are BOMB dogs and trained to not show aggression during an alert for obvious reasons. In narcotics, typically the dog will scratch, bite and try to reach the drug. Not all do, but most do and it is encouraged as it helps pinpoint the location.
At this point it became obvious to me the narrator was off base and didn't know what he was talking about.
Don't you know?I'm not going to dog on Agnositic. We've talked a bit and he seems like a good person to me. He's a vet and I hope he's one of the good cops. I'd rather just focus on debating this rather than call him out for being anonymous.
The anonymous cop Agnostic007 is supposedly more trustworthy than the person who puts his name out there on the internet for the world to see.
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That's funny because had you watched it, you would have seen actual drug sniffing dogs and their HANDLERS having the discussion about what drug dogs do and do not do.
You say they weren't drug dogs, but there were drug dog handlers talking about their dogs.
What's even MORE funny is how the cop has a criminal history... Of course you didn't get to that part.
I understand you are too busy to watch it though... Saving those lives and protecting the shit out of people.
Did you read any of the corresponding articles?
Doubtful... You're busy right?
http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/illinois/news/crime/new-hearing-planned-in-officer-s-legal-battle/article_c6fda5b4-c8c5-51f6-ba20-6c786c48cbef.html?mode=story
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-06/news/ct-met-canine-officers-20110105_1_drug-sniffing-dogs-alex-rothacker-drug-dog
I'm not going to dog on Agnositic. We've talked a bit and he seems like a good person to me. He's a vet and I hope he's one of the good cops. I'd rather just focus on debating this rather than call him out for being anonymous.
I think my alarm clock is on to me....Why do you continue to mock this kind of shit?
Why do you continue to mock this kind of shit?
Its happening right before your eyes, and youre going to be one of those dumb fucks that sits there going "How did this happen to me? I never saw it coming!" ::) ::) ::)
More like refused to open your eyes.
Why do you continue to mock this kind of shit?
Its happening right before your eyes, and youre going to be one of those dumb fucks that sits there going "How did this happen to me? I never saw it coming!" ::) ::) ::)
More like refused to open your eyes.
His continued employment depends on this police state bullshit.
I'm tied down in reality..it is a flaw I am working on..No, youre tied down in IGNORANCE because you refuse to accept reality when its right in fucking front of you.
It means the fact that you get to keep getting a paycheck for oppressing hard working tax payers who pay for your salary due to being forced to with the power of the gun.
No, youre tied down in IGNORANCE because you refuse to accept reality when its right in fucking front of you.
Youre in Law Enforcement arent you? People in L.E. are the only people Ive ever seen dismiss this kind of shit even when faced with facts right in front of their face.
I guess I dont really blame you, itd be hard for me to come to grips with the fact that my constituents are no longer honoring their sworn oath but are instead becoming a corrupt perversion of themselves, I wouldnt want to face that either.
*Edit*
just scrolled up and read the rest of the thread that you were in L.E.
Hope youre one of the good ones, because it seems more and more that the bad are starting to outweight the good.
BTW bro, I understand why you defend them all, I do the same for the Marines I seen unjustly persecuted, but the fact is, there is just no defending some of the shit your constituents do, and the fact is, that their is an increasingly oppressive police and government presence (more federal than state), and they ARE finding new ways to keep tabs on us - it may not be at your level, but it sure as hell is at the Federal level whether you want to open your eyes to it or not.
Your... It's Your.
Possessive.
For every 100,000 good contacts police have daily that are never seen, you see the couple dumb asses.
Can I get some props from some of the posters here for obeying the law on a regular basis?
Every fucking day goes by and I obey 10 bazillion laws and never get credit for any of it.
ONE TIME I run a stop sign and some douchebag cop makes a thing of it. ::)
How about some props for all the laws I fucking obeyed. :(
http://www.nbc12.com/story/17191109/woman-ticketed
Police ticket woman for kid's chalk drawings
Courtesy: Susan Mortensen Courtesy: Susan Mortensen
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - -
A woman claims Richmond Police gave her a ticket because her little girl was drawing with chalk on the rocks at Belle Isle.
Susan Mortensen says she was charged with destruction of property due to her child's doodles. She says she wasn't aware that chalk wasn't allowed and wants other parents to be aware, so they don't get ticketed as well.
The mother is speaking with Ben Garbarek, who will have more on the story coming up on First at 4:00.
http://www.nbc12.com/story/17191109/woman-ticketed
Police ticket woman for kid's chalk drawings
Courtesy: Susan Mortensen Courtesy: Susan Mortensen
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - -
A woman claims Richmond Police gave her a ticket because her little girl was drawing with chalk on the rocks at Belle Isle.
Susan Mortensen says she was charged with destruction of property due to her child's doodles. She says she wasn't aware that chalk wasn't allowed and wants other parents to be aware, so they don't get ticketed as well.
The mother is speaking with Ben Garbarek, who will have more on the story coming up on First at 4:00.
Can I get some props from some of the posters here for obeying the law on a regular basis?
Every fucking day goes by and I obey 10 bazillion laws and never get credit for any of it.
ONE TIME I run a stop sign and some douchebag cop makes a thing of it. ::)
How about some props for all the laws I fucking obeyed. :(
Clearly these cops did not care about the 10 bazillion laws this woman followed correctly.
They only want to cry about the one she didn't get right.
Wonder what happens to cops when they don't get it right............oh wait....
:D
Typically get reprimmands, suspensions or termination depending on the seriousness.
Reprimand?
You mean like when an officer from a certain police department is caught watching a movie in his patrol car?
Kinda strange considering you claimed you all were soooooo busy that you didn't have time for breaks, lol.
This will go away, with most of you covering his/her a$$. Like I said, biggest problem with public officials (ALL public officials) is the fact that they don't police themselves.
I'll bet dollars to donuts that he is not suspended at all.
I will also double your donut that if he is suspended that its for no more than 2 weeks with pay.
I'll bet dollars to donuts that he is not suspended at all.
I will also double your donut that if he is suspended that its for no more than 2 weeks with pay.
Right to Resist now law in Indiana, cops show how evil they think we are
Posted on March 24, 2012.
Tuesday night Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed the Right to Resist bill into law and the policemen of the United States went completely apeshit. There’s really nowhere better to go to write this article than the hangout site for cops called PoliceOne.com. Alot of people I know have changed their opinions of police after reading what the officers say on that page.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said Wednesday that he shares police groups’ concerns that some people might misinterpret a new law that lays out when residents could be legally justified in using force against police officers.
Daniels said he thought carefully before signing the bill Tuesday night. The legislation was passed by strong majorities in the House and Senate in response to public uproar after the state Supreme Court ruled last year that residents couldn”t resist officers even during an illegal entry.
Obviously Mitch wants to please both sides in this debate, but let’s just take a look at what the police are saying.
http://www.copblock.org/14397/right-to-resist-now-law-in-indiana-cops-show-how-evil-they-think-we-are
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good law. I am glad he signed this into law. Hopefully more states will follow.
Good law if the public is educated on what it means. Potentially dangerous if not..Agree here...
Great law... Remember... You hold your power at the behest of the people... Not at your whim.I agree here, what Im concerned about is police entering lawfully and some punk deciding to shoot their ass because he thinks theyre there illegally. I think for this to work, theyre going to have to end Police's forced entry without knocking. (Which I think should happen anyway, way to many innocents get shot when they hear their door being broken down and they reach for a gun thinking theyre being invaded).
Police need to understand that they are there at the desire of citizens, they are not special.
This has happened to me before.
As I work in CA a lot, and my company is headquartered there, I am forced to pay CA and VA state taxes and the California Franchise Tax board HAS done this to me in the past even though I DO NOT LIVE THERE.
It's a ####... and it is NOT a lie.
I had my accounts frozen by those fuckers in 2008 for the EXACT same reason.
This has happened to me before.You gotta be kidding me.
As I work in CA a lot, and my company is headquartered there, I am forced to pay CA and VA state taxes and the California Franchise Tax board HAS done this to me in the past even though I DO NOT LIVE THERE.
It's a ####... and it is NOT a lie.
I had my accounts frozen by those fuckers in 2008 for the EXACT same reason.
Yep. It's a ####.
http://www.businessinsider.com/welcome-to-the-united-states-of-orwell-part-2-law-abiding-taxpayers-are-treated-as-criminals-while-the-real-criminals-go-free-2012-3
Wow. Read this shit!!!! and people wonder why I pray for the govt to collapse and all govt workers left penniless?
No, I pretty much figure you have serious mental issues ;)
Yeah whatever - the public at large is coming more and more to my view that most government workers, not all are nothing but thieves, locusts, and criminals.
You may actually have a learning disability if you seriously believe that.
This has happened to me before.
As I work in CA a lot, and my company is headquartered there, I am forced to pay CA and VA state taxes and the California Franchise Tax board HAS done this to me in the past even though I DO NOT LIVE THERE.
It's a ####... and it is NOT a lie.
I had my accounts frozen by those fuckers in 2008 for the EXACT same reason.
This has happened to me before.
As I work in CA a lot, and my company is headquartered there, I am forced to pay CA and VA state taxes and the California Franchise Tax board HAS done this to me in the past even though I DO NOT LIVE THERE.
It's a ####... and it is NOT a lie.
I had my accounts frozen by those fuckers in 2008 for the EXACT same reason.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/04/16/video-captures-woman-sobbing-uncontrollably-during-tsa-pat-down
Absurd. At some point one of these scumbags is going to be KTFO'ed on the spot.
Give me a fucking break. ::)
That bitch has got more problems than a simple patdown like that.
LOL - maybe brought back memories of her childhood? ddduuhhhoooo!!!!
2 1/2 years baby!!! To stop some counterfeit Nike shit... BOOOM!!!!!!Extremely solid use of taxpayer dollars.
Glad to hear that... We want it to be a big time hit.Awesome. BF3's single player was pretty good, but felt more like it was a rolling testbed for their new engine.
I guarantee that the single player will not disappoint.
"He said, 'If you would have taken the five seconds to apply the brake, this never would have happened!'
"I say, 'Really? And if I did and my boy stepped over the edge and fell instead of the Jeep, then were would I be?' He says, 'Jail, for child endangerment.'"
Dad saves boy before car plunges down cliff -- and gets pair of traffic tickets
"Do you mind if I search your vehicle," the officer asked.
The standard reply to this question should be "I do not consent to any search."
I always say No... I have all the time in the world if they do.
Good advice. Never consent to a search, since there's nothing that you can gain from it.
To each their own, I guess.
I don't understand your response to my negative on allowing them to search.
Sanford judge rules in favor of motorist who flashed his headlights
By Rene Stutzman, Orlando Sentinel
6:33 p.m. EST, May 22, 2012
A judge in Sanford ruled Tuesday that a Lake Mary man was lawfully exercising his First Amendment rights when he flashed his headlights to warn neighbors that a deputy had set up a speed trap nearby.
That decision is another victory for Ryan Kintner, 25, who sued theSeminole County Sheriff's Office last year, accusing it of misconstruing a state law and violating his civil rights, principally his right to free speech.
He was ticketed Aug. 10 by a Seminole County deputy, but Kintner alleges the officer misapplied a state law designed to ban motorists from flashing after-market emergency lights.
Circuit Judge Alan Dickey earlier ruled that that state law does not apply to people who did what Kintner did, use his headlights to communicate.
On Tuesday the judge went a step further, saying people who flash their headlights to communicate are engaging in behavior protected by the U.S. Constitution.
"He felt the police specificially went out of their way to silence Mr. Kintner and that it was clearly a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights," said his attorney, J. Marcus Jones of Oviedo.
Jones has filed a similar but much broader suit in Tallahassee against the Florida Highway Patrol.
A hearing in that case is scheduled next month.
"This stuff is fun," Jones said after Tuesday's hearing.
Each suit asked that police agencies be ordered to halt writing those tickets. The highway patrol stopped voluntarily, awaiting the outcome of the suit. So have theSeminole County Sheriff's Officeand other agencies.
In addition to Kintner's civil suit against the sheriff's office, he also is fighting the ticket. It is still pending in county court in Sanford.
The officer also ticketed him for running a stop sign, saying Kintner had pulled beyond a stop bar before coming to a complete halt.
In an interview in August, shortly after filing suit, Kintner said, "I felt an injustice was being done. … I have nothing against officers … keeping speeding down, but when you cross a line and get into free speech, I feel it's gone too far."
According to his suit, Kintner was home Aug. 10 when he saw a deputy park along a street and pull out his radar gun. Kintner then got in his car, drove a couple of blocks away, parked and pointed his vehicle at oncoming traffic and began flashing his lights.
He was ticketed a short time later.
rstutzman@tribune.com or 407-650-6394.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/cops-gun-down-man-for-legally-carrying-firearm
Disgusting beyond words. And people wonder I loathe most cops. ::) ::).
Send In The Drones: Obama Spies On America
Dressed in full protective gear, police broke the storm door of the home at 616 East Powell Ave. — the Milans’ front door was already open on the hot summer day. They also broke a front window. They tossed a flashbang stun grenade into the living room that made a deafening blast. A short distance away, a local television crew’s cameras were rolling. The police had invited the station to videotape the forced entry of the residence.Stephanie Milan said she managed to remain calm because she knew her family hadn’t done anything wrong. Still, she was stunned and confused.
Police were executing a search warrant approved by a judge. Such warrants are routinely filed in the Vanderburgh County Clerks Office, but officials in the clerks office said Friday afternoon they had no record of a warrant served on that address.
When asked by the Courier & Press for access to the document that allowed them to force entry to the home, Bolin refused. He said it might contain information that would compromise their investigation. However, he said the document didn’t contain names of any suspects.
Obama is going to have the IRS swat teams doing this to make sure people sign up for ThugCare
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232340/Homeowner-tasered-police-fought-spreading-house-door.html
Insane.
Not that I would do it, but having been there done that .. as Chris Rock would say... I don't condone it.. but I understand it. If the cops do nothing, and Joe Citizen gets hurt, they get sued. If they stop him, they get sued. LIkely he had tunnel vision and didn't hear the cops instructions to stop. Can't really see any benefit in an officer sneaking up and tazing without trying to get him to stop voluntarily.
Police have no affirmative duty to help a citizen and can't be sued for not stopping someone from hurting themselves. You know that.
I don't agree with your statement at all.
Really/ You didnt learn that in the Academy?
Its well settled law that the police have no affirmative duty to help a citzen in need. They have a public duty in general, but that does not apply to a citizen in distress.
No..apparently the instructors weren't aware of that. We were taught we have a duty to act. In fact, we have policies in place that discipline officers who fail to act in particular situations. YOU should know cops get sued for a variety to things. This guy sued because he was tased. He will likely lose if it goes to court, however the city will likely settle. He would probably sue if he got hurt, though he would likely lose if it went to court. Doesn't mean the officers would not be punished because they failed to control a scene.
;D
How he did not know this is pathetic. Most cops I know are clueless when it comes to crim pro or just don't care. Most learn a few things that are basic basic stuff you learn the first week in law school but rarely go beyond that.
apparently you weren't aware of the two exceptions.. pathetic
How does that apply to the story I posted. It doesn't.
They had told him to stop once. He will argue the special relationship exception because they limited his movement. He will argue when the police arrived they took control of the scene and should not have allowed him to get close enough to a raging fire to spray it with a garden hose. So while I've addressed your Supreme Court "No Duty" aspect, lets move on to the "right thing to do" aspect. Do you think the cops hated this guy? Were waiting for a chance to pop him and when he placed himself in danger (which in turn places the officers and firemen in danger when they have to go pull his ass out of the fire) they saw it as a chance to try out their fancy taser? How about this possibility. This was likely this guys first fire experience. Probably not the officers first one. As you know, since you are the expert, the first thing of importance is the preservation of life. Property comes second. you can replace property. People have been killed fighting house fires with garden hoses. Turns out..garden hoses are woefully inadequate. Again, I doubt I would taser the guy, but.. me and my partner would have made sure he stayed a safe distance away from the fire. 1. Because we don't want anyone getting seriously hurt and 2. because if they DO get hurt, we will be held responsible. We'll likely survive the lawsuit, but administratively , it can be your job.
The guy was on his own property trying to protect it since the fire department was not there. The cops were doing nothing. A citizen can't try to protect his own property any more just because some stupid cop tells him not to and then gets tazed?
F the police.
Saw this earlier... It already passed in the house.
How about we F Boehner too!
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!
What in the holy fuck is going on around here?
Nope.
Thats fucked up :(
100 percent accurate.
Bi-Partisan screw job. Just like the NDAA
Both parties are the same behind closed doors.
How does that apply to the story I posted. It doesn't.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
Ridiculous.
F Harry reid!
The senate is not able to rewrite a bill without it going back to the house for retification.
What the hell is reid trying to pull??
If the Senate and the House pass different versions of a bill, there is a joint Committee that tries to "iron things out" and which then submits the revised bill to both Houses of Congress for an up or down vote.
Trooper Accused of Stealing from Victim of Fatal Crash [CT]
www.nbcconnecticut.com ^ | Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 | Updated 2:48 PM EST | Staff
Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:59:44 PM
A 43-year-old state trooper has been charged with larceny, accused of stealing jewelry and cash from the victim of a fatal crash on Route 15 in Fairfield on Sept. 22.
Trooper Aaron Huntsman, an 18-year veteran of the department, has been suspended from the department, according to state police.
Police began investigating when the victim’s family determined that jewelry, clothing and cash were missing, state police said.
The Connecticut Post is reporting that Huntsman is accused of stealing $3,000 in cash and a gold chain from the victim's body.
The family obtained the victim’s clothes from the hospital, but were not able to find jewelry.
As State Police investigated, they determined that no jewelry was logged into evidence and a large amount of cash was found in the trooper’s police cruiser.
Police obtained an arrest warrant on Wednesday charging Huntsman with two counts of third-degree larceny, interfering with police and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Police arrested Huntsman on Thursday.
He was released after posting a $5,000 bond and will be arraigned in Superior Court GA #2 Bridgeport on Dec. 10.
According to the state Web site, Huntsman's state police salary is $80,000 and he made almost $112,000 in 2011.
Check out this video on YouTube:
Fucked up!!!!
Video: Feds shut down 100-year-old oyster company, destroy some lives and dreams
Hot air ^
Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:37:42 PM by TigerClaws
Hey, no bigs. It’s just a 100-year-old company and California’s only surviving cannery, a sustainable, family-owned operation employing 30 people. The Drakes Bay Oyster Company has been in a seven-year fight with the federal government and environmental groups over whether it’s 40-year lease would be renewed this week. The Lunny family, which owns the oyster farm, was among a group of families that sold their ranch lands to the National Parks Service in the 1970s to protect them from developers, with the understanding they would get 40-year-leases renewed in perpetuity. After buying and operating the oyster farm without incident— they were even featured as outstanding environmental stewards by the National Parks Service— the Lunnys learned in 2005 they were accused of bringing environmental damage to an area the NPS and environmentalists were anxious to designate as the nation’s first federally recognized marine wilderness.
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Hot air ^
Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:37:42 PM by TigerClaws
Hey, no bigs. It’s just a 100-year-old company and California’s only surviving cannery, a sustainable, family-owned operation employing 30 people. The Drakes Bay Oyster Company has been in a seven-year fight with the federal government and environmental groups over whether it’s 40-year lease would be renewed this week. The Lunny family, which owns the oyster farm, was among a group of families that sold their ranch lands to the National Parks Service in the 1970s to protect them from developers, with the understanding they would get 40-year-leases renewed in perpetuity. After buying and operating the oyster farm without incident— they were even featured as outstanding environmental stewards by the National Parks Service— the Lunnys learned in 2005 they were accused of bringing environmental damage to an area the NPS and environmentalists were anxious to designate as the nation’s first federally recognized marine wilderness.
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Fuck. Really?
got a link 33?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57556704-38/cops-to-congress-we-need-logs-of-americans-text-messages
And it gets worse!
Wtf!!!
THIS IS REALLY fucked UP.
80 YEARS IN JAIL?
FUCK OBAMA!
Why, exactly is Obama to blame for Federal laws that have been on the books long before he was in the Senate? You wouldn't want him to not enforce those laws, would you? I mean, after all, isn't that what he's accused for vis-à-vis immigration?
Prosecutorial discretion?
He gets blasted when the DOJ exercises prosecutorial discretion, and he gets blasted when the DOJ doesn't exercise prosecutorial discretion? I guess we can argue that the issues in question are very different, but still... the fact is that to you Obama can do no right (just like Bush couldn't do no right to those on the opposite end of the spectrum from you).
As I said before, this insane polarization, fueled by the hyperpartisan dolts and the pundits will be our undoing.
You think its a good use of limited resources to go after legal pot growers vs violent cartels and massive white collar crime?
You think its a good use of limited resources to go after legal pot growers vs violent cartels and massive white collar crime?
Either the DOJ has prosecutorial discretion or they don't. Either Obama and his Administration should be condemned for not enforcing the laws currently on the books or they shouldn't. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
Nonsense, there's no either or. Circumstances always vary.
In fact the amount and range of prosecutorial discretion is completely debatable.
Hell, the whole reason we're stuck with mandatory minimums in due to perceived abuses in discretion. But even now...some discretion still exists in sentencing.
Some laws I consider just and fully support them enforcing.
Some laws I think are unjust and should not be enforced.
To claim you can't do both is... ::)
Of course there is. Either there is such a thing as prosecutorial discretion of there isn't. Either the DOJ has it or they don't. Don't confuse that simple question with the much more complicated question of when it is appropriate for them to use that discretion and how to do so. That's where the "circumstances" you mention come into play.
Right. But whether it exists isn't debatable. Whether the DOJ has it isn't debatable. These are binary questions about facts.
You are confusing sentencing discretion, which is something something that Judges and prosecutors have, and prosecutorial discretion, which is something prosecutors have. Nice try though.
If you think laws are unjust and should not be enforced then fight to repeal them. The laws that are on the books should be respected, even when we disagree with them. If we don't, the rule of law is a meaningless, vacuous term.
You can't be for and against something at the same time. This is a simple fact of reality. Just how you can't have your cake and eat it too is a fact of reality. You can try to have your cake and eat it too, but the world in which you live in is rational, and after you're done eating your cake, no matter how hard you try, you can no longer have it.
If you think Obama's DOJ does have prosecutorial discretion, then you can't also think that they don't simply because you disagree with how they apply that discretion and vice-versa. If you have a beef with how they're applying that discretion, that's a whole 'nother perfectly valid topic.
Of course it exists.
Since you're not bright enough to figure it out, I dispensed with your childishness and went right to the real discussion.
That's called an analagous situation. You're a lot slower than I thought, lol.
Hell no. I can't imagine what things would be like if certain groups hadn't practiced civil disobedience.
No, not in the childish sense you're attempting to apply it.
You can be for them having it in certain circumstances.
You can be against them having it in certain circumstances.
Are you capable of making a point without writing a goddamn book?
The Police State Comes To Arkansas
Posted: 12/18/2012 7:56 am
Unfortunately, not an exaggeration:
"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."
Stovall said while some people may be offended by the actions of his department, they should not be.
"We're going to do it to everybody," he said. "Criminals don't like being talked to."
Gaskill backed Stovall's proposed actions during Thursday's town hall.
"They may not be doing anything but walking their dog," he said. "But they're going to have to prove it." . . .
"This fear is what's given us the reason to do this. Once I have stats and people saying they're scared, we can do this," he said. "It allows us to do what we're fixing to do." . . .
"To ask you for your ID, I have to have a reason," he said. "Well, I've got statistical reasons that say I've got a lot of crime right now, which gives me probable cause to ask what you're doing out. Then when I add that people are scared...then that gives us even more [reason] to ask why are you here and what are you doing in this area." . . .
"Anyone that's out walking, because of the crime and the fear factor, [could be stopped]," he said . . .
Individuals who do not produce identification when asked could be charged with obstructing a governmental operation, according to Stovall.
Here's the least surprising line in the article:
Stovall said he did not consult an attorney before announcing his plans to combat crime.
Stovall added that he realized there was little difference between what he was proposing and martial law--and that he didn't much care.
The mayor and city attorney have apparently walked the idea back, at least a little. But the police chief isn't wavering. And of course it's his cops who will be enforcing the law.
Using SWAT teams for routine patrols isn't uncommon. Fresno did this for several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The city sent its Violent Crimes Suppression Unit into poorer neighborhoods and stopped, confronted, questioned, and searched nearly everyone they encountered. "It's a war," one SWAT officer told Christian Parenti in a a report for The Naiton (not available online). Another said, "If you're 21, male, living in one of these neighborhoods, and you're not in our computer, then there's something definitely wrong."
A 1999 report in the Boston Globe found similar units patrolling the streets of Indianapolis and San Francisco, which the reporter noted gave the communities under siege "all the ambiance of the West Bank."
In a 1997 survey, the criminologist Peter Kraska found that about one in five cities in his survey used their SWAT teams for routine patrols. It seems likely that number has fallen since then as the crime rate has dropped (the Fresno VCSU was disbanded in 2002), but it's hard to say for sure. The total number of SWAT teams has only increased since then, as has the number of situations in which they're utilized.
But Stovall's comments show that it isn't so much a rise in crime that allows these sorts of police actions to happen, it's the fear of crime. (Though there has been an actual increase in crime in Paragould.) Back in the early 1970s when Nixon was preparing to impose his new crime bill on Washington, D.C., he ran into a problem. According to FBI data, crime was actually starting to fall in D.C. Nixon's strategy was to make D.C. the "model city" to show off his tough anti-crime policies. The fact that crime was already falling presented two problems: 1) It could make the city less fearful, resulting in less pressure on Congress to push through his bill, and 2) it would make it more difficult for Nixon to claim credit for any crime drop in the city later. So Nixon's Justice Department sat on the figures. They refused to release them until after they had won on Capitol Hill.
The fear of crime is ever-present, even when crime isn't. For example, despite the fact that the crime rate has been dropping dramatically for nearly 20 years*--to historic lows--70 percent of Americans still think crime is getting worse.
I'm sure the cable news obsession with sensational crime stories and the emergence of tragedy vultures like Nancy Grace have a lot to do with it. Long-developing trends like the crime drop by definition aren't daily news. Crime is, even when it's down. I've seen it stated over and over in the Newtown coverage that mass shootings are on the rise. As I pointed out in the morning links, there is no evidence for that, and in fact the numbers suggest they're on the wane. They happen so infrequently that there simply aren't enough data points to say for certain.
Unfortunately, empirical data aren't nearly as compelling as images of victims and mug shots of scary-looking criminals. And like Nixon, today's politicians and law enforcement officials know that you don't pass new laws and give the police new powers by assuaging public fear. You get these things by stoking it.
(*There was a slight uptick in the crime figures in 2011, driven mostly by an increase in minor assaults.)
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The Police State Comes To Arkansas
Posted: 12/18/2012 7:56 am
Unfortunately, not an exaggeration:
"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."
Stovall said while some people may be offended by the actions of his department, they should not be.
"We're going to do it to everybody," he said. "Criminals don't like being talked to."
Gaskill backed Stovall's proposed actions during Thursday's town hall.
"They may not be doing anything but walking their dog," he said. "But they're going to have to prove it." . . .
"This fear is what's given us the reason to do this. Once I have stats and people saying they're scared, we can do this," he said. "It allows us to do what we're fixing to do." . . .
"To ask you for your ID, I have to have a reason," he said. "Well, I've got statistical reasons that say I've got a lot of crime right now, which gives me probable cause to ask what you're doing out. Then when I add that people are scared...then that gives us even more [reason] to ask why are you here and what are you doing in this area." . . .
"Anyone that's out walking, because of the crime and the fear factor, [could be stopped]," he said . . .
Individuals who do not produce identification when asked could be charged with obstructing a governmental operation, according to Stovall.
Here's the least surprising line in the article:
Stovall said he did not consult an attorney before announcing his plans to combat crime.
Stovall added that he realized there was little difference between what he was proposing and martial law--and that he didn't much care.
The mayor and city attorney have apparently walked the idea back, at least a little. But the police chief isn't wavering. And of course it's his cops who will be enforcing the law.
Using SWAT teams for routine patrols isn't uncommon. Fresno did this for several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The city sent its Violent Crimes Suppression Unit into poorer neighborhoods and stopped, confronted, questioned, and searched nearly everyone they encountered. "It's a war," one SWAT officer told Christian Parenti in a a report for The Naiton (not available online). Another said, "If you're 21, male, living in one of these neighborhoods, and you're not in our computer, then there's something definitely wrong."
A 1999 report in the Boston Globe found similar units patrolling the streets of Indianapolis and San Francisco, which the reporter noted gave the communities under siege "all the ambiance of the West Bank."
In a 1997 survey, the criminologist Peter Kraska found that about one in five cities in his survey used their SWAT teams for routine patrols. It seems likely that number has fallen since then as the crime rate has dropped (the Fresno VCSU was disbanded in 2002), but it's hard to say for sure. The total number of SWAT teams has only increased since then, as has the number of situations in which they're utilized.
But Stovall's comments show that it isn't so much a rise in crime that allows these sorts of police actions to happen, it's the fear of crime. (Though there has been an actual increase in crime in Paragould.) Back in the early 1970s when Nixon was preparing to impose his new crime bill on Washington, D.C., he ran into a problem. According to FBI data, crime was actually starting to fall in D.C. Nixon's strategy was to make D.C. the "model city" to show off his tough anti-crime policies. The fact that crime was already falling presented two problems: 1) It could make the city less fearful, resulting in less pressure on Congress to push through his bill, and 2) it would make it more difficult for Nixon to claim credit for any crime drop in the city later. So Nixon's Justice Department sat on the figures. They refused to release them until after they had won on Capitol Hill.
The fear of crime is ever-present, even when crime isn't. For example, despite the fact that the crime rate has been dropping dramatically for nearly 20 years*--to historic lows--70 percent of Americans still think crime is getting worse.
I'm sure the cable news obsession with sensational crime stories and the emergence of tragedy vultures like Nancy Grace have a lot to do with it. Long-developing trends like the crime drop by definition aren't daily news. Crime is, even when it's down. I've seen it stated over and over in the Newtown coverage that mass shootings are on the rise. As I pointed out in the morning links, there is no evidence for that, and in fact the numbers suggest they're on the wane. They happen so infrequently that there simply aren't enough data points to say for certain.
Unfortunately, empirical data aren't nearly as compelling as images of victims and mug shots of scary-looking criminals. And like Nixon, today's politicians and law enforcement officials know that you don't pass new laws and give the police new powers by assuaging public fear. You get these things by stoking it.
(*There was a slight uptick in the crime figures in 2011, driven mostly by an increase in minor assaults.)
Follow Radley Balko on Twitter: www.twitter.com/radleybalko
The Police State Comes To Arkansas
Posted: 12/18/2012 7:56 am
Unfortunately, not an exaggeration:
"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."
Stovall said while some people may be offended by the actions of his department, they should not be.
"We're going to do it to everybody," he said. "Criminals don't like being talked to."
Gaskill backed Stovall's proposed actions during Thursday's town hall.
"They may not be doing anything but walking their dog," he said. "But they're going to have to prove it." . . .
"This fear is what's given us the reason to do this. Once I have stats and people saying they're scared, we can do this," he said. "It allows us to do what we're fixing to do." . . .
"To ask you for your ID, I have to have a reason," he said. "Well, I've got statistical reasons that say I've got a lot of crime right now, which gives me probable cause to ask what you're doing out. Then when I add that people are scared...then that gives us even more [reason] to ask why are you here and what are you doing in this area." . . .
"Anyone that's out walking, because of the crime and the fear factor, [could be stopped]," he said . . .
Individuals who do not produce identification when asked could be charged with obstructing a governmental operation, according to Stovall.
Here's the least surprising line in the article:
Stovall said he did not consult an attorney before announcing his plans to combat crime.
Stovall added that he realized there was little difference between what he was proposing and martial law--and that he didn't much care.
The mayor and city attorney have apparently walked the idea back, at least a little. But the police chief isn't wavering. And of course it's his cops who will be enforcing the law.
Using SWAT teams for routine patrols isn't uncommon. Fresno did this for several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The city sent its Violent Crimes Suppression Unit into poorer neighborhoods and stopped, confronted, questioned, and searched nearly everyone they encountered. "It's a war," one SWAT officer told Christian Parenti in a a report for The Naiton (not available online). Another said, "If you're 21, male, living in one of these neighborhoods, and you're not in our computer, then there's something definitely wrong."
A 1999 report in the Boston Globe found similar units patrolling the streets of Indianapolis and San Francisco, which the reporter noted gave the communities under siege "all the ambiance of the West Bank."
In a 1997 survey, the criminologist Peter Kraska found that about one in five cities in his survey used their SWAT teams for routine patrols. It seems likely that number has fallen since then as the crime rate has dropped (the Fresno VCSU was disbanded in 2002), but it's hard to say for sure. The total number of SWAT teams has only increased since then, as has the number of situations in which they're utilized.
But Stovall's comments show that it isn't so much a rise in crime that allows these sorts of police actions to happen, it's the fear of crime. (Though there has been an actual increase in crime in Paragould.) Back in the early 1970s when Nixon was preparing to impose his new crime bill on Washington, D.C., he ran into a problem. According to FBI data, crime was actually starting to fall in D.C. Nixon's strategy was to make D.C. the "model city" to show off his tough anti-crime policies. The fact that crime was already falling presented two problems: 1) It could make the city less fearful, resulting in less pressure on Congress to push through his bill, and 2) it would make it more difficult for Nixon to claim credit for any crime drop in the city later. So Nixon's Justice Department sat on the figures. They refused to release them until after they had won on Capitol Hill.
The fear of crime is ever-present, even when crime isn't. For example, despite the fact that the crime rate has been dropping dramatically for nearly 20 years*--to historic lows--70 percent of Americans still think crime is getting worse.
I'm sure the cable news obsession with sensational crime stories and the emergence of tragedy vultures like Nancy Grace have a lot to do with it. Long-developing trends like the crime drop by definition aren't daily news. Crime is, even when it's down. I've seen it stated over and over in the Newtown coverage that mass shootings are on the rise. As I pointed out in the morning links, there is no evidence for that, and in fact the numbers suggest they're on the wane. They happen so infrequently that there simply aren't enough data points to say for certain.
Unfortunately, empirical data aren't nearly as compelling as images of victims and mug shots of scary-looking criminals. And like Nixon, today's politicians and law enforcement officials know that you don't pass new laws and give the police new powers by assuaging public fear. You get these things by stoking it.
(*There was a slight uptick in the crime figures in 2011, driven mostly by an increase in minor assaults.)
Follow Radley Balko on Twitter: www.twitter.com/radleybalko
"To ask you for your ID, I have to have a reason," he said. "Well, I've got statistical reasons that say I've got a lot of crime right now, which gives me probable cause to ask what you're doing out. Then when I add that people are scared...then that gives us even more [reason] to ask why are you here and what are you doing in this area."
The elitists will tell you that we need nationwide 'stop and frisk' laws, while the betas will ask if you've got something to hide.
Perfect tag-team, right there.
I hate when they bring that.
Something to hide?
You shouldnt be looking and wtf do you care?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250218/Angel-Ashley-Dobbs-suing-Texas-troopers-shocking-BODY-CAVITY-search-caught-tape.html
Disgusting.
Dude... Do you even hear yourself?
Of course the chick stuck her finger down her pants like that not to stick it in her anus... I mean, who doesn't just want to get close.
::)
I did... it's a 1/2 agreement on your part.
You make it sound like it's "bad", but it's not what the people are saying it is... So it's not THAT bad.
It's not a body cavity search. She didn't stick her finger up an anus or a vagina.
That's why you are on THAT side of the blue line... See, regular people DO see it as THAT BAD.
How much of this shit is do the courts as well I wonder? I mean, when a cop can just claim someone is 'acting weird' without having any clue what their normally like, and justify searching over something that flimsy.....
Nuckin Futz
His paranoia does not equate to sound logic.
If you are so paranoid as to constantly think someone is hiding someone, can you imagine how trigger happy you can get?
Fortunatley you guys don't depend on common sense and good judgement to live. So you'll probably do fine. For those of us who do, you won't live long if you assume someone reaching under the seat as you approach the car is hiding a playboy. If you have a drivers license, and you haven't figured out all by your little lonesome that it is a bad idea to start reaching under things when a cop is walking up, then shame on you.
See...this is the type of general stupidity you bring to the discussion.
Considering that FAR more people will die in car accidents then cops getting killed on traffic stops...you can drop portraying yourself as some brave, heroic icon because a SMALL amount of traffic stops result in life threatening danger.
Since the issue I was referring to went well over your head...it's that any action can be made to sound as though a person is a dangerous criminal and a search is justified.
So, presumably a court system which is supposed to protect me from people like you (dumb, dishonest, egotistical, power happy) seems to actually encourage your behavior.
In other words, I'm forced to wonder if what constitutes reasonable suspicion and probable cause needs to be reevaluated or more stringtly applied, along with greater checks and balances, by the courts.
Simple enough?
See this is the type of stupid responses you bring to the discussion...
The original response of mine addressed the paranoia allegation. It is NOT paranoia to be concerned when someone is reaching under a car seat. That you or anyone thinks being concerned about that just shows the utter lack of knowledge you have about the job.
Until cops and da are held personally responsible nothing will change.
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See...this is the type of general stupidity you bring to the discussion.
Considering that FAR more people will die in car accidents then cops getting killed on traffic stops...you can drop portraying yourself as some brave, heroic icon because a SMALL amount of traffic stops result in life threatening danger.
Since the issue I was referring to went well over your head...it's that any action can be made to sound as though a person is a dangerous criminal and a search is justified.
So, presumably a court system which is supposed to protect me from people like you (dumb, dishonest, egotistical, power happy) seems to actually encourage your behavior.
In other words, I'm forced to wonder if what constitutes reasonable suspicion and probable cause needs to be reevaluated or more stringtly applied, along with greater checks and balances, by the courts.
Simple enough?
See this is the type of stupid responses you bring to the discussion...
The original response of mine addressed the paranoia allegation. It is NOT paranoia to be concerned when someone is reaching under a car seat. That you or anyone thinks being concerned about that just shows the utter lack of knowledge you have about the job.
Of course I'm not saying you should not be cautious... That's ridiculous.
But if you look at the numbers, his concern is paranoia... Don't we have more people killed in plane crashes?
Maybe we should all just stop flying? Or wait... How many people are killed walking down the street every year?
Stop walking?
It's not about caution... It's about the paranoia and the far reaching reasons that cops use to claim someone is "acting suspicious".
It's all sad really.
Please, drop the pathetic backtracking spin.
This whole discussion has been focused on the court's interpretation of what cops are claiming so that they can search people.
I would doubt even Tu thinks you shouldn't be 'concerned' or act cautiously in those situations. When you start embellishing, I think it definitely comes off as paranoid.
As for the danger you claim,
Let's see, 50 officers died in 2012 due to traffic fatalities, and I don't know if that's incidental to criminal activities...or some may be traffic accident related. Let's assume all 127 cops who died in 2012 was due to traffic stops. I'm using NLEO figures.
Out of how many millions of traffic stops each year?
So the probability of you getting hurt is .0000000 something?
Obviously it's dangerous (127 officers), but that doesn't change the fact that your words and your claims are not beyond reproach.
acting weird is a sucky articulation of the circumstances. Not an acceptable standard for sure. To tell a partner who arrives on scene someone is acting weird is one thing, but if that ended up on a report or PC a judge would/should laugh it out of court. "Acting weird" might be short for "When I approached the drivers side I saw the driver was bent over, hands under the seat as if concealing something there. I smelled the odor of burned marijuana when the window rolled down and the drivers eyes were glassy and blooshot and she fumbled with her license and slurred her speach." when talking to your partner, but thats about it.
You have to be aware of how a person is using his or her hands at all times, because you don't want a weapon to be used against you. It begins and ends with that.
Let me ask if you've ever given much thought to why cops are so widely despised and distrusted.
When I get pulled over - two hands on the wheel , respectful, if I have to grab something I tell the officer first etc.
Nothing to be gained by starting a confrontation and it makes it easier to get the item tossed later on.
I'm the same way.. I don't see a reason to make him or her any more nervous/cautious than they should already be.
See this is the type of stupid responses you bring to the discussion...STOP TRYING TO CAVITY SEARCH ME JUST BECAUSE I REACH INTO MY GLOVE BOX TO HAVE MY REGISTRATION AND PROOF OF INSURANCE READY FOR YOU!
The original response of mine addressed the paranoia allegation. It is NOT paranoia to be concerned when someone is reaching under a car seat. That you or anyone thinks being concerned about that just shows the utter lack of knowledge you have about the job.
STOP TRYING TO CAVITY SEARCH ME JUST BECAUSE I REACH INTO MY GLOVE BOX TO HAVE MY REGISTRATION AND PROOF OF INSURANCE READY FOR YOU!
Jack, the question is loaded to a certain extent. I don't agree they are widely despised and distrusted.
I've seen local polls that back me up.
I'd be living in a dream world if I wasn't aware that there are people that despise and distrust the police. In my opinion, some of them have reason to feel that way because of personal experiences they have had. When I was 16 I had a horrible experience with a small town police department that disgusted me. Completely unprofessional and abusive. Then there are those who have grown up in a culture that distrusts and hates police, and while they have no personal experience one way or the other, they hate the police. Then there are people wired to dislike authority of any kind. Parents, police, teachers, government etc. Not a thing you can do to change their minds.
I don't think the police did themselves any favors over the last 50 yrs as far as building trust. It seems everytime we take a step foward, some moron with a badge sets up back 10 yrs.
What are your thoughts on it?
I'm glad you have faith in the idea that you, being a cop, could possibly have an accurate view of such things.
Not so glad you have such faith in media. I could cast a seemingly fair poll that would give a brutal reflection of the police.
I absolutely disagree. We can face the fact that we're talking about ghetto residents (to say poor, whatever the race), who will almost certainly become rightly conditioned to have distrust for the police. A person growing up in the 'hood--no matter whether he is inclined to commit crimes, whether or not there is any valid evidence to suggest that he has committed a crime relative to a particular interaction with the police--will have his rights violated as a matter of routine. It is cut, dry, and plain as day to those who are forced to experience it. And if a person thinks that such things will not erode respect for the law, to witness the supposed enforcers of the law routinely and completely disregard the law, that person should be considered as delusional.
As a cop, if you can keep this fact close to your heart, you'll be ahead of the game.
Respect, A007. You're a communicator, which tells me you give a shit. The world needs more of that.
You say that now.... but at 1am, on a dark road after you've had a few drinks, I'm sure it's a different story ;)
Thanks Jack, appreciate that. Perception is reality is a cliche' but in this business, it is closer to the truth than false. I'm looking at it from this side, and have observed first hand a vast majority of good officers, handling very volatile situations with very good outcomes for 30 yrs. 10 in the military and 20 in the civilian sector. I've watched this department evolve over the years from an us against them mentality to a more open, community oriented ideal. I'm glad it's moving in this direction and I believe I was always well ahead of the curve in fostering a "what can I do for you?" attitude verses "What do you want?" one. At 20 yrs here, part of my initial talk with any new subordinate or detail is about customer service and the reason we are here.
But you're right. I'm not in the hood 24/7 though most of my patrol career was spent there and I fostered a lot of good relationships, I'm sure I dropped the ball too. I recently read an interesting book called Corruption of the Noble Cause where the author says it's almost inevitable that police will cross the line, not because they are wanting to do bad, but because they want to get the bad guys off the street. So they rationalize inappropriate behavior or breaking rules or laws for the greater good. I gained a lot of insight into the motivation of new officers and we are aiming our focus on training them from the get go that it's not acceptable to blur the lines in order to catch the bad guy. (Not talking about outright criminal behavior, that's a seperate animal). I've always felt I would rather lose a case than win it by cheating. Not to make light of it, but it is kind of a game. The cops have their rules and the bad guys have theirs so to speak. If they win, there is always next time. It's not worth losing your credibility over.
I don't think we'll ever have police forces without any bad apples, or over zealous cops who don't understand the big picture, but it is certainly something the good cops should strive for and do their part to weed out the bad ones as soon as they sprout.
Could this be merely providing a convenient excuse for allowing the existence of what could only be described as a Police State? Because that's what it sounds like.
Not sure. I enjoyed the book, but wasn't sold on 100% of his assumptions or conclusions. I read the book along with several other officers and some disagreed more than others based on their experience. I think it is more accurate to say it is a concern, and a possibility if left unchecked by supervisors, FTO's and Senior officers. I don't think we're at the point where we throw up our hands and say "Oh well, it is what it is". I believe that many departments that have extensive academy and training, that are evolving to the professional side of policing are reducing the perception of "police state" little by little. We have units designed to work soley with the community on short and long term problem solving within their neighborhoods. We are trying to foster an atmosphere of empowering the citizens to be part of the solution and assisting them rather than shoving our ideas for a solution down their throats. But I know there are a lot of departments that don't have the luxury and perhaps less desire to address things that way. We were that department 15 yrs ago.
Plead Guilty or Go to Prison for Life: The Medical Marijuana Grower's Stark Choice
Townhall.com ^ | January 2, 2013 | Jacob Sullum
Posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:47:05 AM by Kaslin
Chris Williams, a Montana medical marijuana grower, faces at least five years in federal prison when he is sentenced on Feb. 1. The penalty seems unduly severe, especially because his business openly supplied marijuana to patients who were allowed to use it under state law.
Yet five years is a cakewalk compared to the sentence Williams originally faced, which would have kept the 38-year-old father behind bars for the rest of his life. The difference is due to an extremely unusual post-conviction agreement that highlights the enormous power prosecutors wield as a result of mandatory minimum sentences so grotesquely unjust that in this case even they had to admit it.
Of more than two dozen Montana medical marijuana providers who were arrested following federal raids in March 2011, Williams is the only one who insisted on his right to a trial. For that, he paid a steep price.
Tom Daubert, one of Williams' partners in Montana Cannabis, which had dispensaries in four cities, pleaded guilty to maintaining drug-involved premises and got five years of probation. Another partner, Chris Lindsey, took a similar deal and is expected to receive similar treatment. Both testified against Williams at his trial last September.
Williams' third partner, Richard Flor, pleaded guilty to the same charge but did not testify against anyone. Flor, a sickly 68-year-old suffering from multiple ailments, died four months into a five-year prison term.
For a while, it seemed that Williams, who rejected a plea deal because he did not think he had done anything wrong and because he wanted to challenge federal interference with Montana's medical marijuana law, also was destined to die in prison. Since marijuana is prohibited for all purposes under federal law, he was not allowed even to discuss the nature of his business in front of the jury, so his conviction on the four drug charges he faced, two of which carried five-year mandatory minimums, was more or less inevitable.
Stretching Williams' sentence from mindlessly harsh to mind-bogglingly draconian, each of those marijuana counts was tied to a charge of possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, based on guns at the Helena grow operation that Williams supervised and at Flor's home in Miles City, which doubled as a dispensary. Federal law prescribes a five-year mandatory minimum for the first such offense and 25 years for each subsequent offense, with the sentences to run consecutively.
Consequently, when Williams was convicted on all eight counts, he faced a mandatory minimum sentence of 80 years for the gun charges alone, even though he never handled the firearms cited in his indictment, let alone hurt anyone with them. This result, which federal prosecutors easily could have avoided by bringing different charges, was so absurdly disproportionate that U.S. Attorney Michael Cotter offered Williams a deal.
Drop your appeal, Cotter said, and we'll drop enough charges so that you might serve "as little as 10 years." No dice, said Williams, still determined to challenge the Obama administration's assault on medical marijuana providers. But when Cotter came back with a better offer, involving a five-year mandatory minimum, Williams took it, having recognized the toll his legal struggle was taking on his 16-year-old son, a freshman at Montana State University.
"I think everyone in the federal system realizes that these mandatory minimum sentences are unjust," Williams tells me during a call from the Missoula County Detention Facility. But for prosecutors, they serve an important function: "They were basically leveraging this really extreme sentence against something that was so light because they wanted to force me into taking a plea deal." Nine out of 10 federal criminal cases end in guilty pleas.
The efficient transformation of defendants into prisoners cannot be the standard by which we assess our criminal justice system. If the possibility of sending someone like Chris Williams to prison for the rest of his life is so obviously unfair, why does the law allow it, let alone mandate it?
Even when I agree with you Skip, you argue. Have you wondered why that is?
When I get pulled over - two hands on the wheel , respectful, if I have to grab something I tell the officer first etc.
Nothing to be gained by starting a confrontation and it makes it easier to get the item tossed later on.
.they also owned slaves and discriminated against everyone who wasnt a white, property owning male.
they also owned slaves and discriminated against everyone who wasnt a white, property owning male.
http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully
Obama admn. Out of control.
Please don’t pathologize this story.
No doubt it is a certain crazy that brings a person as loved as Aaron was loved (and he was surrounded in NY by people who loved him) to do what Aaron did. It angers me that he did what he did. But if we’re going to learn from this, we can’t let slide what brought him here.
First, of course, Aaron brought Aaron here. As I said when I wrote about the case (when obligations required I say something publicly), if what the government alleged was true — and I say “if” because I am not revealing what Aaron said to me then — then what he did was wrong. And if not legally wrong, then at least morally wrong. The causes that Aaron fought for are my causes too. But as much as I respect those who disagree with me about this, these means are not mine.
do you EVER read the shit you post?
They were going after this kid worse than corzine for fucks sake.
since it was MIT and the the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office pursuing this (whether wrong or right) how do you justify (LOL - I know even you probably realize this is an absurd question to ask you) your claim of "Obama admn. Out of control." ?
This was an Obama appointee and the family said this crack pot DA drove the kid to this.
so blame MIT who insisted on pressing charges
blame the DA
blame the kid (who by the way is someone you would probably hate if he didn't provide a lame reason for you to direct your irrational hate at Obama)
blame depression (since this kid had a history of it)
you're supposed to be an attorney .....right ?
so why don't you show some actual proof of your claim of "Obama admn. Out of control."
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The Tyranny of Barack Obama's Department of Justice: Targeting Jews, Aaron Swartz, 26-year-old
Atlas Shrugs ^ | 1/13/13 | Pamela Geller
Posted on January 13, 2013, 4:06:32 PM EST by Nachum
Aaron Swartz, 26-year-old genius, computer prodigy, co-creator of RSS and Reddit, is dead.
Swartz committed suicide in the wake of relentless bullying and persecution/prosecution by Eric Holder's Department of Justice. Swartz was "driven to the edge" by the government's aggressive prosecution of a non-existent legal case. Swartz made public documents available to everyone -- this was his crime. “It’s like trying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking too many books out of the library.”
Put this in context. Obama's DoJ, headed by Eric Holder, refused to prosecute thr Black Panthers who violently threatened voters with billy clubs and night sticks at polling places on election day. The case was dropped, despite the fact that the case "was already won." This was so gross a violation of voters' rights and the proper function of the Department of Justice that one of its best and brightest senior lawyers resigned in protest: J. Christian Adams.
Obama's Department of Justice policy is that "no voter intimidation cases will brought against a black defendant where the victim is white."
Obama's pro-jihad Department of Justice refused to prosecute Muslim Brotherhood groups, including Hamas-CAIR, ISNA, MSA, MSU, et al, despite the "mountain of evidence" entered into evidence in the largest terrorist funding trial in our nation's history. Documents linked these groups to the funding of terror and murder of non-Muslims, and conspiring toward "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within."
Obama's pro-sharia Department of Justice department is pursuing cases against cities and towns to enforce sharia in the schools, prisons, and workplace. Obama's Department of Sharia filed an unusual lawsuit against the school system in December 2010, not to ensure that the kids get a good education, mind you, but more importantly, to ensure that the Muslims get special rights and extraordinary accommodation.
The DOJ
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who the fuck is Pamela and what the fuck is atlasshrugs2000 and more importantly.... why should anyone give a shit ?
why do you keep posting blog posts
can't you think up your own shit instead of constantly have to use everyone else's opinion?
Pamela Geller has been very well known activist against the advancement of sharia and Islamic crazies
Pregnant woman, hogtied by traffic cops, for talking on her cell phone wins $250,000 payout
Daily Mail ^ | 1-18-13 | By Joshua Gardner
Posted on Friday, January 18, 2013 6:14:58 PM
The pregnant Los Angeles woman who was brutally hogtied by California Highway Patrolmen in August 2011 after being pulled over for chatting on her cell phone while driving has finally received retribution in the form of a $250,000 settlement.
According to the LA Times, Tamara Gaglione, 30, was hauled away and charged with misdemeanor evading and resisting arrest and driving on a suspended license.
Those charges were dropped, however, once Gaglione's terrible treatment was revealed in footage from the cruiser's video camera.
It is unclear in the grainy video exactly how aggressive, if at all, Gaglione was toward the cops. What is clear, though, is that Hernandez and Martinez drew their weapons on the unarmed Gaglione as they approached her and forced her onto the ground.
Hernandez later claimed Gaglione did not tell them of her pregnancy until after she was on the ground, but Gaglione said she told the officers as they approached her.
Hogtied, Gaglione was subsequently taken away in a patrol car.
Gaglione filed suit against the department and the officers involved, but the video evidence that eventually won Gaglione $250,000 this past November was not immediately forthcoming. Gaglione's attorney Howard Price claimed that Hernandez failed to check a box on the arrest report stating a video camera had, in fact, recorded the incident.
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Watch the sickening video at the below link that shows the cops thugs brutally abusing this innocent young woman.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264685/Pregnant-LA-woman-hogtied-highway-patrolmen-receives-250-000-outrageous-treatment.html
I just watched that video - that's disgusting.
And not a damn thing will probably happen to those shitbag cops.
Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt
Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether a suspect's refusal to answer police questions prior to being arrested and read his rights can be introduced as evidence of guilt at his subsequent murder trial.
Come on? Seriously?no worries, the liberals tell me the govt has my best interest in mind and we should just trust them and go along with anything they say.
Amazing... just amazing.
no worries, the liberals tell me the govt has my best interest in mind and we should just trust them and go along with anything they say.
"As a law enforcement officer for over 20 years, I understand the importance of instituting a new policy on mandating the limits of bullets that a regular citizen can possess, but as a matter of fact the bad guys are not going to follow this law," said Norman Seabrook, president of the correction officers union, the city's second largest.
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Obama To Sign Bill Authorizing 30,000 SPY Drones To Fly Over AMERICA
The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.
The agency projects that 30,000 drones could be in the nation’s skies by 2020.
LAWL
The area of the United States is 3,794,000 miles2. So by 2020, if this prediction is accurate, and you assume an even distribution of drones across the entire United States, there will be one drone per 126 miles2. While that may sound scary, perhaps you ought to consider that satellites currently provide 100% coverage of the continental United States, and by combining imagery from multiple commercial satellites and using advanced image processing techniques can achieve effective resolutions of about 5 inches... "spy drones" don't worry me too much.
If only drones were known to seek just visual information...
The type of information that particular drones seek is largely irrelevant in the sense that most sensors of interest for wide-scale, real-time surveillance (except infrared) can already be deployed from orbital and high-altitude platforms and don't really benefit from being deployed on drone platforms. That's not to say that drones don't have their uses - they do. But it's silly to assert that drones somehow revolutionize data collection capabilities. At best, they supplement existing platforms under specific scenarios.
Consider the ARGUS (http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/argus-drone-spots-you-20-000-feet-camera-phone-sensors-1C8149730) system for example, which can allegedly record high-resolution video of a roughly circular area up to six miles wide from 20,000 feet. The article notes that the system can track "every car and person in real time" but I think the author is confused (or an idiot). At best such a system can resolve each car and person in its field of vision, but resolving and tracking are two different things.
Even if all 30,000 of the drones authorized to fly over the United States were ARGUS drones, and were equally distributed througout the continental United States you'd only achieve about 5% coverage. Which is silly, since you already have 100% coverage from commercial satellite imagery providers at about the same resolution if you post-process collected data.
And I'll also point out the one thing that most people don't understand that makes drones impractical for wide-scale, real-time surveillance: the sheer amount of bandwidth necessary to transmit drone information exceeds what we can achieve with wired data connections. It can even exceed what can be sensibly stored. The ARGUS, shown above, generates about 6.6 petabytes of information per day. Assuming you buy only 4TB hard drives and don't worry about redundancy, just storage, you'd need almost 1700 hard drives to store the data from a single ARGUS drone. That is, if you could get it off the drone in real-time: you'd need to be able to transmit 80 gigabytes per second data streams...
The idea is targeted gathering.
Two Houston police accused of helping smuggle cocaine
Right. That's a situation where drones do make sense and it's how drones have been used for a while now.
But I just don't think that authorizing drones to fly over the continental United States and coming up with regulations for such flights is a bad thing or, as 333386 fears, part of Obama's secret plan to resurrect Stalin and make sweet sweet love to him.
It doesn't have much to do with imposing a massive surveillance society either; frankly if one is really concerned about that there are a lot more intrusive methods currently employed.
Although, I guess once drones become more affordable to own and operate those "Speed Enforced by Aircraft" signs on long stretches of deserted highways might actually give me pause. Not that I expect them to care much better than silly speed cameras.
So would you say that drones are unsuitable for, and consequently not intended for, surveillance beyond the function of a speed-monitoring plane?
No. I say that drones are unsuitable for the sort of wide-scale, real-time surveillance that the article posted suggests is right around the corner if drones are deployed in our skies. Drones have many benefits - the ability to be quickly deployed and roam over a particular area for a long time, the ability to be configured with custom sensor payloads, etc. They are beneficial tools. And while their deployment raises questions that we need to consider carefully before we allow their usage, I am more worried about government surveillance on the Internet than I am about government surveillance using drones.
You agree that drones are generally intended for targeted surveillance, that the capacity to perform such surveillance far exceeds the function of a speed-monitoring device, and that each new day effectively increases the capacity for a drone to perform surveillance.
In terms of yes or no, would that statement be true?
Correct.
It's true.
Would you also agree that the number of drones will continue to increase, until some measure of saturation is reached?
If so, what do you think that measure will be?
Probably, provided that the drones continue to provide useful services in a more efficient manner than other modalities.
That's a hard question to answer - there's really just not enough information yet.
Would you be inclined to say that the saturation measure will involve the technological potentialities of the device, rather than a consideration for privacy?
I suspect that at some point privacy considerations will come into play. Of course, the American people have repeatedly shown that they care little about their privacy, willingly providing massive amounts of personal information to Facebook, Google and Apple and allowing the Federal Government to collect just about every bit of information in the name of security. So who knows, maybe I'm wrong.
Just so there's absolutely no confusion, you would agree, the fact that some individuals have chosen to share information doesn't in any way justify a state of routine surveillance, and the two are completely separate issues, right?
Of course. I was making a separate point. I was saying that I'm sure at some point the capabilities of drones will reach a point where people will start to have concerns about their privacy. I made a sidebar that I had thought that privacy concerns would have kept things like Facebook and TSA virtual strip searches from ever taking off, but that it seems that Americans, generally speaking, don't really value privacy.
"spy drones" don't worry me too much.
So when you say this:
What part is it, of devices that could likely turn a society into a state of routine surveillance, that allows you to remain unconcerned? Or is it that you're only unconcerned about them providing what would be redundant visual information, as you originally stated?
Because, as I explained, I do not believe that drones, at this point in time, are likely to be used in a privacy-violating manner within the continental United States, even if they were to be relatively widely deployed. At this point in time (and with their current capabilities) they are ineffective tools for the creation of a surveillance society and not particularly better than other existing methods, such as orbital platforms and closed-circuit TV cameras. Much bigger and more realistic threats to privacy exist right now. For example, the Government has been demand increased access to and control of the Internet, including insisting that backdoors be incorporated into software and hardware communications products (e.g. CALEA) to allow for efficient interception of traffic by its representatives.
And since I am orders of magnitude more likely to have my personal and private information intercepted as it flows over the Internet and/or is stored on various online service providers, than to have it intercepted by drones flying overhead (at least as of this moment), I am sure that you will understand why drones aren't really high on my list of priorities when it comes to privacy.
I sure do think they will... Are they the top of the list on privacy concerns? Probably not, but they will most likely be used to circumvent your privacy quite quickly.
And that ATF story i posted?
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ATF's Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atfs-milwaukee-sting-operation-marred-by-mistakes-failures-mu8akpj-188952581.html ^ | 30 jan 2013 | John Diedrich and Raquel Rutledge
Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:47:13 PM by rellimpank
. A store calling itself Fearless Distributing opened early last year on an out-of-the-way street in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, offering designer clothes, athletic shoes, jewelry and drug paraphernalia.
Those working behind the counter, however, weren't interested in selling anything.
They were undercover agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives running a storefront sting aimed at busting criminal operations in the city by purchasing drugs and guns from felons.
But the effort to date has not snared any major dealers or taken down a gang. Instead, it resulted in a string of mistakes and failures, including an ATF military-style machine gun landing on the streets of Milwaukee and the agency having $35,000 in merchandise stolen from its store, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.
When the 10-month operation was shut down after the burglary, agents and Milwaukee police officers who participated in the sting cleared out the store but left behind a sensitive document that listed names, vehicles and phone numbers of undercover agents.
And the agency remains locked in a battle with the building's owner, who says he is owed about $15,000 because of utility bills, holes in the walls, broken doors and damage from an overflowing toilet.
The sting resulted in charges being filed against about 30 people, most for low-level drug sales and gun possession counts. But agents had the wrong person in at least three cases. In one, they charged a man who was in prison - as a result of an earlier ATF case - at the time agents said he was selling drugs to them.
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Because, as I explained, I do not believe that drones, at this point in time, are likely to be used in a privacy-violating manner within the continental United States, even if they were to be relatively widely deployed. At this point in time (and with their current capabilities) they are ineffective tools for the creation of a surveillance society and not particularly better than other existing methods, such as orbital platforms and closed-circuit TV cameras. Much bigger and more realistic threats to privacy exist right now. For example, the Government has been demand(ing) increased access to and control of the Internet, including insisting that backdoors be incorporated into software and hardware communications products (e.g. CALEA) to allow for efficient interception of traffic by its representatives.
And since I am orders of magnitude more likely to have my personal and private information intercepted as it flows over the Internet and/or is stored on various online service providers, than to have it intercepted by drones flying overhead (at least as of this moment), I am sure that you will understand why drones aren't really high on my list of priorities when it comes to privacy.
Lake Stevens pays couple $100,000 after police force way into home.Holy shit... My great aunt lives in/on lake Stevens...
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020235617_lakestevenssettlementxml.html
The article is quite a read... and those two idiots will remain police officers. Just amazing.
Lake Stevens pays couple $100,000 after police force way into home.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020235617_lakestevenssettlementxml.html
The article is quite a read... and those two idiots will remain police officers. Just amazing.
Lake Stevens pays couple $100,000 after police force way into home.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020235617_lakestevenssettlementxml.html
The article is quite a read... and those two idiots will remain police officers. Just amazing.
Government prosecutors argued against granting bond to Deming, N.M., gun dealer Rick Reese and his son Ryin, painting them as dangerous risks for release, court documents received this evening by Gun Rights Examiner reveal. United States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, nominated by President Obama last November to serve on the U.S. District Court in the District of New Mexico, filed a supplement to the defendant’s motion for release in that court last Tuesday, citing an affidavit he claimed contained “statements relevant to the motion.What did they do wrong? What were they arrested for?
“[T]hey highlight the Defendants release still pose a danger to the community,” Gonzales wrote in the electronically filed document. “The statement also show the Defendants are not likely to follow any Court imposed orders or conditions.”
Gonzales was referring to a January 29 sworn and notarized statement by Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Jose Ramon Martinez, in which the agent related monitored telephone conversations between the elder Reese and wife Terri, and also between son Ryin and his girlfriend.
Supposedly incriminating statements included Reese telling his wife “The truth will come out and these people will be exposed for what they truly are – a bunch of cons liars and cheats and thieves.
“They took a premise, they wanted our stuff, and they wanted to destroy out family so they reverse engineered,” the affidavit continued, quoting Reese.
“In reference to AUSA Maria Armijjo, Terri Reese stated ‘she is willing to get in bed with the devil to destroy a good Christian family,” the affidavit again alleged.
In a second intercepted call, the affidavit states Reese told his wife “He did say that they are attempting to hide and seal a whole bunch of stuff that they are trying to open you know, and that’s really encouraging because it shows the depth of the depravity of the justice department, it shows that they are just lying cheating stealing, it shows they are whores.”
“Rick Reese also stated to his wife, ‘You got ‘em by the [redacted]!” the affidavit further quotes.
In a third monitored telephone call, this one between son Ryin Reese and his unidentified girlfriend, the younger Reese is quoted telling her “The judge made it clear that he didn’t give a [redacted] about XXXX.”
Referring to the U.S. Marshal’s Service, the girlfriend remarked “They enjoy their power,” eliciting a response from Ryin that “[T]hey are the same people that back shoot 14-year-old boys and get medals, Ruby Ridge style.
In a subsequent call to Terri, Martinez wrote “Rick made comments to the effect of the following: ‘The marshals were both AH’s not at all like the marshals that we had during the trial … these two were full of testosterone. The more people like us that they hunt down and whack and murder, maybe not physically like Randy Weaver [or] the Branch Davidians, but they murdered my marriage.’”
So far, the conversations recorded and reported mirror sentiments shared by millions of peaceable Americans outraged by government operations in which citizens were killed when alternative peaceful outcomes were available. The clincher, at least as far as Gonzales is concerned, is in a final recorded conversation between Rick and Terri in which he reportedly stated “They’ll get the world they deserve pretty soon!”
Note there was no hint of this sentiment referring to anything illegal or violent, and again, such sentiments can be found on gun blogs and forums exposiing government corruption and excesses and calling for justice catching up to those who perpetrate injustice under color of authority. Indeed, that Judge Robert C. Brack ruled against Gonzales, who wanted to keep the new trial motion hearing selaed from the public, and then ruled against the prosecution’s fight to deny the Reese family both a new trial and bail, citing their suppression of evidence, point to the slow recognition that the defendants have been the victims.
This transparent attempt to portray the defendants as dangers to the community and as being too risky to grant bail, especially after almost 18 months behind bars with all major charges either dismissed or having been found not guilty of, and the further attempt to do so closed off from public scrutiny should raise serious doubts on the fitness of Gonzales to be elevated to a judgeship and more. A correspondence by a California attorney to N.M. Senator Martin Heinrich requesting an investigation for misconduct, to include the potential for disbarment and criminal prosecution, may point the way to similar efforts from both supporters of the Reese family and those simply interested in basic justice. American citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and are not to be destroyed in the process of trying to defend themselves, with all their assets seized, against ambitious government careerists wielding essentially unlimited power and resources.
http://www.examiner.com/article/government-fought-bail-release-claiming-gun-dealers-a-danger-to-community
Entire Miami police squad fired after footage shows cops shopping, dining and kissing while ignoring 911 calls
Entire Miami police squad fired after footage shows cops shopping, dining and kissing while ignoring 911 calls
Entire Miami police squad fired after footage shows cops shopping, dining and kissing while ignoring 911 calls
RT — An investigation into Miami police officers’ on-duty conduct found six officers were ignoring 911 calls while instead kissing their girlfriends, shopping, and drinking coffee.
One 911 call involved an unconscious five-month-old baby. Video footage shows Miami police officer Dario Socarras ignoring dispatch orders to save the child, while drinking coffee for nine minutes and lying to the dispatcher about being “en route”. Paramedics eventually reached the unconscious child, while Socarras never went – but still, the officer wrote in his daily report that he attended the scene.
And Socarras is only one of six officers caught neglecting their duties: after being followed and caught on surveillance video by Internal Affairs, two officers and a sergeant were fired and three were suspended without pay for dereliction of duty from the Miami Dade Police Department.
The footage of the incidents documents the department’s worst case of delinquency in its history.
Aside from ignoring the dispatch orders to save the unconscious baby, Socarras was also found to have ignored armed robbery and residential burglary calls. Instead, the officer was found kissing and cuddling with his girlfriend in the parking lot of a shopping mall on two different occasions.
Socarras was also caught misleading a crime victim, promising to fill out a police report about items that were stolen form her, while telling dispatchers that no crime had occurred. The officer proceeded to give the victim a phony case number.
“We’re talking about falsification of official records, stealing time that doesn’t belong to you, because they are supposed to be available for service or duty and they are not,” former Miami Police Chief Ken Harms told CBS4.
And the officer’s supervisor was no better: Sgt. Jennifer Gonzalez was drinking coffee with Socorras while he ignored a dispatch order and was separately recorded shopping while on duty at stores including Target, Lowes and Kohl’s. In one incident, Gonzalez bought so many items at a department store that she even requested a store clerk to help her carry and load her goods into her police car.
Investigators also found that Gonzalez would spend hours visiting her parents in an area that was outside of the district she was employed to be working in. The sergeant has been accused of letting her own neglectful work habits affect others in her department, since all of the officers accused of dereliction of duty were working for her.
Officer Jose Huerta was found repeatedly lying about his availability, claiming he was stuck on a call involving a traffic incident when in fact he was free to respond to calls that the dispatcher had waiting for him. In one incident, he failed to immediately respond to a call about a five-year-old child being locked inside a vehicle – an incident that can quickly turn deadly in the heat under the Miami sun.
Internal Affairs discovered many other incidents of neglectful duties among officers and sergeants in the Miami Dade Police Department. Even though the investigation was conducted in 2010, the delinquent sergeant and officers were not penalized until late 2012.
While this is the Miami police department’s worst case of delinquency, its officers have repeatedly come under scrutiny for illegal and negligent actions. Last week, a Miami officer was fired for shooting an unarmed motorist. In September, police officer Fausto Lopez was fired for driving more than 120 miles per hour and was found to have driven more than 90 miles per hour more than 80 times.
Cases of police neglecting their duties and violating the law are not unusual in Miami, and the video surveillance acquired by the Internal Affairs investigation shows just how dire the situation is.
REPORT: A Tiny 71-Year-Old Woman Was Shot Twice In The Back During The LAPD's Manhunt
Erin Fuchs|Feb. 8, 2013, 10:01 AM|1,747|8
Police who were hunting a former LAPD cop accidentally shot a 71-year-old woman and her daughter as they delivered the LA Times, that newspaper reports.
Sources told the LA Times cops were trying to protect an LAPD officer named in former cop Christopher Dorner's online manifesto when they shot the two women in Torrance, Calif.
Cops thought the royal blue Toyota Tacoma occupied by 71-year-old Emma Hernandez and her 47-year-old daughter Maggie Carranza matched descriptions for Dorner's Nissan pickup truck, CBS Los Angeles reported.
"Tragically, we believe this is a case of mistaken identity," LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told reporters.
But the women's lawyer, Glen Jonas, hinted that cops were being overzealous in trying to protect their own, according to the LA Times story.
"The problem with the situation is it looked like the cops were administering street justice and didn't take the time to notice that these two older, small Latina women don't look like a large black man," Jonas told the Times.
Hernandez was shot twice in the back and was stable as of late Thursday, Jonas told the Times. Her daughter just had stitches in her finger.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/lapd-officers-hunting-dorner-shot-women-2013-2#ixzz2KKK6c37o
The LAPD is gonna be so fucked when this is all done.
No matter how it plays out, they are gonna look like COMPLETE idiots.
WJLA previously spoke with Saylor's mom after the incident.
"He just loved unconditionally everybody," Patti Saylor said. "He has never had anyone put their hands on him in his life. He would not have been doing anything threatening to anybody."
http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/pittsburgh-leaders-seek-grant-buy-hovercraft/nWRRf
Unreal
Emergency services (like police and fire departments) are a legitimate function of government. They frequently provide rescue services. If this hovercraft can help, why shouldn't they have it?
In Pittsburgh they need hovercrafts?
First of all, let me repost my comment, and add a bit of emphasis: "Emergency services (like police and fire departments) are a legitimate function of government. They frequently provide rescue services. If this hovercraft can help, why shouldn't they have it?"
So the question is, can the hovercraft help? Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they have two rather large rivers basically running into the city, only to join and continue downstream? Now, I'm not a a search and rescue expert, but it seems to me that a hovercraft could be a valuable asset in search and rescue operations.
The matter should, obviously, be scrutinized but based on what I read I don't see anything outright inappropriate.
Tell us 333386, as a search and rescue expert who possesses a "Master's License" what's your take on this? Please explain things and substantiate your opinions, but please be sure to speak slowly and not use any crazy marine terms so the rest of us can understand ::)
I'm sure many police would find it helpful to drive Humvees too, doesnt make it good policy. And what exigent circumstances call for this? Is there a rash of failed rescue attempts that regular watercraft can't handle? Do that have amphibious drug craft delivering drugs from the rivers onto land they need to chase down or something? This is overkill.
Is it? I don't know the facts. But clearly you do - apparently you not only are an expert in search and rescue operations, but also are intimitely familiar with the operational capacity and needs of the emergency services of the city of Pittsburgh. Oh 33386, you truly are a renaissance man.
These govt agencies all ask for everything imaginable. After 9/11 a lot of these agencies in the name of terrorism got all sorts of toys to play around with they didnt need simply cause the $$$$ was flowing.
No doubt. But does this particular case fall into this category?
Dont think so IMHO. Again - if there is a documented need over a course of multiple events maybe - but a few here or there? To me that does not justify the expenditure.
The FBI Goes To Disturbing Lengths To Set Up Potential Terrorists
Paul Szoldra|16 minutes ago|4|
AP
James Cromitie, center, is led by police officers from a federal building in New York after being arrested for plotting to bomb New York synagogues and shoot down military aircraft.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has busted an impressive number of homegrown terror plots over the past decade, but many people don't realize how these plots materialize. In some cases, they are hatched not from a cave-dwelling fanatic, but actually from the Bureau itself.
Ever since 9/11, the task of thwarting terrorist plots has consumed the majority of the FBI's budget — $3.3 billion compared to $2.6 billion for organized crime, according to Mother Jones.
The once exclusively investigative bureau has morphed into a counterterrorism agency, with field agents tapping into a nationwide network of informants that infiltrate mainly-Muslim communities.
The FBI targets the "disgruntled few" who would participate in a terrorist plot if given the opportunity, according to Mother Jones. In many cases, the FBI recruits potential terrorists and provides them with plans, equipment, and weapons — before finally shutting them down and getting credit for thwarting another attack.
***
One example surfaced in December 2005, when the FBI arrested Michael Curtis Reynolds after he tried to meet an FBI informant whom he believed to be an al Qaeda contact. Authorities said he expected to receive $40,000 to finance an alleged plot to blow up pipelines and refineries, according to Fox News.
The charges and his later conviction stemmed mostly from online conversations he was having with a Montana judge (and FBI informant) he believed was a terrorist leader.
But would Reynolds have gone that far on his own? An FBI official speaking to Fox News on condition of anonymity said "that the agency has since concluded that Reynolds might be mentally ill and not as serious a threat as originally believed."
***
Another case in May 2007 involved men who certainly weren't fans of the United States, but had scarce means of carrying out an attack.
Five foreign-born men, described by federal authorities as "radical Islamists," along with a sixth man who helped get them weapons, were charged in May 2007 in a plot to attack a U.S. Army base in Fort Dix, N.J.
Officials later admitted the men had no apparent connection to any terrorist organization. The Washington Post writes:
At the same time, a 26-page indictment unsealed Tuesday indicates that the group had no rigorous military training and did not appear close to being able to pull off an attack. The arrests in the case began Monday night after two defendants arrived at a local home to buy assault weapons, which had been supplied and disabled by the FBI, officials said.
"Obviously, these guys had some radical beliefs and the stuff they downloaded from the Web was very serious," said a law enforcement source close to the case, speaking to The Washington Post. "But it's not like they were going to be able to get rocket-propelled grenades and blow things up."
What's more, the case relied on the controversial use of paid informants, one of whom had a notable criminal past, and the other who undermined the case (to no avail) by admitting in court that at least two of the suspects later jailed for life had no knowledge of the supposed plot.
A federal jury found five of the six alleged plotters guilty of conspiracy to commit murder but cleared them of attempted murder.
***
Perhaps the most extreme case of the FBI setting up potential terrorists involved the "Newburgh Four."
On May 20, 2009, law enforcement arrested four black Muslim men in connection with a bombing plot in the Bronx, and an attack on military aircraft in Newburgh, N.Y.
The men had set explosives in cars outside of local synagogues, and obtained a missile launcher to take down planes, but their plan was disrupted before it happened.
Although all the weapons the men used were fakes obtained from FBI agents, it certainly seemed like a slam-dunk case.
But The Guardian reports a stark difference between this group and other terrorists:
... far from being active militants, the four men [the FBI informant] attracted were impoverished individuals struggling with Newburgh's grim epidemic of crack, drug crime and poverty. One had mental issues so severe his apartment contained bottles of his own urine. He also believed Florida was a foreign country.
At one point during the sting, James Cromitie, the leader of the four-man group, reportedly tried to thwart the plan himself.
For weeks, he pretended to leave Newburgh to avoid his terrorist contact Hussain (a paid FBI informant). He stopped going to the mosque, and ignored Hussain's phone calls and voice mails. He even went so far as to pretend not to be in when he showed up at his house.
The Guardian reports:
Only when Cromitie lost his job, and became desperate for money, did he contact Hussain again. "I told you, I can make you $250,000, but you don't want it, brother," Hussain told him.
Now Cromitie agreed and set about finding lookouts. "Ok, f--- it. I don't care. Ah, man. Maqsood, you got me," he said, using Hussain's fake name.
A quick $250,000 seemed rather enticing to the four men living in poverty. After their arrest and trial, they were given a minimum 25-year sentence, but even the judge lambasted the government's handling of the case, according to the New York Daily News:
"The essence of what occurred here is that a government understandably zealous to protect its citizens from terrorism came upon a man both bigoted and suggestible, one who was incapable of committing an act of terrorism on his own," McMahon said, referring to Cromitie.
And although Judge Colleen McMahan would reject Cromitie's claims of entrapment, she still called the FBI's handling of the case a "fantasy terror operation," as The New York Times reported:
“Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope."
***
The arrests and convictions of men who didn't have the means to conduct an attack without FBI help certainly raises ethical questions. While they have been able to stop actual threats — it seems that in some other cases, the line between real and contrived has often blurred.
Some defense attorneys agree, as CBS News later reported:
"When the government supplies a fake bomb and then thwarts the plot, this is insanity. This is grandstanding," said Susanne Brody, one of the defense attorneys for another terror case in Portland, Ore.
"The people they repeatedly come up with continue to be people who have no ability to do something on their own," said Samuel Braverman, a defense attorney in the Newburgh case.
In spending all of this time concocting terrorist plots, the FBI may be wasting resources and ignoring the real threats. As one terrorism analyst at Stanford University writes, the priority for Islamic fighters now is actually to expel Westerners from their lands, not attack them in their own:
Many assume that jihadists all want to attack the West, and that those who leave do so for training. I argue the opposite, namely, that most Western jihadists prefer foreign fighting, but a minority attacks at home after being radicalized, most often through foreign fighting or contact with a veteran.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fbi-hatched-some-crazy-terror-plots-2013-3#ixzz2NGovVZJl
Father Of Three Gets 25 Years For Selling $1800 Worth Of Painkillers
Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic|18 minutes ago|2|
John Horner, a 46-year-old fast-food restaurant worker, lost his eye in a 2000 accident and was prescribed painkillers.
Years later, he met and befriended a guy who seemed to be in pain himself.
His new friend asked if he could buy some of Horner's pain pills. Naturally, the friend was a police informant.
Prosecutors in Central Florida say Horner was ultimately paid $1,800 for pills. "My public defender told me, 'They got you dead to rights,'" he said. "So I thought, 'OK, I guess there's no need taking this to trial.'"
His story is recounted in a BBC News Service story about the problematic use of informants by U.S. law-enforcement agencies.
It's an important subject and the article tackles it well.
But let's focus here on the anecdote about Horner, because it gets at the utter madness of the War on Drugs.
For the sake of argument, let's presume he's guilty of selling $1,800 of pain pills prescribed to him for an injury. Forget that he was arguably entrapped. Just look at the crime in isolation.
What sort of punishment should it carry?
You've got a 46-year-old employed father, with no criminal record, caught selling four bottles of prescription pain pills. "Under Florida law Horner now faced a minimum sentence of 25 years, if found guilty," the BBC reports.
Twenty-five years minimum!
It costs Florida roughly $19,000 to incarcerate an inmate for a year. So I ask you, dear reader, is keeping non-violent first-time drug offender John Horner locked behind bars in a jumpsuit really the best use of $475,000?
For the same price, you could pay a year's tuition for 75 students at Florida State University. You could pay the salaries of seven West Palm Beach police officers for a year. Is it accurate to call a system that demands the 25-year prison term mad?
Well. Prosecutors offered to shave years off his sentence if he became an informant himself and successfully helped send five others to prison on 25 year terms. He tried. But "Horner failed to make cases against drug traffickers," says the BBC. "As a result, he was sentenced to the full 25 years in October last year and is now serving his sentence in Liberty Correctional Institution."
Naturally.
"He will be 72 by the time he is released."
Meet his kids:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/unjust-prison-sentence-war-on-drugs-2013-4#ixzz2PPzR4UMU
SICK!!!!
wtf!!!!
No one cares until it is them being sentenced.
Shameful.
To me mandatory minimums are pure bullshit if the system is supposed to dispense so called "justice".
To me mandatory minimums are pure bullshit if the system is supposed to dispense so called "justice".
Anyone else notice the rash of incidents involving the police confiscating citizens firearms over ridiculous and stupid shit?
Im really beginning to wonder what is going on, it seems like the police can simply take away your firearms for any reason they want... Where do they get the right to do that? How do they have the right to take away your property?
I knew some people that went to NO during katrina to help some friends, and agents tried to stop then and take.away their sidearms as they entered the city..
Dude had a long argument with the officer, concluding with him telling the officer that he had no legal grounds to disarm him and that officer could go fuck himself. He drove into the city still armed. But someone else who wouldn't have been so stubborn, or someone more trusting of the law would have handed his firearms over
His friend told him the 1st thing they started doing was rounding people up and taking their weapons from them. Again, where do they get the legal right to do that shit?
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Police Tie Up Tourist And Kill Him With Pepper Spray
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No doubt you've heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it.
The photo shows the Ohio man restrained inside the Lee County Jail with his body covered in pepper spray.
"This photo is a picture of a man who is strapped to a chair naked inside a jail for hours with a hood over his face. That evokes thoughts of being tortured," says Cleveland-based lawyer Nick DiCello who represents the Christie family.
The photo, which was obtained by FOX 13's investigative unit, was taken in the final hours of Christie's life.
The District 21 Medical Examiner ruled his death was a homicide because he had been restrained and sprayed with pepper sprayed by law enforcement officers. But to this day, nobody has ever been charged with a crime, and the Lee County State Attorney cleared the sheriff's office of any wrong doing.
It's been more than two and a half years and his wife still can't accept what happened.
"I was shocked. This was something out of a horror movie," says Joyce Christie. She said her husband was depressed and was showing signs of erratic behavior a few days before leaving for Florida.
She called authorities and pleaded with them to take her husband to a hospital and be given his medications. Instead, he was taken to jail for disorderly intoxication.
Her lawsuit alleges he was pepper sprayed 10 times over a 48-hour period, at times while in a restraint chair.
Tom DePolis spent more than 30 years in law enforcement at the Tampa Police Department and Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. He's seen first-hand the effects of pepper spray and knows its limitations. He can see no reason for deputies to repeatedly pepper spray Nick Christie since he was already in custody.
"The purpose is to temporarily incapacitate someone -- temporarily, that's the key word, so you can restrain them," says DePolis.
Monshay Gibbs was a deputy trainee at the jail at the time. In a video deposition, she testified that she thought the way Nick Christie was treated was excessive.
"He had a spit mask on and was naked," she said on the video while under oath. Gibbs testified that Christie pleaded with guards to take off the spit mask because he couldn't breathe.
He later died at the hospital. His heart failed from the shock of the pepper spray. The Lee County Sheriffs Office declined to comment on our story because of Joyce Christie's wrongful death lawsuit, which is scheduled for trial the middle of next year.
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Its this cool too Agnostic?
Whork, why would you think I would think that was cool??
You seemed pretty cool with 2 of your collegues shooting 2 unarmed women in a van, so i just assumed. Your are not cool with this?
The District 21 Medical Examiner ruled his death was a homicide because he had been restrained and sprayed with pepper sprayed by law enforcement officers. But to this day, nobody has ever been charged with a crime, and the Lee County State Attorney cleared the sheriff's office of any wrong doing.
You seemed pretty cool with 2 of your collegues shooting 2 unarmed women in a van, so i just assumed. Your are not cool with this?
Furor Over Colorado Bill to Give Secret Service Agents Police Powers
The New American ^ | 6 APril 2013 | Bob Adelmann
Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2013 9:48:13 AM by CodeToad
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is expected to sign into law a bill that would give the U.S. Secret Service "limited" police power while operating in the state of Colorado. The bill, SB 13-013, which has already been passed by both the Colorado House and Senate, has sparked a firestorm of controversy because of fears that the proposed power could be used by Secret Service agents, acting on behalf of the Obama administration, to arrest sheriffs in Colorado who refuse to enforce unconstitutional federal gun controls.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
So you do care?
Yes, I'm busting your balls for using the phrase wrong.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/biker_dent_do_it_uEA4ZUy6dv6KqwUV9F5bXK
Lol. Fuvking hipster probably deserved it.
Not necessarily... Car could have been traveling at a high rate of speed.
I remember sitting at a stop sign and the car in front of me was waiting to make a left turn... I looked both directions I would assume around the same time they would.
Coast was clear.
The person in the car went to make the left and got pummeled by another car.
No doubt the car that hit them was speeding... by a large amount I would wager, but of course, that's not what was normal.
Cops came and didn't even ask me what I saw... just told me to move on. I tried to talk to them, but they told me to keep it moving.
Here's a good example of the blue wall....which we're told doesn't exist...lol
At least the Chief is going above and beyond, IMO, and handling this objectively and professionally. Props.
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/03/report_battle_creek_police_chi.html
“I have watched police officers in my department commit acts of excessive force, evidence destruction and internal cover-ups in crime reporting,” the message said. “… While I have attempted to notify the leadership of both the police department and city officials responsible in employee oversight; I have been met with death threats and lack of backup during investigations …”
Here's a good example of the blue wall....which we're told doesn't exist...lol
At least the Chief is going above and beyond, IMO, and handling this objectively and professionally. Props.
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/03/report_battle_creek_police_chi.html
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/08/massachusetts-man-shoots-and-kill-bear-in-self-defense-police-charge-him-with-illegally-killing-bear
LOL!!! WTF was the guy supposed to do? Wrestle the bear to the ground?
Yep.
Did someone say, 'Serpico' ?
Yet the chief, who reached out to the FBI for a probe, says the officer never made a complaint. He has 2 detectives who investigate such allegations and according to another article I read, said there is no record of such allegations. Be interesting to see how this plays out.
But I can top that story anyway...we may have talked about it before... a Texas man was charged with a crime by the game warden because a DOVE flew into his glass window and broke its neck. The man cleaned and BBQ's the dove and posted a picture on FaceBook. Someone notified the game warden who ticketed him because it was not Dove season.........true story....
I can't see a judge upholding that.
Sasquatch, Nessie, Area 51, Blue Wall, Ghosts,
While you and I both know there are ocassions where police covered up for police, and probably today there will be an ocassion like that, in my experience, that blue wall has gone from 10' tall from the early days of policing to about 2' tall today and it many places it's got huge holes in it. I posted stats earlier this year that showed the majority of complaints against police are generated BY police. I also spoke of a firing of an officer who tried to minimize another officers actions after being spit on. Yes, the officer tried to cover something up, and yes that officer was terminated. I think that has to say something about the changing enviornment. So if you are arguing the blue wall exists, I would argue that to an extent it does and the height varies department to department but it's coming down.
Wow, you named things that don't exist so the Blue Wall must not exist either. Everybody's been fooled. ::)
Let me try again to help you see beyond your Blue Wall.
The incident you are using as an example that it doesn't exist is a prime example that it does.
Conveniently you left out the fact that 2 other cops were suspended over this. ::)
You have an officer that did something bad. You had THREE officers try to cover it up in various ways.
^^^ That's called a BLUE WALL.
Just because the wall isn't 100% effective all the time doesn't mean it's not there.
There is zero doubt that if it wasn't caught on tape and there were no EMS people involved...NOTHING would have happened to the cops.
I think we're splitting hairs. The example I gave should indicate that kind of behavior isn't tolerated by the chain of command. That it happens from time to time even when the culture is changing is true, however I think you and I agree that the only way to change it is to send a clear message that it will not be tolerated. I know of many examples where cops reported bad behavior on other cops and the statistics of our I.A. bears that out. The LAST thing a department wants is cops violating peoples rights and breaking the law. The last thing most cops want is that very same thing. And I didn't conveniently leave anything out, the fact 2 other cops were also suspended for it just supports my position. I was making a point that the department doesn't tolerate that behavior.
No it wasn't. In fact you started off your post trying to group the Blue Wall in with things that don't exist.
3 cops covering for a bad 4th cop. The Blue Wall is tall and strong.
Just because they caught this time, doesn't mean it's going away.
As for the leadership, in this case, yes I think they did a good job and we're open with the public. They put the memos out for everyone and carefully explained what happened and why people were disciplined. My only criticism would be that investigators outside the department should handle it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/14/trayvon-martin-shooting-target_n_3079566.html
LOL!!!! Stupid idiot. LOL!!!
It must be the perception you have that the police lack the ability to investigate police. I've found it to be in cases I have direct knowledge of that the police investigators were harder on the police officers in the interviews. In some cases, to the point of badgering and leading questions in my opinion. Ultimately the determination is left to the chain of command to decide and the investigators are fact gatherers. I don't think, based on my direct knowledge that at my department police get an easier time with police investigators. We also have an Office of Police Monitor that sits in on the interviews and monitors the case to make sure the public gets a fair shake. Probably not that way everywhere.
Hell, if true, that's even more of a reason. The process should be as fair and objective as possible. It should also avoid the 'appearance' of impropriety.
8th grade student suspended, arrested over gun t-shirt
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When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school on Thursday he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights.
"I never thought it would go this far because honestly I don't see a problem with this, there shouldn't be a problem with this," Jared said.
It was the image of a gun printed on Jared's t-shirt that sparked a dispute between a Logan Middle School teacher and Jared, that ended with Jared suspended, arrested and facing two charges, obstruction and disturbing the education process, on his otherwise spotless record.
Jared's father Allen Lardieri says he's angry he had to rush from work to pick his son up from jail over something he says was blown way out of proportion.
"I don't' see how anybody would have an issue with a hunting rifle and NRA put on a t-shirt, especially when policy doesn't forbid it," Lardieri said.
The Logan County School District's dress code policy prohibits clothing that displays profanity, violence, discriminatory messages and more but nowhere in the document does it say anything about gun images.
"He did not violate any school policy," Lardieri reiterates. "He did not become aggressive."
Now, Lardieri says he's ready to fight until the situation is made right.
"I will go to the ends of the earth, I will call people, I will write letters, I will do everything in the legal realm to make sure this does not happen again," Lardieri said.
Logan City Police did confirm that Jared had been arrested and charged today.
13 news tried contacting the Logan County School District but has not heard anything back.
Sure and for years after 9-11 you had people being all NYPD with their hats and shit... Everyone supports cops during immediate aftermath.
That doesn't make those people who do support it smart, it makes them sheep.
Remember, the Nazi party was supported by 90% of Germany before WWII as well.
Did you see what the LA city attorney said?
Trutanich called the agreement a "no brainer because the costs were going to skyrocket."
"We got out of this thing pretty cheaply all things considered," he said.
Not really... I know a lot of cops... Was even going to be one at one time... Changed my mind when I saw how you don't really do anything.
I was... I meant as a true career path. I decided against it.
I was a special police officer. I was a private employee of a company where we were given police powers by the county sheriff's office.
I was not an employee of the county itself, so I do not consider it the exact same thing.
Does that make sense?
Sworn in by the county, but not paid by the county.
How is that confusing?
I policed a 2 mile radius at a entertainment area.
It is actually a sworn officer of the law and I had to go to an actual academy, so no... It's not a security guard.
I had the power to take their liberty the same as any other police officer. My jurisdiction just happened to be a small area inside of a county.
Do you consider university Police "security guards"?
It is similar. My company didn't advertise the positions externally. You had to be a member of their security staff, then you could apply to be a police officer.
There's even a description on wikipedia for you that describes it pretty well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_police
My jurisdiction was the company property and a 2 mile radius.
An NYU psychology student turned his Manhattan dorm room into an air rifle factory and was arrested on illegal weapons possession raps Monday, law enforcement sources told the Post.
Bernard Goal, 20, was busted after a startled maintenance crew spotted a pair of realistic looking rifles on his bed while he was out and alerted campus security.
Public safety officers swept the Texas native's room and found four more Airsoft weapons that closely resembled AK-47s and a black Colt carbine rifles, sources said.
Goal allegedly assembled the weapons with parts he bought online and sold them for up to $500 each, sources said.
NYPD cops arrested Goal at 2:30 p.m. Monday and hit him with six misdemeanor violations of a local law that prohibits the possession or sale of air rifles and replica firearms, according to a law enforcement source.
The weapons fire pellets through compressed air and are routinely mistaken for actual firearms. They have a range of about 140 to 300 feet and can cause flesh wounds at a close range, sources said.
"It's very scary to know there were guns one floor below me. I had no idea," said one of Goal's co-workers, who described him as pleasant and a hard worker. "But knowing Bernard I'm not scared."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/nyu_student_busted_for_building_1lZqVHYj47McYLAtcHKAWP
...seriously, this guy should have known to keep that shit out of sight at all times. He should have realized how things may get out of hand in such an environment.
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From one of the guests on the show "Let's be fair, we don't see that everyday...we don't see that everyday walking down main street, what we saw was a federal response after a horrific bombing"
The guy has a point. Everyday cops don't arm up like that. Even though they may suddenly be in a shoot out with the next call they are on, the odds are that they won't and so they are armed and protected minimally so they can function at all kinds of tasks.. but when SWAT is responding to a situation where it is highly likely to be dangerous, why wouldn't they dress for the occasion? When you see police dressed like that all the time, driving vehicles like that all the time, then there may be a need for crying "police state, police state"
No, you should never wait for a potential problem to mushroom. Address it quickly and early.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/07/missing-women-cleveland-brothers-arrested/2140359
Nice - cops ignored complaints and warnings.
http://www.wlox.com/story/22145501/perry-county-police-dies-after-being-left-in-patrol-car-overnight
Someone needs to be fired for this
Read about that.
Disgusting.
And who will pay - the sucker taxpayers not the criminal thug pigs who will make excuses and give the whole "life on the line" nonsense
AMATEUR VIDEO MAY SHOW BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECTS ATTEMPTING TO SURRENDER TO COPS [BOSTON SCANDAL]
Cleveland Connection ^ | 5/17/13 | ERIC JONATHAN BREWER
Posted on Friday, May 17, 2013 8:03:30 PM by Kimberly GG
....."The video – if the audio is confirmed by Tsarnaev’s public defender – offers an explosive piece of evidence that rips to shreds the false stories Boston cops under Commissioner Ed Davis’ supervision have been spinning to the world about the Tsarnaev brothers.
No evidence exists that they were armed. The men were not tossing bombs out of a car they drove. They didn’t rob the 7-Eleven. The Boston Globe has a signed statement from Jane Dyson that they didn’t shoot transit cop Richard Dononhue, Jr. Donohue was shot and nearly killed by fellow cops in a black SUV whose public employee occupants fired wildly at the vehicle Dzhokhar was driving.
Claims that the brothers shot MIT campus cop Sean Collier for his gun have been discredited since no weapons were found on either of the men or along the route they drove. The bullet wound in Tsarnaev’s neck was not caused by a suicide attempt before the seriously injured 19-year-old was finally allowed to surrender.
Tsarnaev was so heavily-medicated with opioids that claims of his “talking” and “writing out” a confession have been discredited, even by Davis who told the media the surviving brother was in “no condition” to talk. What has also been discredited is the claim that the younger Tsarnaev drove the vehicle he fled in over the body of his older brother.
An unidentified woman who allegedly witnessed the encounter between the cops and the brothers as they attempted to surrender claims it was Boston police who drove over Tamerlan’s body. The woman called into a radio station and said he was hit by a “police SUV” and then shot multiple times by Boston cops."....
I think the cops planted the bombs, framed the brothers, and may have actually orchestrated the 9/11 attacks...
I never claimed that. I only claimed that they sucked at their job and but for the guy going for a smoke those 9000 cops were uttely usless.being as smart as you are you should sell your services instead of spending 24/7 on getbig :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D priceless
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/19/andrea-rebello-killed_n_3302043.html?ref=topbar&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
This story is huge locally. Is the cop negligent in shooting this guy and killing the hostage?
tragic story..tragic ending. Without all the facts, couldn't make the call on negligent or not. I'm sure it will be scrutinized from top to bottom to determine if there was lost opportunities to back off and isolate the bad guy until SWAT and negotiators arrived. Why 8 shots..etc etc. Too soon to determine negligence in my opinion
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/19/andrea-rebello-killed_n_3302043.html?ref=topbar&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
This story is huge locally. Is the cop negligent in shooting this guy and killing the hostage?
This one for certain doesn't belong in the police state thread, IMO. 1000 different ways this could go and not one of them a good option.
http://gunssavelives.net/blog/reason-number-7452-to-stay-out-of-nj-tx-man-transporting-unloaded-firearms-through-nj-doing-3-5-years-in-prisonThis is so corrupt and disturbing. NJ is definitely on my "never go to" list.
While he spends time in jail - violent rapists are out thugging up the streets
This is so corrupt and disturbing. NJ is definitely on my "never go to" list.
This is so corrupt and disturbing. NJ is definitely on my "never go to" list.
This is an example of stupidity and why banning the sale of assault rifles might be in order.
Autopsy: Man beaten by deputies died of heart disease, not blows
LA Times ^ | May 23, 2013 | Richard Winton
Posted on Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:22:02 AM by Altariel
Silva, 33, a father of four, was pronounced dead early May 8, within an hour of the altercation. Witnesses reported seeing several deputies repeatedly strike the man in the head with batons as he lay on the pavement. Youngblood said Thursday that there was no evidence Silva had head wounds.
Youngblood announced last week that he asked the FBI to analyze two cellphones taken from witnesses who say they recorded the incident. The cellphones were taken after the witnesses were detained at a home. A search warrant was obtained to access the phones. The phones were turned over to Bakersfield police for analysis, Youngblood said.
"The analysis by the Bakersfield Police Department confirmed the existence of video footage related to this incident on one phone and no video footage on the second phone. This prompted the subsequent request for further analysis by the FBI," the Sheriff's Office said in a statement last week.
Witnesses have said deputies beat Silva without cause.
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Exactly the 1st thought I had reading that post.
Amazing how the same tool who is always crying that people shouldn't judge cops based on a handful of bad apples, now points to some idiot to justify banning assault weapons from millions of people.
Did I hear someone say hypocritical, crying, douchebag?
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Amazing how the same tool who is always crying that people shouldn't judge cops based on a handful of bad apples, now points to some idiot to justify banning assault weapons from millions of people.
Did I hear someone say hypocritical, crying, douchebag?
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Exactly the 1st thought I had reading that post.
Well, some dumbass fell asleep with assault rifles in his car, clearly they need to be banned!
Exactly the 1st thought I had reading that post.
Well, some dumbass fell asleep with assault rifles in his car, clearly they need to be banned!
http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/free-movie-gets-austin-cop-fired-8946.shtml
Yesterday a local cop was fired for lying. It involved getting free tickets for him and his family at a theater.. You have to be on the security contract to get the free tickets and he indicated he was. The contract holder found out about it and reported him to I.A. It was his word against two theater employees. The department took the word of the two employees because it made more sense. An example of holding officers accountable.
Damn - I hope those movies were worth it!
US Attorney: Anti-Muslim Postings on Social Media May Be a Federal Crime
Ace Of Spades ^ | May 31, 2013 | Ace Of Spades
Posted on Friday, May 31, 2013 12:15:06 PM by Smokeyblue
Via Judicial Watch, Bill Killian, the US Attorney for the Eastern district of Tennessee, just wants Americans to know what the consequences for free speech might be.
Special speakers for the event will be Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Kenneth Moore, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Knoxville Division.
Sponsor of the event is the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee — a 15-member board formed two years ago when the General Assembly was considering passing legislation that would restrict those who worship Sharia Law, which is followed by Muslims.
Killian and Moore will provide input on how civil rights can be violated by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social media.
“This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” Killian told The News Monday. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”
Killian said the presentation will also focus on Muslim culture and how, that although terrorist acts have been committed by some in the faith, they are no different from those in other religions.
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He then cited the three non-Muslim terrorists acts they can never stop talking about.
Apparently he also babbled about how the US Government, law enforcement, and non-Muslim Americans are fostering an "us versus them" attitude.
See, we're doing that.
I might say that the "us versus them" attitude certainly seems to be fostered within the Muslim community itself, but I can't, because, as you'll see, US Attorney Bill Killian wants me to know he might put me in jail for saying that.
Killian said Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal jurisdiction.
“That’s what everybody needs to understand,” he said.
The specific posting he mentioned was pretty egregious -- a picture of a guy holding a shotgun with the caption "How to Wink at a Muslim."
Nevertheless, what we have here is a US Attorney telling Americans that they can be arrested and imprisoned for the exercise of their First Amendment rights.
In the aftermath of the Woolrich slaughter in England, the British police immediately arrested... a man for making anti-Muslim comments on Twitter.
And I thought, "Ah well, that's Britain. They're doomed, but we already knew that."
But here we are in America, with one of the 100 or so US federal appointed Attorneys telling Americans that the federal government may lock them up for their internet postings.
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/05/30/military-vet-faces-charges-for-firing-warning-shot-at-suspect-trying-to-break-into-homeDude. Wtf. Well, he wasn't trying to break into your house hard enough to justify defending your property, aorry, time to make you a criminal.
>:(
http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/free-movie-gets-austin-cop-fired-8946.shtml
Yesterday a local cop was fired for lying. It involved getting free tickets for him and his family at a theater.. You have to be on the security contract to get the free tickets and he indicated he was. The contract holder found out about it and reported him to I.A. It was his word against two theater employees. The department took the word of the two employees because it made more sense. An example of holding officers accountable.
It seems to say both Fired and indefinitely suspended. Me thinks he may not have completely lost the job yet. Let me take a guess, appeals?
http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/free-movie-gets-austin-cop-fired-8946.shtml
Yesterday a local cop was fired for lying. It involved getting free tickets for him and his family at a theater.. You have to be on the security contract to get the free tickets and he indicated he was. The contract holder found out about it and reported him to I.A. It was his word against two theater employees. The department took the word of the two employees because it made more sense. An example of holding officers accountable.
The problem is that is the rare example - the exception to the rule.
I can only speak for the place I work at but we try to get rid of them when we find them. That same day an officer was fired for being caught with a prostitute and lying about it.
I hate that. I think these prostitution laws are completely unconstitutional. Actually feel bad for that dude.
As for the other guy, I'll believe he's not going to be reinstated when it actually happens. Until then, I think it's fair to be skeptical.
True, the officer was fired for not being truthful about saying he was on the contract.. he shook his head in the affirmative indicating that was his answer to the question "Do you work here".. He says he stated "Yes I work at the Austin Police Department". His answer doesn't make sense when taken in context so the 2 workers were believed over the officer. An arbitrator could rule that terminating the officer for such a thing is excessive but that is the arbitrators call. Our stance is honesty is paramount to being an officer.
The prostitute thing.. I agree that it is an outdated law. However it is a law and he was also fired because he lied. He lied about the situation, he later lied saying the officers planted the $10 bill he had stuck in the A/C vent to pay her with...The prostitute on the other hand said they have ""dated" before and he pays $10 for a BJ. I don't feel sorry for the officer at all.
That's all a blowjob costs?
Wait though...what did the skank look like?
lol
I can only speak for the place I work at but we try to get rid of them when we find them.
That same day an officer was fired for being caught with a prostitute and lying about it.
Of course. I understand that. But let me ask you think about the following three questions:
1. If you pulled a fellow officer (or his/her spouse) over, would you be more or less likely to let them get off without a ticket?
2. If you were called for a disturbance at a bar or other fine establishment, and upon arriving saw a friend from the force was involved in the incident, would you be more inclined to believe that he was in the right and view the other party with suspicion?
3. Do you view other officers as proverbial "brothers in arms"?
Without answering those questions, but considering your answers, do you consider yourself completely objective?
2.
Saying "no" isn't necessarily bad; we are all more likely to side with or help people we know. But it should give you pause for a second. If you, who are a decent officer, are biased even slightly what about others who aren't as decent as you?
Prostitution laws are silly...
1. Equal. From years of working traffic I have a standard that is department policy. When I stop someone, I've made up my mind prior to approaching the vehicle that they will get a warning or a ticket. I rarely give warnings as if I need to stop someone it is likely they have done an unsafe violation. I cannot be fair if I write X a ticket for 80 in a 50 and let Y go moments later. I've written fellow officers tickets in the past. Can't say they were happy, but that's irrelevant. They can't say I wasn't fair. My wife got a ticket and I didn't say anything other than "You probably need to slow down next time" to her.
Having said that, no doubt there are officers everywhere that give officers all kinds of breaks. It was the culture here for a long time.. those days went the way of the 8 track around here.
2. Just an officer, I would listen to both sides, as officers screw up. A friend officer, who had a history with me of being honest and forthright, would likely get more weight than a stranger if the stories didn't match and the evidence didn't point either way. Just fired an officer who said something happened one way, and the civilian said it happened another. Their story made more sense, they were believed. He was fired.
3. I don't have an us against them attitude, and I know cops screw up. But yes, I feel we are "brothers in Arms" depending on how you define that..
Fair answer. I have no reason to doubt you, and will take you at your word. You are, I hope you realize, very likely to be in the minority - or at least that's how you are likely to be perceived by most people.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-defends-phone-records-113329195.htmlPeople need to start waking up to the reality that big brother does not have their beat interests at heart, and that they could, and WOULD, turn on their citizens in a heartbeat if they thought tjeu could get away with it. (And by they, I mean most politicians and high ranking government officials, and by turn on, I mean turn this country into a totalitarian state because they believe they know whats best for us, and they have next to no respect for their citizens)
In its first semi-official comment from the White House about The Guardian's Verizon/NSA phone-snooping scoop, the administration didn't admit to collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans. But they didn't say they wouldn't do that either. An anonymous "senior administration official" would not confirm that the newspaper story was true or that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order was legitimate but they did tell media outlets on Thursday that the requests are "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats."
RELATED: The NSA Is Collecting Phone Records in Bulk
The order in question, which was issued in April, compelled Verizon to give the National Secuirty Agency information on all phone calls that were routed through its network over a period of three months. The classified order was published in The Guardian on Wednesday, and though it doesn't mention any other telephone companies, it's possible that similar orders were issued to them as well.
RELATED: Raytheon's 'Google for Spies' Tracks You from Social-Media Sharing — and Fast
The same administration official also reiterated to the AP that while the information collected includes phone numbers, location data, and call times, it doesn't include the contents of any phone conversation.
After overnight silence, Obama admin finally responds to Guardian report. Won't confirm specifics but defends the practice.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) June 6, 2013
NBC News's Chuck Todd also reported that administration official (presumably the same person) told him that "all branches of government are aware" when orders like this are issued, implying that members of Congress, as well as the President, were likely briefed on the matter when it happened. We'll have to see if President Obama comes forward to discuss this soon, but it looks the government's defense is going to take the usual path when it comes to Patriot Act-style suveillance: This is normal behavior, it's for our own safety, and there's nothing to see here.
Sober driver charged with DUI in Arizona after police said they could tell ‘by looking at him’
An Ohio man was charged with DUI after her was pulled over by the police, despite the fact that a breathalyzer test showed he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.000.
64-year-old Jessie Thornton who now lives in Surprise, Arizona said cops told him that they could tell he was drunk simply by looking at him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338471/Sober-driver-charged-DUI-Arizona-police-said-tell-looking-him.html
Sober driver charged with DUI in Arizona after police said they could tell ‘by looking at him’Huh? How can they charge you if they have no way of proving that you are drunk?
An Ohio man was charged with DUI after her was pulled over by the police, despite the fact that a breathalyzer test showed he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.000.
64-year-old Jessie Thornton who now lives in Surprise, Arizona said cops told him that they could tell he was drunk simply by looking at him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338471/Sober-driver-charged-DUI-Arizona-police-said-tell-looking-him.html
Sober driver charged with DUI in Arizona after police said they could tell ‘by looking at him’
An Ohio man was charged with DUI after her was pulled over by the police, despite the fact that a breathalyzer test showed he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.000.
64-year-old Jessie Thornton who now lives in Surprise, Arizona said cops told him that they could tell he was drunk simply by looking at him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338471/Sober-driver-charged-DUI-Arizona-police-said-tell-looking-him.html
I read the article and could only see a glimpse of the actual report so it's all speculation at this point. Couple things could have happened.
1. Officer arrested the person without any cause, disregarding need for probable cause and knowing his case is jacked and he will get hammered in court
2. Officer observed poor driving and suspected the driver of DUI. BAC test showed he was not impared by alcohol. DRE officer arrived as the article indicated and he was tested to see if he was under the influence of another drug and there was evidence he was and was charged with it. He says the officer made that statement but I haven't read the officers side of it at this point. That he was having medical issues may indicate he was taking a prescription drug that may have impaired his driving ability.
We'll find out which is true soon enough I would imagine.
I read the article and could only see a glimpse of the actual report so it's all speculation at this point. Couple things could have happened.
1. Officer arrested the person without any cause, disregarding need for probable cause and knowing his case is jacked and he will get hammered in court
2. Officer observed poor driving and suspected the driver of DUI. BAC test showed he was not impared by alcohol. DRE officer arrived as the article indicated and he was tested to see if he was under the influence of another drug and there was evidence he was and was charged with it. He says the officer made that statement but I haven't read the officers side of it at this point. That he was having medical issues may indicate he was taking a prescription drug that may have impaired his driving ability.
We'll find out which is true soon enough I would imagine.
The problem is that "I observed poor driving" is something that cannot be disproven; it's the sort of ridiculous excuse that Officers routinely use exactly because it's a lie that will (almost) never come back to bite him.Not to mention the cost involved to take this to court, lawyer fees, time off work, etc... basically he's innocent and going to have to shell out several thousand dollars for no fucking reason except some dickhead cops decided to abuse their authority.
Even if the person here is never charged (or he is found not liable/not guilty) the Officer is unlikely to face any consequences at all.
With regards to the first, just getting hammered in court is not acceptable.
If people are arrested without cause, the officer needs to be terminated, charged with civil rights violations, fined, and spend some time in jail.
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/man-found-decapitated-police-suspect-suicide/nYNZh
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The incident happened near 46th and Sheridan.
Police say a woman who lives in the home found her husband dead in the garage.
His hands and feet were tied and the body had been decapitated.
Tulsa police told KRMG news the death was due to suicide.
Cops gave no other details at the time but continue to investigate the matter
Couple thoughts here...
1. Just no way officers would determine suicide so soon with the way the body was found. Even if they suspected it, they would not announce their suspicion to the press because the chance of looking stupid if they are wrong is just too great. Typically officers seal off the crime scene and homicide detectives and crime scene specialists arrive. Eventually the coroner or M.E. shows up and will also conduct an investigation into the cause of death. This can take days before a cause of death is ruled on. So just the fact a statement is made of suicide so soon after the crime just screams a problem with the reporting.
2. Article says "a woman who lives at the house found her husband dead in the garage". Well, that would be THE WIFE. If that is an example of the reporters ability, then likely he or she screwed the pooch on writing the rest of it.
3. For such an event, the article is lacking any real detail a normal article would have like what the neighbors had to say about the couple, etc etc. Just seems odd to me.
Maybe the guy had a makeshift guilitine in the garage? ;D ;D
http://jalopnik.com/florida-cop-makes-young-mom-shake-her-bra-during-stop-t-531557395
"four days of paid leave as punishment"
"punishment"...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/21/family-furious-after-police-shoot-german-shepherd-in-front-yard-plus-does-security-vid-contradict-cops-story/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons
So sick f this shit.
It's a good thing they had the camera. I hope the family will go after these lying thugs.
Wonder what would happen if a police dog attacked a citizen and the citizen shot at it?
Ah yes, the police dog is often a "sworn officer" (because the dog obviously understands and upholds the Constitution) and in such case attacking it would be like attacking a human officer.
But in such a case a citizen can't dismiss everything and claim he was "following policy" and get "leave with pay".
Agnostic007, this is the sort of thing I was talking about before. Cops not only being allowed to violate citizens right, but to flat-out abuse them with little or no consequence. And let's be realistic: four days of paid vacation isn't a consequence.
What message does this send to other officers? What about to the public? It's that cops are bullies; that they can bully you under the color of authority, they can abide you, and they can walk away scot free. Their friends won't "turn" on them and the union will fight for them. So it's all good.
Abuse the public, then go on a short paid vacation.
This cop should have been fired on the spot. And anyone involved with the decision of giving him four days of paid leave should be fired on the spot.
[Sidenote: And you know just as well as I do that if there wasn't video ("the camera malfunctioned!") there's no way anything at all would have happened and this poor woman would not even be believed.
Wow.
For trying to defend herself.
Fucked up man... fucked up. She shoulda killed him.
When A Teen's 'Sarcastic' Facebook Message Goes Terribly Wrong
[...] Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/teen-justin-carter-faces-trial-and-jail-for-facebook-comment-2013-7#ixzz2YTN5CvCF
I read about this case before you posted. While the original statement by this kid was stupid, saying stupid things is simply not against the law. This ridiculous overreaction by adults who should know better has a ridiculous chilling effect.
Frankly the cops, prosecutors and Judges involved in this case need to be tarred and feathered. And they should certainly be removed from their positions. We give you fucking idiots discretion for a reason...
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/singleton
FUCKED UP!!!!
Wow... I don't think "fucked up" quite describes this. This article is worth a read. What has our society devolved to?!Holy fucking shit... a cop befriends a guy making bets with his frienss, convindes him to raise the stakes until its illegal, and then callsbthe SWAT teakvon him. Wtf?
And then he's DEAD... they settled for 2 Million bucks... 2 Million over a life?
Fucking disgusting.
Have any of you bros ever been cavity searched? Do the police stick their fingers in your ass? Any of your girlfriends had their pussies poked by cops?
Wow... I don't think "fucked up" quite describes this. This article is worth a read. What has our society devolved to?!
http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/govt-bureau-creating-google-earth-every-financial-transaction-senator
>:(
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/blonde-beauty-set-sue-nypd-sexy-iphone-photos-article-1.1403098
A Long Island beauty says NYPD cops seized her iPhone and that one of them stole sexually explicit photos and videos meant for her boyfriend’s eyes only.
Pamela Held, 27, of Deer Park, is poised to sue the city and the Police Department, accusing a cop of invading her privacy by forwarding the provocative images from her iPhone. The steamy images of Held were sent to a personal cell phone that her lawyer said belongs to Officer Sean Christian.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-autopsy-bean-bag-rounds-fired-by-police-killed-park-forest-man-95-20130728,0,5356856.story
>:(
If the description of events is accurate, then this may be tragic but justifiable. But that's a big if.
Are we to believe that trained police officers failed horribly in their duties by being unable to subdue a 95-year old man and lost control of the situation so much that they had to resort to a taser, which failed to subdue this nonagenarian, who remained a threat big enough that he had to be shot?
Really!?!
Something just doesn't add up here.
I believe he picked up a knife . . . . . really . . . . I do . . . . . .
Police blame 'poor lighting' after they shoot dead innocent grandfather, 72, while searching the WRONG home for burglar
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2379252/Fort-Worth-police-shot-dead-beloved-72-year-old-husband-father-searching-wrong-home-responding-burglar-alarm.html
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/06/mark-levin-we-have-the-elements-of-a-police-state-video
>:(
Report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years
CNN ^ | July 31, 2013 | Ed Payne and Rene Marsh
I didn't watch the video (his voice drives me *crazy*) but at least he doesn't read as obnoxious as he sounds. And, at least, from the article he doesn't just slam Obama which is his usual modus operandi. And rightly so - this bullshit has been going on for a long time, and both sides of the aisle are just as responsible with very people having stood up to warn us.Its absolutely insane isnt it? The stuff coming out of these peoples mouths is absolutely mind boggling, its like something straight out of an orwellian sci fi novel. How the hell are the people in this countryngrowing up with no knowledge or respect for our constitution or the rights the founders worked so hard to achieve for future generations? I feel like someone along the line people are being indoctrinated that rifhts are bad, the constitution is bad, and that the state and security are the only things that matter.... and this isnt a left/right thing....
Our society has devolved so fast, it's fucking scary... In addition to the crazy shit already posted here:
- You have an incoming FBI director who basically refuses to answer questions posed by members of the committee tasked with overseeing the organization he's in charge of. Ref: Wyden Press Release (http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-statement-on-voting-present-on-the-nomination-of-james-comey-to-be-fbi-director).
- You have Mike Rogers' Congressional staffers threatening journalists and bloggers with defamation suits - a move that has a dramatic chilling effect on free speech in general. Ref: TechDirt article (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130730/13342024004/staffers-rep-mike-rogers-apparently-claim-they-could-sue-me-defamation.shtml).
- You have Chris Christie, a man with Presidential aspirations, publicly proclaim that libertarianism and opposition to NSA surveillance are "dangerous." Ref: Washington Post Article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/25/christie-goes-after-libertarians-hard/).
- You have idiots like Stewart Baker - who served in legal roles at NSA and DHS - that believes that the NSA has "respect for the rights of Americans" and that what we need is more surveillance and less privacy, and that civil liberties are an outdated notion that will cost us the war on terror. Ref: Insane ramblings at Skating on Stilts (http://www.skatingonstilts.com/).
I could go on...
http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/i_team_8/video-of-arrest-prompts-investigation
From a cop receiving the "Community Police Support Officer of the Year" award. Imagine how the bad ones would be then...
Lying on the report, excessive force, using lies to justify an arrest...
Maybe he'll get leave with pay..
Cleveland Police Disciplining 75 Cops After An Unarmed Couple Was Shot 137 Times
Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath
AP
Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath
Cleveland police officials said Friday they're disciplining 75 of officers for their involvement in a police chase that ended in the shooting deaths of an unarmed man and woman, The Plain Dealer reports.
The pair were shot 137 times while in their car, parked in a middle school parking lot. No officers were injured in what police called a "full blown-out" firefight.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told reporters in February that "there is nothing normal about this case. ... This is a tragedy."
In November, about 60 police vehicles pursued the two suspects in a 25-minute chase spanning three cities. One suspect, 30-year-old Malissa Williams, was shot 24 times, and the other, 43-year-old Timothy Russell, was shot 23 times.
At the time, police said the suspects fired shots at them near Cleveland's downtown Justice Center, according to The Plain Dealer. And a police dispatcher said that shots were fired at officers during the chase.
But after the chase ended in a gunfight near Heritage Middle School, police checked the car and realized neither Williams nor Russell was armed.
It isn't clear whether a shot was actually fired at the officer who initiated the chase. Some speculate the Malibu driven by Russell may have backfired.
A report from the state's attorney general shows the officers likely believe the suspects were armed based on erroneous information broadcast over the police radio. Officers told investigators they saw the suspects in the car with what looked like a gun.
Russell might have fled from police initially, fueling the massive chase, because he was high and driving on a suspended license. Toxicology results show that Russell was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol at the time of his death. Williams was also high on cocaine and had marijuana in her system.
The officers being disciplined for violating police protocol won't lose their jobs and did not partake in the gunfight at the end of the chase, but they did have a role in the pursuit. More than 100 police officers were involved in the chase in some way.
Nineteen of the 75 officers facing discipline for offenses ranging from engaging in a chase without permission to providing false information on police reports will have disciplinary hearings and might be suspended temporarily, according to The Plain Dealer.
In 2011, the newspaper published an investigation of reports of excessive use of nondeadly force by Cleveland police officers. The newspaper found that the police chief often overlooked inconsistencies with police officers' stories when investigating use of force incidents.
Many of the officers faced accusations of brutality on the force.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cleveland-police-disciplined-in-deadly-chase-2013-8#ixzz2arxiczbm
Only 60 police cars and 100 officers chasing a whole car with 2 passengers? They should have called for backup.
Only 60 police cars and 100 officers chasing a whole car with 2 passengers? They should have called for backup.
Subway Stabbing Victim Can't Sue NYPD For Failing To Save Him(feet away, no duty to protect0
gothamist.com ^ | 26 July, 2013 | Rebecca Fishbein
Posted on August 3, 2013 9:54:14 AM EDT by marktwain
A man who was brutally stabbed by Brooklyn subway slasher Maksim Gelman two years ago had his negligence case against the city dismissed in court yesterday, despite the fact that two transit officers had locked themselves in a motorman's car only a few feet from him at the time of the attack.
Gelman stabbed Joseph Lozito in the face, neck, hands and head on an uptown 3 train in February 2011, after fatally stabbing four people and injuring three others in a 28-hour period. Lozito, a father of two and an avid martial arts fan, was able to tackle Gelman and hold him down, and Gelman was eventually arrested by the transit officers. Lozito sued the city, arguing that the police officers had locked themselves in the conductor's car and failed to come to his aid in time.
The city, meanwhile, claimed that the NYPD had no "special duty" to intervene at the time, and that they were in the motorman's car because they believed Gelman had a gun. And Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Margaret Chan has sided with the city, noting that there was no evidence the cops were aware Lozito was in danger at the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at gothamist.com ...
Wait... They locked themselves in a car, but had no idea the guy was in danger?Seriously, clearly those dudes missed the whole "to protect and serve" thing.
Then why the fuck did you lock yourselves away?!
Epic pussies.
Well, we all know which side of the blue line he falls on.
Seriously, clearly those dudes missed the whole "to protect and serve" thing.
What a couple of fgts.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman
Great article. Civil Forfeiture laws are so absued its not even funny.
ughh...just fucking obscene
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/texas-swat-team-conducts-_n_3764951.html
Unbelievable.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/porn-seach-using-police-car-computer-785323
LMFAO!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/porn-seach-using-police-car-computer-785323Lol.
LMFAO!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Lol.
The machine shop foreman at my job was recently busted for sitting in his office watching porn.
He promptly got a raise and makes an 1/8th million a year to do jack shit.
He is not well liked. The owner of our company is kind of a retard, and will pay someone that has an education a shit ton more and give them a ton more leeway, even if they are complete invalids incapable of doing their job. He will also completely ignore the people with the experience, unless they have some sort of higher education.
It's quite hilarious to watch him listen to these fucks fresh out of college that have no clue what theyre talking about, and then wonder why nothing works.
(Not discounting education at all, but the owner hasn't figured out which educated people to listen to and which experienced people to listen to... to him, education automatically means right, and experience = worthless)
The owner is the 3rd generation to have the company, and he's pretty well disliked by the people that worked for his dad/grandfather.
The solution is simple: either quit your job and find another place, or if this isn't an option, simply refuse to share your expertise and just let the poorly qualified people take the lead into the inevitable disaster. Don't use your brain if your brain isn't wanted.I'm not particularly affected, as I'm not in a position where my decisions need to be approved by the boss. I'm at a lower level (as I just started with this company), and not in the machine shop. It's just amusing to me watching all the mid level guys cry like bitches.
Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches
By Timothy B. Lee, Updated: August 19, 2013
(Photo by Ninja M.)
If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches.
In 2007, the police arrested a Massachusetts man who appeared to be selling crack cocaine from his car. The cops seized his cellphone and noticed that it was receiving calls from “My House.” They opened the phone to determine the number for “My House.” That led them to the man’s home, where the police found drugs, cash and guns.
The defendant was convicted, but on appeal he argued that accessing the information on his cellphone without a warrant violated his Fourth Amendment rights. Earlier this year, the First Circuit Court of Appeals accepted the man’s argument, ruling that the police should have gotten a warrant before accessing any information on the man’s phone.
The Obama Administration disagrees. In a petition filed earlier this month asking the Supreme Court to hear the case, the government argues that the First Circuit’s ruling conflicts with the rulings of several other appeals courts, as well as with earlier Supreme Court cases. Those earlier cases have given the police broad discretion to search possessions on the person of an arrested suspect, including notebooks, calendars and pagers. The government contends that a cellphone is no different than any other object a suspect might be carrying.
But as the storage capacity of cellphones rises, that position could become harder to defend. Our smart phones increasingly contain everything about our digital lives: our e-mails, text messages, photographs, browser histories and more. It would be troubling if the police had the power to get all that information with no warrant merely by arresting a suspect.
On the other hand, the Massachusetts case involves a primitive flip-phone, which could make this a bad test case. The specific phone involved in this 2007 incident likely didn’t have the wealth of information we store on more modern cellphones. It’s arguably more analogous to the address books and pagers the courts have already said the police can search. So, as Orin Kerr points out, if the Supreme Court ruled on the case, it would be making a decision based on “facts that are atypical now and are getting more outdated every passing month.”
© The Washington Post Company
In the summer of 2008, the Oakland Police Department's Internal Affairs Division discovered that more than half of all drug-related search warrants involving confidential informants had been falsified. Internal affairs investigated eighteen officers for lying under oath, falsifying police reports, and conducting illegal searches and seizures. [...]
Karla Rush, an officer based in East Oakland, faced especially severe charges. Of the 40 search warrants she had filed between March of 2007 and August 2008, 39 were fraudulent. Rush claimed that her misconduct was the result of poor training, but an arbitrator rejected her assertion, saying, "telling the truth is not a matter of training," according to court documents.
Although internal affairs recommended firing twelve officers, only four ended up losing their jobs: Rush, Francisco Martinez, John Kelly, and William Burke. Of those four, three have since been rehired by Alameda County police agencies: Burke was reinstated by OPD through arbitration in 2010, and both Rush and Kelly are now UC Berkeley police officers.
What has been adopted by our department since the rulings is that an officer must have articulable clear probable cause to believe the phone contains evidence of the crime they are investigating. A random search of a phone during a traffic stop for example where there is no indication of a crime other than the traffic violation would be prohibited. That's in line with how we operated for the most part already but the recent rulings gave better guidance than was available before.
The following excerpt is from http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/when-cops-lie/Content?oid=3693931 (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/when-cops-lie/Content?oid=3693931):
Which police department would hire anyone who provably falsified 97.5% of all search warrants applications she filed? Which police department would rehire someone that another department had fired for misconduct?
And, to be blunt, why was she not prosecuted for perjury and lying under oath for submitting those bogus, false affidavits to a Judge?
Damn... the Oakland PD is a cesspool.
Could you offer a short list of examples, 007?
Real World example- Officers were working a disturbance call at a particular apartment complex. As the call was wrapping up the supervisor was leaving and noticed a vehicle pulling into the complex that had pulled out a few minutes before. The Sgt recognizes the driver as he passes him as a career drug dealer who he has arrested on many ocassions. He runs his name throught he MDC and he comes back with warrants. He advises the officers still on scene of this and they make contact with the subject. After speaking with the subject, the story doesn't add up. He says at first he wasn't there before, then he said he was but he came back because he forgot his phone. He had his phone in his hand and had never gone back in his apartment. He was arrested for the warrants and subsequent search of his vehicle revealed several dime bags of pot and a pill bottle of crack rocks. With the history of his drug dealing, going and coming from his residence in a short amount of time, story not adding up and the officers knowledge that cell phones are often used to set up deals the phone was checked which revealed txt messages indicating a drug deal. Subject complained that the phone search was illegal but lost the argument in court.
So a person appears somewhere, the cop already knows his name and presumably some other identifiers, and through such memorized information is able to discover the person has warrants, which leads to a discovery of several dime bags of dope, causing the cop to choose to examine the subject's phone in order to reveal that the individual may have been at that location to sell drugs. Have I missed anything?
If you are being arrested then all bets are off. The Police can use the "search incident to arrest" exception to search you. Whether that means they can search your digital devices is somewhat nebulous, but they can, in the current environment, do it until the Courts rule on it.
If you are being arrested then all bets are off. The Police can use the "search incident to arrest" exception to search you. Whether that means they can search your digital devices is somewhat nebulous, but they can, in the current environment, do it until the Courts rule on it.
So the cops used a search of his phone, to justify a subsequent search of his vehicle (where the drugs were found).
This wasn't a matter of trying to secure additional evidence in relation to a search that had already taken place.
No link, Austin Texas.
No, the cop already had the vehicle, didn't use the phone to search it. The cop used the subjects history, vehicle content and current information to link to the phone. Because phones can be wiped remotely, it is a different situation than a house search in that sense. Although exigent circumstances can allow the search of a house if there is reason to believe evidence is being destroyed, for example, a person runs to a bathroom and starts flushing the toilet.
I'm gonna go with more of where somebody is arrested as I was reading an article where a court in CA toss out the phone search because the police were in no danger and had plenty of time to secure a warrant. I'm not sure what's up where I'm at in MD/VA.
Agnostic's example is on that line though...as in where to draw it. The exact same principle could be applicable to a home as I'm sure they've got tons of experience of people dealing drugs from their house. And I think many of us have a hard time being sympathetic to douchebag with multiple warrants dumb enough to keep passing by a group of cops, lol.
A007, are you aware of any news articles on it, at all?
Nope, not newsworthy here..
Skip, do you recall any further detail about the story?
So help me out, here, 007. Please give a step-by-step explanation behind the idea that time didn't allow for anything but the cop to self-authorize action.
Jack, courts have recognized that phones are easlily wiped of information remotely these days so with that knowledge, it creates exigent circumstances. If there was no chance the information could be tampered with or destroyed, then there would be no exception to the warrant rule.
As a cop, reversals are pretty common though in my experience it is not done at the $250K level all that much around here. Tragic turn of events. Possibly poor planning and certainly underestimating the threat level.
As a citizen, I'd like to see drugs decriminalized
In your judgment, would a transaction that involved a half-million dollars in value take place without an extensive previous history?
$250K is a quarter of a million :P
Yes, bro, and each entity had that value at stake.
Seems pretty likely that one or more of the guys in the buyers' party had plans to take it all and split, and a cop found his final stand in life.
Myself, I'd be strongly inclined to believe this was an illegal money-funnel to beat all hell, and the deaths made it effectively impossible to deal with the event in any other way but to declare that it was some legitimate operation.
Really?
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/09/12/merced-police-policy-of-taking-injured-animals-to-shooting-range-comes-under-fire/#.UjKLgmTQ_v4.facebook
Ridiculous
Two bystanders shot and wounded by NYPD officers who opened fire on mentally disturbed suspect in crowded Times Square
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420991/Times-Square-shooting-wounds-person-Saturday-night.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/times-square-police-shooting/index.html
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Two officers fire three shots in an attempt to subdue an agitated man
They hit two women instead, who are hospitalized with injuries
The man is later taken to a hospital as "an emotionally disturbed person"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/dea-agents-raid_n_3942731.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26/keith-alexander-nsa_n_3998071.html
Sick
http://amarillo.com/news/2013-09-19/woman-sues-estelline-former-officers-over-cash-seizure
Another wrongful taking...but she's fighting back. More power to her!
To his credit, the DA isn't pursuing bullshit charges. These practices ought to be banned, especially when it comes to seizing cash, a fact which Courts have taken judicial notice of multiple times, almost always contain trace amounts of drugs.
Also, the bullshit "I think I smell marijuana" nonsense needs to end.
I posted one time about holding cops personally liable. I think it would end a lot of this bullshit. Needless to say...my idea didn't get much traction, lol.
http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/gang-atlantic-city-officers-brutally-beat-man-release-an-attack-dog-to-gnaw-on-his-neck
I agree they should be held liable, but it's not an easy problem to solve for a number of reasons.
First of all, even with clearly established penalties, the bad cops won't change. The good cops will simply avoid doing anything to avoid being penalized.
Secondly, it's can be hard to apply a clean standard to encounters that are, very often unclean.
Thirdly, even if that standard is worked out, you need a new agency to investigate and charge those cops who break the rules - an agency that isn't made of in touchable and incorruptible super-officers.
Lastly, we need people who will put their oath of office above camaraderie and friendship.
But I agree that we need change. We need DAs who will stand up to officers and police unions and investigate and charge officers who violate the rules. We need robust oversight from civilian boards. We need informed citizens who will vote out police chiefs that harbor corruption or don't deal with trouble officers. We need judges who will hold officers accountable for their behavior - inside and outside the Court.
Wow... the brutality of that beating is shocking but the response from Chief Ernest Jubilee is even more shocking. He claims that he reviewed the video and "saw no reason to suspend or remove the officers from their regular duties."
That joke of a police chief ought to be kicked out of the office which he now holds, along with all those officers. They should lose their pensions and benefits and they should face criminal charges.
I'm curious what our resident officer will have to say about this video and the response from this incompetent piece of shit Chief.
Frankly, if their internal investigation clears them or gives them silly "slap on the wrist" penalties, they should be investigated by the FBI and prosecuted for violating the civil rights of this kid under the dual sovereign exception to double jeopardy for the actual beating.
Up until the dog, I was thinking I understand the cops are wanting to get his arms behind his back and he is not letting them. the concern is when hands are in front of a resisting subject on the ground it can access a gun in the wastband if one is there so it is a concern. The tactics the officers used to do this were not all that impressive but a police chief can't nickel and dime a force response if the force is not unreasonable given the totality of the circumstances. However when the dog is released on the guy all bets are off. It was clearly unnecessary and the potential for severe permenant damage and disfigurement is high and there were enough officers there to gain compliance without the dog. Definately worth a different response from the administration
No one can tell me that these assholes don't understand what the person is experiencing, as he is getting the living shit beat out of him for "failing to comply". It is deliberate, and it is a crime.
Exactly, there's nothing natural about moving your hands behind your back when hit hard elsewhere. Curling up and covering are natural, and that's what's kicking in when these people get beaten.
But, the Blue Wall (which Agnostic denies, lol) ENDURES!
And cops continue to make up nonsense to justify, cover for, and protect other cops from repercussions.
Notice that the beating...necessary to make sure the guy didn't have a gun from what we're told...was conducted AFTER the guy had already been searched. Yep, it was really necessary. ::)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/nyregion/detective-seen-in-bikers-attack-on-suv-is-arrested.html?_r=0
Typical
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Video-Captures-Cops-Alleged-Excessive-Force-227153991.html?fullSite=y
Damn - that sucked. You can see the blood start dripping.
Typical worthless pig beating up on a woman
Hope he gets fired, charges brought against him and he is convicted. What a dirtbagYou know as well as the rest of us that he will most likely get his job back no matter what he fucking did. Nice... ::)
You know as well as the rest of us that he will most likely get his job back no matter what he fucking did. Nice... ::)
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Video-Captures-Cops-Alleged-Excessive-Force-227153991.html?fullSite=y
Damn - that sucked. You can see the blood start dripping.
Typical worthless pig beating up on a woman
No, can't say that I know that..I wouldn't bet against it lol...
And now crap like this?fucking derp.
Fucking Sheriff Rex Kwon Do.... ::)
Preston, Idaho is a town of roughly 5,000 people that earned brief notoriety a decade ago as the setting for the whimsical film “Napoleon Dynamite.” It is blessedly devoid of violent crime, and has no need for its six-officer police department.
Yet Chief Ken Geddes believes that Preston’s superficial placidity disguises the potential for apocalyptic violence. At least that’s what he’s saying to pre-empt potential criticism of his decision to acquire a combat-grade armored vehicle from the Department of Homeland Security.
The Preston Police Department is one of two in Idaho to receive a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP) through the Pentagon’s Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO).
::)
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2013/10/pedro-offers-you-his-protection-preston.html
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Video-Captures-Cops-Alleged-Excessive-Force-227153991.html?fullSite=y
Damn - that sucked. You can see the blood start dripping.
Typical worthless pig beating up on a woman
I wouldn't bet against it lol...
I respect what you do. I respect people like you. I respect the good guys like you... But I don't respect the asses in law enforcement who do shit like this and then get their jobs back after being let go and we see that kind of thing happening again and again, over and over.... This shit is broken and it is in need of some serious fixing imo... There is no reason whatsoever that we need the level of law enforcement going on today. There is absolutely no reason that there should be daily videos posted showing police misconduct but that's what we see. It is and should be an outrage. There should be a self check by law enforcement on this shit before it becomes a real reckoning by the people. When you have people rooting for the other, it's a good indication that you've all gone a little overkill.
All we want is for violent criminals to be kept in check.... That's all the people want but you all have gone so beyond that to the point that we have so many people behind bars that have no business being there. I mean really? The most free country in the world actually now has the highest incarceration rate?
FUCKING NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.wistv.com/story/23686918/cell-phone-video-shows-off-duty-deputy-attempt-to-arrest-soldier-at-bar
http://www.wistv.com/story/23698228/deputy-fired-after-trying-to-arrest-soldier-at-bar
http://www.examiner.com/article/police-kill-80-year-old-man-his-bed-during-meth-raid-no-meth-was-found
:( :(
Check out http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/18/21029748-man-you-ought-to-be-ashamed-irate-grandpa-stops-upskirt-photos-at-nashville-airport?lite
A man grabbed the cell phone of a U.S. Federal Air Marshal who took pictures up female passengers' skirts at Nashville International Airport. I'm surprised that instead of getting tackled, arrested and harassed (perhaps at gunpoint) he got to witness the arrest of the Marshal!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/pepper-spray-cop-settlement_n_4152147.html
Oh for fucks sake!
Florida Cop Tasers Cuffed Girl Who Became Braindead As A Result
A Florida police officer, 267-pound Trooper Daniel Cole, was recently cleared of any wrongdoing by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Questions were raised when he tasered a 20 year old handcuffed girl in the back as she fled. The tasering was caught on video showing officer Cole firing the taser at the handcuffed Danielle Maudsley. Maudsley was a mere 100 pound, while Cole outweighed her at two and a half times her weight. She was clearly no threat to him, unless he expected to die from exhaustion chasing her a few yards.
(http://politicalblindspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/coma.jpg)
http://politicalblindspot.com/florida-cop-tasers-cuffed-girl-now-shes-braindead/
Fuck me... that's horrible. And this guy is cleared? I hope he gets sued (in both his personal and his professional capacities). This shit is starting to get out of control.The fact that Police are cleared more often than not is extremely disheartening.
The fact that Police are cleared more often than not is extremely disheartening.
Being a former Marine... I understand wanting to back up your men... but this isn't fucking Iraq... these guys seem to forget they're here to serve and protect us, not to dominate us....
Although I've heard that most Police precincts have removed "to serve and protect" from their vehicles... and I personally have not seen it on any Police vehicles in a long time....
Im sure it's not intentional, but it makes me scratch my head.
The fact that Police are cleared more often than not is extremely disheartening.
Being a former Marine... I understand wanting to back up your men... but this isn't fucking Iraq... these guys seem to forget they're here to serve and protect us, not to dominate us....
Although I've heard that most Police precincts have removed "to serve and protect" from their vehicles... and I personally have not seen it on any Police vehicles in a long time....
Im sure it's not intentional, but it makes me scratch my head.
To Protect and To Serve has always been an LAPD motto, since around the 50's. It's still on their vehicles. It's not a national police motto
To Protect and To Serve has always been an LAPD motto, since around the 50's. It's still on their vehicles. It's not a national police motto
So what? You forget who pays your fucking salary?
So what? You forget who pays your fucking salary?
Are we playing the non sequitor game because your sentence made no sense. I merely pointed out that 1. It can still be found on LAPD cars and 2. It's not disappearing off of cars as it was not on many outside of LAPD. It was not a comment geared towards anything about salary or who pays it. Calm down dude
Florida Cop Tasers Cuffed Girl Who Became Braindead As A Result
A Florida police officer, 267-pound Trooper Daniel Cole, was recently cleared of any wrongdoing by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Questions were raised when he tasered a 20 year old handcuffed girl in the back as she fled. The tasering was caught on video showing officer Cole firing the taser at the handcuffed Danielle Maudsley. Maudsley was a mere 100 pound, while Cole outweighed her at two and a half times her weight. She was clearly no threat to him, unless he expected to die from exhaustion chasing her a few yards.
(http://politicalblindspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/coma.jpg)
http://politicalblindspot.com/florida-cop-tasers-cuffed-girl-now-shes-braindead/
Columbia, SC Police Chief: DrugWar WrongThink Creates Reasonable Suspicion To "Find You"
http://www.popehat.com/2013/11/01/columbia-sc-police-chief-drugwar-wrongthink-creates-reasonable-suspicion-to-find-you/
(http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DissentisSuspicious.png)
He looks black so he probably committed a few felonies in the past anyway. :D
Columbia, SC Police Chief: DrugWar WrongThink Creates Reasonable Suspicion To "Find You"what a fucking asshat. Lawl.
http://www.popehat.com/2013/11/01/columbia-sc-police-chief-drugwar-wrongthink-creates-reasonable-suspicion-to-find-you/
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What a piece of shit. Along with everyone who cleared him.
This bullshit will persist as long as people sit on their asses and don't get involved in politics. It's inexcusable not to be forcing mayors and councils to put an end to this shit. I've gone after them a couple of times and it's usually only a couple of us willing to stand up and meet at the board. Unreal.
For the record, this is the one thread on the Politics sub-forum where it seems like all of us agree. Kinda nice, really.
Personally, I can't read too much of this stuff because it makes me want to swing on someone.
Not sure where most of you get material for this thread, but I go here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/bad_cop_no_donut (http://www.reddit.com/r/bad_cop_no_donut)
The CATO institute's police misconduct page is great. I read it just about everyday.
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-eckerts-traffic-stop-in-new-mexico-2013-11 (http://www.businessinsider.com/david-eckerts-traffic-stop-in-new-mexico-2013-11)
For more details, check this: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml (http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml?cat=500#.Unk4H2u9K0f)
What the fuck? Wow!
Jesus fucking Christ. For me, this is the money quote from the 2nd article:
"This is like something out of a science fiction film, anal probing by government officials and public employees," Kennedy said.
If that guys doesn't majorly get paid, he should be allowed to hunt down all the responsible parties, Dorner-style.
Realistically, some law enforcement folks and some medical care folks need to lose their jobs over this. The tax-payers of that town should be pissed as hell that they're gonna have to pay for the rectal shenanigans described in those links.
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-eckerts-traffic-stop-in-new-mexico-2013-11 (http://www.businessinsider.com/david-eckerts-traffic-stop-in-new-mexico-2013-11)
For more details, check this: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml (http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml?cat=500#.Unk4H2u9K0f)
What the fuck? Wow!
Outrageous. All those involved should be jailed and subjected to the same treatment, every day.
If you watch the video, the icing on the cake is that the idiots at Gila Regional Medical Center are BILLING him for the procedures and threatening to send him to collections if he doesn't pay. Yes, you read that right. They are asking him to pay them for violating him as they did.my wife went to an ER for lower stomach pain.... they wanted to test for rec drugs, I kept telling them she wasnt on anything and she wasnt after pills tja t she needed a ct scan or some shit and we werent paying for a drug test.... anyway they took some blood for "tests" and then billed me a grand for blood testing for EACH DRUG (8 grand total), and then threatened legal action when I refused to pay
No doubt people need to lose jobs over this: certainly the cops involves, and certainly the doctors (who should also be investigated by the Board and, perhaps, lose their licenses). Even the Judge ought to be investigated; I mean to issue a warrant that authorizes this sort of a search because a man was standing upright and "clenched his buttocks" (not sure how this was established) seems like a gross overreach.
my wife went to an ER for lower stomach pain.... they wanted to test for rec drugs, I kept telling them she wasnt on anything and she wasnt after pills tja t she needed a ct scan or some shit and we werent paying for a drug test.... anyway they took some blood for "tests" and then billed me a grand for blood testing for EACH DRUG (8 grand total), and then threatened legal action when I refused to pay
my wife went to an ER for lower stomach pain.... they wanted to test for rec drugs, I kept telling them she wasnt on anything and she wasnt after pills tja t she needed a ct scan or some shit and we werent paying for a drug test.... anyway they took some blood for "tests" and then billed me a grand for blood testing for EACH DRUG (8 grand total), and then threatened legal action when I refused to pay
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-eckerts-traffic-stop-in-new-mexico-2013-11 (http://www.businessinsider.com/david-eckerts-traffic-stop-in-new-mexico-2013-11)
For more details, check this: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml (http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml?cat=500#.Unk4H2u9K0f)
What the fuck? Wow!
Pretty fucked up, but a very different situation. I hope you challenged this in court.I know it's totally different.. just the terrible way the hospital dealt with it jogged my memory.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/05/army-veteran-banned-from-daughters-school-after-posting-picture-concealed
ridiculous
http://www.myfoxny.com/Story/23906473/police-stun-stepdad-trying-to-save-son-from-fire
:-\
Unlike most of the other posts on this thread, I don't think this one belongs here.
Heard about this over on Reddit BCND and what the story supposedly doesn't mention is that firemen reached the scene at the same time as the cops and the firemen, even with all their gear, would not enter the house because it was too hot at that point. The cops saved the stepdad from certain death. The guy's wife was there, too, and it was pointed out that, had the cops not acted, her tragedy would have been made all the worse by losing her husband as well as her young son.
Maybe the cops didn't need to tase him to stop him from entering the burning house but they apparently did need to stop him.
Unlike most of the other posts on this thread, I don't think this one belongs here.
Heard about this over on Reddit BCND and what the story supposedly doesn't mention is that firemen reached the scene at the same time as the cops and the firemen, even with all their gear, would not enter the house because it was too hot at that point. The cops saved the stepdad from certain death. The guy's wife was there, too, and it was pointed out that, had the cops not acted, her tragedy would have been made all the worse by losing her husband as well as her young son.
Maybe the cops didn't need to tase him to stop him from entering the burning house but they apparently did need to stop him.
Permabulking Getbigger arrested for trying to pick up his kids at school. (No, really, that's the whole story.)
http://www.wate.com/story/24005228/cumberland-county-parent-releases-video-of-his-arrest-by-a-school-resource-officer (http://www.wate.com/story/24005228/cumberland-county-parent-releases-video-of-his-arrest-by-a-school-resource-officer)
^From the above story...
"As he was questioned by plainclothes officers from the Violence Reduction Team, the officer in the black baseball hat grabbed DJ and shoved his head into his front door."
http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/gang-atlantic-city-officers-brutally-beat-man-release-an-attack-dog-to-gnaw-on-his-neck
>:(
Wow! From http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/19/drug-warriors-kidnap-and-sexually-assaul
After being given laxatives, having her vagina and anus search, being x-rayed and undergoing a CT scan, all at the direction of Custom and Border Patrol Agents [...], "a CBP agent presented Ms. Doe with a choice: she could either sign a medical consent form, despite the fact that she had not consented, in which case CBP would pay for the cost of the searches; or if she refused to sign the consent form, she would be billed for the cost of the searches"
I guess the term "searches" should be interpreted loosely.
What the fuck is wrong with this country?!?!
Wow! From http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/19/drug-warriors-kidnap-and-sexually-assaul
After being given laxatives, having her vagina and anus search, being x-rayed and undergoing a CT scan, all at the direction of Custom and Border Patrol Agents [...], "a CBP agent presented Ms. Doe with a choice: she could either sign a medical consent form, despite the fact that she had not consented, in which case CBP would pay for the cost of the searches; or if she refused to sign the consent form, she would be billed for the cost of the searches"
I guess the term "searches" should be interpreted loosely.
What the fuck is wrong with this country?!?!
Arpaio seems to have many fans here but this seems like outrageous abuse of power and censorship. A shame that all this will come from taxpayers' money instead of his own pocket.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2013/12/joe_arpaio_loses_new_times_co-.php
I read the reporters account and it's just amazing that the Feds didn't step in and put Arpaio in jail. We're fucked..no protection from the locals, no protection from the feds. In this case, the judicial seems to have caught on, but all too often they are just as complicit.
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/it-is-illegal-to-wash-your-car-in-your-driveway-in-new-1485274492/@orlove
It Is Illegal to Wash Your Car In Your Driveway In New York
Picture this: you are washing a car that you just bought on your own driveway, in front of your own home, on a nice Saturday morning. Then the cops write you a ticket for it.
Impossible? Not in beautiful Garden City, New York, where the police apparently consider anywhere that can be seen by the public as a "public place". No big deal, right? Wrong. Apparently, there is a city ordinance stating that no one can clean furniture (beating out a dirty rug, hosing off your crusty couch) OR VEHICLES in a public place. And yes, they will give you a citation for it.
No drugs necessary: Driver arrested for having empty compartment
Civil libertarians are criticizing Ohio police for arresting a driver because his car contained a compartment that could theoretically store illegal drugs, though no drugs were found at that time.
The driver, 30-year-old Norman Gurley of Michigan, was pulled over for speeding. A highway patrolman noticed wires running to a secret compartment in the car and arrested Gurley, even though there were no drugs in the compartment. The officer also claimed he smelled marijuana in the compartment — giving him probable cause to search it — though none was ultimately discovered.
It makes no difference whether police find drugs or not, according to a new Ohio law that prohibits secret compartments.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/30/driver-arrested-for-having-empty-compartment-that-could-store-drugs/#ixzz2p9dV9PQF
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/07/police-brutality-new-jersey-report_n_4555166.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
99% of complaints go uninvestigated
Correct me if I am wrong.... I read the article and it appears to be inaccurate.
"A whopping 99 percent of all complaints regarding police brutality are left uninvestigated in central New Jersey, according to a Courier News and Home News Tribune report published this week.
Between 2008 and 2012, citizens "filed hundreds of complaints alleging brutality, bias and civil rights violations by officers in more than seven dozen police departments in Central Jersey," the report reads. However, it adds that only 1 percent of these complaints -- seven percentage points below the national average of 8 percent -- were "upheld by the internal units tasked with investigating complaints against their colleagues."
In the majority of cases, the police agencies reportedly "either 'exonerated' the officers, dismissed the complaints as frivolous, determined that they did not have sufficient evidence or simply never closed the investigation"
Reading the article from a person with insight into the process, the article wants to say 99% are never investigated, but what it actually says is out of the complaints investigated, 1% are confirmed, or what would be called "Founded" it doesnt mean they were not investigated.
Foxes guarding the hen house maybe?
Maybe, or many complaints are bogus or unfounded when the evidence is reviewed. Could be a combination
How can they come to this conclusion if they are left uninvestigated ?
And how do you gather evidence if you dont investigate?
You couldn't. I think the article is either slanted or poorly written. Here is how it typically works
A complaint comes in. Each complaint is initially reviewed by an investigator. In our dept they are also reviewed by a Civilian Police Monitor and our investigators are the rank of Sergeant. Those that are obviously bogus, for example, Officer J. Smith shot me in the leg and you find 1. The complainant has no injury and Officer Smith was on vacation in Hawaii, you don't continue with the investigation, but that isn't to say it wasn't reviewed.
If there is a possibility the complaint is true, then it is cataloged and placed in the system. If it is of a nature where the officer, if found to have committed the allegation would be fired, then it is investigated as a Class A, and done by Internal Affairs in conjuction with the police monitor designee. If it is of a lesser nature, then the supervisor of the officer is assigned and works along with an I.A. Laison Sergeant. The results are reviewed up the chain of command to the Asst Chief
The results can be ..No, the alleged action did not take place which is unfounded. Or the alleged conduct did take place but was within policy and state lawwhich is exhonerated or there is not enough evidence either way to either determine it did or didnt happen which is inconclusive. Or it did happen and it would be sustained.
All complaints are reveiwed at this department and taken seriously. To say 99% of all abuse complaints are not investigated is just poor journalism to say the least.
Thanks.
To say 99% of complaints don't merit outside investigation sounds ludicrous no?
Yes.. it is ludicrous and really not even what the article said. Well, it said to conflicting things. the first paragraph says 99 percent go uninvestigated. The next one says of all the cases investigated, only 1% are upheld (Founded) so the writer has his head up his ass. At this point I would have to shitcan the article and start from scratch to find out the real story.
I haven't read the article, but based on your description it sounds as if the author claims that:
Out of 100 complaints, 99% are not investigated. Of the 1% that are investigated, only 1% are actually upheld. As sad as those numbers may sound, I don't doubt that they could be accurate.
To say 99% of complaints don't merit outside investigation sounds ludicrous no?
I was reading through the full report, but this was mentioned.
"Police enjoy a level of workplace confidentiality not granted to private-sector professionals in the state, where complaints and disciplinary rulings against attorneys, plumbers, accountants and hairstylists, all identified by name, are posted on state websites"
No real surprise with cops expecting special treatment.
At least one political official is starting to wake up.
"“It’s long since past the day where you can say with a straight face that it’s OK to have officers investigate their own. It just isn’t a good system,” Barnes said."
Notice how we haven't hear shit about the cops who tried to murder those 2 ladies in CA thinking they were a large black man? ::)
Yeah what happened with that one?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/17/over-criminalized-scientist-settles-7-year-legal-nightmare-with-feds-over
Insane
Penalties seemed a little harsh but otherwise I think I agree with the gubmint on this one. (Not that y'all know what "this one" is since Soul Crusher, that lazy beeyotch, is back to posting links with no description whatsoever.)
Lady scientist got in trouble for feeding killer whales without authorization which doesn't seem so bad...until you realize that it's pretty much like feeding bears around a campground.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/19/cops-beat-elderly-man-after-he-jaywalked
NYC Finest
An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper with a history of domestic violence won't face charges related to alleged sexual encounters involving a boy, Sandusky County Sheriff's Deputy Sean O'Connell said.
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/5202236
Disturbing pun with the county name (Sandusky)... And this guy with all this record of domestic violence and abuse is still a cop (and doesn't face charges)...
http://clashdaily.com/2014/02/caught-video-controversy-video-az-man-killed-cops-hands/#25hyU3szswiOdqxo.01
Yikes.
I hope the family sues and gets millions of dollars.
NYPD cop dubbed 'PistolPete' claims dubious record for 'most sued officer' in the city as it is revealed more than $1 billion in taxpayers money paid out in lawsuits over a decade
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560730/NYPD-cop-dubbed-PistolPete-claims-dubious-record-sued-officer-city-revealed-1-billion-taxpayers-money-paid-lawsuits-decade.html
Southern California Police Beat and Taser an Innocent Deaf Man
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/02/14/65377.htm
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/cops-beat-unarmed-man-death-front-family-take-camera-recorded-video/#axzz2tWwGkINy
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I,d have to hear both sides of the story,sounds fishy to me
He's a minority, so you libtards pretty much approve of the cops beating him to death while he's unarmed.
You'll lap up the standard excuses (he curled up instead of straightening when they bludgeoned him ::) , or his arms were stiff, insert stupid excuse here) for beating an unarmed dude to death and they'll be found guilty of violating "policy" and you and the murderers will all be happy little pups.
Liberals typicall love the police state since they view it as the means to enforce their world view on all sorts of garbage against the rest of us
Euharlee (GA) Female Cop Summarily Executes Christopher Roupe; “Armed” With Nintendo Controller
http://opnateye.com/?p=1001
Attorney: Teen was shot for having Wii controller in hand
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/attorney-teen-was-shot-having-wii-controller-hand/ndSrL/
A female police officer told GBI investigators that Roupe pointed a gun at her when he opened the door.
“It just doesn't add up,” said Cole Law who is representing the Roupe family.
Law said Roupe was about to watch a movie.
“We don't know where that statement came from. The eyewitnesses on the scene clearly state that he had a Wii controller in his hand. He heard a knock at the door. He asked who it was, there was no response so he opened the door and upon opening the door he was immediately shot in the chest,” Law said.
If the facts of this case are what they seem to be now then the cop needs to be re-assigned to a no-contact-with-the-public job AT BEST.
If the facts as stated above are true, I'd say she needs to get life in prison without parole, at best.
New York City Settles Suit With Wrongly Jailed Man for $6.4 Million
A man who was framed by the rogue detective Louis Scarcella and served 23 years in prison for a murder he did not commit will receive $6.4 million from the City of New York in a settlement that came before a civil rights lawsuit was even filed, lawyers involved in the case said on Thursday.
A $150 million claim filed last year by the man, David Ranta, was settled by the city comptroller’s office without ever involving the city’s legal department – which the lawyers involved in the negotiations described as a “groundbreaking” decision that acknowledged the overwhelming evidence the city faced.
READ MORE »
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/nyregion/man-framed-by-new-york-detective-to-get-6-4-million-without-filing-suit.html?emc=edit_na_20140220
Scarcella should receive the same charges, sentence and consequences as the man he framed, along with any other charges related to framing this man. And it seems like he might have framed many others..
Liberals typicall love the police state since they view it as the means to enforce their world view on all sorts of garbage against the rest of us
Evidence from a dashboard camera on a police cruiser ended a nightmare for a New Jersey man facing false charges of eluding police, resisting arrest and assault.
Prosecutors dismissed all the criminal charges against Marcus Jeter, 30, of Bloomfield, N.J. and instead indicted two Bloomfield police officers for falsifying reports and one of them for assault after the recording surfaced showing police officers beating Jeter during a traffic stop, according to WABC of New York. A third has pleaded guilty to tampering.
New Jersey Man Escapes 5 Year Sentence After Dash Cam Footage Clears Him, Indicts Cops [continued]
http://libertycrier.com/new-jersey-man-escapes-5-year-sentence-dash-cam-footage-clears-indicts-cops/?utm_source=The+Liberty+Crier&utm_campaign=3a65cfcc8d-The_Liberty_Crier_Daily_News_2_24_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_600843dec4-3a65cfcc8d-284835313
California city police 'sold impounded vehicles'
The acting police chief and two officers in a rural California town have been removed from duty after being arrested and accused of selling vehicles seized from poor residents.
Those arrested were bailed out of jail within hours, local broadcaster KSBW reported.
The arrested officers are now on paid leave.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26362590
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/02/strip_search_lawsuit_involving_1.html
$14,000? That's it?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/horror-five-cops-beat-innocent-unarmed-father-death-outside-cinemas?akid=11594.142394.dGtbSI&rd=1&src=newsletter969957&t=8
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Great Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) here:
www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/20kgvf/iama_former_employee_of_a_jail_where_i_watched/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/20kgvf/iama_former_employee_of_a_jail_where_i_watched/)
IAma former employee of a jail where I watched inmates be beat for fun. I was fired for reporting it, and have spent the last decade of my life testifying for those inmates. I did an AMA before, but couldn't say what really needed to be said. I'm done testifying, so I can REALLY talk now. AMA (self.IAmA)
Original text from the 1st AMA:
I saw horrific beatings happen almost every day. I saw inmates being beat senseless for not moving fast enough. I saw inmates urinate on themselves because they had been chained up for hours and officers refused to let them use the bathroom. This didn't happen because they were busy, this happened because it was fun. I saw an old man be beat bad enough to be taken to the hospital because he didn't respond to a verbal order RIGHT AFTER he took out his hearing aids (which he was ordered to do.)
I was fired after I caught the beating of a triple amputee (you read that right!) on video, and I got 7 officers fired for brutality. Don't believe me? here's a still from the video. This is one second of over 14 minutes of this poor man being beaten with a mop handle, kicked, punched and thrown around. As you can see in the video, he is down in the left hand corner, naked and cowering while being sprayed with pepper spray.http://imgur.com/I8eeq
After I was fired, I sued the Sheriff's Office and the Board of County Commissioners and I settled the night before trial. I consider every penny that I got blood money, but I did get a letter of recommendation hand signed by the sheriff himself, and I FLAT OUT REFUSED to sign a non disclosure agreement. One of my biggest regrets in life is not taking that case to trial, but I just emotionally couldn't do it. I also regret not going to the press immediately with what I had as it happened. I want someone to finally listen about what goes on in that jail. Instead of going to the press, I decided to speak with attorneys and help inmates who were beaten and murdered by detention officers in the jail. In the last 5 years I have been deposed twice and I have been flown across the planet 3 times to be deposed or to testify in cases against the Sheriff. I have also been consulted by 4 or 5 other attorneys with cases against the Sheriff. Every single time my name has been brought up (with 1 exception) the case has settled within a few months at the most. The record is 2 weeks. Some of those have gag orders on them or are sealed, so I can't discuss the ones that are under an order like that, but not all of them are like that. Let's talk about the two most recent cases I have been involved in: Christopher Beckman was an inmate. He was brought in on a DUI or something like that, he wasn't a career criminal, he was a guy like you, or your buddy, or your dad who fucked up and did something stupid while drunk. He had a seizure in the jail because he was epileptic and didn't get his medications. During this seizure he was hog tied, and ran HEAD FIRST into a 2" thick steel door, concrete walls and elevator doors. His skull was crushed and he died a few days later. I was deposed in his case and very soon afterward the family settled for an "undisclosed" amount of money other than the 1mil, and I promise you this..... they didn't get enough. The officers that did that to them? One of them pled out for a year in jail, the other got nothing. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=14&articleid=20110606_12_0_OLHMIY608751 Dionne McKinney: She is the toughest woman on this planet. She fought for 9 and 1/2 years to take the sheriff to trial and she did it. NO ONE takes the Sheriff to trial in OK county and wins. It hasn't happened in a civil case since the 1970's (from what I understand) She was brutally beaten in the Jail in May of 2003. I testified in this case earlier this month.http://newsok.com/jury-finds-in-favor-of-woman-who-says-oklahoma-county-jail-detention-officers-assaulted-her-nearly-10-years-ago/article/3738355 Why do I live so far away? I fear for my life. I left oklahoma in march of 2010 after I turned over every piece of evidence that I had to the feds. When I have been flown in, I have been in and out in 2 days for depositions, but for the trial, I had to be there for almost a week. I spent 4 days barricaded in my best friends' house. When I left my family in OK after testifying a few weeks ago, I knew that I'd never be able to see them in Oklahoma again and flights to me are not cheap. Here is an absolutely scathing report from the department of justice about the Oklahoma County Jail in 2008. http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/OKCounty_Jail_findlet_073108.pdf
I did an great interview with the Moral Courage Project, and the last case I agreed to be involved with, won at jury trial! I'm ecstatic!
Now I can talk about the REAL problems going on, the thin blue line, or any other questions you may have.
Link to original AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/16ktvd/iama_former_employee_of_a_jail_where_i_watched/
Link to the interview:
I was directly involved in 5 cases, and in all 5 of those cases, the case ended in favor of the plaintiff. I think it may be safe to say that the courts may agree with me at this point, and now all I need is for someone to listen to what goes on in jail.
EDIT::
PROOF http://imgur.com/juqB7i2
EDIT 2:
Here's a link to sign the petition to force ALL Law enforcement officers to wear cameras. This would be a great step in the right direction. Please sign and share.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/create-federal-mandate-forcing-all-law-enforcement-officers-wear-video-recording-device-while-duty/qVhH09tw
EDIT 3: Thank you to everyone who has responded! I've been given some great advice and encouragement!
I am being bombarded with messages telling me that vice.com is the place to go to get this out to the right people, so all that I ask of you guys is to send them a quick email asking them to cover this, I want the abuse of inmates to stop, and the only way to do that is to get the right people's attention, so please help out, should you feel so inclined!
editor@vice.com
Thanks for all of the support again! I have faith in humanity tonight!
Lots of interesting answers to Reddit user-submitted questions follows at link.
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/03/19/gun-tattoo-mistakenly-brings-heavily-armed-police-to-maine-mans-home
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your point
None need to be said - story speaks for itselfno, what's your point
no, what's your point
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/31/veteran-suffolk-police-sergeant-accused-of-stealing-from-drivers-during-traffic-stops/
"Greene, a 25-year veteran of the force, makes $170,000 a year"
Cops make a lot of money in NY it seems but that doesn't stop them from stealing and abusing their authority.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/24/okla-pawn-shop-owner-sues-police-after-speed-trap-warning-brings-down-heat/
Outrageous.
Until they are held personally liable noting will change
Outrageous; this man's life is ruined. No amount of money can pay for his 24 year imprisonment and of course any compensation will not come out of the pockets of the investigators, prosecutors and the lying witness (who should all receive the prison sentence Fleming got), but unfortunately the taxpayers.
New York man exonerated after 25 years in prison for murder
A New York man has been exonerated over a 1989 murder as part of larger review of questionable convictions.
Jonathan Fleming, now 51, had been on holiday in Disney World at the time of the murder and had documents supporting his alibi, but he was still convicted.
Since then, a key eyewitness has recanted and prosecutors turned up a hotel receipt proving he was in Florida hours before the killing.
"I feel wonderful," Mr Fleming said after a judge dismissed his case.
"I've always had faith," he said. "I knew that this day would come some day."
He had told officials from the start he had been in Florida when Darryl Rush was killed in Brooklyn in 1989. Prosecutors argued the shooting was motivated by a dispute over money.
He had plane tickets, videos and postcards from his trip, but prosecutors at the time suggested he could have made a quick round-trip plane trip to return to New York.
Despite a key witness saying she had lied soon after his 1990 conviction, he had lost his previous appeals.
A review of the case files produced a hotel receipt Mr Fleming paid in Florida five hours before the shooting and a letter from Orlando police saying employees at the hotel remembered him.
Neither the receipt nor the police letter had been provided to Mr Fleming's first defence lawyer, despite rules that generally require investigators to turn over such material.
Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson said in a statement he had dropped the case against Mr Fleming because of "key alibi facts that place Fleming in Florida at the time of the murder".
The move comes amid scrutiny of Brooklyn prosecutors' process for reviewing questionable convictions, led in part by Mr Thompson, who was elected last year.
When Mr Fleming was asked about his plans, he said: "I'm going to go eat dinner with my mother and my family, and I'm going to live the rest of my life."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26949733
Feds: 'Excessive force' found in Albuquerque police
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a scathing report in response to a series of deadly police shootings that pointed to patterns of excessive force by the Albuquerque Police Department, serious constitutional violations and a lack of training and oversight of its officers.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/10/feds-excessive-force-found-in-albuquerque-police/
Feds: 'Excessive force' found in Albuquerque police
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a scathing report in response to a series of deadly police shootings that pointed to patterns of excessive force by the Albuquerque Police Department, serious constitutional violations and a lack of training and oversight of its officers.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/10/feds-excessive-force-found-in-albuquerque-police/
http://www.10news.com/news/investigations/team-10-obtains-court-records-suggesting-san-diego-police-department-cover-up-041014
Seems like a pattern no?
This cur assaulted 13 women, another was charged with two felony counts of false imprisonment with violence and three misdemeanor counts of sexual battery involving four women. Those that turned a blind eye or tried to cover up should be tried as accomplices.
We'll probably see the usual pledge from the department to "train the officers".
http://politicalblindspot.com/cop-burned-man-for-littering
Ex-deputies allegedly cut power, cameras to plant guns in pot clinic
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ex-deputies-cameras-20140423,0,2461684.story
Ex-deputies allegedly cut power, cameras to plant guns in pot clinic
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ex-deputies-cameras-20140423,0,2461684.story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614386/Tennessee-police-photographed-choking-unresisting-college-student-passes-out.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614386/Tennessee-police-photographed-choking-unresisting-college-student-passes-out.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614386/Tennessee-police-photographed-choking-unresisting-college-student-passes-out.html
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614386/Tennessee-police-photographed-choking-unresisting-college-student-passes-out.html
Sober driver arrested for OWI when deputy crashes into her car
http://fox6now.com/2014/05/01/sober-driver-arrested-for-owi-when-deputy-crashes-into-her/
...btw, refusing to answer something such as whether you've consumed anything questionable can be viewed as suspicious, obviously, so you need to provide answers for things like that. Do what you need to do to carry on with your business.
I agree with your previous post but not this: you don't "obviously" need to provide anything - except your name, address and date of birth in a subset of states. If the Officer says that your refusal to answer is suspicious, then let him think that and remain quiet. His "thoughts" don't rise to probable cause and almost certainly won't even rise to reasonable suspicion.
The best strategy when dealing with cops is remain calm and courteous and not volunteer any information you are not legally obligated to provide. Refuse to be manipulated into giving up your Constitutional rights because a thug with a badge says "well, that's mighty suspicious... why wouldn't you want to tell me where you're coming from and where you're going? You ain't got nothing to hide, do you boy?"
I've been stopped by cops who repeatedly asked me to open the trunk for "routine inspection" and when I refused to do so, suggested that my refusal to allow my vehicle to be searched could get me arrested or indicted, threatened that they'd bring a K-9, or that they got on the horn and asked for a warrant and that if I cooperated I wouldn't get in trouble. It was all bullshit.
Stand up for yourself: refuse to be bullied. Be polite and courteous but don't surrender your rights or let the police walk all over you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/dea-michele-leonhart-mandatory-minimums_n_5269074.html?utm_hp_ref=politics#comments
DEA supports harsh mandatory minimum sentences - NO FNG WAY!!!
New York woman sues police over raids seeking long-dead husband
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/us-usa-new-york-deadraid-idUSBREA450LR20140506
Sheriff's deputy who was late responding to 911 calls because she was having sex in her patrol car resigns
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2626176/Female-deputy-finished-having-sex-duty-responding-call.html
SALEM, Ore. -- Neighbors heard the gunshots and now they're waiting for the police to explain what happened. How did a 25-year-old woman end up dead after a traffic stop on Friday night?
Salem Police say an officer stopped Jacklynn Ford, 25, a few minutes after 10 p.m. on Friday near Eastgate Basin Park.
Police say Ford ran away from the officer but would not discuss what happened next or how the officer ended up shooting her.
I heard three gunshots and a scream," said a neighbor who lived near the park but did not want to use his name.
Another neighbor also heard gunshots, sirens, and a police dog barking.
Salem Police said they found a gun that appeared to belong to Ford.
The Oregon State Police are now investigating.
Ford's family is not waiting for the official results.
"I'm not laying down on this," wrote her aunt, Marci, on Facebook. "My neice is going to get her justice."
Ford's mom also posted on Facebook, "My heart feels like its broke (sic). I miss my daughter and just want to hold her."
A spokesman for Salem Police declined to elaborate on the shooting while the state investigates what happened, which is routine.
http://www.katu.com/news/local/Woman-25-dies-after-traffic-stop-in-Salem-What-happened-258794511.html
Oh please - ::) ::)
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-forced-dozens-anal-cavity-searches-fun-2-years-prison
That's it?
Police Officer Shoots Puppy After ‘Fearing For His Safety’
Officer claims puppy would not stop “advancing” towards him
Mikael Thalen
Infowars.com
May 13, 2014
A Michigan police officer shot and killed a 10-month-old puppy this week as he pursued a suspect through several yards in a Redford Township neighborhood.
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According to the dog’s owner, Bianca Alakson, police ignored the “beware of dog” sign on her backyard fence early Sunday morning as they entered onto the property. After reaching her backyard, one officer claims to have been “charged” by the puppy.
“I didn’t know what had happened at first, I just heard ‘pop, pop’,” said Alakson’s boyfriend, Ryan Showalter.
Police claim the officer “feared for his safety” and had no choice but to shoot the puppy twice after it would not stop “advancing.”
“Everyone here loves animals, it’s the last thing we want to do but we have to protect ourselves,” a police spokesperson said.
Showalter refuted the officer’s claim that his puppy was dangerous, saying the dog had no history of violence whatsoever.
“He wasn’t the protector of the house type dog either, he was just the great everybody and love them to death type dog,” Showalter said.
Although police say the shooting was strictly based on officer safety, Showalter says the officer had a different explanation on scene.
“I asked him why and he said, ‘because he was in our way’,” Showalter explained.
Incredibly, officers then arrested Showalter, accusing him of interfering with police on his own property.
“They tried to tell me that I was resisting arrest,” Showalter said. “I was breaking down hysterically in the back seat of the cop car, crying, I didn’t know what to do.”
Showalter was later bailed out of jail by Alakson and is still awaiting charges from police.
Although instances of police helping dogs do appear, such as the recent case of a California officer rescuing a Chihuahua from a busy highway, they are greatly outnumbered by situations where officers use deadly force.
Earlier this month, A Pennsylvania state trooper wildly fired at a family’s dog only feet from a 5-year-old’s bedroom window. Although officer’s claimed the dog was charging as well, the dog’s owner argued that the bullet wounds, which were all in the dog’s side, proved that the dog was not running towards them.
An Oklahoma police officer shot and killed a family’s dog last March and reportedly bragged to animal control how the event was “awesome.” According to reports, the offending officer has received numerous complaints from fellow cops as well as citizens.
Last February, an officer in Idaho was cleared of wrongdoing after killing a man’s service dog outside a 9-year-old’s birthday party. The incident, captured by the police vehicle’s dash cam, show the officer kicking at the dog several times before he opened fire.
In 2012, a police officer in Austin, Texas shot and killed a dog as it played Frisbee with its owner. The officer would later learn that he had responded to the wrong home on a domestic disturbance call.
Also in 2012, a Texas cop fatally shot a dog as it sat on the porch outside its home, causing several bullets to go through the home’s walls. The officer proceeded by killing a second dog that was tied up in the backyard.
Even though some statistics point to American police killing a dog every 98 minutes, officers are not always successful. Just last month, a California sheriff’s deputy shot himself while attempting to kill a fenced-in dog. Although the deputy claimed that the dog had tried to attack him, the dog was later seen playing with small children in the neighborhood.
Prosecutor: Fire trooper who pulled gun on speeder
http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/local/2014/05/20/prosecutor-fire-trooper-who-pulled-gun-on-speeder/9323443/
In a written statement to a supervisor, the trooper said he was thinking about the 2013 fatal shooting of Michigan state Trooper Paul Butterfield II during a traffic stop.
"With the recent incident … at the forefront of my mind, I elected to 'clear' the vehicle for my safety as I feel the vehicle could have suddenly pulled to the side in an effort to lure me into a vulnerable position where I could easily be shot," the trooper said in the statement, which the newspaper obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request.
The trooper is on paid leave during the investigation.
paid leave is nothing more than a vacation
Except on a vacation you can go where you want when you want. On Administrative leave you are required to be available for any and all internal investigation interviews and meetings and notify your supervisor of your whereabouts during business hours, and you must remain within the local area. The whole purpose of admin leave is so they are obligated to be available for the investigation and while it is being conducted, they are not financially damaged. Often times the investigation will reveal there was no crime committed.
Except on a vacation you can go where you want when you want. On Administrative leave you are required to be available for any and all internal investigation interviews and meetings and notify your supervisor of your whereabouts during business hours, and you must remain within the local area. The whole purpose of admin leave is so they are obligated to be available for the investigation and while it is being conducted, they are not financially damaged. Often times the investigation will reveal there was no crime committed.
Why do cops need this extra layer of protection not available to citizens? You have police unions objecting to having cops recorded. You have police unions demanding that cops be given a "cooling off" period prior to being interviewed about shootings. You have police unions demanding that cops see alll available video and evidence prior to making a statement about such incidents.
Why? You are public servants. You don't deserve any more protections than the public you protect - and often times abuse.
Some people, obviously not all, but some understand the nature of the profession. There was a time when cops were like the average citizen. They were fired at will for any reason. You wrote the mayors daughter a ticket, you're fired. You arrested a large contributer to the Sheriffs campaign? you're fired. So over the course of the last 150 yrs some protections were built in because having a more professional police organization was important to the citizens. As far as the cooling off period I believe that evolved because studies have shown that right after a high adrenaline incident memory/recall isn't very complete. Officers were getting hemmed up because they would immediatly give a statement, then a few days later after thinking about it, add, or detract from the original statement as details became more clear and it would be construed that they lied about the original statement. Turns out they didn't lie, it's just a process the brain goes through. So in the interest of getting the most accurate statement the first time, they are given 72 hrs. During this time they should be making notes from shortly after the time of the incident till the interview. Your second part of that is for the same reason. I personally have gone through an incident and I could have sworn I was the one who placed the suspect in the back seat. But when I review the video, as I'm approaching the back of the car, another officer takes the subject from me and placed them in the car. I would have lost a bet on it that I did it. That's one example of why it is good to review the information. We are not looking to catch the officer in a "lie", we are wanting the most accurate information.
I don't agree with everything my police association does and says and often times they are a fringe part of the officers rather than what the entire department feels. I've personally sent at least a dozen emails to our Association President over the last 2 yrs voicing my opposition to his statements/position but to no avail. If he were not retiring this year, I would vote against him for the next term. But even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile and there are things like the "cool off" period you mentioned that I totally agree with.
I can't go a day without reading about some knucklehead in a police uniform doing something stupid, arrogant or down right illegal. But having been in the profession for 31 yrs I believe overall policing has improved. If we would have had cameras back 50 yrs ago like we do today.... but even then, and especially now, there are a vast majority of good officers trying to do the right thing in a difficult job. Those videos would outnumber the bad ones 100,000 to 1 if people bothered to film cops doing good things and posting it on you tube. Should be expect all officers to be excellent cops? Absolutley and I hope the profession continues to strive to reach that. But as long as we have to hire humans to do the job, we'll continue to see abuses and you tube videos showing cops doing stupid or down right illegal things. Like you, I don't believe that is acceptable. Our difference is that I believe it is not the norm, nor close to the norm considering the millions of police/citizen contacts a year.
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/05/30/toddler-critically-injured-during-police-raid
Just wow.
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/05/30/toddler-critically-injured-during-police-raid
Just wow.
Some people, obviously not all, but some understand the nature of the profession. There was a time when cops were like the average citizen. They were fired at will for any reason. You wrote the mayors daughter a ticket, you're fired. You arrested a large contributer to the Sheriffs campaign? you're fired. So over the course of the last 150 yrs some protections were built in because having a more professional police organization was important to the citizens. As far as the cooling off period I believe that evolved because studies have shown that right after a high adrenaline incident memory/recall isn't very complete. Officers were getting hemmed up because they would immediatly give a statement, then a few days later after thinking about it, add, or detract from the original statement as details became more clear and it would be construed that they lied about the original statement. Turns out they didn't lie, it's just a process the brain goes through. So in the interest of getting the most accurate statement the first time, they are given 72 hrs. During this time they should be making notes from shortly after the time of the incident till the interview. Your second part of that is for the same reason. I personally have gone through an incident and I could have sworn I was the one who placed the suspect in the back seat. But when I review the video, as I'm approaching the back of the car, another officer takes the subject from me and placed them in the car. I would have lost a bet on it that I did it. That's one example of why it is good to review the information. We are not looking to catch the officer in a "lie", we are wanting the most accurate information.
I don't agree with everything my police association does and says and often times they are a fringe part of the officers rather than what the entire department feels. I've personally sent at least a dozen emails to our Association President over the last 2 yrs voicing my opposition to his statements/position but to no avail. If he were not retiring this year, I would vote against him for the next term. But even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile and there are things like the "cool off" period you mentioned that I totally agree with.
I can't go a day without reading about some knucklehead in a police uniform doing something stupid, arrogant or down right illegal. But having been in the profession for 31 yrs I believe overall policing has improved. If we would have had cameras back 50 yrs ago like we do today.... but even then, and especially now, there are a vast majority of good officers trying to do the right thing in a difficult job. Those videos would outnumber the bad ones 100,000 to 1 if people bothered to film cops doing good things and posting it on you tube. Should be expect all officers to be excellent cops? Absolutley and I hope the profession continues to strive to reach that. But as long as we have to hire humans to do the job, we'll continue to see abuses and you tube videos showing cops doing stupid or down right illegal things. Like you, I don't believe that is acceptable. Our difference is that I believe it is not the norm, nor close to the norm considering the millions of police/citizen contacts a year.
I don't necessarily disagree with what you write. I agree that many (even most) police officers are decent people who want to do a good job, and I understand that even well-meaning people make honest mistakes. I don't want to throw a cop who makes a mistake in jail and throw away the key.
What I do want is twofold: first to ensure that we have zero tolerance for bad cops and actively weed out and punish bad apples and second to ensure that we don't create a caste of people with special privileges (which is what we have, in essence, done with cops).
Let's talk about the 72 hour rule... do citizens have the same "timeout" for their brain to go through the process? Can they see all the evidence available before making a statement? If not, why not? Why afford police officers special rights in this instance?
I'm all for reasonable rules to support police in their, oftentimes, difficult work. But that doesn't mean turning a beat into a fiefdom and police officer into a feudal Lord.
Yes, citizens have even more rights in many cases. They can refuse to talk to the cops period. The officer is obligated to talk to Internal Affairs, they have no choice.
Citizens can refuse to speak to the police, and discovery rules mandate they and their attorney have access to the evidence before trial.
Maybe we aren't all that far apart. The officers in general are afforded "special" privilges(protections) due to the very nature of the job, which is generally being placed in less than ideal circumstances expected to get particular outcomes. While I agree there are instances when a cop gets over on the system, I've seen many more cases where without protections in place, the good cop, trying to do the best thing under the circumstances, would have been hosed.
The Officer is obligated to appear, but he doesn't have to make any statements, especially any incriminating ones.
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Officers who are indicted (and their lawyers) will have access to the evidence before trial as well. They don't lose their Constitutional rights by virtue of being cops.
No doubt - and I have no issue with affording Officers reasonable privileges. But what they have now is not only beyond reasonable, but all too often results in egregious abuses by Officers being whitewashed with offenders given some administrative suspension and not much else. Look at the examples in this thread.
That isn't true with IA cases. The officer is compelled to cooperate and give a statement. If not he is terminated.
I think we disagree to a degree on what is beyond reasonable.
Monique Hernandez was pulled over in February of 2012 by Beaumont police officer, Enoch Clark. When Clark attempted to subdue Hernandez, he said she ‘resisted.’
Although the dashcam footage tells a different tale, Clark said that in order to get her in handcuffs, he had to use his department-issued JPX gunpowder-propelled pepper spray weapon and fire it less than a foot away from her face.
The gunpowder powered JPX Pepper Gun launches OC (pepper spray) at 405 mph.
The results from firing the gun at such a close proximity were catastrophic.
The blast of pepper gel sliced her right eye in half, fractured her right orbital bone and severed the optic nerve in her left eye.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/womans-eyes-blown-pieces-cop-gunpowder-powered-pepper-gun/#2bFKzJplDhUHhM28.99
That isn't true with IA cases. The officer is compelled to cooperate and give a statement. If not he is terminated. With criminal cases, he is afforded the same rights as a citizen.
I think we disagree to a degree on what is beyond reasonable.
Some comfort.
This was the guy avxo put up...one of the most egregious police abuses we've had on this board. He won the suit, but there's no justice because nothing will happen to these shitbag cops.
http://rt.com/usa/new-mexico-anal-probes-737/
1.6 million...still suing the doctors that went along with it.
How is that different with anybody else? If I witness somebody shooting somebody else, I can't claim 5th amendment rights and not talk.
If I'm accused of a crime I can plead the 5th, but so can you.
If you're forced to choose between self-incrimination and losing your job, the Garrity rule prevents any of your statements from being used against you.
Me thinks, you're trying to be dishonest once again.
Nice of you to ignore the question as to why cops should have a cool down period but nobody else should. ::)
I agree avxo, take the license away from those doctors. But, I'm not sure he should have to make the point via lawsuit. To me anyway, it's inexcusable that federal and state prosecutors are not bringing down these shitbag cops.
How is that different from any other employer who calls an employee in and says: "Jenkins, there's been an increased consumption of toilet paper since you came on board. Are you responsible? If you will not answer you will lose your job!" They can't compel you to answer, and if they do, it's (at best) unclear that the statement could then be used against the person who made it vis–à–vis Garrity.
That much is clear.
You will forgive me if I find unreasonable having superiors stand by officers who shoot 70 year olds who try to reach for a cane because they were in fear of their life, or superiors who stand by cops that shoot and kill a 12 lbs dog on the grounds that the dog "refused to follow verbal commands" making the cops feel threatened, or any number of others cases I could cite.
The thing is, I'm sure you not one of the rotten apples that we read so much about in this thread. In fact I'm sure that you are as disgusted and outraged as the rest of us. Yet you insist that all is good, and that the internal process of discipline works.
But the facts don't match up: police have basically setup an internal system where all but the most egregious offenses are handled internally, usually on the down-low. Cases which can't be handled quietly "in the family" usually end up with slap-on-the-wrist penalties such as 'retraining' or with cops quitting before they can be fired, and they only rarely result in prosecutions. As a result, plenty of cops act with impunity, confident in the fact that should someone brave enough to stand up and complain nothing will come of it.
Perhaps your department is different. Perhaps you guys do it right. But if you do, then you are the exception and not the rule. And therein lies the problem.
How is that different with anybody else? If I witness somebody shooting somebody else, I can't claim 5th amendment rights and not talk.
If I'm accused of a crime I can plead the 5th, but so can you.
If you're forced to choose between self-incrimination and losing your job, the Garrity rule prevents any of your statements from being used against you.
Me thinks, you're trying to be dishonest once again.
Nice of you to ignore the question as to why cops should have a cool down period but nobody else should. ::)
Chicago police shot a 95-year-old WWII veteran to death with bean bag rounds at short range because he refused to go to the hospital, stepdaughter claims
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/06/23/68943.htm
Let's see how they'll say the usual "the officers feared for their lives", "the suspect assumed a combative stance" etc.
Park Forest officials told the Chicago Tribune claim that Wrana brandished a knife or cane, which justified the officers' response.
After the SWAT team broke down the door, they threw a flashbang grenade inside. It landed in my son’s crib.
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I heard my baby wailing and asked one of the officers to let me hold him. He screamed at me to sit down and shut up and blocked my view, so I couldn’t see my son. I could see a singed crib. And I could see a pool of blood. The officers yelled at me to calm down and told me my son was fine, that he’d just lost a tooth. It was only hours later when they finally let us drive to the hospital that we found out Bou Bou was in the intensive burn unit and that he’d been placed into a medically induced coma.
From http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/ (http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/):Someone should rot in jail for that shit, if not publicly flogged.
This is just insane.
For more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/parents-toddler-injured-flash-bang-botched-raid-call-justice-article-1.1825366 (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/parents-toddler-injured-flash-bang-botched-raid-call-justice-article-1.1825366)
A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
Salon ^ | June 24, 2014 | Alecia Phonesavanh
Posted on June 25, 2014 at 6:23:38 PM EDT by Clintonfatigued
After our house burned down in Wisconsin a few months ago, my husband and I packed our four young kids and all our belongings into a gold minivan and drove to my sister-in-law’s place, just outside of Atlanta. On the back windshield, we pasted six stick figures: a dad, a mom, three young girls, and one baby boy.
That minivan was sitting in the front driveway of my sister-in-law’s place the night a SWAT team broke in, looking for a small amount of drugs they thought my husband’s nephew had. Some of my kids’ toys were in the front yard, but the officers claimed they had no way of knowing children might be present. Our whole family was sleeping in the same room, one bed for us, one for the girls, and a crib.
After the SWAT team broke down the door, they threw a flashbang grenade inside. It landed in my son’s crib.
Flashbang grenades were created for soldiers to use during battle. When they explode, the noise is so loud and the flash is so bright that anyone close by is temporarily blinded and deafened. It’s been three weeks since the flashbang exploded next to my sleeping baby, and he’s still covered in burns.
There’s still a hole in his chest that exposes his ribs.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Again, Garrity protects what you say to IA from being used against you criminally.. not administratively. If you do not answer every question IA asks you, you will be fired. No ifs, ands or butts.. This is more you not understanding the concept than me being dishonest..
As far as why cops should have a cool down period and nobody else should, I thougt I answered it but here goes.
Everyone else in the world can refuse to talk to the cops. They have a built in 72 hrs. They have a built in "never"... So it is not a "nobody else should" issue
The cop cannot refuse to talk to the investigators (cops). They are required to on condition of employment. So they are given a 72 hr period to collect their thoughts, calm down, review their evidence before they give a statement so that the investigators get the best accurate statement possible. Because that officer will be held to that statement via fine tooth comb
No, there's no misunderstanding, for some reason you keep dodging the issue.
If I witness a murder, I cannot refuse to talk to the cops. If I'm suspected of murder, I can refuse.
The exact same thing applies to you.
So, if I can't have 72 hours, why should you?
If anybody at their job refuses to answer questions for administrative shit, they can get canned. They don't get a waiting period.
You want special treatment...again.
Help me out here, I'm trying to figure out if you are playing stupid or your hatred really doesn't allow you to have a civil conversation
Yeah...you're calling me stupid and hateful cause you're trying to have a 'civil conversation'. ::)
Typical cop mentality.
But, we'll cut you some slack since the SCOTUS ripped you a new asshole with your bullshit cell phone argument.
You're asking for a special treatment...one you typically don't afford to others or even victims for that matter (could be good or bad depending). I'm advocating you be treated with equal footing. Make sense?
typical of you, you seem to always throw the first punch then when you get smacked upside the head you whine about "typical cop mentality"
July 21, 2014 6:10 PM
It’s Time for Conservatives to Stop Defending Police
There is nothing conservative about government violating the rights of citizens.
By A. J. Delgado
Imagine if I were to tell you there is a large group of government employees, with generous salaries and ridiculously cushy retirement pensions covered by the taxpayer, who enjoy incredible job security and are rarely held accountable even for activities that would almost certainly earn the rest of us prison time. When there is proven misconduct, these government employees are merely reassigned and are rarely dismissed. The bill for any legal settlements concerning their errors? It, too, is covered by the taxpayers. Their unions are among the strongest in the country.
No, I’m not talking about public-school teachers.
I’m talking about the police.
We conservatives recoil at the former; yet routinely defend the latter — even though, unlike teachers, police officers enjoy an utter monopoly on force and can ruin — or end — one’s life in a millisecond.
For decades, conservatives have served as stalwart defenders of police forces. There have been many good reasons for this, including long memories of the post-countercultural crime wave that devastated, and in some cases destroyed, many American cities; conservatives’ penchant for law and order; and Americans’ widely shared disdain for the cops’ usual opponents. (“Dirty hippies being arrested? Good!” is not an uncommon sentiment.) Although tough-on-crime appeals have never been limited to conservative politicians or voters, conservatives instinctively (and, it turned out, correctly) understood that the way to reduce crime is to have more cops making more arrests, not more sociologists identifying more root causes. Conservatives are rightly proud to have supported police officers doing their jobs at times when progressives were on the other side.
But it’s time for conservatives’ unconditional love affair with the police to end.
Let’s get the obligatory disclaimer out of the way: Yes, many police officers do heroic works and, yes, many are upstanding individuals who serve the community bravely and capably.
But respecting good police work means being willing to speak out against civil-liberties-breaking thugs who shrug their shoulders after brutalizing citizens.
More of this great read here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383312/its-time-conservatives-stop-defending-police-j-delgado (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383312/its-time-conservatives-stop-defending-police-j-delgado)
Times may be a changing. Hell, on this thread it's almost exclusively people on the right, right leaning, or libertarian leaning against the creeping police state.
My currently unproven, untested, but probably accurate theory is the libs love the police state....especially when they can use it to enforce compliance. But, to listen to Peter King talk is basically an endorsement for an even greater police state (his interview with Stossel is sickening). We're fucked all around.
Lawsuit: CHP officer falsified reports after being filmed pummelling 51-year-old woman
California Highway Patrol Officer Daniel L. Andrew straddled 51-year-old Marlene Pinnock and punched her for 10 to 15 seconds on July 1 before arresting the homeless woman, the lawsuit stated.
Andrew falsified reports of the incident, omitting his repeated punching, and saying Pinnock was combative and called him the devil, according to the lawsuit, which was filed July 17.
CHP officials are also accused of using a felony search warrant to obtain Pinnock’s medical records, which include private conversations between herself, her doctors and her lawyers.
http://ktla.com/2014/07/27/lawsuit-ids-chp-officer-caught-beating-woman-on-video-calls-him-the-devil/
http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/07/17/4028056/chp-seizes-medical-records-of.html
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My currently unproven, untested, but probably accurate theory is the libs love the police state....especially when they can use it to enforce compliance.
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She called him the devil. She clearly contributed to her own beating. She should've been 100% subservient...that would've stopped the abuse.
Oh boy...
She called him the devil. She clearly contributed to her own beating. She should've been 100% subservient...that would've stopped the abuse.
Oh boy...
Of course she should have been 100% subservient. Anything less is undemocratic according to NYPD Commissioner Bratton who said: "It's important that when an officer does approach you to correct your behavior, that you respect them. That's what democracy's all about." (source (http://gothamist.com/2014/07/28/de_blasio_broken_windows_policing_i.php))
Yeah, you read that right. I have just one question: WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE?!?
She called him the devil. She clearly contributed to her own beating. She should've been 100% subservient...that would've stopped the abuse.
Oh boy...
san Antonio police mistake photographer for fleeing drug suspect, beat him silly.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/29/san-antonio-police-mistake-photographer-for-fleeing-drug-suspect-beat-him-silly/
He probably deserved it... right? ::)
san Antonio police mistake photographer for fleeing drug suspect, beat him silly.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/29/san-antonio-police-mistake-photographer-for-fleeing-drug-suspect-beat-him-silly/
He probably deserved it... right? ::)
Mesa officer indicted on sexual assault, molestation charges
A Mesa police officer has been indicted on charges of sexual assault and child molestation for acts that allegedly occurred on the job, authorities said.
Cherry is accused of engaging in sexual contact with two women without their consent and molesting a child under the age of 15 while conducting investigations, the statement said. Mesa police say the accusers allege that Cherry touched them during searches while they were detained.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2014/08/01/mesa-officer-indicted-sexual-assault-molestation-charges/13501041/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/08/13/ferguson-police-michael-brown-militarization-column/14006383
>:(
I just starting working with a guy whos done tons of tactical and competitive shooting courses with lots of LE and military..... he said the police and SWAT were the worse trained, worst shooting, and most arrogant of any of the shooters.
Nah man, all these IED's and AK-47's going off every day in the country. Cops gotta have MRAPS, tanks, f_ck...give 'em some nukes too, lol.
I just starting working with a guy whos done tons of tactical and competitive shooting courses with lots of LE and military..... he said the police and SWAT were the worse trained, worst shooting, and most arrogant of any of the shooters.
He told me during a quick meeting before an advanced tactics course where everyone was supposed to introduce themselves, an officer introduced himself saying
"im so and so from the **** **** PD, and if you fuck with any of my 50k brothers and sisters in blue, ill fucking shoot you in the face"
Apparently that illicited some weird looks and snickers from the gathered senior Special Forces operators and military contractors, and when they started the course the guy couldnt hit the broad side of a barn.
he said most of the ones hes met have been like that.
Well there ya go... solid ancedotal proof ::)Don't take it so personally man. It was meant to be a funny and insightful story into the mindset and attitudes of the men that volunteer to serve and protect the public.
Don't take it so personally man. It was meant to be a funny and insightful story into the mindset and attitudes of the men that volunteer to serve and protect the public.
Doesn't mean you're all like that.
But from my experience, and most people I know, LE like yourselves are an ever increasing minority. I know you dont want to believe it but the evidence is all around you. Im sure most of you guys just do your jobs, but the number of absolutley corrupt PDs are increasing exponentially.
Another dude I knew quit the Chicago PD and moved because it was like being in a tax payer funded gang, they were so corrupt and atrocious.
Cool. I don't work for a corrupt department so I'm limited to my 10 yrs military LE and 22 yrs LE at this one Department. I have friends on others but not all that many so I can't say for certain about the integrity or lack of integrity of other departments. But being in the profession, and seeing the trends that have happened here as well as the information from those friends in other departments I would say the trend is going in the direction of more professional departments with less corruption than in the past. The perception due to cell phone cameras and 24/7 news is that it is increasing. We can disagree on that point, because it's just my opinion based on my limited base of knowledge.No, he resigned because the cops were taking bribes from pimps/dealers, busting and then fucking hookers and letting them go, confiscating drugs only to turn around and resell them or use them, and sitting around laughing about it with their superiors. All the way up to the highest level he was around, those guys treated the PD like an untouchable mob, and they all backed each other. He moved out of state and is a trooper here in Washington now.
As far as SWAT I would guess the caliber of members and training varies widely among departments, depending on size and budget. We usually have no less than 4 or 5 former SEALS or Special Forces on our teams so for us, I don't think the poorly trained or bad shot claim would apply. Now compare that to Lubbock Texas, you may have a valid point. Chicago may be so corrupt it caused your friend to quit rather than stay and try and make a change in his own little world or he just wasn't cut out to be a cop. We have people resign all the time in their first couple months or years for a variety of reasons and I wouldn't imagine they would share with their friends a reason for leaving that might give the perception they weren't cut out for it. But again, maybe Chicago IS so corrupt he wanted no part of it.
No, he resigned because the cops were taking bribes from pimps/dealers, busting and then fucking hookers and letting them go, confiscating drugs only to turn around and resell them or use them, and sitting around laughing about it with their superiors. All the way up to the highest level he was around, those guys treated the PD like an untouchable mob, and they all backed each other. He moved out of state and is a trooper here in Washington now.
He said it was like a bad movie.
The SWAT and e guys he shot with were not former military. I figured i didnt have to make that point. Military turned cops are obviously different, theyre military trained.
No, he resigned because the cops were taking bribes from pimps/dealers, busting and then fucking hookers and letting them go, confiscating drugs only to turn around and resell them or use them, and sitting around laughing about it with their superiors. All the way up to the highest level he was around, those guys treated the PD like an untouchable mob, and they all backed each other. He moved out of state and is a trooper here in Washington now.
He said it was like a bad movie.
The SWAT and e guys he shot with were not former military. I figured i didnt have to make that point. Military turned cops are obviously different, theyre military trained.
Village to give retiring millionaire cop a huge, ‘criminal’ payout
I have not read or posted in this thread, but I thought I would try and make a meaningful contribution anyway. :D
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Why's it always gotta be a brown dog? Why don't they ever post pics of police searching white dogs??
:D
Check this video on the National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/385870/i-have-feeling-officer-about-become-very-famous-rich-lowry) out. And do note: this is how this asshole cop acts when he knows he's on camera: holding a gun raised, pointing it to the crowd and threatening to kill people.
I think he was already suspended
Ah well, if we're going to speculate, maybe we should consider other alternatives.
I'm thinking the cop is typically overly aggressive by nature. He's not accustomed to people ignoring him or not bowing to his every command. He's probably accustomed to immediate compliance and his temper rages whenever he perceives somebody is not obedient.
He's probably undergone extensive training at taxpayer expense and the union will probably claim that's still not enough training. He was probably never specifically taught that he shouldn't say 'go fuck yourself', so how could he possibly see anything wrong with that.
But nah, let's always try and put that rosey spin on it. ::)
http://blog.blacknews.com/2013/05/judge-mark-ciavarella-sentenced-selling-kids-prison-system101.html
wow
Florida Man Records Himself Getting Attacked by Cop for not Rolling Down Window all the way
A horrifying video has emerged showing St. Petersburg police forcing a man out of his car before pouncing on him, leaving him hospitalized with several injuries, all because the cop claimed he was in fear for his life.
At least that what he says in his report, where he wrote the following:
I exited my marked patrol cruiser and walked towards the vehicle and I noticed the driver staring at me with a blank stare as he continued revving the engine louder and louder. I thought by his actions the subject was going to attempt to hit me with his car.
The video, however, shows it was Curtis Shannon, a young man from Florida who was probably fearing for his life during the arrest.
It also shows that he remained professional as he tried to hand the cop his license and registration through a small opening after the cop pulled him over for what he claimed was erratic driving.
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/08/26/florida-man-records-getting-attacked-cop-rolling-window-way/
Too lenient... but at least it's not a travesty like "one year suspended and the permanent stain to his reputation" bullshit that often passes for punishment.
http://blog.blacknews.com/2013/05/judge-mark-ciavarella-sentenced-selling-kids-prison-system101.html
wow
Family mourns innocent woman killed by OPD officer's stray bullet at Vixen Bar
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-maria-godinez-castillo-vixen-shooting-20140820,0,6933988.story
Gives no details other than a struggle with a gun weilding person...
Suspect charged with murder after stray police bullet kills innocent woman
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-kody-roach-murder-charge-vixen-20140826,0,4849648.story
Thanks
That sucks.. the cop was in a bad situation no doubt. I would have shot the guy as well. That an innocent bystander died kinda defeats the purpose of shooting the bad guy in the first place but its probably night, poorly lit, adrenaline flowing, guys not standing still.. I mighta missed one as well.. tough call and tragic ending
There might have been (or not) circumstances that the cops might not have had perfect visibility or time to react but why charge that person with murder when it wasn't him that shot the innocent bystander?
The argument "As a result of Roach's actions, an individual was killed therefore probable cause exist to further charge Roach with first degree felony murder" is just ridiculous.
There is precedent for this and it's not unreasonable. If you engage in an activity that you reasonably should have known would or could result in someone else being injured, you can be charged even if you are not the direct cause of injury.
Consider, for example the following scenario:
I invite you over to my ranch to do some practice shooting against an old outhouse that I have on my property. At the same time, I ask my wife to go retrieve something from said outhouse.
You come and begin shooting, unaware that there's anyone in the outhouse. As a result, my wife dies from multiple gunshot wounds.
Should I not be charged?
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/henry-davis/ (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/henry-davis/)
Police beat a man, then accuse him of four counts of damaging government property... by bleeding on their uniforms.
Although two of the cops later recanted their sworn statements, they were not charged with or prosecuted for perjury because their perjury was not deemed important enough to warrant prosecution. The beaten man was tried and convicted of the remaining two counts and fined $3,000.00.
A Magistrate Judge dismissed claims of excessive force by claiming that “a reasonable officer could have believed that beating a subdued and compliant Mr. Davis while causing only a concussion, scalp laceration, and bruising with almost no permanent damage did not violate the Constitution.”
What a fucking joke. The cops, the prosecutor and the Judge (Nannette Baker) involved in this travesty ought to be the ones facing justice.
Not quite. The logic that if the police shows up and no matter what they do they charge the suspect with it is crazy. What if the cop had shot himself in the foot as he was trying to pull out his weapon? Would the suspect be charged with that too? What if the cop shot at something explosive like maybe a gas tank and the explosion killed 5 innocent people? This could be used as a blanket excuse for brutal abuse.
Even though from the facts it appears the cops had reason to believe the suspect was armed and quite possibly danger and might (or not) have had reason to discharge their firearm, they nevertheless shot an innocent bystander.
They should be investigated for that.
Suspect charged with murder after stray police bullet kills innocent woman
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-kody-roach-murder-charge-vixen-20140826,0,4849648.story
There might have been (or not) circumstances that the cops might not have had perfect visibility or time to react but why charge that person with murder when it wasn't him that shot the innocent bystander?
The argument "As a result of Roach's actions, an individual was killed therefore probable cause exist to further charge Roach with first degree felony murder" is just ridiculous.
Nebraska Cops Receive no Jail Time for Stealing Memory Card, Despite Big Talk from County Attorney
A Nebraska cop who chased a man into his home after he had video recorded cops arresting his brother, confiscating his camera and later admitting to throwing the memory card away, received a year of probation this week after his charge was reduced from a felony to misdemeanors.
James Kinsella was part of a mob of cops from the Omaha Police Department who chased a man inside his home without a warrant last year after the man attempted to video record them abusing his brother, a scene that was captured on a camera by a neighbor from an upstairs window in a shocking video that went viral.
But what took place inside the home was even more egregious, according to Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine, who called a press conference last year to announce he was charging Kinsella with felony tampering with evidence – a rare move by any prosecutor when it comes to cop deleting footage.
However, Klein later reduced the charge to two misdemeanor counts of obstruction of government operations because the cop claimed there was no video on the memory card.
Klein also dropped charges against another cop he had charged last year, Aaron Von Behren, a sergeant who was facing two misdemeanors, accessory to a felony and obstruction of government operations, for orchestrating the coverup by ordering his officers to keep hush about the disposal of the memory card – which they claim contained no video evidence anyway.
Kleine said, prosecutors had a few obstacles in prosecuting Von Behren. Much of the information gleaned about Von Behren’s instructions came from an Omaha police internal affairs investigation, Kleine said.
By law, authorities cannot use any admissions or statements made in such internal investigations because officers don’t have the right to refuse interviews with their supervisors. That prevented prosecutors from using officers’ statements to internal affairs about Von Behren’s purported instructions.
And because Kinsella no longer faced a felony, Von Behren could no longer be considered an accessory to a felony.
Kinsella and Von Behren were fired for the incident along with two other officers, one who was rehired earlier this year.
Meanwhile, a civil lawsuit against the department and the officers is still pending.
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/08/30/nebraska-cops-receive-jail-time-stealing-memory-card/
This is another good example of why I find Agnostic to be typically deceptive and misleading.
They can't use the guy's statements against him cause he's compelled to answer their questions - just as I pointed out earlier in this thread.
So, why should cops receive special treatment?
It is truly disgusting.
I'm an open book dude. Cops don't recieve special treatment. What you have a problem with seems to be that cops are afforded the same treatment as citizens. There are criminal investigations, and there are administrative investigations. Citizens and Cops both are subject to the criminal investigations. Both have rights. Both can refuse to cooperate. Where the difference is, is citizens don't have administrative investigations where they are compelled to talk without any rights other than the promise that what they say in the administrative investigation won't be used in the criminal portion, as that would violate their rights.I think hes referring to when the police back each other up guys essentially guilty of murder are put on paid leave and then go back to work, and may have done it 2-3x with nothing to show.
I think hes referring to when the police back each other up guys essentially guilty of murder are put on paid leave and then go back to work, and may have done it 2-3x with nothing to show.
It does happen a lot in papers......the system doest always work like its supposed to and it seems to be working improperly more and more. It seems to be a bigger problem in areas kike Chicago, NY city, DC... major liberal cities rife with corruption..
Seeing it a lot in smaller towns too, anywhere where a good old boys mentality can foster
If that's what he means then cool. To be honest, I really don't know what he means. I thought it was that he thinks cops get special treatment in criminal cases but again.. not sureI was speakinf more on his general attitutde.... not much on this specific situation.
I'm an open book dude. Cops don't recieve special treatment. What you have a problem with seems to be that cops are afforded the same treatment as citizens. There are criminal investigations, and there are administrative investigations. Citizens and Cops both are subject to the criminal investigations. Both have rights. Both can refuse to cooperate. Where the difference is, is citizens don't have administrative investigations where they are compelled to talk without any rights other than the promise that what they say in the administrative investigation won't be used in the criminal portion, as that would violate their rights.
I'm an open book dude. Cops don't recieve special treatment. What you have a problem with seems to be that cops are afforded the same treatment as citizens. There are criminal investigations, and there are administrative investigations. Citizens and Cops both are subject to the criminal investigations. Both have rights. Both can refuse to cooperate. Where the difference is, is citizens don't have administrative investigations where they are compelled to talk without any rights other than the promise that what they say in the administrative investigation won't be used in the criminal portion, as that would violate their rights.
I was speakinf more on his general attitutde.... not much on this specific situation.
It appears hes saying that the way the law works for officers, doesnt work for civilians...
Theh xant use his statement because hes compelled to answer... but they should would use a civilians.
EVERYBODY has to explain their actions to their employer. They don't get to do whatever they want at work and claim they are not going to talk about it, without facing the loss of their job. And last I checked, they DON'T get Garrity protection or 72 hours to develop theirliestory.
Simple enough for you to understand?
Why, why yes Skip. Even a child could understand that. How is it over the head of an adult....?
Talking to yourself now... nice..
Not feeling any luv from you.
My heart does go out to the state cops in PA that got ambushed. The one who died had little children. :(
Unfortunately, it will have the effect of making police more militant. Change has to be through education and politics.
At least they are not behaving like the LAPD did - that was just despicable.
More than 6000 speeding violations to be dismissed amid ticket-rigging scandal
HPD Officers Rudolph Farias, John Garcia, Robert Manzanales and Gregory Rosa have issued a combined 6,150 outstanding tickets
More than 6,000 speeding tickets will be dismissed "in the interest of justice," according to City of Houston prosecutors. Those tickets were written by four officers allegedly involved in a ticket-rigging scheme to collect more overtime.
http://www.khou.com/story/news/investigations/2014/09/18/more-than-6k-speeding-violations-to-be-dismissed-amid-ticket-rigging-scandal/15853253/
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/prosecutor-seeking-death-penalty-officer-killed-knock-raidGuess youre only allowed to defend yourself against other civilians. Seems alparent thatyoure not allowed to defend yourself if it turns out that police who didnt identify themselves are forcing their way into your home in the middle of the night with zero ID, zero warning, and zero evidence.
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/prosecutor-seeking-death-penalty-officer-killed-knock-raid
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/prosecutor-seeking-death-penalty-officer-killed-knock-raid
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Guess youre only allowed to defend yourself against other civilians. Seems alparent thatyoure not allowed to defend yourself if it turns out that police who didnt identify themselves are forcing their way into your home in the middle of the night with zero ID, zero warning, and zero evidence.
This shit needs to change.
Im usually on the cops side but its kind of hard to defend this.At
Gotta be better training on the cops end for entering someones home
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Least ID themselves before they start kicking the doors in, i thought it was mandatory to announce that they were police at the commencement of the raid for this exact reason?
I would like to know this as well.
Where is our resident cop?
Im usually on the cops side but its kind of hard to defend this.
Gotta be better training on the cops end for entering someones home
South Carolina State Trooper conducts a traffic stop, asks the person to retrieve his ID from the vehicle and then shoots him for reaching into the car...Death penalty for pre-meditated murder.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dashcam-captures-south-carolina-trooper-shooting-unarmed-man/story?id=25749239 (http://abcnews.go.com/US/dashcam-captures-south-carolina-trooper-shooting-unarmed-man/story?id=25749239)
Per the article, the trooper, Sean Groubert, was fired and is facing charges that would, if convicted, land him behind bars for up to 20 years. So I'm guessing probation.
Death penalty for pre-meditated murder.
Would have been awesome if the driver would have said "My license is in my vehicle is it ok to reach in and get it?" before doing so because it is impossible to tell if he is reaching for a license or a weapon from the angle of the camera. We know now it was a license and fortunately he wasn't killed. Cop shoulda been fired, not the right line of work for him
Would have been awesome if the driver would have said "My license is in my vehicle is it ok to reach in and get it?" before doing so because it is impossible to tell if he is reaching for a license or a weapon from the angle of the camera. We know now it was a license and fortunately he wasn't killed. Cop shoulda been fired, not the right line of work for himI was, you know, going off the statement that he was ASKED to get his ID and then shot for doing so.
Would have been awesome if the driver would have said "My license is in my vehicle is it ok to reach in and get it?" before doing so because it is impossible to tell if he is reaching for a license or a weapon from the angle of the camera. We know now it was a license and fortunately he wasn't killed. Cop shoulda been fired, not the right line of work for him
You shoot someone and you only get fired?
Does that happen to most citizens?
I was, you know, going off the statement that he was ASKED to get his ID and then shot for doing so.
Generally you dont ask someone to do something and th shoot them.
Also, generally when told to do something, you dont have to repeat the order to the person commanding you.... if a cop asks me to get my ID im going to grab my ID, im not going to ask permission to grab my ID from the same guy who just requested me to get it, thats asinine.
Why should a law abiding civilian feel that he has to telegraph every move he makes, otherwise the officer may shoot him, even when doing as requested? Thats lidicrous and the absolute definition of police state.
Would have been awesome if the driver would have said "My license is in my vehicle is it ok to reach in and get it?" before doing so because it is impossible to tell if he is reaching for a license or a weapon from the angle of the camera. We know now it was a license and fortunately he wasn't killed. Cop shoulda been fired, not the right line of work for him
I was, you know, going off the statement that he was ASKED to get his ID and then shot for doing so.
Generally you dont ask someone to do something and th shoot them.
Also, generally when told to do something, you dont have to repeat the order to the person commanding you.... if a cop asks me to get my ID im going to grab my ID, im not going to ask permission to grab my ID from the same guy who just requested me to get it, thats asinine.
Why should a law abiding civilian feel that he has to telegraph every move he makes, otherwise the officer may shoot him, even when doing as requested? Thats lidicrous and the absolute definition of police state.
Especially ridiculous for the stopped motorist to have to play "Simon Sez" to avoid being shot when he's only been stopped for a seatbelt violation.
IMO, this cop should have been drug tested after doing all the weird shit we see in the video:
- Makes motorist exit his car after stopping him for a seatbelt violation.
- Shoots at motorist about 5 times for complying with his orders too quickly.
- Hits motorist with only 1 shot (in the hip, no less) out of 5 despite being only about 10 feet away.
- Fires 2 times after the motorist had turned around with both his hands up.
- Seemingly risks the safe of others by going Rambo with people and gas pumps nearby.
Just losing his job for fucking up this bad doesn't seem like enough to me.
Would have been awesome if the driver would have said "My license is in my vehicle is it ok to reach in and get it?" before doing so because it is impossible to tell if he is reaching for a license or a weapon from the angle of the camera. We know now it was a license and fortunately he wasn't killed. Cop shoulda been fired, not the right line of work for him
Iowa Troopers Steal $100,000 in Poker Winnings From Two Players Driving Through the State:
"The Des Moines Register highlights an Iowa forfeiture case, the subject of a federal lawsuit filed this week, in which state troopers took $100,000 in winnings from two California poker players traveling through the state on their way back from a World Series of Poker event in Joliet, Illinois."
http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/01/iowa-troopers-steal-100000-in-poker-winn?n_play=542ca353e4b0feab13854f06
Involuntary manslaughter charge dismissed in cop shooting of 7 year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2014/10/03/weekley-trial-aiyana-stanley-jones/16636179/
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Least ID themselves before they start kicking the doors in, i thought it was mandatory to announce that they were police at the commencement of the raid for this exact reason?
This is outrageous. It's a long read but to sum it up:
teen and a friend are accused by someone that they stole a backpack that night
police question them
accuser changes story, says the attack happened 2 weeks before
teen and friend get taken to holding cell, then court
friend is freed, teen in jail due to probation
trial continuously postponed by prosecutors
after 3 years in jail and a judge trying to get him to admit guilt as part of plea, teen goes on trial
prosecutors say they have no case because the accuser has gone back to Mexico
Three years on Rikers without trial
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/law-3
Good thing the driver remained firm in his replies and declined to have the car searched.
Iowa Cop Demands To Search Car Because ‘Everybody That Plays Frisbee Golf Smokes Weed’
http://www.inquisitr.com/1533220/iowa-cop-demands-to-search-car-because-everybody-that-plays-frisbee-golf-smokes-weed/
Lee County sheriffs beat up a guy who was resisting arrest, drunk. I'm totally cool with that. Whoop his ass... drunk driver that's resisting, I get it.
What I dislike greatly - is that they claimed he was grabbing the cop's gun. They dislocated his jaw, hit him exactly7 times in the face. After he was on the ground. 7 punches.
Well, video comes out, as they had home surveillance the cops didn't know about... and suddenly we see he's on the ground the whole time, never went near their gun. Was he resisting? YES. Does that warrant an ass whooping? Sure. But why fudge that one detail? Why add "oh, he was planning gun theft, police murder" onto the charges?
Cops completely shred their credibility when they add details like that. Exaggeration. It takes away all of their credibility. And guess what? The state saw the video and decided NOT to charge the guy. Weird that "trying to steal a cop's gun" doesn't land a dude in prison lol... but the video showed that was an obvious lie.
Now the sheriff is defending his cops, after public outrage. Family isn't just shutting up, they're demanding the cop leave the force. Seems the one cop did all of the punching... 7 punches to the face of a man on the ground, after being tazed twice... maybe overboard, hey, it's the heat of the moment. But that ONE LIE - "he went for my gun"... that's the big problem here. And the violent drunk WILL NOT be charged.
http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2014-10-13/Sheriff-Scott-responds-to-allegations-of-excessive-force
I can hardly see anything with the video. I certainly couldn't say there was not a grab for a gun.
We both know that "reaching for my gun" is the same as "kept resisting". It's what cops say to justify anything and if someone challenges them, they say things like "heat of the moment" and "you weren't there" and mention Monday-morning quarterbacking while crying about officer safety.
Cops are aggressive and contemptuous of the public, especially if they perceive the public as challenging their authority.
I think we both should also know that people do reach for cops guns. Had mine grabbed at a few times. So it isn't so off the wall unlikely to discount "just because". Maybe there is better video versions out there.. I'm just saying the video that I saw, I couldn't say it did or didn't happen. I couldn't see much of anythingtherein lies the problem.... they can just say 'he was reaching for my gun', and any behavior is suddenly OK as long as there isnt clear proof to the contrary. Thats a dangerous thing
therein lies the problem.... they can just say 'he was reaching for my gun', and any behavior is suddenly OK as long as there isnt clear proof to the contrary. Thats a dangerous thing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/16/david-mccallum-wrongfully-imprisoned_n_5996810.html
UNREAL - 25 YEARS BEHIND BARS DIDNT DO SHIT
Another innocent man exonerated. His friend wasn't so lucky and died in prison... It's outrageous how many people have been wrongfully convicted due to coerced confessions or false testimony of unreliable witnesses only for some DAs, judges and cops to get credit for being "tough on crime". There should be consequences for scum like that. At minimum they should receive whatever sentence the innocent man got (in addition to other charges) and pay out of their pockets, not send taxpayers the bill.
Props to that citizen. The outcome would probably be very different had this happened in the US.
Motorist Arrests Policeman for Driving Drunk
A South African driver is being praised for taking charge after spotting a cop allegedly driving under the influence through the streets of Pietermaritzburg.
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/18/Motorist-Arrests-Policeman-for-Driving-Drunk/
Awesome job by the citizen. Depending on where it happened in the US, the results could be similar.
LOL.
Awesome job by the citizen. Depending on where it happened in the US, the results could be similar.
By similar do you mean completely different?
The Government Created a Facebook Profile for This Woman (Without Telling Her)
Jordan Richardson / @RobertJordanWV / October 20, 2014 / 0 comments
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A woman is suing the Drug Enforcement Administration after an agent copied pictures from her cellphone in order to create a fake Facebook profile in her name–all without her knowledge or consent.
Sondra Arquiett, the plaintiff in the suit, was arrested in 2010 on charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Law enforcement officials alleged she was part of a drug ring that included her then-boyfriend. The single mother eventually pled guilty and was sentenced to time served plus a period of home confinement. As part of her cooperation with officials, she allowed them to search her phone for evidence relating to the original offense for which she was charged.
What she did not expect, however, was that Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Timothy Sinnigen would copy the pictures on her cell phone and use them to create a phony social media account. The profile was set up in the name of Sondra Prince—Arquiett’s former surname—and Sinnigen regularly used the phony account to post status updates, pictures and add friends—all in the hope of luring in other members of the drug ring.
One picture the fake profile displayed was an image of Arquiett holding her two young children. Another showed her posing in a suggestive manner on the hood of a vehicle with the caption, “At least I still have this car!”
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In a court filing, the government defended Sinnigen’s decision to create a fake profile without Arquiett’s knowledge, stating:
Defendants admit that Plaintiff did not give express permission for the use of photographs contained on her phone on an undercover Facebook page, but state the Plaintiff implicitly consented by granting access to the information stored in her cell phone and by consenting to the use of that information to aid in an ongoing criminal investigations [sic].
While the decision to create a phony Facebook account may seem strange, it is not uncommon for police.
Just as police officers often pretend to be someone they are not when acting in an undercover capacity, many police department nationwide have used the tactic of creating accounts of fictional people to interact with others or observe criminal behavior. Indeed, the Justice Department released a social media guide for law enforcement officials that encourages this practice, although there is no indication that taking photos of real person without their consent is allowed.
In 2013, the New York Times reported the extent of police using social media accounts:
Officers follow crew members on Twitter and Instagram, or friend them on Facebook, pretending to be young women to get around privacy settings that limit what can be seen. They listen to the lyrical taunts of local rap artists, some affiliated with crews, and watch YouTube for clues to past trouble and future conflicts.
But this most recent case raises new questions about the legality of impersonating an identity–even if it aids in law enforcement investigations. How many other accounts exist without the person’s knowledge or consent to support “ongoing criminal investigations”?
At the very least, this practice violates Facebook’s terms of service. According to Facebook, users must agree not to “provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.” The Drug Enforcement Administration clearly violated the terms of service by setting up an account without the permission from Arquiett. Facebook has since deleted the profile, telling BuzzFeed, “We removed the profile because it violates our community standards.”
Perhaps more troubling is the government’s rationale for why they believe Arquiett consented to this behavior. The Justice Department claimed that by simply granting access to her phone, she also gave them permission to use the information obtained in any manner possible to support “ongoing criminal investigations.”
If this rationale were extended in others areas, could agents who search a house with the homeowner’s consent then steal items inside for whatever purpose they saw fit? Or could a driver’s permission to search an automobile also grant “permission” for officers to siphon the gasoline to power police cars? The Fourth Amendment protects “against unreasonable searches and seizures,” and would equally prevent the government from impersonating you on social media without your consent.
Then there is the double standard being used in favor of the government and against the average person. If a private citizen engaged in this behavior, he or she would be arrested and sent to jail, as has happened on several occasions.
•In 2013, Cheryl Nelson created a fake Facebook account with her ex-boyfriend’s personal information to make it look like his new girlfriend was threatening her. Nelson was subsequently charged with false report of a felony and unlawful posting of a message.
•In 2012, two middle school students set up a fake Facebook account to bully a fellow student and demean her character. The students were arrested on a third-degree felony charge of online impersonation.
•In 2007, Hillary Transue was arrested and sentenced her to three months at a juvenile detention center on a charge of harassment after she made a spoof MySpace account that poked fun at her school principal.
These private citizens were all arrested for engaging in virtually the same behavior as the Drug Enforcement Administration. Shouldn’t the government be held to the same standard?
To be sure, police routinely use covert measures in order to apprehend criminals. Undercover operators work with criminals, break the speed limit to catch a fleeing suspect, or buy, transport or possess illegal drugs. Society allows these actions in recognition of their necessity to aid the police in their duties. It is quite a different matter, however, when law enforcement exceeds these boundaries and stretches the notion of implied consent into an absurd result.
No one impliedly consents that items found during a search of a car, home or person will be used in any manner the government wishes. Nor does one impliedly consent to be put in danger or to have his reputation besmirched by whatever the police choose to do with one’s property.
Stealing the identity of a woman without her consent or knowledge goes far beyond the standard of acceptable behavior for law enforcement.
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s conduct here takes an inch and makes it a mile.
Former prison guard to serve no time for sexually assaulting inmates
http://www.wlky.com/news/former-prison-guard-to-serve-no-time-for-sexually-assaulting-inmates/29233026
Yeah...they overstepped their bounds in creating the FB page without the consent of the person.
A lieutenant with my department was just fired yesterday. Apparently he was having an affair with a married woman for the last eight years and got her husband arrested with false claims of harassment. POS . Through away a career and his integrity over and married woman. I hope he enjoys his new career a McDonald's while he pays off whatever settlement that guy gets
Video: NYPD Officer Kicks Colleague in the Head During Arrest
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141023/coney-island/video-nypd-officer-kicks-colleague-head-during-arrest
He should do hard time not just get fired.
It's not over, I'm sure. But the first step in the process was the investigation, next the hearing and termination. Official Oppression comes to mind as a charge against him
Official Oppression ?
Is that police slang for rape?
Video: NYPD Officer Kicks Colleague in the Head During Arrest
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141023/coney-island/video-nypd-officer-kicks-colleague-head-during-arrest
Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
New York TImes ^ | October 27, 2014 | Sheila Dewan
Posted on 10/27/2014 7:43:20 AM by Makana
ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa — For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized her checking account, almost $33,000.
The Internal Revenue Service agents did not accuse Ms. Hinders of money laundering or cheating on her taxes — in fact, she has not been charged with any crime. Instead, the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.
“How can this happen?” Ms. Hinders said in a recent interview. “Who takes your money before they prove that you’ve done anything wrong with it?”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So it turns out the vermin viewed this as a "game" and have been doing it for years...
Warrant: CHP officer says stealing nude photos from female arrestees 'game' for cops
http://www.contracostatimes.com/my-town/ci_26793090/warrant-chp-officer-says-stealing-nude-photos-from
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-police-are-still-out-of-control-112160.html#.VFeXQ2x0zIV
Good story
"And with all due respect to today’s police officers doing their jobs, they don’t need all that stuff anyway. When I was cop I disarmed a man with three guns who had just killed someone. I was off duty and all I had was my snub-nose Smith & Wesson. I fired a warning shot, the guy ran off and I chased him down."
I stopped reading about here...
You do know who Frank Serpico was right?
and no - you don't need a Tank, MRAP, etc
New bill would require cops to get suspect’s search consent
Members of the City Council are going to sock it to the NYPD again by introducing a bill that would force cops to get written or audio permission from a suspect before they could conduct a search, The Post has learned.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/12/new-bill-would-require-cops-to-get-suspects-search-consent
We've been doing that for years
Is this state law (you're in TX if I'm not mistaken?) or your department's policy?
I think it is a step in the right direction. As expected the police union is always the first to react to such proposals.
It's our departments policy. Consent is the BEST way to search for an officer. An attorney can argue probable cause till the cows come home, but with consent, either they gave it voluntarily or they didnt. So just verbally giving it to an officer is okay, it will still be argued whether it was voluntary or not but more often than not, it will stand..but having you sign a form that lists out all your rights and that the search is voluntary and you can stop it at any time is much better. Having you sign it on camera with audio is even better. Having you sign it on camera in blood while holding a bible is the best.
Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting an Innocent Man
Huffington Post ^ | 11/08/2013 4:12 pm EST | Mark Godsey
Posted on 11/20/2014 9:27:05 AM by CorporateStepsister
Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson pled guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife. When trying the case as a prosecutor, Anderson possessed evidence that may have cleared Morton, including statements from the crime's only eyewitness that Morton wasn't the culprit. Anderson sat on this evidence, and then watched Morton get convicted. While Morton remained in prison for the next 25 years, Anderson's career flourished, and he eventually became a judge.
In today's deal, Anderson pled to criminal contempt, and will have to give up his law license, perform 500 hours of community service, and spend 10 days in jail. Anderson had already resigned in September from his position on the Texas bench.
What makes today's plea newsworthy is not that Anderson engaged in misconduct that sent an innocent man to prison. Indeed, while most prosecutors and police officers are ethical and take their constitutional obligations seriously, government misconduct--including disclosure breaches known as Brady violations--occurs so frequently that it has become one of the chief causes of wrongful conviction.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
10 days and 500 hours community service for knowingly sending an innocent man to prison for 25 years and destroying so many lives. The absolute minimum he should get is the time the innocent man spent in prison-25 years. Corrupt prosecutors, judges and cops should be made an example of.
10 days and 500 hours community service for knowingly sending an innocent man to prison for 25 years and destroying so many lives. The absolute minimum he should get is the time the innocent man spent in prison-25 years. Corrupt prosecutors, judges and cops should be made an example of.
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I still love you, 007.
Ditto Jack
Man Dies During Traffic Stop From Asthma Attack as Cop Refuses to Let them Drive to Hospital
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-dies-traffic-stop-asthma-attack-cop-refuses-drive-hospital/
Man Dies During Traffic Stop From Asthma Attack as Cop Refuses to Let them Drive to Hospital
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-dies-traffic-stop-asthma-attack-cop-refuses-drive-hospital/
had it been any one of the 2000 cops here it would have had the same result. After decades of experience and history on dealing with these situations, policy is in place that prohibits police from allowing the people to continue on as it's obvious a danger. Protocol is to call an ambulance to the location. Cops are not allowed to load them in their cars and drive them. There is no guarantee they can make it any faster than an ambulance can make it to their location, and in most cases there is an EMS/Fire station closer than any hospital. And if the person dies in the cop car guess what happens. So for every one person who dies waiting for an ambulance, a ton are saved by the protocol. Doesn't make this any less tragic, it's a horrible story, but it's not because the cop didn't care. He didn't have much choice and believed what he was doing was the best option.
What happens?
Philadelphia's unusual but effective policy: Police can transport trauma victims
".....The race against time that officers made with Seward is commonplace for police in Philadelphia. Officers at times must make a life-or-death choice when they come across shooting victims who are rapidly losing blood: Risk watching them bleed to death in a matter of minutes, or put them in the car and drive.
Philadelphia is one of a few cities that use police transports, sometimes called "scoop and runs" by officers, or "cop drops" by doctors.
The department does not keep numbers on it, but some patrol officers estimate that they take as many as a third of the city's shooting victims to hospitals. Police in high-crime neighborhoods often arrive at scenes several minutes ahead of an ambulance. And since Philadelphia's EMS and ambulance system has long been described as overworked and stretched thin, police commanders say a police transport is an efficient choice when a shooting victim is near death.
Police also believe that without transports, the city's murder rate would be higher.
Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel has championed the policy. Besides getting some patients to hospitals faster, he said, getting victims off the street can defuse tension and lessen the chance of a retaliatory shooting.
"Is it perfect?" Bethel said. "No. Obviously, there are some times when officers don't take someone, or they wait too long. But the bottom line is that it saves lives....."
http://articles.philly.com/2012-06-04/news/32007368_1_shooting-victims-officers-transport
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-patrol-car-shot-20141228-story.html
See - this type of shit does not help at all. FNG animals
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-patrol-car-shot-20141228-story.html
See - this type of shit does not help at all. FNG animals
This is How Child Molesting Cops are Treated in a Corrupt Police StateMaybe you actually might want to read what the case was about.
Fauquier County, VA — The special treatment a Virginia state trooper received, who was charged with with forcible sodomy on a minor, aggressive sexual battery and indecent liberties with a child, among other charges, will turn your stomach.
Fauguier.com reported in December on the details of the charges and the subsequent outcome of the plea bargain.
Christopher Allen Carson, 30, pleaded guilty to a felony count of criminal solicitation, a count of contributing to delinquency of a minor and one count of exposing his penis to a child. Carson also pleaded guilty to two counts of loaning pornographic videos to a child.
Judge Herman A. Whisenant Jr. accepted Carson’s pleas as part of a bargain on the day Carson was to face a jury trial. Carson was originally charged with forcible sodomy, aggressive sexual battery and indecent liberties with a child.
Whisenant recommended a sentence of nine years in prison, all but 30 days of which to be suspended, and two years of probation. As part of the plea agreement, Carson does not have to register as a sex offender. Also as part of the agreement, two additional active charges of forcible sodomy and indecent liberties with a child will be dropped.
This man orally forced himself onto a sleeping 7th grader and he will only be going to jail for 30 days. Let that sink in.
Also, Carson will not have to comply with Virginia’s Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Act.
To put into perspective the level of special treatment given to Carson we can look at a similar case in which the honorable Judge Herman A. Whisenant Jr. presided. Donald Hausen, 35, racked up similarly disgusting charges of aggravated sexual battery, manufacturing child pornography, distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Whisenant gave him 66 years in jail and Hausen will also be required to register as a violent sex offender.
Hausen deserved this sentence, so did Carson. The only difference is that Christopher Allen Carson, was part of the team. Instead of being held to higher standards, like he should be, for being a police officer, Carson was given little to no punishment because of his badge.
Is this justice?
Joaquin Gonzalez Vicencio, 30, and Joaquin Berumen Cortes, 24, were caught growing marijuana in a forest in 2013 in Charlottesville, Va.. Neither one of these men had caused harm to anyone else.
Vicencio was sentenced to 11 years in a federal penitentiary and Cortes was sentenced to 10.
In America, child raping cops are let off while men trying to grow a plant are thrown in a cage. The deeper one digs into the corruption within court systems in the US, the more “Justice” looks like “Just Us.”
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/child-molesting-cops-treated-corrupt-police-state/
"Three of the charges to which Carson pleaded guilty stemmed from a series of incidents in 2001 where Carson, then 18
Maybe you actually might want to read what the case was about.
This happened before he became a Trooper. I thappened in 2001, when he was 18, and he became a trooper in 2005.
http://www.fauquier.com/news/article/state_trooper_found_guilty_of_sex_abuse_charges (http://www.fauquier.com/news/article/state_trooper_found_guilty_of_sex_abuse_charges)
I expect you to actually know your shit and do research before posting, it is unbecoming for you. What you did was post an article and make a post that makes it seem like he did this while he was a trooper. If you know anything about VA, if he did this as a Trooper, they may have used him as target practice and made an example of him.
Trio of SAPD officers suspended for 'mistaken identity' beating
http://www.kens5.com/story/news/investigations/i-team/2015/01/08/sapd-beating-mistaken-identity-update/21457943/
Ga. Supreme Court to consider police dog immunity
Atlanta, Ga. -- The Georgia Supreme Court will decide if someone bitten by a police dog is allowed to sue for damages.
A DeKalb County police officer argues she cannot be held liable for injuries suffered by a neighbor's son when her police dog bit him because she is protected by official immunity.
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/01/20/ga-supreme-court-to-consider-police-dog-immunity/22043565/
Bayonne cop beat man with flashlight and lied on reports, feds say
[...] Officially, officer Lillo was charged with the deprivation of civil rights under color of law and falsification of records. The use of excessive force count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, while the charge of falsifying records carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Lillo "knowingly concealed, covered up, falsified, and made false entries on a Bayonne Police Department Use of Force Report about the arrest ... by not checking the box marked 'Strike/Use of Baton or other object,'" according to the indictment.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/01/bayonne_cop_beat_man_with_flashlight_and_lied_on_r.html
Tax Payers Shell Out $300k After Dashcam Video Shows Cop Shoot Unarmed Man With Hands Up
By Jay Syrmopoulos on February 5, 2015
Columbia, S.C. –Levar Edward Jones, who was shot by a Highway Patrol trooper in early September of last year, will receive a $300,000 settlement from the state stemming from the incident.
The incident, which the Free Thought Project reported upon initially after it took place on September 4, 2014, began when trooper Sean Groubert pulled Jones over for allegedly not wearing a seat belt.
Dash cam from the trooper’s cruiser recorded the interaction.
After being pulled over, Jones could be seen exiting his vehicle, at which point Groubert asked for his license.
When Jones reached to grab his license, Groubert began shooting at him.
While shooting at Jones, Groubert yelled, “Get out of the car, get out of the car.”
To which Jones replied,”I just got my license, you said get my license.”
The trooper can be seen in the footage firing four bullets at Jones in less than five seconds, with one striking Jones.
Amazingly, Jones had enough composure to raise his hands up in surrender while being shot at, yet Groubert continued to fire on the surrendering man.
Groubert was subsequently fired by the Highway Patrol shortly after this incident. The S.C. Department of Public Safety stated that the trooper had violated several patrol agency policies, used too much force for too long and misread Jones as a threat.
In addition, Groubert currently faces charges of felony assault and battery punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
With the egregious nature of the trooper’s offenses, it’s heartening to actually see a law enforcement professional being held accountable for their actions under color of law. Unfortunately, the taxpayers will also be held accountable, for a crime that they did not commit.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/tax-payers-shell-300k-dashcam-video-shows-cop-shoot-unarmed-man-hands/
Grandfather visiting Alabama from India stopped by police while taking walk, left partly paralyzed
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/indian_citizen_stopped_by_madi.html
Fired and arrested by a local department.. Skip?
Updated article:
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/madison_police_fire_and_arrest.html
Took them 3 days to go from blaming the victim to admitting the officer assaulted the poor man. The officer turned himself in and was released on a $1000 bond. It seems like the FBI is conducting a parallel inquiry to ascertain if there were any federal violations.
Here is the video:
To use the "logic" often employed by police, if they have nothing to hide, what are they afraid of?
Police dash cam shows part of contested arrest – until St. Louis officer turns camera off
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-police-video-at-heart-of-lawsuit-dismissal-of/article_f4c65142-f3be-57f1-a957-9f256fb02459.html
Fired and arrested by a local department.. Skip?
Recently in Oregon a man committed suicide by cop. He called 911 to report a crime in progress. When the police showed up, he came out of the house wielding an ax which he refused to drop. The police shot him several times, killing him. As it turned out, there was no crime in progress. He'd set up the police, knowing that if he presented a threat they'd react accordingly.
I wouldn't want to be a cop. You never know how an event will escalate. Obviously, cops witness a lot of shit. The resulting modus operandi is for them to shoot to kill and ask questions later. Of course dead people aren't known for providing much in the way of answers.
Ugly on so many levels. A man is held as a suspect for killing his own child. The interrogator has the suspect handcuffed and then tries to provoke him and then attacks him, later claiming he "forgot" the suspect was chained to the wall and of course he "feared" for his life while trying to get the suspect to confess. The suspect was later found not guilty. The citizen now takes the cop to court; by using the "frame by frame" method the cop's attorneys convinced the jury that the cop indeed "feared" for his life and really "forgot" the man was handcuffed. In the meantime the cop had applied for duty disability retirement, saying "stress had left him unable to do his job" which, if approved, would mean he'd be getting lifetime tax free pay of around $57,000 a year (not only that but he would also get raises too). The cop was eventually fired by the department but of course was (of course) on paid suspension until the day of his dismissal.
Cop Chains Innocent Man to Wall, Beats Him, Gouges Eyes After Refusing to Confess to a Crime
Milwaukee, WI — In August of 2013 former detective Rodolfo Gomez savagely beat Deron Love during an interrogation. He was chained to the wall.
Love, 27, was accused of killing his 7-month-old baby, a charge he would not confess to and one that he would eventually beat.
A year after being tortured by Gomez, Love was found not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and child neglect in the death of his infant son.
Love’s innocence was of no matter to Gomez who repeatedly compelled him to confess.
After becoming tired of being told to confess to a crime that he did not commit, Love became agitated and began screaming in the face of Gomez. Gomez, then “feared for his safety” as the man, who was chained to a wall yelled at him. So he began to beat the restrained man – savagely.
There are two videos of Gomez’s interaction with Love. In the first video, Gomez is seen unleashing multiple punches and knee blows to the face and head of Love.
In the second video, both of Love’s hands are chained to the wall. Seeing the opportunity to inflict more pain, Gomez then began gouging Love’s eyes out. The screams are hard to bare.
Gomez was subsequently fired for this despicable behavior. However, he is now appealing.
Earlier this month, using a controversial tactic of slow-motion video presentation, the defense was somehow able to convince a jury that Gomez actually “feared for his safety.”
The defense broke the video down, frame by frame, and used cherry-picked images to sway the jury into believing their ridiculous self-defense stance.
Sadly, the jury was eventually convinced.
What do you think? Watch the graphic video below and tell us in the comments if you think Gomez’s safety was ever in danger.
(link includes video)
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-refused-confess-crime-commit-cop-chains-wall-beats-him-gouges-eyes/
Additional articles with more detail:
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/officer-charged-with-felony-seeks-disability-pay-b99132617z1-230445001.html
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-police-department-fires-officer-rodolfo-gomez-jr-b99156625z1-234456521.html
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/jury-acquits-fired-milwaukee-cop-in-suspect-beating-case-b99444390z1-291897721.html
Surely the old woman must have "assumed a combative stance" and the officer "feared for his life". At least she wasn't shot.
Cop Brutally Attacks 78-Year-Old Grandma For Delivering Cupcakes To Her Grandchildren
By John Vibes on February 24, 2015
Fresno, California – 78-year-old grandmother Mary Poole was brutally assaulted and pepper-sprayed by a police officer when she attempted to deliver cupcakes to her grandchildren at school.
The children’s parents are in the midst of a divorce and custody battle, so Mary wanted to do something nice for the children. She decided to deliver a gift in a neutral setting.
“I hadn’t seen my granddaughters for some time and I wanted to see them, and so I baked some cupcakes and bought some cookies for my granddaughters’ classroom,” Mary said.
When she arrived at the school she was met by a rude Clovis Unified police officer who told her that she was not allowed to visit the children because there was a restraining order against her. In reality, there was no restraining order against her and no legal reason to keep her out of the school. The officer was either lying or was totally mistaken about the situation.
Mary obeyed the officer and left the school. She then pulled over to call her son and tell him what happened. While she was on the phone, she was again approached by the officer who became immediately confrontational. As with most police encounters, he refused to hear any explanation that she attempted to give him, but instead demanded immediate obedience.
When she tried to explain her situation, the officer became violent with her. Next he pepper-sprayed the woman in the face twice during the confrontation, as she was struggling to free herself from the attack. The officer must have seen her struggling for safety as a sign of resistance.
“He wouldn’t listen to anything I had to say, period. Every time I tried telling him anything…I mean, I was even telling him, ‘I’m 78 years old,’ before he grabbed me. He sprayed me with mace twice,” Mary told reporters.
“And I was very frightened, and I told him to call the police and he said, ‘I am the police. He jerked me out of my car with my left arm with such great force, and then threw me onto the pavement. From there he dragged me by my left arm up to the school grounds,” she said.
The officer’s attack left Mary seriously injured with several broken bones and a dislocated shoulder.
When all was said and done Mary was taken to the hospital and left with more than $180,000 in medical bills.
Mary Poole filed a lawsuit this week, alleging police brutality and elderly abuse.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/78-year-old-brutally-attacked-police-delivering-cupcakes-grandchildren/
http://abc30.com/news/grandma-claims-officer-manhandled-her-in-front-of-clovis-unified-school/531845/
Not a biased article at all...
and he's such a good citizen and a roll model for the children in the neighborhood ::)
and he's such a good citizen and a roll model for the children in the neighborhood ::)
and he's such a good citizen and a roll model for the children in the neighborhood ::)
that's republican talk right there lol. "Cops should be allowed to beat an unarmed, detained suspect because that persn is a bg of shit"
I have no sympathy for trash ;)
Cop Who Raped Woman During Traffic Stop, Shot By Woman. Police Say Incidents are Related
San Antonio, TX — Officer Jackie Neal of the San Antonio PD, has been on paid vacation for the last year and a half for accusations of crimes that his chief referred to as “unthinkable.” After evidence linked him to this vile crime, he’s still been receiving his over-deserved salary of $62,556.00.
Neal, 40, was in full uniform, in a marked squad car and on-duty when he made a traffic stop on a Friday morning in November of 2013. He then proceeded to sexually assault a 19-year-old woman, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
He forced the young woman to bend over, with her face in the rear seat of the police car. He pulled her pants and underwear down to her ankles and sexually assaulted her, according to the complaint. At that point, Neal admonished her that if she told anyone, he would know where to find her and drove off, leaving her standing there.
hursday night, Neal was shot in the neck by an unnamed female assailant. He is currently in critical condition.
While the name of the woman in custody has not yet been released, police suggested that the incident was linked to the earlier rape allegations, says News4SanAntonio.
The shooting happened at Neal’s home in the 9100 block of Arroyo Hondo in Helotes, Texas. Police were called to the scene shortly after 7 pm on Thursday and found Neal with a bullet wound in his neck.
In January of last year, the woman claiming to be raped by Neal filed a $10 million lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in San Antonio. She named the Neal, Police Chief William McManus and the city as defendants.
According to the complaint, Neal had been suspended for three days in September, stemming from “a morally reprehensible and inappropriate” relationship with a female high school student enrolled in the Police Explorer Program. Neal was an advisor to the program in which students learn about police work, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The complaint alleged that Neal had sexual relations with the girl, who was an 18-year-old high school senior when the relationship ended in February 2013.
Judging from the past allegations against Neal, the shooter could have been any number of former female victims.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-raped-woman-traffic-stop-shot-woman-police-incidents-related/
and he's such a good citizen and a roll model for the children in the neighborhood ::)
North Charleston video:
I'm sure Blacken's ok with this cop killing the guy since he was black and had a rap sheet.
Cop 'can't remember' climbing on car hood and firing last 15 shots of 137-bullet barrage that killed unarmed couple
(even though his footprints were found and his colleague says they talked about it)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3026549/Indicted-cop-recall-shooting-suspects-hood-car.html
I-Team: New arguments over police silence in Brelo case
http://fox8.com/2015/04/03/i-team-new-arguments-over-police-silence-in-brelo-case/
Clear case of a bad shooting if ever I saw one..
North Charleston video:
I'm sure Blacken's ok with this cop killing the guy since he was black and had a rap sheet.
just like I'm sure you'll judge all cops by this one cops action :D
No need to use this one cop's action. There's plenty of other cops abusing their power that we can use.
so out of all the daily interactions with people tell us how many cops are abusing their power,i think you'll find it very small
so out of all the daily interactions with people tell us how many cops are abusing their power,i think you'll find it very small
With luck we'll have the cops under constant scrutiny soon (sort of like what's been wrongly happening to us, the once-private citizen), and only then will we have an idea how to answer that question.
I've personally met many fine individuals that happened to be cops, so they do exist. But I will tell you without question that a culture of corruption exists in law-enforcement organizations all over this country. And as long as it exists, period, it is a huge problem.
I think most of us have agreed with that. It's the trend that I've repeatedly noted is concerning.
i don't know if it's happening more or maybe because just about everyone has a video camera with them(cell phone)
so out of all the daily interactions with people tell us how many cops are abusing their power,i think you'll find it very small
would you stop with the common sense stuff please?!
There's degrees of abuse - someone need not shoot an unarmed man in the back before attempting to plant evidence. The reality is that most cops have, at some point, abused their power in some capacity. Even if we ignore trivial abuses of power (and we shouldn't) the reality is that power-tripping cops are plentiful, very often in glorious video. Here's another case: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-officers-pummel-man-repeatedly-after-chase-stolen-horse-n338881
But you don't worry about objective facts of reality... you want to play a game - and let's be clear, that's all asking for a percentage is. You think it will stump me, alas you're wrong. I simply won't take the approach you think I will. Instead I"ll argue that even if the percentage is very small, the sheer number of police encounters ensures that the number of people who will come to face with a copy abusing their power is not negligible.
Common sense? Funny. That is an attribute a lot people in your profession seem to lack.
well if you know these people you must move in these circles?
most of the people I find that have a problem with the police are usually low lives or trash
well if you know these people you must move in these circles?
you don't have to know or interact with people to see and hear shitMate, this is not police hate just the few Individuals who give the good officers a bad rep. you also can´t call any critical person a piece of trash. Look at some of the videos...FFS ::) You could be on the receiving end of an asshole Officer yourself.
Mate, this is not police hate just the few Individuals who give the good officers a bad rep. you also can´t call any critical person a piece of trash. Look at some of the videos...FFS ::) You could be on the receiving end of an asshole Officer yourself.
you and I agree just a few individuals,my comment is for the ones on here who think it's a wide spread problem,i didn't say they are all trash I said mostyes but a few Individuals in each state across the US gives an alarming amount of Unprofessional Officers. Now i wrote before i think there should be 1/2 Academies in the US to teach a set standard.
Great posts in here, Donny. Will look today at the vid you posted.cheers Jack
most of the people I find that have a problem with the police are usually low lives or trash
you and I agree just a few individuals,my comment is for the ones on here who think it's a wide spread problem,i didn't say they are all trash I said most
i don't know if it's happening more or maybe because just about everyone has a video camera with them(cell phone)
bingo
bingo
Are you suggesting it's ok if it's there's no video?
North Charleston video:
I'm sure Blacken's ok with this cop killing the guy since he was black and had a rap sheet.
i don't know if it's happening more or maybe because just about everyone has a video camera with them(cell phone)
There's degrees of abuse - someone need not shoot an unarmed man in the back before attempting to plant evidence. The reality is that most cops have, at some point, abused their power in some capacity. Even if we ignore trivial abuses of power (and we shouldn't) the reality is that power-tripping cops are plentiful, very often in glorious video. Here's another case: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-officers-pummel-man-repeatedly-after-chase-stolen-horse-n338881
But you don't worry about objective facts of reality... you want to play a game - and let's be clear, that's all asking for a percentage is. You think it will stump me, alas you're wrong. I simply won't take the approach you think I will. Instead I"ll argue that even if the percentage is very small, the sheer number of police encounters ensures that the number of people who will come to face with a copy abusing their power is not negligible.
Common sense? Funny. That is an attribute a lot people in your profession seem to lack.
I have no doubt, that had this not been on tape, nothing would have happened to this cop - even with the witness. No doubt.
I haven't closely followed, but without the vid he would have most likely had a much better chance of getting out of it. And you can bet he would have taken every inch toward doing that.
Can't believe the bullshit on the news, fuck. I saw the indroduction to the story this morning saying "WHITE!!! officer shoots BLACK!!! man..."
There's absolutely nothing to say this cop wouldn't have shot any other person just the same. So why try to fuck with peoples' minds like that? Hm.
Are you suggesting it's ok if it's there's no video?
That looks like a straight up execution.
Is The Abuse of Power / Job okay in your Book.?
Or Should those With The Authority Of Law Enforcement
Be Held To Zero Tolerance.
And a Higher Standard of Professional Behaviour.
Or Do We Continually Overlook & Make Excuses.
Without a video, this definitely goes down as a CLEAN SHOOT.yes and round the Dinner table that evening he tells his loved ones how daddy was a brave man on that day...
The cop gets a medal. The taser is found next to body. Cop says they were only a few feet apart. Ballistics backs up everything and voila, bad guys goes in the ground, and cop gets a promotion for showing bravery when needed.
yes and round the Dinner table that evening he tells his loved ones how daddy was a brave man on that day...
He may have Donny.. I know about 5 officers personally that have had to shoot someone. You would be surprised to know that's not their response. They don't beat their chest, they don't re-tell the story a choir practice as the rookies look upon them wide eyed. They do meet as a group on ocassion and talk about it with a counselor present to help them through it. They also meet with other officers that are involved in shootings to help them through the process... That's the reality of it for the most part.I think that Guys like you should be teaching in a Central Academy. You say your opinion but are a fair man.
I think that Guys like you should be teaching in a Central Academy. You say your opinion but are a fair man.
Donny, a central academy is a cool concept. But with airfare, lodging for 6 months, being away from home reducing the number applicants willing to do it.. it just isnt realistic. It's cost prohibitive to say the least. There is an Accreditation that departments can seek. CALEA which standardizes procedures.You come over as an experienced Officer, Sgt i think. Maybe 2 Academies .. to make it more accessible but you know better than me about the inner workings there.
And thanks for the compliment. I try to work at being fair.
No, it's not ok
Held to a higher standard and not overlook and make excuses.
The reality is.. you and I can look at a video (as we have) and because of different experiences, conclude it was proper or improper. The problem is, there is a group who will claim that is making excuses when it is not. But in general, yes. The current Slagel Scott incident.. dude straight up acted improper and should be held accountable. Dudes kicking the guy who stole the horse, no excuse, straight up abuse, fire them and hold them accountable
It's when my opinion varies from yours that I get accused of making excuses and covering up that I have the problem with. Not saying you specifically but in general.
:o Thanks some straight answers.
No issue with you having differing view point.
It's the Politically Correct whitewash none straight
Answers that I dislike, they seem evasive & as
Trying to cover or justify.
And as for accusations
you have accused me of being a cop hater
& having authority problems.
I do intensely dislike scumbags be they cops or not.
More so those that abuse there position of authority.
As I would think all right minded people do.
You come over as an experienced Officer, Sgt i think. Maybe 2 Academies .. to make it more accessible but you know better than me about the inner workings there.
It would just be impossible due to logistics and cost. Plus, after the initial Academy, (ours runs about 7 months long) we have annual on-going training. I think there is a concerted effort to standardize training simply due to best practices. International Association of Chiefs or Police and P.E.R.F. meet and exchange ideas.. people are coming to our city to see how we handle protests as we have a pretty good system. We learn District Rep techniques from Ft. Worth or Seattle. Ultimately we should all be training with the latest information. Again, funding is a big part of it all. Generally speaking, we all have access to the same Supreme Court rulings and case law updates. No one trains warning shots anymore, it's all pretty much the same. I could go to almost any department tomorrow and handle calls. The difference would be their report writing system, procedures for booking etc. But use of force will be almost the same.yes it is a shame it comes down to money... that i think is the problem.
Back when I think it was Katrina hit and Houston was having issues, we sent a deployment of about 50 cops to Houston to help out. There were no real problems adapting to the city and patroling. APD rode in a squad car with a HPD.
Which is, at best, anecdotal evidence. . Get back to me when you have something a bit more solid.
Said the man who uses anecdotal evidence to defend positions like "everyone who gets abused by the police is low -life trash and deserves it."
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Signs Civil Forfeiture Abolition Bill
A quick and happy update from New Mexico: Gov. Susana Martinez (R) has signed HB 560, which I detailed here, into law. New Mexico has thus effectively abolished civil asset forfeiture by requiring a criminal conviction before the government can seize property.
Gov. Martinez’s statement can be read here.
House Bill 560 (HB 560) makes numerous changes to the asset forfeiture process used by law enforcement agencies in New Mexico. As an attorney and career prosecutor, I understand how important it is that we ensure safeguards are in place to protect our constitutional rights. On balance, the changes made by this legislation improve the transparency and accountability of the forfeiture process and provide further protections to innocent property owners.
As expected, civil liberties advocates across the political spectrum cheered the move.
ACLU-NM Executive Director Peter Simonson:
This is a good day for the Bill of Rights. For years police could seize people’s cash, cars, and houses without even accusing anyone of a crime. Today, we have ended this unfair practice in New Mexico and replaced it with a model that is just and constitutional.
Institute for Justice Legislative Counsel Lee McGrath:
New Mexico has shown that ending policing for profit is a true bipartisan issue with broad public support. America is ready to end civil asset forfeiture, a practice which is not in line with our values or constitution. This law shows that we can be tough on crime without stripping property away from innocent Americans.
Emily Kaltenbach of the New Mexico chapter of the Drug Policy Alliance:
New Mexico has succeeded today in reining in one of the worst excesses of the drug war. Like other drug war programs, civil asset forfeiture is disproportionately used against poor people of color who cannot afford to hire lawyers to get their property back. This law is an important step towards repairing some of the damage the drug war has inflicted upon our society and system of justice.
Civil asset forfeiture is an inherently abusive practice that provides perverse incentives to law enforcement, encourages “policing for profit,” and allows the government to take the property of individuals and businesses that are never charged with any wrongdoing. Hopefully the bipartisan spirit of the New Mexico abolition (HB 560 passed the legislature unanimously) will serve as a model for other legislatures around the country who wish to restore our cherished concepts of due process and private property to their proper status.
http://www.cato.org/blog/new-mexico-governor-susana-martinez-signs-civil-forfeiture-abolition-bill
can you post post where i said everyone,you seem to have a problem stretching the truth ;)
You suggested that someone who had previous run-ins with the law and recorded an interaction between police and a third party was trash as if somehow that made what the police were doing is ok.
So cut the crap.
A judge has absolute civil immunity, even if the action “was in error, was done maliciously, or was in excess of his authority,” the three-judge panel ruled in its six-page opinion.
Insane.
Cop Ruptures Man’s Spleen, Fellow Cops Laugh, Take Pics, as He lays Dying, Begging for Help
Orlando, FL — An Orlando cop has been arrested after surveillance video showed him violently kneeing a handcuffed man. But further investigation into the matter shows that his fellow officers were not only complicit in covering it up, but also sadistically laughed as the man lay bleeding internally in the cell.
Orlando police Officer Peter Delio was arrested in March and charged with felony battery after surveillance video showed him kneeing a handcuffed, Robert Liese, in the gut.
Several hours later Liese underwent emergency surgery to remove his spleen.
What happened between the initial blow to the stomach and the time the paramedics were notified is disturbing, to say the least.
Robert Liese was in jail after he says a friend left him with a $60 bar tab that he was unable to pay. Besides being drunk, not once did Liese ever pose a threat to officers. In fact, he peacefully offered Delio his hands to be brought to jail after knowing that he was not going to be able to pay.
But Liese says that Delio didn’t care that he was nice and then kicked the handcuffed man in the stomach as he was loading him into the squad car.
Once in jail, Liese headbutted the door because he was upset and injured, and he was trying to get the attention of someone besides the officers who were outside of the door ridiculing him.
Officer Delio, who apparently wanted to take out more frustrations on the restrained man, then walked into the cell and kneed him in the stomach so hard, that it ruptured his spleen.
The pain was so great that Liese was immobilized. Delio picks the man up like a ragdoll and laughably yells to Liese, “stop resisting.”
He could barely breathe, and he fell to the floor in agony. He was then picked up and dragged out of the cell to be placed in leg restraints.
During the two hours long video after Liese was struck by the officer, he begged for help.
Sgt. Michael Faulkner reported to internal affairs that Liese not only didn’t ask for medical attention, but that he refused it.
Unlike Sgt. Faulkner, however, the video does not lie. Not five, not ten, but at least twenty times Liese can be heard on video begging for medical attention.
“I need medical attention, please,” Liese said.
“What do you need medical attention for?” Faulkner asked.
“I have to lay down, please. I want to lay down,” Liese said. “My chest.”
“What’s wrong?” Faulkner asked Liese.
“I can’t breathe right,” Liese said.
But the sadistic Faulkner did not render aid, nor did he call paramedics; instead, he took cell phone pics of the injured man.
According to WFTV, Faulkner told internal affairs investigators that he was investigating Delio’s use of force. But the video shows Liese is the one who brought it up and Faulkner never asked about it.
“I got kicked in the chest in the backseat of the car,” Liese said.
Crucial minutes past that could have led to the death of Liese. During this time, the officers can be heard on the surveillance video laughing and joking about the man who lay dying just a few feet away.
“Somebody, please call the – paramedics,” Liese said suffering as the laughter continued.
Finally after nearly two hours, paramedics arrived, and Liese’s life was saved.
Once again, heroes are exposed for villains, thanks to the power of the camera lens. Luckily no lives were lost due to these criminal actions.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-ruptures-mans-spleen-fellow-cops-laugh-pics-lays-dying-begging-medical/
Cop Ruptures Man’s Spleen, Fellow Cops Laugh, Take Pics, as He lays Dying, Begging for Help
Orlando, FL — An Orlando cop has been arrested after surveillance video showed him violently kneeing a handcuffed man. But further investigation into the matter shows that his fellow officers were not only complicit in covering it up, but also sadistically laughed as the man lay bleeding internally in the cell.
Orlando police Officer Peter Delio was arrested in March and charged with felony battery after surveillance video showed him kneeing a handcuffed, Robert Liese, in the gut.
Several hours later Liese underwent emergency surgery to remove his spleen.
What happened between the initial blow to the stomach and the time the paramedics were notified is disturbing, to say the least.
Robert Liese was in jail after he says a friend left him with a $60 bar tab that he was unable to pay. Besides being drunk, not once did Liese ever pose a threat to officers. In fact, he peacefully offered Delio his hands to be brought to jail after knowing that he was not going to be able to pay.
But Liese says that Delio didn’t care that he was nice and then kicked the handcuffed man in the stomach as he was loading him into the squad car.
Once in jail, Liese headbutted the door because he was upset and injured, and he was trying to get the attention of someone besides the officers who were outside of the door ridiculing him.
Officer Delio, who apparently wanted to take out more frustrations on the restrained man, then walked into the cell and kneed him in the stomach so hard, that it ruptured his spleen.
The pain was so great that Liese was immobilized. Delio picks the man up like a ragdoll and laughably yells to Liese, “stop resisting.”
He could barely breathe, and he fell to the floor in agony. He was then picked up and dragged out of the cell to be placed in leg restraints.
During the two hours long video after Liese was struck by the officer, he begged for help.
Sgt. Michael Faulkner reported to internal affairs that Liese not only didn’t ask for medical attention, but that he refused it.
Unlike Sgt. Faulkner, however, the video does not lie. Not five, not ten, but at least twenty times Liese can be heard on video begging for medical attention.
“I need medical attention, please,” Liese said.
“What do you need medical attention for?” Faulkner asked.
“I have to lay down, please. I want to lay down,” Liese said. “My chest.”
“What’s wrong?” Faulkner asked Liese.
“I can’t breathe right,” Liese said.
But the sadistic Faulkner did not render aid, nor did he call paramedics; instead, he took cell phone pics of the injured man.
According to WFTV, Faulkner told internal affairs investigators that he was investigating Delio’s use of force. But the video shows Liese is the one who brought it up and Faulkner never asked about it.
“I got kicked in the chest in the backseat of the car,” Liese said.
Crucial minutes past that could have led to the death of Liese. During this time, the officers can be heard on the surveillance video laughing and joking about the man who lay dying just a few feet away.
“Somebody, please call the – paramedics,” Liese said suffering as the laughter continued.
Finally after nearly two hours, paramedics arrived, and Liese’s life was saved.
Once again, heroes are exposed for villains, thanks to the power of the camera lens. Luckily no lives were lost due to these criminal actions.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-ruptures-mans-spleen-fellow-cops-laugh-pics-lays-dying-begging-medical/
Cop Ruptures Man’s Spleen, Fellow Cops Laugh, Take Pics, as He lays Dying, Begging for Help
Orlando, FL — An Orlando cop has been arrested after surveillance video showed him violently kneeing a handcuffed man. But further investigation into the matter shows that his fellow officers were not only complicit in covering it up, but also sadistically laughed as the man lay bleeding internally in the cell.
Orlando police Officer Peter Delio was arrested in March and charged with felony battery after surveillance video showed him kneeing a handcuffed, Robert Liese, in the gut.
Several hours later Liese underwent emergency surgery to remove his spleen.
What happened between the initial blow to the stomach and the time the paramedics were notified is disturbing, to say the least.
Robert Liese was in jail after he says a friend left him with a $60 bar tab that he was unable to pay. Besides being drunk, not once did Liese ever pose a threat to officers. In fact, he peacefully offered Delio his hands to be brought to jail after knowing that he was not going to be able to pay.
But Liese says that Delio didn’t care that he was nice and then kicked the handcuffed man in the stomach as he was loading him into the squad car.
Once in jail, Liese headbutted the door because he was upset and injured, and he was trying to get the attention of someone besides the officers who were outside of the door ridiculing him.
Officer Delio, who apparently wanted to take out more frustrations on the restrained man, then walked into the cell and kneed him in the stomach so hard, that it ruptured his spleen.
The pain was so great that Liese was immobilized. Delio picks the man up like a ragdoll and laughably yells to Liese, “stop resisting.”
He could barely breathe, and he fell to the floor in agony. He was then picked up and dragged out of the cell to be placed in leg restraints.
During the two hours long video after Liese was struck by the officer, he begged for help.
Sgt. Michael Faulkner reported to internal affairs that Liese not only didn’t ask for medical attention, but that he refused it.
Unlike Sgt. Faulkner, however, the video does not lie. Not five, not ten, but at least twenty times Liese can be heard on video begging for medical attention.
“I need medical attention, please,” Liese said.
“What do you need medical attention for?” Faulkner asked.
“I have to lay down, please. I want to lay down,” Liese said. “My chest.”
“What’s wrong?” Faulkner asked Liese.
“I can’t breathe right,” Liese said.
But the sadistic Faulkner did not render aid, nor did he call paramedics; instead, he took cell phone pics of the injured man.
According to WFTV, Faulkner told internal affairs investigators that he was investigating Delio’s use of force. But the video shows Liese is the one who brought it up and Faulkner never asked about it.
“I got kicked in the chest in the backseat of the car,” Liese said.
Crucial minutes past that could have led to the death of Liese. During this time, the officers can be heard on the surveillance video laughing and joking about the man who lay dying just a few feet away.
“Somebody, please call the – paramedics,” Liese said suffering as the laughter continued.
Finally after nearly two hours, paramedics arrived, and Liese’s life was saved.
Once again, heroes are exposed for villains, thanks to the power of the camera lens. Luckily no lives were lost due to these criminal actions.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-ruptures-mans-spleen-fellow-cops-laugh-pics-lays-dying-begging-medical/
Baltimore's Finest beating a photo editor.
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City Paper Photo Editor J.M. Giordano was tackled and beaten by Baltimore City police outside of Western District headquarters last night while covering protests over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
In a video shot by City Paper Managing Editor Baynard Woods you can see Giordano, wearing a green jacket, and a protester, both of whom had just been knocked to the ground by police, being beaten as Woods yells, "He's a photographer! He's press!"
Giordano says he was standing next to the protester in the video, facing the police line, at about 12:30 when someone threw a rock which hit a police officer’s shield.
“They mobilized,” he says. The police line moved forward and Giordano did not move fast enough for them. “I always move at the last second,” he says. Five or six police officers in riot gear hit Giordano and the other protester with their shields, knocking them to the ground.
“They just swarmed over me,” he says. “I got hit. My head hit the ground. They were hitting me, then someone pulled me out.”
“I kept shooting it,” he says. “As soon as I got up I started taking pictures.” He says the guy who was next to him (who did not throw anything, he is sure) got arrested and was loaded into a van. Joe was not. He thinks it is because police recognized him as a local reporter and figured arresting him would cause a backlash.
“They [police] tried to block me from shooting.”
He says Reuters photographer Sait Serkan Gurbuz, who was standing nearby, did get arrested and taken away in the police van, and was later released and cited for disorderly conduct.
Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the incident. Giordano suffered minor injuries on his arm, but will continue documenting the protests.
http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcpnews-city-paper-photo-editor-jm-giordano-beaten-by-police-at-freddie-gray-protest-20150426,0,229974.story
yeah whats wrong with police your surpose to let rocks get thrown at you,watch your tv and see how these upstanding citizens are acting
The journalists didn't throw the rocks.
Great argument, tard.
::)
turn your tv on retard and watch what the police have to deal with,mr cop hater
Yeah, they're dealing with a tough situation so that makes beating up innocent people ok.
Like I said....great argument, tard. ::)
BTW...they wouldn't be in this position if they weren't shoving injured people into vans, not strapping them in for the 'rough ride' and denying them medical care.
But yea, let's forget about 'why' they are in a tough situation and focus on how tough the situation is now.
i can go back on your post and your always blaming cops your nothing but a cop hater
And I can go back on yours and you're nothing but an apologist.
Fuck dude, you're excusing them beating innocent people. ::)
thats the fog of war you weren't there you don't know how it went down.tired of reading your post always the police's fault
turn your tv on retard and watch what the police have to deal with,mr cop hater
yeah whats wrong with police your surpose to let rocks get thrown at you,watch your tv and see how these upstanding citizens are acting
Fog of war, lol. Typical us against them mentality employed by the cops that STARTED this shit to begin with.
I don't give fuck what you're tired of I'll continue to post about abuse and corruption.
your a cop hater and that's. a fact you don't. have to believe me just go back as far as you want and read your post it's. all there,there are bad police but there are far more that do good,and your post are aways one sided
And you're an apologist. Fact is a fact.
Go cry a fucking river.
brahaha cop hater,hope you don't need one someday
Same here. Seems my chances of getting a good beating may exceed my chances of getting help.
You know what I see?
I see people arrested and thrown against cement and left to bleed (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/10/30/skokie-officer-charged-after-woman-injured-in-jail-cell/), or kicked hard enough that their spleens rupture (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-ruptures-mans-spleen-fellow-cops-laugh-pics-lays-dying-begging-medical/). I see cops tackle and paralyze a non-violent individual whose only crime was an inability to communicate (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7dc_1423783854). I see cops order a mother to sexually abuse a baby (http://filmingcops.com/cop-indicted-after-conspiring-to-rape-1-yr-old-baby/). I see cops jumping out of still moving cars to kill twelve-year olds (http://nypost.com/2014/11/27/cops-release-video-of-officer-fatally-shooting-12-year-old/). I see cops forcing teens to give them head and getting away scot free (http://www.mintpressnews.com/cop-forced-teen-to-perform-oral-sex-on-himself-and-his-partner-keeps-law-enforcement-certification/204454/).
READ THIS.
No doubt, cops have a difficult job. But it's a job they chose to do and if they don't like it, they can find something else to do instead of taking out their frustrations by throwing their weight around and abusing the rest of us under the color of authority.
Someone want to point out exactly where in the video the cops were beating the journalist?
anyone?
anyone?
hey this is not a site for common sence,this is a site to jump to conclusions
lol trash filming trash,you can't beat it :D
I am happy to report that I've never had a disagreeable experience with the police. I suspect the bulk of the police are good people who just want to protect and serve.
A handful should never have become policemen. Extensive psychological testing used to weed most of these misfits out. Are police forces so understaffed that they are willing to accept anyone who walks in the door looking for a job?
Sure..
the guy that was filming goes around robbing people,sorry but that's trash :D maybe where your from that's a great guy but where I'm from that's trash
the guy that was filming goes around robbing people,sorry but that's trash :D maybe where your from that's a great guy but where I'm from that's trash
"hey this is not a site for common sence,this is a site to jump to conclusions "
so you think a guy that robs people is a good guy
That is irrelevant, he was arrested and will go to court for all the charges. There was no reason or justification for the actions of the female cop and she must be held accountable.
so you think a guy that robs people is a good guy
so you think a guy that robs people is a good guy
So you think a cop who beats or kills suspects is a good guy?
no I'm sure she'll be punished for punching him in the head,do i feel sorry for the trash,not at all
baltimore police throwing rocks at people.
yes, we are at that point lol.
what they should be shooting is rubber bullets
To me, it looks like a bunch of cops swarming over the guy. The video is too shaky, and there are too many bodies over the guy for me to conclusively say "he was being beaten" and point to an exact second. It certainly seems to be an overreaction, and if I had to venture a guess, given his appearance after this, I'd say that it's more than likely that the guy received a few blows.
It was certainly a charged situation and mistakes are bound to happen. The important thing is how to handle those mistakes. The problem, generally, is that many officers handle those problems badly, and when they do, they are usually not held accountable. I don't care where you lay the blame: the human resourcess, the traning, the equipment or something else. But there is a problem.
Here's the thing: cops are supposed to be cool-headed professionals, with superior training that enables them to deal with high-pressure situations while keeping their emotions in check; instead it seems that many are hot-headed idiots, whose training boils down to takedown moves and the development of an "us vs. them" mentality, along with a badge and a gun that instills on them feelings of superiority and a proverbial license to kill. So when citizens don't defer to them, as iif we're peasants and they're modern day samurai during the Shogunate, they try to teach us a lesson - that lesson being "you do what I tell you or else..."
The fact of the matter is that cops are public servants. Their job isn't to intimidate the public or to order them around. It's to protect and serve. I'm not exactly sure when cops forgot about that.
can't tell much from the video. Certainly can't conclude a beating was being done. But really, all someone has to do these days is put a title "Cops beat ____" and 90% of the folks here will operate on the assumption the cops beat ____ rather than look at the video independently and determine if it's true for themselves.
You are right. Do you think there might be a reason for that?
Yes, I'm sure she'll be punished. Just like the cop who forced a nineteen year old to have sex with him (http://www.mintpressnews.com/cop-forced-teen-to-perform-oral-sex-on-himself-and-his-partner-keeps-law-enforcement-certification/204454/) was punished. His brutal punishment for what amounts to rape includes not having to register as a sex offender and keeping his law enforcement certification.
what they should be shooting is rubber bullets
Yes, I'm sure she'll be punished. Just like the cop who forced a nineteen year old to have sex with him (http://www.mintpressnews.com/cop-forced-teen-to-perform-oral-sex-on-himself-and-his-partner-keeps-law-enforcement-certification/204454/) was punished. His brutal punishment for what amounts to rape includes not having to register as a sex offender and keeping his law enforcement certification.
In this case, majority of this board are anti cop and since "Cops beating ____" fits their preconceived view of cops they don't bother to review it and operate on the assumptions its true. It really doesn't matter if it's true or not and they figure their buddies on the page won't bother to look at it either so its a safe assumption. Just my 2 cents
I don't think that's a fair assessment and, logically, this statement has fatal flaws (for fun, see how many logical fallacies you can identify - I could three). What strikes me the most about your analysis is the assertion that people are "anti-cop." Once you've branded them with this scarlet letter, then the rest proceeds from there: people are anti-cop, therefore they'll be against cops and thus, their criticisms can be disregarded. But it never asks why are these people "anti-cop"? I submit that a more careful and deep analysis would show that most people aren't, in fact, anti-cop; they are, however, anti-abusive-cop, and, as I am sure you'll agree, there is a big difference between a cop and an abusive cop.
So the question is _why_ do most people perceive cops as abusive? I suspect that the answer is twofold:
- First, I thnk that most people have experienced cops flex their muscle (to varying degrees) and have heard friends and family suggest the same, which leads them to believe that this is commonplace; and
- Second, I think that as audio and video recording become more prevalent, more people see instances of abuse - often egregious - since a "by the book" stop doesn't garner much attention.
Taken together, these two things paint a picture of most cops as egregious abusers, armed with guns and on the brink of going postal. Perhaps this picture is inaccurate. In fact, I'm willing to concede that most cops - even when flexing their proverbial muscle when someone commits the horrible offense of contempt of cop - are unlikely to beat people hard enough to rupture spleens or crack skulls open.
But the reality remains that even if they don't rupture splees or crack skulls open, the a large percentage of cops today routinely demand respect and deference by the serfs and are willing to punish, to varying degrees, those who don't live up to that expectation.
I'll give you an example: I was once stopped by a cop. He said that I was going 30 in a 25. I may very well have been - I wasn't focused obsessively on my speedometer. I was polite and courteous, and he was very professional. He handed me over a speeding ticket, before explaining that signing it was not an admission of guilt but a promise to appear. I replied with "Yes, I am aware. And even if I wasn't, it says so in bold letters, right above where I'm supposed to sign." All of a sudden, it was like I was teleported to bizarro-world. He grabbed the clipboard with the ticket from my hands and ordered me to step out of the vehicle. I complied, closing and locking the door behind me.
At this point, he got maybe an inch from my face and yelled point blank "IT SAYS SO RIGHT THERE, DOES IT? ARE YOU LOOKING FOR TROUBLE OR DO YOU THINK THIS IS A JOKE?" I replied with "Are you detaining me or am I free to go?" which infuriated him even more. He proceeded to demand that I produce my keys so that he could unlock my vehicle and search it because, suddenly, he could smell alcohol on my breath. I explained that I don't consent to any search. He told me I was being detained, before storming off into his cruiser.
Four more cruisers arrived and I was kept there for well over two hours (the law in my State prevents officers from detaining anyone for over 60 minutes) while he and his buddies chatted. Finally, he came back, handed me my ticket (now for 45 in a 25) and said "Your signature is not an admission of guilt, just a promise to appear." I signed and turned the ticket in, which, I guess, made him feel like an alpha male that had finally asserted his dominance.
When I asked for his business card and the name of his superior officer, he replied with "my name is on your fucking ticket, now get back in your fucking car and don't let me catch you speeding again." Later that day, I filed a complaint which was "investigated" and summarily dismissed in less than 24 hours.
Over the next 3 or 4 months I would get pulled over repeatedly by the same group of three cops for "swerving" or "not signaling for a lane change" or for having "worn tires" or even for "possibly illegal tint" on a vehicle with no tint at all. This, of course, resulted in significant frustration for me, as it resulted in a waste of time not only during the stop, but later when I had to take time off to go to the Courthouse to pay bail to schedule my trial, then take time off and attend the trial, whereupon, charges were summarily dropped when the ticketing cop wouldn't show up in Court.
Now, again. I'm willing to believe that these cops are the exception, but only in the sense that the length they went to isn't typical.
In this case, majority of this board are anti cop and since "Cops beating ____" fits their preconceived view of cops they don't bother to review it and operate on the assumptions its true. It really doesn't matter if it's true or not and they figure their buddies on the page won't bother to look at it either so its a safe assumption. Just my 2 cents
I am happy to report that I've never had a disagreeable experience with the police. I suspect the bulk of the police are good people who just want to protect and serve.
A handful should never have become policemen. Extensive psychological testing use to weed most of these misfits out. Are police forces so understaffed that they are willing to accept anyone who walks in the door looking for a job?
Do you think that's really it?
I would agree it's a small percentage that are highly abusive, but there's clearly more that are just abusive to varying degrees.
And it's not just the cops, it's the system.
We repeatedly see them let off as though they are above the law. We repeatedly see light and minor punishments. We repeatedly see absurdly high barriers to holding them accountable.
We didn't see any riots when the video came out of cop shooting a guy in the back. There, they got the investigation done just as timely as they would a civilian, appropriate charges were made (which if I were a betting man he'll probably beat anyway), and the cops were clear and transparent.
In Baltimore, they have still yet to explain what happened. And we see things handled like they are being handled in Baltimore far more often than the SC shooting.
Or...it's like any other article on here where the poster just posted what the media decided the title to be. Interesting how now the video is conclusive given that you cops are always crying the video doesn't show the full story.
Double standard much?
Always so desperate to play the victim card. ::)
2 very Good posts above. Avxo & agnostic.
Still leaves the issue as how & what to do with
The scumbag cops & those that lie & cover for them.
Abuse of position by those Should be Punished Hard.
And Exposed.
Then Hopefully Those Types Will Not be Drawn to The Job.
Another Good post.
You sum it up exactly with the
Repeatedly being let off or ridiculous minor punishment.
They are not above the law.
Yet often seen to be.
That's not the way to garner public support & confidence in policing.
Clear, honest & transparent it should be.
Smoke & mirrors, fudged excuses & whitewashing is what it usually is.
and...we're back :)
Let me try and connect the dots with your post... The video was posted with the title in place. It was talked about as if the title was accurate. Leads me to believe no one actually watched it.
What video is now conclusive? Is there additional video? My comment on the video is that it doesn't show a beat down. He may have gotten beaten before or after that particular video but the title indicates or implies it shows a beating. So ironically the video may NOT show the whole story.
can't tell much from the video. Certainly can't conclude a beating was being done. But really, all someone has to do these days is put a title "Cops beat ____" and 90% of the folks here will operate on the assumption the cops beat ____ rather than look at the video independently and determine if it's true for themselves.
Yes..... Meaning.???
Meaning he's in total denial about systemic abuse.
Just some factual history, he's actually tried to compare the Blue Wall with the lochness monster. He claims that cops can honestly and objectively investigate themselves and that they are held accountable.
He's a walking, talking Blue Wall and in complete denial.
Good post. Lot of thought and time went into it. I appreciate that. My original answer was geared towards the average getbig converstation. So you are correct to point out the "anti cop" term as unfair. I can't argue that. But while I think we can all agree to dislike abusive cops. I believe there are categories of people and their opinions of cops. Haven't thought much about it so it's likely not all inclusive.
1. there are those who believe cops can do no wrong, if a cop did it, he must have a reason. These can be as damaging as the other extreme
2. those who think cops for the most part are decent people trying to do a difficult job. Small percentage are the problem
3. Those who think most cops are power hungry bullies that ocassionally do good things
I'm in cat #2. I think many of the posters here are in #3
Your example sadly, isn't hard to believe. It is difficult for me to grasp a department that has the luxury of having several officers tied up and unavailable to take calls for that length of time without a Sergeant getting pissed but they obviously don't run from call to call like we do here.
Sorry you had that experience. If you are ever in Austin I promise to be professional when issuing you a speeding ticket and it will be for at least 15 over unless it's a school zone.
Yes..... Meaning.???
You work in policing
How about You Coming out with some Strong Wise words
Of How you think these issues could be resolved.
Or why the continual covering up & minor punishments
Are given out.
Do you not think it should be clear, honest & transparent then.
I think several people don't necessarily fall into these 3 categories, as in, they're not so much about percentages ("few good ones, many bad ones" and vice versa) but rather they are angered by the lack of accountability, punishment and reciprocity in some cases. If the cops who abuse their authority get exposed somehow (if they don't try to cover up their tracks), they know that quite often their buddies or other cops will investigate them ("investigation" having quite a fluid definition in some cases) and perhaps cover up for them in sick display of camaraderie (along with unions, protective associations, etc) and also they know they will not be treated the same as the rest of the citizens.
This sick situation where cops see that in several cases they can abuse their power with impunity, just ferments a toxic culture that makes it easier for officers to commit abuses (this especially applies not to the "bad apples", who would probably be abusive anyway, but to those who would be decent at their job but then enter into a downward spiral of abuse if they see they can get away with it).
If true, I stand corrected, but this sure sounds as though you are attempting to make the video out to be conclusive:
You could be right.
At times he comes across as reasonable & decent cop.
Which I hope he is.
Though it is concerning just how quick he changes.
Then is he doing this at work while on Shift.
Then he is quick to throw out the Cop Haters & Authority Issues' .
Yet he picks & choses what he wishes to answer & avoid.
That's his right of course.
I'm Yet to see him Strongly condemn the Blatant Abuses by cops
And Cover ups by Police Departments.
Or offer any Real Ideas To these Problems.
Oh yes of course Police investigating Police.
Very Clear, Honest & Transparent.
Meaning he's in total denial about systemic abuse. Absolutley I am
Just some factual history, he's actually tried to compare the Blue Wall with the lochness monster. He claims that cops can honestly and objectively investigate themselves and that they are held accountable. I usually speak based on my experience and my department. The rest is my opinion based on my belief the majority of cops are in this for the right reasons and want to do a good job. Also information available through friends and aquantances at other departments. I'm aware there are issues, there are some bad apples and there are likely some smaller departments that in the the 1960's when it comes to policing, but I don't believe it is a systemic, out of control problem. I think we differ on the extent. He's a walking, talking Blue Wall and in complete denial. Then you are an anti cop radical blinded by your hatred...
I think several people don't necessarily fall into these 3 categories, as in, they're not so much about percentages ("few good ones, many bad ones" and vice versa) but rather they are angered by the lack of accountability, punishment and reciprocity in some cases. If the cops who abuse their authority get exposed somehow (if they don't try to cover up their tracks), they know that quite often their buddies or other cops will investigate them ("investigation" having quite a fluid definition in some cases) and perhaps cover up for them in sick display of camaraderie (along with unions, protective associations, etc) and also they know they will not be treated the same as the rest of the citizens.
This sick situation where cops see that in several cases they can abuse their power with impunity, just ferments a toxic culture that makes it easier for officers to commit abuses (this especially applies not to the "bad apples", who would probably be abusive anyway, but to those who would be decent at their job but then enter into a downward spiral of abuse if they see they can get away with it).
Can you give an example of "how quick he changes"?
You probably arent looking very hard if you have yet to see me strongly condemn blatant abuse by cops
Issue resolving- Officers found to be using excessive force are either re-trained if minor and due to training, or fired if overtly excessive, charged if applicable
Officers found to be falsifying a report, clear indication of deception - fired, charged if applicable
nvestigators suspected of ommiting evidence or facts on a police investigation - Fired charged if applicible
Any officer witnessing a policy violation involving use of force and not writing a supplement that is factual, or sees a serious policy violation and is found to have not alerted a supervisor is fired. Supervisor doesn't pass allegation up channel is fired.
Educate public on processes of investigations. Many would be shocked there is a back log in many departments of over 200 days on some forensic evidence.
Create and educate a civilian monitor committee that oversees Internal Affairs complaints from citizens.
Executive staff makes clear the expectations and holds everyone accountable for honesty.
Training Academy and FTO are indoctrinated in the new standards and expectations and preach it constantly.
In car cameras and body mikes for anyone working the street with a clear policy that failing to turn them on, or turning them off during a contact is grounds for firing.
THEN... start charging citizens with a crime when they are found to have lied about an allegation towards a police officer. It has to be clear evidence caught on video or audio that they lied.
Educate the public that inspite of what the youtube lawyers say, you don't have a right to physically resist arrest even if you don't agree.
That's a start
Surveillance State. — In a post-9/11 world, the addition of yet another form of government surveillance should not go unexamined: recent technological advances have allowed the state to move beyond the use of traditional electronic surveillance devices — like wiretaps and bugs — toward more pervasive surveillance techniques. From the Snowden leaks to reports of police drone use, citizens are more conscious than ever of being watched by their government. Moreover, “mission creep” on the part of camera manufacturers has already begun: at least one city has made plans to outfit its parking attendants with body cameras, and some advocates have called for expanding cameras into other arenas, like the classroom.
So although police body cameras have the potential to benefit citizens and officers alike, they nevertheless represent another substantial step toward a surveillance state. Police departments in recent decades have become increasingly militarized, complete with intelligence departments, devices that mimic cell phone towers, and facial recognition software. Facial recognition software in particular may pose a threat to civilian privacy when coupled with body cameras:
[T]he increasing effectiveness of facial recognition software, even in consumer products like Facebook, means that simply recording an image of a person (in a private or public space) can lead to further identification. . . . Officer-mounted wearable cameras, paired with facial recognition, could easily become much like the current crop of automated license readers, constantly reading thousands of faces (license plates), interpreting identity (plate number), and cross-checking this information against national and local crime databases in real-time.
While not necessarily “inimical to individual liberty,” this rapid expansion of police oversight may do less to empower civilians to “watch their watchers,” and more to enable the government to effectively track, detain, and arrest individuals. Indeed, many policing initiatives that have been adopted in the name of “protecting” civilians have later been used against them. Past experiences should inform present debates over national adoption of body cameras, and proponents should be particularly careful to consider the long-term ramifications of normalizing this technology.
FOP calls on prosecutor to recuse herself, defends officers
Source: Baltimore Sun
A Fraternal Order of Police lodge is asking Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby to appoint a special prosecutor to the Freddie Gray investigation because of her personal connection to the Gray family's attorney, William H. "Billy" Murphy Jr., and her marriage to a city councilman.
The letter from Gene Ryan, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, also states that none of the six officers involved in Gray's arrest and death were responsible for the 25-year-old West Baltimore man's death that spurred protests and unrest, including rioting and looting on Monday. The letter was released just minutes before Mosby announced charges against the officers.
"Not one of the officers involved in this tragic situation left home in the morning with the anticipation that someone with whom they interacted would not go home that night," the letter states. "As tragic as this situation is, none of the officers involved are responsible for the death of Mr. Gray."
Ryan requests that Mosby appoint a "Special Independent Prosecutor."
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-riots/bs-md-fop-letter-20150501-story.html
Why post this twice, apologist?
Didn't hear you saying shit about the Ferguson prosecutor to recuse himself...and even the fucking bar association called for that.
Must be only important when the prosecutor isn't trying to push for the cops.
Or maybe because the Baltimore prosecutor is black. You racists don't like that.
skippy the cop hater,all cops are bad :D. because there are to threads going mr cop hater
Only a VERY small % of cops are bad, and they belong in prison.
IMHO, the real problem is this:
Good cops treat BAD cops differently than they would treat any other criminal.
if they saw Joe Blow on the street tell a lie that would result in a civilian losing their freedom in jail - making up an assault story, planting drugs, just plain beating his ass - the Good Cop would report them, and the Joe Blow would be in jail for it.
When Good Cops see bad COPS doing these things, they usually look the other way. Which makes them bad cops too, because they condone, allow and endorse this action by their inaction.
THAT Is a huge difference but makes them the same.
Only a VERY small % of cops are bad, and they belong in prison.
IMHO, the real problem is this:
Good cops treat BAD cops differently than they would treat any other criminal.
if they saw Joe Blow on the street tell a lie that would result in a civilian losing their freedom in jail - making up an assault story, planting drugs, just plain beating his ass - the Good Cop would report them, and the Joe Blow would be in jail for it.
When Good Cops see bad COPS doing these things, they usually look the other way. Which makes them bad cops too, because they condone, allow and endorse this action by their inaction.
THAT Is a huge difference but makes them the same.
not according to skippy
Nope, I would agree with that.
Again, where are your posts criticizing the brutality?
Oh that's right, you don't have any. Even taking down innocent people is ok with you.
lol, run along now apologist tool.
lol the cop hater has spoken.my guess is you've had run in with the cops because your probably not on the up and up or you caught your wife or girlfriend cheating on you with a cop because you couldn't satisfy her :D
Ah yes, you got nothing, so you have to resort to attacking my family.
Again, where are your posts criticizing the brutality?
Oh that's right, you don't have any. Even taking down innocent people is ok with you.
Only a VERY small % of cops are bad, and they belong in prison.
IMHO, the real problem is this:
Good cops treat BAD cops differently than they would treat any other criminal.
if they saw Joe Blow on the street tell a lie that would result in a civilian losing their freedom in jail - making up an assault story, planting drugs, just plain beating his ass - the Good Cop would report them, and the Joe Blow would be in jail for it.
When Good Cops see bad COPS doing these things, they usually look the other way. Which makes them bad cops too, because they condone, allow and endorse this action by their inaction.
THAT Is a huge difference but makes them the same.
93% of Blacks are murdered by other Blacks. Let me say that again......93% OF BLACKS ARE MURDERED BY OTHER BLACKS.
Black lives do matter, just not to blacks.
There's your problem, it's not the cops.
Yeah there's always some bad apples, but most are decent people doing a dirty job.
no skippy says most cops are bad
93% of Blacks are murdered by other Blacks. Let me say that again......93% OF BLACKS ARE MURDERED BY OTHER BLACKS.
Black lives do matter, just not to blacks.
There's your problem, it's not the cops.
Yeah there's always some bad apples, but most are decent people doing a dirty job.
If 93% of blacks were murdered by cops I'd agree. But that's not the case.
93% of Blacks are murdered by other Blacks. That's insanity.
Protests should be about that!
If you were a little brighter you might realize that the issue in this thread, as well as in Baltimore, is government killing people.
Cops are supposed to be stopping murders, not contributing to them.
Private citizens are generally held accountable for hurting others. Cops are generally given a pass.
It's not that hard to understand.
Go check Freddie Grays rap sheet, that might give you an idea.
If 93% of blacks were murdered by cops I'd agree. But that's not the case.
93% of Blacks are murdered by other Blacks. That's insanity.
Protests should be about that!
Yes but in those 93% of cases you bet your ass that the guy who did it will be prosecuted.
Incorrect, 46% of Baltimore murders go unsolved, thus not prosecuted.
Please get your 'facts' straight before discussing subject matter.
There will be no prosecution if the murder goes unsolved.
But thanks for pointing out the obvious.
So it's ok when cops gravely injure someone who is in their custody and then repeatedly refuse to provide prompt emergency medical car because he has a rap sheet? Go fuck yourself troll.
I think it is inconclusive at this point if the cops gravely injured Freddie Gray. They may have, but at this point that is not clear. What is clear is the lack of concern for his distress. That they did not call for EMS is not right.
Whether they did or not isn't important to the point I was trying to make. 2Thick suggested that what happened is, somehow ok, because of Gray's rap sheet; he basically suggests that if you have a rap sheet you're a second class citizen, whose life can be snuffed out by cops. This is legally wrong and fundamentally immoral.
To your point: I'm not privy to all the evidence so I can't say if these cops injured Gray. Not that my opinion will matter since I won't be on the jury. But from what we have heard - and seen - so far the conclusion that Gray suffered grave injuries at some point after he was originally arrested and before arriving at the station, while in the custody of Baltimore police is inescapable. Furthermore, the type of injury he is alleged to have is unlikely to be self inflicted, especially in the confined space he was in. And if the injury wasn't self-inflicted, there's only one other option. We'll see what comes out during the trial.
By the way, I take exception at the FOP statement that these officers did their job. The FOP, and statements like that, is why the public is growing weary. Even if the cops hadn't injured Gray, Gray was in their custody and they had a duty and an obligation to provide him with prompt medical attention which they didn't do.
If I don't point out these things as they come up, 240 will likely quote it as fact. I agree with you. Regardless of a persons rap sheet, or how depraved an individual is, (this includes any person arrested by the police for any crime) once they are in police custody they should not be at risk of further injury by the police. I was shocked to hear that the seatbelt policy only came into effect 9 days before this happened. We've had a policy that prisoners must be seatbelted in prior to transport since at least the mid 90's.
I think when they were placing him in the van initially there were indications an injury had occurred. It may have been aggravated by rolling around in the van, or the damage may already have been done. That they didn't call EMS is just plain stupid on their part and they dropped the ball. Someone died, maybe due to the medical care not being given 30 minutes sooner, maybe not but I would hold them responsible for not acting upon information they had.
I too dislike FOP blanket statements like that. It does more harm than good. I have quit my Association 2 times in 22 years over disagreements like that. We should call a duck a duck. The TRUTH is what is important and what should always matter in any event. When we play politics, we become the very people we detest.
If I don't point out these things as they come up, 240 will likely quote it as fact. I agree with you. Regardless of a persons rap sheet, or how depraved an individual is, (this includes any person arrested by the police for any crime) once they are in police custody they should not be at risk of further injury by the police. I was shocked to hear that the seatbelt policy only came into effect 9 days before this happened. We've had a policy that prisoners must be seatbelted in prior to transport since at least the mid 90's.
I think when they were placing him in the van initially there were indications an injury had occurred. It may have been aggravated by rolling around in the van, or the damage may already have been done. That they didn't call EMS is just plain stupid on their part and they dropped the ball. Someone died, maybe due to the medical care not being given 30 minutes sooner, maybe not but I would hold them responsible for not acting upon information they had.
I too dislike FOP blanket statements like that. It does more harm than good. I have quit my Association 2 times in 22 years over disagreements like that. We should call a duck a duck. The TRUTH is what is important and what should always matter in any event. When we play politics, we become the very people we detest.
Can/will you elaborate on this?
We need more officers like you.
We have collective bargaining in our state. Unions are not permitted for cops. Everyone is encouraged to join and you pay monthly dues. They are supposed to be a collective voice for the rank and file. The first time I quit was as a Detective in the mid 90's when I opposed some of the contract issues as well as some political things going on with the representatives at the time. After that administration left I rejoined and things were fine for awhile. I didn't agree with everything they did but that is normal. As I rose up the ranks I noticed the association was focused more on the officer level and would tend to support officers for things I felt didn't need supporting. A new radical president was elected who was anti management and very antagonistic towards management and the Chief in particular. It got to the point he was painting management as bad guys when we were ALL officers and ALL paying dues. After repeated attempts to address his behavior I decided it was silly to pay money to an organization that was attacking me at every opportunity. (The officer rank makes up a vast majority of members so they tend to pander to them and ignore the others. ) I quit for several years until recently when they got a new president in that appears to be level headed and reasonable.
Thanks.
You seem very intelligent and reasonable and I bet you are a good cop as well.
Thank you. I'm not certain about the intelligent part, but from day 1 I've strived to be a good cop. It can get easy to forget the importance almost anything we do in uniform in public has. From responding to a high risk call all the way down to simply eating your lunch at a diner. Everything is watched and everything is judged. I always try to remember that. My brother was a cop in Ft. Worth who retired a few years ago. He would tell me he had a game he would play whenever he felt burned out, or was going to another one of those calls you really hate to take. He said he would make it a point that on that call, on that day, he would do his very best to give that person the best police service they had ever seen. I used that trick many many times in my career and it served me well.
I've got about 12-18 months left before I throw in the towel. It's been at times very trying, very frustrating, and mentally and physically exhausting at times, but I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. I hope I leave my Department and the units I have worked for and overseen better than when I found them.
Thank you, that's very kind
What you say there is very admirable.
👍🏻
Ironically, most of the officers I work around think about the same way. They just don't have an account here.
Suburban Georgia sheriff 'who shot woman inside a model home' is allowed to leave the scene after he refuses to cooperate with police questioning
-Clayton County, Georgia, Sheriff Victor Hill believed to have shot woman at model home near Atlanta suburb Lawrenceville on Sunday night
-Victim Gwenevere McCord, a real estate agent who knew him, was taken to hospital in critical condition and still unconscious Monday morning
-Hill legally allowed to leave scene because he is an active police officer and can't be arrested without warrant from Superior Court judge
-Sheriff re-elected after beating more than 20 corruption charges in 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3067089/Georgia-sheriff-accused-shooting-woman-Atlanta-suburb.html
Suburban Georgia sheriff 'who shot woman inside a model home' is allowed to leave the scene after he refuses to cooperate with police questioning
-Clayton County, Georgia, Sheriff Victor Hill believed to have shot woman at model home near Atlanta suburb Lawrenceville on Sunday night
-Victim Gwenevere McCord, a real estate agent who knew him, was taken to hospital in critical condition and still unconscious Monday morning
-Hill legally allowed to leave scene because he is an active police officer and can't be arrested without warrant from Superior Court judge
-Sheriff re-elected after beating more than 20 corruption charges in 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3067089/Georgia-sheriff-accused-shooting-woman-Atlanta-suburb.html
He was elected AFTER he was indicted for felony charges. This one isn't all on the police system. For whatever reason, the public hired him for the job even with the red flags. They shouldn't be too upset about the results
True, same with other places that vote for various shady types as sheriffs.
My problem is with this: Hill legally allowed to leave scene because he is an active police officer and can't be arrested without warrant from Superior Court judge
And this (from the article):
Possible charges against Hill would proceed differently since he's a sheriff, police said.
'When you're an active sheriff in the state of Georgia, there are certain legal requirements and steps that have to be taken,' Doan told reporters at the scene.
'It's not just an average citizen where you can take out a warrant for their arrest.'
Georgia police officers including sheriffs can only be arrested with a warrant from a Superior Court judge, said.
The article is probably not written technically correct. For example it first states because he is an active officer, but I think the reality is that he is a Sheriff. They are a unique entity as they are elected. Historically Sheriffs were afforded extra protections due to political entities attempting to use the law for their political purposes. To afford some immunity to them so they could fairly enforce the laws without fear of reprisal some protections were put in place. In this case, it certainly shows the flaw in the system. At any shooting there is forensic evidence. For example, was a swab done of the his hands prior to being able to leave? If not, that would be a big mistake. As far as "cooperating" he would be afforded similar rights as to any citizen with regard to speaking about it. He can't legally be compelled to provide a statement at that moment. I suspect a warrant will be forthcoming
it was written incorrectly for a reason, to stir up the idiots ;D
"When you're an active sheriff in the state of Georgia, there are certain legal requirements and steps that have to be taken," said Doan. "It's not just an average citizen where you can take out a warrant for their arrest."
The article is probably not written technically correct. For example it first states because he is an active officer, but I think the reality is that he is a Sheriff. They are a unique entity as they are elected. Historically Sheriffs were afforded extra protections due to political entities attempting to use the law for their political purposes. To afford some immunity to them so they could fairly enforce the laws without fear of reprisal some protections were put in place. In this case, it certainly shows the flaw in the system. At any shooting there is forensic evidence. For example, was a swab done of the his hands prior to being able to leave? If not, that would be a big mistake. As far as "cooperating" he would be afforded similar rights as to any citizen with regard to speaking about it. He can't legally be compelled to provide a statement at that moment. I suspect a warrant will be forthcoming
I agree - there are good reasons to afford certain privileges to some officials to enable them to do their job. But those privileges should be tightly proscribed and come with obligations, and they should only ever apply when the person is acting in their official capacity. Based solely on information on the article, it's hard for me to see why he should be afforded the privileges and protections of the Sheriff's office instead of being treated as any other citizen would.
He was elected AFTER he was indicted for felony charges. This one isn't all on the police system. For whatever reason, the public hired him for the job even with the red flags. They shouldn't be too upset about the results
It's rarely all on the police, it's a whole system. Naturally there are the small number that are truly highly abusive. But we've all agreed that's a small number (maybe rising, maybe not).
However, to believe your nonsense, we would have to accept that 6 bad cops just happened to magically come together in Baltimore at the same place, same time, same shift...and on. Your argument defies basic logic.
It's the whole system from the laws that are passed, to new cops being socialized on the force. It's reluctant prosecutors and judges who cover up. It's a blue wall and an apathetic public. It's lawmakers trying to make cops immune to situations while having insufficient controls to prevent abuse. It's unions that will stand behind corrupt cops no matter how egregious the abuse. It's civil service systems that prevent accountability. And it's good officers who sit back and do absolutely nothing.
I would doubt all 6 of these cops went into work that day hoping to kill a man. But knowing they are rarely held accountable for their actions or inactions, knowing that convictions are near impossible, knowing that accountability is low, knowing that most of the force they use will be considered 'justified' leads to, IMO, this type of stuff.
Right now, it's being reported that the knife was illegal, not legal. So they may have had good reason to arrest him - not looking to hurt him. But the guy still ended up dead. 6 bad cops who just magically came together? ::) Nope, it's a whole system that needs to be examined.
NONSENSE ASIDE, lets wait to hear the details before we get all crazy. for one example, I doubt all 6 cops where there the whole time and had all the information. Someone, or some of them, obviously dropped the ball on calling for medical attention sooner.. but lets not get carried away
as it often does for some reason
If we're to accept the given timeline, then we know not all of the cops were there at the exact same time. By 'same time' I meant the whole period which relatively was (or at least seems to be) 20 to 40 minutes or so. Did my point completely sail over your head?
as it often does for some reason
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Remember this incident?
DEA agents jailed a student for 5 days without food, water — and just got a slap on the wrist
NONSENSE ASIDE, lets wait to hear the details before we get all crazy. for one example, I doubt all 6 cops where there the whole time and had all the information. Someone, or some of them, obviously dropped the ball on calling for medical attention sooner.. but lets not get carried away
One of the Biggest Privacy Wins in Recent Memory Has Been Reversed
Cops no longer need a warrant when seeking cellphone records from wireless carriers in the US a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday—reversing its own decision from last year.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that citizens have no expectation of privacy when it comes to records held by a third party, such as a cellphone company.
The ruling is a significant setback for privacy rights in the digital age—one expert called it “devastatingly bad for privacy”— and runs contrary to trends in several states. In the last couple of years, Montana, Maine, and Minnesota, have all passed laws requiring local police to obtain warrants when requesting cellphone records, including historical location data pulled off of cell phone towers, from phone carriers like AT&T or Verizon.
In this case, prosecutors obtained 11,606 location records from MetroPCS, the cellphone carrier of Quartavious Davis, a suspect in a series of armed robberies. The records showed Davis’ whereabouts based on the cellphone towers that his phone connected to over the span of 67 days.
“The government’s obtaining MetroPCS records, showing historical cell tower locations, did not involve a physical intrusion on private property or a search at all,” reads the decision. “The records belonged to a private company, not Davis.”
That's why obtaining that data without a warrant is not in violation of the Fourth Amendment, the court ruled. The court's reasoning was based on two landmark US Supreme Court cases from the 1970s, United States v. Miller and Smith v. Maryland, which defined a much discussed legal theory known as the “third party doctrine.”
The same Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, just last year, ruled the exact opposite in this case.
“We hold that cell site location information is within the subscriber’s reasonable expectation of privacy,” the decision from last year read. “The obtaining of that data without a warrant is a Fourth Amendment violation."
Digital rights activists called the court’s reversal a “disappointing” decision based on an old law which has been made outdated by rapidly-changing technology.
“It's a shame the court felt confined by a case decided from the 1970s to decide the constitutionality of a very modern form of surveillance,” Hanni Fakhoury, a surveillance law expert and an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told Motherboard.
Nate Wessler, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) staff attorney who argued the case, said that what the court did was “apply outdated doctrine from the analog age to this very sensitive digital records.”
For Wessler, the decision is far-reaching because the same interpretation could be used for other types of sensitive data held by third parties, such as email or cloud providers.
“The implications of applying the third party doctrine to these digital records are really wide reaching,” he told Motherboard, “because we live so much of our lives online, in the cloud or using technologies that leave a trail of digital breadcrumbs behind us.”
Judge Beverly Martin, who dissented with the majority ruling in this case seemed to agree with Wessler. She wrote that the ruling gives the government too much power to look into the digital lives of Americans without first obtaining a warrant.
“Now, under the majority’s rule, the Fourth Amendment allows the government to know from YouTube.com what we watch, or Facebook.com what we post or whom we ‘friend,’ or Amazon.com what we buy, or Wikipedia.com what we research, or Match.com whom we date—all without a warrant,” she wrote.
The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Davis can now appeal his case to the Supreme Court. According to both Wessler and Fakhoury, it’s likely that the Supreme Court will soon hear a case on cellphone location privacy, which will give justices a chance to set the record straight.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-of-the-biggest-privacy-wins-in-recent-memory-has-been-reversed
Another analysis, more in depth, by Orin Kerr here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/05/eleventh-circuit-rules-for-the-feds-on-cell-site-records-but-then-overreaches/
Telephone calling records have been subject to search for a considerable time. I believe there is a legal basis in that there is no expectation of privacy of calling records,…because you are making it known to a third party, (the telephone company) by dialing the number of whom you are calling.
As I understand it…the legal precedent was set when calls were connected by human operators shoving plugs into jacks,… you had to tell the operator the number and thus you had no expectation of privacy…she would make a paper trail of the call.
When telephones got dials, local calls were routed by large arrays of mechanical switches…(the first computer logic was based on telephone switching offices). With the exception of long distance which were still handled by human operators (who timed calls with the same timers that pool rooms used to time pool table use) no routine record was kept of local telephone calls.
To obtain a record of who people called locally became something you had to seek out by installing a device called a “pen register” on the line in question. If you refer back to the earlier telephone era of human operators whom the callers had to tell the number that they were calling…only now you are dialing the number into the switching system…with no expectation of privacy.
Enter into the scene ESS…electronic switching systems…controlled by computers. Calls are always super clear, easy to understand, with lots of neat new things that the telephone can do.
Such as:And many more.
- You dial someone and if the line is busy…when the person you called hangs-up the system will call you back and connect you.
- You can see the number of who is calling you.
- If you are going to the gym you can have the system forward your calls to the gym’s front desk.
All this requires the system to remember the numbers of whom you are calling,…with no expectation of privacy.
Fast forward to the cell phone era:All with no expectation of privacy because originally you had to talk to human operators to route calls.
- Like wired telephones you have to tell the system (dial) the number you want to call.
- The system in order to route calls it has to know which tower you are closest to (your cell phone reports to the nearest tower every six seconds)…so the system knows where you are.
The 'lets not get carried away' comment ??
::)
There is one man dead because of 6 cops.
Scumbag he may of been, so is the sherif that shot that woman
Imagine the out cry if he had been shot.!!
Yet he is just as much if not a bigger scumbag.
As skip pointed out 6 cops all in the same unit
Likely didn't set off to work intending to kill someone
The subconscious thought that No Punishment No Conviction
We're Cops & Cops don't get held to account.
The Problem is Institutionalised in the Police, it appears so
Deeply Institutionalised that 6 cops in on place come together.
The "guy" wasn't even a scumbag...he was riding his bike with a knife that was perfectly legal.....the arrest has since been determined to have been illegal...he was doing nothing wrong........but the fact is that due to overpolicing, black guys get caught up in this type of thing all the time...the cops aren't racist per se.....they too get caught up in a system where their supervisors want arrests and tickets so as to make quotas......these quotas which are off the record, are to insure to the supervisor that the cops are actually working and not playing billiards somewhere
It happens too everybody.
Im white as a bandage and i've meet some prick cops in my days. I have meet some good ones also though.
for God's sake, man...get a tan! :D
It's raining everyday how the fuck am i supposed to get a tan? :)
rains a lot there, I take it?
Phoenix Police Detective Kevin McGowan fired after alleged police brutality
PHOENIX - A fired Phoenix police detective is asking for his job back in the wake of an investigation into alleged police brutality.
“I just tasted the blood,” said 18-year-old Patrick D’Labik, remembering the moment Detective Kevin McGowan stomped D’Labik’s back, sending his face into a convenience store floor.
“As soon as I spit, I realized my teeth was out,” D’Labik said.
McGowan told police internal affairs investigators that he stomped D’Labik’s back because he was not obeying commands.
The incident, in late December of last year, began when McGowan stopped D’Labik, who was walking near 38th Street and McDowell Rd.
McGowan wanted to ask D’Labik if he had any information about a homicide suspect.
D’Labik, who feared the officer would discover the marijuana in his pocket, ran.
McGowan caught up with D’Labik in a convenience store. A surveillance video without audio shows McGowan, gun drawn, approaching D’Labik. D’Labik, who had his hands up, begins to get on the ground. When he is in a “push up” position, McGowan stomps him in the upper back. That sent D’Labik’s face into the floor. He lost several teeth.
“There was no need for it at all,” D’Labik said. “It makes me angry and it still makes me angry.”
The Phoenix Police Department fired McGowan, a decision the detective is appealing through the City’s Civil Service Board.
A Phoenix police spokesman released the following statement:
The use of excessive force will not be tolerated by the Phoenix Police Department, but because this case is currently being appealed we cannot discuss the specifics and will respect the civil service process."
McGowan’s personnel file shows that the department hired him in late 1997. Of a handful of complaints against him, only one was substantiated. He received a written reprimand after shoving a citizen in 2013 after the citizen got in his “personal space.
McGowan's attorney released this statement:
Officer McGowan is a decorated 17-year veteran of the Department. He earned dozens of commendations and has no significant prior discipline. The video obtained by the media does not show the complete series of events related to this detention/arrest.
The entirety of this incident, including the video, was reviewed by an independent expert and by a panel of attorneys at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
These reviews resulted in a determination that no crime was committed by Officer McGowan. Officer McGowan filed an appeal of his termination and is looking forward to being reinstated to complete his career with the Phoenix Police Department.
Officer McGowan will not be giving any interviews related to this incident, and this will be the only statement he will give related to this matter, as his appeal is currently pending before the Civil Service Board.
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/phoenix-police-detective-kevin-mcgowan-fired-after-alleged-police-brutality-
Ha, it's amusing that when ever it is a video
Of a cop potentially doing something Wrong.
The ole 'it doesn't show the full entirety of the facts '
& 'let's not jump to conclusions' Phrases are rolled out.
Yet video evidence in most other cases is always used
As facts of the case.
Can't have it both ways, well cops do.
The "guy" wasn't even a scumbag...he was riding his bike with a knife that was perfectly legal.....the arrest has since been determined to have been illegal...he was doing nothing wrong........but the fact is that due to overpolicing, black guys get caught up in this type of thing all the time...the cops aren't racist per se.....they too get caught up in a system where their supervisors want arrests and tickets so as to make quotas......these quotas which are off the record, are to insure to the supervisor that the cops are actually working and not playing billiards somewhere
The legality of the arrest is still in question. It won't change the fact that they should've given him medical attention, but the cops may have been justified in the arrest.
its already come out that the knife was of a legal length
Police Said the Video Showing this Cop’s Excessive Force Did Not Exist, They Were Lying
Denver, CO — Officer Choice Johnson is currently on a mandatory 30-day vacation after shoving an innocent man down a flight of stairs and lying about it (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-cop-shoves-innocent-man-hands-pockets-stairs-lies-it-job/).
Had the surveillance camera footage never been released it would have been Johnson’s word against Brandon Schreiber’s, the man he assaulted. Schreiber would have most likely been convicted of a crime he did not commit.
Schreiber’s charges of assault and resisting were eventually dropped after this video surfaced. This was the first time, out of a whopping 17 complaints against officer Johnson that he was ever reprimanded.
Unlike officer Choice Johnson, the video did not lie.
Just like Schreiber, Armondo Prado was roughed up at the same bar by officer Johnson.
Prado was out with his sister and her friend in 2013 when her friend was asked to leave for being too drunk. The three were then violently thrown out of the bar by officer Johnson and Prado was slammed into the wall and punched multiple times.
Prado was charged and convicted of resisting arrest despite knowing that he did not resist. It was only his word against officer Johnson’s.
After the initial arrest, Prado’s sister, Angie Dena, contacted internal affairs to ask for the surveillance camera footage which could prove their case.
Internal affairs, in an overt lie, replied, “The HALO camera did not have footage.”
“I went back to the bar and counted about 5-7 cameras outside. All around and above the area where the incident occurred. Unless those were off the night of the incident they absolutely had to get some footage.” said Dena.
Through a public records request, the video was finally released.
“I feel like I can’t trust anybody in law enforcement,” Dena said after obtaining the footage police claimed never existed.
In his report, Officer Johnson stated that “Prado continued to actively fight with closed fists and kicks.” But when we look at the video, this is not the case.
“They don’t tell you the truth. They tell you stuff doesn’t exist, and they investigated themselves and cleared themselves,” explains Prado.
When asked to comment on why they lied and said the video did not exist, the DPD declined.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-video-showing-cops-excessive-force-exist-lying/
Supreme Court Allows for Unscrupulous Cops to be Sued for Deliberately Concealing Evidence
Los Angeles, California – This week, it was reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will allow a lawsuit against the LAPD for covering up evidence that would have prevented a man from sitting in jail for 27 months prior to his trial. Lawyers for the LAPD recently filed an appeal, arguing that since the man had not stood trial yet, that it was OK for them to conceal the evidence during his detainment. However, the Supreme court has now struck down the appeal, allowing the lawsuit to continue.
The lawsuit was initially filed by Michael Walker, a man who is now dead after his health mysteriously deteriorated during his time in prison, and shortly after his release. His lawyer said that he suffered from alcoholism, which may have played a role in his poor health.
His lawsuit will move forward though, and should he win, his mother will inherit the reward. This case also brings to light the fact that police officers many times withhold evidence until a suspect’s trial, leaving them to needlessly sit in jail for many months, and in some cases even years. This is in blatant violation of a detainee’s right to a fair and speedy trial.
In the case of Walker, he was mistakenly arrested because someone thought that he looked like a man who had recently robbed a store. However, there was no evidence to convict him. Even after he was arrested, the string of robberies that he was blamed for continued to take place, but the police actually said that the robberies ceased, and used that as an excuse to keep him behind bars for even longer.
This is where the concealed evidence comes into play. The detectives who testified that the crime spree had ceased, Steven Moody and Robert Pulido, later testified that they did in fact know about the following robberies. This testimony was only made after the judge ordered that the detectives disclose the information.
As soon as these facts came to light, prosecutors dropped the charges, and Walker was released after spending 27 months in jail as an innocent man. Soon after, he sued the LAPD, along with Steven Moody and Robert Pulido, but then lost the battle for his health and his life.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/supreme-court-lawsuit-lapd-withholding-evidence/
And, as usual, no consequences for the detectives.
>:(
Yep... You testify in court to something you later acknowledge you knew was a lie. How are you not charged with perjury and criminal contempt of Court? Amazing.
APD officer arrested, charged with DWI
http://www.kvue.com/story/news/local/2015/05/22/apd-officer-arrested-on-dwi-charge/27826793/
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Is this the PD you work at?
APD officer arrested, charged with DWI
http://www.kvue.com/story/news/local/2015/05/22/apd-officer-arrested-on-dwi-charge/27826793/
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Cops act like they're vindicated every time video shows them doing something the right way.
THEYRE SUPPOSED To.. it's their job!
Like some video showing them NOT breaking the law suddenly vindicates all those who are breaking the law.
But yea...no systemic problems to see here.
Sums up the sentiment for the most part:
Some people are okay with police corruption and abuses as long as it doesnt affect them personally.
some people are okay with criminal activity if they support the person doing it.
And now, let's see things from a more honest perspective:
APD firings, suspensions reduced or overturned
AUSTIN -- Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has reinstated or reduced the suspensions of several police officers in high-profile disciplinarycases -- reversals that sometimes were the result of private negotiations between the officers and Acevedo.
In other cases, police union officials said Acevedo unilaterally reduced officers' suspension as officers were fighting their discipline.
In the past two years, Acevedo has reduced the discipline for at least seven officers, which represents about 7 percent of all suspensions he has imposed during that time, a KVUEDefenders/Austin American-Statesman investigation found.
Among them was the high-profile January dismissal of Officer Ricardo Zapata, who was fired after state troopers arrested and charged him with drunken driving. Acevedo then reinstated him with a 90-day suspension.
In another case, Acevedo reduced the suspension of Officer Brian Yarger to a written reprimand after he said Yarger used excessive force while trying to get a suspect into a patrol car.
Acevedo said he reduces discipline for a variety of reasons prior to an officer appealing their case to an arbitrator, including witnesses who will not participate in the arbitration and the cost of taking such cases to a hearing.
We are a business, he said. We run our organization like a business, and we are in the business of holding officers accountable when they re wrong, supporting them when they re right, and making our business decisions on whether to pursue litigation i.e. arbitration based on the business needs and outcomes.
Yet the police union said Acevedo s reductions in certain cases highlight what they deem excessive discipline at times.
You shouldn t ever be put in a position of giving an officer a bunch of days off, and then saying, Oh, never mind, said Sgt. Wayne Vincent, president of the Austin Police Association.
http://www.kvue.com/story/news/2014/05/26/2458344/
As an aside, one of the things about a civil service system is they evaluate consistency in punishment. That is to say, the same punishment is expected to be applied to the same infractions. So, if drinking and driving is acceptable in one case, it's a tough argument to claim that a cop should be fired for it in another case.
But yea...no systemic problems to see here.
what has your comment got to do with the article?
people deny systemic problems, or excuse it. Or they immediately attack the victim of police brutality. I wonder if theyd do the same to a rape victim. I guess that would depend of if the rapist was a cop or not...
Oh my god..you caught us..... damn you.... ::)
The officer mentioned in the article was prior to the Chiefs policy I mentioned and the main reason the policy was implemented. The arbitrator would have likely ruled that since historically APD has allowed officers to seek help to deal with the issue in lieu of termination, it would be unfair to start with this officer without prior notification of policy change. So the Chief came out with a policy change, made a video that all were required to view and sign off on.. This will be the first case since the policy revision. It will be interesting to see if it holds up under arbitration.
people deny systemic problems, or excuse it. Or they immediately attack the victim of police brutality. I wonder if theyd do the same to a rape victim. I guess that would depend of if the rapist was a cop or not...
Catch you? I'm not a cop fool. Don't give a fuck about 'catching' you. ::)
The point is there's a long, long, long way to go before this cops job is over.
The point is the systemic issues facing holding cops accountable (which, of course, you're total denial about, lol).
The point, as usual, has gone over your head. And, that's just sad.
what's sad, is discussing an issue about police with you.. total waste of time
Elderly Georgetown man files federal lawsuit accusing SWAT officers of using excessive force
An elderly Georgetown man says SWAT officers took him to the ground and broke his hip.
His attorney has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city and county.
The 82-year-old man lives about five blocks away from the sheriff's office in downtown Georgetown.
He says sheriff's deputies and Georgetown police came to his home in full swat gear in late September to serve a search warrant regarding his nephew who had been staying with him.
Video shot by someone driving by that day shows Herman Crisp sitting in a chair on his lawn with a friend. He says when the officers arrived; they threw a flash-bang device at his home, knocking him out of his chair.
He says officers slammed him to the ground and handcuffed him. He says the force broke his hip. He says officers searched his home and before they left, helped him back inside, but didn't call paramedics. His family members say they found him the next day on the floor in his own feces.
“After they left I tried to get up then because I had to go to the bathroom and I couldn't go so I just crawled over here and laid on the floor right down there and my sister came and called the paramedics and they came in here," Crisp explained.
"The thing that concerns me about this is it looks to me like a conspiracy of silence. Things like this don't happen in a vacuum. There's nothing that we've been able to get that identifies the officers, that identifies the action that occurred. We have our client's information but I had to hire a private investigator just to get enough faxed to determine whether I should file a lawsuit or not. And I'm convinced that the facts are adequate to file this lawsuit and we'll find out now that we have some way to get accurate information," said Crisp's attorney, Boadus Spivey.
Although the injury is concerning, Crisps's attorney says his goal right now is to find out why this happened and who is at fault here.
Crisp has undergone two surgeries, physical therapy and uses a cane to walk.
We reached out to both the city and county but neither had heard of the lawsuit perhaps because it was filed today so neither could comment.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/29130347/elderly-georgetown-man-files-federal-lawsuit-accusing-swat-officers-of-using-excessive-force
Who Police Shot In May
Depending on the database you’re looking at, police have killed between 385 and 464 people in 2015. According to Killed By Police, a comprehensive list of the names, ages, gender, and race of people killed by law enforcement, officers took the lives of 73 people in May alone.
Although the number is the lowest monthly figure this year (see tallies from February, March, and April), police violence still took center stage. The non-guilty verdict of Officer Michael Brelo reignited national outrage over the lack of police accountability, as none of the 13 officers who shot 137 times at two unarmed black people received criminal charges. Moreover, the biker shootout in Waco, Texas highlighted the discrepancies in police force used against black people and their non-black counterparts — and how lawmakers talk about race and gun violence.
Black women were also put in the spotlight in May. That police are 21 more times likely to kill young black men than young white men is an oft-cited statistic, but cisgender and transgender women killed by police are often overlooked, forgotten, and erased from #BlackLivesMatter conversations. To change the narrative, a coalition of grassroots activist groups, including the Black Youth Project 100 and African American Policy Forum, organized the #SayHerName campaign. On May 21, hundreds took to the streets — and social media — to highlight black women who died at the hands of law enforcement officers.
Looking beyond the verdict and campaign, here are two high-profile police shootings that occurred last month:
Brendon Glenn: Venice, CA: Cops were called to investigate a homeless man who was “harassing customers” outside of an establishment, one Tuesday night. When they arrived at the scene, two officers talked to Glenn, a 29-year-old black man, who was allowed to walk away, unscathed. However, the two officers noticed him physically confronting another person soon after their talk, and attempted to detain him. A physical skirmish ensued, before one of the officers deployed his weapon. Glenn, who was unarmed, died at a local hospital. After the incident, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck viewed footage from a nearby security camera and admitted that the circumstances did not justify deadly force. Both officers have been removed from the field.
Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin; Olympia, WA: Police were sent to investigate a robbery attempt, after two men tried to steal beer and threw bottles at store employees who confronted them. Officer Ryan Donald says he approached two skateboarders, Thompson and Chaplin, on the street, because they fit the description of the burglary suspects. Donald claims that when he got out of his vehicle, one of the men attacked him with a skateboard, which is when he first fired his gun. Thompson and Chaplin allegedly ran into a wooded area, before returning to confront the officer. Next, Donald radioed in for backup, saying he had the two at gunpoint, before reporting that both had been shot in the torso. Thompson and Chaplin, who were both unarmed, survived serious injuries. Olympia Police Chief Ronnie Roberts later said officers have “the right to defend” themselves.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/06/01/3664557/police-shot-may/
None of it makes for Good reading.
Certainly appears to be Big Problem.
Though out of 300+million people & thousands of
Police / public interactions everyday it makes for a
Tiny percentage.
Considering guns, emotion, people involved.
It still needs tackling, & Highlighting.
As one Murder / Death by unwarranted / heavy handed
Policing needs addressing & Dealing with.
The same as any other Murder.
Every police involved shooting needs to be examined to insure it was warranted. No argument there. Whether it is 1 or 3,000, if it was a good shooting or a bad shooting is all that should matter. How many is irrelevant and often times not an officers choice
Every police involved shooting needs to be examined to insure it was warranted. No argument there. Whether it is 1 or 3,000, if it was a good shooting or a bad shooting is all that should matter. How many is irrelevant and often times not an officers choice
Agreed - every shooting needs to be investigated carefully and thoroughly. Which brings us to the case of Jermaine McBean...
This guy is walking down the street with an airsoft rifle that he just bought from a pawn-shop on his way home. By all accounts, he isn't brandishing the weapon or threatening anyone with it. He has it perched on his shoulders and behind his neck. And the police arrive and in short order, McBean ends up dead.
The officer who shot and killed him says that he repeatedly ordered him to drop the rifle but the suspect refused, and instead turned and threatened him and his partner. Per policy, the shooting is investigated, but before the investigation is complete, the Sheriff issues a commendation for bravery to the officer who shot and killed McBean. And we're supposed to believe that the investigation is impartial?
In the aftermath, the family of the victim complain that he had his headphones on, and at no point did the officer command him to drop the gun. The police refute this accusation, offering as proof a police report that very explicitly pointed out that the victim's headphones were found neatly tucked in his pocket after the shooting...
Now, almost two years after the fact, a photograph taken in the immediate aftermath of the shooting surfaces and guess where the headphones are? Hint: not in the victim's pocket.
The Sheriff's reaction this time? It's all McBean's fault! Any level of force and any reaction by his officers was not only justified but necessary.
For every honest, thorough investigation of a shooting, there's ten investigations like this. Investigations where the truth is fudged to keep things on the right side of the thin blue line. Investigations when cops get the benefit of their doubt and citizens get buried.
Police have squandered the trust the public has shown them by repeatedly violating that trust, by adopting an "us-vs-them" mentality and by seeing the public they're supposed to serve and protect as the people they're to direct and abuse.
If the public is now turning against them, cops have nobody to blame but themselves.
Odd that they always test the blood of the dead person for alcohol and drugs, but never the blood of the shooter. Bad guy smoked pot a month ago, and suddenly we paint him violent animal. Shooter with a documented history of alcohol abuse and treatment never tested for anything. Fccked up.
Similarly a citizen's record or anything that can portray him/her in a negative light ("he was arrested as a minor for underage drinking", "she was arrested for illegally selling lemonade without a license when she was 7 ears old", "was accused of domestic battery") is mentioned but you don't see the same standard for cops (if they had any complaints for abuse, how many people they have shot/killed or if they've been disciplined). At that point usually the police will all of a sudden be very tight lipped claiming "it is an ongoing investigation and they can't comment".
An officer told her they were investigating the home for failing to have natural gas or electric service, as required by county ordinance.
I watched the video without reading the comments to get a unbiased look at it.
After watching the video I concur with the ruling.
The police were responding to a call where a subject was waving a gun around. As the officer pulled up on the 3, all 3 appeared to have been positioned where they saw the officer. 2 stayed, the one walked away from the officer. This is not normal. You would expect all 3 friends to remain together. Anxiety goes up
Officer calls after the guy to stop. He continues to walk. Another notch of anxiety.
The guy then reaches under his shirt in front while continuing to walk. Looks very much like a person could be accessing a weapon.
When the guy turns around and sees the officer pointing the gun at him he does not remove his hands, he leaves them under his shirt at his waiste and continues to walk backwards not appearing to obey the officers commands.
Action beats reaction every time so when the guy starts moving his hands around his waistband, not following instructions, the officer shot. I would have shot, you would have shot. This wasn't even a close one to call.
Unfortunate, but not murder.
I watched the video without reading the comments to get a unbiased look at it.
After watching the video I concur with the ruling.
The police were responding to a call where a subject was waving a gun around. As the officer pulled up on the 3, all 3 appeared to have been positioned where they saw the officer. 2 stayed, the one walked away from the officer. This is not normal. You would expect all 3 friends to remain together. Anxiety goes up
Officer calls after the guy to stop. He continues to walk. Another notch of anxiety.
The guy then reaches under his shirt in front while continuing to walk. Looks very much like a person could be accessing a weapon.
When the guy turns around and sees the officer pointing the gun at him he does not remove his hands, he leaves them under his shirt at his waiste and continues to walk backwards not appearing to obey the officers commands.
Action beats reaction every time so when the guy starts moving his hands around his waistband, not following instructions, the officer shot. I would have shot, you would have shot. This wasn't even a close one to call.
Unfortunate, but not murder.
In October, the DA ruled this murder “justified.”
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/graphic-body-cam-footage-shows-killer-cop-murders-innocent-unarmed-man/
In addition to my outrage about the story (if it's accurate) I found this interesting:
What a bunch of bullshit! Why should people be required to have natural gas? Or, for that matter, electric service?
I think the cop jumped the gun a bit, but it was obviously a tense situation and I agree the kid's reactions didn't help.
However the cop fucked up majorly post-shooting. He turned a guy in very obvious medical distress and in need of urgent medical assistance over to handcuff him, and left him down there in a pool of his own blood.
And then he spits that "stay with me buddy!" bullshit out? Fuck that.
More generally about this "action beats reaction" stuff: I expect cops to be well-trained and in control of their emotions and their anxiety. I expect them to exercise sound judgement and to not be blunt instruments capable of only doing one thing: pulling a trigger.
Just because someone looks suspicious and you are in fear for your life doesn't mean you should be able to shoot, even if the politicos have granted you that right. This whole mentality that cops have every time they go out - "this could be my last day!" - is dangerous and wrong. No matter the circumstances, the cop is afraid for his life, which magically justifies everything.
This notion that "cops want to go home at the end of their shift" is unique to cops is also bullshit. Everybody wants to go home - this kid wanted too, I'm sure. It's simple: you chose to be a cop and accept certain risks. If it turns out thay the risk profile of your job exceeds your risk tolerance, don't shoot! Just get another job - mall security guard perhaps.
I think your concerns deserve an answer. I don't have time this evening to give it a proper one. but I will come back to it when I return from vacation.
A mounted officer grabs a cell phone from a bystander, smashes it on the ground, while someone else pepper-sprays the person. The Austin PD requires an investigation to determine if grabbing and smashing a phone is proper procedure.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/austin-police-investigating-viral-pepper-spray-video-n371231
What the fuck is wrong with these cops?!
A mounted officer grabs a cell phone from a bystander, smashes it on the ground, while someone else pepper-sprays the person. The Austin PD requires an investigation to determine if grabbing and smashing a phone is proper procedure.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/austin-police-investigating-viral-pepper-spray-video-
US police officer to face murder trial over shooting
Video showed Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott, 50, as he fled from a traffic stop in North Charleston.
A grand jury returned a murder indictment on Monday morning, clearing the way for a formal trial.
Officer Slager now faces up to 30 years in prison. He has been held in jail since charges were announced in April.
The 33-year-old has said that he feared for his safety because Mr Scott had tried to grab his stun gun.
Video of the 4 April encounter was recorded by a bystander on his mobile phone, leading to charges of murder against Officer Slager.
Scott's brother, Rodney, spoke at a press conference on Monday to say the family is "very happy and pleased" with the indictment, but that it is only the first step.
In addition to the criminal trial, a civil lawsuit will be filed by Scott's family in the next few months.
Scarlett Wilson, solicitor for the North Charleston court, warned that despite the video evidence, the murder charge must still be proved in court.
"Just because you have video in this case, it doesn't mean it's the be-all and end-all," said Mrs Wilson at a press conference to announce the indictment.
"The issue is the people who were there who were involved, who saw or heard anything, who can demonstrate what they saw and heard."
The trial date has not yet been set.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33053409
In 1,2,3... comments from
Mr cops Never do anything Wrong.
See No Evil.
Hear No Evil.
Speak No Evil.
'I Read the article without reading the comments to get a unbiased look at it.
After Reading the Article I concur with the ruling.
The cops were in a highly charged situation & scared for their lives.'
You are all Cop Haters & Have Problems With Authority.
There is No Corruption.
There is No Wrong Doing.
There is No Cover ups.
Roll Eyes
US police officer to face murder trial over shooting
Video showed Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott, 50, as he fled from a traffic stop in North Charleston.
A grand jury returned a murder indictment on Monday morning, clearing the way for a formal trial.
Officer Slager now faces up to 30 years in prison. He has been held in jail since charges were announced in April.
The 33-year-old has said that he feared for his safety because Mr Scott had tried to grab his stun gun.
Video of the 4 April encounter was recorded by a bystander on his mobile phone, leading to charges of murder against Officer Slager.
Scott's brother, Rodney, spoke at a press conference on Monday to say the family is "very happy and pleased" with the indictment, but that it is only the first step.
In addition to the criminal trial, a civil lawsuit will be filed by Scott's family in the next few months.
Scarlett Wilson, solicitor for the North Charleston court, warned that despite the video evidence, the murder charge must still be proved in court.
"Just because you have video in this case, it doesn't mean it's the be-all and end-all," said Mrs Wilson at a press conference to announce the indictment.
"The issue is the people who were there who were involved, who saw or heard anything, who can demonstrate what they saw and heard."
The trial date has not yet been set.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33053409
Owner of house blown apart by SWAT says: 'This is an abomination. This is an atrocity'
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/greenwood-village/owner-of-greenwood-village-house-blown-apart-by-swat-says-this-is-an-abomination-this-is-an-atrocity
SHERIFF CLARKE: MCKINNEY, TX COP ACTIONS ‘HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC,’ BUT DON’T WARRANT CRIMINAL CHARGES
(http://onmilwaukee.com//images/articles/sh/sheriffclarkguns/sheriffclarkguns_fullsize_story1.jpg)
On Wednesday’s “The Kelly File,” Milwaukee, WI County Sheriff David Clarke offered his thoughts on the so-called pool party incident in McKinney, TX where a video appears to show recently resigned McKinney, TX police Cpl. Eric Casebolt pin a female to the ground and also draw his gun on other teens.
Clarke explained the actions of Casebolt were improper and said he didn’t anticipate Casebolt being hired by another police department in the immediate future. But he also said Casebolt’s actions did not warrant criminal action when asked by host Megyn Kelly.
“I don’t think from what I saw,” Clarke replied. “Look, I don’t have all the facts. I saw the video, watched it several times, but that’s only part of the entire incident. I want to be careful there. However, what I saw tactically, I had a huge problem with. Some of the things that that officer did. You know, he lost his head. He lost his cool. He didn’t keep his wits about him. We demand that our officers keep their wits about them in these volatile situations. You saw how chaotic he was, but he didn’t do that. I heard the chief’s comments that it was outside of their policy, but that doesn’t mean that it’s criminal. I don’t think — level of a criminal charges.
Cops covering for cops.
The police force is nothing more than a glorified gang now.
I think the cop jumped the gun a bit, but it was obviously a tense situation and I agree the kid's reactions didn't help.
However the cop fucked up majorly post-shooting. He turned a guy in very obvious medical distress and in need of urgent medical assistance over to handcuff him, and left him down there in a pool of his own blood.
And then he spits that "stay with me buddy!" bullshit out? Fuck that.
More generally about this "action beats reaction" stuff: I expect cops to be well-trained and in control of their emotions and their anxiety. I expect them to exercise sound judgement and to not be blunt instruments capable of only doing one thing: pulling a trigger.
Just because someone looks suspicious and you are in fear for your life doesn't mean you should be able to shoot, even if the politicos have granted you that right. This whole mentality that cops have every time they go out - "this could be my last day!" - is dangerous and wrong. No matter the circumstances, the cop is afraid for his life, which magically justifies everything.
This notion that "cops want to go home at the end of their shift" is unique to cops is also bullshit. Everybody wants to go home - this kid wanted too, I'm sure. It's simple: you chose to be a cop and accept certain risks. If it turns out thay the risk profile of your job exceeds your risk tolerance, don't shoot! Just get another job - mall security guard perhaps.
They are the 'authorized' gang, yes.
A mounted officer grabs a cell phone from a bystander, smashes it on the ground, while someone else pepper-sprays the person. The Austin PD requires an investigation to determine if grabbing and smashing a phone is proper procedure.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/austin-police-investigating-viral-pepper-spray-video-n371231
What the fuck is wrong with these cops?!
“We’re obviously concerned about the conduct that we saw in the edited video. We’re also concerned that the video was heavily edited. We’d like to see the original video in its unedited version,” police Cmdr. Chris Revere told KTLA.
More abhorrent police behaviour.
And yet again they are trying to defend them.
Blah blah blah - heavily edited video- blah blah
And of course the police Never Edit Video's To suit
There Cause Do They.
Would they be using the same terminology if it was a group of
Young lads doing the same thing.
Yes of course they would. NOT. ::)
You couldn't make these stories up.
Right... because maybe the edible in question actually resisted arrest or mouthed off or something. What a bunch of bullshit.
To use the "logic" the cops often employ, "if they have nothing to hide, what are they afraid of?"
Funny that they say about "editing" the video when they did this:
"Once the police were alone, they began removing the surveillance cameras from the room so their activities wouldn’t be caught on video.
Or when they don't release even their own videos if it will hurt their case.
How is that not a felony in itself?
Good site, yeah:
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/
That's a great site.
I wonder if it ever suffers mysterious cyber attacks
Shutting it down.
To Paraphrase A non responding Cop Poster.
-No Doubt it is just reporting and Focusing on the
Tiny Fraction of Bad Policing incidents.
Ignoring The Many Thousands of good encounters
Everyday.
More than Likely It's Run By Cop Haters Who Have
Serious Authority Issues.
When Will These People Learn There Are No Bad Cops,
No Police Corruption, No Police Cover Ups,
No Lying, No Planting Of Evidence, Etc.
These Good Men & Women Do A Dangerous Job They
Put There Lives At Risk For The Ungrateful Scumbags
Oh I mean Public & This is The Type of Thanks We Get-
::)
To be clear: although I think the cop could have waited a bit longer before shooting, this is one of those cases where the decision to shoot could have gone either way and it was a split-second reaction that shouldn't be second-guessed. I wouldn't prosecute the cop for this shooting but I think that the department certainly ought to look at his actions post-shooting and re-evaluate the procedures for handling people who have been shot.
I also think that this incident should be studied to see how things can be done better in the future and to figure out how training can help avoid such tragedies in the future.
P.S.: Enjoy your vacation!
Managed to gain 10 lbs in 7 days.. not easy but I did it ;-)
I don't have a problem with the initial handcuffing until it's determined the person doesn't have a weapon or the weapon is removed and the injuries are such it makes escape or physical altercation unlikely. In this case, cuffs coulda come off within 60 seconds of putting them on and it would have been fine.
The cop coulda waited and he coulda been shot.
I always mention action beating reaction because not a lot of people really comprehend the reaction time and what can happen in 1/10 of a second. You can put a gun to the back of my head and in 9 out of 10 times I can disarm you before you can pull the trigger.
I would not have believed it possible until I went through the training and we actually did it over and over. My partner KNEW I what I was going to do, just not when and I beat him every time, he beat me every time. So waiting until you see a gun is just too late. The subject was giving every indication to the officer he did have the weapon the officer suspected he had based on the original call and his actions. Now that we know he didn't have a weapon, yes, cop shoulda waited.
Wow just wow.
Is there any doubt most people would be better of without cops?
Yes there is plenty of doubt. Just look at any major city when there is an extended blackout. We are always one step removed from anarchy and law enforcement helps maintain that step.
Yes there is plenty of doubt. Just look at any major city when there is an extended blackout. We are always one step removed from anarchy and law enforcement helps maintain that step.
Correlation does not imply causation.
In this context, there is no question that law enforcement is the primary reason why people don't loot on any given day of the week.
It's only when there is a natural disaster, power outage, or some other civil unrest when law enforcement is overwhelmed that people break the law en mass.
Any notion that law enforcement is not a substantial deterrent to mass crime is silly.
No. False.
Really? Have you ruled out unrelateds cause and you're sure that law-breaking happens because law enforcement is overwhelmed?
Being a detterent - even a substantial one - is one thing. But that doesn't support the statements you're making in your post.
Maybe it was just a coincidence that all the crooked cops were in the same place when it happened.
Yes. True.
What unrelated causes are you talking about?
Of course it does. We often see altruism in society, but you let law enforcement let up like they have been doing in Maryland and there is no question crime would spike.
I think you're trying to take that as though it's the only variable that would change. I imagine those who advocate getting rid of cops are also considering that there would be other methods available...CVS' would have security guards, or much greater protections against theft in place, etc.
I don't support it myself, I think massive reform is the optimal way to go. There's a lot of good the cops do that we can keep.
Yes. True.
What unrelated causes are you talking about?
Of course it does. We often see altruism in society, but you let law enforcement let up like they have been doing in Maryland and there is no question crime would spike.
In other words, you believe that without cops, we'd all be lootin' and shootin'. I'm curious... cops are, like you and I, humans. Why are they immune to this tendency to loot and shoot? Does their badge give them super-powers or imbue them with a supernatural sense of justice or something?
I don't know - you made the statement that during a "natural disaster, power outage, or some other civil unrest" the people go crazy and start breaking the law. You assert, bluntly, that the reason they do so is because law enforcement is overwhelmed. If you have established that, then surely you must have looked at other reasons that could be behind the people breaking the law, and eliminated them as possibilities. What where those other reasons that you considered and eliminated?
You are picking one instance, claiming that it fits the theory you propose, and then declaring your theory proven. Please book a trip to Norway and Sweden. I have it on good authority that you will be the sole recipient of all the Nobel Prizes for 2015.
No, I don't believe that "we'd all" be looting and breaking the law without cops. I believe, as history has shown, that a substantial number of people would do so.
Don't try that Jedi mind trick crap on me. lol You are the one mentioned "unrelated causes." I can see now that you didn't have any in mind.
I'm not just picking one instance. I'm looking at a plethora of situations where there have been extended blackouts, civil unrest, and natural disasters. Happens all the time. It is actually a little scary how quickly lawlessness can envelope a community. We saw it in Katrina, Ferguson, L.A., Maryland, etc., etc.
Then you failed to word your argument properly. You wrote: "In this context, there is no question that law enforcement is the primary reason why people don't loot on any given day of the week." You should be more careful in how you express yourself.
You claimed it's "primary reason why people don't loot on any given day of the week." If they're the primary reason, there must be secondary reasons. List them.
It surprises you that in emergency situations people act differently? If I see a burning car with a child trapped inside, and you happen to own a crow-bar store, is it really a surprise if I break your storefront to take a crow-bar and rescue the child? Do some people take advantage of such emergencies? Sure. And?
You assert that these people are deterred (primarly) by law enforcement. Yet, similar incidents happen even when police are not overwhelmed. How does that work?
This is a friggin message board. I really don't care how "careful" I am when I express myself. You are taking this way too seriously.
I tell you what: You list the "unrelated causes" you were contemplating and I will list "secondary reasons" why people don't break the law en mass on any given day.
That is one really bad comparison. We're not talking about people acting differently. We're talking about our society being one step removed from anarchy; about how people break the law in droves when the opportunity presents itself.
No, we do not see masses of people running through neighborhoods and looting stores when law enforcement is not overwhelmed. Absurd.
No, we do not see masses of people running through neighborhoods and looting stores when law enforcement is not overwhelmed. Absurd.
Sure we do. They're called flash mobs and whole groups will storm a retail store, steal, and run like mad. You can even see some footage on you tube. As I noted earlier, I don't think eliminating cops is the answer, but I think we're more than a step removed from anarchy.
As for private security, not sure how I would feel. Right now, the cops are highly trained, but nowhere near accountable. So, something has to change.
LOL @ either you accept all BS that comes with cops, or you don't get cops at all.
WHy is it so hard to accept we just want cops to follow the same laws we are expected to follow. Don't eat stolen weed brownies. Don't shoot people who are no threat to you. Don't lie about what happened on police reports.
All this crap about "if you have a problem with bad cops, maybe you'd like to see life without cops..." is pure nonsense. I'd love to see them apply this same logic to the obama they hate - either you're okay with obama's bullshit trampling of constitution, or you want to live in north korea. Obviously, the only 2 options lol.
WHy is it so hard to accept we just want cops to follow the same laws we are expected to follow. Don't eat stolen weed brownies. Don't shoot people who are no threat to you. Don't lie about what happened on police reports.
THIS. ^^^^^
Why is it So Hard for Police & Police Chiefs to Understand.
All we Get is A Constant Set of Excuse.
Just treat them the same as they would public.
Then they would Get the Respect They Want.
LOL @ either you accept all BS that comes with cops, or you don't get cops at all.
WHy is it so hard to accept we just want cops to follow the same laws we are expected to follow. Don't eat stolen weed brownies. Don't shoot people who are no threat to you. Don't lie about what happened on police reports.
All this crap about "if you have a problem with bad cops, maybe you'd like to see life without cops..." is pure nonsense. I'd love to see them apply this same logic to the obama they hate - either you're okay with obama's bullshit trampling of constitution, or you want to live in north korea. Obviously, the only 2 options lol.
sh*t.. I agree with you.. d**m!
The only thing I would question is your ability to determine if the person was a threat or not based on some of your previous posts, but other than that, the concept is solid.
I don't like the stand-your-ground mentality that is so pervasive these days. Everyone just looking for that one moment when they're "allowed" to shoot. Both police and citizens alike. I like when people take 3 steps back to avoid a gun battle. I like when police are confronted with an idiot with a pole, or a bat, or whatever, and they use a beanbag or taser FIRST. Sure, legally, they're within their rights... but it tells society they're just taking the first chance to execute people.
When a guy 'maybe had one rock left in his hands' and is already shot once... the 4 cops on top of him don't need to shoot him any more. But they chase him across the street and do (the recent traffic video shooting case). Things like that - cops are justified in the initial shoot, but dozens of feet away, the rock is thrown, the guy is wounded, he is fleeing, and they just shoot him some more - I hate that kind of stuff. When cops see no end to justified force, even when the rock-armed bad guy is suddenly a fleeing, wounded, empty-handed gimp just limping away. Ya know?
Cops show a little reservation in those cases, and they win back the hearts/minds of 95% of people that don't trust them. I look at every cop out there and I wonder how much he'd love to X a few people out, if they mis-step and "give him a reason to..."
Just got back from a vacation spent with another couple. My buddy from my old military days and his wife met us for a week in Mexico. He is a cop near Boston. During the visit we were exchanging information on our respective departments. At one point he tells me it's common for the officers, after bar closing, to find a secure lot, pull in and catch some z's. I was pretty surprised to hear that. He said in his community nothing is going on after bar closing and they listen for their call signs and someone is always awake etc etc. I couldn't believe that it was accepted practice for even the supervisors. I've never fallen asleep on duty in 33 years nor would condone that happening at all. I came away thinking there are cultures in some departments that are alien to me and still operating in the 60's and 2) that I'm glad my department is light years ahead of that in professionalism.
Honestly, it does sound like a good time to catch some zzzs. If it causes them to think more clearly and less dishonestly for the rest of their shifts, I'm all for it.
:)
I may be too critical... Thanks Jack
It's a very small percentage of people, that require policing.
sh*t.. I agree with you.. d**m!
The only thing I would question is your ability to determine if the person was a threat or not based on some of your previous posts, but other than that, the concept is solid.
LOL @ either you accept all BS that comes with cops, or you don't get cops at all.
WHy is it so hard to accept we just want cops to follow the same laws we are expected to follow. Don't eat stolen weed brownies. Don't shoot people who are no threat to you. Don't lie about what happened on police reports.
All this crap about "if you have a problem with bad cops, maybe you'd like to see life without cops..." is pure nonsense. I'd love to see them apply this same logic to the obama they hate - either you're okay with obama's bullshit trampling of constitution, or you want to live in north korea. Obviously, the only 2 options lol.
I don't feel the need for any allegiance to either side.
A bad call / person is a bad call/person regardless of
What job they may or may not do.
How or why is this so Hard to apply to police / politicians etc.
As for 240's ability to determine, I am not wholly convinced of your
Own ability 007. And the worrying part is your a cop.
That is a genuine comment Not a Blanket I hate cops.
I do question your unbiased ness as You are clearly guarded &
Politically correct when it comes to discussing any thing posted
About potential wrong doing by cops.
I understand your hesitance in taking my word on something pertaining to cops. I have seen occasions when cops will allow their bias as an officer to cloud their own judgment on an issue and I assume I am not immune to it. I tend to look at things from different viewpoints in a variety of categories, politics, religion and moral issues and try to use the "two sides to every story" mentality when reviewing police incidents.
We've seen first hand our differences in conclusions based on the dog/police video where our perceptions and experience affect our opinions. What you call politically correct responses might be due to my experience of drawing a conclusion to soon about something and then finding out later it was wrong. When I'm not sure about something, or the facts and information are limited as often they are from news articles, you may find my answers to be non committal because I don't know for sure about what actually happened. I would hope in cases where it is cut and dried, like the shooting by the officer of the black male "fleeing" that I made my opinion very clear.
I don't mind being called out on something I've said and given a chance to explain. I do mind getting accused of covering up for officers which often seems to be the case. I make it a point to call a duck a duck if there is compelling evidence it's a duck and not a goose.
Good Reply.
I to have Different view points to many in the categories you mention
& many others.
I try to see the three sides to the story as in the 2 sides & somewhere in
The middle is the truth.
As for drawing a conclusion to soon, we are clearly seeing this happen
In some of the video's/ news stories posted in this thread.
And then get the 'act first think later' excuse / explanation.
For police actions.
And clearly some are very wrong.
As you well know I to call a scumbag a scumbag if they are
Regardless of job, colour, or creed.
;)
Good post
:o This Agreeing Business.
What's Happening to us.
It can't continue.
Must be....
Time for my Sleep.
😉 👍
So the question is, what are police to do when a citizen calls in they are alarmed about a man dressed in camo with a gun on his hip walking down a city street? That's part of the problem with the open carry law. The police are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they don't respond and it is a nutcase, people scream.. if they do respond.. people scream. The article was obviously written by an anti police blogger just based on the wording.
Is he minding his own business?
So the question is, what are police to do when a citizen calls in they are alarmed about a man dressed in camo with a gun on his hip walking down a city street? That's part of the problem with the open carry law. The police are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they don't respond and it is a nutcase, people scream.. if they do respond.. people scream. The article was obviously written by an anti police blogger just based on the wording.
Yeah... "anti-police blogger"... how about they say: "Sir [or Ma'am], it is legal to openly carry in [insert State here]. Is the person in question threatening anyone with the weapon or acting in a way that poses imminent danger?" If the answer is no, then simply don't stop, detain or otherwise harass the person. Nothing in the decision stops the police from responding, by the way; they can respond and observe the person as long as they want and if they have articulable reasonable suspicion that a crime is in progress or about to be committed then they can stop that person.
It's really simple: you are a cop, not a monarch. You do not get to stop people just because you feel like stopping them or someone else feels that you should stop them. You operate within a framework that we, as a society, require you to operate under. If you don't like that, that's too bad.
If I had my way, we wouldn't stop anyone. It's a hassle. We're not given the option sometimes. The need/desire to carry a weapon in public in the open is relatively new in the last few years (disregarding the cowboy days). Until the shooting starts, it's difficult to tell the difference between a guy wanting to exercise his 2nd amendment right and a nut case about to open a can of whoop ass on a neighborhood/church/theater etc. I agree with you that the response should fit the circumstances, however it is a tough spot to be in dealing with a person with a gun. Either he is fine, and just exercising his right to carry and all is good or he is a nutcase that is dangerous. I also agree with you about operating under the law. And whether I think the law is a mistake or not, it's the law. I would recommend police stand down on challenging anyone's carrying a weapon in a state where it is legal until they prove they are a danger by opening fire. That way we don't violate their rights, and it will either show the law was a mistake and get corrected, or the law was a good move and there isn't an issue.
...by way of stories media chooses for its manipulative, collusive, conniving pinhole, of course.
Not a bad point..
Another article obviously written by an "anti-police blogger"..
Kill a man? No, we're talking about brave officers here so it's merely "staff failure and a systematic breakdown of jail operations". The heroic officers were "changing the logs after Farris was found dead to look as if they performed required checks". Did anyone go to prison? No, officers don't go to prison (so they'd dehydrate to death), they're just "sorry": one person got a 30 day suspension without pay, another is on leave and two others just decided to resign.
Island County sheriff apologizes for jail dehydration death
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150618/NEWS01/150619222/Island-County-sheriff-apologizes-for-jail-dehydration-death
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150619/NEWS01/150629944
Another article obviously written by an "anti-police blogger"..
Kill a man? No, we're talking about brave officers here so it's merely "staff failure and a systematic breakdown of jail operations". The heroic officers were "changing the logs after Farris was found dead to look as if they performed required checks". Did anyone go to prison? No, officers don't go to prison (so they'd dehydrate to death), they're just "sorry": one person got a 30 day suspension without pay, another is on leave and two others just decided to resign.
Island County sheriff apologizes for jail dehydration death
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150618/NEWS01/150619222/Island-County-sheriff-apologizes-for-jail-dehydration-death
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150619/NEWS01/150629944
I read the article. It's not over. " The investigation has been provided to prosecutors for review, Brown said Thursday." The Department does their thing, fire, terminate, suspend which is administrative. The criminal side does their thing. In my opinion, this would/should be prosecuted as negligent manslaughter. If nothing happens with this case I'll eat my hat, but to declare at this point nothing is going to happen is premature. There is a process.
Let an average citizen "accidentally" lock a cop in his garage for a week and let him die of dehydration. Suddenly it's a capital murder case. This will be a suspension at best?
An average cop locked in a garage is kidnapping. This was incarceration, so a subtle difference
When cops imprison someone, they remove their ability to feed/drink themselves. They now have life/death power over the person. A casual mistake with water access can/may have killed a person.
If anything, it's WORSE because cops have training and sworn duty and plenty of support to ensure the prisoner gets access to water. THe cop apologized. Tough to defend when he admits fault there.
I read the article. It's not over. " The investigation has been provided to prosecutors for review, Brown said Thursday." The Department does their thing, fire, terminate, suspend which is administrative. The criminal side does their thing. In my opinion, this would/should be prosecuted as negligent manslaughter. If nothing happens with this case I'll eat my hat, but to declare at this point nothing is going to happen is premature. There is a process.
Good reply.
Pls keep us posted as to what happens to these cops.
It seems from the reports on here that they should be
Prosecuted.
It's very bad news when someone is left to die in a police cell.
I don't see how they can explain that away.
More Civil forfeiture BS:
Cops pull a man over for "driving too slow in the fast lane". He does not consent to a search of his motor home. He leaves without a citation. The cops arrange for a K9 unit to pull him over for a second time. The dog is alerted but they find no drugs. Money ($167,000) is found in his motor home. Police take (or steal if you prefer) the money. Judge orders that the money must be returned after stating that the government did not reveal all the details about the initial stop.
Judge orders return of $167,000 seized by Nevada troopers
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/judge-orders-return-167000-seized-nevada-troopers
:o Jeez I wish I had a $167 in my car.
Clearly I have gone very wrong in my Life.. :'(
Seeing as this is a motor home, perhaps these were his life savings. It shouldn't really matter though; the issue here is why did they steal the money from this man? They pull him over once and he left without a citation. Maybe he angered the cops by refusing to consent to the search. (in a place where police do this sort of looting often). They stop him with a K9 unit, the dog that is supposed to find drugs is alerted but no drugs are found. And then they steal his money. Without charging the man for anything.
Another plausible scenario is they were running drug interdiction on a highway known as a pipeline. There were indicators the person was involved in trafficking. They developed PC for the second stop after contacting a K-9 unit. (Pretext stops are ruled valid by the courts) and stopped the RV again. This time the dog alerted on the RV (money that is stashed with drugs can have residual on it) and discovered the $167,000. Courts have also ruled that money can be seized if there is probable cause to believe it is connected to a crime.
Time and time again it has been proven that there are traces of drugs on most circulating currency. Results of study after study put the percentage of contaminated currency at over 80% and some go as high as 94%... The wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency) article includes a number of references to such studies and some very interesting facts about how such contamination can even spread to hot-off-the-presses, uncirculated bills. So, with those results in mind, you'll forgive me if I assert that "residuals" prove nothing.
As to your other point, even if Courts have ruled that money can be seized if there is probable cause to believe it is connected to a crime (link?) one important question remains: what constitutes probable cause? Driving on a publicly accessible highway isn't probable cause. Refusing to allow officers to search isn't probable cause. Carrying legal tender isn't probable cause. So the question is: are traces of drugs on money, as indicated by a drug sniffing dog, probable cause? Again, given how much of the money supply appears tainted, then answer would seem to be no.
Cop Kills Man with Patrol Car While Speeding & Looking at Laptop, Flexes Blue Privilege – No Charges
Port Orange, FL — On December 21, Port Orange Police Officer Silvio Portillo was driving his patrol car at 15 mph above the posted speed limit when he struck and killed a motorcyclist.
Father of two and Navy Veteran, Andrew McIlvain, 39, was riding his motorcycle as Officer Portillo was looking down at his laptop on the way to a “non-priority” noise complaint. When Portillo looked up, it was too late, he was driving over this unsuspecting man.
Two weeks later, McIlvain succumbed to his severe injuries, and he died on January 4. The police even had the audacity to attempt to justify this officer’s reckless driving by releasing a statement that McIlvain didn’t have his driver’s license at the time of the crash — as if that is worthy of a death sentence.
All of this information was obtained by the Port Orange police during the process of their internal investigation. It is a matter of police record that Silvio Portillo was driving his patrol car, was speeding, was distracted, and killed an innocent man. He was then suspended for ten days and ordered to attend an emergency vehicle operation course.
However, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, they could not legally prove those facts during Portillo’s hearing last week.
The debacle began as Portillo conveniently did not show up to his own hearing for the careless driving charge. This was likely an attempt to avoid a perjury charge if he was asked about driving the car that killed a man.
According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Portillo did not appear for the hearing before County Judge Angela Dempsey at the Courthouse Annex in Daytona Beach. Portillo’s attorney Martin White argued successfully that the police officer had not been identified as the driver of the squad car that struck McIlvain.
The FHP was responsible for an independent investigation of Portillo. Former FHP Trooper Robert Asbill interview him after the accident, however, he was conveniently absent that day as well. Even so, the FHP’s own report, prepared by Trooper Kurt Glaenzer listed Portillo as the driver of the patrol car!
“Because the defendant is not required to file an affidavit there is no evidence on the record to identify my client as the operator of that vehicle,” White said in a glaring misrepresentation of the truth.
“Your Honor, we move for a judgment of acquittal at this junction,” White said. “There’s been no identification that my client was driving behind the wheel. The state did not establish venue.”
“Judgment of acquittal is granted,” Dempsey said.
This entire dog and pony show wasn’t about whether or not to charge Portillo with manslaughter; it was only about a $166 careless driving ticket. Had Portillo received that ticket for careless driving, however, he could have been subject Florida state law 782.071 for vehicular homicide.
Instead, Portillo will escape all accountability.
Because of his negligence, Silvio Portillo killed an innocent man. And, because of the corruption and unwillingness of the supposed “justice” system to prosecute their own, no one will be held responsible for this loss of life.
Talking to the Journal, White said that while the argument that it could not be proven that Portillo was driving the patrol car might seem “counterintuitive” it was based on the law. He declined further comment.
“It bothers me to see a mother that’s heartbroken, and I have to explain the law to her,” Glaenzer said as McIlvain’s elderly mother sat silently stunned in the back of the courtroom; wondering how a cop can kill her son and face no repercussions.
Those who are tasked with upholding the law should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, or at the very least, the same standard. However, as is the case the majority of the time, the blue line conceals a much lower set of standards.
All hope is not lost for McIlvain’s mother though, her attorney Michael Politis, said they have already begun the process for a civil lawsuit in this case. However, the unfortunate reality of the civil lawsuit is that the taxpayers will be held liable and not the man who killed her son.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-kills-man-patrol-car-speeding-laptop-flexes-blue-privilege-charges/
Cop Kills Man with Patrol Car While Speeding & Looking at Laptop, Flexes Blue Privilege – No Charges
we had a local cop kill a kid on bike going to school.
The cop was going 15+ mph over limit, admitted it. He was turning on laptop, admitted it. He was in the middle of 2 lanes, admitted it.
Killed a 15 year old on bike, on way to school. And to this day, the cop is fighting the careless driving ticket, after being cleared of all charges except that ticket.
Now, if I ran over a kid, and told the officer, "Look man, I was on the computer, speeding, and in both lanes, but I don't think I was careless..." my ass would be in prison.
he couldn't deny it... the cop cars record everything. Once caught on his computer, he said he was just adjusting the brightness, not playing on it.
It's sad, and they said the kid didn't have enough reflective on, and was wearing dark clothes. But going 60+ in a 45, and not looking... that's pretty bad. They blamed the kid a lot. Slow-released info on friday news dumps. But if cop is going 45 mph, and his eyes are on the road, that wreck doesn't happen. Tragic, very sad. Trying to avoid the lawsuit by fighting the careless driving ticket. Sickening. :(
NYPD destroyed evidence that officers had wrongly summoned up to 850,000 people as it attempted to hit targets
Top chiefs deleted texts, emails and paperwork, class action suit claims
Frontline officers pressured to handout extra summonses while on duty
One text about low seat belt numbers told officer it was 'unacceptable'
Rising fears about number of summonses thrown out for lack of evidence
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3150858/NYPD-destroyed-evidence-officers-wrongly-summoned-850-000-people-attempted-secretly-boost-arrest-rate.html
Cop Kills Man with Patrol Car While Speeding & Looking at Laptop, Flexes Blue Privilege – No Charges
Port Orange, FL — On December 21, Port Orange Police Officer Silvio Portillo was driving his patrol car at 15 mph above the posted speed limit when he struck and killed a motorcyclist.
Father of two and Navy Veteran, Andrew McIlvain, 39, was riding his motorcycle as Officer Portillo was looking down at his laptop on the way to a “non-priority” noise complaint. When Portillo looked up, it was too late, he was driving over this unsuspecting man.
Two weeks later, McIlvain succumbed to his severe injuries, and he died on January 4. The police even had the audacity to attempt to justify this officer’s reckless driving by releasing a statement that McIlvain didn’t have his driver’s license at the time of the crash — as if that is worthy of a death sentence.
All of this information was obtained by the Port Orange police during the process of their internal investigation. It is a matter of police record that Silvio Portillo was driving his patrol car, was speeding, was distracted, and killed an innocent man. He was then suspended for ten days and ordered to attend an emergency vehicle operation course.
However, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, they could not legally prove those facts during Portillo’s hearing last week.
The debacle began as Portillo conveniently did not show up to his own hearing for the careless driving charge. This was likely an attempt to avoid a perjury charge if he was asked about driving the car that killed a man.
According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Portillo did not appear for the hearing before County Judge Angela Dempsey at the Courthouse Annex in Daytona Beach. Portillo’s attorney Martin White argued successfully that the police officer had not been identified as the driver of the squad car that struck McIlvain.
The FHP was responsible for an independent investigation of Portillo. Former FHP Trooper Robert Asbill interview him after the accident, however, he was conveniently absent that day as well. Even so, the FHP’s own report, prepared by Trooper Kurt Glaenzer listed Portillo as the driver of the patrol car!
“Because the defendant is not required to file an affidavit there is no evidence on the record to identify my client as the operator of that vehicle,” White said in a glaring misrepresentation of the truth.
“Your Honor, we move for a judgment of acquittal at this junction,” White said. “There’s been no identification that my client was driving behind the wheel. The state did not establish venue.”
“Judgment of acquittal is granted,” Dempsey said.
This entire dog and pony show wasn’t about whether or not to charge Portillo with manslaughter; it was only about a $166 careless driving ticket. Had Portillo received that ticket for careless driving, however, he could have been subject Florida state law 782.071 for vehicular homicide.
Instead, Portillo will escape all accountability.
Because of his negligence, Silvio Portillo killed an innocent man. And, because of the corruption and unwillingness of the supposed “justice” system to prosecute their own, no one will be held responsible for this loss of life.
Talking to the Journal, White said that while the argument that it could not be proven that Portillo was driving the patrol car might seem “counterintuitive” it was based on the law. He declined further comment.
“It bothers me to see a mother that’s heartbroken, and I have to explain the law to her,” Glaenzer said as McIlvain’s elderly mother sat silently stunned in the back of the courtroom; wondering how a cop can kill her son and face no repercussions.
Those who are tasked with upholding the law should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, or at the very least, the same standard. However, as is the case the majority of the time, the blue line conceals a much lower set of standards.
All hope is not lost for McIlvain’s mother though, her attorney Michael Politis, said they have already begun the process for a civil lawsuit in this case. However, the unfortunate reality of the civil lawsuit is that the taxpayers will be held liable and not the man who killed her son.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-kills-man-patrol-car-speeding-laptop-flexes-blue-privilege-charges/
Wow. Words really can't describe just how disgusting that is.
But hey, there's no systemic issues in policing. It's just the one-off bad apple. ::)
Another brave cop "feared for his life"...
Lawsuit claims NYPD cops smashed autistic teen’s head into sidewalk and punched him when he 'failed to make eye contact'
Troy Canales was standing outside his home in The Bronx in November 2014 when two cops asked him what he was doing
Federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the 18-year-old claims officers threw him to the ground, smashed his head against concrete and punched him
Canales' mother told cops her son was autistic but they arrested him anyway
Canales was released an hour later without any charges after a police captain apologized to his mother saying 'things like this happen'
Alyson Valentine believes her son's difficulty making eye contact with strangers may have raised alarm with cops
One of the arresting officers said he 'feared for his life' while talking to the 17-year-old
According to the court papers, the NYPD provided no explanation as to why Troy Canales was beaten up and detained beyond claiming that one of the arresting officers 'feared for his life' while talking to the 17-year-old on the evening of November 12, 2014.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3153971/Lawsuit-claims-NYPD-cops-smashed-autistic-teen-s-head-sidewalk-punched-failed-make-eye-contact.html
Cue Agnostic007 to school us on how "action is better than reaction" and all that jazz...
Agnostic "We've heard one side of the story so far. IF their story is shown to be accurate during trial then it's atrocious behavior from the police and they should be fired, and applicable charges filed against them. "
After all the shit the police have heaped onto the general public for so many years maybe they deserve alot of this backlash that is coming their way.
NYPD destroyed evidence that officers had wrongly summoned up to 850,000 people as it attempted to hit targets
Top chiefs deleted texts, emails and paperwork, class action suit claims
Frontline officers pressured to handout extra summonses while on duty
One text about low seat belt numbers told officer it was 'unacceptable'
Rising fears about number of summonses thrown out for lack of evidence
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3150858/NYPD-destroyed-evidence-officers-wrongly-summoned-850-000-people-attempted-secretly-boost-arrest-rate.html
1. While I see where you are coming from, I disagree about deserving backlash. Granted, there have been instances and there will be instances of police officers screwing the pooch. Sometimes in a big way as in criminal, sometimes ethical and sometimes stupid/poor judgment. But at the same time there is a vast majority of officers that are out there doing what most would consider is a tough job at best under often times crappy circumstances, and in many cases, for little compensation. Now you can say "Well, no one held a gun to their heads" and you would be correct. Many like myself went into the profession because we always wanted to, and we liked helping people and catching bad guys.
2. I don't think the answer at this point is to heap backlash upon the entire police community for the acts of a small percentage. I think it's counterproductive in the long run.
3. I DO agree the police can and should do a better job of policing themselves and re-building the trust when it's clearly shown one of their own f*ked up.
Agnostic "We've heard one side of the story so far. IF their story is shown to be accurate during trial then it's atrocious behavior from the police and they should be fired, and applicable charges filed against them. "
Good to see you are accepting (if trying to minimise, as you would.) There is Big Problems
Within the Police Service from Top to Bottom.
1 & 2. That's akin to what is happening to Muslims Now.
Clearly they are not all evil murdering scumbags.
Only the ones doing the killings etc are attracting so much Bad publicity,
And sadly the vast majority of other Muslims either remain silent &
Won't come out & condemn those for doing such Atrocities.
Backlash is inevitable under those circumstances.
3. It's fair to say the police are woefully inadequate at policing themselves.
Just as in any other field of work , you cannot have them policing each other
And expect it to be fair & unbiased.
Excellent points as usual. I would add that Backlash needs to be positive. Giving cops the finger just isn't productive and kind of a dick move IMO. Attacking the issue via political leaders, elections, changes to the law, changes to the courts, changes in hiring practices etc., is what is really needed.
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Yes well said. That is how it should be sorted out.
And yes giving the finger is probably not the best thing to do,
Inevitably the continued bad policing & cover ups, lack of real
& proper investigations & punishments is likely to lead to
Heightened frustrations, lack of confidence & respect.
Hence the bad behaviour & people taking matters into their
Own hands.
Not Good.
How many black people has to die before someone stands up to the murderers?
How many people has to die before someone stands up to the murderers?
I am an upstanding, tax paying citizen. My driving record is immaculate. I don't speed (or at least don't drive recklessly) and have never been in a wreck (which I also consider to be great luck as well). I have never gotten a ticket for bad driving in any form, only for petty things like dead tag (car wouldn't pass emissions yet diesel trucks from the 70's are allowed on the road), only one functioning headlight (meanwhile a motorcycle goes by doing 100) and the usual "you went left of center, have you been drinking?" (no officer I don't go "left of center" when I have a cop behind me) bullshit.
In 6 years I have been blue-lighted at least 18 times.
Why is it that some people, like myself for instance, NEVER have any issues with the police? I've been pulled over countless times, stopped and searched and even been arrested, yet they've remained polite and civil the whole time. Is it because I was polite and civil straight off the bat? You have mouthy stupid c'unts shooting off - anything can happen.
Seriously, I've had dealings with the cops well over 20-30 times throughout my life. It's always been a pleasant experience, even when I was arrested (for pissing in public). Changes are I would've attracted a bad apple seeing they're now suddenly all bad.
Methinks the people are getting worse. More stupid and ugly, more entitled, more rude. They're only responding in kind.
Responding in kind by shooting innocent people, manipulating evidence and even when called on it walks.
Consider yourself lucky. The fact that something has not happened to you doesnt mean it doesnt happen to others.
Good to see you are accepting (if trying to minimise, as you would.) There is Big Problems
Within the Police Service from Top to Bottom.
1 & 2. That's akin to what is happening to Muslims Now.
Clearly they are not all evil murdering scumbags.
Only the ones doing the killings etc are attracting so much Bad publicity,
And sadly the vast majority of other Muslims either remain silent &
Won't come out & condemn those for doing such Atrocities.
Backlash is inevitable under those circumstances.
3. It's fair to say the police are woefully inadequate at policing themselves.
Just as in any other field of work , you cannot have them policing each other
And expect it to be fair & unbiased.
What about the other story posted, about the cop who was looking at this computer and killed a kid? You know, the cop whose attorney "successfully" argued that his client hadn't been identified as the driver, despite an FHP report that listed him as the driver?
That thin blue line is a lane or two wide...
Excellent points as usual. I would add that Backlash needs to be positive. Giving cops the finger just isn't productive and kind of a dick move IMO. Attacking the issue via political leaders, elections, changes to the law, changes to the courts, changes in hiring practices etc., is what is really needed.
I've been frustrated many times by legal loopholes and technicalities when testifying in court or watching court cases where there is clear guilt. It works both ways. You could argue the justice system has a "Thin blue line" with criminals by that yard stick. I think it sucks, I think its an ethical issue at best that the officer doesn't up that he was driving. It's a dilemma; Officers are afforded the same legal rights as citizens with some additional protections due to the nature of their job. If they use the same legal protections a citizen uses it's labeled a conspiracy. On the other hand, should officer, who are commissioned to protect and uphold the laws, be expected to set an example face the consequences of their actions by forgoing their civil protections? For me, I would own my mistake and let the chips fall where they may. I would not use that loophole. I would hope for the best in sentencing but I'm not going to play the system.
Quote from: James28 on 12-07-2015, 18:24:19
Why is it that some people, like myself for instance, NEVER have any issues with the police? I've been pulled over countless times, stopped and searched and even been arrested, yet they've remained polite and civil the whole time. Is it because I was polite and civil straight off the bat? You have mouthy stupid c'unts shooting off - anything can happen.
Seriously, I've had dealings with the cops well over 20-30 times throughout my life. It's always been a pleasant experience, even when I was arrested (for pissing in public). Changes are I would've attracted a bad apple seeing they're now suddenly all bad.
Methinks the people are getting worse. More stupid and ugly, more entitled, more rude. They're only responding in kind.
No, it's not a conspiracy. I'm perfectly fine with the Officer asserting his Constitutional right to not incriminate himself or to be forced to testify. When he's NOT ON THE JOB. He was on duty, driving his cruiser, doing "police business". But even if we assume that he should still be able to assert his right to not incriminate himself and can't be forced to testify, one question remains: what's the excuse for the other cop who didn't come to testify?
Could be a number of legitimate reasons, or it could be unscrupulous. The court hearing was for a traffic ticket. Our officers are required to make their court appearances for traffic tickets unless there is reason for not making it to court. then it is reviewed by their supervisor. If it is not valid, they are disciplined. The most common reason is they are tied up on a call and can't break. This is not unusual as it is unpredictable how long a particular dispatched call will take. We do everything we can to relieve the officer but often times there are no units available to relieve them. Short of that, unless on vacation (they should have filed a motion for continuance) they will be there. This particular case is a travesty. The FHP report has the officer listed as the driver. If the FHP Officer was needed to make the case in addition to the filed police report the prosecutor should have called for a continuance. In a case as important as this, that should have been done. I'm not a lawyer, but I think that is within their right to request. I think this smells... and justice which is what court us SUPPOSED to be about, was not served that day
This!
We have an Office of the Police Monitor that work alongside Internal Affairs to insure fairness.
2. They are comprised of civilians. That is as good as it's going to get.
I believe you need police input in policing police because there are times when the average civilian with a lack of training, experience and knowledge of laws and policies just isn't the best person to review the case.
3. I've seen too many times on this board alone people concluding with a ridiculous statement what they think the officer should have done.
4. I also get that there needs to be the civilian oversight to ensure we are taking that perspective into account and it alleviates the perception we are secretly sweeping things under the rug. And the police need to do a better job of making the information available within the limits of privacy laws.
5. We work for the citizens, I've never understood why there is a need to not disclose information that is not connected with an ongoing investigation.
Thanks for your reply.
Though... 1,it didn't address the issues raised.
2. Yes it definitely needs outside supervision.
Your statement. 'That's as good as it's going to get' ?? Why is it.
If everyone thought like that there would not be any progress in life / society.
We wouldn't have evolved the wheel wouldn't of been invented.
That's closed mind thinking.
3. Yes we have.
We have also seen the on this board & in the news
The ridiculous & lethal consequences of irrational & idiotic police
Rational. Which you failed to comment on.
4. Correct.
Sadly Though we do see the evidence of police sweeping things
Under the carpet when it comes to matters concerning themselves.
5. Well said. You do work for the citizens.
A good number of your colleagues around the country
Would do well keep that at the forefront of their minds.
😉 👍🏻
Spot on again!
The Civilian Review Boards in my area are nothing but recommendations. That can't actually effect discipline, policy changes, etc. It should be the exact opposite of what he's advocating. Civilians should always control and dictate to the cops and the cops should provide recommendations based on their knowledge, experience, etc.
Problem is, the public at large is woefully apathetic.
We'll always disagree on the point of who makes the final decision.. I'd quit today if my career hinged on the decisions of civilians. I could work with a group of former police officers turned monitors. Trust me, if I was a citizen with no police experience I would think just the same way, "why can't citizens review incidents and allegations and come to the right conclusion? The police must be hiding something if they won't allow that"
But the truth is the average citizen just doesn't have the required knowledge, background, training and experience to make the tough calls.
We can all agree that the officer shooting the guy in the back running away was excessive to say the least, there are those cases where a 5 yr old can tell you it's wrong.
I'm talking about the ones that aren't clear cut and without that background, knowledge, experience and training, would conclude the wrong answer. We're just going to have to agree to disagree on that
No. The police aren't in a position to allow or disallow anything. They're public servants who will do as they are told and operate within the framework setup by their bosses: the public. If they don't like working under those terms then they should quit.
Of course. I lack the knowledge, background, training and experience to shove guns in people's mouths (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/08/28/police-commander-accused-of-assault-to-be-released-on-own-recognizance/), throw flashbangs into cribs (http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/georgia-toddler-stun-grenade-no-indictment/), shoot sleeping seven year old girl in the head (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/aiyana-stanley-jones-raid/), smash people's phones because they contain recording of a shoot-out (http://www.businessinsider.com/police-shoot-miami-man-100-times-video-2011-6), severely injure inmates (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/11/13/former-skokie-cop-gets-probation-for-shoving-woman-in-cell/) or people in custody (http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/13/want-to-see-police-kill-a-drunk-in-custo), cause almost fatal car crash and have the victim arrested and charged (http://fox6now.com/2014/05/01/sober-driver-arrested-for-owi-when-deputy-crashes-into-her/) and I could go on, but frankly I'm getting sick to my stomach.
The notion that the average citizen can't be trusted to evaluate an incident involving the police is bullshit. The average citizen knows that cops have a difficult job and knows accidents happen. But the average citizen can also see through bullshit, which is what you are afraid of. And one more thing: you claim that if it came down to a civilian reviewing your decisions you'd quit. But isn't that what happens anyways if you end up in Court? Your career hinges on what between 1 and 12 civilians will say.
And yet, in many of those cases, police unions praise the officer and blame the victim (or use the victim's past history, or his circumstances, or any number of other factors) to whitewash the situation. And in many of those cases, nothing happens to the officers. Just to give you one example: I'm pretty sure a 5 year old would say that forcibly medicating someone repeatedly, making them defecate in front of you, x-raying him repeatedly and giving him a colonoscopy is wrong. And yet that's what happened to David Eckert and guess what? The cops that did this still on their job. (http://rt.com/usa/163428-nm-cops-jobs-anal-probes/)
So apparently there are things we can all agree are wrong, except... we apparently disagree when it comes time to agree.
It's always easy to hide behind the "you can't judge what I do until you've walked a mile in my shoes." Bullshit. You (not you specifically - just being general) just don't want to be judged because you think you're above it.
No. The police aren't in a position to allow or disallow anything. They're public servants who will do as they are told and operate within the framework setup by their bosses: the public. If they don't like working under those terms then they should quit.
Of course. I lack the knowledge, background, training and experience to shove guns in people's mouths (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/08/28/police-commander-accused-of-assault-to-be-released-on-own-recognizance/), throw flashbangs into cribs (http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/georgia-toddler-stun-grenade-no-indictment/), shoot sleeping seven year old girl in the head (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/aiyana-stanley-jones-raid/), smash people's phones because they contain recording of a shoot-out (http://www.businessinsider.com/police-shoot-miami-man-100-times-video-2011-6), severely injure inmates (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/11/13/former-skokie-cop-gets-probation-for-shoving-woman-in-cell/) or people in custody (http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/13/want-to-see-police-kill-a-drunk-in-custo), cause almost fatal car crash and have the victim arrested and charged (http://fox6now.com/2014/05/01/sober-driver-arrested-for-owi-when-deputy-crashes-into-her/) and I could go on, but frankly I'm getting sick to my stomach.
The notion that the average citizen can't be trusted to evaluate an incident involving the police is bullshit. The average citizen knows that cops have a difficult job and knows accidents happen. But the average citizen can also see through bullshit, which is what you are afraid of. And one more thing: you claim that if it came down to a civilian reviewing your decisions you'd quit. But isn't that what happens anyways if you end up in Court? Your career hinges on what between 1 and 12 civilians will say.
And yet, in many of those cases, police unions praise the officer and blame the victim (or use the victim's past history, or his circumstances, or any number of other factors) to whitewash the situation. And in many of those cases, nothing happens to the officers. Just to give you one example: I'm pretty sure a 5 year old would say that forcibly medicating someone repeatedly, making them defecate in front of you, x-raying him repeatedly and giving him a colonoscopy is wrong. And yet that's what happened to David Eckert and guess what? The cops that did this still on their job. (http://rt.com/usa/163428-nm-cops-jobs-anal-probes/)
So apparently there are things we can all agree are wrong, except... we apparently disagree when it comes time to agree.
It's always easy to hide behind the "you can't judge what I do until you've walked a mile in my shoes." Bullshit. You (not you specifically - just being general) just don't want to be judged because you think you're above it.
Agnostic007
I have to say Agnostic you are clearly showing the signs of thinking you are Better than us.
us being the public.
you are employed by the public & answer to the public.
Yet again you answered a reply to my post & not addressed my points.
Avxo's reply 2355 does sum it up very very well.
You keep hiding behind The public don't know / can't make the right decisions, What like all cops
Are of Superior intelligence....No, are they even average intelligence judging by the actions we
Keep hearing of I doubt it.
And just like you & every other cop the Public would very soon learn.
Any points of law could be explained by a lawyer, barrister , judge, or professor of law.
What are you afraid of, ?? (& Cops in general)
Is it not being able to hide behind the Police Badge, & to be fully accountable & punishable for their lying, beating, evidence destroying, inhumane treatment, bad driving, & murdering.
It appears the police are seriously afraid of not having the Deck stacked in their favour.
I wish you well as change will happen.
Your statement 'That's as Good as it Going to get' is not only Offensive to me it show your contempt for the public & either resistance or inability to Accept Things are Very Very Wrong From Top to Bottom With Policing and changes need happen sooner rather than later.
I do give you that you at least come on here & fight the police corner.
And try to offer explanations & answers to most posts.
:)
We'll always disagree on the point of who makes the final decision.. I'd quit today if my career hinged on the decisions of civilians. I could work with a group of former police officers turned monitors. Trust me, if I was a citizen with no police experience I would think just the same way, "why can't citizens review incidents and allegations and come to the right conclusion? The police must be hiding something if they won't allow that" But the truth is the average citizen just doesn't have the required knowledge, background, training and experience to make the tough calls. We can all agree the Rodney King beating was horrible. We can all agree that the officer shooting the guy in the back running away was excessive to say the least, there are those cases where a 5 yr old can tell you it's wrong. I'm talking about the ones that aren't clear cut and without that background, knowledge, experience and training, would conclude the wrong answer. We're just going to have to agree to disagree on that
You arrest people all day, put them in jail so they can be judged by a jury of civilians.
Yet civilians is not worthy of judging you ???
This is hypocracy and shows an "us vs them" mentality that is rampant in the police force.
You arrest people all day, put them in jail so they can be judged by a jury of civilians.
Yet civilians is not worthy of judging you ???
This is hypocracy and shows an "us vs them" mentality that is rampant in the police force.
I suppose doctors and mechanics and airline pilots and just about any profession you can imagine with specialized training have an "us v them" mentality
Whork, it's not about "judging me" its about do they have the information, training, experience, knowledge and back ground to determine if the force used during that particular incident was within policy, the law and reason. I have not been too reassured that they are the best source for that given the comments I see on certain incidents. I understand you disagree.. that's fine.
Well that settles it then.
Just ignore all the dead people shoot by cops in this thread. As long as you feel assured.
Like I said, we'll just have to disagree
Whork, it's not about "judging me" its about do they have the information, training, experience, knowledge and back ground to determine if the force used during that particular incident was within policy, the law and reason. I have not been too reassured that they are the best source for that given the comments I see on certain incidents. I understand you disagree.. that's fine.
Agnostic 007.
Thank you for being good enough to come on here and argue you're points.
You come across as a reasoned & intelligent man.
I don't see how though you can keep trying to defend the indefensible
Clearly there are several other Reasoned & intelligent people on here
And they are making some very Good Factual Points.
None of us like to have our ideologies/ thoughts / beliefs questioned Let alone Proven Wrong.
Is this the case for you why you can't see or accept what others are saying.
As I have said before, No 'this is not as good as its going to get' yet you have said it is.
I find very difficult To take on board & would dearly hope a serving policeman Would not & Should
not Have that Mind set & view point.
If that is a commonly held view by cops, (which I hope it isn't)
1. We are all doomed
2. It kind of explains most of what we are seeing & hearing at the hands of cops.
The problem is why we disagree: from where I stand, it's because you're trying to maintain the untenable and irrational position that the police are above the law, and that the only people that can judge the police are the police themselves and if the public doesn't like that the public can get stuffed.
It is only about judging you. That's the whole problem. You believe that a bunch of civilians who lack "information, training, experience, knowledge and background" should judge you. You say, that they shouldn't determine if the force used was within policy, the law and reason. So let's look at those claims one by one:
- Policy: I assume that all relevant policies are written out and contain directions. I see no reason why only cops can interpret those directions, especially when you consider that all too frequently, they seem to interpret them incorrectly.
- Law: Cops are neither lawyers nor judges and many cops are about as qualified to opine on what is and isn't legal as your average illegal immigrant housekeeper.
- Reason: Reason and common sense aren't attributes exclusive to cops. You don't magically become reasonable when someone pins a badge or you, nor are the rest of us devoid of common sense.
So if those three are the issues, then there should be no problem with civilian oversight. It's not like the oversight will result in firing after firing after firing of cops - and if it does, something is very very wrong somewhere; as I said in a previous post, most people are reasonable and understand that the police have a difficult job that sometimes calls for snap decisions and that accidents, terrible as they might be, happen. And if those three issues are, indeed, a problem, then we have bigger fish to fry because the jury system is horribly broken and we should just replace jurors with a panel of cops.
You are a reasonable guy and I am sure that you are a good cop and a decent human being, and even you have this "us vs. them" mentality: cops vs the public that employs you, a public that you seem to think is beneath you and should not be allowed to criticize or judge you. And if you have thise mentality, what what about the many cops who are neither as decent nor as good as you?
You say that you can't allow your job to be at the hands of civilians. But isn't it already? Couldn't the public vote to fire you today? And for any reason, even for no reason at all! Listen, the facts are simple: you don't have a right to a badge, you don't have the right to a job and you don't have a right to be above the law. If the citizens want oversight of the police, they deserve oversight of the police, and if you don't like that's too bad. But if you would quit if the citizens demanded to have that oversight, then that says a whole lot about you in particular and police in general.
Another excellent example of why police can't police themselves. These officers have been cleared and they fought the fuck out of releasing the video. Can't imagine why. ::)
You are just a stupid civilian Skip, you cant judge these heroes.
Another excellent example of why police can't police themselves. These officers have been cleared and they fought the fuck out of releasing the video. Can't imagine why. ::)
Another excellent example of why police can't police themselves. These officers have been cleared and they fought the fuck out of releasing the video. Can't imagine why. ::)
City fires investigator who found cops at fault in shootings
A Chicago investigator who determined that several civilian shootings by police officers were unjustified was fired after resisting orders to reverse those findings, according to internal records of his agency obtained by WBEZ.
http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-investigator-who-found-cops-fault-shootings-112423
My opinion is that the guy really behaved stupidly here - he put his hands in his pocket first, then again lowered his hands despite having multiple weapons trained on him... I can't say I fault the cops for shooting here. I question the wisdom of doing it when two other people, who are compliant and obeying their orders, are right there and likely to get injured but sometimes you can't help it. I wonder why it took a Judge's order to release this video; why did the police not want it shown? It seems to me to cast the incident in a light that's favorable to them.
fighting the release of the video is strange. Video's of police shootings, good bad or suspect get released as a matter of course all the time. Why this one was so special is beyond me. I watched the video earlier today and knew we'd be talking about it soon.
Your right in the regard the subject acted abnormally. The officers were under the impression they were out on the actual subject of the robbery. Likely based on information given to them. I don't know and I suspect that source wouldn't disclose it if it were fact. So the officers based on information they recieved (not sure, but probably) believe they are out on an armed subject. The subject is acting like a complete idiot with guns pointed at them. Very similar to the shooting we discussed at the convenience store.
What I feel added to the negative outcome besides the persons irrational reaction and actions to the situation, is the officers not being tactically sound in their approach and leaving the cover of their vehicles to expose themselves to possible gunfire if in fact the subject been armed and tried to shoot at them. Had they been behind cover they could have taken the luxury of another milisecond to determine what he was about to do. When they were out exposed like that it took that option off the table.
Here is a bodycam video (bodycams were recently deployed in LVMPD) of a recent officer involved shooting. In this case I think the reactions of the cops were justified, if not delayed (the gun makes a clicking sound but does not fire as there was no round in the chamber so the cop with the bodycam was extremely lucky). One cop was injured by a bullet that grazed his neck.
I think most citizens would not have a problem with this officer involved shooting. But when you have cops invading homes without warrants, arresting or killing the occupants, stealing money, detaining or arresting for bogus or no reason and not facing any real consequences, then most people would react.
1..The guy was trying to communicate with the officers that his friends had done nothing wrong. From the 2nd angle, his hands don't go into his pockets, they were just going up and down, and they've noted that all the cops were shouting at them at the same time.
2...He didn't help himself with meth in his system, or moving around. But the instantaneous application of deadly force is jumping the gun. I don't buy for a moment that 3 cops, all pointing guns at him and a 4th in the background were so terrified for their lives they had to kill him.
3...You point out something interesting with them not behind their doors. Why isn't this an indicator that their level of supposed fear is something other than lethal?
4..I get the standard that it's measured from the cops perspective. But there's something fundamentally wrong with not considering their point of view. They did nothing and they're instantly surrounded by bunch of thugs pointing guns at them, all shouting, and clueless as to what the problem. I doubt for a moment that any of them figured cops, of all people, would gun down innocent people. We're becoming more acclimated to knowing the opposite is true.
As an aside, do cops presume that the people they are dealing with can speak and understand English? I would think it a fair presumption, but problematic in certain circumstances.
1. From the 2nd angle might not be the angle the cop firing first saw. One of the things we remind people about when showing video is the video camera location may give a point of view different from the cops point of view. Something to consider, but yes, from the 2nd angle I can see that his hand didn't go under his shirt. I can also see a ball cap blocking the view from other angles.
There is a time to ignore cops directions and become animated with your movements.. when they are pointing a gun at you is not one of them.
2. I get that you wouldn't think that someone who is alleged to be armed with a gun, disobeying your orders and being animated while you have more than one subject at gun point wouldn't be a serious concern.. but it is. I don't think they "had to kill him" I think they obviously felt they needed to stop the threat.
3. Because we know from a gazillion videos, including the one where they take the shooter of the 9 church people into custody that cops sometimes get tunnel vision or react in a manner that puts themselves at risk. We try and train that out of them but sometimes they forget cover is your friend. Cost a few their lives. I wouldn't say that diminishes the danger. But again, it is poor tactics, (based on the video) and could have limited their options.
4. I have stopped people who were the wrong people on a few calls. When adrenaline is flowing and you've just been in a bad situation, witnesses often get descriptions wrong. I'm sure these officers likely have done the same. In every case, we were able to resolve the issue safely because the people didn't act in a way that would cause me to be concerned. At gunpoint they may voice their innocence but they would do what they were directed to do. The ones who didn't follow instructions turned out the be the right ones. So while I agree, lets look at their perspective.. again.. when 4 guns are pointing at you, 9 out of 10 times the innocent people are going to follow instructions even if they are voicing their innocents.
5. It's a presumption. But put me in any country where I don't speak a word of their language.. I will guarantee you that if 4 uniformed officers are pointing their guns at me yelling.. I am not moving an inch and will have my hands on my head.
I think the shooting was tragic. I can safely watch video from my computer, see it several times and certainly conclude he didn't need to be shot. I have a good camera angle and can see his hand didn't go in a pocket or under a shirt. But.. it's absolutely not a clear example of why the cops can't police themselves. It may be a clear example of why civilians shouldn't determine the outcome of the investigation
I don't know about that, but I've had a couple of similar personal experiences overseas to know that people react differently when guns are pointed at them.
Of course, when you're trained to be scared shitless of your own shadow, there can really only be one inevitable result. As I noted, I doubt innocent kids would have thought for a moment that cops - of all people - would gun them down for doing nothing.
And yes, we got it the first time. Civilians are beneath you and only your cop buddies can 'objectively' and 'fairly' judge you. And the comedy ensues...
And we got it the first time.. you hate cops in spite of your "I have friends who are black so I'm not a racist" equivelant of "There are some good cops so I don't hate cops" claims..
Why can't you stick with the discussion for more than a couple sentences before resorting to that tired worn out crap?
There are a hundred posts saying cops are corrupt, cops have no integrity, cops strangle their mothers after birth, cops are theives, cops love to shoot innocent citizens...
Yet I say cops are better qualified to review use of force incidents than citizens based on knowledge, experience, training and its 'See, you think you're better than us!" Seriously? ::)
No idea what the fuck you're babbling about, but:
-I mentioned nothing about hating or not hating cops. Nothing.
-You all are not the equivalent of an entire race of people who have been discriminated against for decades. So, fuck your wannabe persecution nonsense. ::)
Uh...exactly. We've been down this road before. Nobody needs to discuss when you do your jobs correctly.
You're SUPPOSED to do your jobs correctly.
You're paid to do your jobs correctly.
The purpose of this thread is discuss when cops DON'T do it correctly.
Not that hard to understand...unless you might be cop with a persecution complex who thinks us Mensch are beneath him.
That's exactly what you're saying, and you know it, which might be why is pisses you off so much when it's pointed out.
Let's not act like cops are on the level of physicians, spending countless years in rigorous study, residencies, tough licensing requirements, etc.
You spent several months at an academy, some of you may have a degree, some may not even have anything more than high school. And those that have a degree may not even have it in Criminal Justice, policing, etc.
The public in general is more than capable of evaluating reasonableness as any cop is and juries do it EVERY SINGLE DAY.
So take your trade school diploma, and go fist yourself.
Teenager Sues Police After Being Jailed for 40 Days Over a Snowball Then Cleared of Wrongdoing
Detroit, MI — A Detroit teenager is suing police in federal court after being wrongfully jailed for 40 days over a snowball.
Dominique Rondeau thought he would have some fun with the other kids after school by throwing snowballs. In Police State USA, however, even this immortal pastime can get you thrown in jail.
One of those icy snowballs from the crowd hit the windshield of a police car parked at East English Village High School, in just the right way to shatter it. Although officers Floyd Jenkins and Freddie Wilson did not see who threw the snowball, they looked at security camera footage and fingered Rondeau for the “crime.”
Later that day of December 16, 2013, they would nab Rondeau from his home and put him in juvenile detention for nearly 40 days under a charge of destroying police property.
“They knocked. I cracked the big door open to see who it was … They opened the (screen) door, and they just walked in, and they started putting me in handcuffs,” according to Rondeau.
He was separated from his family during Christmas and New Year’s holidays, as they could not afford the $2,000 bond to release him.
At the bench trial on February 26, the two cops testified that they saw Rondeau on the video, but when the footage was played in court, they could not pick out Rondeau. Based on this and the fact that no other evidence was offered, the case was dismissed and Rondeau was freed.
What possessed these police officers to not only go after a kid over a snowball, but also attempt to deceive the court so the kid would stay in jail?
This abuse of power is not being forgotten. Dominique Rondeau is suing the two district police officers, along with Detroit Public Schools, in federal court for false arrest and malicious prosecution. The lawsuit says his constitutional rights were violated by being arrested without probable cause or a warrant.
Rondeau’s mother, Sheron Rondeau, said the arrest and jail time has emotionally scarred her son, adding, “There’s a fear now. He doesn’t trust police officers.”
They are seeking a jury trial and unspecified monetary damages.
The district denies any wrongdoing, setting a precedent for their officers to go after kids if play time impinges upon the sanctified property of law enforcement.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/teenager-sues-police-jailed-40-days-snowball/
wow, it looks pretty clear there. he pulled gun and if anything, braced the driver so the headshot would be accurate.
tough to charge anything but murder there... particularly when he keeps changing story about being dragged, etc.
Without the body camera, the cop gets a medal and promotion for her heroics.
I lose sight of his left hand, but I can't imagine what it could've possibly got caught on that would drag him under the car as he claiming.
possibly the drivers fingers...
It's possible but the officer appears to be unaware and just says his arm or hand was caught on something. I've looked at the video a number of times and it is horrible in determining whether the car was moving or not. I can only surmise from the camera view of the officer on the ground and the car 20 ft down the road already that it was certainly in drive.. and possibly moving.
When I was a rookie officer I got my right arm rolled up in a window while trying to pull the keys out of the ignition so they wouldn't drive off as they were trying to do. They put it in drive and start off at a fast speed. Thought I was going to die. Couldn't reach my flashlight to break the window, couldn't reach my gun.. the only reason I survived was my back up saw what was happening as he was pulling up and managed to cut in front of the vehicle and stopped them. Never reached in a vehicle again after that..
The police have a very Dangerous job.
They have to fear for their lives everyday they go to work.
Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in the Country: Police Officer is NOT on the List
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-top-10-dangerous-jobs-country-tanks/
;)
Probably due in part to the precautions police take to avoid making the top 10. Just walking up on the passenger side of a vehicle during a late night traffic stop rather than the drivers side has saved a life. 2 officers at the call, able to take the suspect into custody who was resisting. I understand the distaste when police representatives lament on how dangerous the job is. We picked this career, partly because of the unknown or the danger. But on the other hand, to point to a list and say policing is not dangerous is totally ignorant as well.
You make some good points.
Then ruin it by your 'ignorant' remark.
Posting a table of dangerous jobs is hardly ignorant is it.
Is it because cops are not top of the list that you are so hurt.
The old line 'cops just want to go home to wife & kids'
Doesn't quite cut it compared to those other jobs.
They also Want to just go home.
It is you who is rude & ignorant.
We have had many a disagreement & you are the one to call names.
Not a likeable quality in a supposedly experienced & professional cop.
Although clearly you are not on duty & saying what you want.
Let's go back to the
See No Evil
Hear No Evil
Speak No Evil
Cops.
You started off good, then about 5 words into it you ruined it. Ignorance is not always in insult. A person who refers to a list and says policing isn't that dangerous is ignorant of the facts surrounding policing. I have commented on subjects on many occasions that I was truly ignorant about.
Evolution- I know enough to get embarrassed once the discussion moves into college level
Auto Mechanics- I can replace an alternator and plugs, don't even get me lying about air/fuel ratios
Computer IT- A 6th grader is probably more knowledgeable.
Stocks, EFT, Bonds- Know enough to lose money consistently if I chose to do so.
I'm ignorant in those areas for the most part. Probably 100's of more areas, but I know policing.
It's a 50/50 on the use & interpretation of how the word was meant.
Either using the word to label someone,
Or as you say being bereft of the information.
Still it's irrelevant as the table just shows deaths per job
& policing isn't that high on the list.
Dangerous in other respects no doubt.
Then the same can be said for other jobs also.
For Deaf Woman, NYPD Is 25 Years in the Past
MANHATTAN (CN) - Setting back the clock before the Americans with Disabilities Act, New York City argued the "extraordinary position" that it did not need to get a deaf woman a translator before arresting her, a federal judge said.
The scathing opinion dismisses the city's final attempt to avert a trial in a civil rights lawsuit by Diana Williams, a 58-year-old deaf landlord from Staten Island.
On Sept. 11, 2011, Diana and her husband Chris Williams tried to evict tenants who had fallen behind on their rent.
Both of the Williamses are deaf, and neither of them can speak more than a few words verbally.
When the tenant's hearing boyfriend gestured that he had a gun, Chris called for the police using a video relay service that the couple says should have tipped off the dispatcher to send help quickly - and bring a translator, the judge's ruling states.
Instead, the NYPD arrived without an American Sign Language interpreter and police heard only the tenants' side of the altercation, they say.
U.S. District Judge Valierie Caproni called arresting officer Christopher Romano's memory of the encounter "at best hazy."
"Curiously," in the words of the judge, Romano insisted in a deposition that he spoke to Diana Williams - who cannot hear, speak English or read lips - before arresting her.
Williams says that Romano arrested her without making any effort to communicate, and he could not understand her pleas for an ASL interpreter
Other tenants at the scene testified that police rejected their offers to interpret for them before they brought Williams in handcuffs to the 122nd Precinct.
Williams says that police held her for nearly 24 hours before releasing her without charges.
She sued the city three years ago, and her most recent complaint alleged false arrest, assault and battery and other charges.
New York City argued that an arrest did not qualify as a "service, program, or activity" that would fall under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Scoffing at the argument, Caproni allowed all of the claims to proceed to trial on Wednesday.
"New York City takes the extraordinary position that, even though the Americans with Disabilities Act has been the law of the land for 25 years, it has no obligation to provide any accommodation to the hearing-impaired at the time of an arrest, even if doing so could easily be accomplished without endangering the officers or the public safety and without interfering in the lawful execution of the officers' duties," she wrote.
New York City signed an agreement with the federal government in 2009 pledging to comply with the ADA's requirements for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
But Carol Roberson, the city's assistant commissioner for training the NYPD on interacting with the disabled, testified during the lead-up to Williams's trial that she had made no changes in the department's program six years later, according to the ruling.
"Moreover, five police officers who had some involvement in this case were deposed, and none could recall whether he had ever received any ADA-related training," the opinion stated.
Caproni added that it would be "preposterous to believe that given the diversity of the population in the City of New York, the NYPD did not know full well" that it would encounter deaf and hearing-impaired citizens.
She allowed Williams to try to hold the city accountable for municipal liabilities, awarded when authorities show "deliberate indifference" to their civil rights obligations.
The New York City Law Department said it is reviewing the decision.
Andrew Rozynski, the co-director of the Eisenberg & Baum Law Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, said in a statement that his firm was "pleased" with the ruling.
"We hope that it will send a message to all police departments across the country that providing communication access to the deaf is critical in ensuring that their rights are protected under the law," he said.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/08/07/for-deaf-woman-nypd-is-25-years-in-the-past.htm
Good example of systemic abuse (which doesn't exist, of course ;) ):
Cliffs:
-Cop tossing homeless guy under arrest peanuts and treating him like a circus animal.
-Cop has prior poor behavior
-Cop has been fired (don't hold your breath that he won't be re-instated)
Props to them firing the cop. But, as we can all see, there were several officers witnessing this with at least one laughing about it.
Cops wouldn't do that, right? They would never allow such behavior to go on. Afterall, it's just the 'one' bad apple, here and there. ::)
Should've fired all their asses.
*edit - cop resigned under threat of being fired. But, props for the threat and taking it seriously.
If you're a person that thinks we don't need cameras on police...Amazingly enough, when the department investigated themselves, they actually found wrongdoing. In the report investigators issued to Fraser after the incident they stated that “You violated… policy…. You used hard control strikes from an impact weapon… on an individual who was actively resistant, but was not assaultive…. a strike to the head from a baton is considered use of deadly force…. You used more force than necessary.”
Cop Arrested After His Own Body Cam Refuted His Report, Shows Him Pummeling Teen
In his report, Fraser wrote that his victim, 19-year-old Michael Roquet “struck me with his left elbow in my chest,” and later “he hit me again with his elbow…. so I struck him in the leg and upper body” and then handcuffed him.
However, according to the body camera footage of the incident, it is clear that there is no violent struggle, and only a drunken college kid serving as an outlet for this cop’s rage. At no time in the report did Fraser mention that he struck Roquet in the head. Nor did Fraser mention that Roquet fell to the ground after the devastating blow and that he proceeded to pummel his inebriated victim as he curled up in the fetal position to protect himself.
“He is not resisting at that point, he is on the ground,” said Police Chief Scott Freeman as he watched the video of this beating.
Amazingly enough, when the department investigated themselves, they actually found wrongdoing. In the report investigators issued to Fraser after the incident they stated that “You violated… policy…. You used hard control strikes from an impact weapon… on an individual who was actively resistant, but was not assaultive…. a strike to the head from a baton is considered use of deadly force…. You used more force than necessary.”
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/cop-arrested-after-his-own-body-cam-refuted-his-report-shows-him-pummeling-teen
For Deaf Woman, NYPD Is 25 Years in the Past
MANHATTAN (CN) - Setting back the clock before the Americans with Disabilities Act, New York City argued the "extraordinary position" that it did not need to get a deaf woman a translator before arresting her, a federal judge said.
The scathing opinion dismisses the city's final attempt to avert a trial in a civil rights lawsuit by Diana Williams, a 58-year-old deaf landlord from Staten Island.
On Sept. 11, 2011, Diana and her husband Chris Williams tried to evict tenants who had fallen behind on their rent.
Both of the Williamses are deaf, and neither of them can speak more than a few words verbally.
When the tenant's hearing boyfriend gestured that he had a gun, Chris called for the police using a video relay service that the couple says should have tipped off the dispatcher to send help quickly - and bring a translator, the judge's ruling states.
Instead, the NYPD arrived without an American Sign Language interpreter and police heard only the tenants' side of the altercation, they say.
U.S. District Judge Valierie Caproni called arresting officer Christopher Romano's memory of the encounter "at best hazy."
"Curiously," in the words of the judge, Romano insisted in a deposition that he spoke to Diana Williams - who cannot hear, speak English or read lips - before arresting her.
Williams says that Romano arrested her without making any effort to communicate, and he could not understand her pleas for an ASL interpreter
Other tenants at the scene testified that police rejected their offers to interpret for them before they brought Williams in handcuffs to the 122nd Precinct.
Williams says that police held her for nearly 24 hours before releasing her without charges.
She sued the city three years ago, and her most recent complaint alleged false arrest, assault and battery and other charges.
New York City argued that an arrest did not qualify as a "service, program, or activity" that would fall under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Scoffing at the argument, Caproni allowed all of the claims to proceed to trial on Wednesday.
"New York City takes the extraordinary position that, even though the Americans with Disabilities Act has been the law of the land for 25 years, it has no obligation to provide any accommodation to the hearing-impaired at the time of an arrest, even if doing so could easily be accomplished without endangering the officers or the public safety and without interfering in the lawful execution of the officers' duties," she wrote.
New York City signed an agreement with the federal government in 2009 pledging to comply with the ADA's requirements for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
But Carol Roberson, the city's assistant commissioner for training the NYPD on interacting with the disabled, testified during the lead-up to Williams's trial that she had made no changes in the department's program six years later, according to the ruling.
"Moreover, five police officers who had some involvement in this case were deposed, and none could recall whether he had ever received any ADA-related training," the opinion stated.
Caproni added that it would be "preposterous to believe that given the diversity of the population in the City of New York, the NYPD did not know full well" that it would encounter deaf and hearing-impaired citizens.
She allowed Williams to try to hold the city accountable for municipal liabilities, awarded when authorities show "deliberate indifference" to their civil rights obligations.
The New York City Law Department said it is reviewing the decision.
Andrew Rozynski, the co-director of the Eisenberg & Baum Law Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, said in a statement that his firm was "pleased" with the ruling.
"We hope that it will send a message to all police departments across the country that providing communication access to the deaf is critical in ensuring that their rights are protected under the law," he said.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/08/07/for-deaf-woman-nypd-is-25-years-in-the-past.htm
Police Hit Organic Farm with Massive SWAT Raid for No Reason, Taxpayers to be Held Liable
Arlington, TX — In an effort to protect the citizens of Texas, a massive military-style raid was conducted on the Garden of Eden organic farm and commune.
On August 2, 2103, nearly two dozen heavily armed SWAT officers stormed this peaceful farm in search of a plant. They found lots of plants, but much to their dismay, they did not find the plant they were looking for.
Countless tax dollars and months of half-cocked planning went down the drain that day after it was discovered that police incompetence had led these troops into a battle to which there can be no victor.
In the days leading up to this asinine military assault on a peaceful commune, the ineptitude of the Arlington police department was oozing from the seams.
Arlington Detective Magdalena Perez, through a series of poor decisions, frivolously came to the conclusion that the peaceful hippies at the Garden of Eden were up to no good and were cultivating marijuana. The horror! However, Perez was terribly wrong.
Prior to the raid, these heroes even conducted a flyover of the farm and wrongly determined that the Garden of Eden was an evil pot farm. But they were mistaken. After their 20 soldiers had stormed the garden, the Arlington police found not one single gram of marijuana.
What they did find, however, was a myriad of fruits and vegetables; and they seized them. After seemingly disgusted in themselves for such an ignorant and ill-conceived plan, the officers heroically proceeded to confiscate, “17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants … native grasses and sunflowers.”
Since they couldn’t arrest anyone for growing pot, these public servants decided that they didn’t want to go home empty-handed, so they began writing citations for code violations, like untrimmed bushes and tires laying around. Then they arrested a member of the commune, Quinn Eaker, for an outstanding traffic ticket.
Now, just over two years later, the Garden of Eden farm is seeking damages, and rightfully so. This peaceful group was held at gunpoint and terrorized for hours because of the incompetence of the Arlington PD and the immoral nature of the war on drugs.
The lawsuit, filed by Garden of Eden residents last month, claims police violated their rights to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
They are seeking compensation for the property and emotional damage caused by the raid, along with the legal expenses they have incurred. They are also asking for punitive damages, “because the City of Arlington and Detective Perez showed a reckless and callous indifference” to their constitutional rights, according to Reason Magazine.
The residents of the farm will undoubtedly win this lawsuit, and the monetary settlement will come from the taxpayers. The 20 armed men who raided the farm along with the inept detective and the rest of the department who initiated the raid will remain on the job. They will receive their regularly scheduled promotions, and nothing will change.
Until officers are held individually liable for their irresponsible actions, this blank check of negligence will continue to grow, and continue to be passed on to the backs of those who do not deserve to carry its weight, the US taxpayer.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/farmers-suing-cops-mistook-organic-tomatoes-weed-raided/
New York Police Sergeant Commits Suicide After Sex-Crime Charges
Source: New York Times
A New York police sergeant who was arrested this month on charges that he had sex with an underage girl he met online committed suicide on Thursday, the police said.
The sergeant, Joel Doseau, 43, who was suspended after his arrest, killed himself at his home in Canarsie, Brooklyn, a police official said. Earlier, the official had said he died at a home of a relative.
A family member went to the sergeant’s home after he had not been heard from for a few days and discovered his body. The official said the sergeant had inhaled gas fumes and appeared to have died from asphyxiation.
Sergeant Doseau was arrested on Aug. 5 and arraigned in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on 40 criminal counts, including rape and sexual abuse. He had worked for the Police Department for 12 years at the time of his arrest.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/nyregion/new-york-police-sergeant-commits-suicide-after-sex-crime-charges.html
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Philly Cop Extort Driver with Fundraiser Tix: ‘You Buy These or I Take Your Car’
Philadelphia police officer Matthew Zagursky is under investigation after video went viral of him extorting a driver to buy tickets to a police fundraiser or have his car confiscated.
The 32-year-old officer, who is reportedly a nine-year veteran of the department, can be heard telling the unnamed driver, “You and your friend got any money to buy these thrill show tickets? Support your police department. Ten bucks each, man.”
According to ABC News, “the incident was part of what police call a ‘live stop,’ part of crackdown on unregistered and uninsured vehicles.”
As such, Zagursky continued to threaten the driver: “Either you buy these, or I take your car because it’s unregistered. Ten bucks each man.”
And he got his way. The driver forked over the cash and proceeded onward.
The tickets were for the local Police and Fire Hero Thrill Show fundraiser for the children of fallen officers and firefighters — an event which Commissioner Charles Ramsey said is now tarnished by Zagursky’s actions. “He’s tarnished that entire event, and the entire cause that it represents, by his actions,” the commissioner told the press.
While the department investigates the incident, Zagursky has reportedly been taken off the streets. A district attorney will decide whether criminal charges are in order.
Did he ticket driver for violation, too? Just wondering.
Almost seems like he could have been making a joke out of it, but since guy boughg tix will never know. (didn't watch video yet, though)
No, he didn't ticket the guy. Said he "paid" by buying the tickets... but to get it registered. Didn't sound like he was joking... sounded like extortion. Had he not bought tickets I believe he would have impounded the car
You think if guy was broke and not able to come up w 20, the cop would have just denied it when the guy made complaint? (I don't know.. am asking.)
Wouldn't surprise me.. anyone who would extort someone to buy tickets to a cop fund raiser would likely lie about it later
http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shot-trooper-told-him-die-soon-102114307.html#
Pretty messed up
Police: Winter Garden officer fired, accused of speeding on motorcycle without license
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. —
A former Winter Garden police officer is off the job after he admitted he drove a motorcycle without a license at more than 50 mph over the speed limit.
Channel 9’s Mario Boone learned the officer was pulled over by one of his fellow officers, but the officer who conducted the traffic stop let him go without an arrest or citation.
Julio Negron was let go after investigators learned he barreled through a 45 mph zone on a motorcycle at speeds between 90 and 100 mph.
Negron told investigators he tried to lure a fellow officer into chasing him as a joke.
Authorities said the responding officer felt threatened at one point and drew his weapon on Negron.
Retired police chief and law enforcement expert Chuck Drago said that combined with the fact Negron isn’t legally supposed to be riding a motorcycle makes the case especially serious.
“To be deliberately breaking the law like that (it) just amazes me that a police officer would be doing that," Drago said.
The incident happened in June, but top brass didn’t find out until weeks later, because the officer who stopped Negron let him drive away without an arrest.
“It's not fair, and it's not the right thing to do, but it is the way it works,” Drago said.
Winter Garden police said the officer who let Negron off the hook broke no laws or rules.
They said in a statement, “Officer Negron's violation of agency policies, as well as criminal traffic violations is considered unacceptable, and resulted in him being terminated.”
Negron had been on the force for nearly four years.
http://www.news965.com/news/news/local/police-winter-garden-officer-fired-accused-speedin/nnNr7/
Two Innocent Men Framed by LA Cops who Lied and Threatened Witnesses, Can Now Seek Justice
Los Angeles, CA — After collectively serving 47 years in prison for crimes that they did not commit, two wrongfully convicted men are allowed to advance lawsuits against the Los Angeles detectives and deputy who withheld exonerating evidence at their trials and pressured witnesses into falsely testifying against them.
A three-judge appellate panel denied immunity to police investigators on Wednesday after determining that they had been required to turn over exculpatory evidence in separate murder trials. Although attorneys for the police have argued that the lawsuits should be dismissed because the law was unclear in 1984 and 1991, officers have been required to disclose exonerating evidence since the 1963 Supreme Court decision, Brady v. Maryland.
Convicted of killing Jay French in 1984, Frank O’Connell spent 27 years in prison for a murder that he did not commit. Detectives focused on O’Connell after learning that he had been romantically involved with French’s ex-wife, who was in the middle of a vicious custody battle with French. In 2009, O’Connell’s conviction was overturned after a judge found that detectives J.D. Smith and Gilbert Parra had failed to turn over exculpatory evidence.
The prosecution’s star witness, Daniel Druecker, initially identified O’Connell as the killer and testified against him in court. But years later, Druecker returned to court and testified that he had barely glimpsed the killer’s profile and had not been wearing his glasses at the time. Druecker admitted in court that he had testified against O’Connell because he felt pressured and intimidated by the investigators. Another witness told investigators that he was “not positive” that O’Connell was the killer.
Instead of turning in the notes from their investigation, detectives Smith and Parra also concealed the fact that another suspect attempted to kill French four years earlier. Required to turn over all of their evidence, the detectives suppressed the exonerating evidence and tampered with witnesses in order to convict an innocent man.
At the age of 16, Francisco Carrillo Jr. was arrested and later convicted for the murder of Donald Sarpy on January 18, 1991. Six teenage boys who witnessed the drive-by shooting identified Carrillo as the gunman. After spending 20 years in prison, Carrillo was released after five of the six witnesses, including the victim’s son, recanted their identifications. The sixth witness had refused to testify against Carrillo.
According to Carrillo’s lawsuit, Deputy Craig Ditsch steered witnesses into identifying him and threatened a witness who had decided to recant his identification. Ditsch allegedly pressured an eyewitness named Scott Turner into identifying Carrillo after Turner chose several photographs of other suspects after the shooting. When Turner decided to recant his identification before Carrillo’s second trial, Ditsch reportedly threatened him.
In 2011, L.A. County Superior Court Judge Paul Bacigalupo overturned Carrillo’s conviction and ordered his release after concluding that the eyewitness testimony against him was false, tainted, or both.
On top of police officers being clearly required to disclose exonerating evidence since Brady v. Maryland, in 1978, the Ninth Circuit issued a similar ruling in U.S. v. Butler. This case made it “unmistakably clear that police officers and prosecutors alike share an obligation to disclose ‘pertinent material evidence favorable to the defense,'” Judge Raymond Fisher wrote for the court on Wednesday.
Judges Carlos Bea, Jay Bybee, and Fisher unanimously decided this week to deny immunity to the investigators responsible for wrongfully imprisoning two men for collectively 47 years. Allowed to advance their lawsuits against the cops who withheld exculpatory evidence and pressured witnesses, O’Connell and Carrillo continue to seek a modicum of justice.
The three officers accused of concealing evidence and tampering with witnesses were never disciplined for their actions. Detective Parra has since died while Detective Smith and Deputy Ditsch have retired.
Last year, Carrillo, who now works as a Justice Advocate with Death Penalty Focus and is a student at Loyola Marymount University, gave a riveting talk at TEDx and described his experience.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/appeals-court-determines-wrongfully-convicted-men-sue-detectives-suppressed-evidence-pressured-witnesses-trials/
Deputies Caught on Video Brutally Beating Surrendering Man, Charged With Assault
Apple Valley, CA — Three sheriff’s deputies were charged with felony assault on Tuesday after a video captured them beating an unarmed man surrendering to the officers. After falling off his stolen horse, Francis Pusok dropped onto his stomach with his arms and legs outstretched. But video caught several police officers surrounding Pusok, striking him in the head and the groin as he surrendered with his hands behind his back.
At 12:12 p.m. on April 9, deputies arrived near Francis Pusok’s home in Apple Valley, California, to serve a search warrant involving an identity theft investigation. According to San Bernardino sheriff’s department spokeswoman Cindy Bachman, Pusok was already sitting in a car when the deputies approached his residence. Pusok fled in the vehicle prompting a near three-hour pursuit through the desert.
After Pusok abandoned his vehicle and ran into the desert, the sheriff’s department and California Highway Patrol deployed helicopters and off-road vehicles to continue pursuing him. A few minutes later, the deputies received a report that Pusok had stolen a horse from a group of people near Deep Creek Hot Springs. As the deputies tracked down Pusok and made contact with him around 3 p.m., Pusok fell off the stolen horse.
According to the sheriff’s department, deputies used a Taser on Pusok but it was rendered ineffective due to his loose clothing. But video shot from NBC4’s helicopter revealed Pusok surrendering to the deputies by lying facedown with his hands behind his back when one cop appears to repeatedly punch Pusok in the head. The other deputy continued kicking Pusok in the groin as he remained on the ground.
At least ten deputies exhibited excessive force by punching and kicking Pusok dozens of times and beating him with a baton after he had already surrendered. Instead of administering immediate medical attention, the deputies stood around for several minutes before transferring Pusok to a hospital for treatment. Pusok was charged with multiple counts including felony evading, reckless driving, possessing stolen property, and horse theft.
Three deputies were reportedly also hospitalized. Two received treatment for dehydration. According to the sheriff’s department, a third deputy was sent to the hospital after the horse kicked him.
Due to Pusok’s criminal history, San Bernardino Sheriff John McMahon inferred that many of the deputies involved in the initial pursuit were familiar with Pusok and bore grudges against him. With multiple convictions including attempted robbery, animal cruelty, disturbing the peace, and resisting arrest, Pusok had antagonized the sheriff’s department for over a decade. But Pusok’s past crimes did not justify the police brutality inflicted upon him after he had peacefully surrendered.
Charged with 14 felony and misdemeanor counts, Pusok eventually reached a $650,000 settlement with the county.
On Tuesday, District Attorney Mike Ramos announced the filing of criminal charges against deputies Nicholas Downey, Charles Foster, and Michael Phelps. Charged with felonious assault by a public officer, each deputy faces anywhere from 16 months to three years in county jail. The three deputies are scheduled for arraignment on September 8 in San Bernardino Superior Court.
The seven other deputies involved in the incident were not charged. Deputies Scott Hamilton, David Moore, Dominic Moody, Raymond Perez, Tyler McGee, Detective William Doemner, and Sgt. James Evans do not currently face criminal charges. All 10 deputies remain on paid administrative leave.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/deputies-charged-assault-beating-unarmed-man-captured-video/
BOTH sides are the problem here.
I have a LEO friend on my social media. He defends the cops EVERY SINGLE TIME when commenting on new items. "There's more to this" or "there were other factors at play" or "we dont know the whole story".
Dude was defending the cop that shot the man in the back at 20 feet who was just running, a few months back, remember that one?
Yes, 99.9% of cops are awesome... but we should all admit there are a very very small % of cops that do abuse people and shoot people 'in the wrong'. This blind defense of everything? It tells me this cop buddy would lie/cover up a bad shoot in real life too.
I'd love to believe this with sincerity.
Just my unofficial stats but I think about 60% of the cops are awesome, 5% are tools and shouldn't be cops, 35% are okay, will manage to do the job without getting into trouble but won't be remembered or make much difference in their community.
How is it they manage to defy the odds by always happening to be in the same place at the same time?
Just my unofficial stats but I think about 60% of the cops are awesome, 5% are tools and shouldn't be cops, 35% are okay, will manage to do the job without getting into trouble but won't be remembered or make much difference in their community.
:o Wow Agnostic you finally seem to be accepting that
There are Very Bad Apples in the Police Pot. ;)
Pls, what is the total number of U.S. Police officers.
Just to see how many cops that 5% would be.
Sadly it appears the number is Greater than 5%,
With the amount of reports let alone the number
Of incidents that go unreported.
Also with so many cops being complicit or turning a blind eye
To what goes on.
👍
So really, we just need 60% of the cops we have?
can you be more specific?
Are you including all of them that have failed to report things they should have?
it could just be that you are reading my posts all the way through.. I've never maintained there were no bad apples. We hire from the human race. Our disagreement has always been and likely always will be to what extent do they exist
well, lets see. We are required to report ANY violation of policy as well as any criminal act. That would include not using a blinker, to not having shoes shined. Officers generally don't report that, but at my department, medium to major policy violations get reported, and criminal acts would be reported 99% of the time. I can't speak for every department. We have a rule of firing officers for lying, and firing officers who knew about something and didn't report it.
That's very good to read.
clearly a more enlightened & thinking
police department.
Great get rid of the Scumbags.
Can we extend this to politicians & other Scumbags Abusing there positions.
Ag007, what's your take on stop & frisk?
Does it work? Does it violate the shit out of people's rights?
It does not allow an officer to arbitrarily stop a person for a fishing expedition.
Are you 100% sure police ONLY use stop and frisk when searching for a particular suspect that they have an APB on, when they find a visual match?
LOL! my belief is that police use it as they want, when they see someone they deem shady.
well, lets see. We are required to report ANY violation of policy as well as any criminal act. That would include not using a blinker, to not having shoes shined. Officers generally don't report that, but at my department, medium to major policy violations get reported, and criminal acts would be reported 99% of the time. I can't speak for every department. We have a rule of firing officers for lying, and firing officers who knew about something and didn't report it.
I understand you don't have a way to know or to honestly estimate that, so just asking is all.
cool..
Ok. as Agnostic wont give the figures i asked for.
From the figures i have found the number of US police
varies in estimates from around 900,000 to 1,200,000.
Lets say 1,000,000 cops
using agnostics estimation of 5%
& say 10% max.
5% = 50,000
10% = 100,000 cops
if anywhere between them 2 figures is remotely correct
That's one Huge problem.
No wonder Politicians & police are constantly down playing
this situation.
Armed & working together, covering for each other
While Hiding behind the Shield of The Law.
Explains all the constant reports coming in.
there's a good sized army of the scumbag fcukers.
A quick google search of "stop and frisk abuse" shows cops admitting they're searching people "just for being a fcking mutt"
and PLENTY of other abuses.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1ZMDB_enUS510US528&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=stop%20and%20frisk%20abuse%20video
Video there, so it's not like we can just shrug it off. Some cops abuse the shit out of 'stop and frisk'. it's a shit rule. if I'm not breaking any law, the cop can watch me all he wants, but do NOT violate my rights to walk down the street. Making up "cause you're a mutt" should put that cop out of a job, and I bet it didn't.
We generally don't create rules based on isolated incidents. Otherwise we wouldn't allow semi automatic weapons. We understand police need to investigate suspicious activity and should be able to do it under relatively safe conditions. So I still think it is a good sound rule.
NYPD union head: Cops have ‘earned the benefit of the doubt’ despite James Blake incident
"No one should ever jump to an uninformed conclusion based upon a few seconds of video," Patrick Lynch, president of the New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, said in a statement titled "an open letter to all of those inclined to jump to conclusions."
I hope you read the letter..
To all arm-chair judges:
If you have never struggled with someone who is resisting arrest or who pulled a gun or knife on you when you approached them for breaking a law, then you are not qualified to judge the actions of police officers putting themselves in harm’s way for the public good.
It is mystifying to all police officers to see pundits and editorial writers whose only expertise is writing fast-breaking, personal opinion, and who have never faced the dangers that police officers routinely do, come to instant conclusions that an officer’s actions were wrong based upon nothing but a silent video.
That is irresponsible, unjust and un-American.
Worse than that, your uninformed rhetoric is inflammatory and only serves to worsen police/community relations.
In the unfortunate case of former tennis pro, James Blake,
-- who was clearly but mistakenly identified by a complainant --
there certainly can be mitigating circumstances which caused the officer to handle the situation in the manner he did.
Let all of the facts lead where they will
but police officers have earned the benefit of the doubt because of the dangers we routinely face.
The men and women of the NYPD are once again disheartened to read another the knee-jerk reaction from ivory tower pundits who enjoy the safety provided by our police department without understanding the very real risks that we take to provide that safety.
Due process is the American way of obtaining justice, not summary professional execution called for by editorial writers.
To All Citizens,
I would change first paragraph to -- If you have never struggled with someone who is resisting arrest or who pulled a gun or knife on you when you approached them for breaking a law, then you of all people should withhold your conclusion until you have learned all the facts. Often times a snippet of video that captures a small percentage of the interaction and circumstances can be misleading taken out of context.
It is mystifying to all police officers to see pundits and editorial writers who ...(pretty much agree with this paragraph))
In the unfortunate case .... (seems reasonable)
The men and women (probably accurate)
When I read it I didn't agree with his first line. I think in many cases, the average citizen given all the available facts, can come to a pretty good conclusion about an incident. There may be exceptions but overall, I think they can. Where we may differ is, based on my experience dealing with situations over time, I will look at a tiny snippet of video alongside a civilian and I may be able to see it differently because of things I am aware of that they may not be due to lack of experience. Even at my level of experience, I really try not to come to a conclusion unless the video is encompassing and most likely all available information is contained in it, or the facts are gathered and the puzzle can be put together.
But I can see where that first line set the tone for the rest of the letter, which I found to be reasonable.
To all arm-chair judges:
If you have never struggled with someone who is resisting arrest or who pulled a gun or knife on you when you approached them for breaking a law, then you are not qualified to judge the actions of police officers putting themselves in harm’s way for the public good.
It is mystifying to all police officers to see pundits and editorial writers whose only expertise is writing fast-breaking, personal opinion, and who have never faced the dangers that police officers routinely do, come to instant conclusions that an officer’s actions were wrong based upon nothing but a silent video. That is irresponsible, unjust and un-American. Worse than that, your uninformed rhetoric is inflammatory and only serves to worsen police/community relations.
In the unfortunate case of former tennis pro, James Blake, -- who was clearly but mistakenly identified by a complainant -- there certainly can be mitigating circumstances which caused the officer to handle the situation in the manner he did. Do they exist? Frankly, no one will know for sure until there is a full and complete investigation. That is why no one should ever jump to an uninformed conclusion based upon a few seconds of video. Let all of the facts lead where they will, but police officers have earned the benefit of the doubt because of the dangers we routinely face.
The men and women of the NYPD are once again disheartened to read another the knee-jerk reaction from ivory tower pundits who enjoy the safety provided by our police department without understanding the very real risks that we take to provide that safety. Due process is the American way of obtaining justice, not summary professional execution called for by editorial writers.
Sincerely,
Patrick J. Lynch
President
"there certainly can be mitigating circumstances which caused the officer to handle the situation in the manner he did. "
"Can be". Yes, there can be space aliens that take dumps on the sidewalk too. This idiot is just making up scenarios which the video doesn't show.
The guy is actually nuts. Someone's brother-in-law or some shit. No other explanation.
The cop trucked this dude, without warning.
Knocked the shit out of him. The dude made no move about anything, looks like he didn't even see it coming. Cop never ID'd himself, never made a sound, just trucked him.
The scary thing - if this happens to any of us - someone just tackles us out of nowhere - it's probably a life/death struggle at that point. I don't know who is beating and trying to get me to submit, just a violent man who bum rushed me.
Can lead to a lot of unnecessary shootings.
Just making sure you realize it was a video without audio
Just making sure you realize it was a video without audio
It looks like the poor bastard (Blake) was desperately trying to hang on to his last peaceful thought as he was being slammed around.
But what if the subject was a fighter, and instinctively knocked-out the cop? You think the PD would own up to it, or do you think they'd try to find a way to destroy the guy? Could they be trusted to safely take him into custody after that, even?
I don't think so.
It looks like the poor bastard (Blake) was desperately trying to hang on to his last peaceful thought as he was being slammed around.
But what if the subject was a fighter, and instinctively knocked-out the cop? You think the PD would own up to it, or do you think they'd try to find a way to destroy the guy? Could they be trusted to safely take him into custody after that, even?
I don't think so.
He'd be lucky if he didn't end up dead after being swarmed by dozens of cops. If he survived, he'd probably face felony charges while the cop would get away with it. And most likely it would be presented as another example of the "war on cops".
No, police officers haven't "earned the benefit of the doubt." And even if they had, they'd have lost it by now, with incidents of blatant and horrific police misconduct happening with an alarming frequency and going, mostly, underpunished.
There we go again... "I'm keeping you safe, so respect me or else!" You know who else is disheartened? The average citizen who, evidence has shown, has good reason to fear for his life when cops are around because cops shove guns in people's mouths (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/08/28/police-commander-accused-of-assault-to-be-released-on-own-recognizance/), throw flashbangs into cribs (http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/georgia-toddler-stun-grenade-no-indictment/), shoot sleeping seven year old girls in the head (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/aiyana-stanley-jones-raid/), smash people's phones because they contain recording of a shoot-out (http://www.businessinsider.com/police-shoot-miami-man-100-times-video-2011-6), severely injure inmates (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/11/13/former-skokie-cop-gets-probation-for-shoving-woman-in-cell/) or people in custody (http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/13/want-to-see-police-kill-a-drunk-in-custo), cause almost fatal car crash and have the victim arrested and charged (http://fox6now.com/2014/05/01/sober-driver-arrested-for-owi-when-deputy-crashes-into-her/), bust into homes and tase people (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/cotati-family-tasered/) or, worse still commandeer homes and arrest the owners because it suits their purpose (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/henderson-nevada-commandeered-homes/).
If that's the safety you provide me, I don't want it.
Now, I understand that Mr. Lynch hasn't gone to law school and may not be well-versed in the subtleties of the legal system, but due process binds the State and its agents - not people, whether they are journalists of not, who remain free to write and comment.
Infuriating Video Exposes the Grim Reality of Being Arrested for Resisting Arrest
Lancaster TX – Police Chief Cheryl Wilson was given a paid vacation on Thursday, while investigators determine if she acted appropriately by allowing one of her officers to return to duty while he was still under investigation for the use of excessive force.
Chief Wilson’s suspension stems from an incident on August 17th, when Lt. Michael Fine confronted Alexander Tucker on W. Pleasant Run Road. Lt. Fine approached Tucker, who immediately asked why he was being detained and instead of providing an answer, Fine told him that he would ‘get tased’ if he didn’t obey.
Fine proceeded to grab Tucker’s arm and lead him towards his squad car where he then assaulted and attempted to handcuff Mr. Tucker without providing any probable cause. When Mr. Tucker passively resisted his unlawful arrest and continued asking why he was being detained, Lt. Fine tased him without warning and placed him in handcuffs.
When Mr. Tucker asked what he was being arrested for, Lt. Fine replied “resisting arrest” in an attempt to justify his actions with stereotypical circular cop logic. Upon further questioning of the reason for his arrest, Lt. Fine simply replied “I’m not going to talk to you anymore.”
At the end of the video, Lt Fine exposes the grim reality of his despicable job when he tells Tucker, “You’re being placed under arrest for resisting arrest.”
According to City Manager Opal Mauldin-Robertson, the day after the incident, Chief Wilson told Assistant City Manager Rona Stringfellow and City Attorney Bob Hager that Fine’s actions were
“serious, and appeared to, at a minimum, violate our policy.”
Chief Wilson met with Mayor Marcus Knight and Mauldin-Robinson two weeks later to watch the video of the incident and agreed to keep them informed about any decisions regarding the officer.
Lt. Fine was temporarily reassigned pending a review of his use of force. However, after a Dallas County prosecutor and a Texas Ranger both said he was justified in stopping Tucker, Chief Wilson returned him to regular duty even though the investigation had not been completed.
Mauldin-Robertson said Chief Wilson failed to notify her of Lt. Fine’s status for five days and went on to say that Wilson’s decision to return Fine to regular duty,
“without any actions or recourse caused some questions and concerns regarding the completeness and independent review of this matter.”
Chief Wilson’s flip-flopping and inconsistent handling of this incident of excessive force by one of her officers is indicative of the problems created by the “thin blue line.” When police routinely shield each other from accountability for brutality, lawsuits and death are almost sure to follow.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-chief-suspended-upholding-thin-blue-line-reversing-officers-suspension/
The cop trucked this dude, without warning.
Knocked the shit out of him. The dude made no move about anything, looks like he didn't even see it coming. Cop never ID'd himself, never made a sound, just trucked him.
The scary thing - if this happens to any of us - someone just tackles us out of nowhere - it's probably a life/death struggle at that point. I don't know who is beating and trying to get me to submit, just a violent man who bum rushed me.
Can lead to a lot of unnecessary shootings.
I didn't get infuriated when I watched it..
Not surprised.
If he is arrested for resisting arrest, what was the initial arrest (that he supposedly resisted) for?
You can't say "Cop never ID'd himself, never made a sound" based on that video.
What was wrong in this video is that it was the wrong guy.
The cop was under the belief this was the right guy. I think the article said a witness identified the guy.
If you don't want to chase a suspect down it's a good idea not to announce he is under arrest until you have placed a hand on him. This is the element of surpise. We are taught that if you are going to make an arrest, you announce it as you are grabbing on to them because it is very common for someone to bolt rather than go to jail.
I can understand this innocent guys bewilderment and hesitation in complying with a guy who is in plain clothes even if he said he was a police officer. The trick..and this is very importan..is to make sure you have the right guy before you pounce. That is a very important key to avoiding seeing yourself on national TV.
If the subject has everything to lose and nothing to gain by ignoring the officer (as it was with Mr. Blake), it adds up ONE WAY and ONLY ONE way.
What do you advise should happen when an officer decides his way is better, and he acts like this?
what do you mean by "his way is better"
That I'm not sure about, I was watching for the horrific police brutality. I'm from Texas as well and unless it is stated you are under arrest, you can't charge them with resisting arrest. However what he may have meant, I don't know, is resisting a frisk, which would be easily proven in court in my opinion. The sad thing is, had this guy been carrying, and had he wanted to kill this officer, right in front of the camera with the horribly trained officer holding one hand and the guys other hand wasnt on the car like instructed, the subject could have easily pulled a weapon out of his pocket, waiste or jacket pocket and shot the officer in the face and there wouldn't have been a thing this cop could have done about it.
Sec. 38.03. RESISTING ARREST, SEARCH, OR TRANSPORTATION. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another.(b) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that the arrest or search was unlawful.(c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search.
You can't say "Cop never ID'd himself, never made a sound" based on that video.
What was wrong in this video is that it was the wrong guy.
The cop was under the belief this was the right guy. I think the article said a witness identified the guy.
If you don't want to chase a suspect down it's a good idea not to announce he is under arrest until you have placed a hand on him. This is the element of surpise. We are taught that if you are going to make an arrest, you announce it as you are grabbing on to them because it is very common for someone to bolt rather than go to jail.
I can understand this innocent guys bewilderment and hesitation in complying with a guy who is in plain clothes even if he said he was a police officer. The trick..and this is very importan..is to make sure you have the right guy before you pounce. That is a very important key to avoiding seeing yourself on national TV.
It's evident that he didn't. But even if he did, it's clear as day that Blake didn't think it was referring to him. He's doing nothing and his demeanor doesn't change at any point - he's waiting, calmly, at the entrance of his hotel, until someone rushes in and tackles him.
What was wrong in the video is that a cop bum-rushed and violently took down a person who was calmly waiting and projected no indicators of suspicious behavior. What's wrong in the video is that the cop, apparently, decided to not investigate the situation but to simply tackle an individual based on nothing more than someone's statement.
Was that Officer's belief reasonable and justified? If I call your department and claim someone is stealing, then point him out to you, will you tackle him? Because, shit... that's very convenient. My own personal thug service just a 911 call away!
Generally a good idea, but that's a broad, broad brush you're painting with. Cops have discretion for a reason - to use their common sense and mete out force proportionally. Sadly, all we see this discretion get used for is "I fe... fe.. feared for mu... mu... mu... life" as a justification.
Your "element of surprise" deployed thoughtlessly and without care is what leaves elderly foreigners visiting their children paralyzed. James Blake is lucky to be alive and uninjured after getting "surprised" by this cop.
Would you be equally understanding of this innocent guys' bewilderment if he was armed and, in the confusion, thought he was being attacked and shot and killed that officer? Or would you be singing a very different tune while crying thin blue crocodile tears?
http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020141201475/McNELIS%20v.%20CRAIG
the legal disposition of the Craig case from a non biased source.
Sloppy work by the officer. So sloppy in fact by not including "south" in the address, and not putting the correct date of the trash run and not verifying the trash company name that the illegal contraband found in the raid was thrown out. When you are swearing to an affidavit, those things are important. He was so focused on catching the "bad guy" he lost sight of what matters.
As far as criticizing the Internal Affairs investigator in the first article, I think that's incorrect. It isn't the investigators job to hang the officer but to find the truth. Telling the officer "Im not here to hang you out to dry" is a very reasonable statement to make to an officer you are investigating. Many officers think IA is out to get them. I think the bottom line here is the officer probably didn't lie. He was just so incompetent in recording the facts, he got it wrong. It was irrelevant which trash company it was, it was irrelevant to the case whether he found the clippings on a Tuesday or Wednesday. But a major part of an officers job is reporting and recording facts. That he obviously sucked at doing that would indicate to me he needs to seek employment elsewhere. So based on the crappy job he did even if you give him the benefit of the doubt, I would fire him.
He would have immediately turned himself in, then.
Touche' :)
http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020141201475/McNELIS%20v.%20CRAIG
the legal disposition of the Craig case from a non biased source.
Sloppy work by the officer. So sloppy in fact by not including "south" in the address, and not putting the correct date of the trash run and not verifying the trash company name that the illegal contraband found in the raid was thrown out. When you are swearing to an affidavit, those things are important. He was so focused on catching the "bad guy" he lost sight of what matters.
As far as criticizing the Internal Affairs investigator in the first article, I think that's incorrect. It isn't the investigators job to hang the officer but to find the truth. Telling the officer "Im not here to hang you out to dry" is a very reasonable statement to make to an officer you are investigating. Many officers think IA is out to get them. I think the bottom line here is the officer probably didn't lie. He was just so incompetent in recording the facts, he got it wrong. It was irrelevant which trash company it was, it was irrelevant to the case whether he found the clippings on a Tuesday or Wednesday. But a major part of an officers job is reporting and recording facts. That he obviously sucked at doing that would indicate to me he needs to seek employment elsewhere. So based on the crappy job he did even if you give him the benefit of the doubt, I would fire him.
On the basis of alleged evidence that was never properly booked by the Sheriff’s Office or proven to exist, McNelis was arrested and charged with drug trafficking. Two days later, as he prepared for an emergency shelter care hearing for his high school-age daughter Andromeda, McNelis was confronted by a deputy (identified as “Officer Rodarte” in court documents), who demanded that he surrender custody of the girl. If he proceeded with the hearing, McNelis was told, he would be arrested for “child endangerment” and “felony injury to a child.”
I haven't read the link yet - will do so later in the evening. Until then, what about this bit:
You think it's appropriate for a deputy to threaten charges (and serious ones at that) and demand he surrender custody of the girl instead of going to a hearing in front of (presumably) a neutral arbiter? Tell me again, how is that NOT violation of due process?
That didn't come up in the legal ruling at all.. The demanding he surrender custody of the girl makes no sense to me. I would view that part with a grain of salt. In my experience, CPS is the ultimate authority on taking a child from their parent, at least in Texas. We can only intervene in a temporary manner and turn them over to CPS immediately if the child is in immediate danger. That days later a deputy threatened and demanded doesn't add up. BUt certainly if that did happen, its a horrible thing.
This was posted before, when it happened. It took a while to determine this was abuse.
Cops Rupture Handcuffed Man’s Spleen, Laugh at Him, Take Pics as He Lay Dying and Begging
Orlando, FL — A police sergeant and an officer were finally fired 14 months after surveillance video caught the officer violently kneeing a handcuffed man. After rupturing the man’s spleen, the officers ignored his pleas for medical attention for nearly two hours while laughing at him off-camera and later lying to investigators regarding the incident.
On August 12, 2014, Robert Liese was arrested for a $60 bar tab that he was unable to pay. While loading Liese into his patrol car, Orlando police officer Peter Delio allegedly kicked the handcuffed man in the stomach. Upset and injured after Delio left him handcuffed inside a jail cell, Liese headbutted the glass window on his cell door.
According to surveillance video, Officer Delio immediately entered Liese’s cell and kneed the handcuffed man in the abdomen so hard that it ruptured his spleen. Easily picking up Liese like a ragdoll, Delio ordered him to stop resisting even though Liese was clearly immobilized from the pain and not attempting to resist. After dragging Liese out of the cell, Delio moved him to another holding area and placed leg restraints on him.
For nearly two hours, Liese remained on the floor of his cell in restraints writhing in pain and begging for medical attention 35 times. Instead of calling paramedics, several cops could be heard in the video mocking and laughing at Liese off-camera. When Sgt. William Faulkner eventually went into the cell to check on Liese, the police sergeant failed to report that Liese had requested medical care and later lied to internal affairs officers investigating the incident.
After an hour and 50 minutes of suffering from internal injuries, Liese was rescued when paramedics finally arrived and began treating him. Requiring emergency surgery, Liese was rushed to a hospital where surgeons removed his ruptured spleen.
Upon reviewing the footage of the incident, Police Chief John Mina asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct an investigation into his men. Initially, Delio was suspended for a week without pay in December. But in March, Delio was arrested and charged with felony battery.
On Wednesday, the Orlando Police Department terminated Sgt. Faulkner and Officer Delio 14 months after nearly killing a restrained man. The department accused both cops of failing to treat the detainee “humanely and with regard to their legal rights.” Faulkner was also accused of writing false reports and lying to internal affairs investigators.
“Sgt. Faulkner blatantly ignored Liese’s repeated pleas for medical assistance,” his termination letter stated. “Liese was obviously in a great amount of pain and distress. This put Liese at medical risk.”
In his report, Faulkner falsely stated that he had asked Liese if he needed medical attention, but Liese refused. According to the video, Faulkner did not even bother asking Liese if he required medical assistance yet Liese begged him several times.
“I need medical attention, please,” Liese repeated.
According to their termination letters, Faulkner and Delio both lied to the internal affairs officers investigating the incident. Delio told investigators that he heard screaming from the cell but did not know it was coming from Liese, even though he was the only prisoner in that cell. Faulkner attempted to cover up his role in the abuse by falsely informing investigators that Liese never requested medical attention, even though the camera recorded him asking 35 times.
“While on the ground, Liese can be heard and seen through the audio/video writhing in pain crying out for medical attention 35 times over the next 1 hour and 50 minutes,” wrote Deputy Chief Robert Anzueto in Delio’s termination letter. “The conduct outlined in the investigation cannot be tolerated by an employee of the Orlando Police Department and undermines the employee’s credibility as a law enforcement officer.”
After almost dying at the hands of these sadistic cops, Liese filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Orlando Police Department. The case is still pending.
Fcking arsehole big bully coppers.. Hope they get a long time behind bars.
And Get a damn good kicking many times & are laughed at by the other
Inmates as they lay there screaming.
Where were they recruited from... German concentration camp.
That 5% of Rogue cops as Agnostic says is a Big 50,000+ Army.
with 50,000 rogue criminal cops out there, I would expect more video of abuse than we are seeing.... maybe they are hibernating?
Hmmmm that's your guesstimate of 5% are rouge cops.
Out of approx 1,000,000 law enforcement.
I would like to Think You & Your buddies Would be Feeling
Very Appalled, Let Down & Disgraced With the Never ending
Barrage of Video's, News air time & Complaints Against
Cops.
Maybe even Stand up against the Rouge 5%.
Sadly that's not the vibe I'm getting from your post.
::)
I don't believe there are 50,000 rogue cops out there. I believe that there are probably 50000 out of the 1000000 that are less than stellar and should probably be in another line of work. Spread out over a department of 1000 cops (90% of the departments have less than 10 cops) that's 50 cops. I would love to have them find another line of work. But sadly and in reality supervisors don't always do a great job in documenting performance issues which makes firing difficult. There are also civil service protections that while are in place for good reason, are often a hindrance to removing substandard officers from the job before they cross the line. Like you, I am happy to see the spot light on the bad cops, no matter how embarrassing it is for us good cops because 1. It may keep an otherwise decent person from going down that path 2. It may start sending the message to departments that culturally are still living in the 60's and 70's. 3. It may eventually lead to better, more professional departments nationwide.
At leas the incident wasn't tragic (as in featuring a child's death) and he had the decency to plead guilty. I am almost ok with the punishment too even if I'd have pushed for something more meaningful. But that aside, I am forced to wonder: should a man with such poor judgement be out there, patrolling the streets in a position of authority?
NYPD captain who pulled gun on two children playing tag in the street and shouted 'mother f****** get on the ground' pleads guilty to improper use of force
Brian McCaughey confronted Kesean Smalls, 13, and Jahniel Hinds, 12
They were playing on a Brooklyn street when he shouted at them
The 39-year-old lieutenant told them to lay face down on the ground
He handcuffed Smalls, but Hinds managed to hide behind his mother
McCaughey soon realized that he had stopped at the wrong address
The lieutenant lost 30 days of paid vacation as a punishment
A NYPD captain who pulled his gun on two children playing tag in the street has pleaded guilty to improper use of force.
Brian McCaughey shouted 'mother f******, get on the ground' when he took out his weapon and confronted Kesean Smalls, 13, and Jahniel Hinds, 12, in Brooklyn.
The lieutenant with Bedford-Stuyvesant’s 79th Precinct then ordered the terrified pair to lie face down on Quincy Street before family members came out and intervened.
Smalls was handcuffed while Hinds hid behind his mother Corina Sivers, 39, The New York Daily News reported.
They were freed after 37-year-old McCaughey realized he had gone to the wrong address.
He was responding to a call from a fellow officer a few blocks away and had stopped too early.
McCaughney admitted he was guilty of improper force, abuse of authority, and discourtesy during the September 2013 incident during a Civilian Complaint Review Board and lost 30 days of paid vacation.
Smalls, now 15, described the terrifying confrontation to The New York Post.
'I got on the ground. I didn’t resist or anything,' he said. 'I was nervous. I was just hoping that anything didn’t go bad.'
Hinds, now 14, said he is now afraid to play outside. He told The Post: 'I think [police] should be more careful what they do, instead of just jumping right out on kids playing in the street.'
Hinds’ mother, Corinia Sivers, was glad McCaughney admitted his guilt. But she insisted more cops there that day should have been punished.
The 39 year old now tells her son not to put his hood up when around cops and not to run.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3265694/NYPD-captain-pulled-gun-two-teenagers-playing-tag-street-shouted-mother-f-ground-pleads-guilty-improper-use-force.html
Chief Defends “Good Cop” Who Pepper-Sprayed Man For No Reason as He Walked Down the Street
Seattle, WA — On January 19, Jesse Hagopian was pepper sprayed by police while leaving a peaceful Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally and march. The incident was not in dispute as everything that happened was caught on video.
Officers had set up a bicycle barricade to block the march, but some people walked through the blockade, Hagopian did not.
The video clearly shows Hagopian come walking along calmly, minding his own business and talking on his cell phone. At this point, you can hear the officer, in typical jackboot thug fashion shout, “Stand back! Stand back!”
Out of nowhere, Officer Sandra Delafuente let loose a hefty blast of pepper spray into the unexpecting man’s face.
“I felt the piercing pain shoot through my eye, my eardrum and my nostril, all over my cheek and face,” said Hagopian, according to Komo News. “I yelled out. My mom was in distress as she heard me yell.”
Hogopian has since filed a lawsuit. His attorney, James Bible, said Hagopian was pepper-sprayed “irrationally” with “No provocation and no reason,” characterizing the officer’s assault on innocent citizens as a challenge to free speech.
The Office of Professional Accountability recommended a suspension for Delafuente. However, in typical “thin blue line fashion,” Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole defended the officer’s actions and downgraded the suspension to “an oral reprimand.”
Delafuente sprayed an innocent man, on the way home to his kids, in the face with a chemical agent and she is getting off with a stern talking to.
Delafuente proved that she had no place in her role as a public servant. This proof was caught on video, and yet she’s hailed as “good officer” who was merely thrust into a difficult situation — in which she had to pepper spray innocent people.
THIS.
Imagine any other job on the planet, outside of the government, in which you assaulted an innocent person and not only were you not arrested for it, but you were not fired. It is this double standard of violence with impunity that further drives a wedge between those with authority and everyone else.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/chief-defends-good-cop-pepper-sprayed-man-reason-walked-street/
Were You One of His Victims? Scamming Cop Busted Mailing Traffic Tickets to Innocent People
Houston, TX – A police officer was recently suspended after it was discovered that he was mailing speeding tickets to random people who were not even driving in the area at the time. Officer David Carter is now under investigation because a number of drivers disputed their tickets, and it was determined that it would have been impossible for them to be speeding in the area where they were accused.
Emanuel Morfin is one of the drivers who caught on to Carter’s scam, and he told KHOU that he was mailed a speeding ticket for a date that he was out of town.
“Actually I was down south in South Texas, so I’m like, well how am I speeding in Houston if I’m out of town? It was kind of ridiculous I was kind of shocked,” Morfin said.
Morfin wasn’t alone either, Carter regularly wrote tickets and assigned them to random vehicles, although it has not been determined how he picked his victims.
Larry Karson, Criminal Justice Professor at the University of Houston said that none of the tickets are valid if the actual driver of the car can’t be identified
“You have an officer who is abusing their discretionary authority. You have no idea who’s driving that car. You’re sending that ticket to a registered owner, who may or may not be behind the wheel,” Karson said.
Carter tried to explain some of the tickets by saying that he tailed people in his personal vehicle.
“He’s actually making the situation worse because what he’s doing is he’s becoming another vehicle flying down at 90 miles an hour and no one knows that he is a police officer. All they know it’s another crazy person on the highway,” Karson said.
Randy Zamora, criminal law division chief with city’s legal department said that all of the cases in question will be dismissed.
“I do not believe the citizens had any knowledge of the citations. Therefore, I did not think it was in the interest of justice to prosecute the cases and asked that all of the citations be dismissed,” he said.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/lazy-cop-busted-sending-speeding-tickets-mail-random-people/
Hidden Camera Gets Justice, Cop Sentenced to Prison for Beating & Terrorizing Innocent People
Honolulu, HI — A former police officer was sentenced to prison on Friday after a surveillance video caught him brutally beating two innocent men and hospitalizing one of them. The two officers who witnessed the assault have also been charged with trying to conceal the crime and lying to FBI investigators.
On September 5, 2014, officers Vincent Morre, Nelson Tamayori, and former reserve officer Joseph Becera arrived at a Honolulu game room to serve a warrant. In an unprovoked attack, Morre suddenly kicked Jordan Topinio in the head while the innocent man was sitting on a stool. After failing to locate their target, Morre is seen on surveillance video losing his temper and attacking patrons.
Sitting next to Topinio, Francisco Franson remains on his stool and not resisting when Morre begins punching him in the face and kicking him in the chest. After viciously beating Franson, Morre kicks Topinio in the face causing him to fall off his chair. As Morre walks away, he throws a metal stool that hits Topinio in the head, requiring stitches.
Before Morre exits the room, he shoves a woman near the door for no apparent reason while officers Tamayori and Becera make no attempt to stop him. Five days later, Morre filed a false police report omitting the fact that he had assaulted Topinio and Franson. Officers Tamayori and Becera went along with the cover-up while remaining completely unaware of the surveillance camera that captured them on video.
On May 19, Morre admitted to losing his temper and pleaded guilty to two counts of depriving the two men’s right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer. Former officers Tamayori and Becera were charged with failing to report the assaults. On June 29, Becera pleaded guilty to attempting to conceal the crime and making a false statement to the FBI.
Although Morre was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Friday, no federal prosecutor would have believed Topinio and Franson without the footage from the game room’s security camera. Even if these innocent men won a civil lawsuit against the department, the taxpayers would be the ones paying for the actions of these corrupt and craven officers. With promises of time off for good behavior, does our justice system truly deter other cops from abusing their authority?
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-sentenced-prison-caught-video-beating-innocent-people/
The officers who witnessed it and lied about it in their reports, and didn't intervene should get the same sentence as the main person. No different than laws on organized crime. If you are driving the getaway car you get the same sentence as the person inside the bank. The theory applies here as well. Disgusting behavior by criminals with a badge
Good thing they didn't know there was a camera recording, they might have attempted to take it down, as it happened before.
What would happen if the innocent man tried to defend himself against this assault? It would give the cops the excuse they wanted to arrest him on all sorts of charges. And I don't think he'd only get 30 months in prison.
In what percentage of similar cases of abuse/assault do you estimate other officers would handcuff and arrest the abusive cop on the spot versus just telling him to "take it easy"? We often see in such cases other cops arriving and joining in the assault, hardly taking a moment to assess the situation, or they just sit and do nothing.
a local drummer was coming home from a gig in FL...
broke down, was changing tire. An UNMARKED cop pulled over, something happened, and the cop shot and killed the broke down musician.
Details are sketchy.
Is this a drummer joke?
Posey told the jury how Parker contacted dispatchers for help looking up crimes in the area to drum up probable cause for the stop that left Patel paralyzed.
Remember the case of Mr. Patel, an elderly Indian man who didn't speak English, who was out on a walk in the neighborhood where his son lived and was left partially paralyzed after Madison cop Eric Parker body-slammed him to ground? Well, after 2 mistrials, it's Court time again. And this time, Parker's lawyer has an interesting new strategy: to blame the incident on Mr. Patel: "When you come to the U.S. we expect you to follow our laws and speak our language. Mr. Patel bears as much responsibility for this as anyone."
Read all about it in http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/defense_blames_indian_grandfat.html (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/defense_blames_indian_grandfat.html)
This is infuriating. I get that you're trying to defend your client, but this is starting to border on the insane. There's no requirement that you speak English to visit the United States, and if a U.S. citizen had suffered this sort of injury overseas at the hands of a foreign cop, then you can bet that anyone making this argument would be excoriated by U.S. media - social and otherwise. And rightly so. But even if there was a requirement that one speak English, this sort of approach raises other questions; what if, for example, Mr. Patel was deaf and couldn't hear the instructions that Parker yelled? Would he still "bear as much responsibility"?
nope. Corey something. he was on phone with AT&T HELP line for 53 minutes, and was dead for 47 miniutes of that (cop arrived 5 minutes into call), so there may be a recording of the shots and the drummers alleged threats to murder the cop.
One of the shots was supposedly confirmed to have hit the drummer in the back as he ran. The first 4-5 bullets entered his front.
Remember the case of Mr. Patel, an elderly Indian man who didn't speak English, who was out on a walk in the neighborhood where his son lived and was left partially paralyzed after Madison cop Eric Parker body-slammed him to ground? Well, after 2 mistrials, it's Court time again. And this time, Parker's lawyer has an interesting new strategy: to blame the incident on Mr. Patel: "When you come to the U.S. we expect you to follow our laws and speak our language. Mr. Patel bears as much responsibility for this as anyone."
Read all about it in http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/defense_blames_indian_grandfat.html (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/defense_blames_indian_grandfat.html)
This is infuriating. I get that you're trying to defend your client, but this is starting to border on the insane. There's no requirement that you speak English to visit the United States, and if a U.S. citizen had suffered this sort of injury overseas at the hands of a foreign cop, then you can bet that anyone making this argument would be excoriated by U.S. media - social and otherwise. And rightly so. But even if there was a requirement that one speak English, this sort of approach raises other questions; what if, for example, Mr. Patel was deaf and couldn't hear the instructions that Parker yelled? Would he still "bear as much responsibility"?
To me,, that whole things was an absolute screw up and there is no one to blame but that cop who threw him to the ground for no apparent reason
Um, weren't you saying some bullshit about video might be a "bad angle" or something like that, before?
My apologies if it was someone else.
We'll have to wait and see what information comes out as they investigate it. In the meantime, realize that it is not uncommon for shots to be in the back as a shooting is often a dynamic situation with people moving quickly and miliseconds is all it takes for a body to be turned. A lot faster than a human can realize the body is turning and refrain from shooting. So someone can be facing you, and as you are shooting, change position, causing your bullets to strike in the back before you make the mental adjustment. Not saying that happened, but just pointing out it doesn't always mean someone was running away
Remember the case of Mr. Patel, an elderly Indian man who didn't speak English, who was out on a walk in the neighborhood where his son lived and was left partially paralyzed after Madison cop Eric Parker body-slammed him to ground? Well, after 2 mistrials, it's Court time again. And this time, Parker's lawyer has an interesting new strategy: to blame the incident on Mr. Patel: "When you come to the U.S. we expect you to follow our laws and speak our language. Mr. Patel bears as much responsibility for this as anyone."
Read all about it in http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/defense_blames_indian_grandfat.html (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/defense_blames_indian_grandfat.html)
This is infuriating. I get that you're trying to defend your client, but this is starting to border on the insane. There's no requirement that you speak English to visit the United States, and if a U.S. citizen had suffered this sort of injury overseas at the hands of a foreign cop, then you can bet that anyone making this argument would be excoriated by U.S. media - social and otherwise. And rightly so. But even if there was a requirement that one speak English, this sort of approach raises other questions; what if, for example, Mr. Patel was deaf and couldn't hear the instructions that Parker yelled? Would he still "bear as much responsibility"?
Tuten said:"If you act like a criminal you are going to be treated like one."
Tuten told the jury that if Patel had cooperated then police could have determined there was no crime and let him go. Tuten spoke of police "survival training," telling the jury:"In any situation if someone resists they are going to the ground."
the kid was a local SW Florida drummer. playing upscale gigs with a high end band. opposite of the 'thug' that cops like to shoot and everyone likes to defend.
at least that is what I meant. I saw two angles.. both are horrible but the other was even worse
Tuten said:"If you act like a criminal you are going to be treated like one."
Tuten told the jury that if Patel had cooperated then police could have determined there was no crime and let him go. Tuten spoke of police "survival training," telling the jury:"In any situation if someone resists they are going to the ground."
Just saw the story about the officers carefully staged suicide. Was stealing from the Departments Explorer program. Fitting end.. wish he hadn't wasted so much taxpayer money trying to make it look like a shooting instead of the cowardly suicide it was.
Do you think the response (especially investigation+resources) would have been the same if he was not a police officer?
Do you think the response (especially investigation+resources) would have been the same if he was not a police officer?
Money-laundering cop who shot himself dead in fake murder approached a hit-man to kill administrator who was about to expose him and tried to plant cocaine on her to cover up his crimes
- Officials revealed Charles Gliniewicz, 52, killed himself on September 1
- He was the center of a legal investigation into his conduct in Fox Lake
- Sent a text message in a bid to try and get the village manager killed
- Administrator Anne Marrin was preparing to expose him as an embezzler
- Investigators found drugs in his desk, which police say he wanted to plant
- His wife and son are also being investigated as part of his illicit scheme
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3305986/Money-laundering-Illinois-cop-killed-fake-murder-sought-gang-member-hit-man-kill-administrator-tried-plant-cocaine-cover-thieving.html[/list]
"Get on the ground" while man is on the ground...
"Show me your hands" while the man's hands are visible..
This was murder. How she got away with it is beyond me.
I read the above story in the newspaper this morning. Shit like this makes me cringe. What the hell were those cops on?
No use of force policy.. no deadly force guidelines.. the head of the local Marshall office is a bus driver with no LE training? WTF??
No use of force policy.. no deadly force guidelines.. the head of the local Marshall office is a bus driver with no LE training? WTF??
And from what has been revealed until now they were supposedly trying to serve a warrant. But according to the State Police Superintendent, "No warrant has materialized".
that kind of bad info - with ZERO consequence for whoever just randomly made that shit up - is as bad as the shooting.
Just about every time we look at police misconduct up closely, their reports fall apart quickly, loaded with lies. How often do they jsut write whatever they want, and get away with it? Without body cameras here, they plant a gun and write this differently, don't they?
probably not..Pretty big friggin leap there mister
Then we get into the excited delirium. Everyone should know that someone who is hopped up on drugs, in this case he admitted cocaine and has been in a physical struggle, have an increased chance of heart attack. He was also bleeding, he had also been tazed multiple times AND... you are right in front of a medical center... duh!
California cop, 52, who raped a 75-year-old stroke victim in her senior apartment complex has been sentenced to life in prison
- Former Sacramento cop Gary Dale Baker, 52, entered the woman's apartment at least three times and raped her at least twice
- On Tuesday, Baker was sentenced to 62 years to life, meaning that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars
- The woman, now 77, was recovering from a stroke in a senior living complex in South Sacramento when the attacks began, prosecutors said
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3314798/Caifornia-cop-52-raped-75-year-old-stroke-victim-senior-apartment-sentenced-life-prison.html
That's fucking sickening... at least he ended up behind bars, where I'm sure justice will be served without lube.
Dad Tells Cops they Need a Warrant to Search Home, So they Kick in his Door & Kill Him
Spring Lake, NC — Three children lost their father Sunday after deputies with the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office, looking for a different man, shot and killed him.
John Livingston, 33, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of Sunday as police were conducting an assault investigation. Police were not looking for Livingston, and the entire situation could have been avoided had they come back with a warrant like Livingston requested.
Livingston’s roommate, Clayton Carroll told WNCN that he was shot multiple times during the altercation with officers who had no right to be there in the first place.
According to Carroll, deputies began knocking on the door around 3:30 am as they were looking for someone who no longer lived in the home. When Deputies asked Livingston if they could search his home, Livingston said “not without a search warrant,” according to Carroll.
Livingston then shut the door.
Having a man assert his fourth amendment right to be secure in his property was apparently too much for the deputy to handle.
“The cop kicked in the door, got on top of him, started slinging him around beat him…” Carroll said.
Witnesses explain how deputies began spraying pepper spray and deploying a taser during the assault. They say that Livingston was not fighting back and merely trying to prevent the deputies from inflicting more harm on him.
During the struggle, Livingston attempted to remove the taser from the deputy’s hand which caused the officers to fear for their lives.
“He (Livingston) barely had the Taser in his hand, but he had it where it was constantly going off and the officer I guess that spoke to him rolled over there, says he got the Taser and shot him in this position,” Carroll said.
Livingston died from the multiple gunshot wounds.
“That’s the blanket I kept putting on him and telling him to breathe until he was gone because I knew he wasn’t breathing anymore,” said Bristol Edge, a friend living in the home.
The officers involved have been placed on administrative leave, but their names have not been released.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dad-tells-cops-warrant-search-home-kick-door-kill/
Innocent man who spent 27 years behind bars after he was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering a Georgetown student was FRAMED by homicide detectives, jury finds
- Donald Gates was convicted of slaying Catherine Schilling, 21, in 1981
- Was walking home from work when she was shot in the head five times
- He naked body was retrieved from an embankment in a park the next day
- Gates, then 24, was convicted of the crime, but maintained his innocence
- In 2009, his conviction was overturned as a result of DNA testing
- Jurors concluded that detectives fabricated his confession
- They also used an 'unreliable' informant and hid information from Gates
An innocent man who spent 27 years behind bars for a rape and murder he didn't commit was framed by police, a federal jury has found.
Donald E. Gates was wrongly convicted of assaulting Georgetown University student Catherine Schilling and shooting her in the head five times as she walked through park on June 22, 1981.
The 21-year-old paralegal's naked body was retrieved from an embankment the next day in Washington D.C's Rock Creek Park along a route she used as a shortcut home from work.
Gates, now 64, was released from prison in 2009 after DNA evidence revealed he was not connected to the crime, and a janitor at Schilling's law firm was behind the slaying.
And now Washington D.C. officials have agreed to pay him $16.65million in damages after a jury on Wednesday found homicide detectives fabricated his confession, withheld information and fed his name to an unreliable informant.
That's about $617,000 for every year Donald Eugene Gates spent in prison. Gates has already received more than a million dollars from the federal government for its role in his conviction. The settlement with the city brings his total compensation to $18 million.
According to the Washington Post, the jury took less than seven hours to find retired detectives Ronald S. Taylor and Norman Brooks guilty of misconduct because Gates wasn't given the right to a fair trial.
They also ignored warnings about the identity of the actual killer.
A third, now-retired lieutenant John Harlow, was cleared.
Outside the courtroom, Gates told reporters: 'It feels like the God of the King James Bible is real, and he answered my prayers.
'Justice is on the way to being fulfilled... It's one of the happiest days of my life.'
In October 1982, a jury convicted a then 24-year-old Gates of the rape and first-degree murder of New Jersey-native Schilling.
At Gates's criminal trial, a D.C. Superior Court jury was told that Gates had confessed to an informant named Gerald Max 'Bear' Smith.
Smith said he was drinking in the park with Gates the night of the murder,
He said Gates wanted to rob Schilling, but when Schilling resisted, Gates killed her.
According to the Innocence Project Smith was paid $50 for the initial tip and $250 for picking out the photograph.
In all, Smith allegedly pocketed around $1,300 for his help on the case.
The police used his information despite a junior homicide investigator telling them that Smith was 'treacherous' and totally unreliable, The Post reported.
There were also questionable reports Gates had been spotted purse-snatching in the same park a week earlier.
A FBI forensic expert also told the jury he had matched hairs to one found on the victim.
However, during Gates's time behind bars, the Justice Department’s inspector general found problems with the work of the agent who linked Gates’s hair to the crime.
Hair DNA, and their place in criminal trials, in FBI labs has recently come under scrutiny because of problems with testing.
In 2009, Gates's conviction was overturned. He was freed on December 15 and used the $75 he was issued on his release to take a bus and spend Christmas with his family in Akron, Ohio.
He now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
In 2012 genetic evidence left at the Schilling scene tied to a culprit, who died a year earlier.
He was a convict and temporary janitor who had worked in the same building as Schilling, prosecutors revealed.
But the U.S. attorney's office has not identified him, arguing that his privacy continues past his death.
Gate's exoneration also prompted the D.C. Public Defenders' Office to look into the cases of four different men who were convicted on flawed DNA evidence.
A federal law grants innocent prisoners who waive claims against federal officials $50,000 every year they are incarcerated.
In February, a D.C judge awarded $9.2 million, including $350,000 per year of incarceration, to Kirk L. Odom, a District man wrongfully imprisoned for more than 22 years for a 1981 rape and robbery. The city has appealed that award.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3325844/Innocent-man-spent-27-years-bars-wrongly-convicted-raping-murdering-Georgetown-student-FRAMED-homicide-detectives-jury-finds.html
corruption of the noble cause at work. The detectives were likely convinced he was guilty and in the interest of "justice" did whatever it took to get the conviction. Better to cheat and get a killer behind bars than take their chances in court.. however this and many other cases like it underscore just why that is never the best course to take. Police Administrations should be using this case in their Academy classes to make the point.. the system is there for a reason. Sometimes the wrong person is arrested. Let the facts speak for themselves. The 'truth" is what is important, not a conviction.
On a side note, I find it somewhat ironic that he was incarcerated for 27 years for a crime he did not commit, and praises the biblical god for answering his prayers... 27 years later.
Yes they probably should use this case as a example.
More importantly.
What about the cops who lied & framed him.
Wouldn't it be fair that they serve 27yrs as punishment
As they clearly have done wrong.
That may help deter other cops from lying & cheating also
If they new they would get similar treatment to those whom
They frame & are innocent.
Or I know lets let the cops off / walk free.
Thoughts..??
The 27 years should be in addition to the punishment they would normally receive for their crimes. And of course the money this man will receive should come out of their pockets, not from the citizens. But we're talking about cops here..
On a side note, I find it somewhat ironic that he was incarcerated for 27 years for a crime he did not commit, and praises the biblical god for answering his prayers... 27 years later.
This thread should be a wake up call for many people.
I appreciate your work Skeletor.
Dad Tells Cops they Need a Warrant to Search Home, So they Kick in his Door & Kill Him
Spring Lake, NC — Three children lost their father Sunday after deputies with the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office, looking for a different man, shot and killed him.
John Livingston, 33, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of Sunday as police were conducting an assault investigation. Police were not looking for Livingston, and the entire situation could have been avoided had they come back with a warrant like Livingston requested.
Livingston’s roommate, Clayton Carroll told WNCN that he was shot multiple times during the altercation with officers who had no right to be there in the first place.
According to Carroll, deputies began knocking on the door around 3:30 am as they were looking for someone who no longer lived in the home. When Deputies asked Livingston if they could search his home, Livingston said “not without a search warrant,” according to Carroll.
Livingston then shut the door.
Having a man assert his fourth amendment right to be secure in his property was apparently too much for the deputy to handle.
“The cop kicked in the door, got on top of him, started slinging him around beat him…” Carroll said.
Witnesses explain how deputies began spraying pepper spray and deploying a taser during the assault. They say that Livingston was not fighting back and merely trying to prevent the deputies from inflicting more harm on him.
During the struggle, Livingston attempted to remove the taser from the deputy’s hand which caused the officers to fear for their lives.
“He (Livingston) barely had the Taser in his hand, but he had it where it was constantly going off and the officer I guess that spoke to him rolled over there, says he got the Taser and shot him in this position,” Carroll said.
Livingston died from the multiple gunshot wounds.
“That’s the blanket I kept putting on him and telling him to breathe until he was gone because I knew he wasn’t breathing anymore,” said Bristol Edge, a friend living in the home.
The officers involved have been placed on administrative leave, but their names have not been released.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dad-tells-cops-warrant-search-home-kick-door-kill/
Instead of Helping a Female Officer Who Was Raped, Dept Covered for the Cop Who Raped Her
Spokane, WA — A young woman was allegedly raped at a party hosted by Spokane resident Doug Strosahl last October. When Spokane Police Sergeant John Gately learned the identity of the alleged rapist, he behaved in harmony with what he perceived to be his highest ethical duty: He contacted the suspect, fellow Spokane Sgt. Gordon Ennis, to warn him that he was the focus of a criminal investigation, and advise him of the contents of a search warrant that was being prepared.
Sgt. Gately, the head of the Spokane Police Guild, was charged last Friday with felony first-degree obstruction and rendering criminal assistance to a suspect, reports the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
“Our major concern is once we started investigating this was that somebody apparently tipped the suspect off as far as the search warrant and the components of the search warrant,” Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told KXLY News on November 13. “That’s unacceptable.” At the time, Gately’s conduct resulted only in a paid suspension. Criminal charges were filed following a search of the police union official’s phone.
For people not protected by Blue Privilege, felony charges usually result in an arrest, and when this occurs on a Friday the suspect will spend the weekend behind bars. However, “There was no indication in documents available late Friday [as to] when Gately is expected to be booked into the Spokane County jail,” continues the Spokesman-Review report. “His arraignment is scheduled for December 21.”
Ennis was one of several police officers who had gathered at Strosahl’s home for a party. During that get-together, Ennis allegedly assaulted a fellow officer. A woman who attended described passing out after having several drinks. Upon waking up early the following morning in a guest bedroom, she found Ennis sitting next to her, with his hand down her pants. Ennis has been charged with second-degree rape and will be arraigned on December 7.
Ennis remained on paid leave until December 4, the day that charges were filed against Gately.
On October 25, a friend of the victim – who reportedly is also a police officer — called Assistant Chief Selby Smith, who in turn contacted Gately to inform him about the allegation, as well as the identities of both the victim and the suspect. The Assistant Chief reportedly asked Gately to “care for the victim.” The police union official, who belongs to the department’s Personnel Assistance Team, acted on different priorities, placing a brief phone call to the suspect to warn him about the investigation.
“We could have helped the victim,” complains Sheriff Knezovich, pointing out that it wasn’t necessary for the SPD’s Personnel Assistance Team to get involved. “They didn’t have to do anything. It’s just not a good idea to tell anyone about a criminal investigation, especially early on in the process.”
Since this is a case in which both the alleged victim and accused perpetrators are police officers, it would be expected that the Personnel Assistance Team would focus on the needs of the former, rather than on protecting the latter. Gately heads a union notorious for “defending the troublemakers, lawbreakers, and liars among its ranks,” observes the Inlander, an independent Spokane-area journal. The guilt “has come to symbolize the department’s problems, stirring accusations of cronyism, dysfunction and entrenchment. Some critics have even likened the union to the mafia.”
Gately’s reaction to the reported rape of a female colleague would make perfect sense as an application of the blue mafia’s version of omerta – a code of silence under which a sexually exploited woman would be expected to remain silent for the sake of the tribe.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/helping-female-officer-raped-dept-covered-cop-raped/
Read the entire article and couldn't find where the Department covered for the cop who raped her....
That is the title of the original article. The article mentions that a deputy who is also the president of a local police guild informed a cop suspect that he was about to be investigated and that a warrant was being prepared (among other things).
Perhaps this title is more to your liking:
Spokane Police Guild president has been criminally charged
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/dec/04/police-guild-president-has-been-criminally-charged
Cops Pay $7K to Man they Attacked for Filming – Days Later, Charge Him Again for Same Incident
When you cross the police, they have virtually unlimited resources to come after you in every way they can -- Even when they are completely wrong.
Multnomah County, OR — Fred Marlow IV, 28, recorded a raid that was taking place on his street early one morning last September and was subsequently assaulted and arrested by police on the scene. Marlow was recording from his own property at a very safe distance from the police officers and was not interfering with their operation in any way. However, police became aggressive with him when he refused to obey their commands to go inside.
Eventually, last month, the case against Marlow was thrown out, and he was paid $7,500 if he agreed to not file any future lawsuits for police brutality and wrongful arrest. However, shortly after the settlement, just days later, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office decided to bring additional charges against him.
Marlow is now facing misdemeanor charges of interfering with police and resisting arrest and is scheduled to appear in court in February or March.
‘”Can you tell me how this is possible? They paid me to settle, and then they are trying to charge me with a crime again? I don’t get this justice system,” Marlow told The Oregonian.
According to Marlow’s attorney, although he did settle with the city, the statute of limitations for his case is still open, meaning that it was still possible for the city to renew charges against him. However, the fact that he settled with them days before shows that they are using this legal loophole to avoid a lawsuit while still making Marlow’s life as difficult as possible.
The video that Marlow took was extremely creepy and showed police in camouflage riot gear and massive tanks. The police were telling people to stay inside and “away from their windows” during the raid.
On his fundraising page, Marlow pointed out that the “officers are not marked and are wearing military camo and carrying what appears to be fully automatic weapons. Is this safe to be carrying out such an extreme military procedure with bombs and machine guns right next to an apartment filled with woman and children as well as in between two schools.”
“This case from the beginning was totally bogus,” Marlow’s attorney Craig T. Johnson said.
“It’s a great expense and it’s really a frivolous case. … I see the DA’s office and the police talk about lack of money, and they’re dealing with this case like it’s a murder case,” Johnson added.
Ultimately, although it is still legal to film police, the police also believe that they have the right to order people around, and arrest anyone who disobeys them. So if a police officer orders someone to stop filming, filming effectively becomes illegal, at least in their eyes.
Tom Cleary, the senior deputy district attorney has argued that it is “dangerous” for people to disobey the police.
“Taking a look at this behavior, it is concerning not only for Mr. Marlow’s safety but for the safety of the community and the safety of the officers. I think that needs to be addressed. … It is important when a situation is unfolding that citizens follow the directions of police,” Cleary said.
Sadly, although Marlow recently received a settlement from the city, the money will now be spent on legal fees and to help with the expenses he has set up a fundraiser page.
Watch the video below and you decide if this warrants any charges against Marlow.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-settlement-attacked-arrested-filming-police-charge-days/
Cops Pay $7K to Man they Attacked for Filming – Days Later, Charge Him Again for Same Incident
When you cross the police, they have virtually unlimited resources to come after you in every way they can -- Even when they are completely wrong.
Multnomah County, OR — Fred Marlow IV, 28, recorded a raid that was taking place on his street early one morning last September and was subsequently assaulted and arrested by police on the scene. Marlow was recording from his own property at a very safe distance from the police officers and was not interfering with their operation in any way. However, police became aggressive with him when he refused to obey their commands to go inside.
Eventually, last month, the case against Marlow was thrown out, and he was paid $7,500 if he agreed to not file any future lawsuits for police brutality and wrongful arrest. However, shortly after the settlement, just days later, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office decided to bring additional charges against him.
Marlow is now facing misdemeanor charges of interfering with police and resisting arrest and is scheduled to appear in court in February or March.
‘”Can you tell me how this is possible? They paid me to settle, and then they are trying to charge me with a crime again? I don’t get this justice system,” Marlow told The Oregonian.
According to Marlow’s attorney, although he did settle with the city, the statute of limitations for his case is still open, meaning that it was still possible for the city to renew charges against him. However, the fact that he settled with them days before shows that they are using this legal loophole to avoid a lawsuit while still making Marlow’s life as difficult as possible.
The video that Marlow took was extremely creepy and showed police in camouflage riot gear and massive tanks. The police were telling people to stay inside and “away from their windows” during the raid.
On his fundraising page, Marlow pointed out that the “officers are not marked and are wearing military camo and carrying what appears to be fully automatic weapons. Is this safe to be carrying out such an extreme military procedure with bombs and machine guns right next to an apartment filled with woman and children as well as in between two schools.”
“This case from the beginning was totally bogus,” Marlow’s attorney Craig T. Johnson said.
“It’s a great expense and it’s really a frivolous case. … I see the DA’s office and the police talk about lack of money, and they’re dealing with this case like it’s a murder case,” Johnson added.
Ultimately, although it is still legal to film police, the police also believe that they have the right to order people around, and arrest anyone who disobeys them. So if a police officer orders someone to stop filming, filming effectively becomes illegal, at least in their eyes.
Tom Cleary, the senior deputy district attorney has argued that it is “dangerous” for people to disobey the police.
“Taking a look at this behavior, it is concerning not only for Mr. Marlow’s safety but for the safety of the community and the safety of the officers. I think that needs to be addressed. … It is important when a situation is unfolding that citizens follow the directions of police,” Cleary said.
Sadly, although Marlow recently received a settlement from the city, the money will now be spent on legal fees and to help with the expenses he has set up a fundraiser page.
Watch the video below and you decide if this warrants any charges against Marlow.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-settlement-attacked-arrested-filming-police-charge-days/
Ex-police chief accused of DWI crash gets raise, nearly $260K, no criminal charges
The borough and its former police chief have reached a settlement that will allow the chief to retire following allegations that he drove while under the influence of alcohol, struck a parked car, and left the scene of a hit-and-run accident, according to a settlement agreement.
http://www.nj.com/somerset/index.ssf/2015/12/ex-police_chief_accused_of_dwi_crash_gets_raise_26.html
"He feared for his life".
Cop Gets Off Scot-Free After Punting an Innocent, Compliant Man’s Head Like a Football on Video
Dover, DE – Officer Thomas Webster of the Dover Police Department was finally indicted last May for kicking a man in the face during a despicable act of police incompetence in August of 2013. The attack was captured on the dash camera on another officer’s car, which showed the victim, Latif Dickerson getting kicked in the face by Webster as he was complying with the officer’s orders.
Dover Police Lt. Jason Pires said that the department chose to release the video immediately after the indictment to “control the narrative,” after keeping it secret for nearly two years.
“We released the video because the judge considered it no longer to be confidential. We’re a very transparent police department, and we feel that we handled this situation properly,“ Pires said.
In the attack, Dickerson was knocked out and had his jaw broken despite never being guilty of committing any crime. Dickerson just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was on his knees with his hands on the ground when Webster delivered the jaw-shattering kick, leaving him unconscious.
The case was taken before a grand jury in 2014, but Webster was not indicted. The case was reopened, however, when the Delaware Attorney General’s office took it before a second grand jury, who charged him with assault.
“We believe that the video demonstrates the need for large-scale reform of the Dover Police Department, specifically improvements to their use of force and internal affairs practices, and supervision of their officers. The people of Dover have a right to know about this incident and deserve a dialogue with law enforcement about how they can create a safe and equitable Dover community for all.” Kathleen MacRae, executive director of the ACLU of Delaware, said.
Webster’s defense during the trial was nothing short of laughable, yet, somehow, it worked.
“I wasn’t intending to kick him in the head. I was intending to kick him in the body,” Webster testified to the grand jury. He then claimed that he was in “fear for his life,” because they were looking for an armed black man with a yellow shirt and their incompetence led them to an innocent unarmed black man with a yellow hat instead.
The jury bought this ridiculous excuse for severely injuring an innocent man, whose only fault was to cross paths with this abusive tyrant. After a deliberation that lasted over three days, on Tuesday, the jury found Webster not guilty on both felony and misdemeanor charges of assault.
“This obviously was a thoughtful verdict. I hope we can all move on from this,” James Liguori, Webster’s lawyer, told reporters before hugging his client.
Although the department hasn’t made a public statement about whether or not Webster will be allowed back on the force, this acquittal essentially guarantees that he will.
The federal civil rights lawsuit filed for Dickerson has been resolved, but no details were forthcoming from Richard Morse, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who spoke with AP.
The video below is hard to watch as it shows how armed agents of the state can brutally assault an innocent man and do so with impunity. Notice at the end of the video how they realize, only after severely injuring Dickerson, that their other officers had located the actual suspect in a yellow shirt.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-scot-free-punting-innocent-compliant-mans-head-football-video/
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Looked like excessive force to me
Looked like assault to me.
“I’m going to rape your f*****g mother” NY Police Chief Finally Arrested for Brutal Act of Torture
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Suffolk County, NY — James Burke, formerly the Chief of one of the largest police departments in the country, found himself handcuffed and facing federal civil rights charges on December 9th, reports the New York Times. Burke’s arrest follows a lengthy investigation into allegations of torture, assault, subornation of perjury, and corruption in a case involving convicted thief Christopher Loeb. The confessed larcenist’s illicit haul included a duffel bag containing some of Burke’s property, including handguns, ammunition, mace, and what Loeb described as a stash of “nasty porn” and “sex toys.”
In 2012, Loeb was charged with breaking into several cars in Saint James, Long Island. One of the cars belonged to then-Chief Burke, who personally arrested Loeb and took him to the Suffolk County Fourth County Precinct. After attaching his handcuffs to a six-inch chain anchored in the floor of his cell, four officers took turns beating the suspect for about fifteen minutes before Burke entered the room and took over from where they had left off.
Chief Burke “grabbed me by my cheeks,” Loeb recalled. “He took his thumb and four fingers and squeezed my face [then] he punched me right above my hairline.” According to prosecutors, Burke beat the captive so severely that at one point detectives in the room begged him to “knock it off.”
Burke cared not about Loeb’s desperate plea for an attorney. Loeb recalled that the Chief gloatingly told him that “no one will ever f*****g believe me because I’m a convicted felon and a dope head.” After Loeb, referring to the stash of porn and sex toys, complained that the Chief was a “pervert,” Burke gave full rein to his rage — first threatening to murder Loeb through a “hot shot” — a lethal dose of heroin — and then escalating the abuse to potentially lethal torture.
“Have you ever been choked out before?” Burke taunted the bleeding and traumatized suspect, according to Loeb’s testimony in a federal preliminary hearing last month. The Chief then applied a chokehold, whispering in Loeb’s ear: “I’m going to rape your f*****g mother.”
“That’s the last thing I remember,” Loeb testified. “I passed out.”
After a civil rights inquiry was opened into Loeb’s allegations, Burke brow-beat the officers who had been involved in the December 2012 incident to lie to federal investigators. He also induced one of the detectives to perjure himself on the witness stand during Loeb’s pre-trial hearing by denying that Burke had assaulted the suspect while in custody.
Much of the conversation between Burke and Loeb, prior to the latter being rendered unconscious, focused on the “nasty porn” that was in the stolen duffel bag. The testimony of an officer who searched Loeb’s home confirmed that a stolen duffel bag had been recovered during a search, but the pornography wasn’t placed into evidence.
Possession of conventional pornography — moral objections to its content aside – is not a crime. Chief Burke’s background suggests that he might have cause for concern about his preferred vices.
In 1995, then-Sergeant James Burke was romantically involved with a convicted prostitute and drug dealer named Lowrita Rickenbacker. She had been repeatedly arrested in the precinct over which Burke presided, but during an internal affairs inquiry, Burke insisted that he had no knowledge of her criminal record.
Investigators determined that Burke had engaged in sex acts with the prostitute in his patrol car, and on one occasion left her alone in the vehicle with his gun and service weapon, according to Pix11 News.
No discipline resulted from the years-long internal affairs probe into Burke’s misconduct. Instead, in 2000, he was promoted to Lieutenant, before being named chief of detectives in 2002 and rising to become Suffolk County Police Chief ten years later. This happened despite the fact that “everybody knew he’s a bad guy,” according to former NYPD detective and Suffolk County resident Peter Fiorillo. “They [Suffolk County police officials] wanted to do something [about Burke’s corruption and abuse of power] and it never worked, because he’s too connected.”
Burke’s powerful partisans continued the pretense that he was an honorable public servant even after he was compelled to resign in October.
In keeping with the familiar convention, Burke claimed that his resignation was for “personal and family reasons,” rather than the accumulating allegations of criminal misconduct. His attorney insisted that the sudden retirement at the end of “a stellar and courageous career” was “unrelated to any speculation of a federal investigation.”
Police Commissioner Edward Webber struck a similarly unconvincing pose.
“Chief of Department James C. Burke … is one of the most outstanding supervisors, investigators, and trainers in the history of the Suffolk County Police Department,” pretended Webber in a press release following the Chief’s resignation. “I thank him for his many years of dedicated service to the people of Suffolk County.”
Burke’s abuse of power in the service of his own interests led to federal charges of assault and obstructing a civil rights investigation. Two other officers involved in the conspiracy, Criminal Intelligence detectives Anthony Leto and Kenneth Bombace, have resigned, as well. There’s reason to suspect that the corruption has metastasized too deeply to be cured through the surgical removal of one abusive chief and two sycophantic detectives: “The potential for indictments in Suffolk County could go high up the masthead, according to sources knowledgeable of the investigation,” reported Pix11 News.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/im-rape-fg-mother-ny-police-chief-finally-arrested-brutal-act-torture
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/nyregion/james-burke-former-suffolk-county-police-chief-is-arrested.html
Marlow is now facing misdemeanor charges of interfering with police and resisting arrest and is scheduled to appear in court in February or March.
‘”Can you tell me how this is possible? They paid me to settle, and then they are trying to charge me with a crime again? I don’t get this justice system,” Marlow told The Oregonian.
The cost to litigate a case, even if an officer is totally justified is several times more than 7K. It was a strategic move to settle the lawsuit out of court for the 7K, saving a substantial amount of time and money, then continue with the original charges and let the courts determine if there is substance to the allegation
Where are the conservatives in this thread.
They are always up in arms against government stepping over its limits.
Here you have the people who uphold the governments law killing people with impunity and nothing ??
Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey announced on Tuesday that Feaster would not face any charges, claiming that Feaster’s gun merely “went off” when it struck Thomas in the neck, hitting him in the C7 and T1 vertebrae, which will likely mean he will never walk again.
Bad gun... bad, bad gun. Going off like that! Cop guns have a tendency to do that it seems. Must be a manufacturing defect, right? Good thing brave DAs like Mike Ramsey know that it's not itchy trigger fingers to blame and spares poor Officer Patrick Feaster the ignominy of a trial for, oh... I don't know... involuntary manslaughter maybe?
Fucking disgusting...
Conveniently absent (or silent), as are most cops and their supporters. The only exception is Agnostic007; even though I usually disagree with him, at least he discusses some of the stories here and offers his perspective.
Cops Shoots Unarmed Man on Video, for No Reason then Covers it Up and Won’t be Charged
Hopefully, this new means of police claiming they "accidentally" shot an unarmed man, does not become a trend of how cops escape charges.
Paradise, CA — Andrew Thomas, 26, made a deadly decision to get behind the wheel after he’d been drinking on Thanksgiving night. With his 23-year-old wife, Darien Ehorn in the passenger’s seat, Thomas left the Canteena Bar and was immediately pursued by Paradise police officer Patrick Feaster.
In a pursuit that barely lasted a minute, Thomas loses control of his Toyota Four-Runner, hit the median and flipped over. Tragically, Ehorn was ejected from the vehicle and died on the scene.
Officer Feaster then gets out of his vehicle, gun drawn, and as Thomas attempts to get out of the vehicle, in a likely attempt to check on his wife, the cop shoots him in the neck.
Thomas posed absolutely no threat to the officer who was 10-20 feet away from Thomas when he fired. There was no possible way the department could spin the shooting into Feaster somehow fearing for his life. So, they did something entirely different.
They claimed it was an accident.
Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey announced on Tuesday that Feaster would not face any charges, claiming that Feaster’s gun merely “went off” when it struck Thomas in the neck, hitting him in the C7 and T1 vertebrae, which will likely mean he will never walk again.
If this truly were an accidental shooting, Feaster would have probably reported firing his gun. However, that didn’ happen.
When backup arrived on the scene, Feaster said nothing of discharging his firearm. For 11 minutes, Thomas lay bleeding out in the vehicle before anyone even found the shot.
Only when the commanding officer on the scene suggested an investigator return to the Canteena to find out if Thomas had been shot at the bar did Feaster reveal he’d pulled the trigger.
According to Ramsey, there were multiple factors investigators used to determine the shooting to be accidental, conveniently igoring the fact that Feaster tried to cover it up.
Ramsey, in some weird play on words, said the evidence shows the shooting to be accidental, and possibly negligent, but not criminally so. “This shooting is not justified, but also not criminal.”
He then went on to describe things that are not at all present in the video, such as Feaster being “surprised by the gun’s firing.”
“The dash cam video shows Officer Feaster was not prepared for and was surprised by the guns firing. The pistol discharges in mid-stride and the officer both flinches his head to the right and does a stutter step indicative of an officer not prepared for nor intentionally firing his pistol. Additionally, officers normally train to fire a minimum of two shots. There was no second shot and the officer immediately holstered his weapon after the discharge.”
The flinch and the step were not present, and, there was no need to fire a second shot as Thomas collapsed back into the vehicle immediately after the first one.
Thomas will certainly deserve the jail time that he gets for negligently killing his wife. But the bullet in his neck also warrants jail time. Unfortunately, because the person who put that bullet there wears a uniform and a badge, he will not see any.
Since the shooting, Feaster has been on paid administrative leave pending an ‘internal’ investigation. But, rest assured, since the DA decided not to file charges, there is no possible way that the department will.
Thomas, who had a blood alcohol concentration of .15, and who may never walk again, is expected to face driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter charges.
Agnostic got balls.
In a thread like this (that for obvious reasons is anti-police) he is still contributing.
in my opinion, there is a mixture of bad policing/police officers and misunderstanding policing that is discussed here. While we always don't agree on which it is, My hope is to on occasion, show the difference. If someone happens to see it from that perspective and it reduces the animosity towards police in general, that is a good thing. On the flip side, I can certainly see all is not rosy and there are issues and examples of what's wrong with policing. For example, prior to running a warrant on a house our department has several specific checks they do to insure it is the right address. Assumptions are never allowed and it has to be concrete evidence. It's amazing to me that there are still agencies that will occasionally run a no knock warrant on a house and have the wrong address or the person hasn't lived there in awhile. That to me is just mind boggling.
Sad. This happened in 2009...
Innocent Man Dies After Cop Smashed His Head into the Concrete – Cop Never Punished
An innocent Seattle man was killed by a cop, his death ruled a homicide, and the cop who did it never got a slap on the wrist.
Seattle, WA — An innocent man has died this week after being in a coma and on life support since he was brutally attacked by a Seattle cop.
On May 10, 2009, Christopher Harris was walking down the street when he noticed 2 men, dressed in all black, running after him. As anyone would do when threatened by two maniacs chasing after you, Harris ran.
When the maniacs, who happened to be King County sheriff’s deputies, caught up to Harris, one of them, Deputy Matthew Paul, threw the entire weight of his body into Harris, sending Harris’ head smashing into the concrete. Harris would never regain consciousness.
On Thursday, Harris finally succumbed to his injuries from that attack. According to the Thurston County Coroner’s Office, Harris died of “Acute and chronic pneumonia of the lungs, due to medical sequelae, due to blunt head trauma,” and his manner of death has been ruled a homicide.
Deputy Paul never received so much as a slap on the wrist for his brutal negligence. In spite of a $10 million settlement paid out to Harris’ family in 2011, Paul remained on the force and on full duty.
The department never even conducted an investigation into the matter.
In police state USA, a cop can kill a man, on video, and no one even bats an eye.
0:11
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-dies-cop-smashed-head-concrete-cop-punished/
According to this article, the cop was cleared by an internal investigation - no surprise:
http://q13fox.com/2015/12/11/christopher-harris-attorney-man-slammed-into-wall-by-deputy-in-2009-dies/
Do you feel like the cops that SEE wrongdoing - but do nothing, cover up, ignore, go along with - Do you believe they should be getting punished MUCH harder?
I think cops should STAND UP against other bad cops. Why?
SELF PRESERVATION.
Every time a cop beats, abuses, kills someone and other cops ignore it, they ALL get smeared with that shitty impression. Which opens them all up for retribution, as we saw with the shooter earlier this year (NYC?) And it's about HELPING police too. People are FAR less likely to help cops, saves cops ass, and inform on crimes, if they know bad cops will cover up good cops.
Cops that enjoy community support, want to risk fewer nutjobs, and want to make sure citizens have their back should the bad guy ever get the upper hand on them... they SHOULD want to turn in all the bad egg cops. These bad cops are turning the public against them - they should be vigilant at weeding out the lying cops. Not defending them.
I think cops should STAND UP against other bad cops. Why?
SELF PRESERVATION.
Every time a cop beats, abuses, kills someone and other cops ignore it, they ALL get smeared with that shitty impression. Which opens them all up for retribution, as we saw with the shooter earlier this year (NYC?) And it's about HELPING police too. People are FAR less likely to help cops, saves cops ass, and inform on crimes, if they know bad cops will cover up good cops.
Cops that enjoy community support, want to risk fewer nutjobs, and want to make sure citizens have their back should the bad guy ever get the upper hand on them... they SHOULD want to turn in all the bad egg cops. These bad cops are turning the public against them - they should be vigilant at weeding out the lying cops. Not defending them.
I think they should also start holding cops personally accountable and not shield them with immunity and send the bill to the taxpayers.
in my opinion, there is a mixture of bad policing/police officers and misunderstanding policing that is discussed here. While we always don't agree on which it is, My hope is to on occasion, show the difference. If someone happens to see it from that perspective and it reduces the animosity towards police in general, that is a good thing. On the flip side, I can certainly see all is not rosy and there are issues and examples of what's wrong with policing. For example, prior to running a warrant on a house our department has several specific checks they do to insure it is the right address. Assumptions are never allowed and it has to be concrete evidence. It's amazing to me that there are still agencies that will occasionally run a no knock warrant on a house and have the wrong address or the person hasn't lived there in awhile. That to me is just mind boggling.
Cowardly Cop Kills Family’s Cat with a Shotgun After it Hissed at Him
North Catasauqua, PA — Six years ago, when Tom Newhart and his wife rescued a baby cat and named him Sugar, they never imagined that his life would end in a hail of gunfire. However, thanks to a North Catasauqua police officer, that’s exactly what happened.
Last Sunday, Sugar escaped from the Newhart’s home. Hours later, he’d be gunned down by police.
“It’s like one of your children, you raised them, bottle fed them,” said Newhart as he began tearing up.
When Sugar escaped, a neighbor five houses down found him and decided to call the police after not being able to detain the lost cat. When the cop showed up, he pulled out a shotgun and it was open season on lost cats.
“I found the cat sitting right here,” said the neighbor, Mike Lienert.
When the officer showed up, he told Lienert that it’s “not politically correct, but if it’s injured we will put it down,” — as if being ‘politically correct’ has anything to do with killing an innocent animal.
The officer then walked into Lienert’s backyard, blew the cat away, and then told Lienert that he’d have to clean up the mess. Lienert said aside from poking at the dead cat’s body, the officer never attempted to catch the cat.
Lienert said the cat did hiss at the officer, but instead of grabbing a pair of gloves and putting the cat in a cage, this public servant did some target practice.
After recovering Sugar’s body, the Newhart’s decided to have him x-rayed by the vet to see if the officer was justified in shooting him. However, they found that Sugar was fine, and the officer had no reason to kill him.
“No lacerations, no blood, other than neck wound on body. ” Newhart said.
Newhart said he called the Mayor and the chief of police, who told him that this is not policy and has never happened before.
“This guy doesn’t deserve the badge he wears, and should be fired immediately and held accountable,” said Newhart in a Facebook post.
In a statement, the borough said it’s in the process of gathering information and conducting a review and investigation of what took place. After this process is complete, the borough will be taking the necessary and appropriate steps, according to WFMZ.
According to a local animal shelter, the officer’s actions could be considered animal cruelty. According to the Free Thought Project, the officer’s actions are considered cowardly and sadistic.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cowardly-cop-kills-familys-cat-shotgun-hissed/
http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-lehighvalley/north-catasauqua-man-says-lost-cat-was-shot-by-police/36981404
Good Cop Crosses Thin Blue Line, Helps Family Bring Officer Who Killed Their Son to Justice
Versailles, MO — On Friday, special prosecutor William Camm Seay announced that Trooper Anthony Piercy is being charged in the death of Brandon Ellingson, who drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks with his hands cuffed behind his back.
On May 31, 2014. Trooper Piercy arrested Ellingson under suspicion of OWI and negligently placed the wrong life jacket over the handcuffed 20-year-old’s torso. Piercy then drove his patrol boat away from the scene at a high rate of speed. Ellingson was thrown from the craft when it struck a sizeable wake, the life jacket came off, and he drowned with his hands still in cuffs.
As The Free Thought Project previously reported, following the familiar full-court press to prevent officer accountability, the jury in a Coroner’s Inquest ruled Ellingson’s death to be accidental. It was subsequently revealed that Amanda Grellner, the prosecutor who declined to file charges against Piercy, had received a personal favor from the MHP three years earlier when the department declined to charge her then-18-year-old son with DUI.
After seeing that they were getting zero help from the perpetrator and his subsequent conspirators, the family of Ellingson launched a campaign for justice. During this campaign, they were joined by Missouri Highway Patrol Sergeant, Randy Henry.
Henry witnessed first hand, the incompetence, negligence, and cover-up and took to exposing it.
“We killed Brandon Ellingson,” Henry bluntly told the Lake Expo newspaper, following it with the question of “Why are we investigating ourselves?”
In a conversation with Piercy the day following Ellingson’s death, Henry expressed concerns about how the arresting officer had conducted himself. Piercy himself seemed remorseful, telling Henry,
“I feel like I drowned that kid…. I should have done more for him.”
In any other context, that comment would be treated as a confession to second-degree murder.
Henry then filed a report on the drowning and testified about the inadequate training Piercy and other water patrol officers received.
During an interview with patrol investigators following the drowning, Henry mentioned a state law dealing with the safety of people in custody and how the police are responsible for the lives of those they detain. An investigator interrupted Henry and insisted that the recorder be turned off, to deliberately prevent an official record of his disclosures.
The stiff arm of blue justice was moving in.
Instead of Piercy being held accountable for his negligence, it was Henry who was then run through the gamut of the thin blue line. He was cast out by his department, demoted to corporal, and forced to retire.
But as a true servant to the public, Henry remained resilient and refused to be bullied.
His and the family’s efforts led to the case being reopened and taken over by Seay.
“It was an investigation not concluded at that time,” Seay said. “She [Grellner] didn’t have it. We, my people, completed the investigation. There was additional investigation after Ms. Grellner stepped down.”
When Seay was asked about the concerns of the law enforcement agency investigating themselves, he said, “That’s what I’m for. I don’t have any concerns.”
On Friday, Seay announced the charge of involuntary manslaughter in the first degree against Trooper Anthony Piercy outside the Morgan County Justice Center. The charge is a Class C felony carrying a punishment of up to seven years in prison, up to a year in the county jail, a $5,000 fine or a combination.
The Highway Patrol said in a statement that it had placed Piercy, 44, on leave without pay. He is expected to turn himself in on Friday.
Craig Ellingson, father of Brandon, announced they were pleased with the news but noted how long it took.
“But it should have been a lot earlier,” he said. “I think it has been a cover-up from the beginning. They had everything. They knew what Piercy did to my son.”
For 18 months, this family, along with the now retired Henry, have fought for Piercy to be held accountable in the death of Brandon Ellingson.
“I never imagined something like that happening to Brandon. … I think he felt like he was safe with Piercy, because he’s a cop. But he wasn’t,” said Ellingson.
“There’s been a cover-up from the beginning,” Henry recently told The Star. “They wanted to protect the governor and the merger and protect Piercy from criminal charges because criminal charges would be a black eye for the patrol.”
While this news of Piercy’s charges is great for the family, Craig Ellingson insists that the fight is not yet over.
“I feel some relief, but I still want to get to the people who have covered this up,” he said.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/good-cop-refused-silenced-fellow-officer-charged-teens-death/
Good Cop Crosses Thin Blue Line, Helps Family Bring Officer Who Killed Their Son to Justice
Versailles, MO — On Friday, special prosecutor William Camm Seay announced that Trooper Anthony Piercy is being charged in the death of Brandon Ellingson, who drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks with his hands cuffed behind his back.
On May 31, 2014. Trooper Piercy arrested Ellingson under suspicion of OWI and negligently placed the wrong life jacket over the handcuffed 20-year-old’s torso. Piercy then drove his patrol boat away from the scene at a high rate of speed. Ellingson was thrown from the craft when it struck a sizeable wake, the life jacket came off, and he drowned with his hands still in cuffs.
As The Free Thought Project previously reported, following the familiar full-court press to prevent officer accountability, the jury in a Coroner’s Inquest ruled Ellingson’s death to be accidental. It was subsequently revealed that Amanda Grellner, the prosecutor who declined to file charges against Piercy, had received a personal favor from the MHP three years earlier when the department declined to charge her then-18-year-old son with DUI.
After seeing that they were getting zero help from the perpetrator and his subsequent conspirators, the family of Ellingson launched a campaign for justice. During this campaign, they were joined by Missouri Highway Patrol Sergeant, Randy Henry.
Henry witnessed first hand, the incompetence, negligence, and cover-up and took to exposing it.
“We killed Brandon Ellingson,” Henry bluntly told the Lake Expo newspaper, following it with the question of “Why are we investigating ourselves?”
In a conversation with Piercy the day following Ellingson’s death, Henry expressed concerns about how the arresting officer had conducted himself. Piercy himself seemed remorseful, telling Henry,
“I feel like I drowned that kid…. I should have done more for him.”
In any other context, that comment would be treated as a confession to second-degree murder.
Henry then filed a report on the drowning and testified about the inadequate training Piercy and other water patrol officers received.
During an interview with patrol investigators following the drowning, Henry mentioned a state law dealing with the safety of people in custody and how the police are responsible for the lives of those they detain. An investigator interrupted Henry and insisted that the recorder be turned off, to deliberately prevent an official record of his disclosures.
The stiff arm of blue justice was moving in.
Instead of Piercy being held accountable for his negligence, it was Henry who was then run through the gamut of the thin blue line. He was cast out by his department, demoted to corporal, and forced to retire.
But as a true servant to the public, Henry remained resilient and refused to be bullied.
His and the family’s efforts led to the case being reopened and taken over by Seay.
“It was an investigation not concluded at that time,” Seay said. “She [Grellner] didn’t have it. We, my people, completed the investigation. There was additional investigation after Ms. Grellner stepped down.”
When Seay was asked about the concerns of the law enforcement agency investigating themselves, he said, “That’s what I’m for. I don’t have any concerns.”
On Friday, Seay announced the charge of involuntary manslaughter in the first degree against Trooper Anthony Piercy outside the Morgan County Justice Center. The charge is a Class C felony carrying a punishment of up to seven years in prison, up to a year in the county jail, a $5,000 fine or a combination.
The Highway Patrol said in a statement that it had placed Piercy, 44, on leave without pay. He is expected to turn himself in on Friday.
Craig Ellingson, father of Brandon, announced they were pleased with the news but noted how long it took.
“But it should have been a lot earlier,” he said. “I think it has been a cover-up from the beginning. They had everything. They knew what Piercy did to my son.”
For 18 months, this family, along with the now retired Henry, have fought for Piercy to be held accountable in the death of Brandon Ellingson.
“I never imagined something like that happening to Brandon. … I think he felt like he was safe with Piercy, because he’s a cop. But he wasn’t,” said Ellingson.
“There’s been a cover-up from the beginning,” Henry recently told The Star. “They wanted to protect the governor and the merger and protect Piercy from criminal charges because criminal charges would be a black eye for the patrol.”
While this news of Piercy’s charges is great for the family, Craig Ellingson insists that the fight is not yet over.
“I feel some relief, but I still want to get to the people who have covered this up,” he said.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/good-cop-refused-silenced-fellow-officer-charged-teens-death/
You Could be Killed for Doing What this Drunk Cop Did – Instead, He’s Let Go and Given an Apology
The next time you see a dozen cops pummel a man suspected of a DUI, remember that this is how they treat their own.
Poulsbo, WA — Instead of simply doing their jobs, officers exposed the blatant double standard between themselves and ordinary citizens by refusing to arrest a deputy who admitted to driving drunk on body cam video after vomiting on himself. Although the cops had probable cause to arrest the inebriated deputy, one of the officers shut off her body camera while apparently discussing how to cover up the embarrassing incident with the police chief.
At 9:25 p.m. on October 16, Poulsbo Officer Danielle Branes responded to a call from a movie theater employee about an intoxicated man sitting in his car ignoring suggestions from passersby not to drive drunk. Immediately after approaching Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Porter, Officer Branes informed the deputy that she could smell alcohol on his breath. Although Branes offered to give her colleague a ride home, Sgt. Porter refused her help and waited until she left the parking lot before driving home drunk. After asking the theater employees to call 911 if they saw Porter attempting to drive, Branes reported that Porter was “totally wasted.”
Around 11:10 p.m., a theater employee called 911 to report Porter’s vehicle leaving the parking lot. Responding to the call, Poulsbo Officer Jennifer Corn and Reserve Officer Joshua Krebs arrived at Porter’s home to find him sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle. While slurring his speech and refusing to wait patiently, Porter ordered the officers to “go away.”
Officer Corn responded, “I, I wish I could. I can’t.”
Later on in the video, Corn informed Porter, “I just came to make sure you made it home, but seeing you in the vehicle I had to check on you. I’m wishing I hadn’t, but now I’m stuck.”
“No, you’re not stuck, Jen,” Porter retorted.
“I am, because somebody saw you drive out of there,” Corn replied.
“No, we’re good,” asserted Porter.
“You’re drunk,” Corn observed.
“Yeah,” stated Porter.
“And you just drove here from…from the theater,” Corn noted.
“Yes…two miles,” admitted Porter.
“Yup, I know,” acknowledged Corn. “And I’m really hoping that there’s nothing in the law that will stick here.”
According to Corn and Krebs, Porter had vomited on himself and clearly appeared drunk. After repeatedly attempting to walk away, Porter was forced to remain near his vehicle while waiting for Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Dickson and Poulsbo Chief Al Townsend to arrive. Instead of administering field sobriety tests or conducting further questioning about his admitted DUI, the officers stood with Porter in awkward silence for nearly 20 minutes while waiting for their bosses.
During this time, Porter did several things that would have gotten a normal citizen, tasered, handcuffed, beaten, or killed. Getting out of the car when told not to, repeatedly putting hands in pockets, and refusing to obey the officers’ commands have proven to be death sentences for otherwise completely innocent people.
Immediately after Chief Townsend’s arrival, Corn informed her boss that she was shutting off her body camera before discussing the details of Porter’s DUI and subsequent detention. Instead of ordering Corn to leave the video running, Townsend allowed his subordinate to shut off her camera in order to secretly devise how to let Porter off the hook without arresting him.
Instead of chastising Porter for driving drunk and endangering lives, Corn apologetically whimpered at Porter, “I…I’m just gonna be straight to up for you…with you, because I respect you. Um, right now, we have the reasonable suspicion to detain you. Ok? But we don’t, at this time, have probable cause for your arrest. Ok?”
After obtaining the body cam video and police report from the city through a public records request, the Kitsap Sun also discovered that Corn never asked Porter to perform any sobriety tests, take a field Breathalyzer, search his car, or inform him of his Miranda rights before conducting further questioning after his initial confession. Although Corn claimed they did not have enough probable cause to arrest Porter, Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim McDonough disagreed with her assessment.
“Poulsbo PD did not conduct an investigation into whether Sgt. Porter was under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs to establish probable cause for violation of (the state’s driving under the influence law) even though it appears that they had probable cause to do so,” wrote Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim McDonough on December 24. “An exact determination of Sgt. Porter’s blood alcohol/drug content when he was contacted by Poulsbo (police) cannot be determined. Based on the video alone, it is apparent that Sgt. Porter is impaired.”
Eleven days prior to the incident, Porter rear-ended a car waiting to make a left turn at an intersection at 8 a.m. on October 5. He returned to work on November 11, after learning that no criminal charges would be filed against him.
“Her (Corn’s) decision to call out her supervisors and the KCSO supervisor only go to reinforce that she made no effort to provide any special treatment to Porter, and in fact, suggests that he was treated with more scrutiny than an average citizen would be,” Chief Townsend wrote.
Obviously lying, Townsend has ignored the fact that he allowed Corn to turn her body camera off during a crucial point in the investigation, while she repeatedly cowered before an inebriated suspect covered in his own vomit — who told her he’d been drinking. According to defense attorney Linda Callahan, it was “ridiculous” that Corn did not arrest Porter.
“I would think she is derelict in her duty for not,” Callahan explained. “I defend these people, I’m not going to be leading the race to get this guy convicted, he needs help, but this is a case of the blue wall. They protect each other.”
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-refuse-arrest-deputy-admitted-driving-drunk-body-cam-video/
It's Good to see Texas are Doing the right thing in this particular case.
If only all state police departments would do the right thing when
Dealing with their wrong doing cops.
There would be less Disrespect, Distrust & a better standard of Policing.
Can't argue with that
;)
We may often be on very different sides of the fence.
It's Good to Stand back & be able to share a laugh.
Life on this planet is after all is just a mere blip in Time.
So true. Life is too short. Case in point, one of my former Corporals died Saturday from cancer. 47 years old, had everything going for her and a total sweetheart. There are more important things in life than arguing a point all the time. Plus, in spite of our consistent disagreements, I enjoy the banter.
police unions argue that red-flagged officers should not be judged by their marred past.
“My client was very surprised that charges were filed without an investigator talking to him,” Johnson said, noting that Clark should have been given his special treatment due to his officer status.
No need to comment further... this says it all.
Georgia Police Officer Indicted for Murder of Unarmed Black Man
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/us/georgia-police-officer-robert-olsen-anthony-hill-shooting.html
"Although Mr. James had announced this month that he would seek an indictment, prosecutors faced an especially complex challenge because of the legal protections that are guaranteed to law enforcement officers in Georgia. Those safeguards, which are among the country’s most extensive, give accused officers access to the grand jury’s meeting, as well as the opportunity to address the panel without the threat of cross-examination or a rebuttal by prosecutors."
“The grand jury has to hear, without a doubt, the reasonable, subjective views of the officer and the reason why a law enforcement officer would act,” Lance LoRusso, a defense lawyer who works with the Georgia division of the Fraternal Order of Police, said this month. “Private citizens don’t get paid to use deadly force; law enforcement officers do.”
Watch the video below and remember that this can happen to anyone anywhere and at any time.
All a corrupt cop has to do to ruin the lives of those they do not like, is make up a lie and get their fellow cops to corroborate that lie.
Had the cop not left the video going, Picard’s situation would be much different and the world would think he’s a criminal.
That is the truth of the matter.
It happens time after time.
Seems like there are a lot of criminals in the police service.
Always some poxy excuse is banded about to exonerate
or justify the cops behaviour.. ::)
But.. I don't think that case was made here. That it happens.. certainly. There are calls that occur every day where officers deal with an incident and then discuss possible charges. They "know" something ain't right, or there is an ordinance or law that covers what they are dealing with but if it isn't a common thing, they often confer. That's what happened here in the discussion. I don't think they lied about people telling them there was a dude with a visible gun down the street and they were concerned. I don't know the laws in Connecticut but they also may be referring to what we have in Texas as Pedestrian in the roadway. The legal description of the roadway can include medians and islands. In his case, he was on the shoulder which is considered the roadway at one point and on an island in another. reckless use of the highway and creating a disturbance may have been lawful possible charges. I only see what the video shows, so I have no idea what disturbance may have been caused and it probably was an unnecessary charge.
We believe you are a good cop.
And have good thoughts & deeds.
What is troubling is the constant need you seem to have to find some form of
excuse or defense for All the Scumbag abusing cops that are posted
up on this thread.
If it was a Scumbags criminal thread and we were continually
trying to find a tiny excuse / loophole to try & justify there actions
i believe you would be Worried & quite rightly so.
So would I.
But.. I don't think that case was made here. That it happens.. certainly. There are calls that occur every day where officers deal with an incident and then discuss possible charges. They "know" something ain't right, or there is an ordinance or law that covers what they are dealing with but if it isn't a common thing, they often confer. That's what happened here in the discussion. I don't think they lied about people telling them there was a dude with a visible gun down the street and they were concerned. I don't know the laws in Connecticut but they also may be referring to what we have in Texas as Pedestrian in the roadway. The legal description of the roadway can include medians and islands. In his case, he was on the shoulder which is considered the roadway at one point and on an island in another. reckless use of the highway and creating a disturbance may have been lawful possible charges. I only see what the video shows, so I have no idea what disturbance may have been caused and it probably was an unnecessary charge.
See, this is the "us vs. them" mentality I talk about. Here's a clear case of cops fabricating charges and it's caught on video. And you are trying to explain it away. With every single post you make in this thread, you make a choice: which side of the blue line to be on. And every single time you choose to be on the side of law enforcement.
I don't doubt you're a good person or a good cop, but you have the same problem all cops have. You've been indoctrinated to believe that the cops are your family and family sticks together against an evil public that's out to get you all.
I'm taking meds for it..
Cop who shot and killed Laquan McDonald in hail of 16 bullets had broken his dashcam deliberately and unplugged the microphone, records show
- Officer Jason Van Dyke caused 'intentional damage' to recording device
- He is also believed to have detached the 'mic' so there would be no sound
- His conduct was put in maintenance logs before the deadly shooting
- The 37-year-old cop gunned down the black teenager in October 2014
- Was charged with murder after footage of the shooting surfaced
- The records show 80 percent of cases where the dashcam was broken was because of the cop's deliberate actions
The Chicago cop accused of slaying black teenager Laquan McDonald in a hail of 16 bullets had broken his dashcam on purpose and didn't sync his microphone, records have revealed.
Officer Jason Van Dyke, 37, who gunned down the 17-year-old boy in October 2014, was accused of causing 'intentional' damage to the device in the months leading up to the shooting- and he isn't the only one.
More than 1,800 maintenance logs reviewed by DNAinfo Chicago show that in 80 percent of cases, the lack of audio or problems with the recording device was down to the cop's deliberate actions.
It means there was no sound on thousands of dashcam videos used to investigate police interactions with suspects - including the shooting of McDonald.
The records show officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes and pulled out batteries.
Microphones were also broken or went missing and sometimes dashcam systems didn't have any sound recorders plugged in at all.
Four other police vehicles at McDonald's shooting scene failed to record audio. Only two of the five vehicles had dashcams that actually captured video.
On June 17, 2014, police technicians reported fixing a dashcam wiring issue in police vehicle No. 6412, the squad shared by Van Dyke and his partner Joseph Walsh.
It was fixed around three months after it was reported broken, records show.
A day later, the same vehicle's dashcam system was reported busted again.
This time it took until October 8, 2014, to complete repairs of what technicians described as 'intentional damage'.
Twelve days days later, on October 20, dashcam video recorded from squad car No. 6412 showed Van Dyke shooting and killing McDonald.
However no audio on the tape was picked up.
The video that went viral, and led to Van Dyke's murder charge was taken from a different squad car, but it, too, had no audio.
The dashcam in police vehicle No. 8489, shared by officers Thomas Gaffney and Joseph McElligott the night of McDonald's shooting, recorded 37 'event videos' in October 2014, and had an operational dashcam the night of the shooting.
But 'due to disk error' no video was recorded at the shooting scene, according to police reports.
On November 21, 2014, a review of 10 videos downloaded from Van Dyke's squad car dashcam determined it was 'apparent … that personnel have failed to sync the MICs [sic]'.
The records show Van Dyk and Walsh asked for their dashcam to be repaired five days before Laquan's shooting.
However on October 31, technicians found 'no problems' with the equipment, DNAinfo reported.
Van Dyke has been charged with first-degree murder in Laquan's shooting.
Walsh, who backed up Van Dyke throughout the investigation, has been placed on desk duty as the investigation into his conduct continues.
Daily Mail Online has asked the Chicago Police Department for comment.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3421247/Cop-shot-killed-Laquan-McDonald-hail-16-bullets-broken-dashcam-deliberately-unplugged-microphone-records-show.html
Care to bet lunch I can find more than one time where I clearly come down on the side of the citizen verses cop?
http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shot-trooper-told-him-die-soon-102114307.html#
Pretty messed up
WTH? Dude has mental issues.. his story is he tailed people in his personal vehicle? Which likely isn't calibrated AND likely violates policy of not enforcing misdemeanor violations when off duty. Guy needs to be fired, prosecuted for falsifying an official document and any other charge that fits..
The officers who witnessed it and lied about it in their reports, and didn't intervene should get the same sentence as the main person. No different than laws on organized crime. If you are driving the getaway car you get the same sentence as the person inside the bank. The theory applies here as well. Disgusting behavior by criminals with a badge
If he were still alive.. I'd advocate the death penalty
very very very bad shooting. Should do time.
'You tarnished the badge for police officers everywhere,' Sacramento Superior Court Judge Ernest Sawtelle said as he sentenced Baker, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported on Wednesday. 'For your crimes, you will be sentenced to life"
If the death penalty wasn't an option, I guess this will have to do. And I do hope he gets what's coming to him there.
Looked like excessive force to me
The flinch and stutter step with the head movement certainly was there. Not sure why the author of the article didn't see it, I noticed it before I read the article. So the gun fired unintentionally. The problem as I see it is guns generally never fire without the trigger being pulled so it is highly unlikely it was a defective gun, and more likely it was a defective cop. That he never mentions it ... no matter how it happened, that is problematic
in my opinion, there is a mixture of bad policing/police officers and misunderstanding policing that is discussed here. While we always don't agree on which it is, My hope is to on occasion, show the difference. If someone happens to see it from that perspective and it reduces the animosity towards police in general, that is a good thing. On the flip side, I can certainly see all is not rosy and there are issues and examples of what's wrong with policing. For example, prior to running a warrant on a house our department has several specific checks they do to insure it is the right address. Assumptions are never allowed and it has to be concrete evidence. It's amazing to me that there are still agencies that will occasionally run a no knock warrant on a house and have the wrong address or the person hasn't lived there in awhile. That to me is just mind boggling.
Award-Winning Florida Deputy Charged with Attempted Manslaughter After Lying About Suspect Grabbing His Gun
One month ago, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told reporters that one of his deputies had to shoot a handcuffed man because the handcuffed man pulled the gun out of the deputy’s secured holster and threatened him with it.
That, of course, made Timothy Virden fear for his life, who in 2004, was named one of the “nation’s outstanding law enforcement officers.”
Being the valiant hero that he was, Virden managed to snatch the gun back from the suspect and shoot him twice.
The suspect, whose hands were cuffed behind him and his pants around his ankle, survived the shooting.
On Friday, Gualtieri spoke to reporters again.
This time announcing that deputy Timothy Virden was being charged with attempted manslaughter.
It turns out, the suspect, Dylan Tompkins-Holmes, never touched the deputy’s gun.
That, Gualtieri said, was determined by three thorough investigations that lasted a month which included evidence from a dash cam video and statements from another deputy that contradicted Virden’s claims.
The dash cam video only captures the audio because it is pointed outward towards the front of the car and the shooting took place as Virden was trying to place the suspect in the back of the car.
But Tompkins-Holmes was drunk and mouthing off to Virden, calling him a “pussy” and a “bitch.”
His pants had fallen and he apparently was halfway in the car, but wanted his pants pulled back up.
“You’re a real man, bro, you’re a real man,” Tompkins-Holmes said. “Keep going, keep going.”
Then two gunshots are heard and a man is heard yelling in pain.
A man, whose voice differs from the suspect, can be heard yelling “oh, shit.”
Then a few seconds later, a deputy, possibly Virden, is informing dispatch that he needs fire-rescue because “shots have been fired.”
Hours after the incident, Gualtieri held his press conference, defending Virden. And, of course, the media ate it all up.
This is how ABC Action News reported it:
A deputy shot a man Wednesday morning after he tried to grab the deputy’s gun, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
It started around 3:00 a.m. with a traffic stop near 129th Avenue West at Village Boulevard in John’s Pass Village.
During the traffic stop, deputy Timothy Virden suspected the female driver of DUI, and began to investigate.
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said passenger Dylan Tompkins-Holmes, the driver’s boyfriend, interfered with the investigation. Gualtieri said the man was arguing with the deputy, and imploring the woman not to cooperate. At one point, he jumped into the driver’s seat.
Deputy Virden arrested Tompkins-Holmes, handcuffed him, and placed him in the back of the patrol vehicle, a Chevy Tahoe.
Inside the vehicle, the man’s pants fell down, and he fell to the floor. Tompkins-Holmes was loudly complaining and asked for help. Deputy Virden help him out of the SUV to pull up his pants, and Tompkins-Holmes — still handcuffed — grabbed for the deputy’s gun.
After a short struggle, Deputy Virden got control of the gun and shot Tompkins-Holmes twice. One shot hit the man in the wrist and thigh. Another shot struck him in the abdomen.
This is how the Tampa Bay Times is now reporting it:
A Pinellas sheriff’s deputy shot a 26-year-old man early Wednesday outside John’s Pass Village after the arrestee — with his hands cuffed behind his back — grabbed the deputy’s weapon, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Deputy Tom Virden was “concerned for his safety and his life,” when he shot Dylan Tompkins-Holmes, whose criminal record dates back to 2008.
“We’re extremely lucky and fortunate that Deputy Virden is fine — when someone grabs your gun and has your gun in their hand, it could be an absolutely volatile situation,” Gualtieri said.
The sheriff added: “Even if (people) are in handcuffs, there’s a lot of flexibility. You’re able to use your hands and fingers, and you’re able to grab.”
Now this is the way WTSP is reporting it:
“There is no evidence of any struggle,” said Sheriff Gualtieri, “There’s no evidence of anybody reaching for a gun.”
Deputy Verdin had claimed Tompkins-Holmes, whose hands were behind his back, whose pants had fallen down, and whose body was wedged against the backseat of Deputy Verdin’s cruiser, was somehow able to unholster and then grab the deputy’s weapon.
It’s a struggle that a second deputy who was standing just feet away, said never occurred.
“While handcuffed, being able to do this, this, and this,” Gualtieri demonstrated, “and then get the gun out? Didn’t happen.”
Gualtieri said three separate investigations all reach the same conclusion.
On Wednesday, Verdin was charged with attempted manslaughter, and was fired from his job at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
“I’m believe Tim Verdin is a good man, and a deputy that dedicated his professional life to law-enforcement,” said Sheriff Gualtieri, “And by all accounts, up to this point, had an excellent performance record.”
This is how Fox 13 is now reporting it:
On Friday, Gualtieri confirmed that Tomkins-Holmes never grabbed the deputy’s weapon.
The sheriff showed off a utility belt and gun holster to demonstrate how improbable that would have been to begin with: The 26-year-old was drunk, handcuffed, and did not have proprietary knowledge on how to release a gun out of the deputy’s twice-secured holster.What do you think?
The sheriff added that even if that part had been true, Virden would have been the only one with the gun when he shot the handcuffed man.
He played dashcam video of the shooting which countered the deputy’s account.
“There’s no evidence of a struggle, no evidence of anybody reaching for a gun,” Gualtieri offered after showing the footage. “This is all inconsistent with Deputy Virden’s version of events.”
A second deputy at the scene also refuted Virden’s claims that Tompkins-Holmes was a threat.
“All he had to do was walk away,” the sheriff continued. “There was no justification for shooting Tompkins-Holmes.”
Gualtieri maintained the sheriff’s office was correct in charging Tompkins-Holmes with “obstruction.” He also said he had no regrets for justifying the shooting the morning it took place, before the agency had completed an investigation.
“Dylan’s no angel, but he’s not a bad guy,” the sheriff said, adding that he’s never been charged with any violent crimes.
Meanwhile, Tompkin-Holmes is still recovering from his injuries, but Gualtieri said they not only dropped the obstructions charges against him and his girlfriend, they are going as far as paying for his medical bills because it’s the “right thing to do.”
But he made it clear that the department is not civilly liable for his deputy’s actions because of qualified immunity.
And in that, he is wrong. Dead wrong. In fact, he was an accomplice to the attempted manslaughter because he defended it within hours, only reversing judgement after three month-long investigations.
Let’s just hope they did not coerce Tompkins-Holmes into signing away his right to sue in exchange for them paying for his medical bills.
Below is the press conference from Friday where he announced Virden’s arrest. And below that is the dash cam video of the shooting. And below that is the video from last month where he is telling reporters that Tompkins-Holmes reached for Verdin’s gun.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/01/30/award-winning-florida-deputy-charged-with-attempted-manslaughter-after-lying-about-suspect-grabbing-his-gun/
"The jury has sent a message to the Police Department that what happened was unacceptable," said Jackson's lawyer Eric Sanders. "And that guy with the gun? No one ever bothered to look for him."
City lawyer Matthew Modafferi had told jurors that Jackson was out of control and resisting arrest, and should have counted himself "lucky" not to be charged with a crime ultimately.
"And we also know why he got lucky…he's a police officer right?" Modafferi told the jury.
But the jury rejected the argument, including the claim that Jackson was drunk. "That totally didn't happen," juror Lisa Gaeth of Queens told The News.
Finally, some good news.........
Close your eyes, piggy san......that's not soy sauce on your back..... Hahahahahaha.....
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-peter-liang-guilty-fatal-shooting-akai-gurley-article-1.2528827
“We are very disappointed in the verdict and believe that the jury came to an absolutely wrong decision,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said. “This bad verdict will have a chilling effect on police officers across the city because it criminalizes a tragic accident.”
For purposes of this appeal, Officer Birberick accepts McCarty’s version of the facts (i.e., evidence and inferences therefrom) but claims that those facts do not prove a clearly established constitutional violation. Thus we proceed from those facts, which are that Officer Birberick:
( 1 ) knew that McCarty’s car was disabled on a heavily trafficked city street, given that it was still parked where he had left it earlier but now with its emergency lights flashing;
( 2 ) knew that she had already been there for at least 20 minutes, indicating that assistance could already be on the way or even nearby;
( 3 ) knew that McCarty was likely unreceptive to his assistance, given that she had earlier accused him of lying and racism, refused to accept the ticket, and rolled her eyes at him upon his return;
( 4 ) chose not to call for assistance, either from a tow truck or another officer, perhaps one who had not just had an uncomfortable interaction with McCarty;
( 5 ) knew that three small children were passengers in the car, given that he had approached the car on foot at least three times—once before the ticket, again after writing the ticket, and again upon his return to the scene;
( 6 ) knew that he had not spoken with McCarty upon his return, to investigate the situation or warn McCarty of his intent to ram her car with his SUV;
( 7 ) knew that McCarty likely either had the brake engaged or the transmission in “park” when he rammed it, since it was stopped there, and that neither McCarty nor the children were expecting the violent rear end collision;
( 8 ) chose not to instruct McCarty to (a) put the car in neutral, (b) steer the car toward the gas station, (c) prepare herself for the contact, or (d) remove the children from the car before he rammed it;
( 9 ) knew that his police SUV was substantially larger than McCarty’s sedan and did not gently “push” the car with his SUV but instead struck and rammed McCarty’s sedan hard enough to jolt it forward and knock it into the street, and then berated her for the resulting circumstances and danger;
( 10 ) knew that his first ramming of the car damaged it and jarred the occupants;
( 11 ) rammed the car a second time, again without warning, instruction, or removal of the children—this time hard enough to knock the back of the car up off the ground and send it careening into the gas station toward the gas pumps, leaving McCarty dazed and knocking the children from their seats onto the floor and the girl in the front seat into the dashboard, cutting her head;
( 12 ) immediately left the scene without speaking with McCarty, checking on her or her car, or calling for medical or automotive assistance; and
( 13 ) later destroyed the dash cam recording from his police car.
Officer Birberick contends that while this conduct falls below the expected standard of care for a reasonable officer, it is not so outrageous as to “shock the conscience,” which is the applicable standard here.
The A-A dude has spaghetti for arms, though.
I wonder how many years in jail that little stunt cost him? ??? :-\
It's probably Home, Sweet Home for him anyway.
“People should be pleased that police officers are being held to the same standard as everyone else.”
i was playing the beach today - saw this one cop macking to this female cop while she did her makeup and stuck her ass out for him. She was pretty hot, lots of makeup. he was singing along with the band all night too. Seemed like 2 cool cops, I have to be honest. I have to give shit to the lying cops that frame/beat people... but as I drank my wine glass in the sand (i'm in the band, hey, we go anywhere), the cop nodded at me and smiled and smirked at the big booty female partner we were both glancing at... and he kept on mackin' to her... it was a cool moment. Great to see cops kicking ass and being nice to people.
i was playing the beach today - saw this one cop macking to this female cop while she did her makeup and stuck her ass out for him. She was pretty hot, lots of makeup. he was singing along with the band all night too. Seemed like 2 cool cops, I have to be honest. I have to give shit to the lying cops that frame/beat people... but as I drank my wine glass in the sand (i'm in the band, hey, we go anywhere), the cop nodded at me and smiled and smirked at the big booty female partner we were both glancing at... and he kept on mackin' to her... it was a cool moment. Great to see cops kicking ass and being nice to people.
Cops Arrest Drunk Driver with his Penis Out — But then They Find Out Who He Is and Let Him Go
Blaine, MN — Blaine Police officers, responding to reports of an alarm at the Lexington Avenue Fleet Farm in November, discovered something startling — a man passed out behind the wheel of a car with its engine running. But that wasn’t all.
Two officers spent a few minutes pounding the roof of the car and banging the windows in an attempt to rouse the driver. According to reports, they observed “open containers of silver Coors Light cans in the passenger seat.”
Dash cam footage obtained by local KARE 11 shows the Blaine officers beating the car while repeatedly yelling for its occupant to “Wake up!” When they finally manage to capture the driver’s attention, he appears incapable of understanding or following basic commands.
“Can you open it?” Officer Brad Nordby asks — nine times, according to the footage — “Ok, open the door.”
Then he realizes something more is amiss.
“Oh, great,” he says to his partner. “His penis is out of his pants.”
After first revving the engine, the driver eventually exits the vehicle; but he remains incoherent and unable to understand what the officers are saying.
They then proceed to administer basic sobriety tests — which the man stumbles through but simply cannot complete. Eventually, one of them tells the clearly impaired driver, “Why don’t you just go sit on my bumper, ok? You’re going to fall [over] on me.”
Video shows the driver with his arms extended, as one of the cops asks “Can you take off your hat for a second?” But he has to repeat the question a number of times. Finally, the driver, later identified as William Monberg, explains, “I don’t understand what you want me to do.”
Dash video records Monberg blowing into a breathalyzer, and according to police reports, he registered .202 — more than two and a half times above the legal limit.
“William, right now I’m going to place you under arrest for DWI,” says the officer. “Ok, so put your hands behind your back for me.” He is then placed in the back of the patrol car.
It would seem to be an open-and-shut case. Not quite.
Upon examining the contents of Monberg’s wallet, one officer says, “Oh, crap.”
Looking at one another, without saying a word, both officers pull their body mics out of their pockets — and shut them off. Then they step away from the camera.
The mic and camera in the patrol car is still recording as the pair allow the inebriated Monberg out of the back of the vehicle.
When he’s placed back in patrol car, he is no longer in handcuffs.
“I just need to figure out a way to get him home,” one of the cops can be heard saying.
As it turns out, William Monberg is an investigator for the Columbia Heights Police Department. And Norby and his partner, Officer Brandon Fettig, are performing what is known as “professional courtesy” — the unspoken rule among police that they will not arrest one of their own.
KARE 11 reported, Monberg “was not taken into custody. No mugshots were taken. His car was not towed. Instead, the Blaine officers helped him arrange a ride home.” In fact, “no official police reports were filed at the time.”
Talk about Blue Privilege.
Monberg almost got away scot-free — with the help of fellow officers. Until Blaine Police Chief Chris Olson had an investigator find out what had happened that night.
Monberg ended up officially charged with DWI in December, though he has pled not guilty. His court date is scheduled for March 2.
As for Norby and Rettig, Olson told KARE 11, “In this case, inexperienced officers made a mistake. It’s not acceptable” — though neither has faced disciplinary action.
Officer Monberg issued a statement to KARE 11 in which he said he is “profoundly ashamed, embarrassed, and disappointed” in himself over the incident.
This was not a case of officers excusing another from a parking ticket — though that wouldn’t be acceptable, either. Monberg was seriously incapacitated on the night of November 7, 2015, and could have gravely injured or killed someone had he attempted to drive in that state. The lack of discipline for the officers involved in this attempted cover-up leaves little doubt similar “professional courtesy” will happen again.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-arrest-drunk-penis-hanging-cops-wallet-magic/
Our police Chief was at a IACP meeting recently where he was addressing his peers. He said that the problem isn't with the police officers, the problem is with those in the room with him. He said accepting mediocrity and failing to hold the officers accountable is the problem. I tend to agree with him.
Hi your back - was starting to think you left this thread.
Why am I not Surprised you would agree with him.
The problem as most none cops would see is
Both.
Corrupt cops out there & corrupt cops
Who defend & cover for them of higher rank.
The whole system is corrupt from the top down,
Mind that is likely the case with many/ most other
Big organisation.
Baltimore City School Officer Charged For Assault In Viral Video, Faces 35 Year Sentence
Once again, a viral video has led to criminal charges for a Baltimore cop, and this officer was fired from another agency for police brutality already in 2002.
This time, it’s serious.
Baltimore City School Officer Anthony Spence, was in the viral-video you can see below which PINAC News reported last week, hitting a student, along with Officer Saverna Bias, the other officer in the video whose identity has been verified.
The cop was charged Wednesday morning with second degree assault, second-degree child abuse by a custodian, and official misconduct.
All three criminal allegations against Spence are felony charges, according to the Baltimore Police Department who investigated the incident.
Spence faces up to a total of 35 years for the criminal charges.
The 53-year-old officer Bias was also charged with second degree assault and official misconduct.
Baltimore School Police Chief Marshall Goodwin placed both officers on paid vacation (aka paid administrative leave), before the Chief placed himself on paid vacation over the incident too.
Oddly, Baltimore schools won’t say why the Chief has suspended himself, or if it’s related to this investigation which is highly likely, as you can see from the video tweeted by Baltimore Sun reporter Colin Campbell below.
Spence was seen striking and kicking the student while yelling “Get the fuck out of here” in the video, which was shot in selfie mode, presumably to shield the photographer from repercussions on the scene.
It is unknown if either officer reported the incident to authorities, however school officials stated they found out after the viral video was posted online.
Both Officers were released on $50,000 bond.
School officials had stated the 16-year-old in the video was not a student at the REACH Partnership School on the north east side of Baltimore, and had tried to dismiss the video by saying the person was an intruder at the school and was told multiple times to leave.
He was actually a student.
Spence was previously fired from the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office for his role in tazering an innocent man at Lexington Market in 2002. There is no word from officials if Spence is still employed at the Baltimore City School after charges were filed.
Anthony Spence was previously hit with a temporary restraining order in 2011 by his girlfriend at the time who was also a Baltimore City School officer.
Both officers face multiple felonies, but we suspect they will be given a light sentence just like Baltimore City Police Sergeant Dennis Workley who was given a suspended jail sentence and probation after facing 10 years in jail for perjury and misconduct in a case in 2012. Baltimore public defender Todd Oppenheim has described the advantages Baltimore’s police typically receive over regular defendants in criminal proceedings.
Maybe, a conviction on these charges will at least be enough to have the violent Baltimore City Schools cop fired, and to finally lose his license to carry the badge.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/09/baltimore-city-school-officer-charged-for-assault-in-viral-video-faces-35-year-sentence/
I think you might have missed the point, based on your response. I could be wrong though.
Hmmm -- Are you also not missing the point in most of the
Cop related articles posted on here.
IE there is some very flawed cops out there & the very flawed
System covers & backs them up.
Jeez we have seen enough evidence posted here.
I don't understand why in the last few instances, the victims of police misconduct don't take matters into their own hands..... Especially in the story of the pig who falsely arrested and charged over 100 people to make himself look better. Were these people waiting for the bullshit court system to punish the cops? That will never happen..... Wake up and do some work, people.... Go after the pig personally. Go after his ( or her) family... Make it so they are held responsible for their crimes.....
Arizona Cop Killed Man with AR-15 Rifle Inscribed with the Words “You’re Fucked” as Man Pleaded for His Life
Daniel Shaver may have had a few drinks in him when he was ordered out of his Arizona hotel room at gunpoint by a group of six screaming police officers last January.
The Mesa police officers were barking all kinds of orders; each one with a different demand, telling him to get down on his hands and knees and crawl towards them, to place his hands over his head, to sit on the floor and cross his legs in front of him.
The traveling businessman was trying to comply, but he was confused by their contradictory demands. The fact that he had been drinking with friends that evening did not help.
“Please don’t shoot me,” Shaver reportedly pleaded as he lifted his hands up, then down again.
But then one cop did, shooting him five times with an AR-15 rifle inscribed with the words “You’re Fucked.”
It was Philip “Mitch” Braisford’s personal gun, which he had personally inscribed, and it offered a glimpse into his personality.
Naturally, the 25-year-old Mesa police officer claimed he was in fear for his life, which was enough for internal affairs to find no wrongdoing on his part; the same investigative unit where his father had recently retired from as a lieutenant after working 19 years in the department.
But the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office charged him with second-degree murder several weeks later after reviewing footage from his body cam, a decision that left him “stunned” and “shocked,” especially considering the charge carries a minimum sentence of ten years in prison.
However, now he is being offered a plea deal of negligent homicide, which carries a minimum sentence of probation, a judicial “get out of jail, free” card that he would be stupid not to accept, according to Shaver’s wife, Laney Sweet, who is posting information on a Facebook page she created in support of her husband.
Braisford, who has not spent a minute in jail, has until May 16 to decide whether to accept the deal offered to him on Tuesday, said Sweet, who is already sensing that he will never spend a day in jail.
Especially considering he has not spent a minute in jail since he was charged with second-degree murder, the judge apparently believing his lawyer who said that he “honorably served his community as a Mesa police officer.”
But now the department is taking the steps to terminate him, not over the shooting, but because he had inscribed the profane phrase on his personal gun, which he was allowed to use over any department-issued gun.
Meanwhile, Shaver’s wife has already filed a $35 million wrongful death lawsuit.
And the body cam footage of Shaver’s killing has already been viewed by her attorney, even though it has not been released to the public.
Sweet posted the following on the Facebook page:
I was told Daniel’s hand never even touched his side or waistband. They said that while he was up on his knees with his hands above his head that he went to all four and it appeared that he could have lost balance. His right arm brushed beside his body. The officer shot him five times and Daniel fell forward and died instantly. Daniel had a few drinks with the two guests he was eating pizza with in his room, who were co-workers there for a conference.
Shaver was 26 and lived in Texas with his wife and children. He worked in pest control and was traveling for business with two pellet guns he routinely traveled with for his job.
He had dinner and drinks with a man and a woman and invited them back to his La Quinta hotel room on the fifth floor. At one point, he was showing them the pellet guns.
Meanwhile, two people sitting by the pool looked up and saw a man pointing a gun out the window, so they became alarmed and called police.
The two pellet guns were found inside his room after he had been killed outside his room.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/17/arizona-cop-killed-man-with-ar-15-rifle-inscribed-with-the-words-youre-fucked-as-man-pleaded-for-his-life/
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2016/03/16/report-man-fatally-shot-mesa-officer-may-have-been-drunk-and-confused-police-commands/81879134/
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/mesa-ariz-officer-heads-to-court-for-murder-of-n-texas-man/82912536
88 Cops Dox and Stalk Fellow Officer Because She Arrested a Cop for Reckless Driving
After arresting a fellow officer for speeding over 120mph, a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) trooper recently received a settlement connected to fellow cops illegally obtaining her personal information. Although 88 law enforcement officers were accused of illegally accessing her information over 200 times and threatening her, only two cops have been named in a settled lawsuit.
On October 11, 2011, FHP trooper Donna “Jane” Watts pulled over off-duty Miami Police Officer Fausto Lopez for driving through Broward County in his marked patrol car at speeds exceeding 120mph. Caught on Watts’ dash cam video, Lopez refused to stop his vehicle for several minutes before finally deciding to pull over on the wrong side of the highway.
After Watts cuffed and processed the reckless off-duty cop for speeding, at least 88 law enforcement officers illegally accessed her personal information over 200 times to retaliate against the female cop for breaking the thin blue line. Instead of upholding the law, dozens of disgruntled cops illegally accessed Watts’ home address, picture, Social Security number, date of birth, and detailed vehicle description.
According to Watts’ lawsuit, at least 88 cops from 25 jurisdictions illegally accessed her information, issued threatening phone calls, and lingered in police vehicles in front of her residence for no justifiable reason. Due to the fact that law enforcement officers regularly break speeding laws, a multitude of cops launched a covert psychological war against Watts for calling out one of their own. According to a three-month Sun Sentinel investigation, 800 cops from a dozen agencies have been caught illegally driving between 90 and 130mph on our highways.
On February 29, Hollywood officials mailed a $5,000 settlement to Watts after she accused officers Robert Gianino and Keith Wadsworth of accessing her driver’s license information three times for non-police-related reasons. Before Watts even filed suit, the city of Margate settled for $10,000 while the city of Lauderhill settled for $7,500 after their cops illegally accessed her info.
Pending cases include allegedly crooked cops from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the cities of Miami, Orlando, Port St. Lucie, and 14 employees of the FHP, who illegally accessed Watts’ personal information. Instead of using a database to locate potential criminals, these reckless cops utilized that clandestine information against one of their own. Although the honest officer has received several settlements paid by taxpayers, no corrupt cop has received punitive damages for breaking the law and screwing over a fellow cop.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/trooperlawsuitretaliateofficer/
Not much hope for the few Honest Decent Cops.
This Just Highlights the Huge Problem in Policing.
Where is agnostic to comment - we seem to have lost him from
This thread.
Maybe just maybe he is seeing & accepting what we all already know.
And he seems like a 'decent good cop'.
It's got to be very tough to see & hear of so much evil,wrongdoing & corruption
All around you & be part of the Group responsible, when your a 'Good one'.
This story shows how these cops operated as a criminal organization and how their law enforcement capacity facilitated their mob tactics. No different than the mafia who would threaten and terrorize anyone who did not submit to their demands. Of course there is no personal accountability, the bill always goes to the taxpayers.
88 Cops Dox and Stalk Fellow Officer Because She Arrested a Cop for Reckless Driving
After arresting a fellow officer for speeding over 120mph, a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) trooper recently received a settlement connected to fellow cops illegally obtaining her personal information. Although 88 law enforcement officers were accused of illegally accessing her information over 200 times and threatening her, only two cops have been named in a settled lawsuit.
On October 11, 2011, FHP trooper Donna “Jane” Watts pulled over off-duty Miami Police Officer Fausto Lopez for driving through Broward County in his marked patrol car at speeds exceeding 120mph. Caught on Watts’ dash cam video, Lopez refused to stop his vehicle for several minutes before finally deciding to pull over on the wrong side of the highway.
After Watts cuffed and processed the reckless off-duty cop for speeding, at least 88 law enforcement officers illegally accessed her personal information over 200 times to retaliate against the female cop for breaking the thin blue line. Instead of upholding the law, dozens of disgruntled cops illegally accessed Watts’ home address, picture, Social Security number, date of birth, and detailed vehicle description.
According to Watts’ lawsuit, at least 88 cops from 25 jurisdictions illegally accessed her information, issued threatening phone calls, and lingered in police vehicles in front of her residence for no justifiable reason. Due to the fact that law enforcement officers regularly break speeding laws, a multitude of cops launched a covert psychological war against Watts for calling out one of their own. According to a three-month Sun Sentinel investigation, 800 cops from a dozen agencies have been caught illegally driving between 90 and 130mph on our highways.
On February 29, Hollywood officials mailed a $5,000 settlement to Watts after she accused officers Robert Gianino and Keith Wadsworth of accessing her driver’s license information three times for non-police-related reasons. Before Watts even filed suit, the city of Margate settled for $10,000 while the city of Lauderhill settled for $7,500 after their cops illegally accessed her info.
Pending cases include allegedly crooked cops from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the cities of Miami, Orlando, Port St. Lucie, and 14 employees of the FHP, who illegally accessed Watts’ personal information. Instead of using a database to locate potential criminals, these reckless cops utilized that clandestine information against one of their own. Although the honest officer has received several settlements paid by taxpayers, no corrupt cop has received punitive damages for breaking the law and screwing over a fellow cop.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/trooperlawsuitretaliateofficer/
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer defended the shooting, saying the video depicts Centeno reaching in his pocket for something that appeared to be a gun. It turned out to be a black hose attachment with a trigger-style nozzle.You only have a pro-police hat...
Dyer played the video frame-by-frame, pointing out a spot where Centeno appears to be reaching for his pocket and an object is in his hand.
"Which clearly appears to be a handgun," Dyer said. "And then the next one, and he begins to raise it, and that's when the officers feared for their life and fired their weapons."
Dyer also played the 911 call which first alerted police to Centeno in which a woman says he came to her door, pulled a gun and claimed he was a federal agent.
Not one I would hang my anti police hat on..
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer defended the shooting, saying the video depicts Centeno reaching in his pocket for something that appeared to be a gun. It turned out to be a black hose attachment with a trigger-style nozzle.
Dyer played the video frame-by-frame, pointing out a spot where Centeno appears to be reaching for his pocket and an object is in his hand.
"Which clearly appears to be a handgun," Dyer said. "And then the next one, and he begins to raise it, and that's when the officers feared for their life and fired their weapons."
Dyer also played the 911 call which first alerted police to Centeno in which a woman says he came to her door, pulled a gun and claimed he was a federal agent.
Not one I would hang my anti police hat on..
You only have a pro-police hat...
Hello Agnostic ,
Was starting to think you had left this thread.
And what would you say about the cops targeting one of their own
For Her honest policing.
Are they no working as an organised criminal gang ??
Any other group of people would be labelled as such.
Yet they all get away with that behaviour --
Zero tolerance it should be...
If they Stamped out / came down hard on all the Smaller Non
life Threating Corrupt cop Behaviour ( That alone would no doubt take a very long time )
These Gang member Thugs Mite just get the message & Fcuk Off.
Hang which one of your Hats On That.
;)
I read about that. I don't know that it rises to organized crime. But it is a shame that officers looked up her information and thought it funny to have pizza delivered to her house. That some apparently drove by her house or idled outside is a concern. I wonder if she called in to report the suspicious vehicles when it was happening. If one of my officers stopped a speeding police car for going upwards of 120 mph through traffic with no lights and siren and no reason to be driving in such a hazardous manner I would be supportive of her. I can't speak for the mind set or culture of Miami or Broward County but here it is not unheard of to arrest even a fellow officer from the same department so I would expect a different reaction. The handcuffing.. might be a bit much and that might have pissed some off but that was cool of her to stop the vehicle and hold him accountable
Thanks for your reply.
It's good to hear there are some areas with good cops.
She probably cuffed him as She Was In Fear Of Her Life...
What with him having a Gun.
As for the criminal Organised Gang Element -- Working Together --
Illegally Accessing Her Info -- Stalking / Intimadating etc etc
I'd Say if another group of individuals did that they would be likely
Called that & charged.
Yet Again No Charges ::)
Great way to bolster public opinion & suport.
Ahh it's ok they cops.. Fuck them they ain't above the law.
I'm Wrong They Clearly are & Condoned by their equally corrupt
Management.
Sack the Bastard lot of them & start again.
;)
Accessing info without a valid reason is a violation of policy for certain and may have other implications as well. Not typically dealt with as a criminal act, the discipline is internal. I don't know that they didn't receive consequences at that level. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't.
Mystery vehicles in the cul de sac.. how do you press charges on that?
Having pizza delivered to her house? Jail time? Do they know who did it? If they found out who did it I would expect them to be terminated. If they knew who and did nothing, that would be wrong.
NYPD Officers Arrest US Postal Worker On Duty Delivering Packages Who Criticized Them
[...]
UPDATE: “Our agency is aware of the incident,” says Matt Modafferi of the United States Postal Service Office of the Inspector General, “We have an investigation that’s ongoing, at this point, that’s all that I can comment on.”
After being charged with Second Degree Murder in the unjustified shooting of Daniel Shaver, they've offered officer Philip Brailsford a plea deal (off the record) after court today of 'Negligent Homicide'-- with the terms to be decided by the judge. If he pleads 'guilty' the minimum would be only PROBATION and the maximum would be 3.75 years in prison. Either one of those options is absolutely unjust for a second degree murder charge. Officer Brailsford murdered Daniel Shaver after failing to properly access a report that the Mesa PD received.
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However, a Lakeland Police Spokeswoman Sgt. Terri Smith stated, “A no-bill decision is not necessarily a finding of innocence. It is an indication that the prosecutor did not find that there was sufficient evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”
“You gonna pay for this Boy” Cops Mistake Hemorrhoid for Drugs, Sodomize Innocent Man in Public
Aiken, SC — On Oct. 2, 2014, Lakeya Hicks and Elijah Pontoon had broken no law, violated no traffic code and were simply driving down the road when they were targeted and pulled over by Aiken police officer Chris Medlin.
Medlin explained to the couple that he stopped them because they had temporary tags on the car. According to South Carolina law, there is nothing wrong with temp tags, so long as they aren’t expired. Hicks explained that she had recently purchased the car, and that is the reason for the tags. Medlin even tells the couple that the tags check out.
The stop, which never should have happened in the first place, should have ended right then. However, Medlin, working on a hunch, just knew that this couple was up to no good. Medlin orders Pontoon out of the car and handcuffs him — for no reason.
“Because of your history, I’ve got a dog coming in here. Gonna walk a dog around the car,” says this tyrant, and apparently racist cop. “You gonna pay for this one, boy.”
Pontoon has no history though, at least not since 2006, which is hardly a reason to stop the man now.
After unlawfully detaining the couple, with no probable cause, a drug dog shows up — but it finds nothing. Again, this illegal stop should have ended here. But it didn’t, and, instead, got much worse.
By now, there are four officers on the scene, one of whom is a female. Medlin then tells the female officer to “search her real good,” referring to Hicks. While the search of Hicks happened off camera, according to a federal lawsuit filed by attorney Robert Phillips, it involved exposing Hicks’ breasts in the populated area. Mind you, this is at noon on a Friday.
After sexually assaulting Hicks and finding nothing, the cops then direct their attention to Pontoon.
“You’ve got something here right between your legs. There’s something hard right there between your legs.” Medlin says, noting that he’s going to “put some gloves on.”
Again, the cops appear to move out of the view of the camera to protect themselves while sodomizing a man on the roadside. However, the graphic audio leaves no room for speculation as to what happened.
As cops launch their assault on this innocent man’s rectum, Pontoon complains that they are grabbing his hemorrhoid.
“I’ve had hemorrhoids, and they ain’t that hard,” replies the apparently racist, and now rapist, cop.
As Radly Balko points out in his article on the Post, at about 12:47:15 in the video, the audio actually suggests that two officers may have inserted fingers into Pontoon’s rectum, as one asks, “What are you talking about, right here?” The other replies, “Right straight up in there.”
The cops continue their attack on this innocent man for several minutes moving their fingers in and out of his rectum searching for non-existent drugs.
“If that’s a hemorrhoid, that’s a hemorrhoid, all right? But that don’t feel like no hemorrhoid to me,” one officer says as he sexually assaults Pontoon.
Much to the rapist and racist cops’ shagrin, they found nothing. Medlin then tells Pontoon to turn around and says, “Now I know you from before, from when I worked dope. I seen you. That’s why I put a dog on the car.”
Medlin effectively admits that he had no probable cause to stop the couple, as Pontoon lacks any charges for the last decade. He then lets the couple off with a “courtesy warning.” However, as the Post points out, according to the complaint, there’s no indication of what the warning was actually for. Perhaps it was to warn to steer clear of police officers in Aiken.
The vileness of the state’s wicked and immoral war on drugs has reared its repugnant face. When will the rest of society see that face and wake up to this atrocity? When will the people say “enough is enough,” and that finger raping innocent people on the roadside in search of arbitrary substances is no longer welcome in our culture?
Please share this article with your friends and family to help wake them up to this very real American Horror Story.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/you-gonna-pay-boy-cops-mistake-hemorrhoid-drugs-sodomize-innocent-man-public/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/04/01/video-shows-white-cops-performing-roadside-cavity-search-of-black-man/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/04/01/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/Summons_&_Complaint_FILED_9-21-15_Redacted_OCR.pdf
Agnostic can you shed some clear light on this one?
Perhaps we are missing some thing in the Behaviour of these Cops..??
Thanks for asking, I appreciate the opportunity to provide insight into these things from a professional perspective so that any misgivings or misunderstandings can be avoided.
In this case I viewed the edited portion of the video so I am drawing a conclusion based on what is available to me at the time but keep that in mind.
It's my professional opinion, based on reviewing the police officers actions and comparing it to case law that these particular officers are just stone cold Neanderthal cavemen with a badge and uniform. It was painful to watch and the response from the department was disappointing. Never ever ever is a road side cavity search appropriate even if you had enough PC to choke a horse. This was a fishing expedition of the worst order and jobs should be in jeopardy. If the department isn't coming out and acknowledging concerns, they are the problem and lord help those people..
That pretty much sums it up. I hope I was able to shed some light on the incident from an insiders perspective
Thanks.
A well & carefully worded reply.
Politically correct ;)
Can't argue with your response, well said.
Does being 'politically correct' come naturally or is it hand in hand with being a cop
On a internet site - and you having to be careful what you say in case it comes to
Light, And could affect your job.
Personally I would of just said something like, The Cops are Scumbags & Should be
In prison - Then They can Enjoy the Benefits of having their arse holes Violated
on a Daily Basis. And Any Of the Shitbags who try and defend / cover / justify there
Actions Should go to Prison also, and Experince the Same Daily Pleasures.
See if they defend / cover / justify that being done to them.
;)
Thought I said that ... :)
Ha Ha, A sense of Humour. :D
You kinda did in that Politically Correct' worded way.
As I asked is That how you answer outside of work.
Or because it's the internet & you got to be careful.
Cops Mistake Innocent College Student for Suspect, Beat Him Unconscious — Confiscated Videos
Grand Rapids, MI – In a case of mistaken identity, an undercover cop and an FBI agent beat an innocent college student unconscious.
and ordering witnesses to delete footage taken of the incident.
---- oh What A Surprise.
While later testifying under oath, Allen recalled beating King in the head and face “as hard as I could, as fast as I could, and as many times as I could.”
--- There's A Long Queue Of People Who Would Dearly Love To Do The Exact Same Thing To Him.
After regaining consciousness, King once again shouted for help and bit Allen’s arm “in a panicked attempt to save his own life.”
---- Bit His Arm.!! It's a Fcuking Shame He Couldn't of Bit It Off. ,
Although witnesses recorded the brutal beating on their cell phones, Grand Rapids Police Officer Connie Morris immediately ordered several of the bystanders to delete their videos without the legal authority to do so.
“We got undercover officers there… Delete it, delete it. It’s for the safety of the officers,” Morris can be heard saying in audio recorded through police car dash cam video obtained by FOX17. According to a ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, citizens have a constitutional right to record video and audio of officials in a public space. By ordering at least two people to delete their footage, Morris participated in the destruction of evidence without a lawful order.
---- Delete it Delete it !!! Of Course They want it Deleted. That would be too much evidence against them ArseWipes -- Ha, Shows how much said idiots Knew the Law. Fuck Them.
“They were out of control, pounding him,” one bystander can be heard saying in the only video that still exists. “They were pounding his head for no reason. They were being brutal… We thought they were going to kill him.
--- if that had been said about some young lads doing that to him just how long banged up would they get.
This Scumbag Thug Cops Should Get The Same Time.
Equipped with a seven-year-old driver’s license photo and a Facebook photo in which the suspect’s face was not visible, the undercover cops working within a joint fugitive task force between the FBI and Grand Rapids were looking for a fugitive named Aaron Davison. Wanted for home invasion, Davison is five years older than King and his vague police description referred to him as a 26-year-old white male between 5 feet 10 and 6 feet 3 inches tall. Mistaking King for Davison, the undercover cops beat him unconscious simply for not presenting his identification while failing to identify themselves.
--- !!! Great Detective Work & preparation By These Highly Trained Baffoons.
And They are Being Paid For This Thuggery.!!!
If he had been found guilty for the three felonies, King could have faced up to ten years in prison.
---- Lets Hope These ArseWipe Cops get 10yrs.
Yet another case of a driver sexually assaulted in the name of the war on drugs dramatically illustrates the dangerously broad power that police officers have to mess with motorists. According to a lawsuit filed last September, described in a February 3 ruling by federal judge in Pennsylvania, Kimberlee Carbone was pulled over by New Castle police in November 2013, ostensibly because "she did not apply her turn signal at least 100 feet before the intersection." She was then subjected to a degrading five-hour ordeal that included a bogus DUI arrest, a search of her person and her car, a strip search at the county jail, and multiple probings of her anus and vagina at a hospital. As with David Eckert in New Mexico and the various women whose body cavities have been invaded by cops in Texas, no drugs were found.
Cops = Shit
People need to wake up and fight back against the uniformed gang.
Glad to see that NYC pigs are squealing over one of their dumbfuck robots badmouthing Mayor DeBlasio while harassing a driver with a ticket. The pig was mouthing off to the driver trying to explain his actions like the coward he is. Hope they fire his worthless ass..
Following your logic, all of the following are shit
Cops
Doctors
Ministers
Soldiers
Politicians
Judges
Nurses
Firemen
Your detecting skills are lacking. Some on that list do qualify as shit, although not for the reasons pigs do.
Firefighters actually provide a useful service.....helping people, saving lives, etc.
so do police officers, though you pretend in spite of an encyclopedia of examples, they don't
South Florida Cop Arrested After Red Light Camera Proves He Lied on Accident Report
A Florida cop who sped through a red traffic light, only to get t-boned by another car who had the right-of-way, was arrested Monday for blaming the other driver for the crash.
Sweetwater police officer Alejandro Ramos was off-duty but in a marked car when he claimed he first “cleared the intersection” and then “proceeded with caution” on his way to help another officer on a call.
But then a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck “came out of nowhere” and struck him that day on February 17, 2015.
Ramos is a former internal affairs detective for the Sweetwater Police Department, a police agency in Miami-Dade County that has a long history of police corruption.
Nevertheless, Florida state troopers who responded to the accident took Ramos’ word and cited the other driver, even though he did have the right of way.
But a red light traffic camera proved Ramos had lied on his report, blazing through the intersection without slowing down.
On Monday, he was jailed for official misconduct and has since bonded out.
Sweetwater Police Chief Placido Diaz, who was sworn in last October as 15 cops resigned after a string of scandals and corrupt police chiefs, tried to give the impression that he was cleaning up the department, according to WSVN.
“This is behavior that cannot be accepted,” said Sweetwater Police Chief Placido Diaz
“It felt really horrible seeing one of our own being taken to jail,” said Diaz. “But, then again, the norm here and in the past with prior police administrations were, in some cases, that cover ups were the norm. But that’s not the norm here anymore.”
It was less than a year ago when it was revealed that property, weapons and money had gone missing from the department’s evidence room.
And it would be great to believe Chief Diaz in how he plans to keep the department clean, but he also has a scandalous and bullying history, according to Miami investigative reporter Al Crespo.
So the decision to charge Ramos might only be a way of ridding the department of a political enemy in order to bring in his own cohorts. That’s how it usually works down here.
But Ramos also has a history of bad driving, having been involved in four accidents during a five-month span while working as a South Miami police officer, which led to him having to resign from that police agency in Miami-Dade County.
The only reason this latest incident came to light was because CBS Miami published an investigative report last year after obtaining the traffic video.
The news report determined that Ramos was driving 50 mph in a 40 mph zone and that the driver of the other car was left with $1,000 in damage. It was only after that report that the Florida Highway Patrol chose to withdraw the citation against him and cite Ramos instead.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/04/south-florida-cop-arrested-for-lying-about-accident/
screw that cop who lied. Screw him. He deserves jail for it. The other cop automatically believing him and taking his word for it needs a hard look too - first time he's done this?
Men are talking here..
I cannot understand ANY defense of this cop lying about the accident. Makes me sick. It's why people hate cops - they can lie without the same consequences as the rest of us. In THIS case, the lying cop was charged - and that's great. Most of the time, whne they're caught lying, there is no punishment.
So yes, screw the cop that wore a badge and lied and had another man charged. He took an oath to enforce the law, not ignore it when it serves him personally. Screw him. And I never post things like that. But in cases of police abuse, teacher abuse, and other cases where a person takes a higher oath of ethics and is given additional power and authority - and they abuse it - screw them.
Oh I agree with you on this one, he lied, screw him. Glad he was charged..
Cops Receive Slap on the Wrist for Pleading Guilty to Slaughtering Innocent Civilians on a Bridge
New Orleans, LA – Four former New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to gunning down innocent, unarmed civilians in the days following Hurricane Katrina, while a fifth officer confessed to covering up the unjustified shooting. Although the ex-cops previously received sentences ranging from 6 to 65 years in prison, their new trial and plea deal resulted in reduced sentences ranging from 3 to 12 years with credit for time served.
On September 4, 2006, six days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, five members of the Bartholomew family along with their friend, 17-year-old James Brissette, were walking across Danziger Bridge when a Budget rental truck loaded with plainclothes cops approached them. Armed with shotguns and assault rifles, the NOPD officers immediately exited the vehicle and opened fire on the Bartholomew family without warning.
Although Brissette was unarmed and had not committed a crime, the cops shot the innocent teen to death as the Bartholomew family ducked behind a concrete barrier. Shot in the arm, Susan Bartholomew later had to have her limb amputated. Her husband, daughter, and another friend survived the ambush but received multiple bullet wounds. Her son remained unharmed by escaping under the bridge.
While walking down the bridge to visit their brother, Lance and Ronald Madison witnessed the cops sadistically gunning down the unarmed family when the NOPD officers began shooting at them. As the brothers fled back across the bridge, several officers jumped into an unmarked car driven by a State Trooper. With the vehicle in pursuit, Officer Robert Faulcon leaned out the window and shot Lance’s 40-year-old developmentally disabled brother, Ronald Madison, in the back with a shotgun. According to his autopsy, Ronald Madison sustained seven bullets wounds including five in the back.
After watching his brother die for absolutely no reason, Lance Madison was falsely arrested on eight counts of attempted murder of a police officer and held in police custody for three weeks before NOPD suddenly released him without charges. Although no weapons were found at the scene, the officers involved decided to cover-up the unjustified shooting by falsifying numerous police reports and planting a gun at the scene.
Responding to a call regarding shots fired in the vicinity near Danziger Bridge, the police opened fire on an innocent family walking toward a grocery store in search of food and water. Later investigations revealed that the initial reports of gunfire before the callous murders came from desperate residents trapped by floodwater who had fired their guns to attract the attention of rescue workers.
On December 28, 2006, a grand jury indicted seven NOPD officers on charges of murder and attempted murder. Sgt. Kenneth Bowen, Sgt. Robert Gisevius, Officer Anthony Villavaso, and Officer Robert Faulcon were charged with first-degree murder, while Officers Robert Barrios, Michael Hunter, and Ignatius Hills were charged with attempted murder for their roles in the shooting. Less than two years later, Judge Raymond Bigelow tossed out the state’s case after blaming a prosecutor for improperly using the cops’ grand jury testimonies to secure indictments.
In July 2010, Bowen, Gisevius, Villavaso, and Faulcon were indicted on federal murder charges for killing Brissette and Madison, while retired Sgt. Gerard Dugue and Sgt. Arthur Kaufman were charged with covering up the killings despite the fact that they had been assigned to investigate the police shooting. On August 5, 2011, Bowen, Gisevius, Villavaso, and Faulcon were convicted on multiple counts of civil rights violations, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. They received prison sentences ranging from 38 to 65 years.
Kaufman was convicted on several counts of falsifying records in a federal investigation, conspiracy, false statements, and civil rights conspiracy for false persecution. He was sentenced to six years in prison while Dugue was granted a severance and is awaiting retrial.
After the five officers appealed their convictions, U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt decided to grant them a new trial while citing “grotesque prosecutorial misconduct.” Engelhardt decided to toss their convictions out after discovering that senior prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office had anonymously posted comments on Nola.com articles related to the trial.
On Wednesday, the five defendants agreed to plead guilty in exchange for drastically reduced sentences. Instead of serving 65 years in prison for shooting a mentally disabled man in the back, Faulcon agreed to serve 12 years. Instead of spending 40 years in prison for gunning down an innocent teen and nearly killing a family, Bowen and Gisevius both received 10 years. Villavaso’s sentence was reduced from 38 years to 7 years while Kaufman’s prison sentence went from 6 years to 3 years with time served. Except for Kaufman, the other four cops will receive credit for six years of time served.
“This has been a terrible ordeal for our family, friends and the community,” Lance Madison told WWLTV. “We are glad the officers involved have finally admitted their guilt. I pray that no other family will ever have to go through what we have gone through.”
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-receive-drastically-reduced-sentences-pleading-guilty-killing-innocent-civilians/
in SW Fl, we had a bunch of cops who had to pay red light tickets, and their chief enforced it.
Our local PD is VERY professional to the point of having weekly breakfasts with citizens. However, 2 years back, one of them killed a kid on bike... he was speeding, between lanes, and messing with his computer... and he even beat the careless driving charge. So some shit still gets by... any of us is "on a computer, speeding, changing lanes" and we kill a kid on a bike, we're going to do some serious time.
I like consistency. I applaud it. When shady cops are caught lying, it makes my blood boil. Cause if I lie on a police report, I'm getting charged. They should too.
9 years.
NYPD Cop Sentenced to Prison for Shooting Random People While Drunk
A New York City police officer who downed several beers and whiskeys before getting into his car, driving down the street and stopping at a traffic light before stepping out and shooting two random strangers in another car was sentenced to nine years in prison this month.
Brendan Cronin told police he was “on the job” when he was arrested a half-mile away that fateful evening on April 28, 2014.
He later claimed he did not remember a thing about that night.
But victims Joseph Felice and Robert Borrelli will never forget that terrifying evening when they were driving home from a recreational hockey game and came to a stop at a red light, only for a drunken off-duty cop to walk up to them and open fire.
According to the Associated Press:
Felice was hit six times. Borrelli hunkered down, thinking he’d be killed. Physically unharmed, he rushed his friend to the hospital.
Cronin told investigators he’d downed 10 drinks — beer and whiskey — after a day of training at a police shooting range.
Felice described in his victim-impact statement how the shooting has affected him and his family.
“We have always told our son if something happens, go to the police, as it is their job to protect you,” Felice said. “How do I explain to my son that Mr. Cronin, a police officer, tried to kill me for absolutely no reason?”
Borrelli said he’s plagued by survivor’s guilt and memories of Felice gasping for air and the whites of his eyes as he lost consciousness.
Felice’s mental replay of the shooting includes the popping sounds and “excruciating burn” as bullets ripped through his chest, arm, shoulder, wrist, thumb and back.
One bullet, still lodged in his chest, “is a constant reminder of my terror,” he said.
The incident took place in Pelham in Westchester County, just outside of New York City. Lawyers for the victims say Cronin tried to use his police credentials to avoid arrest
But the incident was captured on surveillance video, so there was not much Blue Courtesy available to him. It does not appear as if the video was ever publicly released.
Initially facing 25 years in prison, Cronin agreed to a plea deal where he was plead guilty to two counts of attempted murder, assault and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.
He was convicted in September and was expected to surrender in a week to begin serving his sentence, but somehow, that week turned into seven months where he was not sentenced until April 13.
The victims have a pending lawsuit against the New York City Police Department for failing to train their officer to not drink and drive and shoot random people on the streets.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/04/nypd-cop-sentenced-to-prison-for-shooting-random-people-while-drunk/
9 years.
NYPD Cop Sentenced to Prison for Shooting Random People While Drunk
Something tells me any of us would get a lot more than 9 years for the same crime.
Officer Loses It, Goes ‘Robocop’ and Breaks an Innocent Elderly Man’s Leg Over a Tomato
Atlanta, GA — An innocent Atlanta man spent multiple days handcuffed to a hospital bed with a broken leg and a severed artery after an Atlanta cop falsely accused him of stealing a tomato that he actually bought.
Tyrone Carnegay spent then spent three days in jail before the charges were finally dropped. The interaction was all caught on a Walmart security camera.
“I was chained to my bed in Grady. They said I assaulted him and obstructed him from doing his job,” Carnegay told the local news. The video proves that none of this was true.
Carnegay explained to WSB-TV that he was walking out of the store after purchasing his groceries when an off-duty Atlanta cop, working security at the store, walked up to him without warning and began beating him.
“He’s giving me a verbal command. As he’s grabbing me, he’s beating me at the same time. ‘Get on ground.’ Beating me at the same time,” Carnegay said.
In the video, we can see Carnegay get struck by the raging cop at least seven times before he is unable to walk.
“My leg started giving out,” Carnegay said.
Carnegay didn’t resist, obstruct, or assault the officer; he merely tried to protect himself against the cop’s unnecessary baton blows.
Carnegay said that the officer never asked for the receipt prior to unleashing his ‘robocop’ fury. However, after he laid on the ground in handcuffs, his leg broken in two places, and bleeding internally, the cop reached into his pocket and found the receipt — showing he paid for the tomato.
“Somebody could have come up to him and said, ‘Excuse me sir, do you have (a) receipt for that tomato?’ and he would’ve shown him the receipt,” said attorney Craig Jones. “The officer went into Robocop mode and beat the crap out of him.”
“He found the receipt and money, and stood there like he hadn’t done nothing,” Carnegay said.
According to the lawsuit, filed over the incident which happened in October 2014, the Walmart manager told the officer Carnegay had stolen the tomato just before the beating. Named in the suit are Walmart, the manager, and the cop who doled out the beating.
When contacted by WSB-TV, a representative from Walmart said they had not yet been served the lawsuit but said, “We take the matter seriously. We will review the allegations and respond appropriately with the court.”
The Atlanta police department has yet to comment on the lawsuit.
As for now, Carnegay walks with a limp thanks to the titanium rod in his leg.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-officer-loses-it-robocop-breaks-innocent-elderly-mans-leg-tomato/
Remember this case?
Ex-Oklahoma deputy Robert Bates guilty of killing unarmed suspect
By Ralph Ellis, Christopher Lett and Sara Sidner, CNN
Tulsa, Oklahoma (CNN)A jury found a sheriff's deputy guilty of second-degree manslaughter Wednesday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect.
Robert Bates, who was a volunteer reserve sheriff deputy for the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office last year at the time of the shooting, never denied killing Eric Courtney Harris.
Bates, 74, said he meant to use his Taser stun gun, not his revolver, on the suspect, who had been tackled by other deputies and was being held on the ground.
The jury deliberated less than three hours and recommended Bates serve four years in prison, the maximum possible sentence. Preliminary sentencing is set for May 31. After the verdict, Bates was escorted out of the courtroom by two deputies from the department he once served.
In his closing argument to the jury, defense lawyer Clark Brewster said Bates should be be thanked for trying to help his fellow deputies. He displayed the stun gun and Bates' pistol and showed how they were similar size and weight.
"He got out of his vehicle to man up and help," Brewster said. "I truly believe you will find this was an accident driven to this point by the actions of Mr. Harris."
Prosecutor John David Luton told the jury Bates was nodding off in his car before the arrest. He said it was wrong to blame Harris for the shooting.
"Bob Bates didn't act with usual and ordinary care," Luton said in his closing argument. "He also didn't do what a reasonable person would do under similar circumstances. ... Eric Harris deserved to be chased, he deserved to be tackled, he deserved to be arrested. He did not deserve to be killed by reserve deputy Bob Bates."
Read the rest of the article:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/us/tulsa-deputy-manslaughter-trial/
He should be thanked? what a f'd up thing to say
Video Shows Cops Do Nothing as Fellow Officer Brutally Beats a Handcuffed Woman
Jacksonville, FL — Mayra Martinez, 31, had a bad first day on the job at the local Scores Bar in Jacksonville. That afternoon, she became intoxicated, quit, and refused to leave, so police were called — this would turn her bad day into a horrifying one.
When police arrived at the bar around 5 p.m., they arrested Martinez and charged her with trespassing and resisting.
According to the police report, Martinez was drunk and belligerent when two officers showed up to remove her from the property. One of those officers was Akinyemi Borisade, 26. When police tried to place her in handcuffs, Martinez tried to kick and bite officers, according to the report. However, as Martinez is much smaller than the two officers who were taking her in, they were easily able to overpower her.
Martinez was then transported to the Duval County jail where things would take a turn for the worse. Video released by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office shows Martinez attempt to walk over to the officers before Borisade grabs her and slams her into the wall.
After being slammed into the wall by the officer, Borisade proceeded to unleash a fury of fists to the head and face of Martinez after her foot grazed his pant leg.
“He could have turned her around and held her in a transporting position that they are trained in back over to the location to wait by the door,” Undersheriff Pat Ivey said. “He could have stood there with her, but there was no need to strike her.”
After standing there and watching their fellow officer violently assault a restrained and incapacitated woman, the officers reported Borisade. On Thursday, the JSO announced that he had been fired and charged with battery.
Equally as disturbing as watching a cop pummel a handcuffed woman was the fact that the other officers stood by and allowed it to happen.
“They could have moved in. One officer did at least walk over and put his hand on the officer to stop him from continuing to punch the suspect. So I’m glad one officer did take action,” Gil Smith, News4Jax crime and safety analyst, said. “Now in this particular situation, these other officers do have a person who is handcuffed. So they do have to keep a watch on him, if they engage with this officer no one is watching the prisoner.”
However, the officers certainly were not watching the handcuffed prisoner as they were fixated on watching Borisade beat Martinez to a pulp — not to mention the other prisoner was in a jail and in handcuffs. If he tried to run, he would have quickly been apprehended.
The only officer not at fault in this situation is the one who walked up to Borisade and put his hand on his shoulder to stop him.
Ivey said because Borisade is a probationary officer, he can’t appeal his firing, but he can ask for a name-clearing hearing with JSO, according to News4Jax. If he passes that he would regain the ability to be an officer with another agency.
If history is any indicator, this will be swept under the rug and Borisade will be quietly hired on with another agency.
As New4Jax points out, Borisade should have never been a cop in the first place as he had a criminal record. When he was 19-yeas-old, reports show he took items into a dressing room from a store at the Regency Square Mall and came out without them and tried to leave the store without paying. The report shows he admitted to doing it. He later pleaded no contest.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-shows-cops-fellow-officer-begins-brutally-beating-handcuffed-woman
I saw this in my feed this AM.
EVERY cop standing there should be suspended for a few weeks, for witnessing an assault and doing nothing.
This blue shield bullshit...
They did not arrest or even try to stop the criminal (the cop) at the spot. They should face actual punishment, not just paid vacation or firing.
Los Angeles Deputies Convicted for Beating Schizophrenic Man in Jail, Marking 21 Convictions in Federal Investigation
And if beating the inmate wasn’t enough, Brunsting and Branum also pepper sprayed him. In a final act of recklessness, Brunsting and Branum capped off the beat down by spreading open the inmates legs and kicking him in the genitals.
A defense attorney for the defendants noted that his clients used reasonable force on Jones.
The sentencing is scheduled for August, both Brunsting and Branum face up to 40 years in prison each. Brunsting is the subject of a civil lawsuit in a separate civil rights case.
Yet more Scumbag Big Tough Cops.
At least 1 out of the 3 is half decent.
We can but hope they get a lengthy prison sentence
And are Poked in the eyes & Kicked in the Bollocks Every Single Day.
And That Stupid Defence attorney -- May they also be Subjected to the
Reasonable force dished out by the 2 Scumbags & See what they have to
Say about their brush with reasonable Force.. ::)
Brailsford's father was previously a Mesa Officer. For over 20 years he worked with their PD and was even the head of internal investigations. Tell me why on earth he was granted access to the scene?
I find it very "convenient" that the bodycams get turned off shortly after the shooting and before they enter Daniel's room. Reports released from Mesa PD are already conflicting about things like if the window was open or not... Some clearly state it was closed, while later on there's pictures of it wide open.
Brailsford was given the opportunity to sit down and watch the video with his father and then given a private moment to talk BEFORE his recorded interview with Detective Sipe.
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Has anyone noticed how this was originally written up by the officer in charge? They wrote it up as if Daniel Shaver committed Agg. Assault of a police officer. He never assaulted anyone!!!!
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“Officer of the Year” Sentenced to Life in Prison for Horrifying Child Porn and Abuse
Fort Pierce, FL — In an unprecedented sentence for a police officer, a former cop with the Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie police departments, was sentenced to life in prison Monday after being convicted of child exploitation.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Micheal Edwin Harding pleaded guilty in February to possession and distribution of material involving sexual exploitation of minors, attempting to coerce and enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity and production of child pornography.
This hero cop was named Officer of the Year in 2011, when he was an officer at the Fort Pierce Police Department. Shortly after he was given the award, Harding left the Fort Pierce Department to join Port St. Lucie in 2012.
The reason for leaving Fort Pierce, was due to the fact that he was found to have been viewing and posting child porn online while sitting in his patrol car during his midnight shifts.
According to court documents, Harding posted multiple images and videos to a chat room on a popular social media application between July 23 and Aug. 4, 2015. The images — later found to be on Harding’s phone — depicted children engaging in sexually explicit acts, according to the Palm Beach Post.
Harding, who is married with three children, would spend his shifts posting child porn with an app called Kik messenger that allowed him to access a chat room called #toddlerfuck, where child porn was viewed and exchanged, according to a report by PINAC.
The nature of the videos investigators found Harding in possession of, is nothing short of horrifying. According to court documents, the videos depicted children as young as 6-years-old being raped by adults.
Officers of the year, as the Free Thought Project has pointed out time and again, raping, murdering, and molesting, is nothing new. However, being given a life sentence is incredibly rare.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-year-sentenced-life-prison-unspeakable-crimes-children/#fVizxCGrH0ye0dIv.99
However, Hein said it took months for officials to release the video. Before they did, they continually tried to get him to take a plea deal, records show.
Federal Judge Allows Plaintiff to Sue Officers After He Was Detained for Videoing a Police Station
An Austin federal judge has ruled that an amateur photographer can pursue a civil rights case against four police officers after they detained and handcuffed him for filming the Round Rock Police Department building.
The background to the recent decision in Turner v. City of Round Rock is as follows. Phillip Turner sued the officers and the City of Round Rock in a U.S. District Court last year under U.S.C. § 1983, alleging the defendants deprived him of his rights under the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Turner is a student and part-time employee whose hobbies include photography and filming police for public viewing on his website.
Turner alleges in his suit that he was approached by an officer in 2014 while he was filming the front of the Round Rock police department and the activity outside the building. He was not armed and was only carrying a video camera.
Turner told officers he was taking pictures of the building. He also refused to show the police his identification. After the officers insisted he identify himself, Turner asked officers if taking pictures of a public building was illegal. They told him it was not.
When Turner asked if he was free to go, the officers told him he was not. Turner replied that he would identify himself if the officers were accusing him of a crime. The officer then grabbed Turner's arm and handcuffed him. Three other officers later arrived and continued to question him while in handcuffs until he provided his name and date of birth. He was later released.
After Turner filed his suit against the defendants, both the officers and the City of Round Rock filed separate motions to dismiss the claims.
In his May 26 ruling, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman refused to dismiss a majority of claims filed against the officers who alleged they had qualified governmental immunity from Turner's First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment claims.
Pitman concluded that Turner had sufficiently plead that his Fourth and Fourteenth amendment rights had been violated by the detention. He noted that the Fourth Amendment accommodates the temporary detention of a person as long as they have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
"However, defendants never articulate what sort of 'criminal activity' they reasonably suspected," Pitman wrote. "The officers' argument is circular—they suspected Turner of being suspicious; he confirmed their suspicion by behaving suspiciously."
Pitman also ruled that Turner had sufficiently pled that his First Amendment rights had been violated after officers detained him after photographing the police building. Noting that the U.S. Fifth Circuit has not yet considered whether citizens have a right to film police officers, he ruled that Turner established that it was a violation of his free speech rights to be detained for photographing the police.
"The court finds that the right to film or photograph police in public, without interfering with police business and subject to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions, is clearly established," Pitman wrote.
Pitman has yet to rule on the City of Round Rock's motion to dismiss Turner's claims.
Kervyn Altaffer, a partner in Dallas' Altaffer & Chen who represents Turner, said the ruling made it clear that the police detained his client for something that isn't against the law.
http://www.texaslawyer.com/id=1202758743915/Federal-Judge-Allows-Plaintiff-to-Sue-Officers-After-He-Was-Detained-for-Videoing-a-Police-Station
The same dude was photographing and video taping one of our police stations prior to this incident, or shortly thereafter can't remember which. I can see the judge letting it go to court as rights violations are not likely to get dismissed at that level. I would be very surprised if the plaintiff wins though.
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/suspicious-activity/
South Florida Cop Charged in Shooting Death of Corey Jones Because of Audio Recording
Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja had no idea he was being audio recorded when he pulled up to Corey Jones at 3 a.m. on the side of the road last year and killed him.
But it was that audio recording that led to his indictment today where he is now facing life in prison.
And he deserves nothing less.
He not only pulled up to Jones in an unmarked vehicle wearing plainclothes on October 18, 2015, he never identified himself as an officer.
And as we’ve seen so many times before, he rewrote the narrative as to what led to the shooting when he called 911 minutes after killing Jones.
But Jones, a 31-year-old drummer who had broken down on the side of an off-ramp on Interstate 95, was on the phone with a tow truck dispatcher when Raja pulled up.
And we all know those calls are always recorded for “quality assurance.”
But the recording became quality evidence against Raja.
The grand jury indicted Raja on one count of manslaughter by culpable negligence, a second-degree felony that carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, as well as one count of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, which can send him to prison for life.
Perhaps the legal experts will explain how a cold-blooded murder can turn into attempted murder, but if it lands him in prison for life, then it’s all good.
Raja had claimed he was in fear for his life, of course, claiming Jones pulled out a gun on him after he had identified himself as a police officer.
He even said Jones had charged him. Textbook police fiction from the cop with a history of disciplinary problems who was also a certified firearms instructor.
But forensics indicate Jones was running from Raja as he was being shot.
The recording, which became the key piece of evidence against Raja, captured the following exchange, according to the charging documents, which you can read here.
Jones: Huh?
Raja: You good?
Jones: I’m good
Raja: Really?
Special:
Jones: Yeah, I’m good.
Raja: Really?
Jones: Yeah
Raja: Get your fucking hands up! Get your fucking hands up!
Jones: Hold on!
Raja: Get your fucking hands up! Drop!
Raja then fired three time, causing the dispatcher to gasp, “oh my gosh!”
And he fired three more shots ten seconds later.
He then called 911 and before the dispatcher could respond, he said, “drop that fucking gun right now.”
And then he stated the following:
“I came out, I saw him come out with a handgun. I gave him commands, I identified myself, and he turned, pointed the gun at me, and started running. I shot him.”
Raja has been taken into custody.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/06/south-florida-cop-charged-shooting-death-corey-jones/
It seems laws only apply to innocent citizens, not psychoticcopscriminals.
This Cop is the Definition of Insanity, Despite 19 Complaints and Macing a Baby, She’s Still a Cop
Chicago, IL — All too often we hear about a tragic incident of police brutality or police killing and find out after the fact that the criminal cop responsible should have never had a badge in the first place.
Time and again we see officers with rap sheets longer than their service records, yet they are still given a badge and a gun and sent out on the streets as ticking time bombs waiting to explode.
Officer Michelle Morsi Murphy is one of those officers.
In 2013, Officer Murphy came across Rev. Catherine Brown and her two small children, who were returning home. Murphy was driving erratically down the street and nearly hit Brown head on. However, thanks to Brown honking her horn, Murphy stopped just before crashing into the car full of children.
“It’s a blessing I did blow my horn,” said Brown, recalling that fateful night.
However, the blessing of stopping a head on collision would quickly morph into a horrifying experience.
Seemingly too proud to back up and let the mother and her two children pull into their house, officer Murphy jumped out of the vehicle and began swearing at Brown demanding she move her vehicle.
The dashcam video of the rest of the incident is nothing short of infuriating and horrifying. After pulling her gun multiple times on this innocent family and smashing the cruiser into a car full of children, Officer Murphy jumps out and begins dousing Brown with pepper spray. Murphy was so careless that she sprayed Brown’s small baby too.
After this incident, it was Brown who was charged with a crime and Murphy who kept her paycheck, her gun, and her badge.
An eye-opening report from CBS Chicago shows that ramming her car into a mother and macing children is par for the course for this Chicago hero.
The same year Murphy nearly killed an innocent family, she also arrested an innocent woman for buying legal prescription drugs for her elderly grandmother. She was held in jail overnight for no reason.
On top of that debacle, she called 9-1-1 while off-duty and made false claims against three innocent people buying food in a convenience store.
CBS Chicago received a copy of that 9-1-1 call which shows that Murphy blatantly lied about what was going on in the store. Thankfully, there were surveillance cameras which proved that the three men she claimed “robbed the store with a knife” did nothing of the sort, and, in fact, paid for their items without causing a disturbance at all.
That lie was only the tip of the iceberg, however. The 9-1-1 call recorded a frantic and disturbed Murphy, who was told repeatedly by the dispatch officer to calm down and act like a cop. Lying through her teeth, Murphy then claimed the innocent men robbed another store they never even entered.
Murphy’s lies got these innocent men pulled over by Chicago PD and held at gunpoint, handcuffed and searched.
In her brief ten-year stint with the Chicago police department, Murphy has been the subject of multiple lawsuits, has been suspended, and has racked up a whopping 19 complaints. Somehow, this psychotic cop still has her job.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-definition-insanity-19-complaints-including-macing-child-cop/
Another attack by a criminal gang.
Video Refutes Cops Lies, Shows Them Tase and Beat Innocent Fire Fighter for no reason
St. Petersburg, FL — Multiple videos have surfaced this week highlighting the sheer corrupt nature of police and their ability to lie in order to deprive innocent people of their freedom.
The video of the arrest of 32-year-old Clinton N. Walker, a Hillsborough County firefighter, and emergency medical technician shows just how much a police officer’s word means — even when it is entirely false.
According to the official police report, officers said Walker was being combative and assaulted an officer, so they were forced to taser him and kick him. However, surveillance video and cellphone video shows that never happened.
Walker’s arrest came after St. Petersburg police were called early Saturday to the Del Mar Gastro Lounge at 243 Central Ave., where a man had been knocked unconscious, according to ABC Action News. The injured patron was later hospitalized with a cracked skull and bleeding on the brain, according to a police report.
According to police, someone said it was Walker who hit the man. However, as the surveillance footage shows, that never happened. The footage actually showed an unidentified man hit the victim, but police never bothered to conduct an investigation prior to assaulting and arresting Walker.
According to police, when they attempted to detain Walker, he became “combative.” Again, however, surveillance footage shows that never happened.
What actually happened, according to the video of the incident, is that Walker complied with officers and did exactly as he was told. As he places his hands behind his back to be handcuffed, officer Ruben DeJesus tasers him in the neck. Then, after the innocent man falls to the ground, DeJesus kicks him in the groin.
“He’s literally standing there with his hands behind his back and then they tasered him to the ground and then continued to taser him.” says Jerry “T” Theophilopoulos, Walkers attorney.
Walker wasn’t the only one to be assaulted that night either. Another Hillsborough firefighter, Robert Ramirez was also arrested and charged with obstruction of law enforcement. Police claimed Ramirez was “continuously aggressively approaching” them. However, the video shows DeJesus assault him too as he grabbed him by the face and shoved him after he was in handcuffs.
As for now, Walker is still facing charges and DeJesus remains active on the force. According to the St. Petersburgh Police, their Office of Professional Standards department is reviewing the video.
When police can fabricate an entire scenario and deprive innocent people of their freedom, and assault and charge them for no reason, something is wrong.
The video below highlights the importance of recording the police. It also highlights the fact that police can be recorded assaulting innocent people and face no consequences.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-refutes-cops-lies-shows-tase-innocent-compliant-fire-fighter-reason/
South Florida Cop Charged in Shooting Death of Corey Jones Because of Audio Recording
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/06/south-florida-cop-charged-shooting-death-corey-jones/
Horrific Video Shows Cops Allow K9 to Maul Man for Several Minutes Over Riding Bike With No Light
Punta Gorda, FL — An officer’s dashcam video uploaded to YouTube this week shows a disturbing scene unfold as a police officer stops a man on a bicycle. An unarmed, shirtless, shoeless man is mauled for several minutes by a police K-9.
The reason for the stop, according to the uploader, was the cyclist was riding without a light on his bike.
As the video begins, the man on the bike is riding away from the police officer, despite the officer telling him to stop. However, after a 15-20 second slow ride down the road, the man eventually stops. That’s when all hell breaks loose.
As the man gets off the bike, he puts his hands up and faces the officer. As the officer yells at him to get on his knees, it becomes apparent that the man is in a state of mental duress.
If what the uploader says is true, that this stop was for a bicycle light only, what happened next is nothing short of torturous criminal action. Just before siccing the dog on the man, he had apparently caused no harm to anyone and was simply riding his bicycle down the road.
It was the officer’s choice to escalate to the graphic violence in the video below.
Because the man was in a diminished mental state, he was not complying precisely and as quickly as the officer demanded, so he released his dog. For the next several minutes, the dog tore into the man as he screams in agony.
About one minute into the mauling, in between shouts of “Stop Resisting,” the officer tells the dog, “Good boy,” as it tears the man’s flesh from his arm.
The officer continues to yell at the man to stop resisting as if someone can simply lay calmly as a dog tears a hole in them.
Finally, the officer stops the attack, after the scene begins to resemble a horror movie. As other officers arrive, the man lays on the ground, covered in his own blood and bleeding out.
When other officers see how badly injured he is, they had to call in for a helicopter to medivac him to the nearest hospital.
Below is a graphic example of an unnecessary violent escalation. In many departments, using a K9 to assist in an arrest or to physically engage or bite a suspect, there must be a reasonable belief that the suspect is armed with a weapon capable of producing death or significant physical injury or otherwise poses an imminent threat of death or serious physical injury to the handler or others, or is engaged in active aggression or escaping. None of those factors were present during this stop.
The Free Thought Project contacted the Punta Gorda police department to get their version of this story, but we have yet to hear back.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/horrific-video-shows-cops-k9-maul-man-minutes-riding-bike-light/
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-06-22/senate-falls-1-vote-short-of-giving-fbi-access-to-browser-histories-without-court-order
>:(
Unfortunately many people believe "if you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of". Moreover, if they can't see or feel their rights being violated they're ok with it. Despicable.
We teach young people to be honest and we tell them if they are, everything will work out. This could not be further from the truth when it comes to the authorities and HR. The police want to win which is why they will co-hearse self incrimination. Everything you say to them will be used against you in court. Best to say as little as possible. An example of this tactic is when you're stopped by the police for a supposed traffic infraction and when they ask if you've been drinking, you say; "I only had one or two drinks."
Just look at the post "Man wrongly jailed for 13 years sues police after disturbing video shows detectives hounding the then-14-year-old without a parent or lawyer to confess to a murder he didn’t commit".
This young man did not murder anyone, yet the criminals had him imprisoned in a room with no lawyer and through repeated and persistent threats and intimidation made him confess to a murder. Makes you wonder how many people were pressured and intimidated by these criminals to admit to crimes they did not commit.
What's more disgusting also is the lack of accountability and punishment for criminals like that. An innocent person spends decades in prison or even gets executed, and those responsible for that get away with it.
The video shows the officer asking for ID. The teen responds, "I don't have ID on me because I'm in my house."
The officer then slams the teen into the wall and says, "You're in your house and right now, you're being detained. So if I were you, I would shut your (expletive) mouth."
More cops who "feared for their lives". No protests for this young man. At this point the police investigate themselves so it is unclear if the 2 cops involved will be held accountable.
California Police Release Body Cam Video in Shooting Death of Dylan Noble
California police were looking for a man in camouflage walking down the street carrying a rifle when they decided to pull over a man in a truck who was not wearing camouflage and not carrying a rifle.
An unarmed man named Dylan Noble whom Fresno police shot and killed anyway.
Today, after viewing body cam footage of the shooting, Noble’s family filed a claim to sue the Fresno Police Department, stating that they had no justifiable reason to shoot the 19-year-old man on June 25.
California law requires citizens to file a tort claim before filing the actual lawsuit to give the government entity a chance to settle.
Fresno police claim Noble reached for his waistband, causing them to fear for their lives. They also claim he said, “I hate my life,” as if that’s supposed to justify them taking his life.
But the attorneys who viewed the video – which has not been released – says Noble stepped out of his vehicle with his hands in the air before he was shot repeatedly by two officers.
In fact, one cop shot him twice from about ten feet away, causing Noble to fall to the ground. That same cop waited about 30 seconds before walking up to Noble and shooting him again.
Then, after 15 seconds, another officer walked up to Noble with a shotgun and finished him off, according to the claim, which you can read here.
But this is how police describe the incident, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Officers at the scene had warned Noble not to reach into his waistband, believing he may have a gun, but Noble twice reached under his shirt for his waistband, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.
Fearing for their lives, one of the officers fired two shots, then a third. Another officer fired the fourth shot.
Police initially responded to a report of a man walking with a rifle about 3:20 p.m. and saw a black pickup speeding. Police tried to stop the truck, but it drove for about half a mile before pulling into a gas station.
Lt. Burke Farrah said Noble did not show his hands, then tried to hide one hand behind his back. Despite officers’ orders to show his hands and drop to the ground, he did not comply. After telling police that he “hated his life,” he approached officers, who opened fire.
While prosecutors say they won’t release the body cam footage until the investigation is complete, which can take two months, a witness to the shooting posted a video capturing the tail end of the shooting.
UPDATE: The body cam footage showing Fresno police shooting and killing Dylan Noble was just released and it’s not pretty, showing the cops pull him over at gunpoint, ordering him to show him his hands.
It appears as if one hand wasn’t visible so they shot him. And when he fell to the ground and clutched his chest in the area where he had been shot, they shot him again because he would not spread his arms to his side.
And when he continued clutching his chest, they shot him again.
There was nothing indicating he was the man walking down the street wearing camouflage carrying a rifle.
According to the Fresno Bee:
The Fresno Police Department released body camera video Wednesday showing Dylan Noble repeatedly ignoring officers demands that he stop moving back and forth at a gas station parking lot and show his hands before officers fired their weapons.
Police Chief Jerry Dyer said the investigation into the shooting is still under way, and he has not made a decision whether it was justified. But he said he wanted to release the video so the public could see a more complete picture of what the officers saw as they confronted Noble and had to make decisions in mere seconds.
In releasing the video, Dyer appealed for calm from the community, saying tensions are high in the community and around the nation over police shootings, and one spark could ignite a forest fire.
“I am praying this video doesn’t serve as that spark in this community,” Dyer said.
He should pray it does not serve as a spark in the nation because this was murder.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/07/13/california-cops-sued-for-killing-unarmed-teenager-in-case-of-mistaken-identity/
Florida cop who shot unarmed therapist was aiming for his patient
nydailynews.com ^ | July 22, 2016 | Meg Wagner
Posted on 7/24/2016, 1:44:14 PM by Morgana
Sorry about that bullet, man. I was aiming for the autistic guy.
A Florida cop who wounded an unarmed black therapist was actually trying to shoot the man’s patient, a union official said Thursday.
The unidentified North Miami police officer thought Charles Kinsey — who was lying on his back with his arms in the air — was in danger, his union chief said. The patient, who escaped from MACtown Inc., a nearby group home where Kinsey works, had a toy in his hand.
“All he has is a toy truck, a toy truck,” Kinsey told the cop Monday, according to video obtained by his lawyer. “I am a behavior therapist at a group home.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Criminal gangs covering up for their deranged members.
Cop Loses it, Shoots Up Church in Rampage Over Violence Toward Police — NO CHARGES
Sommervell County, TX — A 27-year-old deputy was arrested after he admitted to getting drunk and unloading pistols into a Presbyterian church. Instead of facing charges for dangerously discharging a firearm in public, Sommervell County Sheriff’s Deputy, William Cox was set free.
The incident began on July 13 when officers responded to a 9-1-1 call about a maniac shooting up a church. When police arrived they found Cox drunk in the parking lot, who immediately admitted to the crime.
Cox is seen on an officer’s body cam saying he fired the shots “cause my boys are getting killed in Dallas” and said, “the black guy started killing my boys.”
Cox attempted to justify his actions by claiming he needed to relieve some stress. His stress relief was to go into a residential neighborhood and endanger the lives of everyone near him by firing off guns in a church parking lot.
According to FOX 4, Cox was charged with deadly conduct and taken to the Ellis County Jail. But on the same day he was arrested, the pastor signed an affidavit of non-prosecution. The pastor said he didn’t want charges filed because it’s all about forgiveness.
Not only was he not charged, he was also not photographed for his mugshot. This special treatment has the Ellis County District Attorney furious.
Even though the pastor didn’t file charges, Cox was still guilty of multiple crimes. However, because Cox wears a badge, the department used their discretion and he was released.
“This, in my mind is a tremendous abuse of that discretion,” Patrick Wilson, the Ellis County District Attorney said. “In today’s climate, it’s inexcusable. I cannot understand how these facts escape the narrative of favoritism.”
“With criticism that is being launched at law enforcement in our community today, the foundation of that criticism is what’s illustrated in this case. And that is favoritism,” said Wilson. “Some people in the criminal justice system get treated differently. How can I dispell that narrative when these facts completely support that?”
What Wilson is referring to is a common practice among those in power. In the United States, there are two forms of justice; one for those who are in power and one for everyone else.
Had a person who did not wear a badge been caught shooting up a church, he would undoubtedly be sitting in jail right now and could have even been killed.
As police apologists across the country fumble to make bogus excuses about why people are angry with law enforcement, this case provides a glaring example — police officers are almost never held accountable.
Cops in America can kill innocent people while on duty and not face a single charge and keep their jobs. Even when they are off-duty and commit crimes that endanger the lives of innocent people, as this case illustrates, they are still not held accountable.
Until this double standard of blue privilege is eliminated, the divide will continue to grow.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-loses-shoots-church-anger-no-charges/
Interesting vid on How We All Could Handle Cops & STOP Enabling Them:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/drinking-coffee-driving-crime
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Ridiculous. Most often the cops are exempt from such laws, because laws are only for plebs and in their minds law enforcement=law exempt. Plus, thecriminalcop unions would react to any infringement of the god given right to eat donuts and look at the computer while driving.
Ridiculous. Most often the cops are exempt from such laws, because laws are only for plebs and in their minds law enforcement=law exempt. Plus, thecriminalcop unions would react to any infringement of the god given right to eat donuts and look at the computer while driving.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-fatally-shot-by-florida-police-officer-during-gun-demonstration/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=27502880
only cops should have guns
Ha ha -- Yeah Right
The police level of stupidity in many cases is just beyond belief
'To Serve & Protect' yes there Donughts & each other.
Wouldn't trust them to organise a Piss up in Brewery.
Interesting information emerges about the cop:
Coel was hired by the Punta Gorda Police Department in 2014 after he was allowed to resign from the Miramar Police Department in South Florida for excessive force.
37% of Coel’s cases have been dismissed; the state attorney dismissed those cases because he either violated procedure or somebody’s Constitutional rights according to attorney Scott Weinberg, who added that most cops have between 5-7% of their cases dismissed.
Same cop who appears in this video:
He said that he lied because Wilmington Police Department detective James Lightner told him to and threatened to arrest him for murder if he didn’t cooperate. Bollinger said Lightner told him that he would be charged with Dreher’s murder and receive the death penalty, the Associated Press reported.
“They questioned and interrogated me one night, and the rest of the time it was coaching — telling me what to say,” Bollinger said, according to the Star.
Bollinger said he told his grandfather, a former police officer and FBI agent, about the police forcing him to lie, but his grandfather encouraged him to stick to that story.
Corruption runs deep.
Notice the words of the prosecuting attorney..
"trying to reconcile the video with the two officers’ statements"
"I reached the difficult conclusion"
Video Catches Cops Lying About Being Shot At To Justify Shooting at Unarmed Man
Marshall, MO — As tensions between police and citizens rise amid tragic police shootings and despicable attacks on cops, two officers in Missouri were exposed for faking a story about being shot at — and their supervisor helped cover it up.
Donald Stouffer, the prosecuting attorney in Saline County in central Missouri, dropped all the charges against a man who was accused of trying to shoot police officers.
In a press release last week, Stouffer said he saw no evidence that Carl Roettgen even had a gun when the two Marshall police officers tried to arrest him for a parole violation.
“After hours spent examining the video, trying to reconcile the video with the two officers’ statements, and consulting with staff, I reached the difficult conclusion that no reasonable juror could find the officers’ accounts credible,” he said.
What Stouffer found was that officers Tyler Newell and Josh O’Bryan fabricated a story to frame a man they tried to arrest for a parole violation.
According to the officers’ account, they tried to arrest Roettgen for a parole violation on May 13, 2015, in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Marshall, a city of about 13,000 people roughly 75 miles east of Kansas City. Newell wrote that a passenger jumped out of Roettgen’s car as he was trying to drive off, and that he, Newell, got into the car to try to put it in park. He said Roettgen then pointed a gun at his face and that he heard a click. O’Bryan said he was on the driver’s side and that he saw a gun.
But there never was a gun, Roettgen never pulled the trigger, and Newell never got in the car. All these facts are backed up by video evidence.
However, as Roettgen sped away, Newell began firing at the man anyway in an attempt to kill him.
Roettgen’s attorney, John James, said Newell “lost his cool” and tried to kill him. “Then he compounded that mistake by lying about it and fabricating a story to explain why he discharged his weapon,” said James.
A week later, Roettgen was arrested in Alabama and was returned to Missouri. He was set to stand trial for three counts of first-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, two counts of armed criminal action and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm — all stemming from the officers’ fake story.
Had he been convicted on those counts, Roettgen was facing life in prison.
To add to the corruption of these two officers, their supervisor knew their story was a lie but covered it up to pursue the criminal case.
According to a report in the AP, Stouffer said the officers’ commander supported their false story so that the outcome of the criminal case would not be affected, raising further concerns about the department’s handling of the case. Furthermore, he said he will not file charges in any pending cases in which the officers, Tyler Newell and Josh O’Bryan, had a major role and that he’ll review other cases in which either officer was a key witness.
“It is inconceivable that there is an apparent belief among some members of the command staff that the outcome of a criminal case is more important than taking action to prevent Marshall police officers from presenting testimony, under oath, that is ‘questionable at best’ and suborning perjury at worst,” Stouffer said.
As for the two cops who lied to put a man in jail for life for crimes he did not commit — they are on paid vacation, pending the outcome of an investigation.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/missouri-cops-caught-lying-shooting
😃 At last a prosecutor seeing the lies & cover up
Let's hope more do -- & These lying scumbag cops get what they deserve.
From the words used it didn't seem like the prosecutor was completely objective; it actually seemed like he wanted to side with the cops but just couldn't find a way to do it. I hope if he reviews other cases where these cops are involved he will examine them objectively and not try to "reconcile" facts with the cops' story.
It just goes to show that the cops can easily arrest a person on bogus charges, deprive them of their liberty and destroy the life of a person yet they do not face similar punishment for the crimes that they commit. The cops should've been arrested the moment the prosecutor said the cops' accounts would not be found credible and dropped the charges against Roettgen.
Those violent armed criminals who attack and abuse innocent elderly people should be sent to death row.
Innocent 84yo Grandma Hospitalized After Cops Attacked & Pepper Sprayed Her for No Reason
Muskogee, OK — An innocent 84-year-old grandmother was attacked by police, pepper sprayed, arrested, and hospitalized last week after officers chased a suspect during a traffic stop.
Police were after the victim’s son, who they say refused to stop for a traffic stop and ran into her home instead. When officers showed up, according the Smith, they kicked in her door and as she got up to see who was there — she was met with a face full of chemical agent.
According to Smith, after police pepper sprayed her for no reason, they arrested her, dragged her to the police car and brought her to jail. Clearly stressed over being kicknapped and thrown in a cell, this 84-year-old woman began to have a panic attack. She was then rushed to the hospital.
When FOX 23 contacted the Muskogee police department, they couldn’t comment on the case citing an internal investigation.
It was unclear as to what police charged the woman with. However, it is likely the standard ‘resisting, interfering, or obstructing.’
Smith now plans to take legal action against the department for her assault.
Cops attacking elderly people is an unfortunate yet all too common problem.
Earlier this year, two LAPD officerswere named in a lawsuit filed by an innocent 62-year-old woman. No longer able to place her trust in police officers after becoming a victim of excessive force, the traumatized woman has become fearful of interacting with people.
Early on the morning of April 14, a surveillance video captured two LAPD cops in a marked SUV slowly following 62-year-old Ok Jin Jun’s car into a Koreatown church parking lot. According to CBSNews, Jun admitted to honking her car horn about six times because the police vehicle had been blocking the church driveway.
After parking her car, Jun was immediately confronted by the two officers and ordered to show her registration despite the fact that she had not committed a crime. Confused and unable to speak much English, Jun attempted to call her husband and a 911 interpreter from her cell phone.
Suddenly, one of the officers appeared to grab Jun’s arms for no reason before both cops abruptly shoved the elderly woman against her own car. Although Jun did not pose an immediate threat, the officers slammed her onto the pavement before placing her in handcuffs.
Before Jun, there was Tyrone Carnegay, an innocent Atlanta man who spent multiple days handcuffed to a hospital bed with a broken leg and a severed artery after an Atlanta cop falsely accused him of stealing a tomato that he actually bought.
Carnegay spent then spent three days in jail before the charges were finally dropped. The interaction was all caught on a Walmart security camera.
As the incidents above illustrate, being innocent and elderly is no defense from police. The old apologist saying of “if you don’t want to be attacked by police, don’t break the law,” rings hollow to those in the destructive wake of police brutality.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-grandma-pepper-sprayed/
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.
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.
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
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.
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.”
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.
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," -- WHY WOULD THEY SAY THIS IF THE COP WASNT MURDERING A MAN FOR NO REASON--!!! .!!
SAYS IT ALL REALLY..!!!!!
The did finally released it eight months later.
Wholly Fcuk.!!!
People would think you were Lying it's so Ridiculous.
Not Riduclous For The Murdered Man & His Family Though.
Food for thought:
Cops can and do apprehend dangerous bombers (http://abc7ny.com/news/bombing-suspect-ahmad-khan-rahami-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-officers/1517053/) without killing them, but will shoot dead unarmed motorists, with their hands in the air (http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/20/us/oklahoma-tulsa-police-shooting/).
Criminal gang conspiring:
Cops Steal Man’s Phone, Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Falsely Charge Him
Hartford, CT — On September 11, 2015, journalist and police accountability activist, Michael Picard was illegally detained for lawfully open carrying and filming police on public property. During the illegal detainment, Connecticut state troopers confiscated his gun and his camera. However, the trooper who took the phone went on to make a critical mistake — he left the camera rolling while conspiring with fellow officers to falsely charge Picard.
On Monday, Picard informed the Free Thought Project the ACLU had picked up his case and they are now planning legal action against Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
The Free Thought Project spoke to the ACLU who put out a press release:
In a complaint filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut (ACLU-CT) contends that three state police troopers illegally retaliated against a protester by searching and detaining him, confiscating his camera, and charging him with fabricated criminal infractions. On behalf of Connecticut resident Michael Picard, the ACLU-CT alleges that John Barone, Patrick Torneo, and John Jacobi, all employed by the state police division of Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, violated Picard’s First Amendment rights to free speech and information and Fourth Amendment right against warrantless seizure of his property.
On that September night, Picard and a friend were on public property and warning drivers of a DUI checkpoint ahead. They were several hundred yards from the checkpoint and not interfering at all when troopers drove up, without lights on, and against the flow of traffic, to begin harassing the two gentlemen.
Trooper First Class John Barone, Sergeant John Jacobi, and Trooper Jeff Jalbert falsely claimed that Picard was waving his gun around and pointing it at people. However, Picard was holding a sign the entire time and did not touch his gun. Also, as you will see below, the officers admit that they were lying.
“Police should be focused on public safety, not punishing protesters and those who film public employees working on a public street,” said ACLU-CT legal director Dan Barrett, who is representing Picard in the lawsuit. “As the video shows, these police officers were more concerned with thwarting Mr. Picard’s free speech and covering their tracks than upholding the law.”
Had Picard actually been waving a gun, these troopers would have approached the situation in an entirely different manner, with guns drawn and possible SWAT backup. However, they did no such thing, because there was clearly no threat from the activists.
The fact that there was no threat did not stop the subsequent assault, however.
Two troopers approached Picard while forcefully removing his gun and then grabbing his camera, falsely claiming it is illegal to film. When Picard informs the officer can legally film here, the officer ignorantly asserts that “It’s illegal to take my picture. Personally, it is illegal.”
“Did you get any documentation that I am allowing you to take my picture”? asks the cop.
When Picard attempts to explain to the aggressive officer that he doesn’t need a permit because he is on public property, the trooper then makes the asinine declaration that, “No I’m not (on public property). I’m on state property. I’m on state property.”
State-owned roadways and right of ways are public property. The trooper’s assertion that it is illegal to film on his ‘state property’ was entirely false and in violation of Connecticut Bill No. 245, which “protects the right of an individual to photograph or video record peace officers in the performance of their duties.”
All this aggressive and unlawful behavior of these troopers, however, was about to come back to haunt them. After illegally confiscating the camera — the trooper forgot to stop it from recording.
What happened next was a behind the scenes glimpse of what it looks and sounds like when cops lie to charge innocent people with crimes.
The corruption starts as an unidentified trooper begins to search for anything that these gentlemen may have done to make up charges against them. However, they were clean. At this point, Trooper first class Barone chimes in describing how they now have to charge these men with something to justify their harassment and subsequent detainment.
“Want me to punch a number on this? Gotta cover our ass,” explains the trooper as they begin conspiring.
“Let’s give him something,” says an unidentified trooper, pondering the ways they can lie about this innocent man.
“What are they going to do? Are they going to do anything?” says Sergeant Jacobi, noting that they are entirely innocent.
“It’s legal to do it,” he continues, describing how the actions of the two activists are completely legal, before going on to make up charges on them.
“I think we do simple trespass, we do reckless use of the highway and creating a public disturbance,” Jacobi says as he makes up these false charges against innocent people. “All three are tickets.”
Once they figure out the false charges to raise, the officers then brainstorm a story of lies to back them up.
“And then we claim that, um, in backup, we had multiple, um,” the unidentified trooper stutters as he makes up his fake story. “Um, they (the non-existent complainants) didn’t want to stay and give us a statement, so we took our own course of action.”
The corrupt cops had then solved their fake case, lied about a cover story, and were set to charge an innocent man with three crimes — all in a day’s work.
But there was just one more thing…. “Oh shit!” blurts out the cop as he realizes their entire scandalous corrupt conversation was just recorded. Apparently, however, the officer felt that it must not have recorded their conversation as the phone was returned.
The cops then gave the innocent man back his weapon, and it’s back to the DUI checkpoint for them — to harass and detain more innocent people.
“Community members like me have a right to film government officials doing their jobs in public, and we should be able to protest without fearing political retribution from law enforcement,” said Picard. “As an advocate for free speech, I’m deeply disappointed that these police officers ignored my rights, particularly because two of the troopers involved were supervisors who should be setting an example for others. By seeking to hold these three police officers accountable, I hope that I can prevent the same thing from happening to someone else.”
Watch the video below and remember that this can happen to anyone anywhere and at any time. All a corrupt cop has to do to ruin the lives of those they do not like, is make up a lie and get their fellow cops to corroborate that lie. Had the cop not left the video going, Picard’s situation would be much different and the world would think he’s a criminal.
“The evidence clearly shows that these police officers violated Mr. Picard’s rights,” said attorney Joseph R. Sastre, who defended Picard against the criminal charges and is joining Barrett to represent Picard in the civil case. “We are confident that the court will agree, and we hope that it will send a strong message to police and the public alike that enforcing the law means respecting free speech, not trampling on it.”
The complaint filed in U.S. District Court is available here.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-record-conspiring-video/
Southern California police agencies regularly lose track of all manner of firearms, from high-powered rifles and grenade launchers to standard service handguns – weapons that often wind up on the street.
Often, the reports show, officers treated their guns in ways that wouldn’t be legal for most civilians. High-caliber firepower was stowed in backpacks or gym bags and stuffed behind car seats. Handguns were stashed in center consoles or glove boxes.
Law enforcement officers – unlike most civilians – don’t have to follow state law requiring that guns left in unattended vehicles be locked in the trunk or secured in a locked gun box and placed out of sight.
Jeez -- You couldn't make this stuff Less Believable !!
What or why are they not held to a higher accountability
Yet more examples of Why there is Such A Serious Problem
With the Police & Policing.
The same people who, unlike thecitizensplebs have "special training" on how to handle firearms (even though their firearms have an odd habit of "accidentally discharging themselves") and will arrest citizens who mishandle or lose theirs, somehow are being held to a lower standard.
Once again, it appears that in the police state not only do laws not apply equally to everyone but in many cases Law Enforcement=Law Exempt.
Very well said,
Still so many people just don't see it or don't want to see it / Believe it.
Though the tide is turning slowly -- With the continued highlighting of
The awful & unlawful behaviour -- It will Change.
As I have stated before it's painful & infuriating reading some ( most )
Of your posts --
Though BIG THANKS & You Do an Excellent job Bring it to others Attention.
Thank you for the kind words. Hopefully by highlighting some of these injustices and atrocities some people, even on getbig, will indeed change and have a different outlook. The problem is that many times the most barbaric, violent and inexcusable cases of injustice and violence are ignored by the media and people get the impression that these things rarely, if ever, happen and that there are only 3-4 bad cops across the US. Or in some cases, people willfully choose to ignore these stories and blindly support the cops (or BlackLiesMatter or whoever) thinking "well the cops wouldn't do that without a reason, he must've done something to deserve it" and "I haven't done anything wrong, I have nothing to hide so I don't care if my rights are trampled". They don't realize how the laws do not apply equally and do not protect equally and they do not realize that many of these things could happen to them.
The "brave heroes" shot dead a 6 year old kid in "self defense"... #kidlivesmatter? Where is the outrage for this killing? Even though it happened almost a year ago it has been hardly mentioned in the news.
Louisiana Cops Shoot into Car, Killing 6-Year-Old Jeremy Mardis
Body cam footage showing Louisiana cops shooting into a car and killing a 6-year-old boy sitting in the passenger seat of his father’s car was released earlier today, showing no evidence that the cops were in fear for their lives as they have been claiming since last year.
After all, not only does the video not show Christopher Few using his car as a weapon by ramming his car into their cars.
His car is not even pointed in their direction.
What it does show is Few sitting in his car with both hands out the window as his car is angled perpendicular to the two Marksville City Marshals who pull up in their cars, step out and start shooting.
The incident took place November 3, 2015 after marshals Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr. claimed they tried to pull Few over for an outstanding warrant.
But it turned out, there was never a warrant for Few’s arrest. Nor was there a gun in the car.
But his son was in the car, a 6-year-old boy named Jeremy Mardis who had been diagnosed with autism. He was shot five times.
At the time, there was talk that perhaps the deputies had a personal vendetta against Few but that has not been talked about since.
The video, which is what led to murder and attempted murder charges against the two cops, captures their surprise when they realized they had just killed a child.
“I never saw a kid in the car, man,” Stafford tells Greenhouse according to the Associated Press, which has not published that part of the video yet.
“I never saw a kid, bro.”
But ballistics indicate he fired his gun 14 times, striking the child at least three times.
Greenhouse fired four times, but they have not determined if his bullets struck anybody.
The footage is from a body cam worn by a third cop, Marksville Police Sgt. Kenneth Parnell, III, who did not fire his gun, although it certainly looks that way from the video.
The video was released today by a judge during a hearing for the two cops. Local media says it has much more footage but much of it is gruesome, so they are deciding what is appropriate to release.
There is no audio for the first 30 seconds of the video, which indicates Parnell turned it on as the other cops were shooting Few, resulting in the half-minute buffer with no audio also being recorded.
Both face second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder charges.
As is the case with many cops we write about, both cops had a history of violence and unchecked abuses, especially Stafford, who was once charged with aggravated rape, so if only they would have fired him from the get-go, little Jeremy Mardis would be alive today.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/28/watch-louisiana-deputies-shoot-into-car-killing-6-year-old-jeremy-mardis/
Being responsible for your firearms? Only applies to citizens..
Police might not know where their guns are, and the law says that's OK
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/police-730005-weapons-guns.html
What an honorable hero, stomping on a man's head and then retiring at the old age of 46, like many criminals who just happen to resign or retire after violent incidents: "I had my 20 years in, and I proudly served the city
Meanwhile, it took 31 cops to stop 2 people in a stolen car.
Police Release Video Of Arrest At Center Of Excessive Force Investigation
http://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-hartford-arrest-footage-1006-20161005-story.html
Another gun that "discharged itself". And this is from someone who is not a mere pleb but a "trained officer" who "knows" how to handle firearms and is allowed to use firearms that citizens don't have access to.
Why has he not been charged yet and why is his name not released?
Cop Fires Round From His 9mm Glock into a Daycare Center in a ‘Gun-Free Zone’– Yet to Be Charged
Cuyahoga Falls, OH — Authorities are only ‘contemplating’ criminal charges against an East Cleveland police officer today after he discharged his weapon sending a bullet hurling into a day care center.
The staff and children at the KinderCare Learning center were likely terrified when a bullet came blasting through the fence and lodged into the wall of the school around 3:35 pm on Tuesday.
Police have refused to release the name of the officer who negligently discharged his firearm. Authorities did, however, note that the officer was unloading his 9mm Glock inside his home, directly behind the daycare, when it ‘accidentally’ discharged.
Up until that point, the staff and parents of the children at KinderCare probably thought that their children were safer being neighbors with a police officer.
Despite the officer clearly admitting to committing the misdemeanor offense of discharging a firearm within city limits, police have yet to charge him.
“Right now our law department has it and they are reviewing it to see if there should be any charges,” Police Chief Jack Davis said Wednesday morning.
“It was a very unfortunate incident for the school, as well as him,” he added.
Outside of skating out of the misdemeanor charge so far, this officer also seems to be avoiding the felony offense of discharging a weapon in a gun-free school zone.
Imagine for a moment that you were cleaning your pistol and all of the sudden, you accidentally squeeze off a round sending the deadly projectile through the wall of a daycare center, in a gun-free zone.
There are two possible scenarios that would take place; the first one being that a SWAT team responds and you are killed. The second, less lethal result would be your inevitable arrest and charges of public endangerment, unlawful discharge, illegal use of a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, terrorism, or a myriad of other charges associated with sending a deadly projectile hurling through walls and near the heads of innocent people. You would immediately be facing fines, jail time, probation, and firearms restrictions.
However, if you are a government agent who’s trusted with carrying a deadly weapon into places others cannot, you needn’t worry about any of those repercussions as this case will likely prove.
When the Akron Beacon Journal contacted the East Cleveland police department to inquire as to what would happen to this officer, they said their department was unaware of the incident.
“We’re just grateful that nobody was hurt,” KinderCare spokeswoman Colleen Moran told Ohio.com. So are we.
As the gun controllers call for guns to be taken out of the hands of US citizens, what they really mean is they only want cops to have guns. This cop proves how silly, and dangerous, that demand actually is.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/daycare-cop-shoots-bullet-charged/
A citizen would likely have been shot.
Award-Winning California Cop Flees Scene after Crashing Patrol Car
An award-winning California cop crashed his patrol vehicle into a parked car and utility pole Thursday, then refused to step out when ordered to do so by responding officers, putting the car in reverse and speeding off with flashing emergency lights, a broken windshield and a dangling passenger side mirror.
The incident was caught on video by shocked bystanders as more than 1,000 homes and businesses were left without power.
Refraining from pulling their guns, the California Highway Patrol officers then tried to chase the state park law enforcement officer on foot as he pulled up to a traffic light, but then he sped away.
Oroville police officers eventually got him to pull over and placed him in handcuffs, handing him over to the CHP who transported him to the hospital and determined he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Daniel Kenney, who is listed as a state park peace officer supervisor, was then handed over to his department, who promptly placed him on paid administrative leave.
Kenney, a K-9 officer who made more than $95,000 last year,was the recipient of the 2012 Top Dog Award along with his dog Kilo for “demonstrating the best discipline, teamwork, and overall skills.”
It is not clear if Kilo was in the car with him as he made his getaway but the video shows the words “K-9 Unit, Stay Back” on the side of his patrol car.
Meanwhile, a man sitting inside the parked vehicle that was struck by Kenney’s patrol car was also transported to the hospital with minor injuries, according to Action News Now.
The incident took place at 2:30 p.m. when Kenney struck the parked car, causing both cars to strike the utility pole, which snapped in half.
It is not clear why Kenney crashed and it’s even less clear why he fled, but authorities assure us it is all under investigation.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/10/28/watch-award-winning-california-cop-flees-scene-after-crashing-patrol-car/
The pig and those who cover her should be locked up in prison for at least 10 years, tied in a chair and pepper sprayed every day. But what happens to criminals like these? They get a promotion.. The pig is now a "Captain".
Horrifying Video Shows Cop Torturing Restrained Woman With Mace Until She Falls Unconscious
Dayton, OH — “I thought I might die,” said Amber Swink of her harrowing experience being pepper-sprayed while in a seven-point restraint chair in the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio, on November 15, 2015.
Video footage of the torturous incident shows Swink so tightly restrained in the chair, she is hardly able to move her head; but that didn’t stop Sgt. Judith L. Sealey from entering the isolation cell and unleashing pepper-spray in the 25-year-old’s face — at near point-blank range — for seemingly no reason but sadistic pleasure.
Swink acknowledged to the Washington Post she had, indeed, been drinking heavily at home that evening when police arrested her, and was still somewhat intoxicated when cameras recorded what happened. But she doesn’t understand what brought on the senseless attack.
“It felt like somebody just crushed up fresh peppers and made me use them as face cream,” Swink told the Post. “It took my breath away. You’re fighting for air. I remember my mouth was filling with a thick slobber, like foaming up — and that was also blocking my airway.”
As the Post described, “In the four-minute clip captured by a camera in the isolation cell, Swink can be seen struggling and coughing; she appears to pass out after her face is covered with a bright orange substance.”
Officers had already coated her face with the thick, orange substance once — and despite being a bit drunk, Swink recalls the jailers laughing outside the sterile isolation cell immediately before Sgt. Sealey’s inexplicable act.
In fact, it takes quite some time for officers to even attend to Swink — and when someone finally enters the cell to douse her eyes with a cruelly sparing amount of water, the air is so thick with pepper spray, he’s forced to vacate the room more than once.
Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer agreed in September that — even though he had yet to view the surveillance footage — pepper-spraying a restrained individual violated departmental policy.
But Plummer characterized Swink’s experience as an “isolated incident.”
“Thirty percent of my jail is people suffering from mental illnesses,” the sheriff told the Post by phone, unintentionally highlighting one of the most critical issues surrounding America’s prison- and police-industrial complex. “There are a lot of situations that the police officers should not be dealing with, but everybody wants to blame the police.”
Police — including officers working in jails and prisons — in the overwhelming majority of departments across the United States do not receive proper or sufficient training to manage encounters with people suffering a wide variety of mental illnesses; and the resulting lack of understanding means those individuals are often subjected to excessive force.
Swink has filed an excessive force lawsuit in U.S. District Court accusing the sheriff’s department of acting in a manner “that amounted to torture,” and alleging law enforcement attempted to hide wrongdoing by destroying evidence.
“We will definitely oppose the lawsuit,” Plummer asserted unsurprisingly. “This isn’t that egregious where she’s walked away with any serious injuries. The officer she spit on should sue her.”
Describing being subjected to torture as ‘not that egregious’ simply because the victim did not sustain permanent injury shows a chilling level of callous cruelty and lack of comprehension Sealey’s actions constituted misconduct.
As the Post pointed out, a National Institute of Justice memo says pepper spray has been used by law enforcement in the U.S. since the 1980s “as a use of force option to subdue and control dangerous, combative, or violent subjects in the field. OC [oleoresin capsicum], with its ability to temporarily incapacitate subjects, has been credited with decreasing injuries among officers and arrestees by reducing the need for more severe force options.”
Swink — with arms, legs, and body restrictively strapped to a restraint chair — obviously posed no threat to jailhouse officers, however, and video proves the motivation to spray her must have been akin to unadulterated sadism.
“You cannot find any training manual that will tell you it is allowable to pepper-spray somebody who is restrained,” Kamran Loghman, a U.S. Naval Academy professor who helped develop pepper spray for law enforcement use, told the Post. “It is used to avoid confrontation or injury, so you don’t escalate to higher levels of confrontation. Pepper spray, therefore, should not be used if the subject is expressing verbal disagreement or anger.”
Ironically, if police deployed pepper spray more often in confrontations with the public — rather than immediately pulling the trigger of a gun — needless deaths could be reduced dramatically.
However, in the incident involving Swink, video proves an absolute lack of cause to deploy pepper spray, despite — as Plummer, Swink, and her attorney agree — her belligerent behavior prior to landing in the restraint chair.
Swink had yelled, banged on a window, kicked at an officer, and generally caused a disturbance after being brought to the Montgomery County Jail — for which officers justifiably used pepper spray the first time, and then strapped her to the restraint chair in the isolation cell.
“Shortly thereafter,” the lawsuit states, “Defendant Sealey went into Plaintiff Amber Swink’s cell with another can of OC spray and intentionally and maliciously sprayed Plaintiff Amber Swink’s face and body with the OC spray until she became unconscious and suffered permanent, serious, and debilitating injuries.”
Plummer told the Post Sealey had been disciplined for the misconduct — meaning she had received a write-up that would remain in her file for six months. Nothing more.
“We don’t tolerate once you’re secured using pepper-spray on you because the threat is neutralized,” the sheriff explained. “That’s the mistake that Sgt. Sealey made.”
Sealey has, in fact, since been promoted to Captain.
Attorney Douglas Brannon, representing Swink, asserted Sealey should have been criminally charged and immediately fired.
“I can’t fathom that the sheriff would even consider keeping this employee in light of the fact that her conduct was intentional, deliberate and abusive and directed towards an individual that was completely unable to protect herself,” he told the Post.
Now, Dayton Police are investigating to decide whether or not criminal charges should be filed against Sealey, who was placed on paid administrative leave last week for the duration of that investigation. On Wednesday, Plummer said,“[Sealey] is not exempt from criminal prosecution, she is not exempt from termination. She is going to be treated like everybody else.”
Swink, who suffered with asthma as a child, said the unnecessary use of pepper spray has brought back some of those breathing difficulties.
“My whole life, I looked up to law enforcement,” Swink told the Post. “They would come into our schools and talked to us and they were supposed to be some of the best people you could trust and call on.
“But now I wonder if there’s really anybody watching out for me and my family.”
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/sadistic-cop-tortures-restrained-woman-spray/
Every single time some whackos get corrected there's a conspiracy theory that turns them into martyrs.
Accountability baby! Now cops know they can't go around inserting screwdrivers up arrestee's asses! The system wor...
I'm trolling you guys. Closeted homo cops can keep raping those you pull over with tools. Just remember to not keep your screwdrivers in the glove box - no muss, no fuss.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chicago-police-coprez-coffie-screwdriver-assault-scott-korhonen-gerald-lodwich-a7350006.html
From 2013-2015, I had so many IPRA requests for SD card or lapel video that there were approximately five to six new people, at the APD Forensic Unit, tasked with burning copies of video. That is how I learned about SD cards and lapel camera video being either deleted, encrypted, altered, or destroyed.
I learned that Lieutenant Aragon was allowing Frank Pezzano to erase, corrupt, alter or encrypt camera video and I told him that it was illegal and unlawful to do so.
I know that “political calculations” motivated City employees to commit such unlawful or improper actions. Such political reasons included but were not limited to: concealing misconduct by City personnel, mitigating negative media and public reaction concerning actions by City personnel, retaliating against City personnel, depriving opposing pmties of discovery related to pending civil actions against the City and shooting APD officers, encrypting or altering audio and video so that requestors were not able to access information contained therein, and concealing relevant records from the United States Depmtment of Justice.
The timeline of the diabetic girl and the nurse's actions (or lack thereof) is disturbing. I imagine she'all lose her license regardless of the outcome of the trial, but I do hope that she's convicted and give some serious jail time.
I was a reading an interesting post at thetruthaboutguns.com, which discusses the mindset and attitude some cops have that they are somehow "better" and "above" the rest of society:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/12/robert-farago/post-policing-thats-not-really-gun-related-kinda/
After finishing the article and looking through the comments I saw this comment which I think makes excellent points:
Here are some solutions to reign in the “bad apples” of the “thin blue line”:
1. Eliminate both “absolute” and “qualified” immunity for all public officials–not just police and firefighters. Include prosecutors, judges, other court officials, CPS and building code enforcers.
2. Eliminate all public-sector unions. Especially police and firefighter unions. Unions are not needed in the public sector, as WE, the taxpayers pay their salaries and benefits.
3. Require all public officials to be “bonded” and carry “malpractice insurance” as a condition of employment. No bond or malpractice insurance–no job.
4. Prohibit “internal affairs” investigations for all cases but those involving disputes between police officers. All investigations should be handled at the state level.
5. Prosecutors must be subordinate to the grand jury. Withholding evidence that could prove or disprove misconduct by public officials should be a prosecuted as a felony.
6. Any awards to citizens as a result of “official misconduct” should be paid out of the offending department’s pension funds. You can be sure that if police pension funds were threatened, you would see a “clean-up” in a hurry.
7. Require body and dash cams to be used at all times. No citizen interaction permitted without functioning equipment. Obtain equipment that cannot be turned off. All interactions between officials and citizens must be put on the internet “cloud” and must be publicly accessible. Tampering with equipment should result in permanent dismissal.
8. Establish a 50-state publicly-searchable database of police, fire and public officials who should NEVER hold a position requiring the “public trust”.
9. Police must be restricted to the types of firearms that the citizenry is “allowed” to possess. This would help “encourage” anti-gun states (New York, New Jersey, California) to “loosen up” their restrictions on civilian firearms ownership–magazine capacity limits, etc. Citizens deserve the same (or even better) firepower than police…
These solutions would go a long way in curbing the abuses that presently exist.
This comment was also quite good:
Ever notice that police unions are “fraternal”? This should tell you something. The “thin-blue-line” is a gang, little different than street gangs–at least when it comes to “covering-up” questionable behavior by police. In today’s day and age, “officer safety” trumps de-escalation of force. This, in part, is due to the militarization of the police along with training in Israeli police tactics. This becomes a problem, with the “us vs. them” attitude that is fosters, along with the fact that Israel is a very different place, being on a constant “war footing”, and by necessity, its police tactics are very different. There are too many instances of police being “given a pass”, even when incontrovertible video and audio evidence is presented. Grand juries, guided by police-friendly prosecutors, quite often refuse to charge those police officers who abuse their authority. Police officers, who want to do the right thing, are quite often marginalized and put into harms way, by their own brethren…When a police officer is beating on someone that is already restrained while yelling, “stop resisting” THAT is but one reason police have a “bad name” in many instances…
Once again the largest criminal gang executes an innocent elderly man. When will these hitmen and ruffians pay for their hideous crimes?
Police Kill 73yo Unarmed Grandpa with Dementia Then Lied About Him Having a Gun
Bakersfield, CA — At 12:30 am on Monday morning, Bakersfield police shot and killed 73-year-old Francisco Serna as he stood in his driveway. Immediately following the shooting, police released details noting that Serna was killed for ‘brandishing a gun.’ However, early Tuesday morning, we’ve now learned that there was never a gun and police fabricated that vital piece of information.
When police arrived on scene, they fired multiple shots at Serna, hitting and killing him.
According to Serna’s family, he was in the beginning stages of dementia and occasionally experienced delusions. Serna’s oldest son told the LA Times that Serna had difficulty sleeping and frequently went on late-night walks to tire himself out before bed.
Police were called to his home at least two times before because Serna had accidentally activated his medical alarm, Rogelia Serna said. However, those incidents were resolved without the need for any violence or charges.
Bakersfield police Sgt. Gary Carruesco did not confirm if police had ever responded to Serna’s residence before.
Police are remaining tight-lipped in this incident releasing very few details, including the actual reason for the call. It is not known whether police were responding to the medical alarm or not as the Bakersfield police have changed their story about the gun.
Originally, police claimed that the call was prompted by a report of a man with a firearm. However, much to the police department’s chagrin, investigators canvased the area and found no such weapon.
When police initially claimed Serna brandished a firearm, his family was quick to negate this falsehood.
“My dad did not own a gun. He was a 73-year-old retired grandpa, just living life,” Rogelio Serna said. “He should have been surrounded by family at old age, not surrounded by bullets.”
Police also searched inside Serna’s home and found no evidence of a firearm.
The LA Times reported that when police arrived, a witness pointed to a man in the driveway of a residence. An officer fired several rounds at the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
However, this detail suggests no reason for the officer to have discharged his weapon a whopping 9 times, according to the family.
Bakersfield police have been hinting at the implementation of body cameras for well over a year now. However, they have yet to make the purchase, because they say the cost is too high. Aside from the high cost it also makes it easier to exonerate cops who kill mentally ill grandpas in the middle of the night.
The officer who killed this innocent grandpa is now on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Bakersfield police also have a tainted and violent history.
In November 2014, 22-year-old Ramiro James Villegas, who went by the name James De La Rosa, was killed by jumpy police in Bakersfield after allegedly “reaching for his waistband.” He was unarmed.
In June of this year, video surfaced of multiple Bakersfield Police Department officers using batons and tasers to bring down a mentally ill man for the heinous crime of jaywalking. For crossing the road in a manner unfit for the police state, an unarmed mentally ill man who had harmed no one was hospitalized after being severely beaten by cops — who were ruled justified in their actions for enforcing jaywalking laws.
In October of this year, a high school student filed a lawsuit claiming a Bakersfield school police officer tasered him twice for being late to class after having an anxiety attack.
Tyson Reed and his mother, Linda Reed, sued Kern High School District, KHSD Officer Luis Pena, and teacher Brett Bonetti on Sept. 22 in Kern County Superior Court, alleging disability discrimination and civil rights violations.
And the list goes on.
Francisco Serna is a retired father of five children and beloved grandpa and because of trigger happy police, his life was stolen.
On Monday night, Serna’s son Roy broadcast on Facebook live decrying the police killing his dad. “We want the truth to be told,” said Roy. “My father was murdered by Bakersfield Police Department.”
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-kill-73yo-unarmed-grandpa-dementia-lied-gun/
Graphic Video Shows Cops Use K9 to Torture Unarmed, Non-Violent Naked Man
San Diego, CA — A gruesome body cam was just released this week showing cops needlessly and sadistically sic a K9 on an unarmed naked man who posed absolutely zero threat to the half-dozen cops who had him completely surrounded.
The incident happened in August of 2015, however, the body camera footage was kept secret until now. If you have the strength to watch the entire video, you will know exactly why it was kept a secret.
At 8:30 that August morning, police received a phone call about a naked man walking through a canyon. This man had not attempted to harm anyone and the only ‘crime’ he’d committed when police arrived was to simply be naked.
The man, a 25-year-old businessman who was in San Diego for a convention, admitted that he ended up naked in the canyon after a particularly hard night of partying. However, when seeing how police reacted upon confronting the man, you would think he was a serial child murderer.
When police found the man, who wishes to remain anonymous, they called for him to come up from the canyon and he quickly obeyed. When he got up to where the officers were, they asked him to turn around so they could place him in cuffs.
“Turn around, turn around!” yell the officers at the obviously delusional man.
“No!” angrily replies the man.
Then, only seconds after the unarmed, nonviolent, and naked man had obeyed the officers’ instruction to walk toward them, the sadistic K9 cop gives his dog the command to attack — entirely unprovoked.
The naked man is immediately brought to the ground as the other San Diego cops pile on top of him. By all definitions, this man was subdued. However, he continued to squirm as it is impossible to remain completely still as a vicious attack dog tears your flesh from your body.
“Stop resisting!” the cop yells as his dog mutilates this man.
For almost an entire minute, cops held the naked man down while allowing the K9 maul his legs to shreds.
“It wasn’t necessary to use the dog to begin with and it sure as hell wasn’t necessary or needed or appropriate to let the dog continue to bite,” said noted civil rights attorney Donald W. Cook to NBC Los Angeles.
“It’s barbaric,” he said, and he is correct.
When NBC Los Angeles spoke to the victim, he admitted that he shouldn’t have been naked in a canyon, but the police had no reason to attack him like they did.
“I take some responsibility because I was under the influence,” said the man. “But nothing justifies the cops use of such force,” he said.
Sadly enough, San Diego police have justified the attack, claiming they believed the man “posed an immediate threat to officers due to the fact he was clinching his fists and walking towards them.”
They also noted that the “subject was under the influence of a controlled substance and was very agitated with officers.”
However, when watching the video it is clear that the naked man was not walking toward officers and he posed no threat to the multiple armed men in body armor who had him surrounded.
The video also shows that police violated their own policy when deploying the K9.
According to the San Diego Police Department’s own policy, officers “if possible, give at least two warnings in a loud and clear manner” before allowing a dog to bite. This did not happen — and it would have been entirely possible to do so.
The victim has since sued the police department for excessive force and Cook, whose sued the city in multiple instances of police K9 attacks said the force is worse than excessive.
“Not only excessive, but animalistic,” said Cook. “In this case, you had your subject, you had him surrounded. All you had to do was simply take him into custody.”
In his legal complaint against the department, the man’s attorney says the officers “acted with unnecessary, cruel and despicable conduct and in wanton disregard for the civil rights, health and safety” of his client, according to NBC Los Angeles.
After savagely allowing the K9 to maul this man, he wasn’t charged with any crimes. However, thanks to the officers’ sadistic nature, the taxpayers of San Diego have been charged with a hefty fine — a $385,000 settlement to be exact.
That amount, however, is not nearly enough as the attack has left the now-26-year-old permanently disabled as he no longer has full use his right leg.
“No dollar amount is worth having a disability for life,” he said.
After this video became public, the San Diego police department released a callous and insulting statement to justify their actions:
“This video shows the agitated and defiant demeanor of a man under the influence of LSD. When played in its entirety, the video shows our officers trying to gain his compliance before he became defiant. While the split second decisions of police officers are easy to second guess when you know the outcome, keep in mind the deployment of our K9 is intended to prevent the situation from escalating.”
WARNING: The full video is extremely graphic and disturbing. It includes footage of a police dog biting a subject’s leg until blood and other injuries are visible.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/graphic-video-shows-cops-k9-torture-unarmed-non-violent-naked-man/
Remember this case? Once again cops investigating and clearing themselves of murder. Even in castle law states, some home owners who shot more than once at armed intruders have been prosecuted for murder. But it seems like cops have free pass to kill anyone they want without consequences.
Dyer: Noble shooting justified, but officer did not follow proper tactics before firing 4th shot
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article119931858.html
The same organization that takes kids away from parents and can destroy lives.
North Carolina Foster Child Sues CPS Supervisor who Adopted Him, Only to Abuse Him
A North Carolina foster child, who was discovered by a sheriff’s deputy cuffed to a front porch with a dead chicken tied around his neck, filed a lawsuit last month against the Child Protective Services worker who adopted him, only for her and her boyfriend to spend several years abusing him.
“A lot of times I would bleed. Sometimes they wouldn’t clean it up. Sometimes, they didn’t care, they just left it bleeding,” the boy revealed in an interview with the Huffington Post, adding that his former foster parents never called for medical help despite enduring severe injuries like a broken wrist while attempting to escape the chains of the abusive home.
Wanda Sue Larson was a Gaston County Social Services CPS Supervisor when she adopted the boy at the age of four in 2006. The boy, now 14, is referred to as “J.G.” in the lawsuit, which can be read the embed below.
Larson’s boyfriend, Dorian Lee Harper, reportedly tied the dead bird around J.G.’s neck after he killed it at the 5-acre farm where they lived. J.G.’s lawsuit claims Larson never intervened and allowed it to happen.
Investigators say Larson submitted false statements in order to manipulate the “process and substance” of the legal hearing determining J.G.’s custody, manipulating the juvenile courts into removing the child from his biological mother, Maria Harris, by deceiving the juvenile court judge overseeing the case.
Harris regained custody of her son in 2015 after the information about Larson came to light.
In 2006, Larson had used her position as a department supervisor to manipulate the courts to terminate Harris’ parental rights. She also required subordinates to conduct post-removal assessments to qualify the child’s status for funding as well her qualifications so she could adopt him.
North Carolina pays foster parents at least $432 a month for each child, which increases with disabilities. Larson had five foster children in her custody.
The end of J.G.’s abuse finally began in 2013 when Union County Sheriff Deputy Robert Rucker responded to a call about a hog that escaped a farm and had been running loose through the community.
While searching for the hog running amok, Rucker approached Larson’s farm house where he found J.G. handcuffed to a railing on the porch. He also discovered the child would be regularly chained to a railroad tie in his room.
And he discovered J.G., along with four other foster children, were living in “shocking conditions” inside the CPS supervisor’s home where she allowed her boyfriend free reign of abuse against the children.
A further investigation revealed Harper would also starve “J.G.” and tie his ankle to a railroad tie, cut his face knife as well as burn his face with electric wire.
Harper remains in prison after he pleaded guilty to being the primary abuser of J.G. and was sentenced to six to 10 years of hard time.
In 2015, Larson was given time served for 17 months in prison after she pleaded guilty for her role in J.G.’s abuse, so she is no longer incarcerated.
“I want to do whatever it takes to get her back in jail,” J.G. told WBTV. “Cause she deserves to be in jail for a long, long time.”
Financial Incentives
In addition to monetary assistance provided by the federal government for adoptive parents to assist with the costs raising adopted children, local CPS departments across the country receive thousands in federal funding.
Each CPS department’s budget is based on how many children social workers remove from the custody of their families to place in foster care, which is viewed as a Fourth Amendment violation by most parents who have their children removed.
The incentives increase significantly for foster parents and departments if a child is determined to have special needs through federal title IV-E adoption assistance.
Others criticize removal-based incentives saying they corrupt departments by driving their focus towards the bottom line instead of protecting children, resulting in department supervisors driving subordinates initially drawn to the job to protect children to lie about abuse that’s not occurring, removing them from their families to generate money for the department instead.
Others add the incentives provide no reason for departments to work to keep families together, but rather motivate supervisors to push for removals.
The annual total of child removals is tallied up to determine the department’s budget for the following year as Orange County CPS Director Michael Riley explains to a civil rights attorney in the video deposition below regarding the case of former Miss California Deanna Fogarty, who had lost her parental rights in 2000 after social workers engaged in a”pervasive pattern of lies and extensive cover-up” to justify removing her daughters.
Do Social Workers Have A Right to Lie?
An Orange County jury found social workers Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak were liable for the “unconstitutional removal and continued detention” ajnd warrantless removal of her daughters, who were nine and six at the time, awarding Fogarty $4.8 million for violating her right to parent her children.
Attorneys for Orange County appealed the jury’s ruling.
Although they did not contest to the jury’s finding the social workers had lied to remove Fogarty’s two daughters, attorneys argued the decision should be overturned because while the social worker’s deceptive statements to the court might have been ethically wrong, they were not illegal because no prior court ruling had been established against social workers lying to the court in order to remove children.
They also argued that Vreeken and Dwojak were protected by qualified immunity from liability in federal court unless Fogarty could prove the social workers’ lies violated her Constitutional rights.
But that argument fell flat with the judges hearing the case, who upheld the jury’s decision, boosting Orange County’s payout to $10.6 million after attorney’s fees for fighting the appeal were added up, which is the most expensive case ever paid by Orange County, according to the Orange County Register.
“How in the world could a person in the shoes of your clients possibly believe that it was appropriate to use perjury and false evidence?” 9th Circuit of Appeals Judge Stephen Trott asked.
“How could they possibly not be in notice that you can’t do that? You mean due process is somehow consistent with a government worker introducing perjured testimony and false evidence? I can’t even believe for a microsecond that a caseworker wouldn’t understand you can’t lie and put in false evidence.”
The $10.6 awarded in Fogarty-Hardwick also resulted in a steep increase in liability claims cost for Orange County.
“It was pretty amazing. They succeed in taking a $5 million award and doubling it for us,” Shawn McMillan, the civil rights attorney who represented Fogarty, told the Register.
“In my view, the taxpayers in Orange County should be pissed. This never should have gone this far.”
In November, a jury awarded Lina Duval, who is also represented by McMillan, $3.1 million for “malice, oppression, and fraud” for the unwarranted removal of her 15-month old son, who was also taken without a warrant.
“The law is very clear and the social workers get training on this, you can not seize a child from its parents unless there’s an emergency.”
According to McMillan, an emergency would be exigent circumstances that pose a significant risk of death or serious bodily harm in the half hour or so it would take social workers to get a warrant from a judge in an abuse case that would warrant seizing a child.
However, that fact isn’t widely known due to the secret nature of juvenile courts, which are not open to the public to protect the minors in involved.
“The basic purpose espoused by the legislature, and the courts is protection of the child’s privacy,” McMillan told PINAC during an interview.
“In the vast majority of the cases I review, secrecy only protects the workers from liability.”
Marcie Vreeken, one of the two social workers named responsible for committing judicial deception, was promoted to a supervisor position.
In 2013, Vreeken earned $103,441.48, according to the OC Register.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/12/21/north-carolina-foster-child-sues-cps-supervisor-who-adopted-him-only-to-abuse-him/
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FL Firefighter Who Answered Door With Gun Cleared Under ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law
In March of last year, Miami-Dade Fire Captain Nick Marian of Miami Shores, Florida, answered a knock at his door and the ringing of his doorbell. He lives in a rough part of town, and came to the door with a shotgun in hand. Police say they saw him pick up a shotgun from his couch and answer the door.
Prosecutors contended that he pointed the shotgun at the police officers for “more than a second” and that he knew that it was police officers at his door. His defense was that he had the right to protect himself, his actions were reasonable and prudent, and he had immunity under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. Captain Marian’s arguments won the day.
From nbcmiami.com:
A judge dropped charges Wednesday against a Miam-Dade Fire captain who was arrested for pointing a gun at a police officer.
Nicholas Marian, 55, was granted Stand Your Ground immunity in a bizarre encounter with a Miami Shores police officer. Fellow firefighters who had been rallying behind Marian were at the courthouse celebrating the ruling.
The entire process, from the incident to the judge dismissing the charges took nine months. Prosecutors had charged the fire captain with aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer. The judge ruled otherwise.
Bringing a gun to the door is prudent in numerous circumstances. It’s difficult to know if someone at your door is a police officer or not. Many criminals facilitate their crimes by yelling “Police!” during home invasions.
In this case, it only took a few seconds for the fire captain to determine that the people at his door were police officers. When he did, he cooperated.
The idea that citizens have to disarm themselves because someone at the door might be a police officer is repugnant to the rule of law.
This incident had a better outcome than the Gabriel Mobley case. Mobley was in the courts for six years before he was finally cleared. That case went all the way to the Florida Supreme Court before Mobley was finally vindicated in 2014.
Perhaps the judge hearing the case against Marian referenced the supreme court ruling in favor of Mobley.
©2016 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/01/dean-weingarten/stand-ground-immunity-firefighter-answered-door-gun-hand/
Scott AdamsWell written/said.
"As a trained persuader, I’m seeing a dangerous situation forming that I assume is invisible to most of you. The setup is that during the presidential campaign Trump’s critics accused him of being Hitler(ish) and they were sure other citizens would see it too, thus preventing this alleged monster from taking office. They were wrong. The alleged monster took office. Now you have literally millions of citizens in the United States who were either right about Trump being the next Hitler, and we will see that behavior emerge from him soon, or they are complete morons. That’s a trigger for cognitive dissonance. The science says these frightened folks will start interpreting all they see as Hitler behavior no matter how ridiculous it might seem to the objective observer. And sure enough, we are seeing that. To be fair, Trump made it easy this week with his temporary immigration ban. If you assume Trump is Hitler, that fits with your hypothesis. But of course it also fits the hypothesis that he’s just doing his job. We’re all seeing what we expect to see.
But lately I get the feeling that Trump’s critics have evolved from expecting Trump to be Hitler to preferring it. Obviously they don’t prefer it in a conscious way. But the alternative to Trump becoming Hitler is that they have to live out the rest of their lives as confirmed morons. No one wants to be a confirmed moron. And certainly not after announcing their Trump opinions in public and demonstrating in the streets. It would be a total embarrassment for the anti-Trumpers to learn that Trump is just trying to do a good job for America. It’s a threat to their egos. A big one. And this gets me to my point. When millions of Americans want the same thing, and they want it badly, the odds of it happening go way up. You can call it the power of positive thinking. It is also the principle behind affirmations. When humans focus on a desired future, events start to conspire to make it happen. I’m not talking about any new-age magic. I’m talking about ordinary people doing ordinary things to turn Trump into an actual Hitler. For example, if protesters start getting violent, you could expect forceful reactions eventually. And that makes Trump look more like Hitler. I can think of dozens of ways the protesters could cause the thing they are trying to prevent. In other words, they can wish it into reality even though it is the very thing they are protesting. In the 3rd dimension of persuasion, the protesters need to be proven right, and they will do whatever it takes to make that happen. So you might see the protesters inadvertently create the police state they fear. If you are looking for the tells that this dangerous situation is developing, notice how excited/happy the Trump critics seem to be – while angry at the same time – that Trump’s immigration ban fits their belief system. If you see people who are simply afraid of Trump, they are probably harmless. But the people who are excited about any Hitler-analogy-behavior by Trump might be leading the country to a police state without knowing it. So watch for that." -
I'm telling you, there will be a day when attacking cops and police stations will be the norm.
These pigs have no common sense.
This dangerous criminal needs to spend the rest of his pathetic life in prison.
Woman Run Over by Her Car As Crazed Cop Drags Her Out at Gunpoint for No Reason
Lee County, FL — Lee County Deputy Raymond Gallagher is a bad cop. It is cops like him that add to the fear people feel when they see those red and blue lights in their rearview mirrors as they are targeted for extortion for some arbitrary traffic violation. However, thanks to the power of video and a cop watching citizen, Deputy Raymond Gallagher is a cop no more.
In October, Gallagher pulled a woman over for speeding. It was a routine stop and it appeared that the woman wanted to get off the road, so she pulled into a parking lot at a nearby shopping mall. Never did the woman try to flee or resist or otherwise pose any threat to Gallagher. However, that did not stop him from creating the violent scene that unfolded next.
For pulling over into a parking lot — for a minor speeding violation — Gallagher rushed her vehicle with his weapon drawn and proceeded to drag her from the car. Clearly in shock and frightened as a crazed screaming man is running toward her with a weapon pointed at her head, the woman either forgot or did not have time to put the vehicle in park. However, it was not moving at all — until Gallagher dragged her out of the car.
In the officer’s dashcam video, we see him rush the car and proceed to drag the woman from the car. As she falls to the concrete with her seatbelt still attached, her foot slips off the brake causing the car to start rolling forward. Because the crazed cop didn’t allow her to remove her seatbelt — or put the car in park — she was dragged along the side of her moving vehicle.
Luckily, she was not run directly over by the back tire and killed. But she was hurt.
After the stop, Gallagher arrested the woman and fabricated an entire story to back up his reasons for the use of force and never once mentioned that she was pulled from the vehicle and dragged.
As NBC 2 reports, an internal affairs investigation also discovered Gallagher lied on the arrest report, stating the female tried to avoid him when he first made contact with her, something the video proved never occurred.
Instead of the truth, contained within the officer’s fictional report was a statement about how he “helped” the woman from her vehicle. In their investigation, the department used the Merriam-Webster dictionary to define ‘help’.
Merriam-Webster defines the work help as follow(s): to give assistance or support to; to make more pleasant or bearable; to be of use to, to change for the better. In the video, Deputy Gallagher did not appear to assist, support, please, be of use to, or change the situation for the better.
The investigation substantiated the following four charges:
• Improper Conduct- Excessive or Unnecessary Force
• Improper Conduct- Untruthfulness in Proceedings or Reports
• Job Knowledge and Performance- Knowledge of Rules and Procedures
• Improper Conduct- Conduct Unbecoming Officer/Member
“Mr. Gallagher fell far short of our expectations, training, and policy, and we dealt with him swiftly and surely,” Sheriff Mike Scott said. “I will not tolerate behavior like that.”
Thankfully, a vigilant citizen decided to stick around and act as a witness after he suspected Gallagher was going to escalate the situation or this cop may have never been exposed. The Witness, Kevin Noell then called the Lee County Sheriff’s Office to report Gallagher.
Now, nearly 5 months after the incident, Gallagher is no longer a cop, and, hopefully, it stays that way.
Below is the dramatic video showing this deputy’s aggressive and dangerous behavior.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-woman-dragged-speeding-stop/#7eEUFCQ5ZILTgDHj.99
Cowardly Cop Mistakes Wallet for a Gun and Shoots Innocent Airman
Lee County, AL — Fear, cowardice, dread, hate — training — one or more of these traits are present more often than not when a police officer shoots an unarmed person. And, in the dashcam video below, that assertion becomes apparent as Opelika police officer Phillip Hancock shot Airman Michael Davidson for no reason other than fear.
The incident happened on March 6, 2014, however, the dashcam was kept secret until a little more than three years to the date after the shooting. Hancock was responding to a minor accident in which Davidson had swiped the back of a tractor trailer and both parties were waiting for police to arrive after they had exchanged information.
When Hancock arrives on the scene, he immediately becomes aggressive with Davidson who was merely trying to get out of his car. Because Davidson was parked on a slope, opening his door was particularly difficult as it was much heavier at this angle. Instead of realizing this was a factor, Hancock, applying his training while experiencing high levels of fear and cowardice, escalated the situation to violence.
“Show me your hands,” screams Hancock as Davidson frantically tries to comply.
Davidson’s attorney’s, Brian Mosholder explains, as reported by WRBL, that Davidson’s wallet was in his left hand while pushing against the door to get it open, and then he reached back with his right hand. Soon after, Ofc. Hancock asks Davidson to show him his hands. Davidson brings his right hand through and up to his left hand, turned and got out of the vehicle as quickly as he could and put his hands out in front of him with his wallet in both hands and began to raise his hands. Soon after, the first shot is fired, which hits the ground. Then, Mosholder said Davidson’s hands went up and the second shot was fired, which hit Davidson.
“It’s very obvious from that part of the video that Officer Hancock is creating a situation that he wished had happened that would have justified this shooting,” Mosholder said. “When you look at the video, none of that happened. When you look at the video, in less than six seconds, from the time Michael Davidson opens his door, Officer Hancock shoots him, and he shoots him for absolutely no reason.”
After he was shot, the Airmen was seen writhing in pain on the ground — as the blood spot in the back of his jeans grew increasingly larger. Davidson was shot in the abdomen and suffered severe artery damage and “extensive internal bleeding,” according to the suit.
During the melee, the innocent truck driver was also in danger from this irresponsible cop’s fear as he fired rounds in his direction as well.
For the last three years, Davidson was hoping to seek justice against the man who shot him for no reason. However, as is the case in so many other police shootings, the shooting was found to be justified — because the cop expressed a justifiable reason to fear for his life.
“The City, the Chief of Police and its officer have always denied any wrongdoing,” a statement from the City of Opelika in response to the most recent court ruling read. “This case has now been analyzed by two federal courts … The judges have unanimously determined after a review of the evidence, which includes the dash cam video, there was no wrongdoing on behalf of the City, the Chief, or the involved officer. In reaching their respective decisions, these Federal Courts reviewed all of the evidence. Their opinions are clearly supported by all evidence.”
In affirming the district court’s ruling, according to oanow.com, the three-judge panel said it had reviewed the evidence, including dash cam video, and provided the following summary statement: “After careful consideration and review of a video recording of the shooting, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Davidson, we conclude that a reasonable officer in Hancock’s position would have feared for his life. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment based on qualified immunity in favor of Hancock on all claims.”
Below is the end result of too much fear pumped into cops during their training. Thankfully, Davidson lived, no thanks to the cops who let him bleed out for more than 5 minutes before providing any life saving methods — but he will never be the same again.
Video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5egb21_dashcam-footage-released-in-opelika-police-officer-involved-shooting_news
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/fear-shooting-cop-wallet-gun
Did you guys hear of the new police tactic of telling people that it is illegal to record them or their activities?
Did you guys hear of the new police tactic of telling people that it is illegal to record them or their activities?
The cops often make up their own laws, lie or charge people with non-existing "crimes" that they make up on the spot to justify the "arrest" and assert their "authority". It seems like they are trying to threaten, extort, intimidate and terrorize citizens and/or any witnesses to crimes committed by cops. However, there is the ruling in Glik v. Cunniffe (http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/10-1764P-01A.pdf) by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals:
"In line with these principles, we have previously recognized that the videotaping of public officials is an exercise of First Amendment liberties."
"Our recognition that the First Amendment protects the filming of government officials in public spaces accords with the decisions of numerous circuit and district courts. See, e.g.,
Smith v. City of Cumming, 212 F.3d 1332, 1333 (11th Cir. 2000) ("The First Amendment protects the right to gather information about what public officials do on public property, and specifically, a right to record matters of public interest.")"
"In our society, police officers are expected to endure significant burdens caused by citizens' exercise of their First Amendment rights. See City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451, 461 (1987) ("[T]he First Amendment protects a significant amount of verbal criticism and challenge directed at police officers.").
Indeed, "[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." Id. at 462-63. The same restraint demanded of law enforcement officers in the face of "provocative and challenging" speech, id. at 461 (quoting Terminiello v. Chicago, -14-337 U.S. 1, 4 (1949)), must be expected when they are merely the subject of videotaping that memorializes, without impairing, their work in public spaces."
That's the thing, I know some cops and they're cool people to deal with on a personal level.
I have a feeling they turn into a-holes when wearing the badge because the police chiefs are the ones inciting all this criminal behavior.
Case and point: All the towns around the interstates, parkways and highways that run out NYC through little hick towns whose only source of income is ticketing the heck out of unsuspecting drivers.
There's a monetary incentive for cops to escalate every little encounter. It's paramount to the survival of their own system. Without people driving 15 miles over the speed limit, without the "suspicious" car, without the little whiff of marijuana/alcohol, their own jobs would be at risk.
Hence we have what we have. They rather pay hundreds of millions in out-of-court settlements than discipline their cops.
This will all come to a stop when people start assaulting the cops's family, the cop himself or even the police station. Not that I want it to happen, mind you, but if this is allowed to continue, it WILL happen.
That's the thing, I know some cops and they're cool people to deal with on a personal level.
I have a feeling they turn into a-holes when wearing the badge because the police chiefs are the ones inciting all this criminal behavior.
Case and point: All the towns around the interstates, parkways and highways that run out NYC through little hick towns whose only source of income is ticketing the heck out of unsuspecting drivers.
There's a monetary incentive for cops to escalate every little encounter. It's paramount to the survival of their own system. Without people driving 15 miles over the speed limit, without the "suspicious" car, without the little whiff of marijuana/alcohol, their own jobs would be at risk.
Hence we have what we have. They rather pay hundreds of millions in out-of-court settlements than discipline their cops.
This will all come to a stop when people start assaulting the cops's family, the cop himself or even the police station. Not that I want it to happen, mind you, but if this is allowed to continue, it WILL happen.
Remember this case? If you don't, the man you see below lying on the ground with his hands up is the caretaker for the person next to him, an autistic man holding a toy truck. As you can tell, the cop "feared for his life" and shot the caretaker who was lying down with his hands up pleading not to shoot him. This deranged criminal has been enjoying 8 months of paid leave (so far) while his fellow "officers" are still "investigating".
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North Miami Police Chief Reveals Coverup and Lies in Last Year’s Controversial Shooting of Unarmed Caretaker
The award-winning Florida cop who made international headlines last year after shooting an unarmed caretaker who had his arms in the air, then claiming he had feared for his life after confusing a toy truck for a loaded gun, was informed by another cop seconds before the shooting that the object was not a gun, but a toy.
But North Miami police officer Jonathan Aledda fired anyway, not even striking the autistic man with the truck that he had confused for a gun, but his caretaker who had already told officers it was not a gun; the man they later claimed they were trying to protect from the toy-wielding autistic man they believed had a gun.
However, not only did caretaker Charles Kinsey tell the cops it was not a gun before the shooting, but a North Miami police sergeant who viewed the object through binoculars also confirmed it was a toy truck, telling the other officers to hold their fire.
And the officers did hold their fire, except for Aledda, who seconds earlier, had told fellow officers he had a clear shot on the subject, so apparently was not going to let that moment pass, even if had received a direct order not to shoot.
What else can we expect from a cop who was hired by North Miami police in 2012, despite several warning signs that he could become a problem cop because he possesses a “lack of tolerance” and was also described as being “judgmental; argumentative; critical; challenging; rigid; stubborn”?
Fortunately, Kinsey survived the shooting, and is now suing.
The stunning but not surprising revelations surfaced this week after the Miami New Times obtained an audio recording of North Miami Police Chief Gary Eugene being interviewed by Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators ten days after the July 18, 2016 shooting. The recording is posted below.
Chief Eugene, who had been on the job only six days when the shooting took place, described an ensuing coverup between police and North Miami city officials to protect Aledda, who has no business carrying a badge and a gun
However, that interview was not enough for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office to file charges against Aledda, who has been on paid administrative leave for more than eight months now (although they insist they are still investigating).
And that is not surprising considering Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has never filed charges against any cop for on-duty shootings since taking office in 1993. And there have been many.
Her latest questionable decision was made last month when she declined to charge four prison guards who forced a mentally ill inmate into a hot shower for two hours, leaving him to die a slow, excruciating and scalding death, prompting renewed criticism from the New Times, who referred to her as a “disgrace” in a scathing article last month.
So even though prosecutors are promising they will be arriving at a decision any day now, we can predict that they will not file charges against Aledda, who was deemed a potential problem cop when applying for the North Miami Police Department in 2012.
He not only had a shoplifting conviction on his record when applying, he was determined to have a “lack of tolerance” and was also described as being “judgmental; argumentative; critical; challenging; rigid; stubborn.”
Just the kind of person who would shoot an unarmed man laying on his back with his hands in the air after being told by a commanding officer not to open fire.
According to the Miami New Times:
After the shooting, union officials justified Aledda’s actions by saying he thought the autistic man with Kinsey had a gun, not a toy truck. But Eugene’s interview with FDLE contradicts that claim. (This past Tuesday, the North Miami Police public information officer declined to comment on behalf of the city manager, Spring.)
“I heard the shooter, Officer Aledda, make a statement to the nature of ‘Be advised, I have clear shot [of] subject,'” Eugene said, describing the audio of the police radio just before the shooting. “Later on, a sergeant… got on the air and said, ‘I have a visual; it is a toy. Is it a toy? QRX.’ That means ‘Stand by; don’t do anything.’ Then there is a conversation back and forth. The next transmission was by [another officer saying] ‘Shot fired!'”
Eugene’s description comes in an hourlong interview that centers on the bizarre aftermath of the case. He doesn’t pull punches about the state of the department. Eugene, a veteran City of Miami cop who had been sworn in as chief only six days before the Kinsey shooting, says training was lax and infighting rampant.
“The scene was a mess, to be honest with you,” he tells investigators of the Kinsey shooting. “People were walking all over the place. Thank God [Kinsey] did not die. I realized I have a problem with the training of my staff. We’re talking about some 15- or 16-year veterans, but in North Miami, a 15- or 16-year veteran may have less experience than a two-year cop in Miami.”
Fights in the department were so bad, Eugene said, that he worried his cops wouldn’t even be willing to protect one another, much less the community.
“I’m afraid one of them will get shot, for God’s sake, and someone will call for backup and they’ll say, ‘I’m not going,’ just to tell you how much the animosity is,” he said.
The chief is also saying there is another video, apparently confiscated by police, that has not been made public.
In a previous cell-phone clip that was provided to the press, Kinsey was seen on tape lying on his back, repeatedly telling police that Rios was only holding a toy. Rios sat cross-legged next to him. While the video did not show the moment Aledda shot Kinsey, the video does show the cops handcuffing an injured Kinsey as he laid on the ground.
In his FDLE interview, the chief said the second, unseen video was clear enough to show one cop, a rookie, resting with his finger off the trigger of his weapon. That cop was not the officer who shot Kinsey.
“It’s was video taken pulled back from the second floor of an apartment,” Eugene said. “Because you could clearly see the officer leaning in the engine area, and the rookie officer, I was telling you, the black male, it was so clear you could see his finger outside trigger, behind a bush. You can see the black male [Kinsey] on his back with both hands in the air.”
The news raises further questions about the controversial Kinsey shooting, which became a flashpoint in the anti-police-brutality movement sweeping the nation. Who took the clip? And why or how did the video not make its way to the press in the eight months since Kinsey was shot?
The answer to those questions are obvious. The video was never released because it would contradict their narrative that the autistic man, Armando Rios Soto, appeared threatening and menacing, the way he waved his toy truck around to fool officers thinking it was a loaded gun.
Instead, the video shows a rookie cop with his finger off the trigger, having made the determination that Kinsey was not carrying a gun.
But as police are known to do, they quickly spun the story to make themselves look like the victim as we described last year.
“The movement of the white individual looked like he was getting ready to discharge a firearm into Mr. Kinsey,” said Miami-Dade police union boss John Rivera in a press conference today, attended by WSVN.
And the officer discharged trying to strike and stop the white male and unfortunately, he missed.”
Rivera went on to slam the media for reporting on this story.
“Be responsible in your reporting,” Rivera said in the press conference.
But is it too much to ask cops to be responsible in their policing?
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/04/05/north-miami-police-chief-reveals-coverup-and-lies-in-last-years-controversial-shooting-of-unarmed-caretaker/
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Completely outrageous behaviour by that cop & those covering up
As for the state prosecutor She Needs to be accidentally shoot by a cop
See if she prosecutes then. Slag.
Tick Tock - Tick Tock
Time is running out on this Criminal Gang of bully's / liars / thugs.
http://circa.com/politics/accountability/obama-administration-underreported-number-of-americans-who-were-unmasked-by-nsa-in-2016
Obama = lying twink POS
In the video, she is heard asking for her cane. To which a sheriff's deputy responds, "I will give you your cane once you stand up," and the woman replies, "No, hand me my cane so I can stand up."
When she didn't stand up, a sheriff's deputy pushed her head down.
Notice the goons who immediately try to block the camera and threatening and intimidating the person filming. They should be tried as accomplices to murder.
Cop Watches Her Husband Choke Man to Death, No Charges, Still on Duty
A Harris County, Texas sheriff's deputy and her husband are at the center of a controversy after the deputy's husband injured a man so severely in a fight, he later passed away. Dramatic cell phone footage has now been released, showing the end of the fight which took his life.
Harris County, TX — Terry Thompson, a 41-year-old Harris County man choked another man to death at a local Denny’s Sunday night. But Thompson, the husband of a Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy, has still not been charged with any crime. Now, dramatic footage of the fight has emerged, and we must warn you, it is extremely graphic.
John Hernandez, 24, was drunk when he went to the restaurant Sunday night, his family told reporters. From the surveillance video, a wobbly Hernandez can be seen entering the restaurant. He sat down but got up to leave the establishment, over the objections of his wife who pleaded for him to stay.
The drunken man then reportedly relieved himself outside the front entrance, apparently in front of the deputy and her husband. Taking umbrage with the grown man peeing in the parking lot, the deputy’s husband confronted Hernandez about his actions.
According to the Thompson, he claims the drunken Hernandez struck him and started a fight which ended when the deputy’s husband reportedly choked the man unconscious. The off-duty deputy helped restrain Hernandez and noticed he wasn’t breathing.
She started CPR and waited for paramedics to arrive. After on-duty police arrived, surprisingly, the deputy’s husband was not charged with assault, involuntary manslaughter, manslaughter, or even murder.
Hernandez was transported to the hospital by ambulance, was placed into intensive care, but was taken off of life support. He later died.
Following Hernandez’ death, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez asked for the Texas Rangers and the Department of Justice to become involved in the investigation. Since Hernandez’ passing, dramatic cell phone footage has emerged which appears to have recorded the moments leading up to his fatal injuries.
From the video, the large man in a red tank top (deputy’s husband) can be seen seemingly choking Hernandez to the point which led to his demise. Bystanders, apparently realizing what was taking place, attempted to step in front of the camera as the man can be seen rendering Hernandez incapacitated.
Thompson can be heard telling Hernandez, “Do you want me to hit you again?” Panic can be heard in the young lady’s voice standing nearby when she notices someone is recording the incident.
Thompson does not appear to be attempting to kill Hernandez, only subdue him, but his weight, combined with the choke, likely contributed to Hernandez fatal injuries.
One man, dressed in what appears to be biker attire, threatened the person recording the attack with going to jail and continued to step in front of the camera.
No one, in the 52-second video, can be seen attempting to break up the fight, appearing to be more concerned with the fact someone was recording the encounter than fearful someone may be dying beneath Thompson’s weight.
The biker declared the lady to Thompson’s side to be a Sheriff’s deputy and insisted recording was illegal and the videographer would go to jail if he/she continued.
The video was presented to the Hernandez family’s attorney who is now demanding answers and accountability. “This clearly showed Terry Thompson choking and eventually killing John Hernandez,” said Randall Kallinen, the family’s attorney.
While the deputy’s and her husband’s actions on the outside looking in seem justified, the question remains as to whether or not a double standard is at work.
Was the knowledge Mr. Thompson is the spouse of a deputy a factor in the decision not to charge him with involuntary manslaughter? Would he have been arrested if she weren’t an officer of the law?
These questions and more remain as the Harris County Sheriff’s office must now come face to face with the reality one of their own deputy’s relatives killed a drunk man at a Denny’s restaurant and has yet to be charged.
The Free Thought Project will continue to follow this story and inform our readers as it unfolds.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-husband-kills-man-no-charges/#zTuQlA8mIZwM6GVh.99
Laughlin took May to the hospital where he tagged his prey with a sticker on May’s shirt that said, “I met Riggs,” before snapping a photo for his personal collection.
I've never understood how someone, very clearly a twisted wacko judging by this piece of information alone, is allowed to do his thing as an officer.
Furthermore, how was he allowed into the position to begin with, since he didn't just fall from the sky yesterday?
HOW could it be true -- if not for some cultural "norm" within the PD -- that a person with such deeply disturbing tendencies is allowed to work for (against, really) us?
And the saddest part (of course) is that it's relatively mild compared to many others. If we can get rid of these wicked clowns when they pull shit like this right in front of everyone, maybe we wouldn't have all those other stories.
On one occasion, a group of Sweetwater cops ransacked a man’s home, stealing computers, iPads, TVs and even the man’s truck.
Another day, the cops badly beat a suspected thief for hours inside the Sweetwater station, masking the sounds by blaring reggaeton music, all while taking “trophy” photos.
Yet another suspect was pummeled and “water-boarded” – forced to swallow water, in a dark room, until he falsely confessed to a burglary. The man had to be hospitalized with broken bones in his face and a rib fracture.
So many despicable crimes by out of control criminal gangs. This one also kept trophy photos.
Sweetwater cops pummeled, water-boarded suspects for years, prosecutors allege
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article155949819.html
The armed and violent criminal gangs keep attacking and abusing people. From a "heroic" cop violently attack and kidnapping a nurse who was perfectly justified and law abiding in her behavior to arresting people for refusing to speak, the uniformed thugs enjoy a level of immunity that ordinary law abiding freedom loving citizens could never dream of.
But these criminal gangs don't operate alone. They collaborate with prosecutors to provide them with "cases" so the prosecutors can build a record of convictions and plea deals. The prosecutors help the criminal cops and they also receive preferential treatment when they commit crimes. Take a look at this example:
A drunk prosecutor drives the wrong way in a one way street and crashes into another car, injuring the driver and causing heavy damage to the vehicle. When a cop arrives, he notices the prosecutor is drunk and contacts his watch commander. Suspiciously enough, the watch commanders orders the cop to use line 3407 which was marked “not recorded”. When the watch commander asks how the drunk prosecutor would do in a field sobriety test, the cop responds: "probably not amazing".
If you think it is suspicious that there is so much interest in what the result of the sobriety test would be, it will become more obvious now.
The watch commander says:
"Let’s pass him if we can. If we can’t, we can’t, Adam. We’re not going to get fucked. I’d love to pass him on sobriety if we could.”
To which the cop replies:
“Alright, I’ll do what I can,”
The story gets even uglier with the watch commander and other cops who arrive at the scene trying to shift the blame from the prosecutor and cover up the crime. It should be noted here that the supervisor's wife "just happens" to also be a prosecutor that also "just happens" to be working with the drunk prosecutor involved in the accident. In fact it appears that his wife would be doing some investigations into the case and the watch commander says that he would tell his wife not to pull any bodycam footage that shows the prosecutor:
“I’ll take care of that part. She will be smart enough not to dig into it”
Do you think the conspiracy by this criminal gang would result in prison time? Think again.
GRPD Chief David Rahinsky and Grand Rapids City Manager Greg Sundstrom agreed to termination hearings for all three officers.
Of course you'd expectthe cop uniona criminal gang to step in and protect its goons:
However, the city reached agreements with the police union for a lighter punishment for two of them. Officer Adam Ickes was suspended for 30 days without pay; Warwick was suspended for 160 hours, demoted from sergeant to officer, and placed on a two-year probation. Janiskee was fired from his job. He is suing, claiming his rights were violated and he’s also seeking to get his job back.
There is a lot to this story that shows how these criminals collaborate to commit crimes and also cover up crimes for "special" persons, perpetuating a culture of corruption and abuse.
http://woodtv.com/2017/09/13/grpd-phone-line-recordings-of-ex-prosecutors-crash-released/
http://woodtv.com/2017/09/14/calls-for-public-apology-after-grpd-calls-released/
It is kinda sad that there is no morals in this gang & they Pontificate on how people should behave & respect them because they do such a difficult & dangerous job.
The only Difficult bit for them is keeping a straight face when they hound & harass people.
Cops must piss themselves laughing at what they cover up for their friends.
Jeez it is clearly a well rehearsed routine - switch to a unrecorded line -Body cam footage - wife not digging or doing her job properly -- FFS they are probably more rotten & corrupt than I even think.
I've arrested, and observed arrested many a high profile personality. No leniency given. I've even witnessed off duty officers who if regular citizens, wouldn't have been taken down to the station and asked for a breath sample, just because they didn't want the perception of any favoritism. Part of the reason this happens is knowing any cover up is a fire able offense. It's been demonstrated that it will happen. The officers involved in this, specifically that Lieutenant and officer need to be fired to send the message this crap won't be tolerated. They are living in the 70's
Good Cop Crosses Thin Blue Line, Helps Family Bring Officer Who Killed Their Son to Justice
Versailles, MO — On Friday, special prosecutor William Camm Seay announced that Trooper Anthony Piercy is being charged in the death of Brandon Ellingson, who drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks with his hands cuffed behind his back.
On May 31, 2014. Trooper Piercy arrested Ellingson under suspicion of OWI and negligently placed the wrong life jacket over the handcuffed 20-year-old’s torso. Piercy then drove his patrol boat away from the scene at a high rate of speed. Ellingson was thrown from the craft when it struck a sizeable wake, the life jacket came off, and he drowned with his hands still in cuffs.
As The Free Thought Project previously reported, following the familiar full-court press to prevent officer accountability, the jury in a Coroner’s Inquest ruled Ellingson’s death to be accidental. It was subsequently revealed that Amanda Grellner, the prosecutor who declined to file charges against Piercy, had received a personal favor from the MHP three years earlier when the department declined to charge her then-18-year-old son with DUI.
After seeing that they were getting zero help from the perpetrator and his subsequent conspirators, the family of Ellingson launched a campaign for justice. During this campaign, they were joined by Missouri Highway Patrol Sergeant, Randy Henry.
Henry witnessed first hand, the incompetence, negligence, and cover-up and took to exposing it.
“We killed Brandon Ellingson,” Henry bluntly told the Lake Expo newspaper, following it with the question of “Why are we investigating ourselves?”
In a conversation with Piercy the day following Ellingson’s death, Henry expressed concerns about how the arresting officer had conducted himself. Piercy himself seemed remorseful, telling Henry,
“I feel like I drowned that kid…. I should have done more for him.”
In any other context, that comment would be treated as a confession to second-degree murder.
Henry then filed a report on the drowning and testified about the inadequate training Piercy and other water patrol officers received.
During an interview with patrol investigators following the drowning, Henry mentioned a state law dealing with the safety of people in custody and how the police are responsible for the lives of those they detain. An investigator interrupted Henry and insisted that the recorder be turned off, to deliberately prevent an official record of his disclosures.
The stiff arm of blue justice was moving in.
Instead of Piercy being held accountable for his negligence, it was Henry who was then run through the gamut of the thin blue line. He was cast out by his department, demoted to corporal, and forced to retire.
But as a true servant to the public, Henry remained resilient and refused to be bullied.
His and the family’s efforts led to the case being reopened and taken over by Seay.
“It was an investigation not concluded at that time,” Seay said. “She [Grellner] didn’t have it. We, my people, completed the investigation. There was additional investigation after Ms. Grellner stepped down.”
When Seay was asked about the concerns of the law enforcement agency investigating themselves, he said, “That’s what I’m for. I don’t have any concerns.”
On Friday, Seay announced the charge of involuntary manslaughter in the first degree against Trooper Anthony Piercy outside the Morgan County Justice Center. The charge is a Class C felony carrying a punishment of up to seven years in prison, up to a year in the county jail, a $5,000 fine or a combination.
The Highway Patrol said in a statement that it had placed Piercy, 44, on leave without pay. He is expected to turn himself in on Friday.
Craig Ellingson, father of Brandon, announced they were pleased with the news but noted how long it took.
“But it should have been a lot earlier,” he said. “I think it has been a cover-up from the beginning. They had everything. They knew what Piercy did to my son.”
For 18 months, this family, along with the now retired Henry, have fought for Piercy to be held accountable in the death of Brandon Ellingson.
“I never imagined something like that happening to Brandon. … I think he felt like he was safe with Piercy, because he’s a cop. But he wasn’t,” said Ellingson.
“There’s been a cover-up from the beginning,” Henry recently told The Star. “They wanted to protect the governor and the merger and protect Piercy from criminal charges because criminal charges would be a black eye for the patrol.”
While this news of Piercy’s charges is great for the family, Craig Ellingson insists that the fight is not yet over.
“I feel some relief, but I still want to get to the people who have covered this up,” he said.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/good-cop-refused-silenced-fellow-officer-charged-teens-death/
Remember this case? This scumbag only got 10 days in jail (2 days x 5 times, won't even do 10 days straight) for the death of that young man.
Cop Who Threw Handcuffed Man Into Lake and Watched Him Drown, Gets on 10 Days in Jail
Versailles, MO — Nearly two years after Trooper Anthony Piercy was charged in the death of Brandon Ellingson, who drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks with his hands cuffed behind his back, the case has been closed. Predictably, the offending officer is getting off with less than a slap on the wrist.
For handcuffing a college student, negligently casting him into a lake, and watching as he drowned, Trooper Piercy avoided an involuntary manslaughter trial after pleaded guilty to a simple boating violation in June.
This week, Piercy was sentenced for his role in Ellingson’s death and he received just 10 days in jail. The judge referred to this insultingly low sentence of only 10 days as “shock time.”
According to the Kansas City Star, in addition to the “shock time” in the Morgan County jail, Judge Roger Prokes sentenced Trooper Anthony Piercy to two years of supervised probation and ordered him to complete 50 hours of community service. Piercy will serve time in jail in five, two-day increments with his first stint scheduled to begin Friday.
To Ellingson family and those who’ve been following this case, it is a kick in the teeth.
“Ten days is like a vacation,” Craig Ellingson said. “It’s a joke. … He knows he’s guilty and he’s damn lucky to get what he got.”
As the Star reports, Special Prosecutor William Camm Seay requested Piercy receive 30 days in jail and have his law enforcement certification revoked for life. Prokes, however, said the decision on Piercy’s certification was for the state, not him.
Seay is a standup attorney, however, and vowed to follow up to make sure this cop loses his license for the death of this beloved young man.
“I wished we would have gotten what we asked for,” Seay told The Star after the hearing. “It’s my hope he (Piercy) never ever serves as a law enforcement officer again. I’ve fulfilled my obligation but I feel like I have an obligation to the Ellingson family to see this out.”
However, the patrol noted that Piercy is still a cop and is merely on unpaid leave. What happens now with Piercy’s employment “is a personnel issue,” said Lt. Paul Reinsch, the Star reported.
During the proceedings, Craig Ellingson finally got to address the man responsible for taking the only thing in the world that mattered, his son. Almost immediately, he began to cry as he read through a three-page statement.
“Anthony Piercy, it has been almost 3 1/2 years that I’ve waited to tell you face to face that you’re the reason why my son Brandon is dead,” Ellingson said.
On May 31, 2014. Trooper Piercy arrested Ellingson under suspicion of OWI and negligently placed the wrong life jacket over the handcuffed 20-year-old’s torso. Piercy then drove his patrol boat away from the scene at a high rate of speed. Ellingson was thrown from the craft when it struck a sizeable wake, the life jacket came off, and he drowned with his hands still in cuffs while Piercy callously watched on.
“He’s an evil person,” Ellingson’s father Craig told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “The reason we decided to go to the plea deal was it was tainted down there,” in Morgan County, Missouri’s court system.
During the investigation, it was determined that Piercy did little to nothing as he watched Ellingson drown.
As the Beast reported:
Piercy did not jump in to save him.
When a bachelorette party passed on a nearby boat, the passengers threw Ellingson a life ring “but they didn’t know my son was handcuffed,” Craig said. “Piercy didn’t say he was handcuffed.”
The women told investigators that they screamed at Piercy to extend a pole to Ellingson, which he did “but he knew he was handcuffed,” Craig said.
Piercy did not call a supervisor for help until an hour after Ellingson drowned. Footage from his boat shows Piercy having a chillingly casual conversation with his colleague, referring to Ellingson in profane terms.
“I’m banged up a little bit, but I’m alright. I don’t know if I’m sore from treading water with the bastard,” Piercy told a supervisor of the dead 20-year-old.
As The Free Thought Project previously reported, following the familiar full-court press to prevent officer accountability, the jury in a Coroner’s Inquest ruled Ellingson’s death to be accidental. It was subsequently revealed that Amanda Grellner, the prosecutor who declined to file charges against Piercy, had received a personal favor from the MHP three years earlier when the department declined to charge her then-18-year-old son with DUI.
Last September, a circuit court judge found that the state had “knowingly and purposefully” covered up the crimes of Piercy, violating the state’s Sunshine Law in the act.
After seeing that they were getting zero help from the perpetrator and his subsequent conspirators, the family of Ellingson launched a campaign for justice. During this campaign, they were joined by Missouri Highway Patrol Sergeant, Randy Henry.
Henry witnessed first hand, the incompetence, negligence, and cover-up and took to exposing it.
“We killed Brandon Ellingson,” Henry bluntly told the Lake Expo newspaper, following it with the question of “Why are we investigating ourselves?”
In a conversation with Piercy the day following Ellingson’s death, Henry expressed concerns about how the arresting officer had conducted himself. Piercy himself seemed remorseful, telling Henry,
“I feel like I drowned that kid…. I should have done more for him.”
In any other context, that comment would be treated as a confession to second-degree murder.
Henry then filed a report on the drowning and testified about the inadequate training Piercy and other water patrol officers received.
During an interview with patrol investigators following the drowning, Henry mentioned a state law dealing with the safety of people in custody and how the police are responsible for the lives of those they detain. An investigator interrupted Henry and insisted that the recorder be turned off, to deliberately prevent an official record of his disclosures.
The stiff arm of blue justice moved in and now we are seeing the results.
Instead of Piercy being held accountable for his negligence, it was Henry who was then run through the gamut of the thin blue line. He was cast out by his department, demoted to corporal, and forced to retire.
Now, the man responsible for the death of a star college student is getting off with a 10-day sentence and can remain a cop!
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-launched-handcuffed-ellingson-jail/
Hello - your back here on Getbig.
Look forward to the discussions as generally our views differ greatly
"This Kind of Crap is Tolerated & Routinely Covered up" as is constantly being shown
When they are caught out - as in this one.
Sack them.. ha .. so they can just go sign up elsewhere as a cop.
The minimum they should be imprisoned.
See how you cover for them & go lenient on them.
It's institutionalised behaviour.
Joe public lying & trying to pervert the course of justice- oh just give them a slap on the wrist.. Yeah Right.
And this incident was a one off behaviour from them at that station
Do you think.
FFS -- That bastard cop needs the exact same thing doing to him.
If you're reading this agnostic & you can in any way try to defend that cop and his action and the punishment given to him - What very little Faith in Cops I have left will be Completely Gone.
It took 10 years and once again the taxpayers have to pay for the actions of violent criminals instead of pulling that money straight from the pockets of the those thugs and the coffers of their gang.
$1.25 Million Settlement For Body Slam Caught on Video Surveillance System
by Felipe Hemming
March 3, 2007 at the La Fonda Resturant in Yonkers, New York, Irma Marquez suffered injuries when Yonkers police officer Wayne Simoes picked her up in a restaurant and appeared to slam her face-first into the restaurant’s floor.
As reported by News 12 :
“A decade after the incident, the city, and the victim have agreed to settle a related lawsuit.
Video of the encounter made national headlines. It showed officer Wayne Simoes slam Irma Marquez to the ground — knocking her out outside what was then the La Fonda Restaurant at 57 Palisades Ave. Marquez has maintained that she was trying to break up a fight involving her niece, but police were already there when she stepped in.
Simoes faced federal charges of violating her civil rights. Marquez faced local charges of disorderly conduct and interfering with police. Both of them were acquitted.
In May 2008, Marquez filed an $11.3 million lawsuit against Simoes and the Yonkers Police Department. Sources say the settlement was for $1 million, but officials would not comment on the record until City Council has a chance to evaluate the settlement. That will likely happen in August, according to Michael Curti, a lawyer for the city.”
The local version of the USA Today reported :
“Yonkers’ attorney Michael Curti said the city admitted no wrongdoing by the police officer. Curti said the settlement was less than the $11 million initially sought by Marquez.
“The final amount of the settlement, which is the culmination of close to a decade of litigation, is similar to an amount the city’s legal team was prepared to recommend many years ago to avoid the uncertainties of trial and the substantial cost of litigation,” Curti wrote in an email.
Marquez filed her civil lawsuit against the city and Simoes in 2008 and the case was closed on July 10 because of the settlement, according to court records.
The incident, which was captured on video, led to a criminal prosecution of Simoes, now a Yonkers police sergeant. Simoes was acquitted of a charge of violating Marquez’s civil rights in 2009 after federal prosecutors failed to prove to a jury that he intended to hurt her.
In that trial, Simoes’ defense contended that he did not throw Marquez to the ground, but that he slipped on the wet barroom floor. After the trial, jurors said a frame-by-frame version of the video showed that Simoes didn’t throw or drop Marquez because he never released her on the way to the floor.” The video show otherwise.
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/08/10/watch-1-25-million-settlement-body-slam-caught-video-surveillance-system/
You have a valid point. Firing them isn't enough. I forgot who I was dealing with. I should have been more specific. Fire them, then seek any charges that apply, and the Chief should be an advocate with the Prosecution to go for the fullest sentence. Until that happens, not a lot will change. As Ive stated in the past, integrity comes from the Chief down. I ran a division of 274 cops, I had zero tolerance for bad policing, lying or harassment. My team knew that I didn't tolerate it and they had no problems working under that system. Catching the bad guys is great, not becoming the bad guys while trying to catch them is even better
The officers negligence with a citizen in his custody and completely helpless is inexcusable and a person died. 10 days is an abomination. I;m guessing that guy wont be a cop again because of the plea deal and the level of charge but still, we have one chance to do things right... lives depend on it. We are the professionals.. There is no reason the officer couldn't have followed procedure and not caused the death of that person. A travesty
Thanks Again.
if Only more cops were as you are.
it appears that the likes of you are very much in the minority.
The armed and violent criminal gangs keep attacking and abusing people. From a "heroic" cop violently attack and kidnapping a nurse who was perfectly justified and law abiding in her behavior to arresting people for refusing to speak, the uniformed thugs enjoy a level of immunity that ordinary law abiding freedom loving citizens could never dream of.
But these criminal gangs don't operate alone. They collaborate with prosecutors to provide them with "cases" so the prosecutors can build a record of convictions and plea deals. The prosecutors help the criminal cops and they also receive preferential treatment when they commit crimes. Take a look at this example:
A drunk prosecutor drives the wrong way in a one way street and crashes into another car, injuring the driver and causing heavy damage to the vehicle. When a cop arrives, he notices the prosecutor is drunk and contacts his watch commander. Suspiciously enough, the watch commanders orders the cop to use line 3407 which was marked “not recorded”. When the watch commander asks how the drunk prosecutor would do in a field sobriety test, the cop responds: "probably not amazing".
If you think it is suspicious that there is so much interest in what the result of the sobriety test would be, it will become more obvious now.
The watch commander says:
"Let’s pass him if we can. If we can’t, we can’t, Adam. We’re not going to get fucked. I’d love to pass him on sobriety if we could.”
To which the cop replies:
“Alright, I’ll do what I can,”
The story gets even uglier with the watch commander and other cops who arrive at the scene trying to shift the blame from the prosecutor and cover up the crime. It should be noted here that the supervisor's wife "just happens" to also be a prosecutor that also "just happens" to be working with the drunk prosecutor involved in the accident. In fact it appears that his wife would be doing some investigations into the case and the watch commander says that he would tell his wife not to pull any bodycam footage that shows the prosecutor:
“I’ll take care of that part. She will be smart enough not to dig into it”
Do you think the conspiracy by this criminal gang would result in prison time? Think again.
GRPD Chief David Rahinsky and Grand Rapids City Manager Greg Sundstrom agreed to termination hearings for all three officers.
Of course you'd expectthe cop uniona criminal gang to step in and protect its goons:
However, the city reached agreements with the police union for a lighter punishment for two of them. Officer Adam Ickes was suspended for 30 days without pay; Warwick was suspended for 160 hours, demoted from sergeant to officer, and placed on a two-year probation. Janiskee was fired from his job. He is suing, claiming his rights were violated and he’s also seeking to get his job back.
There is a lot to this story that shows how these criminals collaborate to commit crimes and also cover up crimes for "special" persons, perpetuating a culture of corruption and abuse.
http://woodtv.com/2017/09/13/grpd-phone-line-recordings-of-ex-prosecutors-crash-released/
http://woodtv.com/2017/09/14/calls-for-public-apology-after-grpd-calls-released/
More crimes and corruption by the armed violent criminal gang and once again the taxpayers have to foot the bill.
Innocent Man Get $1.6M After Surveillance Video Proved Cops Beat and Framed Him
Caldwell County, TX — An innocent man has received over $1.6 million from a civil lawsuit because he was beaten and framed by cops for being 100 percent compliant and never committing a crime.
“Our client feels vindicated,” said attorney Karl Seelbach, of Doyle & Seelbach PLLC. “If there’s one thing about Larry Faulkenberry, is his story is consistent from day one.”
As KXAN reports:
A federal jury awarded a Central Texas man more than $1.3 million in response to a civil lawsuit against Caldwell County deputies who arrested him on charges that were never prosecuted by the district attorney’s office.
Lawrence Faulkenberry was also awarded $350,000 in punitive damages related to a deputy who initiated a leg sweep, his attorney said.
This infuriating story began back in January of 2015 when Faulkenberry’s 16-year-old son decided that he would play a trick on his dad for grounding him. So, he called the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Department and claimed his dad was drunk and waving a gun.
This 16-year-old’s prank nearly got his father killed.
Deputies responding to the call arrived to find Faulkenberry entirely compliant—not drunk— and unarmed. He does not even own a gun.
These facts, however, were of no concern to the cops who arrived only to assault, injure, arrest, and lie about Faulkenberry attacking them.
“They yelled ‘sheriff’s department.’ What do you need? I put my hands up. ‘Turn around and walk backwards.’ I’ll stand here, you come here and put handcuffs on me,” Faulkenberry said.
“Why the fuck y’all here?” Faulkenberry recounted himself saying. “Before I could finish the sentence, I got slammed to the ground.”
While on the ground, deputies rubbed his head into the gravel and punched Faulkenberry in the face, leaving his face covered in abrasions.
“They left me laying on the ground for about 15 minutes, face down,” he said.
According to the police report, by Deputy Michael Taylor, Faulkenberry attacked the cops, and they were forced to beat him in an act of self-defense.
“I observed Lawrence Faulkenberry push Sergeant Yost with the left side of his body and elbow into a tree causing him to fall and injure his left shin and right knee cap. I observed Lawrence Faulkenberry to forcefully resist Deputies while attempting to lawfully detain him for officer safety. Deputies detained Lawrence Faulkenberry using the least amount of force necessary to gain compliance from Lawrence Faulkenberry.”
“If you watch the video, absolutely none of that occurred,” he said. “I never touched the guy. That was a complete fabrication.”
After spending ten days in jail on felony charges of assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, prosecutors finally got around to viewing the surveillance footage that proved their cops were lying thugs. After they had viewed the footage, all charges were dropped.
However, in spite of the video clearing Faulkenberry and proving the cops lied to set him up, not one of the three deputies involved has ever faced discipline. Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office deputies Dustin M. Yost, Michael Taylor, and Houseton (whose first name was not mentioned in the lawsuit), all named in the lawsuit, were never fired for nearly killing and innocent man and lying to frame him and put him in jail.
Faulkenberry, who owns a motorcycle parts shop, was facing several years in prison. This innocent man could have been locked in a cage and deprived of freedom because of these lying cops, and yet it was the taxpayer forced to pay for the police officers’ negligence—to the tune of $1.6 million.
“Without the video, I would be in prison. There is no doubt about that,” Faulkenberry said.
Despite dropping the charges, the sheriff’s department stuck by their story. In response to Faulkenberry’s lawsuit, the department issued the following statement last year.
Defendants specifically deny that they violated Plaintiff’s Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights or any other rights under the United States Constitution or the laws of the State of Texas. Specifically, Defendants deny that they used excessive force and unreasonable seizure, fabricated criminal charges, unreasonable search—warrantless search of property as alleged in paragraphs 29 through 32.
The video below illustrates two powerful points. The first point is that filming the cops saves lives. The second point is that cops will lie to protect themselves and couldn’t care less about ruining the lives of innocent people in the process.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-police-1-6m-framed/
Good job from those workers in subduing this violent thug, they might even have done a better job than the cops since no one got shot or killed or left paralyzed. Hopefully we will see more instances like that where citizens can be active against the abuse and crimes. Let's see now if this violent thug will face charges.
Cop Attacks Road Workers So They Take Him Down in Citizen’s Arrest
Louisville, KY — A Kentucky State Trooper on a power trip allegedly got violent with a road construction crew over the weekend. However, as the video of incident shows, unlike most scenarios with cops on power trips, it was the Trooper who got taken down, not the citizens.
According to video and the witness accounts from the road crew, Trooper Anthony Harrison punched a worker and put them all in danger as he drove through a construction site Sunday night.
According to the crew, Harrison drove too fast toward their work zone near Fort Knox about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, adding that he stopped his personal car abruptly, confronted the workers and started arguing.
Two of the workers told WDRB that Harrison was angry about not seeing the crew and their equipment in a closed-off and marked traffic lane.
In the video, Harrison is seen yelling at one of the workers over their disagreement and gets belligerent with the woman who asks him not to yell at her.
“Don’t yell at me,” the woman says.
“I will yell at you!” Harrison barks back as he tries to intimidate her. “Or what!?”
Harrison flashed his badge and let it be known that he was a trooper, however, he still got unnecessarily violent.
When Harrison noticed that he was being recorded, he became even more enraged. He then appears to attack the man filming and at this point, all hell breaks loose.
“Me pulling the phone and filming him, that just sent him over the top,” said Joey Gaddis, who shot the video. “He lunged at me for the phone. I felt like he was trying to grab at my neck.”
At this point, the crew takes Harrison down and disarms him in a citizen’s arrest as they called the police. The crew’s level of force appeared to be entirely justified and kept to a minimum, only using enough force to hold Harrison down. Unlike many police officers would’ve done in this scenario, no head strikes, baton blows, or tasers were used to subdue the officer.
“That badge doesn’t give the right to get in someone’s face like that,” the woman said as they held down Harrison.
The crew then continued to hold Harrison down, without incident, until police officers arrived. However, once police arrived everything changed — they let him go.
Gaddis explained that once the other troopers showed up, they immediately moved to protect their brother in blue by treating the road workers as the criminals.
“It seemed like we were in the wrong. That’s the way we felt,” he said. “They lined us all up in a row to take pictures of us like we jumped out of the car on him.”
According to WDRB, KSP said they’ve started an internal affairs investigation and that what’s on the video does not reflect the image the department strives for with the public.
“Obviously, it is concerning what we see on the video,” said Lt. Michael Webb, a spokesperson for KSP. “However, I would caution any of the viewers who see that video to allow us to conduct our internal investigation to its final stages and follow the facts to where they will take us.”
The most disconcerting aspect of this scenario is that had Harrison been a regular citizen and not a cop the result would’ve played out much differently.
If a regular citizen would’ve just gotten out of their car they would’ve been subject to police force and arrest. However, if that regular citizen then became violent with the crew, like Harrison was seen doing, they most assuredly would’ve been arrested. But not if you are a police officer.
The videos below make two powerful points. The first point is that police officers are not magically protected from citizens they abuse. This cop appeared to be entirely in the wrong and the citizens acted to stop it and did so with minimal force, providing an excellent example of how police should do it.
The second point is that even though there was video evidence of Harrison losing it and assaulting a person for filming, most likely due to the fact that he is a cop, Harrison was not arrested and will likely face no punishment.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-cop-citizens-arrest/
Two Louisiana city marshals are charged with shooting dead a six-year-old autistic boy when they fired 18 bullets at the car his father was driving
- Jeremy Mardis, six, was shot dead by state marshals on Tuesday night
- Autistic boy was in the passenger seat of his father Chris Few's vehicle
- Cops were believed to be trying to issue a warrant when they opened fire
- As many as 18 bullets were fired, with five hitting Jeremy
- One of the officers was wearing a body camera and captured the shooting and horrific aftermath
- 'That little boy was buckled in the front seat of that vehicle and that is how he died,' Col. Mike Edmonson said. 'He didn't deserve to die like that'
- Few is heavily sedated, unable to talk and has bullet fragments lodged in his brain and lung
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3308046/Two-Louisiana-city-marshals-charged-fatally-shooting-six-old-autistic-boy.html
After Reviewing Body Cam, 2 Cops Charged with Murder in Killing of 6-yo Jeremy Mardis
Marksville, LA – On Tuesday, November 3rd, 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis was tragically gunned down by Louisiana police during a pursuit.
In a press conference late Friday night, authorities announced that two of the four officers involved in the stop have been arrested.
Three of the men, Lt. Jason Brouillette, Sgt., Kenneth Parnell, and Lt. Derrick Stafford, worked for the Marksville City Police Department. The fourth, Norris Greenhouse Jr., was a marshal for the Alexandria City Office.
Lt. Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, are the local deputy marshals who fired at least 18 rounds at an unarmed man and his son, killing a 6-year-old boy.
According to the Advocate,
Stafford, Brouillette and Greenhouse were moonlighting for the local marshal’s office at the time of the shooting, Smith said.
No use-of-force policy exists for the Marksville Police Department, said Smith, nor are there guidelines on shooting at vehicles, a practice frowned upon by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, an umbrella agency for law enforcement groups.
The shooting laid bare tensions between the city of Marksville and a local marshal agency led by a school bus driver who lacks basic law enforcement certification. Marksville Mayor John Lemoine previously told The Advocate that Ward 2 Marshal Floyd Voinche Sr. recently began recruiting part-time officers and obtaining squad cars to issue tickets, without permission from city officials.
Initial reports claimed that Jeremy’s father, 25-year-old Chris Few, was being served a warrant by Ward 2 City Marshals. However, police now admit that Few was not only unarmed when officers opened fire, there wasn’t a warrant at all.
It was originally reported that Few was cornered in a dead end drive, however, the initial reports were incorrect. Through traffic was indeed allowed at the intersection.
At least one of the officers were wearing a body camera which was on at the time of the shooting. While police have yet to release the footage, the arrests were made shortly after the Louisiana State Police reviewed the video, according to KLFY.
When asked about the body camera footage during the press conference, State Police Col. Mike Edmonson told reporters, “It is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen, and I will leave it at that.”
“That little boy was buckled in the front seat of that vehicle,” Edmonson told reporters. “That is how he died.”
At approximately 10:00 pm, Friday night, authorities announced that Norris Greenhouse Jr. & Derrick Stafford were charged with 2nd-degree murder of 6-year-old and attempted 2nd-degree murder of Chris Few.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/reviewing-body-cam-2-cops-charged-murder-killing-6-yo-jeremy-mardis/
"The silver lining to this incident is, although Penn was allowed to resign without charges, he was at least caught because good cops saw his actions and reported him."
Quite the silver lining...
Sadly he cant help it - he always sides with the cops
Just hasn't got it in him to do otherwise.
Cant call A fcuking scumbag arsewipe a scumbag arsewipe if its a cop,
always has to be some veiled excuse.
Though to be fair to 007 he strikes me as one of the more decent honest cops
& i've told him this - Dosent stop Me crossing verbal swords with him.. ;)
Ta-dum ta-dum ta-dum ta-dum ta-dum Hi Ho
I can here 007 on his high horse on route to defend the above 2 post about cops. ::)
Here I am.. my ears were burning.
Cop driving drunk killing people.. what ever the maximum sentence is, and using any available legal premise to stack sentences.. this monster should serve it.
Search of students.. indictments are appropriate and consequences should be severe.
Again, I am pro cop. But I'm pro cop catching the bad guys within the parameters of the law. I'm also a strong proponent as are the vast majority of my co workers and being pro active in helping citizens. I understand this page is solely to point out what you guys believe to be examples of bad cops. A lot, a vast majority of them over the years have been spot on. Some, that I have spoke up on, weren't in my opinion in the wrong, or the actions were within reason. I suppose I could start a threat that highlights the good things cops do but like you, I agree, they get paid to do those things. Obviously some cops stand out.. active shootings, raising money to feed a family, etc etc. In Austin we recently recognized a young ze icer that took out an active shooter in a hotel. But yeah, we agree some cops are screwed up, or do screwed up things, we just disagree on the size of the problem
...unnecessarily escalated a situation that could and should have been resolved in a manner far different from the course of action you chose to pursue.
Even this horrific abuse, attack and kidnapping of a nurse who was following the law and serving her community and the flagrant and purposeful disregard for the laws and the courts was not enough it seems to make citizens fully realize the abusive nature of these violent criminals.
Firing and/or demotion is not enough. Until now, these violent criminals were on paid vacation. It is likely that Payne will appeal, the cop union will get involved and enforce their own rules and he won't suffer any actual consequences. He along with his supervisor should rot in prison as should any other cops that might have been present but did not subdue and arrest Payne.
Utah Cop who Forcibly Arrested Nurse for Refusing Blood Draw Fired
The Utah cop video recorded roughly handcuffing a nurse after she refused to allow a blood draw on an unconscious patient has been fired.
Salt Lake Police Chief Mike Brown relieved detective Jeff Payne of his duties for violating department policies when he arrested Alex Wubbels and dragged the screaming nurse out of the hospital.
Chief Brown demoted Payne’s supervisor, watch commander Lt. James Tracey, to the rank of officer after viewing the video, which was recorded on police body cams on July 26.
The decision to fire Payne comes after an internal affairs report released Sept. 13 found both officers violated department policy by failing to uphold the department’s requirement to treat all citizens “equally with courtesy, consideration and dignity.”
“You demonstrated extremely poor professional judgment (especially for an officer with 27 years of experience), which calls into question your ability to effectively serve the public and the department,” Brown wrote in a termination letter to Payne, which can be read below.
“In examining your conduct, I am deeply troubled by your lack of sound professional judgment and your discourteous, disrespectful, and unwarranted behavior, which unnecessarily escalated a situation that could and should have been resolved in a manner far different from the course of action you chose to pursue.”
“You inappropriately acted against Ms. Wubbels,” Brown added.
Payne’s attorney Greg Skordas argued firing Payne was excessive and said his client served the department well for nearly three decades.
“I‘m really frustrated by the way this case has been processed,
Skordas told the Salt Lake Tribune.
“I do think that Salt Lake City did a fair job of doing the investigation, and I think that their findings are, by and large, accurate. But I think the chief reacted to a lot of public pressure and scrutiny in making a decision that doesn’t fit the conduct.”
Payne was previously disciplined in 2013 after an internal affairs investigation confirmed he sexually harassed a female co-worker.
The former officer worked part-time as a paramedic, but was fired from that job on September 5 after fallout from his arrest of Wubbels continued.
During the incident, Payne threatened to punish the hospital as well as Wubbels by bringing “all the transients” to the hospital and taking the “good patients” elsewhere.
“I’ll bring them all the transients and take good patients elsewhere,” Payne says in the video.
Body cam footage of the incident, which sparked a nationwide conversation on the level of force used by police, can be seen below.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/10/utah-cop-forcibly-arrested-nurse-refusing-blood-draw-fired/
Fucking big tough cop - only wish somebody would poleaxed & Trodden on that Pig piece of Crap.
Tadum Tadum Tadum
Hi Ho
I can hear his on his way to defend that cop
;)
Cop was/is an embarrassment to other cops. Doesn't belong in the career field.
Cop was/is an embarrassment to other cops. Doesn't belong in the career field.
Also Did you miss this or just avoid it because of the Size of the Problem..??
"But yeah, we agree some cops are screwed up, or do screwed up things, we just disagree on the size of the problem"
On this matter You stated previously that you thought between 5 & 10% of cops were bad apples....
out of what approximately 1,000,000 cops That makes for between 50,00 to 100,000 Scumbags
That are armed & have the right to shoot / kill & the law on their side Plus how many others to cover up for them / not report them.!!!
As for the size of the problem I'd say that was A BIg Fcuking Problem.
No jail time / no deserves a good beating / no he's power crazed bully ??
He's Just an embarrassment & shouldn't be a cop. !!
That's all. ::)
Dude... you have a retired cop here who dislikes bad cops more than you do. Ive spent more than 2 decades in the streets and I am pro take a knee, I acknowledge police can do better. We should do better... and yet you still have a hard on for me.... He is a power crazed bully. He let his ego control his actions, he let us all down. He needs to be shown the door. IF there is a lawsuit against him, he needs to pay the price...?
"But yeah, we agree some cops are screwed up, or do screwed up things, we just disagree on the size of the problem"
On this matter You stated previously that you thought between 5 & 10% of cops were bad apples....
out of what approximately 1,000,000 cops That makes for between 50,00 to 100,000 Scumbags
That are armed & have the right to shoot / kill & the law on their side Plus how many others to cover up for them / not report them.!!!
As for the size of the problem I'd say that was A BIg Fcuking Problem.
One would expect that these criminals would, of all things, recognize the remnants of a donut..
Cops Mistake Krispy Kreme Donuts for Meth, Throw Innocent 64-yo Man in Jail, Strip Search Him
Orlando, FL — Thanks to the highly flawed means of testing for drugs and incompetent armed agents of the state enforcing immoral drug laws, a man’s donut got him arrested, strip searched, thrown in a cage and drug charges.
Tens of thousands have been convicted and served time — even earning the black mark of a felony — for crimes they likely didn’t commit, a recent report found, because the cases against them relied on horribly unreliable field drug test kits.
So prone to errors are the tests, courts won’t allow their submission as evidence. However, their continued use by law enforcement — coupled with a 90 percent rate at which drug cases are resolved through equally dubious plea deals — needlessly ruins thousands of lives.
Daniel Rushing, of Orlando, is one of these people.
Last December, Rushing, 64, was bringing his friend to his weekly chemotherapy session when he was stopped by police for the alleged ‘crime’ of not stopping all the way before pulling out of a gas station.
This routine revenue generating stop would quickly descend into a nightmare after this highly trained police officer would see the crumbs of a Krispy Kreme donut on Rushing’s floor board.
The officer, Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins spotted “a rock like substance on the floor board where his feet were,” she wrote, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel.
Her ‘professional’ training that has taught her how to identify all the substances deemed illegal by the state immediately set off alarms.
“I recognized through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic,” she wrote.
Rushing, who is a concealed carry permit holder, told the officer that there was a weapon in the car. Luckily he was not shot. However, he was asked to step out of the car and then the officer asked to search his vehicle.
Rushing, knowing that he had nothing to hide, agreed to the search. Even though Rushing had nothing to hide, he should have never agreed to a search as this is rule number one when dealing with police during a traffic stop.
After the fact, however, Rushing realized his mistake in allowing the officer to rummage through his car. “I didn’t have anything to hide,” he said. “I’ll never let anyone search my car again.”
Riggs-Hopkins and other officers spotted three other pieces of the suspicious substance in his car, according to the report.
“I kept telling them, ‘That’s … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, ‘No, it’s meth, crystal meth.'”
The arrest report even noted Rushing pleaded with officers to tell them it was donut crumbs. However, they just knew that this 64-year-old man, with no criminal record, was some drug kingpin transporting meth by dropping tiny bits of it on his carpet.
“Rushing stated that the substance is sugar from a Krispie Kreme Donut that he ate,” Riggs-Hopkins wrote.
Officers then tested the Krispy Kreme crumbs with their criminally unreliable field test kits and received not one but two positive results.
As the Free Thought Project has previously reported, the director of a lab recognized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police for forensic science excellence has called field drug testing kits “totally useless” due to the possibility of false positives. In laboratory experiments, at least two brands of field testing kits have been shown to produce false positives in tests of Mucinex, chocolate, aspirin, chocolate, and oregano. Some of these kits even return a positive when completely empty.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Riggs-Hopkins booked him into the county jail on a charge of possession of methamphetamine with a firearm. He was locked up for about 10 hours before his release on $2,500 bond, he said.
“I got arrested for no reason at all,” he said.
After being kidnapped and caged because of the incompetence of police officers and the brutal drug war, Rushing has decided to sue. He will undoubtedly win and the taxpayers will be held accountable — not the police officers.
When asked how many other road-side drug tests have produced false positive results by the Orlando Sentinel, an OPD spokeswoman wrote, “At this time, we have no responsive records. … There is no mechanism in place for easily tracking the number of, or results of, field drug testing.
As police across the US scramble to push the war on cops narrative and note that only criminals dislike the police, thousands of cases like this one play out every year. Instead of rectifying a broken system, the overwhelming majority of police and politicians ignore the problems created by the war on drugs and choose to increase force instead.
Until we bring an end to the war on drugs, innocent people like Bernstein and Cruz will continue to be targetted and continue to be kidnapped, caged, or killed — for no other reason than cops looking for arbitrary substances.
Next time someone says, “if you don’t break the law, you have nothing to fear,” show them this incident which completely destroys that dangerously ignorant narrative.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/krispy-kreme-mistake-police-meth/
Cool
Is That supposed to be an answer to me.?
Really If so you've gone dropped in my estimation of you.
Another one who cant handle the truth.
You claimed a x % of cops were Bad - Now it appears your running away from it. ::)
Yes sir... my estimate was probably high
Of course it was..... ::)
Deal with it -- Your as Much A Part of The Problem.
See No Evil
Hear No Evil
Speak No Evil
To be fair, we probably both are
Really -- And just how do you reach that conclusion...????
You say I am part of the problem because I minimize, justify, cover for bad cops. I say you are part of the problem, you and similar causes like Black Lives Matter because you cry wolf when there is no wolf, it takes the focus off the real incidents and waters down your position.
You say I am part of the problem because I minimize, justify, cover for bad cops. I say you are part of the problem, you and similar causes like Black Lives Matter because you cry wolf when there is no wolf, it takes the focus off the real incidents and waters down your position.
The problem isn't the 10% or less than 10% of bad cops who do atrocious things. It's the other 99+% of cops who blindly defend anything and everything cop. Regarding BLM? Give me a break, there most certainly is a wolf.
Son of Sheriff—Who Locked Down Entire School to Look for Drugs—Busted for Drugs
Worth County, GA — In June, violated children and furious parents filed a massive lawsuit after the Worth County Sheriff’s office conducted an illegal search of 900 students in a fruitless effort looking for non-existent drugs, sexually abusing multiple children in the process.
Earlier this month, Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby was indicted over this search for sexual battery, false imprisonment and violation of oath of office after he ordered a school-wide search of hundreds of high school students to look for drugs. Deputies allegedly touched girls vaginas and breasts and groped boys in their groin area during the search at the Worth County High School April 14, reports RARE.
Now, we are learning that last week, after this sheriff violated the rights of 900 innocent kids and was arrested for it, his own son was busted for drugs.
As the AJC reports, the drug arrest of Zachary Lewis Hobby last week has renewed speculation that Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby’s decision to search the entire local high school last April was somehow linked to his son’s troubles.
“It’s a raw issue,” said Tommy Coleman, attorney for the Worth County Board of Education.
Coleman said anytime there’s a development in the story it fuels community discussion. He said the arrest last week of the sheriff’s son reignited speculation, according to AJC.
“My sense is this was common knowledge and it didn’t really surprise anyone in the community,” Coleman said.
Coleman told the paper that Zachary was a student at Worth County High School last year when the Sheriff ordered the raid. However, he was not there that day.
Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were called in last week to investigate a drug case involving the sheriff’s son. The younger Hobby, age 17, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and criminal trespass for an incident that occurred in Poulan on Oct. 9, according to the GBI.
The son allegedly handed the drugs to another person, Aaron Ray Short, 20, according to GBI. Short was also charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Naturally, Sheriff Hobby is standing by this rights violation on a massive scale, according to his attorney, noting that as long as a school administrator was present, the search of the children was legal. But this was not the case.
As WALB reported at that time, Worth County Schools attorney Tommy Coleman said in order for the Sheriff’s office to search any students, they’d had to have reason to believe there was some kind of criminal activity or the student had possession of contraband or drugs.
“If you don’t have that then this search would violate an individual’s rights,” said Coleman. “[It] violates the constitutional right and enforcing them the right against unreasonable search and seizures.”
Interim Worth County Superintendent Lawrence Walters said he understands parents concerns about the drug search at Worth County High school on Friday, according to WALB.
“I’ve never been involved with anything like that ever in the past 21 years and I don’t condone it,” said Walters.
While pot possession is certainly no danger to society, the irony of this rights-violating tyrant having to watch his own son get caught up inside a system that the sheriff perpetuates is incredible.
Perhaps, if this sheriff beats these charges—which, if history is any indicator, he most certainly will—he will choose to promote freedom instead of waging an oppressive drug war that does nothing to stop addiction and abuse but does everything to foster crime and ruin lives.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/son-sheriff-illegally-searched-800-kids-find-drugs-busted-drugs/
Thanks - Thats about as straight a reply as we'll get from you.
"But yeah, we agree some cops are screwed up, or do screwed up things, we just disagree on the size of the problem"
On this matter You stated previously that you thought between 5 & 10% of cops were bad apples....
out of what approximately 1,000,000 cops That makes for between 50,00 to 100,000 Scumbags
That are armed & have the right to shoot / kill & the law on their side Plus how many others to cover up for them / not report them.!!!
As for the size of the problem I'd say that was A BIg Fcuking Problem.
TaDum TaDum TaDum TaDum TaDum TaDum
Hi Ho I can hear 007 Tonto on his way to Defend Him...... ::)
As is clear in the video, Aguilar didn’t ever challenge the first officer on the scene’s use of inappropriate force, when Officer Jensen smashed his head into a fence – instead putting his hands at his sides and thrusting his chin forward in a posture of frustrated readiness.
Officer Jensen thrust his forearm into Aguilar’s face twice at maximum thrust, before Pomona Officers Hutchinson and Correa arrived.
Hutchinson thoughtfully held the teenager along with Jensen, and that’s when Pomona Officer landed a devastating blow, with his long black baton to Christian Aguilar’s knee, sending the teenager to the ground.
As the three grown men beat the teenager, another Pomona Officer came over an discharged his taser near the teen to strike terror.
Cleveland Police Disciplining 75 Cops After An Unarmed Couple Was Shot 137 Times
Pamela Engel Aug. 2, 2013, 5:40 PM 4,219 23
Cleveland police officials said Friday they're disciplining 75 of officers for their involvement in a police chase that ended in the shooting deaths of an unarmed man and woman, The Plain Dealer reports.
The pair were shot 137 times while in their car, parked in a middle school parking lot. No officers were injured in what police called a "full blown-out" firefight.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told reporters in February that "there is nothing normal about this case. ... This is a tragedy."
In November, about 60 police vehicles pursued the two suspects in a 25-minute chase spanning three cities. One suspect, 30-year-old Malissa Williams, was shot 24 times, and the other, 43-year-old Timothy Russell, was shot 23 times.
At the time, police said the suspects fired shots at them near Cleveland's downtown Justice Center, according to The Plain Dealer. And a police dispatcher said that shots were fired at officers during the chase.
But after the chase ended in a gunfight near Heritage Middle School, police checked the car and realized neither Williams nor Russell was armed.
It isn't clear whether a shot was actually fired at the officer who initiated the chase. Some speculate the Malibu driven by Russell may have backfired.
A report from the state's attorney general shows the officers likely believe the suspects were armed based on erroneous information broadcast over the police radio. Officers told investigators they saw the suspects in the car with what looked like a gun.
Russell might have fled from police initially, fueling the massive chase, because he was high and driving on a suspended license. Toxicology results show that Russell was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol at the time of his death. Williams was also high on cocaine and had marijuana in her system.
The officers being disciplined for violating police protocol won't lose their jobs and did not partake in the gunfight at the end of the chase, but they did have a role in the pursuit. More than 100 police officers were involved in the chase in some way.
Nineteen of the 75 officers facing discipline for offenses ranging from engaging in a chase without permission to providing false information on police reports will have disciplinary hearings and might be suspended temporarily, according to The Plain Dealer.
In 2011, the newspaper published an investigation of reports of excessive use of nondeadly force by Cleveland police officers. The newspaper found that the police chief often overlooked inconsistencies with police officers' stories when investigating use of force incidents.
Many of the officers faced accusations of brutality on the force.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cleveland-police-disciplined-in-deadly-chase-2013-8#ixzz2arxiczbm
I know in my heart he didn’t have to shoot her. He didn’t have to shoot that dog in front of my kids. He just didn’t.
The dog got out. I walked to the end of the driveway to try to catch her.
My daughter was running around trying to catch her. I thought we were going to go back in the house.
I walked back to the house opened the door, turned around, (and) boom, he shot her.
It was a horrific event. He shot the dog up close and blew her skull apart in front of my children. Like her eyeballs were out of her head.
‘I had to shoot her she came at me’. Then, he said, ‘It’s really a shame I had to waste that bullet because it’s a really expensive bullet’.
Man Loses Truck For Two Years Over A Few Bullets; Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuses Rage On
In September of 2015, Gerardo Serrano was driving from his home in Kentucky to visit relatives in Mexico. When he stopped at the border in Texas, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers searched his truck and found five bullets in the center console. While Serrano has a concealed carry permit, he did not have any weapon in the vehicle. He had simply forgotten about the bullets he’d left in the console.
Always eager to pounce on any excuse to grab property (which often helps pad the budget of the law enforcement agency involved), the Border Patrol officers declared that Serrano was transporting “munitions of war” and therefore they were taking his vehicle from him. Customs did not attempt to bring any criminal action against him, but impounded his truck under civil asset forfeiture. Under that law, government officials can take a person’s property on the theory that the property itself is guilty of some wrongdoing.
Once the property has been forfeited, the owner has to undertake a lengthy and difficult legal battle to get it back. Many unfortunate people can’t do that and just give up.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeleef/2017/10/27/man-loses-truck-for-two-years-over-a-few-bullets-civil-asset-forfeiture-abuses-rage-on/#7f5dfd597265
Here's a picture of the man that was attacked by the violent criminals:
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/04/18/4602B2C200000578-5044083-image-a-1_1509821280384.jpg)
He spent 1 month in hospital with burns on 30% of his body.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/us/politics/fbi-stolen-gun-stolen-charlotte.html
>:( >:( >:( :( :( :o :o
A unit chief in the FBI's international terrorism sector having his expensive watch and firearm stolen by "exotic dancers" while being so incapacitated from drinking that he couldn't even make a phone call or file a report... All this while on a "training" trip.
Steese, a young, poorly educated drifter, was arrested in 1992 for the grisly murder of Gerard Soules, a Las Vegas performer with a costumed poodle act at the Circus Circus casino. At the time of Soules’ death, Steese was several states away. But prosecutors didn’t reveal that they had evidence that Steese was telling the truth, instead telling jurors that Steese had fabricated his alibi with the help of his look-alike brother. During the trial, the prosecutors also concealed the nature of several photo lineups pointing to Steese’s innocence and accused the defense of manufacturing evidence.
Steese was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to two life sentences. The men who prosecuted him, Bill Kephart and Doug Herndon, are now district court judges in Las Vegas.
Sources say it started when two special ops officers from the 12th Precinct were operating a "push off" on Andover near Seven Mile. That is when two undercover officers pretend to be dope dealers, waiting for eager customers to approach, arresting potential buyers and seizing their vehicles.
But this time instead of customers - special ops officers from the 11th Precinct showed up. Not realizing they were fellow officers, they ordered the other undercover officers to the ground.
FOX 2 is told the rest of the special ops team from the 12th Precinct showed up, and officers began raiding the drug house in the 19300 block of Andover. But instead of fighting crime, officers from both precincts began fighting with each other.
Sources say guns were drawn and punches were thrown while the homeowner stood and watched. The department's top cops were notified along with Internal Affairs. One officer was taken to the hospital.
I have received numerous calls regarding the offensive display on this truck as it is often seen along FM 359. If you know who owns this truck or it is yours, I would like to discuss it with you. Our Prosecutor has informed us she would accept Disorderly Conduct charges regarding it, but I feel we could come to an agreement regarding a modification to it.
Why aren't the prosecutors and the cops sent to prison for at least 29 years?
Man in prison for 29 years freed after Cook County prosecutors drop charges
Last month Judge Joseph Claps tossed out Brown’s conviction and ordered a retrial after concluding that prosecutors at a second trial in 2008 had made multiple false arguments to the jury and that Brown’s lawyer later failed to raise those issues on appeal.
[..]
Prosecutors repeatedly told the jury that Chicago police found the gas can used in the arson after speaking to Brown, strongly implying that only Brown’s confession could have led them to the discovery.
But a Chicago police detective testified at the first trial that the gas can had been discovered near the video store that had been torched — well before the detective had spoken to Brown, Claps noted in his ruling.
[..]
At his first court appearance, a judge ordered him held without bail after prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty. Brown collapsed in the middle of the courtroom, according to a Tribune story at the time.
Brown, who did odd jobs and maintenance work for stores around the neighborhood, testified at his first trial in 1990 that he got a call the night of the fire about the video store being burglarized. Brown, who had installed front and back doors with burglar bars at the video store, testified that he went to secure a door of the building and then left, court documents show.
Brown was arrested a short time later, and police beat him into confessing, he testified at his first trial.
Based largely on his alleged confession, Brown was convicted and given the life sentence.
Years later, another man, James Bell, confessed to the arson, leading to Brown being granted a second trial. At the 2008 retrial, Bell, testifying for the defense, said Brown owed him money, so he decided to break into the video store, thinking Brown owned it. But he found only a few dollars in change.
Bell testified he decided to torch the store in retribution, according to court documents.
But a jury found Bell’s testimony unconvincing. Prosecutors had alleged that the two colluded to fabricate the story while both were in prison together. Brown was again convicted of the double murder and sentenced to life in prison.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-convicted-murderer-free-charges-dropped-20171113-story.html
Just 27 months does not seem enough for such a deranged and violent criminal.
Cop Sentenced to Prison, Forced to Pay Victim for Savagely Beating a Teen on Video
Pittsburgh, PA — A belligerent and violent cop was recently convicted of violating the civil rights of a teenager by savagely beating him at a high school football game. The entire incident, which looks like a giant bullying a small child, was captured on video and led to the initial firing of officer Stephen Matakovich, 48, and the subsequent charges.
Matakovich “was an annoyed bully who beat the crap out of a drunk kid,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Gilson told jurors earlier this year after his conviction. “This was an officer abusing his power.”
Wednesday, the officer received an unprecedented 27-month sentence and will also be forced to pay restitution to his victim from his own pocket.
Matakovich’s defense attorneys had argued against imprisonment, saying he had led an “honorable and lawful life,” according to KDKA.
But the pre-sentence report detailed a pattern of questionable arrests involving Matakovich over several years, and states that he “never used the lowest amount of force available.”
The victim’s mother took the stand during the hearing and told the court how she hopes Matakovich will be sent to prison.
“It’s hard watching your son being beaten like that. We teach our children to respect police officers then this happens and I think it’s just a blemish on the Pittsburgh police, on all police,” Sherry Despres said.
Matakovich was on trial for two charges, the first being the violation of Gabriel Despres’ civil rights and the second accusing him of falsifying the police report on the incident. Somehow he was acquitted on the second charge, convincing the jury that he did not lie about or exaggerate Despres’ actions which caused the officer to push and hit him.
Matakovich said he had to beat the small teenager at that time because he felt threatened. After watching the video, this claim becomes utterly hysterical. However, somehow a jury bought it.
Naturally, the violent officer’s defense team painted him as the victim, claiming that Despres’ posture and demeanor at that time were threatening to Matakovich, who was surrounded by five security guards and in spite of the teen being unarmed and inebriated.
According to WTAE, lead defense attorney Tina Miller, a former federal prosecutor, told the jury that dissecting the 29-second encounter in a one-week trial was unfair to Matakovich, who could be trusted for the “split-second” judgment he made.
“Nobody is going to say to a police officer, ‘I’m going to assault you,'” Miller told the jury. “You’re not going to advertise what you’re going to do. Your actions are going to be subtle. It’s not going to be like some poster or (TV commercial).”
She defended Matakovich as “one of those guys on that thin blue line between chaos and order” before asking the jury, “Do we really want to second-guess?”
The prosecution even responded in jest at the outright silly claims of the defense in trying to justify this crazed cop’s violence.
As the video shows, 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.
In an attempt to establish the ex-cop’s history of violence, county prosecutors introduced a motion during the proceedings 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.
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.
According to the prosecution and video footage, Matakovich brutalized innocent people and arrested them on false charges in order to cover up his own violent provocations. Luckily, video evidence of this cop’s rage finally put an end to his rash of belligerence.
Matakovich’s sentence should be held as the standard for cops who abuse their authority and attack innocent people. If enough cops are sent to jail and forced to pay for their own crimes themselves, rest assured police brutality would be far less common.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/bully-cop-sentenced-prison-pay-victim/
Matakovich said he had to beat the small teenager at that time because he felt threatened. After watching the video, this claim becomes utterly hysterical. However, Somehow A JURY Bought It.
Indeed, and had that young man pushed the cop in a similar fashion he'd end up in prison for way more than just 27 months.
barek Hussein Obama the son of 1000 whores* ruined the west socially and culturally... as simple as that,,
he created a surveilance police state that ruined America,, he should be standing trial in the highest court of the people,, he is immuned.. but other are not and they will eventualy will stand trials like they are being kicked out of office as im writing this little posting,,
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lion of Judah
^should hve beat you and your son up real good for all the lies you spit local,,
so now the truth comes out.. that you are the one to be arrested and being a little filt felon,,
funny how I always end up being right,,
if it was me I would beat you and your son up infront of the mama just for your lies
it is people lke you! who bring a very bad name to bodybuild and fitness!
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lion of Judah
More honesty than You are ever capable of
Like I Keep saying Stop Hiding Behind Your Screen
& Meet Up - OH NO YOU only Want TO BEAT UP WOMEN
Then You Can Have Your Chance Big Mouth
Either Put Up Or Shut Up homo Boy
you are a felon,, pm me on gh15 and yo uwill see how you disappear into the prison you belong in,,
I dare you to pm me on gh15.. on here I cant talk bad with you on there I can,,
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lion! of! Judah!
More honesty than You are ever capable of
Like I Keep saying Stop Hiding Behind Your Screen
& Meet Up - OH NO YOU only Want TO BEAT UP WOMEN
Then You Can Have Your Chance Big Mouth
Either Put Up Or Shut Up homo Boy
just a simple pm on gh15,, very simple to do,, very easy and simple to do felon
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tell you what.. due to your lies about me.. and because you hv e a son,, if you pm me on gh15 I will show you how I break your family by throwing you in prison where you belong,,
pm me.. im telling you if you want to test it pm me,,
felon
local! felon!
you do know by now i am what and who i say i am.. any sane individual would understand it by now,, pm me felon,, notice how i sign this one so you understand its serious in my eyes,,
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lion of Judah
The Prescott Valley Police Department issued a bulletin Monday about Police Chief Bryan Jarrell's firearm, which he inadvertently left in a bathroom stall while changing there following a town council meeting at about 6 p.m. Nov. 9.
Jarrell apparently didn't realize the firearm was missing until four days later, on Nov. 13.
It took this incompetent buffoon 4 days to realize his firearm was missing.. And this guy is supposed to be the "chief".
Prescott Valley police chief's gun missing after he left it in library bathroom
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2017/11/20/prescott-police-chiefs-gun-missing-after-he-left-library-bathroom/882646001/
Cops didn't even let the Hibiscus lady get her sandals despite the gravel, ffs. Any little thing they can do. I suppose they figure she should count herself lucky they didn't beat her senseless for daring to have a plant which could be stupidly mistaken for another (as they scream "STOP RESISTING" over and over).
Cops didn't even let the Hibiscus lady get her sandals despite the gravel, ffs. Any little thing they can do. I suppose they figure she should count herself lucky they didn't beat her senseless for daring to have a plant which could be stupidly mistaken for another (as they scream "STOP RESISTING" over and over).
To add insult to injury, the Cramers got an October 26 letter from Nationwide informing them that marijuana had been found on their property and if they failed to remove the plants, Nationwide would cancel their insurance policy.
This shows just how these criminals view and treat citizens like subhuman scum that they can freely abuse. And we are talking about an "officer" with "expertise" in identifying marijuana plants... Imagine if they didn't have this "expertise", they might have identified lettuce as marijuana and sugar as meth (it has happened before, where a "trained" cop with "eleven years of training and experience" identified donut glaze as meth (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=329944.msg8544402#msg8544402)). Unfortunately, as it often happens in these cases, the criminals probably won't face any prison time or pay out of their pockets. The insurance company also shares blame for this abuse as well as whoever signed the warrant (if a warrant was actually issued, since according to the lawsuit a warrant was not produced when asked).
Here is another tidbit from this story:
Owner of house blown apart by SWAT says: 'This is an abomination. This is an atrocity'
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/greenwood-village/owner-of-greenwood-village-house-blown-apart-by-swat-says-this-is-an-abomination-this-is-an-atrocity
“Though accounts of Seacat’s weaponry differ, court documents provide a startling summary of the police arsenal: 50 SWAT officers bombarded Lech’s property with 40 mm rounds, tear gas, flashbang grenades, two armored Bearcats, and breaching rams. A total of ‘68 cold chemical munitions and four hot gas munitions’ were detonated inside the Greenwood Village home.
Remote-controlled robots were also used during the raid. The first robot was deployed to track Seacat’s whereabouts inside the house and attempt to deliver a phone to Seacat so that he could directly communicate with police. However, the robot could not maneuver through the debris inside the home, and eventually got stuck.
To retrieve the robot, an officer attempted to throw a flashbang grenade upstairs toward Seacat to create a diversion. However, the grenade bounced back downstairs toward the team of officers, forcing them to scatter and retreat. The official report states that the grenade ‘failed to land in its desired location.’ Eventually, a second robot was used to retrieve the first one.”
Ta Dum Ta Dum Ta Dum
I can hear 007 on his way to defend the cops
Who no Doubt were afraid for there Lives
With dealing with her.
really?
Yes.
You mean you're not going to jump to defence ?
Really ?
I don't see you condemning any cops in the above posts either.
Why is That.?
Yes.
You mean you're not going to jump to defence ?
Really ?
I don't see you condemning any cops in the above posts either.
Why is That.?
Because I have a life and spending it addressing every post on this page is not my idea of fun. While many of the articles are obviously anti police, I don't have a lot to say about the cops because in many cases they and their chain of command are screwed up. I'm not gonna live for ever.. so my suggestion is.. whenever you read an article that uses the terms "pig". "thief", murderer etc when referring to a cop... google other sources and read them. I'm not suggesting that you discount your original source, but if the truth is important to you as it is to me, you can look at the information available about the incident and come to a more informed conclusion. If that conclusion is that the cop and his or her department is screwed up/criminal/etc then so be it. View the information with a critical eye.. and if at the end of it you deem the cop a criminal, murderer or part of a larger conspiracy of criminals the go with it. I know there are some messed up cops out there, I read about it often and I see the articles posted here. Some of the articles here are a tad biased, some are spot on. If I were the Police Chief of all departments I would hire you and some like you to help me oversee the nations departments and provide the intel and training that is needed to bring them up to the level both you and I can be proud of. But that's not going to happen.
Last word.. if all you see are nails, then of course the solution is a hammer. I was reading 2 days ago about a cop that gave up an organ for a guy he arrested. while that won't make this page, it underscores what I've been trying to say.. yeah, there are problems and cops aren't perfect and lord knows when some cops screw up they need to be hammered but by and large.. the police are trying to do a good job. I know we'll disagree on that and that's fine.
I'm serous when I say I would ask you to be on the board. While we disagree on many things, I believe you are open to opposing views, not that you are swayed by them, but at least you consider them and as upper management Po Po guy, I would want that perspective
Is there freedom of speech in the US?
A "sheriff" in Texas posted a picture on Facebook of a truck that has a sticker saying "Fuck Trump and fuck you for voting for him".
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He then added the following:
You lost me - on what board ?
True we do have different views & yes I am open to differing views
And I can & am able to take on board & change my view if It is clear I'm wrong
Or Ill informed.
"If I were the Police Chief of all departments I would hire you and some like you to help me oversee the nations departments and provide the intel and training that is needed to bring them up to the level both you and I can be proud of. But that's not going to happen."
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Thank You for your hypothetical vote
Working on such a project would be tough & demanding no doubt
And extremely rewarding & interesting.
"If I were the Police Chief of all departments I would hire you and some like you to help me oversee the nations departments and provide the intel and training that is needed to bring them up to the level both you and I can be proud of. But that's not going to happen."
ofcourse not.. he is british felon who got arrested the law pee on him,, notice how i sign this one,,
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lion of Judah
To be honest, most of the time I don't read your posts, much less notice how you sign it. No offense.
A friendly warning to you
He will likely verbally attack you in badly spelt English
Accuse you of all sorts of things
Tell you he knows who you are & where you are
Threaten you with the CIA FBI Trump Putin & uncle Tom Cobbley
Please Be Warned. He's Dangerous --- ::)
Ta Dum Ta Dum Ta Dum
I can hear 007 on his way to defend the cops
Who no Doubt were afraid for there Lives
With dealing with her.
This shows just how these criminals view and treat citizens like subhuman scum that they can freely abuse. And we are talking about an "officer" with "expertise" in identifying marijuana plants... Imagine if they didn't have this "expertise", they might have identified lettuce as marijuana and sugar as meth (it has happened before, where a "trained" cop with "eleven years of training and experience" identified donut glaze as meth (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=329944.msg8544402#msg8544402)). Unfortunately, as it often happens in these cases, the criminals probably won't face any prison time or pay out of their pockets. The insurance company also shares blame for this abuse as well as whoever signed the warrant (if a warrant was actually issued, since according to the lawsuit a warrant was not produced when asked).
Here is another tidbit from this story:
Yes, but I must admit, Agnostic reps well. Imo, most cops probably don't have the attention span necessary to communicate with others (at least with those of the non-cop variety) and judging by the disaster policing has become in this society, the intelligence level has sunk through the floor.
But, in all fairness, the good ones really do tend to be positive individuals. Agnostic should post those good stories when he sees them, since it would give some balance. (Although, imo, the truly good stuff from those officers is what goes untold for the most part. It's the true line of separation between the heart and the mind. Because most individual officers are, of course, willing to trick it up for mass coverage while they may well continue to offend out of camera view.)
There is a thread about law enforcement appreciation:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=201048.0
Yes, you're right. I thought maybe Agnostic could give us some relief with genuine stories of good cops, on here, but unfortunately it may be of the comedic type in most cases. The really good stuff isn't widely known. Anyone can play it up for the camera, reporter, etc.
There might be a few stories of good cops doing things beyond their job description/union contract or exposing corruption within their departments (and not being retaliated against) which would be commendable but, alas, many times they get called "heroes" for just doing their job adequately. Probably most such stories would receive a lot of publicity anyway as the media often parrot the cops' side of the story, unlike several cases of abuse and brutality (and not just BLM stuff that is usually exaggerated and heavily politicized) that hardly ever make the news.
More body cams seem to be a positive step that would help show the actions of criminals (uniformed or not) or the actions of good people (uniformed or not) but again you have instances of selective or edited footage, cameras that just happen to "malfunction" or are "accidentally" turned off or their footage is not available or cases where citizens who record get their recording equipment confiscated (and in some cases when they retrieve it the content has been altered or erased).
Yes, you're right. I thought maybe Agnostic could give us some relief with genuine stories of good cops, on here, but unfortunately it may be of the comedic type in most cases. The really good stuff isn't widely known. Anyone can play it up for the camera, reporter, etc.
There might be a few stories of good cops doing things beyond their job description/union contract or exposing corruption within their departments (and not being retaliated against) which would be commendable but, alas, many times they get called "heroes" for just doing their job adequately. Probably most such stories would receive a lot of publicity anyway as the media often parrot the cops' side of the story, unlike several cases of abuse and brutality (and not just BLM stuff that is usually exaggerated and heavily politicized) that hardly ever make the news.
More body cams seem to be a positive step that would help show the actions of criminals (uniformed or not) or the actions of good people (uniformed or not) but again you have instances of selective or edited footage, cameras that just happen to "malfunction" or are "accidentally" turned off or their footage is not available or cases where citizens who record get their recording equipment confiscated (and in some cases when they retrieve it the content has been altered or erased).
Something seems very fishy in this case. Could it be that cops conspired to kill him so he couldn't testify against them?
Baltimore Police Now Blocking FBI from Investigating Murder of Cop Set to Testify Against Fellow Cops
Baltimore, MD — In recent weeks, The Free Thought Project has been keeping a close eye on the developing case of a whistleblower with the Baltimore Police Department named Sean Suiter who was shot with his own gun the day before he was set to testify against corrupt cops within his own department.
Unlike most other shootings where police are the victims, no one has been arrested and there is no suspect to speak of. In fact, this is the only time in the history of Baltimore that a suspect in the shooting of a police officer has gone this long uncaptured.
With each day that passes, more suspicious details are uncovered which cast doubt on the official narrative that has been given by the police department since the shooting and brings suspicion upon the department itself.
Not only was Suiter set to testify in a massive corruptions case the day after his shooting but his partner was off work that day and the commissioner lied about this important detail in a press conference where he revealed the details of the case to the media. The man who filled in as Suiter’s partner on the day of his death is Facebook friends with one of the officers who is facing conviction.
On Wednesday, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings asked the director of the FBI to make the Suiter investigation one of their top priorities.
“I asked him that they use every resource available and do everything in their power to assist the Baltimore police in this investigation and make it a top priority,” Cummings said.
With the killer of a police officer on the loose for weeks and a population beginning to doubt the official word from the police department, you would think that they would be happy to bring in other agencies to help them wrap up the case, or at least prove that their hands are clean and that there is no cover-up.
However, as reported by WBAL-TV, the Baltimore Police department is not allowing the FBI to assist them in the investigation.
Department spokesman T.J. Smith said they will not be allowing any other agencies to interfere with their investigation.
“The Baltimore Police Department handles murder investigations, and the Baltimore Police Department will continue to handle this investigation,” Smith said.
The department’s refusal to allow another set of eyes on the case has even drawn criticism from the state’s governor, Larry Hogan, who told reporters that, “I have a lot of confidence in the Police Commissioner Kevin Davis in Baltimore, but at some point, the more eyes we have on this, the better.”
Read more at: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/baltimore-police-fbi-investigate-whitleblower-cops-death/
Yes, you're right. I thought maybe Agnostic could give us some relief with genuine stories of good cops, on here, but unfortunately it may be of the comedic type in most cases. The really good stuff isn't widely known. Anyone can play it up for the camera, reporter, etc.
The thing is, and it's been said by the anti police segment and I happen to agree with it.. there are a lot of positive stories available, but in my opinion, those are things good people are supposed to do. But I also know that some news media outfits don't like to run positive stories about police so departments push trying to make their own news and for most of us it just feels wrong. But without it.. all people see are the bad stories so it's damned if you do.
The positive stories should be listed
If what they do goes above & beyond what is there normal
Police role. They Should be Celebrated.
I would acknowledge & praise them.
This is the case with what you call negative stories
They are negative because the cops don't act properly
And act like organised armed thugs & fall way below
Any level of acceptable policing or decent behaviour.
They Should be Held Accountable.
Likewise I see them as Thugs Arsewipes & Criminals.
https://www.amazon.com/Police-Ethics-Corruption-Noble-Cause/dp/1437744559/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512187460&sr=1-2&keywords=the+corruption+of+noble+cause
Don't know if you enjoy nonfiction but this is a good read about police behavior and how some of the things that happen happen.
http://www.kvue.com/news/investigations/defenders/what-we-know-about-the-off-duty-austin-detective-who-shot-down-road-rage-suspect/496179486
One of my former co workers managed to do something good..
Baltimore is a complete cesspool
I tend to only read nonfiction books.
That I would dare say is a book I'd enjoy reading
& No doubt give me knowledge & insight.
When I first started reading it, he kind of pissed me off. Some of the conclusions he came to I felt was not accurate. He is not pro or anti police as far as I could tell. But he was writing from a different perspective. As I got further in the book I came to realize his overall view was probably accurate, it was a view I hadn't considered for a good 15 years of being in law enforcement. I submitted the book to the committee that selects books for promotional testing with the suggestion this book be included at the Detective level (our lowest testing rank) because it was that valuable to young officers in opening their eyes to the very real danger of the corruption of the noble cause
After about 15 minutes, believing Johnson had pointed a gun at them, officers unleashed a volley of shots into her car.
When nothing happened after the first round of shots, officers continued shouting commands at Johnson to get out of the car.
When they again thought they saw a gun, more shots were fired into her car.
“Those deputies and troopers showed a lot of restraint in not causing a further confrontation,” said Walcher.
In about 30 minutes, from approximately 75 feet away, deputies and troopers fired 55 rounds at Johnson’s car from AR-15 rifles, .40 caliber pistols, and a shotgun. Not a single round hit her.
[...]
Although no weapons were found in her car, a Colorado State Patrol spokesperson apparently told multiple media outlets the next morning that officers only fired at Johnson after she shot at them. CSP Chief Scott Hernandez now acknowledges that was not true. “Unfortunately sometimes things are said that’s not specifically accurate”, said Hernandez. “I don’t think it was intentional to go out that way”. He said somehow incorrect information about Johnson being armed was repeated and shared with law enforcement and the public. “As we know the facts now, that’s not the case.”
Photos of the crime scene obtained by CBS4 also show that in the bursts of gunfire, an Arapahoe County deputy accidentally shot up a state patrol cruiser. Reports suggest the patrol vehicle was struck 28 times. The deputy was standing immediately behind the car but was apparently unaware that many of his shots intended for Johnson were actually hitting the patrol car. Arapahoe County Sheriff Dave Walcher said,”With all the distractions and lights I don’t think our deputy realized he was hitting the top of the car”. He said his department is doing additional training to address the misfires.
The "experienced" "professionals" who are "trained" with firearms, unlike thecitizensplebs... 55 rounds fired, none hit the woman, but they struck a nearby police car 28 times... Interesting that the cops claimed they only fired after the woman shot at them, despite the fact that no weapons were found in the car and the cops later claimed that this description was not "specifically accurate"... Maybe that's cop-speak for "we lied".
New Details Emerge From Bizarre Police Shooting
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/11/29/new-details-bizarre-shooting/
Experts say that without a video of the shooting, the former officer probably would not have been fired from the force nor have faced murder charges.
Arizona Cop Killed Man with AR-15 Rifle Inscribed with the Words “You’re Fucked” as Man Pleaded for His Life
Daniel Shaver may have had a few drinks in him when he was ordered out of his Arizona hotel room at gunpoint by a group of six screaming police officers last January.
The Mesa police officers were barking all kinds of orders; each one with a different demand, telling him to get down on his hands and knees and crawl towards them, to place his hands over his head, to sit on the floor and cross his legs in front of him.
The traveling businessman was trying to comply, but he was confused by their contradictory demands. The fact that he had been drinking with friends that evening did not help.
“Please don’t shoot me,” Shaver reportedly pleaded as he lifted his hands up, then down again.
But then one cop did, shooting him five times with an AR-15 rifle inscribed with the words “You’re Fucked.”
It was Philip “Mitch” Braisford’s personal gun, which he had personally inscribed, and it offered a glimpse into his personality.
Naturally, the 25-year-old Mesa police officer claimed he was in fear for his life, which was enough for internal affairs to find no wrongdoing on his part; the same investigative unit where his father had recently retired from as a lieutenant after working 19 years in the department.
But the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office charged him with second-degree murder several weeks later after reviewing footage from his body cam, a decision that left him “stunned” and “shocked,” especially considering the charge carries a minimum sentence of ten years in prison.
However, now he is being offered a plea deal of negligent homicide, which carries a minimum sentence of probation, a judicial “get out of jail, free” card that he would be stupid not to accept, according to Shaver’s wife, Laney Sweet, who is posting information on a Facebook page she created in support of her husband.
Braisford, who has not spent a minute in jail, has until May 16 to decide whether to accept the deal offered to him on Tuesday, said Sweet, who is already sensing that he will never spend a day in jail.
Especially considering he has not spent a minute in jail since he was charged with second-degree murder, the judge apparently believing his lawyer who said that he “honorably served his community as a Mesa police officer.”
But now the department is taking the steps to terminate him, not over the shooting, but because he had inscribed the profane phrase on his personal gun, which he was allowed to use over any department-issued gun.
Meanwhile, Shaver’s wife has already filed a $35 million wrongful death lawsuit.
And the body cam footage of Shaver’s killing has already been viewed by her attorney, even though it has not been released to the public.
Sweet posted the following on the Facebook page:
I was told Daniel’s hand never even touched his side or waistband. They said that while he was up on his knees with his hands above his head that he went to all four and it appeared that he could have lost balance. His right arm brushed beside his body. The officer shot him five times and Daniel fell forward and died instantly. Daniel had a few drinks with the two guests he was eating pizza with in his room, who were co-workers there for a conference.
Shaver was 26 and lived in Texas with his wife and children. He worked in pest control and was traveling for business with two pellet guns he routinely traveled with for his job.
He had dinner and drinks with a man and a woman and invited them back to his La Quinta hotel room on the fifth floor. At one point, he was showing them the pellet guns.
Meanwhile, two people sitting by the pool looked up and saw a man pointing a gun out the window, so they became alarmed and called police.
The two pellet guns were found inside his room after he had been killed outside his room.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/17/arizona-cop-killed-man-with-ar-15-rifle-inscribed-with-the-words-youre-fucked-as-man-pleaded-for-his-life/
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2016/03/16/report-man-fatally-shot-mesa-officer-may-have-been-drunk-and-confused-police-commands/81879134/
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/mesa-ariz-officer-heads-to-court-for-murder-of-n-texas-man/82912536
Remember this disgusting case?
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What a travesty..
Former Mesa Officer Philip Brailsford found not guilty of murder in shooting of unarmed man
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa-breaking/2017/12/07/philip-brailsford-verdict-daniel-shaver-killing/927052001/
Remember this disgusting case?
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2648637.1464122836!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/mesa25n-3-web.jpg) (http://content.wfaa.com/photo/2016/01/22/635890481863153935-daniel-shaver_144061_ver1.0.JPG)
What a travesty..
Former Mesa Officer Philip Brailsford found not guilty of murder in shooting of unarmed man
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa-breaking/2017/12/07/philip-brailsford-verdict-daniel-shaver-killing/927052001/
This is the weapon of Daniel Shaver's killer:
(https://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/AR-15-1024x768.jpg)
(yes, it says "You're fucked")
Unfortunately this case didn't gain much publicity and of course there were hardly any riots or outrage over this horrible murder. Michael Slager got 20 years for shooting an unarmed fleeing man in the back and yet this killer got away with it...
Is that the cops gun ?
I've just clicked on to thread & not yet read the article on this shooting.
Officer Loses It, Goes ‘Robocop’ and Breaks an Innocent Elderly Man’s Leg Over a Tomato
Shaneen Allen, 27, was pulled over in Atlantic County, N.J. The officer who pulled her over says she made an unsafe lane change. During the stop, Allen informed the officer that she was a resident of Pennsylvania and had a conceal carry permit in her home state. She also had a handgun in her car. Had she been in Pennsylvania, having the gun in the car would have been perfectly legal. But Allen was pulled over in New Jersey, home to some of the strictest gun control laws in the United States.
Allen is a black single mother. She has two kids. She has no prior criminal record. Before her arrest, she worked as a phlebobotomist. After she was robbed two times in the span of about a year, she purchased the gun to protect herself and her family. There is zero evidence that Allen intended to use the gun for any other purpose. Yet Allen was arrested. She spent 40 days in jail before she was released on bail. She’s now facing a felony charge that, if convicted, would bring a three-year mandatory minimum prison term.
How ironic that the judge who sentenced Shaneen Allen seems to have a concealed carry permit (along with cops, from what the prosecutor says), unlike all theother citizensmere plebs.
Some background on Shaneen Allen:
Shaneen Allen’s Judge, Michael Donio, Has Only Non-LEO Atlantic City Concealed Carry Permit
Alexander Roubian of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society writes [exposé video below]:
For years we have stated that only politicians, judges and their friends can obtain conceal carry permits in New Jersey… and for years we have been told we are “paranoid” and only “specially trained” individuals like law enforcement officers are allowed that privilege.
Politicians like Loretta Weinberg have fought hard to keep permit holder information exempt from public records requests, probably to protect the identity of her friends, and maybe herself?
Though we do not know who exactly the 1,274 that have received a conceal carry permit are, the admission of a prosecutor that Judge Michael Donio was the only non-police officer in Atlantic City to receive a conceal carry permit (ccw) is further evidence that we are, in fact, not paranoid nor wrong.
[ED: Judge Donio was the presiding judge in the case of Shaneen Allen, a Pennsylvania woman nabbed by NJ police for carrying a firearm without a Garden State carry permit. She was prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to a pretrial intervention program.]
For over two years we have scoured through public records and went undercover to identify, document, and now expose those who are quick to deny us our constitutional right (while they simultaneously enjoy that same right). This elitist “good for thee, but not for me” mentality must end NOW!
To make matters worse, Judge Michael Donio didn’t find it “egregious” that prosecutors thought a single mother from crime-ridden Philadelphia, a victim of violence herself, would be a prime candidate to put in prison and made an example of.
The hypocrisy and double standard is disgusting, and the snippet at the end of the video above speaks for itself.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/12/robert-farago/shaneen-allens-judge-michael-donio-has-only-non-leo-atlantic-city-concealed-carry-permit/
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/8xvzwp/baltimore-cops-carried-toy-guns-to-plant-on-people-they-shot-trial-reveals-vgtrn?utm_source=vicefbus&__twitter_impression=true
“To serve and protect”...
Cop assigned to Florida school 'never went in' amid shooting, sheriff says
The police officer who was on patrol at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14 resigned Thursday after video surveillance showed he never entered the school, even though he "clearly" knew there was a shooting taking place.
Deputy Scott Peterson, of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, was stationed on the school’s campus when Nikolas Cruz opened fire with an AR-15 rifle, leaving 17 people dead and others wounded.
Sheriff Scott Israel during a press conference Thursday said video showed Peterson arriving at the west side of the building where the shooting took place. Peterson, Israel said, took up a position but "never went in."
Peterson was armed and in uniform during the shooting, but never entered the building despite "clearly" knowing a shooting was happening, Israel said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/22/cop-assigned-to-florida-school-never-went-in-amid-shooting-sheriff-says.html
Fire him immediately.
resigned before he could be fired. His resignation keeps him eligible for other agencies. What I hope happens is this follows him throughout his life so that he can never be responsible for others lives. I also hope the commissioning body in that state revoke his license. There is a time for tactics and waiting for backup. There is a time when you risk all to save others who are being gunned down. This was clearly the latter option.
I feel like these situations should be proving to people that the police can't (and sometimes just won't) protect you.
Police are good at coming in after people are dead and figuring out what happened and who to blame. They are not able to do much to help you in the moment when your life hangs in the balance....even if they wanted to.
That's why I stay strapped up. Every time I walk out my front door I have my Glock and some medical gear on my person. At least 1 tourniquet, some compression bandages. Every day, all day.
I can see how this might make someone feel that, but then there are the instances where police have run into the thick of it as they should. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be prepared to protect yourself, as it does take time for police to respond. That officers inaction makes me sick. As a police officer, those type incidents are ones you train for, hope they never happen but if they do, you respond. You do your best to save lives and stop the shooter. It should be ingrained in him. It's sad it took 17 deaths for us to find out he was in the wrong business.
I feel like these situations should be proving to people that the police can't (and sometimes just won't) protect you.
Police are good at coming in after people are dead and figuring out what happened and who to blame. They are not able to do much to help you in the moment when your life hangs in the balance....even if they wanted to.
That's why I stay strapped up. Every time I walk out my front door I have my Glock and some medical gear on my person. At least 1 tourniquet, some compression bandages. Every day, all day.
Question- And He is free to go and work as a cop in some other State
Because he resigned ?
Although I totally condemn his inaction & inability to respond Sadly it happens as He may very well of been Scared Stif & Fearing for his own life -
With all his training when it came time to get his hands dirty / earn his pay
He couldn’t do it.. it happens.
The reality of him being able to go elsewhere & work as a cop is beyond ridiculous.
Question- And He is free to go and work as a cop in some other State
Because he resigned ?
Although I totally condemn his inaction & inability to respond Sadly it happens as He may very well of been Scared Stif & Fearing for his own life -
With all his training when it came time to get his hands dirty / earn his pay
He couldn’t do it.. it happens.
The reality of him being able to go elsewhere & work as a cop is beyond ridiculous.
I read his account of what he said happened. It went something like this "At first I thought it was fireworks coming from inside. Then when it was clear it wasn't fireworks but gunfire a call came out about a wounded person on the football field. That led me to believe the shooter was already outside the school and I took up a tactical position towards the football field until his location could be determined." paraphrased.
All that could be true, but even saying it is what he thought... the firing went on for 6 minutes. If he thought a student was exploding fireworks inside the school for several minutes, who does he think is supposed to confront that student? It doesn't add up
Nope It doesn’t make sense.
He was Scared & Froze - it happens
Likely had he had 5/7/10 of his buddies he’d of been a regular John Wayne type hero
And pumped the shooter full with 97 bullets
He’s No Donald Trump - That cop wouldn’t of got out of his car That’s a Definite.
Throw the former prosectuor in death row.
DA: Former prosecutor withheld key email in death row case
A former Harris County prosecutor withheld a key email that helped establish a clear alibi for Alfred Dewayne Brown in the high-profile murder case that eventually sent him to death row, District Attorney Kim Ogg said late Friday.
Brown, now 36, spent nearly 10 years awaiting execution before his case was dismissed and he was freed in 2015. He later sued Harris County, the DA's office, the prosecutor and police officer who handled the murder case, among others.
The explosive revelation raises new questions about Brown's wrongful conviction and the conduct of Dan Rizzo, the prosecutor who put him on death row.
Brown was convicted in October 2005 in a brazen slaying of Houston Police Officer Charles L. Clark and store clerk Alfredia Jones — who had just returned from maternity leave — during a robbery at a check-cashing store in southeast Houston.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/DA-Former-prosecutor-lied-about-exculpatory-12724038.php
Throw the former prosectuor in death row.
DA: Former prosecutor withheld key email in death row case
A former Harris County prosecutor withheld a key email that helped establish a clear alibi for Alfred Dewayne Brown in the high-profile murder case that eventually sent him to death row, District Attorney Kim Ogg said late Friday.
Brown, now 36, spent nearly 10 years awaiting execution before his case was dismissed and he was freed in 2015. He later sued Harris County, the DA's office, the prosecutor and police officer who handled the murder case, among others.
The explosive revelation raises new questions about Brown's wrongful conviction and the conduct of Dan Rizzo, the prosecutor who put him on death row.
Brown was convicted in October 2005 in a brazen slaying of Houston Police Officer Charles L. Clark and store clerk Alfredia Jones — who had just returned from maternity leave — during a robbery at a check-cashing store in southeast Houston.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/DA-Former-prosecutor-lied-about-exculpatory-12724038.php
Funny how right after the shooting it was claimed that the shot was because the cop "perceived a threat" but later it was claimed to be "accidental".
North Las Vegas officer who shot man in foot won’t face charges
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/north-las-vegas-officer-who-shot-man-in-foot-wont-face-charges/
Sometimes its as simple as the press wanting info and the chaos surrounding the incident is still unfolding. I've been involved in shootings where initial information gathered was incorrect and had to be corrected. You would think it would be as simple as asking the officer what happened but there are civil service issues, 30 people on scene asking questions and information can get misconstrued in the initial moments. It's a balance of getting the info out as soon as possible because the people want to know right now, or waiting until the investigation is complete so there are no mistakes. For me, I'm good with "tell me what you know right now" and then if it changes, deal with it.
I have noticed that i have responded to many skeletors posts.. with no response. If this thread is just gonna be Skeletor posting his anti police posts, thats cool, just let me know and I will stop responding
‘Barbarism’: Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence man on trial. Conviction thrown out.
In Tarrant County, Tex., defendants are sometimes strapped with a stun belt around their legs. The devices are used to deliver a shock in the event the person gets violent or attempts to escape.
But in the case of Terry Lee Morris, the device was used as punishment for refusing to answer a judge’s questions properly during his 2014 trial on charges of soliciting sexual performance from a 15-year-old girl, according to an appeals court. In fact, the judge shocked Morris three times, sending thousands of volts coursing through his body. It scared him so much that Morris never returned for the remainder of his trial and almost all of his sentencing hearing.
The action stunned the Texas Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso, too. It has now thrown out Morris’s conviction on the grounds that the shocks, and Morris’s subsequent removal from the courtroom, violated his constitutional rights. Since he was too scared to come back to the courtroom, the court held that the shocks effectively barred him from attending his own trial, in violation of the Constitution’s Sixth Amendment, which guarantees a defendant’s right to be present and confront witnesses during a trial.
[...]
The discord between Morris and Gallagher arose after Gallagher asked Morris how he would plead: guilty or not guilty?
“Sir, before I say that, I have the right to make a defense,” Morris responded.
He had recently filed a federal lawsuit against his defense attorney and against Gallagher, whom he wanted recused from the case. As Morris continued talking, Gallagher warned him to stop making “outbursts.”
“Mr. Morris, I am giving you one warning,” Gallagher said outside the presence of the jury, according to the appeals court. “You will not make any additional outbursts like that, because two things will happen. No. 1, I will either remove you from the courtroom or I will use the shock belt on you.”
“All right, sir,” Morris said.
The judge continued: “Now, are you going to follow the rules?”
“Sir, I’ve asked you to recuse yourself,” said Morris.
Gallagher asked again: “Are you going to follow the rules?”
“I have a lawsuit pending against you,” responded Morris.
“Hit him,” Gallagher said to the bailiff.
The bailiff pressed the button that shocks Morris, and then Gallagher asked him again whether he is going to behave. Morris told Gallagher he had a history of mental illness.
“Hit him again,” the judge ordered.
Morris protested that he was being “tortured” just for seeking the recusal.
Gallagher asked the bailiff, “Would you hit him again?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/07/barbarism-texas-judge-ordered-electric-shocks-to-man-during-trial-conviction-thrown-out/?utm_term=.d5a30f109077
I’d so dearly like to truss that bastard judge up with that electric shock belt
& ask him dumb questions & zap him for the fun of it.
The cowardly bastard is a prime example of a jumped up bully
Who likely would cower in fear if confronted but is the big tough guy
In the court. I wish him a long slow painful illness.
I’d so dearly like to truss that bastard judge up with that electric shock belt
& ask him dumb questions & zap him for the fun of it.
The cowardly bastard is a prime example of a jumped up bully
Who likely would cower in fear if confronted but is the big tough guy
In the court. I wish him a long slow painful illness.
Not just the judge but the bailiff as well.
Not just the judge but the bailiff as well.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime--law/breaking-feds-planned-charge-gardens-teen-for-international-school-threats/0oRF1KCDKL4BWqB7Kgg0zO
>:(
Initially, the FBI did not want to charge Johnson because he was a juvenile and “believed a redirection approach would be the most beneficial regarding his conduct.” So in March 2017, the FBI got consent to “mirror” Johnson’s computer activity.
Additionally, they spoke with the teen —who denied any affiliation with ISIS — and told him “to cease all social media activities related to ISIS and any other terrorist organization” and have no further contact with the Catholic high school in England, the report said.
By the summer of 2017, the FBI said Johnson was back to making more online posts and that they were working to bring official charges against him, according to the police report.
In February, the FBI said it had all the evidence it needed and that an assistant U.S. attorney had probable cause to charge Johnson.
On March 5, Jupiter police checked in with the FBI to see where they were with the federal charges and the agent said the affidavits would be “coming in the next several weeks.”
A week later, Johnson was in jail for the fatal stabbing in Palm Beach Gardens.
Sheriff who pocketed $750G from inmate food fund bought beach house for $740G
An Alabama sheriff who pocketed $750,000 from funds meant to feed inmates is coming under fresh scrutiny for the purchase of a beach house that cost nearly the same amount of money.
AL.com reported Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin received $750,000 of “compensation” from a source he called “food provisions” during a three-year period. When AL.com contacted Entrekin about the money he did not deny he received it despite the money being “allocated by federal, state and municipal governments to feed inmates in the Etowah County Jail.”
Entrekin like other Alabama sheriffs believe a pre-World War II state law allows them to keep any “excess inmate-feeding funds” for themselves. However, in counties such as Jefferson and Montgomery, any excess money is supposed to be given to the county government.
In forms filed with the Alabama Ethics Commission, Entrekin reported he made “more than $250,000 each of the past three years via the inmate-feeding funds.”
"In regards to feeding of inmates, we utilize a registered dietitian to ensure adequate meals are provided daily," Entrekin told AL.com in an email. "As you should be aware, Alabama law is clear as to my personal financial responsibilities in the feeding of inmates. Regardless of one's opinion of this statute, until the legislature acts otherwise, the Sheriff must follow the current law."
Entrekin’s annual salary is $93,178.80, AL.com reported. However, Entrekin was able to purchase a four-bedroom beach pad with a built-in pool for $740,000. Entrekin and his wife Karen also own a two-story home in Orange Beach worth about $200,900.
Some residents questioned Entrekin’s purchase, including one, Matthew Qualls, who was arrested on drug charges earlier this month just days after he publicly criticized Entrekin for keeping the fund surplus.
Qualls who was paid to mow Entrekins’s lawn told AL.com in an article published in February he questioned why he was receiving checks for his services via a “Sheriff Todd Entrekin Food Provision Account,” when he knew of individuals in jail who had gone without meals.
"I saw that in the corner of the checks it said 'Food Provision,' and a couple people I knew came through the jail, and they say they got meat maybe once a month and every other day it was just beans and vegetables," Qualls told AL.com.
Qualls was arrested after police responded to an “anonymous tip” about a marijuana odor coming from an apartment where he and a friend were found inside. He was released from custody after taking a plea deal prompted by public outcry after his arrest. The deal requires Qualls to participate in the Etowah County Drug Court program, where he will be subject to random drug screenings, and must complete substance abuse classes instead of facing prison time, his attorney Sam Bone told AL.com.
Entrekin is also being challenged for his job this year by Rainbow City Police Chief Jonathon Horton. Horton has pledged not to pocket any excess money from the inmate-feeding funds.
"I believe the funds belong to the taxpayers and any excess funds should go toward things that benefit the taxpayer," Horton told AL.com. "There's been a tremendous amount of money left over that shouldn't be used as a bonus check."
Entrekin declined to respond to AL.com about his finances and multiple homes.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/14/sheriff-who-pocketed-750g-from-inmate-food-fund-bought-beach-house-for-740g.html
Of course the killers were cleared, a pregnant teenager was killed and the taxpayers will have to foot the bill once again.
Cops Murder Innocent 16yo Teen and Her Unborn Baby—No Charges, Taxpayers Held Liable
Hayward, California – A family is suing the city of Fremont and its police department one year after their 16-year-old daughter was shot and killed by police when officers opened fire on the car she was riding in, and the department blamed her death on the driver.
Elena Mondragon, who was pregnant and unarmed, was sitting in the passenger seat of the car with her cousin and two of their friends when they were followed by two undercover police officers dressed in plain clothes.
The officers, who were also driving an unmarked car, claimed that one of the boys in the group, Rico Tiger, 19, was a suspect in multiple armed robberies and the BMW they were in was a stolen car. While the officers were already conducting surveillance around the apartment complex and they claimed they intended to confront their target before he left the area, their plan failed.
Because the officers were in plainclothes and they were driving what appeared to be a regular car, the driver of the car Mondragon was in claimed the group thought they were being followed or robbed, so they began to accelerate to get away from the other car.
Fremont Sgt. Jeremy Miskella and Detective Joel Hernandez responded by opening fire on the vehicle, and they used their AR-15’s to fire a multitude of bullets at the vehicle. While they did not strike their intended target, they did hit Mondragon. In a statement reported by NBC Bay Area, John Burris, an attorney for the family, criticized the fatal decisions made by the officers.
“Shockingly, officers engaged in a series of egregious tactical errors and contravened their training and basic common sense, which resulted in an outrageous loss of innocent life,” Burris said.
He also called out the Alameda County District Attorney for charging Tiger with Mondragon’s murder—while refusing to file charges against the two officers who actually killed her and who “acted with reckless disregard for department policy, safe tactics and human life.”
In response to the shooting, Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Robert Graff acknowledged that Mondragon’s death was “unintended and tragic,” but insisted that Hernandez and Miskella acted lawfully and successfully defended themselves when they opened fire on Tiger—even though they executed Mondragon and her unborn child instead.
Burris questioned why the officers conveniently failed to turn on their Body Cameras, even though they had been conducting surveillance around the area and were planning on confronting and arresting Tiger. In addition to the lack of footage from police, there were no cell phone videos recorded by anyone who witnessed the shooting, and Mondragon’s family believes that the lack of footage resulted in a lack of media coverage.
“When there’s no video, that’s a battle for us. People just tend to believe what is reported by the police. The public just takes it at face value, and it just sort of disappears,” Melissa Nold, another attorney for Mondragon’s family, told the Guardian.
In the year that has passed since Elena Mondragon and her unborn child were murdered on March 14, 2017, Sgt. Miskella and Detective Hernandez have returned to their jobs and are now free to carry out similar atrocities, forever influencing the lives of innocent citizens.
As Burris announced the lawsuit, surrounded by nearly two dozen relatives who gathered to remember Mondragon, he said, “It is unconscionable. What has happened here is a cover-up for that botched police work.”
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/family-files-lawsuit-cops-daughter-car/
The cops were quick to proclaim this was a hoax kidnapping, meanwhile in other (actual hoax) cases were cops falsely claimed to have been attacked there were big and expensive operations to find the imaginary attackers.
US couple accused of hoax kidnap win $2.5m settlement
A US couple wrongly accused of staging a real kidnapping have reached a $2.5m (£1.8m) defamation settlement with the city of Vallejo in California. Denise Huskins was taken from a home she shared with boyfriend Aaron Quinn by a masked intruder in 2015. After she was found safe 400 miles away, a police spokesperson described the investigation a "wild goose chase" and the abduction a "hoax".
Matthew Muller, a former lawyer, was convicted in 2017 for the kidnapping.
The police eventually apologised but the couple's lawsuit accused the city and two police officers of defamation and inflicting emotional distress, US media report. The couple's lawyer said in a statement: "One can only hope that the message of this settlement will be that victims are to be believed and that the police will accept a woman's highly credible report that she was kidnapped and raped." The City of Vallejo admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement.
After police did not believe Mr Quinn's story of his then girlfriend's abduction, the case drew comparison to the film Gone Girl, in which a woman goes missing in mysterious circumstances and her partner is placed under suspicion.
Muller, who also served as a US marine, suffers from Gulf War Syndrome and is bipolar. He was arrested six months after the kidnapping for another home invasion, leading the federal investigators to identify him in this case. He is serving a 40-year sentence for drugging the couple in their home near San Francisco and kidnapping Ms Huskins for a ransom of $8,500, according to the SF Gate news website.
She was released in Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, after two days, but no ransom was paid.
According to media reports, Muller even came to the defence of the victim when police first discredited the couple's claims, writing emails to local journalists describing what he had done.
Ms Huskins and Mr Quinn, both 32, have since got engaged and plan to get married in September.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43429346
They came before the sun rose, about a dozen cops in plainclothes who broke down the door to an East New York building and burst into a first-floor apartment. Inside — sound asleep — were Luis Vargas, 54, his sister, Lillian Vargas, 53, their elderly mom and a 5-year-old niece.
They were jolted awake as cops tore through their apartment, breaking two TVs, emptying containers of rice and pulling clothes out of closets, the family said. Victims of ‘Bullethead’ cop recount shaky busts, traffic stops. One of the men — who the family later found out was Detective David Grieco — began barking questions at them.
“Where’s the guns?” he demanded, according to Luis Vargas. “Where’s the drugs?”
Ultimately, the cops — who did not have a search warrant — found nothing more than two bottles of sedatives for Lillian Vargas, who said she tried without luck to show police the paperwork from her doctor to prove the pills were legally prescribed.
But it made no difference to the officers, who handcuffed her and dragged her into the January cold dressed only in a robe.
Meanwhile, a dozen lawsuits naming Grieco have been filed or settled since the 12-year veteran was first profiled by The News.
Despite the legal tangles in his past, Grieco’s career has advanced. Since 2013, he was promoted twice — first to detective, then last summer to sergeant, at which point he was transferred to the 67th Precinct.
Two years ago, the NYPD started shielding officers’ disciplinary records from public scrutiny, claiming any disclosure would violate Section 50-a of the 1976 state civil rights code.
I can only think there is more to this story
As how were they found not to be culpable
As it makes zero sense for the cops to randomly open fire
As for not having body cameras on & recording
Why isn’t that a surprise to hear
http://abc7chicago.com/news/family-ids-girl-16-fatally-shot-by-police-after-stolen-car-rammed-squad-cops-say/1803628/
Here is the news story from a more centered source. The one posted failed to mention any details like the suspects ramming into vehicles before shots were fired
Yes a Better account of the incident
It still doesn’t justify unloading there guns into back of car & killing the young girl
Clearly they wouldn’t of expected to be able to shoot the driver without causing injury
To others.
Sadly the gun culture
Makes shooting the 1st priority
It should be the last option a cop should use in most instances
other countries don’t have this huge death toll racked up by cops
I can only think there is more to this story
As how were they found not to be culpable
As it makes zero sense for the cops to randomly open fire
As for not having body cameras on & recording
Why isn’t that a surprise to hear
There seem to be some additional facts to this story. It appears that one of the the persons who killed the 16 year old girl is the president of a police union and also he made a "donation" of $10000 to the campaign of the District Attorney who later cleared him. But this is just fine print, nothing to see here folks.
DA O’Malley Took $10K From Fremont Police Union Before Clearing Fremont Cops in Killing of Pregnant Teen
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley accepted a $10,000 campaign donation from the Fremont police union just months before her office cleared Fremont police officers of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of pregnant teen, Elena Mondragon. In addition, the president of the Fremont police union — Sgt. Jeremy Miskella — is one of the cops that shot Mondragon to death one year ago and was subsequently cleared by O’Malley’s office.
https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/03/16/da-omalley-took-10k-from-fremont-police-union-before-clearing-fremont-cops-in-killing-of-pregnant-teen
Hmmmm
That is certainly shady business in my book.
No she didn’t know when taking that $ they would be up in front of her
Down the line, an educated gues would say that there was going to be
Some cops up before her.
That alone should raise questions about impartiality.
No the young girl shouldn’t of been in a stolen vehicle
And No she didn’t deserve to be shot dead by 2 gun wielding idiots
Indeed. So often we hear "wait to get all the facts", usually in the vain hope that police will be vindicated, but it so happens that in many cases when the facts come out they might not favorable to the police. The problem is that at that point nothing is done and it swept under the rug; no transparency, no accountability, no laws that apply equally to everyone.
Right - sadly very little accountability or transparency when it comes the police
Right again - the laws clearly do not apply equally to everyone
Police ethics still have a very long way to go.
It is very wrong that they act like a big mafia at times to protect their own.
I suppose it depends on where you live as to the accountability or transparency. It's been my experience there was a high amount of accountability and the transparency allowed by law. But I certainly concede there are cases around the country where that isn't the case.
That’s good of you as a retired cop to acknowledge that.
Thanks.
Then how do the public go about changing that if you have any ideas / thoughts
"Having analyzed the evidence as part of our administrative review, I am in agreement with Chief Beck that Officer Proctor should have been charged with manslaughter," he said.
I respect our D.A. very much. She is a personal friend. But I disagree with her on this decision.”
Lacey's office said Thursday that she did not consider the Police Commission's decision, nor a $4-million settlement the city of L.A. awarded to Glenn's mother and young son, when weighing the case. The district attorney said she also did not factor in Beck's opinion.
Glenn was fatally shot May 5, 2015, as police tried to detain the 29-year-old after he fought with a bouncer outside a Windward Avenue bar. Proctor and his partner intervened, and a struggle began.
Proctor told investigators that he opened fire because he saw Glenn's hand on his partner's holster and thought Glenn was trying to grab the officer's gun, according to an LAPD report made public in 2016.
But video from the bar and statements from Proctor's partner disputed that account, according to the report. Glenn's hand was never seen "on or near any portion" of the holster, the report said, and his partner never made "any statements or actions" suggesting Glenn was trying to take the gun.
Beck said Thursday that the footage showed that Proctor's belief "was not only incorrect, it was also very difficult to tell why somebody would come to that conclusion."
In this incredibly rare case, even the police chief is calling for the killer to be prosecuted but the DA chooses not to. Even the killer's partner does not appear to think that the (now dead) man was trying to grab his firearm.
D.A. declines to charge former LAPD officer in fatal shooting of homeless man near Venice boardwalk
Prosecutors won't criminally charge a now-former Los Angeles police officer in the fatal shooting of a man near the Venice boardwalk — a decision that bucks an unprecedented call by Chief Charlie Beck to prosecute one of his own for a deadly, on-duty shooting.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-shooting-glenn-20180307-story.html
Good Cop Crosses Thin Blue Line, Helps Family Bring Officer Who Killed Their Son to Justice
Versailles, MO — On Friday, special prosecutor William Camm Seay announced that Trooper Anthony Piercy is being charged in the death of Brandon Ellingson, who drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks with his hands cuffed behind his back.
On May 31, 2014. Trooper Piercy arrested Ellingson under suspicion of OWI and negligently placed the wrong life jacket over the handcuffed 20-year-old’s torso. Piercy then drove his patrol boat away from the scene at a high rate of speed. Ellingson was thrown from the craft when it struck a sizeable wake, the life jacket came off, and he drowned with his hands still in cuffs.
As The Free Thought Project previously reported, following the familiar full-court press to prevent officer accountability, the jury in a Coroner’s Inquest ruled Ellingson’s death to be accidental. It was subsequently revealed that Amanda Grellner, the prosecutor who declined to file charges against Piercy, had received a personal favor from the MHP three years earlier when the department declined to charge her then-18-year-old son with DUI.
After seeing that they were getting zero help from the perpetrator and his subsequent conspirators, the family of Ellingson launched a campaign for justice. During this campaign, they were joined by Missouri Highway Patrol Sergeant, Randy Henry.
Henry witnessed first hand, the incompetence, negligence, and cover-up and took to exposing it.
“We killed Brandon Ellingson,” Henry bluntly told the Lake Expo newspaper, following it with the question of “Why are we investigating ourselves?”
In a conversation with Piercy the day following Ellingson’s death, Henry expressed concerns about how the arresting officer had conducted himself. Piercy himself seemed remorseful, telling Henry,
“I feel like I drowned that kid…. I should have done more for him.”
In any other context, that comment would be treated as a confession to second-degree murder.
Henry then filed a report on the drowning and testified about the inadequate training Piercy and other water patrol officers received.
During an interview with patrol investigators following the drowning, Henry mentioned a state law dealing with the safety of people in custody and how the police are responsible for the lives of those they detain. An investigator interrupted Henry and insisted that the recorder be turned off, to deliberately prevent an official record of his disclosures.
The stiff arm of blue justice was moving in.
Instead of Piercy being held accountable for his negligence, it was Henry who was then run through the gamut of the thin blue line. He was cast out by his department, demoted to corporal, and forced to retire.
But as a true servant to the public, Henry remained resilient and refused to be bullied.
His and the family’s efforts led to the case being reopened and taken over by Seay.
“It was an investigation not concluded at that time,” Seay said. “She [Grellner] didn’t have it. We, my people, completed the investigation. There was additional investigation after Ms. Grellner stepped down.”
When Seay was asked about the concerns of the law enforcement agency investigating themselves, he said, “That’s what I’m for. I don’t have any concerns.”
On Friday, Seay announced the charge of involuntary manslaughter in the first degree against Trooper Anthony Piercy outside the Morgan County Justice Center. The charge is a Class C felony carrying a punishment of up to seven years in prison, up to a year in the county jail, a $5,000 fine or a combination.
The Highway Patrol said in a statement that it had placed Piercy, 44, on leave without pay. He is expected to turn himself in on Friday.
Craig Ellingson, father of Brandon, announced they were pleased with the news but noted how long it took.
“But it should have been a lot earlier,” he said. “I think it has been a cover-up from the beginning. They had everything. They knew what Piercy did to my son.”
For 18 months, this family, along with the now retired Henry, have fought for Piercy to be held accountable in the death of Brandon Ellingson.
“I never imagined something like that happening to Brandon. … I think he felt like he was safe with Piercy, because he’s a cop. But he wasn’t,” said Ellingson.
“There’s been a cover-up from the beginning,” Henry recently told The Star. “They wanted to protect the governor and the merger and protect Piercy from criminal charges because criminal charges would be a black eye for the patrol.”
While this news of Piercy’s charges is great for the family, Craig Ellingson insists that the fight is not yet over.
“I feel some relief, but I still want to get to the people who have covered this up,” he said.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/good-cop-refused-silenced-fellow-officer-charged-teens-death/
“Congress should reject the CLOUD Act because it fails to protect human rights or Americans’ privacy...gives up their constitutional role, and gives far too much power to the attorney general, the secretary of state, the president and foreign governments.”
But guess what? Congress can’t vote to reject the CLOUD Act, because it just got stuck onto the Omnibus, with no prior legislative action or review.
Not just the judge but the bailiff as well.
This is outrageous. Of course it was shoved in a 2000+ page "must pass" omnibus bill and unfortunately it was approved by the House on a 256-167 vote. The Senate has to vote by Friday.
The Cloud Act Is a Dangerous Piece of Legislation
The bill starts by giving the executive branch dramatically more power than it has today. It would allow Attorney General Sessions to enter into agreements with foreign governments that bypass current law, without any approval from Congress. Under these agreements, foreign governments would be able to get emails and other electronic information without any additional scrutiny by a U.S. judge or official. And, while the attorney general would need to consider a country’s human rights record, he is not prohibited from entering into an agreement with a country that has committed human rights abuses.
That level of discretion alone is concerning. Even more, however, the bill would for the first time allow these foreign governments to wiretap in the U.S. — even in cases where they do not meet Wiretap Act standards. Paradoxically, that would give foreign governments the power to engage in surveillance — which could sweep in the information of Americans communicating with foreigners — that the U.S. itself would not be able to engage in. The bill also provides broad discretion to funnel this information back to the U.S., circumventing the Fourth Amendment. This information could potentially be used by the U.S. to engage in a variety of law enforcement actions.
On top of this, the bill does not require that the Department of Justice or any U.S. government entity review individual requests for information made by foreign governments to ensure that human rights are not being violated.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/cloud-act-dangerous-piece-legislation
Statement by Rand Paul:
Something is Very Very wrong with The DA's
and Crime & punishment/ sentences being given out
to cops Time and again.
Its sad reading this continual on going thread
Yes some of it my be biased reporting against cops
Then there is the endless pitiful excuses made for them
if this was a thread about Lowlife scumbags & there was
never ending pitiful excuses being trotted out for them like
the ones for cops we'd all be falling around laughing
& the scumbags would be banged up.
DA & others supposedly 'policing the police' might help if
they treated all equally - This is Not Happening.
Is it any wonder more & more people are fearful & anti police.
Time to restore some Faith & justice.
No charges in case of news photographer shot by deputy
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) - Investigators say no charges will be filed against an Ohio sheriff's deputy who shot a news photographer setting up to photograph a traffic stop.
Clark County Deputy Jacob Shaw said he mistook photographer Andrew Grimm's camera for a gun when he shot him twice, once in the side and once in the shoulder, last year in New Carlisle, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) west of Columbus.
http://www.wtol.com/story/37797566/no-charges-in-case-of-news-photographer-shot-by-deputy
Of course he later tried to shrug it off as a "joke", but nevertheless people like him are candidates to lead "law enforcement". He also happens to be a "law enforcement training director" for a Community College.
NC Sheriff Candidate: Kill Gun Owners Who Won’t Give Up Their Guns
On March 7th, Democrat Sheriff candidate R. Daryl Fisher appeared in front of a Moms Demand Action meeting at the West Asheville, North Carolina public libary. At the meeting, he professed support of “common sense” gun control laws. And now we find out he went much further.
By common sense legislation, he means that he wants to see bans on full-capacity magazines for both rifles and handguns, bans on any weapon used by the military, and upping the purchase age for all guns to 21. And he endorsed a whole slew of new restrictions and regulations on concealed carry.
And what would he do if gun owners don’t comply with the laws he’d like to see enacted? He advocated killing anyone who refuses to surrender their guns. “You’ve heard people say you have to pry my gun from my cold dead hands.” He then shrugged his shoulders, shook his head back and forth, and then continued: “Okay…”
The approving Moms Demand Action crowd erupted in laughter and applause. Of course. Meanwhile, would-be Sheriff Fisher just grinned.
Here it is on video, which has gone viral:
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As more and more Americans see the video of this would-be tyrant’s remarks, the outrage has only grown. First he released one statement in response, and then a second criticizing those spreading “false information and propaganda”.
In the second statement, released on Facebook, he addressed his “cold, dead hands” remarks, claiming the statement was a “joke”.
"I admit the joke was a mistake and I should not have joked."
At the same time, he failed to apologize or even acknowledge the horrific nature of his remarks.
Judging by the hundreds of caustic comments on his campaign’s Facebook page, his murderous fantasies don’t sit well with most Americans.
The fact that Robert Fisher’s day job is as the Asheville-Buncombe Technical College’s law enforcement training director should cause even greater concern. Is he teaching young police recruits that it’s okay to shoot gun owners who bitterly cling to their Constitutional rights?
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/03/john-boch/nc-sheriff-candidate-kill-gun-owners-who-wont-give-up-their-guns/
Of course- like most statist tyrants.
I wonder just by the comments and the fact this video went viral.. how many people just read the misleading headlines and went on a rant or how many actually saw the video where he went on to say immediately after "When you pass away, we'll come get it" THEN went on to say if a law was passed today banning guns, it would be UNCONSTITUTIONAL to take guns that are already legally purchased. I do hope you put more effort in reviewing your cases than you did on this one...
No one ever said Soul Crusher is a good lawyer, if in fact, he passed the bar.
Outrage grows over police killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento: '20 shots over a cellphone'
Outrage is building over the deadly police shooting of an 22-year-old black man who was in his grandparents’ backyard, unarmed, earlier this month. Police had said officers were fearing for their safety, but critics have questioned why they chose not to resolve the situation with something significantly less lethal than a barrage of 20 bullets.
Stephon Clark was shot and killed March 18 after two Sacramento police officers were responding to a report of somebody breaking car windows. Police said they believed Clark was the suspect and he ran when a police helicopter responded, then failed to obey officers’ orders.
Police said they thought Clark was holding a gun when he moved toward them, but he was found only with a cellphone.
The shooting has moved the Black Lives Matter movement back into the forefront. Two of the officers have been identified in media reports, which say one is white and one is black.
Sgt. Vance Chandler of the Sacramento Police Department told Fox News, “At this point, the investigation is ongoing. Our department is committed to providing the facts of this case and conducting a thorough, comprehensive and fair investigation. We will continue to be transparent and update our community as we have updated information.”
It is rare for police officers to be charged following a shooting and rarer still for them to be convicted. Oftentimes it’s because of the doctrine of reasonable fear: if prosecutors or jurors believe that officers have a reason to fear for their safety, they can use force up to and including lethal force.
Clark’s relatives have said they're not expecting a resolution in their favor.
“…We appreciate the conversation, but conversation without implementation of some true reformation means nothing,” Clark’s uncle, Curtis Gordon, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. “It brought us to this moment, but what about tomorrow? What about next week?
He added, “You know, sadly, I have no confidence in America and the fact that I will probably hear another story sometime this year of an innocent life lost over excessive police force. It’s so common, you’re numb to it.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/28/outrage-grows-over-police-killing-stephon-clark-in-sacramento-20-shots-over-cellphone.html
"The entire interaction, he had his back to the officers," said Omalu, a pioneer and leading researcher on the affects concussions have on the brains of athletes.
The first bullet hit him in the side with his back "slightly facing the officers," Omalu said, which caused his body to turn. His back was facing officers when a barrage of six bullets hit him. One hit his neck, the others hit his back and shoulder.
The last gunshot hit his thigh, Omalu said, explaining Clark was either shot while on the ground or as he was falling.
Autopsy on Stephon Clark released. Will be used against the cops, possibly resulting in serious destruction to them.
A little aside, and probably unfair of me: Has anyone seen the clips involving Stephon's brother? The dude is nuts. He's the guy who grabbed tight hold of Sharpton on stage, and held a very uncomfortable looking bearhug on him throughout Sharpton's speech.
Every other time that he's been on camera, usually standing beside someone who's making statements about his brother and the cops, he becomes really animated with bizarre movements in his face and body. He looks to be making expressions of hostility against someone in the crowd, doing it silently, and with the strangest effect I've ever seen.
You'd imagine they'd learn to keep this kid somewhere else until the shit's handled. It can't be helpful to put him on stage, certainly. He's representing his brother, whether he realizes it or not.
After 2 Years And No Charges, Video Released of Cop Threatening, Then Killing Alton Sterling
Baton Rouge, LA — After the state of Louisiana announced that they would not be charging the officers responsible for ending the life of a man who had caused harm to no one, body camera footage was released showing the travesty that was the seeming premeditated murder of Alton Sterling.
It took only 90 seconds for Baton Rouge police officer Blane Salamoni to threaten to kill and then kill Sterling that fateful night. However, it took nearly two years for the body camera footage to be released and for Salamoni to be fired.
Now, for the first time since police killed Sterling, the public and the family can see the graphic videos that led to his death.
What is particularly troublesome about the release of this video is the fact that Salamoni wasn’t fired until it was released — two years later.
Police and investigators had this video evidence the same night Sterling was killed yet they did nothing with it and waited until their officers were cleared in his death before releasing it. Suspicious indeed.
As the newly released body camera footage shows, officer Howie Lake II was already on the scene when Salamoni showed up. Sterling was not being combative and had simply been picking up his sales table for his CDs which he had permission from the owner to sell in front of the store.
Police were responding to a call from a homeless man who some claim was disgruntled after Sterling refused to give him money and ran him off from the store. The homeless man reportedly told police that Sterling was armed.
When Salamoni arrived, within a few seconds, he had his pistol trained on Sterling and was immediately threatening to kill him.
As Sterling asks police why he’s being harassed and subsequently held at gunpoint for selling CDs, Salamoni threatens to kill him.
“Don’t f—– move or I’ll shoot your f—- a–. Put your f—— hands on the car,” Salamoni shouts.
When the officers attempt to get Sterling to put his hands on the hood of the car, a struggle ensues and the officers bring Sterling to the ground. One of the officers shouts, “He’s got a gun!” and gunshots then ring out.
When the officers stand up, Sterling is in a pool of his own blood, the gun that he never went for remained in his pocket.
“Today was a troubling day, it was a sad day, but it was a day for truth,” L. Chris Stewart, an attorney for the Sterling family told reporters after the release of the video and the news of Salamoni’s firing. “Truth that we don’t really see too often.”
An internal police investigation into Sterling’s actions determined the officers’ actions “were not minor deviations from policy” Chief Murphy Paul said.
Paul cited “fear” as the factor that determined why the officer was fired. Salamoni created a situation in fear and hostility and violence were used instead of de-escalation.
“Our police officers are held to a higher standard,” Chief Paul said. “Fear cannot be a driver for an officer’s response to every incident. Unreasonable fear in an officer is dangerous.”
Indeed, unreasonable fear is the reason cops in America kill more citizens than any other country in the world.
“Today you saw that Alton Sterling was not some wild, deranged? Cocaine-filled, high, big black man who was out of control. The person who was out of control was Blane Salamoni,” Michael Adams, another lawyer for the Sterling family said.
“Never once pushed an officer, touched an officer, kicked an officer, did anything,” Stewart said. “But yet he ended up dead.”
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/body-camera-footage-released-alton-sterling/
I didn't see much of his brother but I'd imagine he'd be in a really bad condition if his brother was murdered like that by those violent criminals and may be overreacting I can't really blame the family in their grief since losing such a close family member is a shock and people react to death in different ways.
It is not surprising that worms like $harpton show up in any case they can, he will do anything for fame and to stay relevant. I can't speak for the deceased's family but my opinion is that someone like $harpton getting involved just adds an unnecessary political dimension in cases of police brutality/murder and undermines their legitimacy, i.e. people and the media will focus more on a charlatan like $harpton and his politics instead of the deceased person and his killers.
He's always on the prowl, looking to make contact with families as quickly as possible after reports start to surface. No doubt he has a big book of tricks to take every imaginable advantage of that moment. His motivation for doing what he does would probably blow our minds if we knew the full extent of it. He isn't holding that position for reasons that are as clear and obvious as he'd like us to think, that's for sure.
To the family, the advantage may be the focus he brings to their tragedy. Knowing (or believing) his presence will make it less likely they'll be swept aside. But on many occasions, too, he's been told to stfu and get lost. He isn't a stranger to hearing that. IMO it's because someone may have beaten him to the punch.
Indeed, there must've been some cases where he's been told by families to GTFO but he probably still lingers around if there are people or cameras around so he can do his thing. He's a race pimp taking advantage of grieving families. He is a piece of shit.
NYPD chief’s son keeps job as cop despite getting busted for groping woman at Atlantic City casino
A rookie cop whose dad is an NYPD chief avoided getting fired after an off-duty arrest for groping a woman at an Atlantic City casino, police sources told the Daily News.
The department’s handling of Officer Joseph Essig’s case raises questions among police sources who suspect high-ranking officers and those close to them are treated with kid gloves in discipline cases.
Just 15 months into his brand-new NYPD career — on Oct. 8, 2015 — Essig was arrested at Harrah’s Casino in Atlantic City on a felony charge of criminal sexual misconduct.
New Jersey authorities downgraded the charge to a health code violation. Essig pleaded guilty, was ordered to stay away from the victim, and paid a $1,000 fine.
Officers facing similar charges with less than two years on the force are typically fired, say sources.
But Essig remains on the job. A police source said that’s “shocking.”
“Other probationary cops have been fired for way less,” said the source.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-chief-son-busted-groping-woman-job-article-1.3921217
That’s the way to in still a sense of confidence & honesty into the public
1 rule for them - and a different rule for public
Not good not good at all.
The NYPD did not publicize his arrest. For reasons not clear, the department only releases the names of officers arrested within the five boroughs.
Deputy Commissioner Phil Walzak, the NYPD’s top spokesman, did not address the question about alleged special treatment.
“The case was thoroughly reviewed and the officer in question was severely punished for his violation, in full accordance with department guidelines and regulations,” Walzak said in a statement.
Walzak wouldn’t say what the penalty was or where the officer is now assigned.
A felony charge of criminal sexual misconduct downgraded to a "health code violation"..
More from the article:
Just after 3 p.m. Tuesday, 16-year-old Kyle Jacob Plush called 911 panicking. Over the course of a three-minute call in which he gasped, cried repeatedly for help and struggled to communicate with the operator, he relayed that he was trapped inside his car in the parking lot of Seven Hills School.
"I probably don't have much time left, so tell my mom I love her if I die," he said.
The call ended; when officers checking out the scene attempted to call back, it went to voicemail.
A deputy sent to the scene soon after called in to report that he couldn't find anyone trapped in a van. He questioned if the call had been a prank.
Plush was there. He called again.
"This is not a joke," he said. "I am trapped inside a gold Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of Seven Hills. ... Send officers immediately. I'm almost dead."
Just 10 days in prison? How many people were endangered or maybe even injured/killed because she hung up?
911 operator who hung up on emergency calls is sentenced to jail
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A former 911 operator who hung up the phone "thousands" of times on people attempting to call in emergencies in Harris County, Texas has been sentenced to jail time.
Crenshanda Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls Wednesday after "systematically" hanging up the phone on residents of Harris County, KTRK reported.
She was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation.
Williams reportedly had an unusual number of "short calls," which were no longer than 20 seconds. Prosecutors, according to the Houston Chronicle, determined she hung up on "thousands" of calls.
In one instance, emergency caller Jim Moten told KTRK he called 911 in 2016 after he spotted two vehicles speeding on a highway where people had been killed from speeding weeks earlier and thought his call had dropped after a few seconds.
Court documents, according to the news station, stated that Williams had taken Moten's call and, before he could finish explaining his emergency, she reportedly said: "Ain't nobody got time for this. For real."
The dispatcher also hung up on a caller who tried to report a violent robbery, according to the Chronicle.
Williams reportedly spent a year and a half at the Houston Emergency Center taking 911 calls. She was caught in August 2016 and fired.
"The citizens of Harris County rely on 911 operators to dispatch help in their time of need," Assistant District Attorney Lauren Reeder said in a statement. "When a public servant betrays the community's trust and breaks the law, we have a responsibility to hold them criminally accountable."
Williams' attorney, Franklin Bynum, argued that his client "was going through a hard time in her life" when she hung up on the emergency calls, and said "punishing her doesn't do anything to fix the problems that still exist at the emergency center."
It's unclear what problems at the center Bynum was referring to.
The "state-of-the-art" center was opened in 2003 as a consolidation of Houston's three emergency communication centers.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/18/911-operator-who-hung-up-on-emergency-calls-is-sentenced-to-jail.html
Just 5 days in prison. The man they killed spent 4 times that before he died and he wasn't even tried or convicted.
Officers sentenced to only 5 days in jail for dehydrating man to death and covering it up
Island County, WA — In 2015, Keaton Farris, 25, was accused of trying to cash a $355 check that wasn’t written out him. After failing to appear for his court date, he was arrested on March 20. He would not leave the jail alive.
Now, after three years of trying to hold the officers responsible for his death accountable, Washington state’s version of “justice” has been served. The officers responsible for his death have been sentenced for their crimes. However, it is a kick in the teeth to Farris’ family.
As HeraldNet.com reports:
On Tuesday, two former Island County jail guards were sentenced for forging safety logs to make it seem like they’d been checking on Farris more often than they did.
David Wayne Lind, 55, and Mark Edward Moffit, 61, pleaded guilty to false reporting by a public officer, a gross misdemeanor. They were sentenced to a year in jail with all but three months suspended, a Whatcom County Superior Court judge ruled. Five days must be served behind bars. The remainder can be community service, outside of a jail.
For causing the death of a presumed innocent man—in one of the most horrifying ways possible—these two former jail officers will only spend five nights in jail.
“If we were outside of the jail, and we cut off somebody’s access to water, and we were in control of their environment, and we didn’t feed them enough — there’s no question that’s going to be a serious crime,” Fred Farris, Keaton’s father said.
“It was many people,” Whatcom County prosecutor, Dave McEachran said in court Tuesday. “It was the whole system that just wasn’t working. … It was a total failure by the entire staff, by people who should have known better.”
Indeed, as the story below points out, everything that could’ve been done wrong, was.
As TFTP reported at the time, Farris had no prior criminal record but had struggled with a history of mental illness. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2013, but had improved with medication, according to family members.
20 days after being taken into custody, on April 8, Farris was found dead in his cell.
After his death, Island County Sheriff Mark Brown released a report apologizing for dehydrating and starving this young man to death.
“I am truly sorry for this tragic death,” Brown wrote in the report. “Our highest priority is the safety and well-being of our inmates and staff and this report describes a systematic breakdown of policies, procedures and communication that led to this tragedy.”
“We are determined to do everything possible to minimize the chances of this kind of a tragedy from occurring in our jail ever again,” Brown said, adding he had met with Fred Farris, to express his condolences.
However, no apology will ever bring Fred Farris back his son.
What’s more, the “breakdown of policy” was actually a deliberate cover up of a man’s death in the custody of law enforcement.
In the days leading up Farris’ death, an incompetent system of brutality and neglect would come together to facilitate the killing of this young man.
Upon arriving at the Lynnwood jail, Farris pleaded with officers. He tried to tell them that he was off of his medication. His father even called in and told jail officials the same. However, these requests were ignored.
Instead of treating the obviously mentally ill and distressed man, Farris was met with force, tasers, and restraints. He would be transferred to multiple prisons as law enforcement officers refused to render aid.
He was moved to the Snohomish County Jail where staff made notes that Farris appeared “gravely disabled” and was displaying symptoms of psychosis, according to the Daily Herald.
The Herald reported at the time:
He arrived in Skagit County in a restraint chair and refused to speak. Jail staff were advised that he had been shocked with an electric stun gun while at the jail in Everett.
Skagit County corrections officers restrained him and requested he be seen by a designated mental health professional. That never happened because the request was too vague and there was a question about who had jurisdiction over the man.
He ended up at the jail in Coupeville because San Juan County doesn’t have a jail and uses Island County’s under a contract. When San Juan County deputies arrived in Skagit County to take custody of Farris he refused their commands to stand up, and he began to ramble.
During his stay at Coupeville, Farris had completely broken down. He then flooded his jail cell after putting his pillow in the toilet.
Instead of seeing this as the obvious mental condition that it was, officers simply cut the water off to his cell.
Jail policy is to check on an inmate in Farris’ condition once an hour, and according to their logs, jail officials did check on Farris. However, according to the surveillance footage, which doesn’t lie, they never checked on him.
Two days later, Farris would be found dead in his cell at 12:40 AM on April 8, 2015.
After his death, the system attempted to reform itself by hiring a new jail chief, Jose Briones, who has expertise in dealing with the mentally ill. Also, mental health professionals are now required to assess inmates daily and document their interactions.
After the sentencing, both officers expressed their remorse, but stopped short of taking the entirety of the blame and passed onto the culture of the jail at the time.
“I am so, so sorry for everything that happened here,” Lind said. “It’s unbelievable. When I found Mr. Farris deceased, I was stunned, I was shocked, I was in disbelief.”
“I agree with Mr. Lind. I was caught in the same trap that he was, in that jail,” said Moffit. He then turned to Keaton’s family and said through tears, “Most of all I want to apologize the family. To the mother, the father. I can’t even imagine. I accept whatever punishment they give me.”
As the Herald points out, Fred Farris has had a voice in the reforms at the jail. Yet he fears there will never be real justice for Keaton.
“At this point, if I had any control over this never happening to anybody again,” he said, “I’d do whatever it took to get there.”
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-receive-measly-5-day-jail-sentence-for-dehydrating-innocent-man-to-death/
NYPD chief’s son keeps job as cop despite getting busted for groping woman at Atlantic City casino
A rookie cop whose dad is an NYPD chief avoided getting fired after an off-duty arrest for groping a woman at an Atlantic City casino, police sources told the Daily News.
The department’s handling of Officer Joseph Essig’s case raises questions among police sources who suspect high-ranking officers and those close to them are treated with kid gloves in discipline cases.
Just 15 months into his brand-new NYPD career — on Oct. 8, 2015 — Essig was arrested at Harrah’s Casino in Atlantic City on a felony charge of criminal sexual misconduct.
New Jersey authorities downgraded the charge to a health code violation. Essig pleaded guilty, was ordered to stay away from the victim, and paid a $1,000 fine.
Officers facing similar charges with less than two years on the force are typically fired, say sources.
But Essig remains on the job. A police source said that’s “shocking.”
“Other probationary cops have been fired for way less,” said the source.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-chief-son-busted-groping-woman-job-article-1.3921217
This cop and the others who conspired to cover this up need to rot in prison. Or maybe, per the cop's suggestion, ride the lightning. But as usual, if anything happens, the taxpayers will have to foot the bill.
Worker claims he was ‘railroaded’ by Walnut Ridge police
WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. – A railroad worker claims in a lawsuit he was physically assaulted by a police officer in Walnut Ridge for simply doing his job – and when he tried to file a complaint, he was charged with two crimes.
Now, the man is suing the City of Walnut Ridge, its police chief, mayor, and two officers involved. Meanwhile, city officials are unable to respond to requests by NEA Report for comment until discussions with legal counsel can take place.
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At the intersection of Highway 63 and Highway 91 in Walnut Ridge, Finley was stopped by WRPD officer Matthew Mercado. Mercado asked Finley why he was working on the railroad crossing. Finley was in an unmarked white work truck but had all of his work equipment on including an orange work coat and badge. The BNSF employee explained he worked for the railroad. This is when the lawsuit says Mercado took issue with Finley’s attitude and asked him to step out of the vehicle.
Mercado then allegedly pushed Finley into the door, handcuffed him, and did so while cursing at him. He was eventually un-cuffed and released but not before Mercado told him he would “ride the lightning,” next time.
Finley went to Walnut Ridge Police Department to file a complaint right after this but that’s when he claims he was once again treated unfairly. He said he was interrogated by Chief of Police Chris Kirksey and Officer Matt Cook and following that, cited by Cook for refusal to submit and obstructing governmental operations.
The lawsuit calls this an attempted by the three law enforcement officers to “cover their actions” by charging Finley with two misdemeanor offenses.
Mercado left the department on Feb. 7, 2017.
On April 3, 2018, Finley was acquitted of all charges in Lawrence County District Court.
If people don't think police brutality ISN'T an issue, riddle me this: Why are cities like New York doling out more than ½ billion dollars every year now to settle out of court police brutality and misconduct cases?
If you don't think this ISN'T an issue, it's ok. Some day, companies will have to list "settlement of police brutality/misconduct cases" in the deductions section of your paycheck.
If people don't think police brutality ISN'T an issue, riddle me this: Why are cities like New York doling out more than ½ billion dollars every year now to settle out of court police brutality and misconduct cases?
If you don't think this ISN'T an issue, it's ok. Some day, companies will have to list "settlement of police brutality/misconduct cases" in the deductions section of your paycheck.
If people don't think police brutality ISN'T an issue, riddle me this: Why are cities like New York doling out more than ½ billion dollars every year now to settle out of court police brutality and misconduct cases?
If you don't think this ISN'T an issue, it's ok. Some day, companies will have to list "settlement of police brutality/misconduct cases" in the deductions section of your paycheck.
The lazy bums didn't even get out of their car yet still claim they "investigated". They must be held responsible for this kid's death.
Body camera footage shows police never got out of cruiser to check for Ohio teen crushed by minivan seat
Body camera footage from two Cincinnati officers showed they never left their patrol car to investigate the 911 calls about a teen being stuck in a minivan last week.
Kyle Plush, 16, called 911 twice on April 10, 2018, from inside a minivan begging for help and providing a dispatcher with a description and location of the vehicle in a school parking lot. Plush suffocated after he became trapped under the third-row seat that flipped and pinned him while he was trying to reach his tennis equipment. Police said Amber Smith, the 911 operator who answered Plush’s second call, failed to relay information to the additional officers who were at the scene.
During the call, Plush explained to Smith the call was not a joke.
"I am trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of the Seven Hills...Send officers immediately," Plush pleaded. "I’m almost dead.”
Smith, who has been a 911 operator for four years, returned to work this week after being put on administrative leave. She told supervisors her computer froze and she was unable to put information into the system. She also told her supervisors she didn't hear the teenager, according to a police quality review report obtained by FOX19.
The footage showed Officers Edsel Osborne and Brian Brazile driving their cruiser around the parking lot but not leaving the vehicle, WCPO reported. Music appeared to be playing in the background.
"I don't see nobody, which I didn't imagine I would,” one of the officers was heard saying.
“I’m going to shut this off,” one of the officers was heard saying.
Records showed officers were at the school for about 11 minutes.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the footage also shows the officers did not check all the school's parking lots.
Osborne and Brazile were not placed on administrative leave, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Tiffany Hardy, a spokesperson for the Cincinnati Police Department, said the footage was “the entirety of what was recorded.”
A Hamilton County deputy who was directing traffic also looked for the teen but did not find anything.
Another officer was told to respond to the scene later in the day but thought the call was a joke.
"I think somebody's playing pranks. It was something about they were locked in a vehicle across from the school, we never found anything. But we'll respond and see what else we can find," an officer was heard saying in the radio transmission.
Plush was found dead hours later by his father.
Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac has called for an internal investigation into the teen’s death and why first responders failed to help him.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/21/body-camera-footage-shows-police-never-got-out-cruiser-to-check-for-ohio-teen-crushed-by-minivan-seat.html
Listen to that scumbag... This is a "judge".. Would be better if she was locked up in a white padded room with a straitjacket. It happened in Broward County, that place must be a cesspit.
Wheelchair user dies days after 'tyrannical' judge ignores request for breathing treatment
Judge Merrilee Ehrlich resigns from current post after outcry
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Days after Broward County Circuit Judge Merrilee Ehrlich told an inmate her request for medical care was irrelevant, the woman died at home, relatives said Friday.
Ehrlich resigned late Friday from her current position after some in the legal community criticized the judge for her behavior that day.
Sandra Faye Twiggs, a 59-year-old wheelchair user with a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, was arrested for domestic violence in Lauderhill April 13, according to the arrest report.
https://www.local10.com/news/florida/broward/wheelchair-user-dies-after-tyrannical-judge-ignores-request-for-breathing-treatment
While a 2nd Amendment supporting student was questioned for going to the shooting range with his father, here is a report about the "brave" "officers", also known as "Broward's cowards"...
Broward sheriff's deputies cowered behind cars, tree with Parkland shooter believed in school, report says
The deputies who were among the first to arrive to the scene of the Florida school massacre were found cowering behind their cars and a nearby tree and had no idea where the gunman was, according to an official report released Tuesday.
The report from Coral Springs Officer Bryan Wilkins details how he arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School within minutes of the active shooter alert -- only to find Broward County Sheriff's Officers hadn't entered the school, but were instead taking cover.
"I saw approximately four Broward County Sheriff's Office vehicles parked in the west bound lane with their personnel taking up exterior positions behind their vehicles," Wilkins wrote. "I drove up just west of the campus building 1200, exited my vehicle, grabbed my AR-15 rifle and donned on my tactical/medical gear. As I was advancing on foot through the chain-link fence, I was advised by an unknown BSO Deputy taking cover behind a tree, 'he is on the third floor.'"
Wilkins added he was joined by two others officers to enter the building, where he saw the dead and wounded. The police officer's report was first revealed by the Miami Herald.
Seventeen people were killed in the Valentine’s Day shooting, during which alleged gunman Nicholas Cruz opened fire and then fled five minutes before officers went into the building.
In the wake of the shooting, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office received heavy criticism for its handling of the situation, including the actions of Scot Peterson, the school’s resource officer, who stood outside the building as the attack unfolded.
The former deputy denied wrongdoing and retired from the office before an investigation was launched. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office released footage of the shooting that showed Peterson spending most of the time during the shooting standing outside the school with his gun drawn.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/24/broward-sheriffs-deputies-cowered-behind-cars-tree-with-parkland-shooter-believed-in-school-report-says.html
During that time, he developed one of his most sadistic signatures. If he chose a home with a couple living inside, he would sometimes incapacitate the man first, binding him with strips of towels or shoelaces and putting him face-down on the ground. He would get a stack of dishes from the kitchen, carefully balancing them on the man’s back. The killer would warn the couple that if he heard a plate drop — or even rattle — he’d kill them both. Then, he'd start raping the woman.
First, they began berating my tweet, although neither of them had read it; then they began aggressively asking questions about who I went to the range with, whose gun we used, about my father, etc. They were incredibly condescending and rude.
Should be charged with dereliction of duty
Aiding a shooter / being a bunch of pussies etc
Permanently Dye the cowards yellow & sack them.
the training I was involved with was simple. IN an active shooting situation, the 1st 4 officers on scene enter the facility. If you have 5 thats even better but if there is more than a minute between 4 officers arriving and the 5th, the 4 go in. If there were 4 officers on scene they should have been forming up at an entrance and if the 5th was not immediately available they should have went in. IN addition. If one of my officers or I were actually assigned to the building and an active shooter was broadcast, we would have immediately entered the building to seek out the shooter. That was understood.
It’s disgusting reading the report on those cops
They knew what floor he was on & did FA except hide.
Very clearly it was a extremely dangerous situation for all in the building
& for the cops to enter -
Your Simple training sounds good & pro active
What do you think went wrong with those cops involved
Ok, basing it on the news article and taking that as factual, it was one of 2 things. Lack of training or lack of courage. I tend to compare my dept to others thinking we all have the same training and that might not be the case. If that had happened in Austin, if 4 officers were found to be hiding or tactically taking cover behind a vehicle while an active shooting or Homicide in progress HIP was taking place, there would be no doubt in my mind that they were cowards and dealt with accordingly. But and I say this with distaste, if an agency hadn't had the training, which I think they should have had by this time, and were operating on old tactics from 2000, there may have been reason in their minds, they were following dept policy and setting up a perimeter and waiting for a swat unit. If that is the case, the head of the department should be taken to task as to why they were behind on HIP protocol. Barring that, if they had any HIP training, then it was simply incompetence and cowardliness, I have personally went in to situations I didn't think I would survive. But that is what I was paid to do and expected others to do as well
Thank you.
Excellent reply.
Sadly like you say
Like it or not they are paid to deal / get involved with very dangerous
Potentially life threatening situations - As other professionals are.
And they didn’t - Answers should be demanded from them & their chain of command.
Maybe the judge should start punishing this gang for contempt of court instead of tolerating this BS.
Judge says police stalling in release of Las Vegas shooting records
“I’m very frustrated, because I think that gamesmanship is going on here,” District Judge Stefany Miley said in the contentious hearing. “It’s now months since the shooting occurred, and it’s still the same: delay, delay, delay. If one technique doesn’t work, then you switch to another one. That’s very concerning for the court.”
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/judge-says-police-stalling-in-release-of-las-vegas-shooting-records/
No amount of money will be enough to give this man these 21 years back. Why don't they send the cops and the prosecutors who suppressed evidence to serve the life sentence this poor man would've served?
Man set to get $9M settlement from Baltimore for wrongful murder conviction
BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Baltimore City is set to pay $9 million to a man who spent two decades in prison for a murder he did not commit.
DNA evidence cleared James Owens 10 years ago. He could now get a big payout, one of the largest in city history.
FOX45 cameras were there when Owens, who was wrongfully convicted of a 1987 murder, walked out of prison. He spent 21 years behind bars. DNA evidence freed him in October 2008.
Three years later, Owens sued, alleging police and prosecutors intentionally suppressed evidence that could’ve cleared him.
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/man-set-to-get-9m-settlement-from-baltimore-for-wrongful-murder-conviction
No amount of money will be enough to give this man these 21 years back. Why don't they send the cops and the prosecutors who suppressed evidence to serve the life sentence this poor man would've served?
Man set to get $9M settlement from Baltimore for wrongful murder conviction
BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Baltimore City is set to pay $9 million to a man who spent two decades in prison for a murder he did not commit.
DNA evidence cleared James Owens 10 years ago. He could now get a big payout, one of the largest in city history.
FOX45 cameras were there when Owens, who was wrongfully convicted of a 1987 murder, walked out of prison. He spent 21 years behind bars. DNA evidence freed him in October 2008.
Three years later, Owens sued, alleging police and prosecutors intentionally suppressed evidence that could’ve cleared him.
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/man-set-to-get-9m-settlement-from-baltimore-for-wrongful-murder-conviction
No surprise they show no empathy or respect for a family whose child is dying.
Cops Arrest Grieving Mother, Keep Her from Seeing Her Dying Son in the Hospital
When a mother received the call that her teenage son had been shot and rushed to the hospital, she dropped everything and went to see him. When she arrived, hospital personnel refused to let her see her dying son and when she begged in protest, she was arrested and taken away by police.
Nylik Moore was just 18 years old when he was shot in the back and the arm, causing injuries that took his life. When his father called his mother, Cheirha Rankins, and told her the news, she rushed to York Hospital, just a few blocks from their home.
Instead of cordially allowing Rankins to see her son, hospital personnel refused to allow the grieving mother to enter his room. Worse still, the denial of entry allegedly led the family to cause such a disturbance that Mrs. Rankins was eventually arrested.
Moore’s family simply wanted to see his body and to be allowed to grieve, but the hospital had been placed on emergency lockdown, which is standard procedure when shootings occur. Understandably, anger is present when a loved one is gunned down. Equally concerning is the safety of hospital personnel who often times get caught in the middle of revenge shootings inside medical facilities. Even with those considerations in mind, the family claims more could have been done to allow them to see Moore’s body.
The young man was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after he was shot, and taken to the hospital for treatment. But not only was the mother not allowed to see her son, she was arrested for “causing a disturbance.”
Three days passed before the family was allowed to see Moore’s body, and to properly say “goodbye” to him. The mother told WMAZ that she would have given anything to be able to see her son before he died, and that is why she put up such a fight when hospital security and police officers tried to keep her away.
Following Moore’s death, the coroner conducted an examination. The body, which usually is then seen by the family, was sent to the morgue where an autopsy was conducted.
The mayor, the chief of police, and hospital administrators are now investigating the incident. Coroner Pam Gay said it is normally routine procedure for the family to be allowed to see the body, but Rankins had already been arrested and cited for “disorderly conduct.” That charge was later rescinded but the damage was done and the grieving mother was prevented from viewing her son’s body.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/hospital-refuses-allow-grieving-mother-dying-son-police-arrest-her/
This is a toughie from personal experience. I've been involved in crime scenes where someone was shot or seriously injured and it becomes a crime scene. This means limited access to decrease contamination of the scene while homicide is responding.
He was in the hospital
How is that a crime scene & even if it was what with all the different doctors & nurses
Just how is his mother going to be the “straw that broke the camels back” as far as
Contamination & the crime scene...??
Kid my well of been a scumbag - his mother Just wanted to be with him.
He was in the hospital
How is that a crime scene & even if it was what with all the different doctors & nurses
Just how is his mother going to be the “straw that broke the camels back” as far as
Contamination & the crime scene...??
Kid my well of been a scumbag - his mother Just wanted to be with him.
Exactly. I don't know how and why the kid was shot, but to prevent his mother from seeing him in his final moments or just when he died is beyond inhuman and shows that these people have no empathy and don't care about the consequences of their actions. Most likely the cops knew the BS charges they slapped on the mother wouldn't stand but they must've also known that just this BS arrest would mean that in these crucial moments she would be away from her son.
Remember the other case where a nurse in a hospital objected to a cop's illegal demands to draw blood from a person they brought, because she actually knew the law, and the cop assaulted her and kidnapped her?
https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2018/05/01/york-hospital-explains-complex-situation-mother-body-slain-son-nylik-moore-cheirha-rankins/570687002/
That link won’t work for me.
Complex Situation ::) Load of Bollocks.
Other report says he was shot & taken to hospital
Died there 30mins later.
Mother was arrested ::) Fcuk sake understandably so for kicking off at not being allowed to see her son
What the Fcuk is wrong with these power fcuking crazy retard cops,
Really 2 of them couldn’t of escorted her in even if she had to be patted down 1st
What the Fcuk did they think she was going to do in there..??
Her charges then rescinded ::) obviously as they were Wrong to arrest her.
I understand you can't read it. The article says the hospital, not the cops, shut it down per normal procedures, it was in lockdown the same as they do for rape victims, there were 3 people being worked on at one time, an unusual instance. The charges were later dropped against the mother.
Weak excuses
That still doesn’t make it Right.
Even scumbags have mothers / fathers that love & care and may not be scumbags.
Ok, let me put you in this scenario. Car wreck. Fatalities from 3 different vehicles.. you have the traffic investigators coming out to investigate the crash to determine who is at fault, if charges can be filed, and you have family members that are wanting to go into the scene and it is your job to keep them out so the evidence isn't destroyed. What do you do?
1, Sadly in that scenario they would have to be kept away.
You are called to a disturbance where a shooting victim is being treated. It might be gang related. The hospital has shut down that section because they are treating several patients in critical condition and can't be distracted by family members entering the area. What do you do?
2, in this scenario Escort the Mother in to see her dying son.. He’s dying they know that what exactly are they going to be distracted from - Digging his grave. Ha.
I agree, the arrest should have been avoided if possible.
But what if she clawed an officer keeping her back? Do we pretend it didnt happen?
3, If they escorted her in then situation wouldn’t of arisen.
Situation handled Wrongly.
Your number 3 wasn't an option. It's like saying "had they held hands and prayed together it would have all worked out"
"Their allegiance was towards a cathedral and not to the people of Victoria that they'd sworn an oath to protect. They did not protect them."
In 2017, the final report of Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse opened them back up. It found a much broader “national tragedy.” “Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused,” it said, in “almost every type of institution where children reside or attend for educational recreational, sporting, religious or cultural activities. … It is not a case of a few ‘rotten apples.’ Society’s major institutions have seriously failed.”
He also apologized for the actions of the police decades ago and said the government would take care of him financially for his remaining years with a “substantial payment.”
The Victorian police have since apologized to Ryan for ousting him, as well, and the Royal Commission found Ryan’s claims credible that he had been forced out of his job because of his investigation into Day.
“We do not doubt,” the commission said, “that Victoria Police transferred Detective Ryan … for investigating allegations that Monsignor Day had sexually abused children in Mildura.”
The commission heard evidence that “everyone in the chain of command” of the police “appears to have fallen into line” against Ryan’s investigation.
Pedophile christian priests? Nothing surprising about this.
A cop trying to expose pedophile christian priests and having his life and career destroyed by religious cops who wanted to protect catholic christian priests? Nothing surprising about this as well.
This happened in Australia more than 40 years ago. Still, it shows the problem of gangs that operate under the guise of police officer, the powers they possess, how they can destroy someone's life or career and not being held accountable. These people can investigate themselves, cover up for someone they want and destroy those who are deemed hostile to them or their supporters. What is even more shameful is that this man's story was ignored for more than 40 years and had it not been mentioned on TV it might have been unknown forever. As it usually happens in these cases the cops just apologize for the mistake and throw a bunch of money (usually from the taxpayers' pockets) as if this settles the issue.
Ex-detective Denis Ryan wins compensation decades after being pushed out of Victoria Police
A former detective, who was financially and professionally ruined by his own superiors for trying to bring a paedophile priest to justice, will receive compensation almost 50 years after he was pushed out of Victoria Police.
Denis Ryan gave up his police pension when he chose to resign from the force after being ordered to drop his investigation into Monsignor John Day, a Catholic paedophile priest who preyed on children in the Mallee.
The decision had a profound impact on his life, costing him a marriage and the prospect of a comfortable retirement. Until now, he has lived in a rented unit on the proceeds of an aged pension.
But a month after his plight was revealed by the ABC, the Victorian Government has reached a confidential settlement with the 86-year-old.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-07/denis-ryan-victorian-detective-police-pension-booted-force/9645982
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/07/nearly-50-years-after-losing-his-job-for-investigating-a-priest-an-australian-detective-stands-vindicated
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-saved-thousands-to-open-a-medical-clinic-in-nigeria-us-customs-took-all-of-it-at-the-airport/ar-AAwZJxU?ocid=spartandhp
Oh dear will she get that money back.?
Oh dear will she get that money back.?
The agency told her in April it would give back her money under one condition: that she give up her right to sue the federal government. It’s called a “hold-harmless agreement.”
The Coward of Broward retired on a monthly pension of $8702...
Scot Peterson, disgraced Parkland school cop, starts getting $8,702-a-month pension
Scot Peterson, a former deputy with the Broward County Sheriff's Office, has reportedly started to receive a hefty pension — three months after he retired amid the aftermath of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Peterson, a 33-year law enforcement veteran, was the resource deputy stationed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 when 17 people were killed by gunfire.
As one of the largest mass shootings in modern U.S. history unfolded, Peterson never entered the building where alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz was opening fire and instead took up a position outside the building that was under attack.
Peterson, 55, was widely criticized for his actions and Broward Sheriff Scott Israel opened an internal investigation. The deputy resigned and retired on Feb. 23, "rather than face possible termination."
Peterson, the Sun-Sentinel reported, has received a monthly state pension of $8,702.35 since April. He was paid $101,879.03 last year, according to the news outlet, which cited sheriff's office records.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/15/scot-peterson-disgraced-parkland-school-cop-starts-getting-8702-month-pension.html
They should imprisoned for life and subjected todaily beatings"behavioral correction procedures while being administered head strikes".
Not only was the fatso not arrested but he was promoted to "sergeant" and the other thug is still employed as a "deputy".
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Of course, they accused the man of attacking them in order to justify their violent criminal behavior. However, he was found not guilty and the charges were dropped, an all too common occurrence: the cops attacking someone, then claim they were attacked and pile the charges on the victim and yet the charges are later dropped.
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Trial Begins Against Deputies who Beat Man so Badly, his Eye Fell out of Socket
https://www.themaven.net/pinacnews/courtroom-files/trial-begins-against-deputies-who-beat-man-so-badly-his-eye-fell-out-of-socket-Jyd3mGV61EWBaEGIhMEvBg/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5762577/Bodycam-reveals-activist-lied-raped-cop-pulled-DUI.html
This is FD up - good thing for the body camera. Activist - uh huh . . . . . . >:(
Cameras should be on all cops/dogs and their vehicles. Unfortunately, even then they still find ways to cover up by turning the camera off or claiming the camera "malfunctioned" just when they happened to rough up someone while screaming "stop resisting". Of course immediate access should be given to all involved parties. In this case, the cops were all too quick to show the bodycam footage; they should do it for all cases, not just the ones that vindicate them, like this one. Having said that, this woman should face the maximum sentence and consequences that the falsely accused cop would have gotten if found guilty. As for Talcum-X/Shaun King, this guy is a professional race baiting charlatan, who gives a shit about what he says.
Too bad he couldn't defend his family properly and neutralize the armed intruders. Now he is sent to prison from a jury that succumbed to the crocodile tears of an armed thug and the intimidation of the rest of his gang who were at the court room.
Teen Sent to Prison for Defending Home from Intruders—Because The Intruders Were Cops
Austin, TX – When a SWAT team initiated a no-knock raid in search of cannabis, they were met with gunfire, and while the resident surrendered as soon as he realized his home was being raided by police, the fact that he opened fire on the intruders and shot one of them in the leg has resulted in a 13-year prison sentence.
When a SWAT team broke down the door and charged into the Harrell family’s house in the early morning hours of April 14, 2016, they claimed that the intrusive operation was justified, because they believed 18-year-old Tyler Harrell was running a drug ring out of his parents’ home.
When Tyler Harrell was woken up by what he believed were burglars breaking into his home, he did what many gun owners would do, and he grabbed his firearm and confronted the intruders. He used his legally-owned AK-47, and while he did not kill any of the officers, he did wound one officer by shooting him in the knee.
Lisa Harrell told KVUE News that she believes her son only opened fire because he thought his family was being robbed. “[Tyler] came running out with his gun, thinking someone was intruding in our house, and he started shooting down the stairs,” she said. “I know my son thought there was an intruder in the house.”
Hours after the shooting, police confirmed that “another SWAT team member returned fire, but did not hit Harrell, who surrendered to police within minutes,” indicating that as soon as Harrell realized he was firing at police officers, he stopped and let them arrest him without a fight.
When officers searched the home, they found one ounce of cannabis, which would justify a misdemeanor charge against Harrell. However, because the officers initiated a no-knock raid before dawn, and Harrell attempted to protect his family from the intruders, he was charged with attempted capital murder.
During the trial, Harrell’s psychiatrist testified that at the time of the shooting, he was “suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after an incident four months earlier in which he and his friends were robbed by a masked gunman,” and the gunman shot Harrell, before Harrell “wrested the gun away from the man and chased him out the door of his friend’s apartment,” according to a report from the Austin Statesman.
However, it was the testimony from Officer James Pittman that apparently pulled at the heartstrings of jury members. He was the only person injured by Harrell’s gunfire, and he said the bullet wound in his leg kept him from playing with his kids now and would force him to get knee replacement surgery one day.
Pittman also criticized the “Not Guilty” verdict from another Texas case in which a homeowner shot and wounded three police officers when they initiated a no-knock raid on his house. Ray Rosas spent nearly two years in jail awaiting his trial, and his actions were ruled justified based on the fact that he was acting in self-defense and did not know the intruders he was shooting were police officers.
Rosas was acquitted, despite the fact that 11 police officers testified against him. However, in the case of Tyler Harrell, his lawyer argued that the 18 SWAT team members who attended court in tactical gear to show their support for Officer Pittman, further demonized Harrell in the eyes of the jury.
“Look at this gallery. You don’t think this is a lot of political pressure for these people?” Lawyer Michael Chandler told the jury.
The pressure worked, and while the jury determined that Tyler Harrell was not guilty of attempted capital murder or aggravated assault on a public servant, he was found guilty of aggravated assault and sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison, and a fine of $7,000.
When the trial shifted to a debate over whether Harrell acted in self-defense, it served as a distraction from the fact that the drug raid on his home was an absolute failure, and officers were never able to prove that Harrell was a “large drug dealer” of marijuana and cocaine, which was the claim they used to justify obtaining a search warrant for the raid in the first place.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-sentenced-shooting-cop-no-knock-raid-over-weed/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5762577/Bodycam-reveals-activist-lied-raped-cop-pulled-DUI.html
This is FD up - good thing for the body camera. Activist - uh huh . . . . . . >:(
Even though firefighters risk their lives and serve the community this is just insane. How many others work the system like this?
Firefighter has become master of maxing out overtime pay
A Los Angeles firefighter received $300,000 in overtime pay in one year by working more hours than actually exist in a single year.
Donn Thompson augmented his $92,000 salary by more than a quarter of a million dollars in 2017, Reason magazine reported, citing data from Transparent California, a project of the Nevada Policy Research Institute.
It wasn’t a one-off payout, as Thompson earned over $1 million in overtime pay over the last four years.
But the math behind the pay doesn’t add up. It would have required the firefighter to work 9,280 hours in a year, despite there being 8,760 hours in a single year.
The magazine crunched the numbers and claimed that the firefighter earned his base salary of $92,000 by working 2,912 hours at an hourly rate of $31.60. For overtime hourly rate, Thompson would earn $47.40, meaning that in order to receive $300,000 in overtime pay for the whole year, he would have had to work 6,370 hours – bringing the total hours worked to 9,280.
Robert Fellner, director of the institute, said the firefighter’s ability to work that many hours “boggles the mind” and said that Thompson was likely taking advantage of generous contract provisions that boost overtime pay above the typical rate.
Thompson is reportedly known for mastering the way to max out overtime pay. Between 1993 and 1995 he earned nearly $220,000 in overtime, a 1996 Los Angeles Times article reported. Thompson said at the time that most overtime hours are linked to covering for other workers at the stations and not to “fires or other emergencies.”
In 2008, Thompson earned nearly $180,000 in overtime pay, the Los Angeles Daily News reported, noting that the L.A. fire department's overtime budget skyrocketed by over 60 percent in a decade.
Thompson justified his pay a few years ago, saying he "basically lived at the station” and worked hard to earn it.
"The first thing [people] think of is firefighters sitting around at the station, but they're not just handing out free money over here," Thompson told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "I'm working hard."
Even though firefighters risk their lives and serve the community this is just insane. How many others work the system like this?
Firefighter has become master of maxing out overtime pay
A Los Angeles firefighter received $300,000 in overtime pay in one year by working more hours than actually exist in a single year.
Donn Thompson augmented his $92,000 salary by more than a quarter of a million dollars in 2017, Reason magazine reported, citing data from Transparent California, a project of the Nevada Policy Research Institute.
It wasn’t a one-off payout, as Thompson earned over $1 million in overtime pay over the last four years.
But the math behind the pay doesn’t add up. It would have required the firefighter to work 9,280 hours in a year, despite there being 8,760 hours in a single year.
The magazine crunched the numbers and claimed that the firefighter earned his base salary of $92,000 by working 2,912 hours at an hourly rate of $31.60. For overtime hourly rate, Thompson would earn $47.40, meaning that in order to receive $300,000 in overtime pay for the whole year, he would have had to work 6,370 hours – bringing the total hours worked to 9,280.
Robert Fellner, director of the institute, said the firefighter’s ability to work that many hours “boggles the mind” and said that Thompson was likely taking advantage of generous contract provisions that boost overtime pay above the typical rate.
Thompson is reportedly known for mastering the way to max out overtime pay. Between 1993 and 1995 he earned nearly $220,000 in overtime, a 1996 Los Angeles Times article reported. Thompson said at the time that most overtime hours are linked to covering for other workers at the stations and not to “fires or other emergencies.”
In 2008, Thompson earned nearly $180,000 in overtime pay, the Los Angeles Daily News reported, noting that the L.A. fire department's overtime budget skyrocketed by over 60 percent in a decade.
Thompson justified his pay a few years ago, saying he "basically lived at the station” and worked hard to earn it.
"The first thing [people] think of is firefighters sitting around at the station, but they're not just handing out free money over here," Thompson told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "I'm working hard."
Happens in policing as well. Overtime hounds will take advantage of the system. They stay within the rules, but in my opinion it is unethical and the taxpayers are the ones who pay for it.
From reading the article & what you say
It’s been going on for many many years
Have to ask why hasn’t anything been done about it
Another case of turning a blind eye..??
The hrs that man put in “worked” when did he eat & sleep.
One of my last assignments I was over several departments, one of the was managing court overtime. The contract the police department had, stipulated certain criteria to be eligible for normal departmental overtime. For example, if you were on normal duty and got a late arrest, you only got overtime for the actual number of hours you worked over your normal hours. This was pretty simple. But, if you were called in and it was so many hours after your duty ended, or so many hours before your shift started, you would get a minimum of 4 hrs overtime. This was to compensate for the time it takes to get from where you are to your home to put on a uniform, drive in etc . It was an agreed upon or bargained for agreement. Then you add court Overtime which is from a different pot of money with different rules. There is regular court, then there is STEP court which is a government grant for enforcing traffic laws and or DWI. Officers had no control over when they would be scheduled for court, though it was supposed to mainly be during their duty hours to cut down on overtime. But when cops work evenings and nights and courts are 9 to 5 it is almost impossible. Cops show up for court, sign in, the citizen pleads guilty, the cop may have spent 30 minutes there, but gets 4 hours minimum. Where the ethical crap comes in, officers would get a court assignment and then schedule vacation on that day or part of that day in order to get overtime. That was stopped but the fact they would do that is sad. I remember one instance when a cop put in for court overtime and adjusted his normal hours to make it to where it wasn't continous and he wanted overtime. It got to my desk and I denied it. It was obvious what he was doing. He got the Police Association involved and we actually had to make our case for not paying. Pissed me off. I have always kept in mind that taxpayers are paying us, and we owe it to them to be frugal with their money and the blatant abuse was in my mind unethical even if they were not violating rules. For me, it would be an easy identifier for getting rid of potentially bad cops. If you were willing to bilk the system knowing the spirit of the policy was not to line your pockets but to be fair compensation, what else are you willing to do?
For me, it would be an easy identifier for getting rid of potentially bad cops. If you were willing to bilk the system knowing the spirit of the policy was not to line your pockets but to be fair compensation, what else are you willing to do?
Exactly right.
Again it raises the question why aren’t they being got rid of.
Thanks for your reply.
The reason is, it's similar to people using tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes. While it is unethical in my opinion, a person who "rents" a bedroom from a friend in Texas where there is no state tax but lives in Arkansas where there is, and walks the tightrope to meet the bare minimum of considering yourself a resident of Texas..it's wrong, but it isn't violating any rules.
Yup, I see the same issues for students applying to be granted TX residency for in-state tuition.
The reason is, it's similar to people using tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes. While it is unethical in my opinion, a person who "rents" a bedroom from a friend in Texas where there is no state tax but lives in Arkansas where there is, and walks the tightrope to meet the bare minimum of considering yourself a resident of Texas..it's wrong, but it isn't violating any rules.
Okay It isn’t violating any rules.
As you stated though it’s a good indicator as to what that person may do,
And as the very many many reports on this thread indicate just
How many of them walk a tightrope on moral & ethical responsibilities
And fall off.
More attention should be paid to these indicators & not just accepted or turn a blind eye.
A zero tolerance approach might just raise the general standard of policing & prevent
Much of what we read in this thread.
I looked up more info thinking that often times plea deals are made at the request of the victim or family in order to avoid a trial and have the victim testify and be re victimized. I couldn't find that to be the case here and it looks like a lame ass judge did the sentencing. 5 months.. who gives a crap about probation and registering.. 5 months for doing that is ridiculous.
This is not in keeping with previous posts, but I did not want to start a new thread.
LA County deputy kills a cyclist while typing.
Deputy Andrew Wood, then a 16-year department veteran, was returning from a fire call at Calabasas High School at the time of the collision. Los Angeles County prosecutors, who declined to press criminal charges in the case, said Wood entered the bicycle lane “as a result of inattention caused by typing” on his in-car computer.
“Since Wood was acting within the course and scope of his duties when he began to type his response, under Vehicle Code section 23123.5, he acted lawfully,” according to the declination letter from the L.A. County District Attorney’s office.
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/05/29/family-of-cyclist-killed-by-distracted-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-gets-12-million-settlement/
This is not in keeping with previous posts, but I did not want to start a new thread.
LA County deputy kills a cyclist while typing.
Deputy Andrew Wood, then a 16-year department veteran, was returning from a fire call at Calabasas High School at the time of the collision. Los Angeles County prosecutors, who declined to press criminal charges in the case, said Wood entered the bicycle lane “as a result of inattention caused by typing” on his in-car computer.
“Since Wood was acting within the course and scope of his duties when he began to type his response, under Vehicle Code section 23123.5, he acted lawfully,” according to the declination letter from the L.A. County District Attorney’s office.
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/05/29/family-of-cyclist-killed-by-distracted-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-gets-12-million-settlement/
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Jury Awards $4 to Family of Man Fatally Shot by Sheriff's Deputy in His Own Garage
Yahoo ^ | Thu, May 31 5:24 AM PDT . | Chantal Da Silva, Newsweek
Posted on 6/1/2018, 9:50:33 AM by BenLurkin
Newman and his partner, Deputy Edward Lopez, had reportedly knocked on Hill's garage door to investigate the noise complaint. When the garage door eventually opened, Hill was standing by it with his left hand on the door and his right hand by his side.
It is still unclear what exactly happened in the seconds that unfolded, as Newman drew his gun and fired four times toward Hill as the garage door started to go down.
However, when a SWAT team arrived, they found Hill dead. He had been shot three times, including once in the head.
Toxicology reports had shown Hill had been intoxicated at the time of the incident and the SWAT team found a gun in the 30-year-old's back pocket, but it was not loaded, TCPalm reported.
On the second anniversary of Hill's death, the 30-year-old's mother, Viola Bryant, launched a lawsuit for wrongful death.
Her battle for justice ended last Thursday, when the jury came to the conclusion that Newman had not used excessive force in the incident following 10 hours of deliberation.
The jury did find that St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara had been negligent in his role, but determined him to be liable by just 1 percent...
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Must be one of the very few good apples.
Iowa sheriff pleads guilty to traffic violation after telling deputy to give him ticket for illegally riding ATV
An Iowa sheriff who asked one of his deputies to write him a ticket for illegally riding his ATV on a highway pleaded guilty to the traffic violation Thursday.
Webster County Sheriff Jim Stubbs was riding his ATV to look at some family property a few weeks ago when he turned onto U.S. Highway 169 for a short period of time and he realized he was breaking the law by being on that road, according to The Messenger.
“I did it and I hold myself responsible,” Stubbs said.
Stubbs found a deputy who was on the side of U.S. 169 and asked the deputy to write him a ticket for breaking the law. He said if he had not gotten a ticket it would have made him a hypocrite.
“If I’m going to have people out giving citations, then I need to hold myself to that higher standard as well,” he said. “And nobody’s above the law."
Webster County had passed an ordinance on May 8 that allows ATV travel on county roads, but U.S. Highway 169 isn’t under Webster County jurisdiction, according to The Messenger.
Stubbs pleaded guilty to one count of operating an ATV on a roadway or highway. Webster County Court Magistrate William Thatcher commended him for his honesty and ordered Stubbs to pay a $132.50.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/01/iowa-sheriff-pleads-guilty-to-traffic-violation-after-telling-deputy-to-give-him-ticket-for-illegally-riding-atv.html
This is not in keeping with previous posts, but I did not want to start a new thread.
LA County deputy kills a cyclist while typing.
Deputy Andrew Wood, then a 16-year department veteran, was returning from a fire call at Calabasas High School at the time of the collision. Los Angeles County prosecutors, who declined to press criminal charges in the case, said Wood entered the bicycle lane “as a result of inattention caused by typing” on his in-car computer.
“Since Wood was acting within the course and scope of his duties when he began to type his response, under Vehicle Code section 23123.5, he acted lawfully,” according to the declination letter from the L.A. County District Attorney’s office.
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/05/29/family-of-cyclist-killed-by-distracted-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-gets-12-million-settlement/
Officers typing while driving or reading calls while driving has been a huge safety issue. Some are just stupidity. Typing while driving as you are leaving a call is plain irresponsible. But another scenario is an officer responding to a disturbance with a gun, and getting updates as they are approaching the scene. It is very difficult not to glance over to see what the latest entry is when you hear the beep of a new entry.
Hmmmm yes - I think it’s the same kinda excuse used by many
When their phone Beeps or Buzzes with a New Important Txt message or BookFace update
That’s oh so Important.
;)
Well, lets look at it. A phone beeps... could be your girlfriend, a best buddy, maybe they want to meet up at the bar for a drink after work. Let's compare that to a guy driving to a disturbance with a gun, and there is an update that more than likely has information on where the guy with the gun might be. I can see where they are the same. Now I'm not saying either are excused from the damage they cause if they cause a crash, but like Chris Rock says, I don't condone it, but I understand it....
Here is an older case that was posted on this topic. A Navy veteran is dead because this criminal was speeding and not paying attention to the road. If you're a citizen you get fines and prison and everyone gets a lecture on how bad they are and how dangerous this behavior is and possibly new harsher legislation is introduced. If you're a cop, you simply ignore all of the above and get away with killing an innocent person. This particular case is pretty outrageous, worth a read to remember it:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=329944.msg8118862#msg8118862
Cop Kills Man with Patrol Car While Speeding & Looking at Laptop, Flexes Blue Privilege – No Charges
Port Orange, FL — On December 21, Port Orange Police Officer Silvio Portillo was driving his patrol car at 15 mph above the posted speed limit when he struck and killed a motorcyclist.
Father of two and Navy Veteran, Andrew McIlvain, 39, was riding his motorcycle as Officer Portillo was looking down at his laptop on the way to a “non-priority” noise complaint. When Portillo looked up, it was too late, he was driving over this unsuspecting man.
Two weeks later, McIlvain succumbed to his severe injuries, and he died on January 4. The police even had the audacity to attempt to justify this officer’s reckless driving by releasing a statement that McIlvain didn’t have his driver’s license at the time of the crash — as if that is worthy of a death sentence.
All of this information was obtained by the Port Orange police during the process of their internal investigation. It is a matter of police record that Silvio Portillo was driving his patrol car, was speeding, was distracted, and killed an innocent man. He was then suspended for ten days and ordered to attend an emergency vehicle operation course.
However, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, they could not legally prove those facts during Portillo’s hearing last week.
The debacle began as Portillo conveniently did not show up to his own hearing for the careless driving charge. This was likely an attempt to avoid a perjury charge if he was asked about driving the car that killed a man.
According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Portillo did not appear for the hearing before County Judge Angela Dempsey at the Courthouse Annex in Daytona Beach. Portillo’s attorney Martin White argued successfully that the police officer had not been identified as the driver of the squad car that struck McIlvain.
The FHP was responsible for an independent investigation of Portillo. Former FHP Trooper Robert Asbill interview him after the accident, however, he was conveniently absent that day as well. Even so, the FHP’s own report, prepared by Trooper Kurt Glaenzer listed Portillo as the driver of the patrol car!
“Because the defendant is not required to file an affidavit there is no evidence on the record to identify my client as the operator of that vehicle,” White said in a glaring misrepresentation of the truth.
“Your Honor, we move for a judgment of acquittal at this junction,” White said. “There’s been no identification that my client was driving behind the wheel. The state did not establish venue.”
“Judgment of acquittal is granted,” Dempsey said.
This entire dog and pony show wasn’t about whether or not to charge Portillo with manslaughter; it was only about a $166 careless driving ticket. Had Portillo received that ticket for careless driving, however, he could have been subject Florida state law 782.071 for vehicular homicide.
Instead, Portillo will escape all accountability.
Because of his negligence, Silvio Portillo killed an innocent man. And, because of the corruption and unwillingness of the supposed “justice” system to prosecute their own, no one will be held responsible for this loss of life.
Talking to the Journal, White said that while the argument that it could not be proven that Portillo was driving the patrol car might seem “counterintuitive” it was based on the law. He declined further comment.
“It bothers me to see a mother that’s heartbroken, and I have to explain the law to her,” Glaenzer said as McIlvain’s elderly mother sat silently stunned in the back of the courtroom; wondering how a cop can kill her son and face no repercussions.
Those who are tasked with upholding the law should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, or at the very least, the same standard. However, as is the case the majority of the time, the blue line conceals a much lower set of standards.
All hope is not lost for McIlvain’s mother though, her attorney Michael Politis, said they have already begun the process for a civil lawsuit in this case. However, the unfortunate reality of the civil lawsuit is that the taxpayers will be held liable and not the man who killed her son.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-kills-man-patrol-car-speeding-laptop-flexes-blue-privilege-charges/
My comments were semi tongue in cheek,
Yes there are similarities.
The cop has a radio & that important info should be sent via that to keep him updated
If it isn’t then that’s damn dangerous for him & other road users .
Sounds like your trying to excuse them of the damage.
Seriously reading & or typing on a screen while driving & killing an innocent
Cyclist - then being let off.
You’d maybe think differently if it was a close family member of yours that had been
Killed.
Oh & if a member of the public did as I stated and used that as a defence
he’d be let of
My comments were semi tongue in cheek,
Yes there are similarities.
The cop has a radio & that important info should be sent via that to keep him updated
If it isn’t then that’s damn dangerous for him & other road users .
Sounds like your trying to excuse them of the damage.
Seriously reading & or typing on a screen while driving & killing an innocent
Cyclist - then being let off.
You’d maybe think differently if it was a close family member of yours that had been
Killed.
Oh & if a member of the public did as I stated and used that as a defence
he’d be let of
vaild points. I think both are liable for any damage they cause. no letting off.
Officers typing while driving or reading calls while driving has been a huge safety issue. Some are just stupidity. Typing while driving as you are leaving a call is plain irresponsible. But another scenario is an officer responding to a disturbance with a gun, and getting updates as they are approaching the scene. It is very difficult not to glance over to see what the latest entry is when you hear the beep of a new entry.
The Broward County cesspit... These scumbags must be held accountable.
Report: Broward County Sheriff Capt. Kept EMTs Out of Stoneman Douglas High After Shooting
And you thought the details of what happened in Parkland couldn’t have made the Broward County Sheriff’s Department look any worse. First we learned that the BCSD had 39 prior encounters with the shooter before he opened fire in the school. Then it was disclosed that school resource officer Scot Peterson, and then some of his fellow deputies, stayed outside while the shooting was going on, listening to the sounds of students and teachers being murdered.
Peterson, it seems, had earlier done Sheriff Scott Israel a solid by allegedly covering up a sexual assault charge against Israel’s son, an assault that happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High.
When backup arrived outside the school, rather than enter and engage the shooter — something that had been standard law enforcement tactics ever since Columbine — they were instead ordered to remain outside the building and form a perimeter, a delay that no doubt cost more lives inside.
Now, according to the Miami Herald, not only did Sheriff’s Israel’s finest fail to enter the school and challenge the shooter, but the captain in charge that day — the one who ordered the perimeter — also prevented EMTs from going in, letting victims bleed to death.
During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.
Michael McNally, deputy chief for Coral Springs fire-rescue, asked six times for permission to send in specialized teams of police officers and paramedics, according to an incident report he filed after the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 people dead.
But every time McNally asked to deploy the two Rescue Task Force teams — each made up of three paramedics and three to four law enforcement officers — the Broward Sheriff’s Office captain in charge of the scene, Jan Jordan, said no.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/06/daniel-zimmerman/report-broward-county-sheriff-capt-kept-emts-out-of-stoneman-douglas-high-after-shooting/
vaild points. I think both are liable for any damage they cause. no letting off.
The Broward County cesspit... These scumbags must be held accountable.
Report: Broward County Sheriff Capt. Kept EMTs Out of Stoneman Douglas High After Shooting
And you thought the details of what happened in Parkland couldn’t have made the Broward County Sheriff’s Department look any worse. First we learned that the BCSD had 39 prior encounters with the shooter before he opened fire in the school. Then it was disclosed that school resource officer Scot Peterson, and then some of his fellow deputies, stayed outside while the shooting was going on, listening to the sounds of students and teachers being murdered.
Peterson, it seems, had earlier done Sheriff Scott Israel a solid by allegedly covering up a sexual assault charge against Israel’s son, an assault that happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High.
When backup arrived outside the school, rather than enter and engage the shooter — something that had been standard law enforcement tactics ever since Columbine — they were instead ordered to remain outside the building and form a perimeter, a delay that no doubt cost more lives inside.
Now, according to the Miami Herald, not only did Sheriff’s Israel’s finest fail to enter the school and challenge the shooter, but the captain in charge that day — the one who ordered the perimeter — also prevented EMTs from going in, letting victims bleed to death.
During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.
Michael McNally, deputy chief for Coral Springs fire-rescue, asked six times for permission to send in specialized teams of police officers and paramedics, according to an incident report he filed after the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 people dead.
But every time McNally asked to deploy the two Rescue Task Force teams — each made up of three paramedics and three to four law enforcement officers — the Broward Sheriff’s Office captain in charge of the scene, Jan Jordan, said no.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/06/daniel-zimmerman/report-broward-county-sheriff-capt-kept-emts-out-of-stoneman-douglas-high-after-shooting/
These are the agents of the state who, unlike the mereciviliansplebs, are supposedly "highly trained" and "proficient" in the use of firearms.
FBI agent allegedly drops gun at Denver night club, shooting one person in the leg
DENVER -- An FBI agent allegedly dropped his gun at a bar and another patron was shot in the leg early Saturday. Investigators said it appeared to be an accidental shooting.
Denver police said they were called to a report of a shooting at 2201 Lawrence Street at 12:45 a.m.
A woman who said she witnessed and recorded the shooting with her cell phone said it happened at Mile High Spirits Distillery and Tasting Bar.
In the video, a man can be seen doing a back flip, during which a gun falls out of the back of his waistband. The gun appears to fire when the man picks up the weapon.
"It appears an off-duty Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent was dancing at a night club when his firearm became dislodged from its waistband holster and fell onto the floor. When the agent retrieved his handgun an unintended discharge occurred, another patron was struck by a bullet in the lower leg," a statement from Denver police said.
The FBI agent was taken to Denver Police Headquarters and later released to an FBI supervisor.
http://kdvr.com/2018/06/02/fbi-agent-allegedly-drops-his-gun-at-denver-night-club-another-patron-shot-in-leg/
I've been legally able to carry a gun for 34 years. Not one single time did I carry it if there was a chance I would be drinking alcohol. Not one single time. This is just stupid. A guy with a weapon not only drinking, but doing a back flip on the dance floor carrying.... makes the rest of us look stupid
Out of control gangs. When are these animals going to be locked up? This is the same gang that executed Daniel Shaver. (read more: http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=329944.msg8440709#msg8440709)
Notice how they all participate in the violent attack (even the limp bald guy) and how violent the black cop is. Where were all those "good apples" we keep hearing about to arrest these animals on the spot?
Graphic Video Shows Cops Savagely Beat Unarmed Man, Keep Hitting Him After He’s Knocked Out
Mesa, AZ — A shocking video has surfaced out of Mesa, Arizona this week showing a half-dozen cops jump an unarmed and non-violent man—punching him in the head until he falls unconscious to the floor. Despite several cops participating in the beating, not one word of it was mentioned in a report and the chief claims he had no idea it even happened.
The video is of an incident from May 23, in which police were responding to a call at an apartment complex. The Mesa Police department says they received a call from a woman stating that 20-year-old Erick Reyes was trying to get into the apartment of his ex-girlfriend.
When police arrived on the scene, Reyes and another man, 33-year-old Robert Johnson were leaving the complex. When police told Reyes to sit down on the ground, he reportedly complied with their order. Johnson was given the same order as he walked to the elevator.
Instead of sitting on the ground, Johnson, likely knowing he had done nothing wrong, simply sat against the wall. Apparently, this was not enough to appease the officers who then swarmed the unarmed and seemingly innocent man.
Cops are then seen on video brutally punching the non-violent man in the face and kneeing him in the stomach. Even after he’s knocked unconscious, the massive cop in front of him pummels his face as he falls to the ground.
In a statement this week, Mesa police chief Ramon Batista claimed he had no idea that this video existed nor did he know his officers savagely beat a man for no reason. Once it was publicly released, four of the officers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/mesa-police-beat-unarmed-nonviolent-man/
I've said it before that these are criminal gangs. Here is a prime example.
25 years is not enough. This career criminal and the rest of his criminal gang should have been executed. Slowly.
Rogue Baltimore police unit ringleader Wayne Jenkins sentenced
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The leader of a rogue Baltimore police unit sobbed as he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a corruption scandal prosecutors called "breathtaking". Ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins apologised in court for the crimes he committed while heading an elite squad called the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF).
"I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. "I'm so sorry to the citizens of Baltimore."
He was arrested along with almost every member of the unit in March 2017. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence.
He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records.
Jenkins pleaded guilty in January and admitted taking part in at least 10 robberies of Baltimore citizens, planting drugs on innocent people and re-selling drugs he stole from suspects on an almost daily basis, including heroin, cocaine and prescription painkillers.
He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year.
Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption resulted in 1,700 criminal cases being thrown out.
"The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court.
"He perverted the criminal justice system."
The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted.
Detectives Maurice Ward, Evodio Hendrix, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam all pleaded guilty.
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Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor went forward to trial and a jury found them guilty of robbery, extortion and fraud in February.
A former member of the unit, Sergeant Thomas Allers, also pleaded guilty.
Although the indicted officers committed many robberies individually before joining the Gun Trace Task Force, prosecutors charge that they grew bolder and more prolific after Jenkins took over the unit in June 2016.
According to testimony from Ward and Hendrix, Jenkins played an outsized role in the schemes.
They said he prepared an arsenal of weapons and tools to begin carrying out burglaries.
The jury was shown axes, machetes and pry bars, as well as black masks that were found in Jenkins' van after his arrest.
Prosecutors pointed to the fact that Jenkins fabricated evidence, like producing a bogus iPhone video of his officers cracking a drug dealer's safe, when they had in fact already broken into it and stolen $200,000 in cash.
"It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44402948
he served 11 days in jail and received national ridicule and condemnation for intentionally breaking a woman’s wrist – charges that are now being dismissed. This is more than enough punishment.
Investigation into Mann and Stackhouse’s background and credibility returned significant and troubling results:
· On June 7, 2018, Mann and Stackhouse were drinking at 10 Barrel brewery. When they left, Mann intentionally threw herself onto the hood of a car in the road and then flopped to the ground.
· On May 13, 2018, Stackhouse struck another car and then punched the driver, a 55-year-old Bend woman. Stackhouse was charged with this assault and the matter is pending.
· On November 26, 2017, Stackhouse and Mann reported to police that Mann was struck by a van while she was walking in the parking lot of Timbers Tavern.
· On October 31, 2016, Mann and Stackhouse were passengers in a car that was involved in a single-vehicle, low-speed crash. When police arrived, Mann was found lying on the road with shallow breathing and acting unconscious. The police determined her actions were not consistent with injuries she would have received in the crash.
This is why "punishment" such as paid vacation or desk duty is not enough for these violent criminals. They need to be made an example of or ideally, locked up for life so that they won't harm anyone again.
Video of Cops Beating Man Was So Bad, They Were All Fired—But a Corrupt System Just Rehired Them
Agawam, MA — Three police officers so horrifically beat a man in custody, all of them — a sergeant and two veteran patrolmen — were fired. Now, however, thanks to a corrupt system that fails to hold officers accountable, Mayor William P. Sapelli is rehiring them in spite of the gruesome video showing the abuse.
“You bring them back. It’s that simple,” he said Tuesday, noting that one of the officers, John P. Moccio, has not returned to work. His case is still before the state Civil Service Commission, according to the mayor, who made resolving the issue a priority after taking office in January, according to Masslive.com.
Two of the cops seen horrifically beating the man on video are back on the job and despite being demoted, one officer had his rank of sergeant reinstated.
As TFTP reported at the time, then-Mayor Richard A. Cohen announced the termination of officers, John P. Moccio, Officer Edward B. Connor and Sgt. Anthony Grasso for their roles in the arrest and subsequent beat down of 27-year-old David Desjardins at Six Flags New England on June 19, 2016.
Cohen also forwarded the findings of an internal investigation to the Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni, who declined to prosecute. However, the beating was so horrific that the FBI launched their own use of force investigation. After more than a year of “investigating,” the FBI concluded the officers acted appropriately when they beat the unarmed and half-naked man.
As TFTP previously reported, that day, Desjardins became too inebriated at a bar in the Six Flags New England amusement park; but when a bartender cut him off, he acted belligerently and began arguing. Park security called the police, MassLive reported at the time, who confronted Desjardins and had to use pepper spray several times before they were able to make the arrest.
Agawam Police Officers Moccio and Connor, and Grasso, then dealt with Desjardins during the booking process, but claimed in reports the man was drunk and unruly — thus their use of force had been justified. Desjardins was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a police officer.
“Under the policies and procedures, the use of the force was authorized,” said Attorney John Connor, who represented the officers, reported 22News, “They may disagree with that, but that doesn’t mean that these officer didn’t act in accordance with the policies and their training.”
However, video shows Desjardins stripped down to his underwear and seemingly — despite the lack of audio recording — only vaguely disruptive and certainly not deserving of the beating he then receives.
As footage begins, the man sits on a bench in the station and appears to receive a stern talking-to by one officer. Suddenly the officer gestures to another and the pair, along with two others, violently grab Desjardins and force him into a holding cell, containing the typical metal toilet and a concrete slab without any padding.
Desjardins weakly attempts to wriggle free from one officer’s grip and is then roughly forced down onto the concrete slab with three of the four officers holding him down — as one of them uses a baton to beat his back. When that seems not to satisfy the officer, he takes a step back and — as the other two lie on top of the drunken man, holding him down — begins pummeling Desjardins’ kneecaps and ankles with the baton.
Video shows the cops clearly have control of the situation and resistance from Desjardins, if any, is both minimal and likely in self-defense.
As the two officers grip the man’s wrists and head, the third then proceeds to smash the baton against Desjardins’ shins — worse, footage seems to show the tip of the baton being used to jab him in the abdomen or groin.
In obvious pain from this, Desjardins smacks his foot against the concrete slab.
When the officers seem to relent to leave the cell, it becomes apparent one had been using two hands to press the man’s face onto the slab — but even as they move to leave, and he slowly sits up, one officer still casually hits him with the baton.
As Desjardins stands, the verbal altercation continues — but one of the officers then shoves him into the corner of the slab, smashing his head on the concrete and cinder block wall. One officer puts his hands on Desjardins face as if to poke him in the eye or smother him — and though it looks like the beating will begin again, officers cuff his wrists and ankles.
Fully two minutes elapse from the time Moccio, Connor, and Grasso forced Desjardins into the cell until they finally stopped the brutal assault.
Police Chief Eric Gillis was ridiculed for his decision after he fired the officers — but he had no doubt the firings were justified.
“When I saw the video I was shocked by it,” he told MassLive. “I knew that it was very serious and as the investigation proceeded it became more and more clear to me how serious it really was.
“As chief of police it’s my job to make sure that our officers conduct themselves appropriately at all times and deal with the people we come into contact with appropriately at all times.”
Apparently, this has all changed now, and the officers have been rehired.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/fired-cops-rehired-beating-halfnaked-man/
Out of control gangs. When are these animals going to be locked up? This is the same gang that executed Daniel Shaver. (read more: http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=329944.msg8440709#msg8440709)
Notice how they all participate in the violent attack (even the limp bald guy) and how violent the black cop is. Where were all those "good apples" we keep hearing about to arrest these animals on the spot?
Graphic Video Shows Cops Savagely Beat Unarmed Man, Keep Hitting Him After He’s Knocked Out
Mesa, AZ — A shocking video has surfaced out of Mesa, Arizona this week showing a half-dozen cops jump an unarmed and non-violent man—punching him in the head until he falls unconscious to the floor. Despite several cops participating in the beating, not one word of it was mentioned in a report and the chief claims he had no idea it even happened.
The video is of an incident from May 23, in which police were responding to a call at an apartment complex. The Mesa Police department says they received a call from a woman stating that 20-year-old Erick Reyes was trying to get into the apartment of his ex-girlfriend.
When police arrived on the scene, Reyes and another man, 33-year-old Robert Johnson were leaving the complex. When police told Reyes to sit down on the ground, he reportedly complied with their order. Johnson was given the same order as he walked to the elevator.
Instead of sitting on the ground, Johnson, likely knowing he had done nothing wrong, simply sat against the wall. Apparently, this was not enough to appease the officers who then swarmed the unarmed and seemingly innocent man.
Cops are then seen on video brutally punching the non-violent man in the face and kneeing him in the stomach. Even after he’s knocked unconscious, the massive cop in front of him pummels his face as he falls to the ground.
In a statement this week, Mesa police chief Ramon Batista claimed he had no idea that this video existed nor did he know his officers savagely beat a man for no reason. Once it was publicly released, four of the officers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/mesa-police-beat-unarmed-nonviolent-man/
Video of Cops Beating Man Was So Bad, They Were All Fired—But a Corrupt System Just Rehired Them
Seriously does any right minded person believe this is acceptable & the right thing to do.
Agnostic- even you can’t possibly try to defend that ridiculous nonsense or can you ??
IG REPORT: FBI AGENTS REGULARLY RECEIVED FREE HANDOUTS FROM JOURNALISTS
Daily Caller ^ | 6/14/2018 | Joe Simonson
Posted on 6/14/2018, 4:46:12 PM by bitt
The Department of Justice inspector general identified a number of instances where FBI employees regularly spoke with members of the media and received a number of free perks from journalists including meals and tickets to various events.
On page XII in the report, the IG says the department “identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters.”
The IG expressed “profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered our review.”
The contact between FBI agents and the media extended to receiving “improperly receiving benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Don't forget that according to Pence, "police officers are the best of us". And we're talking about a 21 year "veteran" cop.
High Level Seattle Cop Found Guilty of Repeatedly Raping His Own Children
Seattle, WA — In case after horrifying case, those in positions of power are exposed for their crimes, showing how these positions often attract society’s worse. One recent example of this is a police sergeant in Seattle being found guilty on Wednesday for the repeated rape and molestation of his own daughters.
Daniel Amador, 46, had been free on bail as the trial progressed over the last several months. However, he was detained on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of first-degree child molestation, second-degree child rape, third-degree child rape and first-degree incest.
According to the court documents, this vile top cop routinely raped his older daughter, known in court papers as A.B., about five times a week and also molested his younger daughter, C.A.
The abuse took place for more than a decade and the little girls were unable to tell anyone as their father was a cop. Both of the victims, now ages 24 and 19, described their horrifying childhood in which A.B. was Amador’s favorite one to rape while C.A. was regularly belittled.
According to Seattle Pi, A.B. testified to undergoing regular “pinnings,” which involved Amador holding her down in his bed and talking with her extensively while either touching private body parts or raping her.
“I wasn’t allowed to have secrets from him,” A.B. testified June 5.
According to A.B. the rapes began when she was just 9 years old and persisted even after she had gone away to college.
According to C.A., she testified that the “pinnings” were more of a punishment for her. This vile individual would lie on top of her and grope her while they were sometimes partially or fully naked.
On multiple occasions, Amador would force C.A. to leave the room, then he would move the dresser in front of the door to his bedroom while A.B. was locked inside. He would abuse A.B. in his bedroom—for hours.
Showing the power police have to sweep things under the rug, in 2013, a cousin of the girls called CPS to report C.A. because she began cutting herself around the age of 12 as a result of the “pinnings” and years of abuse.
However, Amador was able to escape any accountability and told his family that if anyone found out about him raping them, they could lose everything they had if he was fired from being a cop.
A.B. hadn’t told anyone about being raped as Amador had instilled so much fear in his own children that they were terrified of what might happen if anyone found out. During this time, Amador was being promoted within the department and used this to threaten his children even more.
“If I helped keep CPS away, it would help keep us together,” A.B. said of that time, and keep them away they did. As Amador was an upstanding member of the Seattle Police Department, the claims against him were likely written off as they “must have been fabricated by some anti-police nut job.”
Once she finally left the house and the control of her sadistic and horrifyingly abusive father, A.B. realized that remaining silent was not something she should continue to do. During that time, Amador had divorced the girls’ mother and remarried. Knowing that Amador’s new wife was pregnant with a baby girl, A.B. realized she had to say something to save her half-sister from a lifetime of abuse.
In March of 2016, A.B. and C.A. came forward with their accusations. In a wise decision, they went to a neighboring police department to do so. As TFTP has reported on numerous occasions, often times, police departments will protect their own, even if they are abusive animals like Amador.
In April of 2016, the Lake Forest Park Police Department arrested him. Likely due to his massive salary as a sergeant, Amador posted the $750,000 bail and quietly resigned from the police department after 21 years with them—likely keeping his taxpayer funded pention in the process.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/high-level-seattle-cop-found-guilty-of-repeatedly-raping-his-own-children/
In three videos, a female officer is visible walking down the staging rows. In the fourth she can only be heard.
“Cameras are off? Cameras off? Cameras are off?” she says.
An officer repeats “Camera is off,” and each video ends.
Don't know about the "even you"... makes me feel like I make a habit of wrongly supporting officers who are doing abusive things. But no, even I can't defend that.
Maybe The Even You was a bit harsh - Maybe not wrongly supporting them
More like rose tinted glasses & generally accepting that what the cops say is the truth.
Which quite often now we’re finding out is Not the case.
Only let’s be honest you do tend to side with the cops a good proportion of the time
Look at the story above - that horrible waste of breath needs killing only very slowly.
Raping his own daughters FFS.
There are times where I can look at a video of a police incident alongside a civilian and come to a different conclusion. Usually this is based on my past experience of possibly being in a similar situation and having insight that the civilian might not have. But I certainly acknowledge there is could possibility be that it is a bias that isn't fair. I don't think it is but I am certainly open to discussing any of those with an open mind.
I read the above article, then went to a neutral website and read it again. Ultimately the bottom line is yes, the former cop is a waste of breath and needs killing slowly. I'd be happy to hold him down
Very good that’s well said
I respect your honesty in assessing yourself.
Likelihood is we all can have bias or the rose tinted glasses effect
I believe knowing & be aware of it helps us to avoid or lessen it happening.
I’m glad we agree on the punishment for that cop.
So the cops themselves describe it as a "date rape drug" but seemingly only when others use it. Ketamine is supposed to have the effect of erasing or alter memory. Is there a devious purpose behind this, i.e. the cops don't want the victim to remember something they did such as abuse or brutality? Then there is the issue of who the fuck are the cops to "suggest" or "urge" or "demand" that specific drugs,substances or procedures are used on people?
At urging of Minneapolis police, Hennepin EMS workers subdued dozens with a powerful sedative.
EMS workers used date rape drug ketamine, stopping some suspects' hearts or breathing.
Minneapolis police officers have repeatedly requested over the past three years that Hennepin County medical responders sedate people using the powerful tranquilizer ketamine, at times over the protests of those being drugged, and in some cases when no apparent crime was committed, a city report shows.
On multiple occasions, in the presence of police, Hennepin Healthcare EMS workers injected suspects of crimes and others who already appeared to be restrained, according to the report, and the ketamine caused heart or breathing failure, requiring them to be medically revived. Several people given ketamine had to be intubated.
These are among the findings of an investigation conducted by the Office of Police Conduct Review, a division of the city’s Department of Civil Rights. The draft report has been circulated narrowly within City Hall but not disseminated to the public. The Star Tribune has obtained a copy.
http://www.startribune.com/at-urging-of-police-hennepin-emts-subdued-dozens-with-powerful-sedative/485607381/
WTF !!!
Wonder if this
1, Legal
2, common practice amongst police
I will say though I’ve had the miss fortune of having to deal with a crazed man
High on Weed / Cocaine / PCP - He was virtually unstoppable He made a mess of
Me & Me Him if I’d not chocked him out ( it was that or take his knees out)
& kept him out each time he started coming Round
I have no doubt he’d of killed me.
Wish somebody would of pinned him full of tranquilliser!!!
http://www.fox9.com/news/hennepin-healthcare-minneapolis-police-respond-to-draft-report-on-ketamine-use-on-subjects
Seems like the initial draft is being questioned by both the medical and police officials. We'll have to see what comes out
I may have been on scene 1 time over a few decades of policing when a person was sedated by medical staff. Doesn't mean it probably wouldn't have been a good idea. People have died from over exhausting themselves when high on PCP or other drugs and that may have been a good option if you could hold them steady long enough. But the report says the number of times jumped from 3 the previous year to 60 the next which to me indicates a red flag.
It's rare for body camera footage from Wichita police to be released. The Eagle sued the city after it denied requests to release body camera video that shows an Iraqi American family being detained at a Wichita bank in September and footage connected to a hit-and-run crash that allegedly involved an off-duty Wichita police officer who had been drinking.
https://www.cnet.com/news/supreme-court-says-warrant-necessary-for-phone-location-data
Good ruling.
The dispute dates back to a 2011 robbery in Detroit, after which police gathered months of phone location data from Timothy Carpenter's phone provider. They pulled together 12,898 different locations from Carpenter, over 127 days.
The legal and privacy concern was that police gathered the four months' worth of Carpenter's digital footprints without a warrant. A Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judge ruled that cellphone location data is not protected by the Fourth Amendment, which forbids unreasonable search and seizure, and therefore didn't require a warrant.
This is how you deal with criminal gangs.
Entire Mexican police force arrested after mayoral candidate’s murder
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A Mexican town’s entire police force has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a mayoral candidate.
The 28 officers from the town of Ocampo in the western state of Michoacan were arrested Sunday on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Fernando Angeles Juarez.
Juarez, 64, was running as the candidate for the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution in Ocampo, before being shot dead June 21.
State officials took the cops in for having alleged ties with criminal groups possibly involved in the candidate’s killing, El Universal reported.
Public Security Director Venancio Colin was chased out by 16 Ocampo cops in a hail of bullets when he first tried to arrest them Saturday, sources told the paper.
He came back Sunday with reinforcements and arrested the entire force, who were cuffed and taken to the state capital for questioning.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/25/entire-mexican-police-force-arrested-after-mayoral-candidates-murder/
Way to go.
That should be happening more often
It might help sort the criminals from the cops
And leave the police service with the decent ones
Insane. Is this the US or Erdogan's Turkey?
Police Chief Calls Press Conference and Then Arrests Everyone Who Showed Up
Leon Valley, TX — Over the weekend, the chief of police for the Leon Valley Police Department called a late-afternoon press conference to address police accountability activists live-streaming officers. However, as soon as the conference began, chief Joseph Salvaggio began arresting people and then detained the entire crowd.
Over the past two months, Salvaggio has been the subject of multiple videos and independent media articles for his alleged corruption. According to the group National Association for Individual Rights, the controversy began on May 2, when Jesus Padilla was arrested while filming inside Leon Valley City Hall.
It continued into last week. As TFTP reported, multiple people were arrested for their freedom of speech last week as they desecrated a Thin Blue Line American flag.
On June 18, the group started outside in front of city hall where they flew the thin blue line flag upside down and then painted it red and tore it. The protest then moved into the building where the protesters gathered in the lobby showing police what they had done to the flag. Within minutes they were all arrested and their phones confiscated.
The press conference appears to be a likely attempt to suppress this rising but entirely legal opposition. As the conference began, Salvaggio announced the immediate arrest of one of the activists.
“First and foremost,” said Salvaggio as he walked out of city hall and approached the crowd that gathered. “Bao come over here, you’re under arrest.”
After arresting Nguyen, Salvaggio began to address the rest of the media, many of whom were credentialed reporters.
“Thank you for coming to Leon Valley. I totally, totally support your right to put something online, your First Amendment right,” said Salvaggio before completely negating that statement. “Everybody else, you are not free to leave… you are witnesses, every one of y’all are witnesses to the crime. Every one of your cameras, your devices, every one of them are going to be taken, every one of y’all, sit down right here.”
Salvaggio then ordered his officers to arrest every single other person in attendance, including those who tried to walk away.
“Go back and get the rest of them, get every one of them,” he said.
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https://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-police-chief-calls-press-conference-and-then-arrests-everyone-who-showed-up/
Cowards. They're only brave when they abuse the elderly, molest children, attack the deaf or beat handcuffed and incapacitated people. But when they have to protect and serve the community, they shit their pants. This happened while Paddock was shooting so the coward's inaction might have caused the death of many innocent concert goers. All this is part of the information, documents and videos that the police wanted to keep and they were only released after months of delaying and stalling tactics by the police when a Court finally ordered them to release them immediately (ordinary people can be sent to prison for contempt of Court, the police of course get away with it).
Las Vegas cop 'terrified with fear' as gunman murdered dozens, body camera footage shows
An armed, veteran police officer stood idle for several minutes last October as the Las Vegas gunman slaughtered dozens of concertgoers from a perch one floor up, and now that cop's actions -- and inaction -- are being reviewed by the Metropolitan Police Department.
The investigation into Cordell Hendrex, and the rest of the city’s police department, comes as Las Vegas prepares to release its ninth batch of footage and records related to the shooting, which left 58 dead and hundreds injured.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/03/las-vegas-cop-froze-with-fear-as-gunman-murdered-dozens-body-camera-footage-shows.html
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tsa-screeners-win-immunity-flier-abuse-claims-u-150740124.html
:( >:(
In a 2-1 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners are shielded by government sovereign immunity from liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act because they do not function as "investigative or law enforcement officers."
Shithole.
Chicago Police Routinely Trampled on Civil Rights, Justice Dept. Says
CHICAGO — A blistering report by the Justice Department described far-reaching failures throughout the Chicago Police Department, saying excessive force was rampant, rarely challenged and chiefly aimed at African-Americans and Latinos.
The report, unveiled on Friday after a 13-month investigation, forced a public reckoning for a police department with a legacy of corruption and abuse. It came as the department grapples with skyrocketing violence in Chicago, where murders are at a 20-year high, and a deep lack of trust among the city’s residents.
Over 161 pages, the investigation laid out, in chilling detail, unchecked aggressions: an officer pointing a gun at teenagers on bicycles suspected of trespassing; officers using a Taser on an unarmed, naked 65-year-old woman with mental illness; officers purposely dropping off young gang members in rival territory.
The department’s missteps go well beyond the officers on patrol, the report said. After officers used excessive force, their actions were practically condoned by supervisors, who rarely questioned their behavior. One commander interviewed by the Justice Department said that he could not recall ever suggesting that officers’ use of force be investigated further.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/us/chicago-police-justice-department-report.html
Judge jails defendant for failing to unlock phones
TAMPA (FOX 13) - It started out as a civil rights battle in a Tampa courtroom, and now a cell phone password might be a defendant’s key to freedom.
A judge threw William Montanez behind bars for failing to unlock his phones Thursday, which wasn’t how Montanez or his attorney expected their day in court to end.
To understand how Montanez got here, we go back to June 21. Montanez was on the road when suddenly he got pulled over for not properly yielding.
He wouldn’t allow cops to search his car, so a drug-sniffing dog was brought in. A small amount of marijuana was allegedly found, and cops asked to search his cell phones.
Again, Montanez said no, so detectives got a warrant -- which brought us to this constitutional challenge in court.
After several minutes of vigorous arguments, Judge Gregory Holder ruled cops could go through the cell phones. So out came the phones from the evidence bag, but Montanez said the two phones are new and he couldn’t remember the passwords to unlock them.
"I don't know the code, sir,” he stated.
Judge Holder then had Montanez try to unlock the second cell phone, but it was the same result.
So the judge found him in civil contempt and threw him in jail.
http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/judge-jails-man-for-failing-to-unlock-phones
Certainly seems to be a classic case of retaliation against a cop that spoke out against another officers conduct. I would hire her in a heartbeat if the article is accurate.
That's Good to hear.
why are you one of the few.? Are you saying that now as you're retired
or would you / did you do such when you were serving.?
why would they of Fired her ?
how does that instill confidence in the cops & their chain of command.
I've always been this way and know a lot of officers that are the same. The majority really. I'm limited to the circle I worked with and our dept was about 2100 sworn officers.
Why would they have fired her...having been involved personally with an officer that was fired for good cause, but claimed it was for a retaliation of sort, I am cautious to accept the reported information as totally factual. Our local liberal newspaper ran an article on the officer at APD and his interview without talking to anyone at the department and the article was full of misinformation which made anyone who was not aware of the facts think we were a bunch of assholes. But on the other hand, the information could just as well be pretty factual. They could have fired here because there is a good old boy system in place or she could have just not been cutting it as a probationary officer. I lean towards the former especially since it was the officer in question writing a complaint on her AFTER she filed a complaint.
“We hold our officers to high standards. Ms. Bainbridge was a probationary employee and did not meet those standards and thus her services were no longer needed. We are aware of the allegation she has made against Corporal Ken Ramkissoon and an internal investigation was opened June 24 and has not been completed yet. Furthermore, her termination is not related to the ongoing investigation.”
In our case, the fired (he actually resigned but it was that or be terminated) cop filed a lawsuit and it went to federal court and we got the opportunity to show the stacks of reports, both incident and field Training reports that showed he was a basket case and we easily won the case. Hopefully she will do the same, or when the internal investigation is complete, the department will show the evidence as to her performance. but it certainly seems fishy
I noticed just as the sound came on another officer smiles and says "Watch Ken". If I were in that Chain of Command that officer would be facing disciplinary actions as well. He was aware of the officers intentions and thought it would be entertaining to watch an officer berate and belittle a citizen for no apparent reason. That can't be tolerated and an example should be set. That officer rather than sit back and watch an abuse happen, should have intervened and didnt.
Again I have to say that’s good to hear.
From what’s been written & the clip shown
I fail to understand who that cop can keep his job Acting like a thug while in
A police uniform- to keep him employed just condones that sort of behaviour.
And clearly the other officers remark means he’s often behaving that way,
The officer making the remark should be dismissed also for being a gutless
Coward & doing nothing & letting it repeatedly happen.
No excuses - just get rid of them.
So they gang up & get rid of the decent cop with standards ::)
Really it shows what a corrupt bunch that area have as cops.
It is interesting how you rarely see a cop intervening or arresting other cops the moment they commit a crime or abuse. In some rare cases they might later just file a report on the other cops but they rarely, if ever, do anything when the abuse happens, they just stand by idly and watch or sometimes they jump in and participate in the abuse. Perhaps expecting them to actually enforce the law regardless of who commits the crime, like "law enforcement officers" are supposed to do, might not be part of their job description or union contract. Of course this phenomenon is nothing new and unfortunately the blue wall of silence will persist as long as there are cops.
Taxpayers to Be Held Liable After Cops Mistake Vitamins for Opioids and Jail Innocent Mom for Months
Tampa, FL — Rebecca Shaw, a mother of four who has never been in trouble with the law before, ended up spending five months in jail because a field drug test falsely identified her vitamins as opioids. Now, this innocent mom is making sure no one else suffers the same injustice.
Three years ago, Rebecca’s car ran out of gas and she was stranded on the side of the road. When an officer pulled up behind her she was hoping that she would get some help. However, instead, she was wrongfully accused of a crime, kidnapped, and thrown in a cage away from her family for five months.
So prone to errors are the tests, courts won’t allow their submission as evidence. However, their continued use by law enforcement — coupled with a 90 percent rate at which drug cases are resolved through equally dubious plea deals — needlessly ruins thousands of lives.
Rebecca was arrested and charged with trafficking oxycodone, and since she was unable to pay the $5,000 bond she was forced to sit in jail for months.
After Rebecca’s husband was able to raise the funds to bail her out, she had to wait another seven months for the official test results to come back from the lab, which ultimately determined that the pills were vitamins and not oxycodone.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-mistake-vitamins-drugs-jail-innocent-mom-lawsuit/
According to police records, officer Mark Hatten told investigators that he stopped Jones as he was driving near J Street and Lake Mead Boulevard because Jones’ headlights were out. Video obtained by investigators showed Jones’ headlights were on at the time of the stop. According to Goldstein, Hatten later said during his deposition that he stopped Jones for failing to fully stop at a stop sign.
“As I wrote in my affidavits, there is probable cause of criminal violations and I carried out my oath of office by investigating them. As a result, evidence was obtained that supported the complaint and charges were filed. I started this process and I will see it through to the end. My termination does not undo the criminal acts by others and it will not erase evidence or dismiss the charges. While it is disheartening and a violation of the law to be retaliated against and terminated for obeying the oath of office, it does not stop here. This is about the law and the law will be carried out. What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong. It doesn’t matter who you are. No title or office should shield you with immunity.”
Finally, an apparently good cop executes a search warrant on his own boss and even his own department.
Search warrant on New Holland PD sought forgery documents; executed by on of their own
The Advocate has obtained a copy of the search warrant that was executed on the New Holland Police Department. In perhaps what might be a plot twist, the warrant was served by one of the department’s own.
The warrant was executed on Saturday night with the help of the Ohio Highway Patrol and the Pickaway County Sheriff’s office.
According to the warrant, one of the department’s own officers, Sergeant Brad Mick, requested the warrant after conducting an investigation on his own chief and mayor on allegations of forgery.
“For an officer to investigate his own boss when he has probable cause and evidence of a crime being committed is perhaps the most commendable act of all,” said criminal defense attorney Brad Jones. “This officer clearly takes his oath of office seriously and any law enforcement officer who cannot respect that should not have a badge or gun.”[/size]
http://thefayetteadvocate.com/2018/07/23/search-warrant-on-new-holland-pd-sought-forgery-documents-executed-by-one-of-their-own/
What happened next? He got fired on the spot.
Sergeant who charged Mayor, Police Chief and former Police Chief fired
The New Holland Police Department has fired a police sergeant just mere seconds after he served charges on the mayor and police chief. A GoFundMe account has been set up as a result.
Sergeant Brad Mick was handed a termination letter — without a cited cause — and his last paycheck shortly before 6:30 p.m.
Before that happened, however, Mick walked into town hall where a meeting was about to get underway and handed a felony summons to Mayor Clair “Butch” Betzko and Police Chief David Conrad.
http://thefayetteadvocate.com/2018/07/23/sergeant-who-charged-mayor-police-chief-and-former-chief-fired
In a statement, Mick said:
Got to be truthful - this thread is pretty depressing and enlightening. Insane what these govt employees get away with
Keep in mind there are 900K plus cops. The bad ones make the news.
Yes there are around that No.
by your own words you estimated between 5 - 10% were bad apples
That’s 45-90 thousand !! Armed & Protected organised gang thugs
Plus those cops that just watch & keep quiet or cover for what they do.
If it was any other job you’d be up in arms about that kind of numbers
Not doing your best to play the problem down.
Your sounding like a black blaming everyone else.
It a major dangerous problem that’s trying to be swept under the carpet
America is meant to be the world leader - goes on about human rights
Abuses & brutality- Yet the rogue cops get a free ride ::)
They need to Sort out & get their own house in order before throwing stones
at other foreign Regimes.
Yes there are around that No.
by your own words you estimated between 5 - 10% were bad apples
That’s 45-90 thousand !! Armed & Protected organised gang thugs
Plus those cops that just watch & keep quiet or cover for what they do.
If it was any other job you’d be up in arms about that kind of numbers
Not doing your best to play the problem down.
Your sounding like a black blaming everyone else.
It a major dangerous problem that’s trying to be swept under the carpet
America is meant to be the world leader - goes on about human rights
Abuses & brutality- Yet the rogue cops get a free ride ::)
They need to Sort out & get their own house in order before throwing stones
at other foreign Regimes.
I can admit when I'm wrong. If I said 5-10% then I was off.
Exactly. This thread only contains a fraction of the cases that receive some publicity in the media.
And of course not all cases get reported by the media.
And even then, several other cases are just covered up by complicit cops and nothing gets done about it, let alone get media publicity. In addition to that, let's not forget the protections and immunities these criminals receive, the benefit of doubt, along with the few DAs who will take police corruption seriously and even a criminal justice system or in some cases, even juries that are in favor of cops just by virtue of having a badge.
But even in spite of all the above, you also have many citizens who are either afraid to report police abuse for fear of retaliation or are tricked/coerced/intimidated/extorted into waiving their rights.
So all the cases that get reported in this topic are only a small fraction of all the cases of abuse and crime committed by cops.
As seen in previous posts, the cops protect the prosecutors and the prosecutors return the favor, perpetuating a cycle of abuse and corruption.
Mississippi Prosecutors Defend Cops Who Killed Innocent Man In Wrong House Raid
Mississippi cops killed a totally innocent person while serving a warrant on the wrong house, but the DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion is already lobbying public opinion in favor of the police officers who made a fatal mistake.
He’s saying that officers shot at a dog and killed Ismael Lopez.
Lopez and his wife Claudia Linares were sleeping peacefully at home when the officers arrived.
Ismael Lopez went to answer the door and shortly thereafter fell to the bullets fired by an officer from the Southaven Police Department at the age of 41, right at the front door of his mobile home.
Police bullets pierced his front door.
He died.
The Lopez family retained lawyer Murray Wells who firmly says that the police shot an unarmed man, and that the cops have a strong incentive to lie in order to avoid prosecution.
DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion wouldn’t even admit that officers went to the wrong house, but he did claim that Ismael Lopez was armed, according to The Commercial Appeal:
The statement that the officers went to the wrong address echoed a similar comment the day before from a local prosecutor, John Champion, who said the officers may very well have been at the wrong house. Champion said Monday that two officers were at the scene and that a pit bull dog burst out of the house, prompting one of the officers to shoot at it. Then a man pointed a gun at officers through an open door, Champion said. The officers repeatedly warned him to put the gun down before one of them opened fire. The attorney representing the family said Lopez, a gun owner, did not have a gun in his hand when he was shot, and that the law firm would do its own investigation to learn what happened.
Now that DA Champion is finished defending the officers, it will be his government job to prosecute the cops once the family’s criminal complaint is initiated.
Southaven officers had the right address on their warrants and both houses had visible address markers, when they made their raid in the exurban area just south of Memphis, Tennesee.
The Southaven officers went to the wrong house anyhow and killed the innocent auto mechanic, leaving his family saying that they will pursue Lopez’s killer to the fullest extent of the law.
They were searching for Samuel Pearman who posted a video claiming innocence onto Facebook which was broadcast on the local news, which you can see below.
Instead, they killed an unarmed man.
The Lopez family’s lawyer Murray Wells was unequivocal in condemning the cops incompetence, and putting key facts on the record in an interview with WMAC:
“Someone didn’t take the time to analyze the address. This is incredibly tragic and embarrassing to this police department that they can’t read house numbers.”
He also said that Claudia, who was the only one on the property who could not be held responsible for shooting Lopez, did not hear any commands or instructions being given. In addition, Wells said Lopez never pointed a gun at the officers. “There was a gun on the premises, but the man did not have the gun with him when police shot him,” he said.
“They’ve been in that home for 13 years. The only time the police had ever been there was when they had been robbed,” Wells said. “No criminal history whatsoever. A long-standing employee of the city of Bartlett, mechanic. Loved in the neighborhood.”
Ismael Lopez can’t be brought back, and his widow Claudia Linares is going to face an uphill climb seeking justice since the initial remarks portend a fight with the Desoto County District Attorney as he plays criminal defense lawyer for the Mississippi cops who shot and killed her spouse.
It’s unknown if there are meaningful police recordings of the encounter yet, and the officers’ identities remain secret.
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/07/26/mississippi-cops-kill-innocent-man-in-wrong-house-raid/
Remember this case?
A bunch of armed and violent criminals invaded a home and killed an innocent man. Since they were cops though, the killers are free to walk the streets, one of them still working as a cop. No matter what someone does, crime or no crime, young or old, black or white, the cops will still find a way to justify the killing. You don't even have to do anything wrong to be killed. This man was at his house at night and had done nothing wrong and yet he was shot at the back of the head in his home from criminals who were not supposed to be there.
Cops Go to Wrong Home, Execute Innocent Man With Bullet to Back of His Head—No Indictment
Southaven, MS — One year ago, police responding to a call of domestic violence went to the wrong home and killed an innocent husband. Now, TFTP has just learned that the officers involved in the killing will not be charged.
The officers were brought to a grand jury by District Attorney John Champion who attempted to get them indicted on charges of homicide. However, the grand jury irresponsibly failed to return an indictment.
“The grand jury was given all of the evidence and they decided not to indict,” Champion said. “From my perspective, the case is closed at this point.”
“Everything about this is wrong. I am outraged. Shame, shame on the police department, shame on the DA. Mr. Champion, shame on you. You need to retire,” Pastor Rolando Rostro, Lopez family advocate, said.
In July of 2017, Ismael Lopez and his wife were the only ones home when Ismael heard his dogs barking, so he took a look outside to see what was going on. Seconds later, he would be shot and killed by people who claim to protect society. Police had no right to be there and had gone to the wrong address.
The Southaven Police Department admitted officers went to the wrong house that fateful night. According to police, they were trying to serve a warrant for domestic assault to Samuel Pearman—who lives 36 feet away from Lopez’s home.
Police claim that when Lopez came to the door, he pointed a gun at them. However, multiple bullets were fired through the closed door and Champion admitted that the autopsy showed Lopez died from a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
According to WMC 5, three officers were at the scene, but only one of them opened fire. That officer fired six total shots—two at a dog that ran out of Lopez’s house toward the officers and four into the house. The bullets went through Lopez’s front door; one hit him in the back of the head. Lopez’s dog was grazed by a bullet.
“I do not believe [the officers] identified themselves at the door,” Champion said.
Champion said Lopez was pulling the gun away from the direction of the officers when the officers opened fire. He said he did not want to speculate about how it happened, but he thought Lopez could have been shot in the back of the head while he turned away from the officers, reports WMC 5.
None of the officers were wearing a body camera nor was any of the incident recorded on dash camera.
An attorney for the Lopez family says they are now planning to file a civil suit against the department.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/no-indictment-cops-wrong-home-kill-man/
Once again we see that these criminals are ruthless and don't care about truth, justice, laws or BS such as "noble causes". This happened a few years ago. Scum like this should be sent to the electric chair.
The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found
The indictment was damning enough: A former police chief of Biscayne Park and two officers charged with falsely pinning four burglaries on a teenager just to impress village leaders with a perfect crime-solving record.
But the accusations revealed in federal court last month left out far uglier details of past policing practices in tranquil Biscayne Park, a leafy wedge of suburbia just north of Miami Shores.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article213647764.html
TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance programA good friend of mine travels A LOT and when I bring up stuff like this to him he says he doesn't care because he has no intention of breaking the law. :-\
Federal Air Marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that is drawing criticism from within the agency.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/graphics/2018/07/tsa-quiet-skies/
"I feared for my life". Blanket excuse for cops when they kill someone. Doesn't always apply to citizens.
"Know your target and what's beyond it". Basic rule of gun safety. Doesn't seem to apply to cops.
Lycoming County jury finds Donald Meyer Jr. guilty on all counts involving death of his daughter, Ciara
WILLIAMSPORT — A Lycoming County jury convicted Donald Meyer Jr. Friday of all counts in the 2016 death of his 12-year-old daughter, Ciara, who was struck in the chest by a bullet fired from a constable there to evict Meyer from his Penn Township, Perry County home.
https://fox43.com/2018/07/27/lycoming-county-jury-finds-donald-meyer-jr-guilty-on-all-counts-involving-death-of-his-daughter-ciara/
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Geez - i read the story. Yikes.
Her "logic" is that unless an "officer is down" she will not rush to the scene. This is how the police state treats the normal citizens. If you are part of their clique, they will rush to your aid. If you're atax paying citizenlowly pleb, you're not important.
Florida officer disciplined for lack of urgency in response
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida police officer has been disciplined for not turning on her lights and siren when responding to the scene of an accidental shooting death.
The Bradenton Herald reports that Officer Amy Schwartz was disciplined for not showing any urgency in responding to the shooting scene last February in Bradenton, Florida.
Schwartz told internal affairs investigators she usually doesn't activate her lights and sirens unless "there's an officer down."
http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Florida-officer-disciplined-for-lack-of-urgency-in-response-489471241.html
A homeowner did what he had to to protect his family and then the cops show up and kill him.
After Armed Homeowner Defends Family from Home Invader, Cops Show Up and Kill Him
Aurora, CO — When an armed intruder broke into a family’s home early Monday morning, and reportedly began harming a juvenile inside, the homeowner did what he was supposed to do. He armed himself, called 911, and defended his home—and he was successful. However, after he’d successfully fended off the home invader—by killing him—police then showed up and killed the innocent homeowner.
According to police, they received a call from the homeowner notifying them that a man had broken into the home. When officers arrived, the scene was chaotic, according to police.
“Officers arrived to a very chaotic and violent scene,” Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz wrote in a news release issued Monday afternoon.
Police say they heard gunshots inside the home and when they ran inside, they found an armed man. The armed man was the homeowner and they killed him.
There were no reports from officers claiming that the homeowner opened fire or even raised the gun toward officers. Also, none of the officers were hurt during the incident.
After clearing the scene, according to Metz, police found the intruder dead on the bathroom floor. Metz explained that officers also found a child in the residence who’d been seriously injured by the intruder. The child was taken to the hospital for “serious, but non-life-threatening injuries” caused by the intruder, Metz said.
According to Metz, the identities of the two men will be released by the Adams County Coroner’s Office. Metz also explained that the officer who killed the homeowner is on routine paid administrative leave.
As the Denver Channel reports, the Aurora Police Major Crimes Unit, the Denver Police Department and the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office will conduct the investigation into the shooting.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/homeowner-defends-home-police-kill-him/
FFS
Yet again Police Chief Justifiying another Murder by His Gang.
We’d Struggle to make stories like this up.
In any other environment that chief would think your bonkers
If you were telling him that story & trying to defend people killing
Innocents.
I also struggle with this one. Anytime someone calls 911 and it involves a gun, the dispatchers are trained to tell them to put the gun up before police arrive for this very reason. The cops coming into a situation don't know who the good and bad guys are and anyone with a gun is certainly a concern in many cases. The situation may not have allowed for the homeowner to put the gun up prior to police arrival and may have and probably was drove up on Adrenalin. He had just shot someone in his home.
If the cops came in and he was holding the gun, not following directions and was waving it in their direction, I can't fault them for shooting him. I know you're thinking a guy ought to be able to call the police and not get killed in his own home and I agree. However sometimes tragic things occur like a son sneaking in the window after curfew and getting blown away by the father thinking its a burglar or a 10 year old daughter hiding in the closet playing a game on Dad and gets shot by him. These happened and it is tragic. This may be one of those times. I'd like to see the video
“There were no reports from officers claiming that the homeowner opened fire or even raised the gun toward officers. Also, none of the officers were hurt during the incident”.
Kind of negates a few of your points. If the above is correct.
The other examples you give are very tragic - Though most likely those doing the Shooting
Were not “trained” cops.
The more I read the more I wonder what the hell exactly are they training cops in.
With incidents such as these, people might start questioning the point of calling the cops in the event of a home invasion since they have the real risk of one of their innocent family members getting killed by cops. Especially in serious situations where seconds count, such as a home invasion, the police might take a while to respond and will only arrive too late.
Aside from late response or lack of training, part of the problem is the mentality of some cops who think they're military super operators in a post apocalyptic war zone and see "threats" everywhere and violence as the solution to everything. With the immunity and protection that they have, they don't seem to care much about consequences. This sort of violent police response has been exploited by scumbags with the phenomenon known as "swatting".
Here we had a family man, a grandfather, a decorated Vietnam veteran, recipient of a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, who successfully defended his grandchild from a violent intruder. Then the cops arrive and kill him. Of course they will say the usual "oh it's a tragic incident", probably even say the usual "it was a mistake", as if that somehow absolves them of responsibility (even though they enjoy several layers of protection and immunity anyhow). Supposedly the cops had bodycams so it will be interesting to see if the cameras were on and if they recorded any footage because police bodycams tend to "malfunction" too often when they might contain footage that doesn't vindicate the cops. At any rate, I doubt we will see the cop(s) going to prison despite sending this brave man to the grave.
Now we learn that the killer (who was not been identified yet - must be one of the job perks) was involved in another shooting in June but he was put back on duty before the investigation was finished:
Officer who shot Aurora homeowner was in another deadly shooting in June
An Aurora police officer who shot an armed homeowner had been returned to duty after another deadly confrontation in late June, even though the investigation of that first incident has not been completed.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/officer-who-shot-aurora-homeowner-was-in-another-deadly-shooting-in-june/73-579198076
I also struggle with this one. Anytime someone calls 911 and it involves a gun, the dispatchers are trained to tell them to put the gun up before police arrive for this very reason. The cops coming into a situation don't know who the good and bad guys are and anyone with a gun is certainly a concern in many cases. The situation may not have allowed for the homeowner to put the gun up prior to police arrival and may have and probably was drove up on Adrenalin. He had just shot someone in his home.Yeah, I'd like to know how this went down. Sucks for sure, but I'm leaning towards trigger happy cops. If that homeowner didn't raise his gun or threaten them in any way, someone should face charges.
If the cops came in and he was holding the gun, not following directions and was waving it in their direction, I can't fault them for shooting him. I know you're thinking a guy ought to be able to call the police and not get killed in his own home and I agree. However sometimes tragic things occur like a son sneaking in the window after curfew and getting blown away by the father thinking its a burglar or a 10 year old daughter hiding in the closet playing a game on Dad and gets shot by him. These happened and it is tragic. This may be one of those times. I'd like to see the video
“There were no reports from officers claiming that the homeowner opened fire or even raised the gun toward officers. Also, none of the officers were hurt during the incident”.
Kind of negates a few of your points. If the above is correct.
The other examples you give are very tragic - Though most likely those doing the Shooting
Were not “trained” cops.
The more I read the more I wonder what the hell exactly are they training cops in.
Unless we see the camera footage (if there is any) there will be an internal investigation and the officers will be found to be "scared for their lives"
It's not uncommon for news stations to not get the facts during an investigation. That there were none, you could also say there was no reports the man did not point his weapon at them...
There have been a couple of anti police activist recently that actually were participants in police training where they were put in positions cops are put in on a regular basis and they found out it isn't as easy as it seems.
Picture yourself going into a home where someone has a gun and you come across a male with a gun? Personally, in a volatile situation like that, I would treat the subject as a danger until I knew he wasn't. So I tell him "Drop the gun! Drop the gun! Most people who aren't meaning me harm will drop the gun like it's hot. So what if he doesn't? What if he comes at me all excited and waving the gun around? Do I calmly wait until he fires to determine if he is the intruder or the suspect? I can see how someone who hasn't been in that predicament could think "In every case, an officer who arrives on a scene of a shooting should be able to immediately determine who the bad guy is. In most cases they can. In some they can't and depending on the distance, cover, etc. they have decisions to make. Again, I am not saying in this specific case the officers weren't negligent and should have known... I don't know. I am just giving you a perspective that there are times when the wrong person gets shot and it is not "out of control poorly trained officers" it is a series of events that led to that outcome.
It's not uncommon for news stations to not get the facts during an investigation.
So now cops arrest people and confiscate their drugs so they can use them?
Police: Kirkersville police chief overdosed on drugs taken from evidence room
KIRKERSVILLE, OH (WCMH) – Investigators say Kirkersville Police Chief James Hughes Jr. died after overdosing on drugs taken from the evidence room of the police department.
According to Reynoldsburg Police Lt. Ron Wright, detectives found packaging and material taken from the Kirkersville Police Department evidence room in Hughes' living room. Wright said they found an opened package of fentanyl and closed packages of heroin, fentanyl and LSD in his home.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/police-kirkersville-police-chief-overdosed-on-drugs-taken-from-evidence-room/1339908530
Really - and Like it’s Not Uncommon For Cops To Lie & Fabricate / Hide Evidence
Or Cover For Each Other.
Like you are & do - Desperately trying to
Protect
Cover
Find a Reason
For What They Do.
How About Looking For A Reason For Them To NOT
Shoot & Kill.
If Cops Wore & Had Body Cams That they were unable to
Switch off or Tamper with ( as is often the case )
And Not Found To Be Lying So Often,
The Doubt & Questioning would Subside.
Yes some cops have lied and fabricated. Doesn't mean these are
I think 24/7 recording would be a storage problem. Also, turning off the camera is certain possible, tampering with digital is not from my experience. Once it is recorded, the cops have no access to it.
I am not trying desperately to do anything. What I am trying to do is give a perspective from the cops angle what might have transpired. Maybe it didn't. Maybe they agreed at Roll Call that day that they were going to shoot a citizen and this was the perfect opportunity. At this point we don't know. But in my opinion, to crucify the cops before knowing the facts is counter productive.
And one Huge Difference Your overlooking The Cops are Alive
He is Not.
"My dad exited the bathroom, went around the corner and I immediately heard multiple shots, which I thought was my dad engaging these other people in the house," Hayashi said. "There was a pause, and then I hear people enter the house."
He recalled hearing three shots, followed by officers yelling "police."
Before leaving the police station, Hayashi said, a police official told him something about Black that isn't true.
"I was told that he was told to drop the weapon and he didn't," Hayashi said. "I never heard anything about 'drop your weapon.' There was no warning at all. They should have been yelling from the moment they hit the driveway, 80 feet down. It's a long driveway. They should have been yelling, especially as many police officers as there were on scene."
Some people have raised guns & or not followed police instructions
Doesn’t Mean He Did Either of those - yet He’s Dead.
Yes You are trying to find excuses or ways out / explanations for the cops
I’m playing devils advocate & doing the same against.
And one Huge Difference Your overlooking The Cops are Alive
He is Not.
As for nonsense like storage issues for camera digital data Really ::)
Your better than that.
And cameras should not be able to be switched off by the cop wearing it on shift,
Again an easy thing to achieve.
How about give a perspective from the dead man.
That may help prevent future murders.
Perspective from the dead man. He was stoked up on adrenaline, he had just killed someone, he had tunnel vision, he may have even forgot he still had the gun in his hand. He may have been excitedly talking over the police giving him instructions to drop the weapon never thinking he might appear to be the danger at the moment.
Perspective from the cops. Stoked up on adrenaline, comes upon a man with a gun not following orders and possibly pointing it excitedly and they reacted. Sad all around.
Again, it may not have been that way, they may have had plenty of time to determine he wasn't a threat and shot him anyway. I don't know, you don't know, but again, sometimes shit happens and sometimes its very bad shit and ends in something like this. Doesn't always mean the cops weren't reasonable
Some people seem to have itchy trigger fingers and can't control themselves. Oh wait, it's a cop so the gun must have "discharged itself"... No charges of course.
Police officers injured after accidental gunfire at Sgt. Michael Chesna's funeral
Two Massachusetts police officers are recovering after a Rhode Island police officer accidentally discharged a gun at the funeral of Weymouth Police Sergeant Michael Chesna on July 20.
No charges have been filed against Sgt. Patnaud for the accidental discharge, but the Cranston Police are conducting an internal investigation to determine what happened and what caused the incident, according to Crampton Police Chief Michael Winquist.
https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/police_officers_injured_after.html
Cop: “I want to see how you want to proceed … in the future,”
Judge: “I want you to shoot him,” Caulfield says.
The two continue talking
[...]
Cop: “I don’t know how you think of it.”
Judge: “Shoot him,” Caulfield says again.
The officer then appears to turn off the body camera.
Fair comments
No it dosent always mean the cops weren’t reasonable
Correct
Just as correct is the fact We clearly often see that cops are Far from Reasonable.
If it was the cops dead - it’s a fair guess you’d have a wholly different attitude
Regardless of who or what was the cause / causes.
I see the camera issue you’ve dropped like a hot potatoe.
Ok lets talk camera issue. There are a number of rules about when and where cameras are to be used.
I'm going from memory but basically
You will have your camera on;
During any citizen contact
During any call
While driving code 2 or 3
You can turn off your camera when a call has reached its final disposition. For example, when you have worked a crash and now are just waiting for a tow truck to arrive.
I am no techie but I do know that video takes up a lot of storage space. 2000 cops working 24/7 (say only 1000) assigned to patrol, and from what I was told it would be a storage problem. Maybe someone with more knowledge can jump in and give an idea of the cost of storage
Then you have the issue of being on during the entire shift.. meal breaks, bathroom breaks, just wouldn't be workable in the real world. Rather than get unreasonable with the process, as I have said before, having a policy where an officer is subject to termination if it is deemed they intentionally turned off their camera during a call or citizen contact would go a long way.
I'm a fan of cameras, I advocated for their use at our department. The downside to cameras are psychologically, some people are prone to a default position of the cops are guilty if there are no cameras available.
It’s 2018
We have technology - How many Days or years worth of video is added to YouTube
Each day - storage space problems. Really.
Body cams on at all times when interacting with public or responding to call outs etc
Other than meal & food breaks - any violation of turning off Should Be
1, Instant Dismissal offence
2, any injuries/ death to public while cop has camera off Instant Incarceration
/ prosecution
No not all cops are bad or bent
Sadly many are - and innocent people are being murdered & beaten / robbed by them
A Belt & Braces Approach is needed To weed those ones out & stop the Gang Warfare & Mentality
Anything less is just excuses.
What is being allowed to pass as cop behaviour in America
Is worse than many 3rd world / dictators countries.
Stop Making Excuses or trying to find loop holes.
Make LE as Honest / Accountable & Corruption Free as Possible.
What you deem making excuses and loopholes is in my opinion using common sense and reality. Put it this way... You could argue cops should shoot the weapon out of their hand or shoot them in the shoulder instead of killing poeple. To you it would seem reasonable. I would explain that it's hard enough to shoot center mass on a moving target under stress and that's why cops are trained to shoot center mass. And you can shoot someone in the shoulder and they can still kill you. You would then argue that I am making excuses and loopholes just to kill people. That's what is happening with our current argument.
https://m.ctpost.com/news/article/Judge-orders-cop-chief-to-explain-lack-of-13127477.php?cmpid=fbsocialflow
You are making presumptions
I'm 57 & do you know exactly what I have done throughout my life ??
So I've never been in police / military I've never fired gun's or had them fired at me ??
I've never been in life & death situations in war zones ??
I've never been shot or shot & killed others ??
And you're lecturing Me on how to fire weapons or otherwise.
That's extremely condescending & rude of you.
It's perplexing to me how I can give or try to give a scenario or paint a picture of what can be a volatile situation and you say I am making excuses.. That is a bit offensive in itself. I have not at anytime given those officers a pass or said I think they are non negligent. I am saying sometimes those scenes can be extremely unpredictable and concluding based on a news story the officers should be vindicated or charged is counterproductive.lol @ offended :D
It's perplexing to me how I can give or try to give a scenario or paint a picture of what can be a volatile situation and you say I am making excuses.. That is a bit offensive in itself. I have not at anytime given those officers a pass or said I think they are non negligent. I am saying sometimes those scenes can be extremely unpredictable and concluding based on a news story the officers should be vindicated or charged is counterproductive.
It’s perplexing to you !! Is it.?
Please re-read your reply’s without your rose tinted specs on
In regards your bias towards all things & behaviour cop wise.
You were pointing out to Me about shooting centre mass & how
Stressful situations can be..... What like Only you & cops know?
If you’re offended by my previous reply statement Why is that?
Have I or others never been in unpredictable stressful situations
& don’t know what that’s like.
Generally I enjoy & like your reply’s & often your insight & cop
Perspective.
Let me state yet again for you Not all cops are Bad
There are lots of very decent honest & good ones,
Only there is No denying for some cops (a significant minority )
They behave like a Gang of Thugs & The system / hierarchy backs
Them up & absolves them.
That Needs to Stop. They should have to take responsibility & accountability
For there actions.
Another case where people learn the hard way not to call the police unless they want violence and brutality. These violent criminals don't care about innocent and frail elderly women, their violent nature emerges with every chance they get. Interesting how the released video is very blurry. Must be similar to how bodycams happen to "malfunction" or "miraculously" turn off when they happen to capture police brutality.
Police Release Body Cam, Showing Officers Brutally Assault 84yo Grandmother
Mesa, AZ — An Arizona family has learned the hard way what calling the police to help a relative can often look like as their grandmother was hospitalized after a welfare check. Showing their incompetence, the welfare check was for another family member but the police assaulted the innocent grandmother anyway.
The Free Thought Project reported on the incident when it happened last week and this week, body camera footage was released.
Although they released the video, the Mesa police department deliberately blurred the entire clip. However, even low resolution can’t hide the sadistic act of abusing an innocent grandmother.
As we previously reported, Ashlee Hahn detailed the assault in a dramatic Facebook post which showed the extent of her grandmother’s injuries. Hahn’s grandmother was hurt so bad during the check that she had to be hospitalized.
According to Hahn, her grandmother “is recovering from her fourth stroke and is confused, cognitively impaired & barely physically able to stand on her own because of uncontrollable shaking.”
Hahn’s mother had called in a welfare check for her son who lives on his grandmother’s property. She told police her son was suicidal. Police were even given specific instructions not to disturb the 84-year-old because she is easily confused and fragile.
“The police were called to her residence for a wellness check for a close family member who lives on her property,” explained Hahn. “They were specifically asked not to bother or question my grandmother because of her present and very fragile state.”
In spite of telling them to steer clear, however, police did the exact opposite.
“They forced her out of her home into the street, holding her arms tight enough to leave bruises and bleeding,” wrote Hahn. “Her inability to hold still (because of her previous strokes, as seen in uploaded videos) inclined them to slam her down, head first on the asphalt. They handcuffed her after she woke from her unconscious state.”
Indeed, the video shows this exact scenario. Officers forced the woman from her home by repeatedly telling her to come toward them. When she gets by them, she was clearly confused and had no idea what was going on.
Illustrating just how out of it she was, she starts referencing officers being behind the cars like a movie. As she turned around, the officers grabbed her and then surrounded her.
“You are not following my directions,” says a cop to the severely frail innocent elderly woman. Moments later, the innocent grandmother is slammed to the ground as cops jump on top of her and put her in handcuffs.
When Hahn’s grandmother woke up, she was in the hospital, bloodied and bruised. Police then immediately began conducting damage control.
“After seeing the damage they had done & sending my Grandmother off in an ambulance, they called my Mother (who made the original wellness check call) and told her that my Grandmother “slipped,” Hahn explained.
To try and alleviate their liability, an officer was sent, not to check on an elderly grandmother who’d just been the subject of a savage attack, but, instead, to defend their fellow cop and his choice to inflict harm on an innocent old lady.
“The officer who came down to the hospital only seemed to care about deflecting & defending the officers involved. No accountability. No apologies,” Hahn wrote.
What’s more, to try to legitimize the attack on an innocent grandmother, police then charged her with obstruction.
Hahn filmed part of the interaction with the officer in the hospital as he defended his fellow cop’s decision to needlessly confront her (against the family’s wishes) and then violently throw her to the ground.
“Why did he put me down on the asphalt?” asked the innocent elderly woman.
“It is my understanding when I spoke to the officer, that you pulled away from him a little bit and he took action like that, okay?” the officer callously explains of how his fellow officer could somehow rationalize assaulting an innocent grandmother.
Pulling away from an officer “a little bit” in the land of the free will now apparently result in innocent elderly women being thrown to the ground.
“I said don’t treat me like this. I don’t want to have a stroke,” the innocent grandmother says as she shakes in her hospital bed. “I don’t want to have a heart attack. Don’t treat me this way.”
According to Hahn, her grandmother is “traumatized & feels untrusting of the people who she thought would protect her.”
Hahn has a message for the Mesa Police Department as well.
“If this was your grandmother, what would you do? Mesa police department needs to be held accountable.”
Indeed, they do.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/grandmother-body-camera-abused-police/
Remember this case?
Innocent 84yo Grandmother Sues After Cops Attack Her on Video and Lie to Cover It Up
Mesa, AZ — An Arizona family has learned the hard way what calling the police to help a relative can often look like as their grandmother was hospitalized after a welfare check. Showing their incompetence, the welfare check was for another family member but the police assaulted the innocent grandmother anyway. Now, the grandmother is filing a lawsuit and the taxpayers will likely be the ones held accountable.
Virginia Archer filed the suit last week at the U.S. District Court in Phoenix, alleging she was unlawfully arrested on Feb. 14 and subjected to “excessive, brutal and completely unnecessary force” by Mesa police officers who went to her home checking on the safety of her grandson.
The complaint names officers C. Orr and D. Grimm, as well as the department.
“Defendant Orr’s and Defendant Grimm’s actions were uncalled for, and they knew it immediately,” the lawsuit says. “Since they knew they were wrong, they attempted to justify their actions by lying to multiple people that Plaintiff (Archer) was being combative and/or ‘not following directions at all.’”
According to Hahn, at the time her grandmother was “recovering from her fourth stroke and is confused, cognitively impaired & barely physically able to stand on her own because of uncontrollable shaking.”
“They forced her out of her home into the street, holding her arms tight enough to leave bruises and bleeding,” wrote Hahn. “Her inability to hold still (because of her previous strokes, as seen in uploaded videos) inclined them to slam her down, head first on the asphalt. They handcuffed her after she woke from her unconscious state.”
When Hahn’s grandmother woke up, she was in the hospital, bloodied and bruised. Police then immediately began conducting damage control.
“After seeing the damage they had done & sending my Grandmother off in an ambulance, they called my Mother (who made the original wellness check call) and told her that my Grandmother “slipped,” Hahn explained.
To try and alleviate their liability, an officer was sent, not to check on an elderly grandmother who’d just been the subject of a savage attack, but, instead, to defend their fellow cop and his choice to inflict harm on an innocent old lady.
“The officer who came down to the hospital only seemed to care about deflecting & defending the officers involved. No accountability. No apologies,” Hahn wrote.
What’s more, to try to legitimize the attack on an innocent grandmother, police then charged her with obstruction.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-grandmother-sues-attack-hospitalized/
Remember this case?
Innocent 84yo Grandmother Sues After Cops Attack Her on Video and Lie to Cover It Up
Mesa, AZ — An Arizona family has learned the hard way what calling the police to help a relative can often look like as their grandmother was hospitalized after a welfare check. Showing their incompetence, the welfare check was for another family member but the police assaulted the innocent grandmother anyway. Now, the grandmother is filing a lawsuit and the taxpayers will likely be the ones held accountable.
Virginia Archer filed the suit last week at the U.S. District Court in Phoenix, alleging she was unlawfully arrested on Feb. 14 and subjected to “excessive, brutal and completely unnecessary force” by Mesa police officers who went to her home checking on the safety of her grandson.
The complaint names officers C. Orr and D. Grimm, as well as the department.
“Defendant Orr’s and Defendant Grimm’s actions were uncalled for, and they knew it immediately,” the lawsuit says. “Since they knew they were wrong, they attempted to justify their actions by lying to multiple people that Plaintiff (Archer) was being combative and/or ‘not following directions at all.’”
According to Hahn, at the time her grandmother was “recovering from her fourth stroke and is confused, cognitively impaired & barely physically able to stand on her own because of uncontrollable shaking.”
“They forced her out of her home into the street, holding her arms tight enough to leave bruises and bleeding,” wrote Hahn. “Her inability to hold still (because of her previous strokes, as seen in uploaded videos) inclined them to slam her down, head first on the asphalt. They handcuffed her after she woke from her unconscious state.”
When Hahn’s grandmother woke up, she was in the hospital, bloodied and bruised. Police then immediately began conducting damage control.
“After seeing the damage they had done & sending my Grandmother off in an ambulance, they called my Mother (who made the original wellness check call) and told her that my Grandmother “slipped,” Hahn explained.
To try and alleviate their liability, an officer was sent, not to check on an elderly grandmother who’d just been the subject of a savage attack, but, instead, to defend their fellow cop and his choice to inflict harm on an innocent old lady.
“The officer who came down to the hospital only seemed to care about deflecting & defending the officers involved. No accountability. No apologies,” Hahn wrote.
What’s more, to try to legitimize the attack on an innocent grandmother, police then charged her with obstruction.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-grandmother-sues-attack-hospitalized/
"Police say the 20-year-old man who they were initially looking for later turned himself in and was questioned. He was later released however and no charges were filed."
A Times investigation last year identified Ovalle and others on a secret Sheriff’s Department list of deputies whose misconduct included falsely testifying in court, pulling over a motorist and receiving oral sex from her while on patrol, and tipping off a drug dealer’s girlfriend about a narcotics bust.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell wanted to disclose the so-called Brady list of about 300 officers to prosecutors, but the deputies union went to court to stop him.
Ovalle is not an isolated example. Misconduct by law enforcement officers who testify in court is routinely kept hidden by California’s police privacy laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court requires prosecutors to inform criminal defendants about an officer’s wrongdoing — but the state’s laws are so strict that prosecutors cannot directly access the personnel files of their own police witnesses. Instead, California puts the burden on defendants to prove to a judge that an officer’s record is relevant.
An L.A. County deputy faked evidence. Here's how his misconduct was kept secret in court for years
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-brady-list-secrecy-court-20180809-htmlstory.html
TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program
Federal Air Marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that is drawing criticism from within the agency.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/graphics/2018/07/tsa-quiet-skies/
Investigators also discovered naked pictures of an underage girl in the same folder. The sergeant viewing the images as part of the investigation wrote in his report, "The images and the fact they were intersected with pictures of sexual situations caused me to physically react with shaking hands and upset stomach."
PCSO later discovered the images are of Doran's daughter. The Pinal County Attorney's Office did not charge Doran with a crime, but PCSO's report concluded by saying, "There is suspicion that some grooming behavior may be present."
Police body cam footage shows Superior sergeant having sex in his officeWhat in the actual fuck?
A report from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office reveals the video was saved in a folder on Doran's desktop titled "Fun Time." That folder contained 36GB of more pornographic videos as well as nude photos Doran appeared to take of himself.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/police-body-cam-footage-shows-superior-sergeant-having-sex-in-his-office/75-584199621
Also, notice this part:
Police body cam footage shows Superior sergeant having sex in his office
A report from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office reveals the video was saved in a folder on Doran's desktop titled "Fun Time." That folder contained 36GB of more pornographic videos as well as nude photos Doran appeared to take of himself.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/police-body-cam-footage-shows-superior-sergeant-having-sex-in-his-office/75-584199621
Also, notice this part:
TSA administrator says domestic surveillance program "makes an awful lot of sense"
TSA Administrator David Pekoske said a surveillance program known as "Quiet Skies," which has been criticized for tracking American citizens not suspected of any crimes, "makes an awful lot of sense."
"Quiet Skies," first reported by The Boston Globe, dates back to 2011. It uses computer software to flag travelers, including U.S. citizens, who could pose a threat but may not have been accused of a crime and are not on the No Fly List.
In March, the program expanded to include assigning teams of air marshals to observe certain flyers' behavior while at airports and on flights.
Now, TSA has eyes on up to 50 flyers a day on domestic carriers nationwide under the program, according to leaked documents and sources who spoke to CBS News.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-administrator-david-pekoske-says-quiet-skies-domestic-surveillance-program-makes-an-awful-lot-of-sense/
"Makes an awful lot of sense"
"I would say to the American public: Ordinary citizens don’t need to worry about Quiet Skies”
Another criminal gang exposed.
New Jersey police chief resigns after arrest for allegedly buying cocaine
A New Jersey police chief resigned last week after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly buying cocaine online.
Michael Coppola, the embattled Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department chief, allegedly bought cocaine on the Internet and had it delivered to a post office box. Coppola was arrested during a traffic stop on Aug. 9 after allegedly picking up the package of what he believed to be cocaine from the post office, WNBC-TV reported.
The 43-year-old, who had led the law enforcement agency since 2014, submitted his resignation Aug. 15, Jim Hall, the executive director of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, told NJ.com.
Coppola’s arrest came after a year of controversies for the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department. Investigators began to probe the agency in November after two suspects died during police chases.
Prosecutors said in July the force misused police tactics, failed to properly investigate officers accused of misconduct and chased people without cause or permission. Investigators also said Coppola ran an “awards and incentives” program for officers who had the most arrests and tickets.
Coppola was suspended for 90 days after the findings were released.
Coppola is charged with attempt to possess cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia and faces up to five years in prison, NorthJersey.com reported.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/20/new-jersey-police-chief-resigns-after-arrest-for-allegedly-buying-cocaine.html
And He Wasn’t Charged or Sacked
WTF !!!
Come on I bet even Agnostic isn’t going to try and defend this one.
Are You ???
Unfortunately there are worse examples. While working as a cop, this guy was accused of molesting 2 girls aged 13 and 14. He was fired from his job, pleaded no contest to the charges, served no jail time but had to register as a sex offender. Then a few years later he was arrested again and pleaded no contest to molesting a 10 year old boy. He was sentenced to serve 180 days in jail and five years probation. And now he was arrested again on charges of molesting another child.
Cop Convicted Multiple Times for Raping Children and Never Sent to Prison, Strikes Again
Salinas, CA — Highlighting the sheer lunacy of blue privilege and the broken justice system, a former California Highway patrol officer was found guilty of raping children twice and never went to jail. Now, this predator may finally be sent to prison but only after his third conviction for horrifying crimes against children.
Jacob Mark Duenas, a former Monterey County-based California Highway Patrol officer, was found guilty earlier this month of brutally and repeatedly raping an 8-year-old boy. The abuse happened when Duenas was training to be a law enforcement officer.
Prior to this conviction, Duenas pleaded no contest to multiple charges of molesting two girls, ages 13 and 14, while he worked as a CHP officer. Flexing his blue privilege, after he was found guilty of sexually abusing the girls, Duenas served no time in jail.
Because this pedophile was never locked up, a few years later, he struck again. This time, his victim was a 10-year-old boy. Again, he was arrested, and again, he did not go to jail.
As KSBW reports, at the time of the sentencing, Butte County Deputy District Attorney Matt Taylor told KRCR, “My feelings on the sentencing are summed up in one word: surprised. What makes this case unusual is that you have a psychologist, independently commissioned by the court, who made a finding that Mr. Duenas was a pedophile and a sexual predator. And regardless of that, the judge sentenced Mr. Duenas to probation.”
Now that this monster has been convicted of raping a fourth child, he may finally be locked up.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/california-cop-finally-going-jail-children/
https://www.ksbw.com/article/ex-monterey-county-chp-officer-convicted-of-rape/22719552
Out of control gangs. When are these animals going to be locked up? This is the same gang that executed Daniel Shaver. (read more: http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=329944.msg8440709#msg8440709)
Notice how they all participate in the violent attack (even the limp bald guy) and how violent the black cop is. Where were all those "good apples" we keep hearing about to arrest these animals on the spot?
Graphic Video Shows Cops Savagely Beat Unarmed Man, Keep Hitting Him After He’s Knocked Out
Mesa, AZ — A shocking video has surfaced out of Mesa, Arizona this week showing a half-dozen cops jump an unarmed and non-violent man—punching him in the head until he falls unconscious to the floor. Despite several cops participating in the beating, not one word of it was mentioned in a report and the chief claims he had no idea it even happened.
The video is of an incident from May 23, in which police were responding to a call at an apartment complex. The Mesa Police department says they received a call from a woman stating that 20-year-old Erick Reyes was trying to get into the apartment of his ex-girlfriend.
When police arrived on the scene, Reyes and another man, 33-year-old Robert Johnson were leaving the complex. When police told Reyes to sit down on the ground, he reportedly complied with their order. Johnson was given the same order as he walked to the elevator.
Instead of sitting on the ground, Johnson, likely knowing he had done nothing wrong, simply sat against the wall. Apparently, this was not enough to appease the officers who then swarmed the unarmed and seemingly innocent man.
Cops are then seen on video brutally punching the non-violent man in the face and kneeing him in the stomach. Even after he’s knocked unconscious, the massive cop in front of him pummels his face as he falls to the ground.
In a statement this week, Mesa police chief Ramon Batista claimed he had no idea that this video existed nor did he know his officers savagely beat a man for no reason. Once it was publicly released, four of the officers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/mesa-police-beat-unarmed-nonviolent-man/
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/nc-sheriff-s-office-2-million-fentanyl-drug-bust-turns-out-to-be-13-pounds-of-sugar/1404391613
;D
A field test indicated it was the powerful opioid, justifying a host of charges against three suspects.
Why is the criminal gang spoliating evidence and recordings and releasing only edited portions that suit their narrative? They killed an innocent woman and the only thing they care about is to cover up their own incompetence?
Family of Woman Killed by Police Gunfire in Trader Joe’s Shootout Disputes LAPD’s ‘Highly-Edited’ Videos of the Incident
Hours after police released more videos of the deadly Silver Lake Trader Joe's shootout in July, attorneys for the family of the 27-year-old woman killed by LAPD gunfire in the incident have called the footage "highly-edited" and slammed the department for withholding other video and delaying the release of her autopsy report.
When the Corado family tried getting ahold of surveillance video from the Trader Joe's store, they were informed "LAPD has taken custody of the original video card," according to Ron Rosengarten, one of the attorneys.
Her father directly addressed the Los Angeles Police Department, calling on the agency to release all the evidence "so we can move on with our lives."
That includes all raw video of the incident, from the store's surveillance video to unedited body cam footage, as well as Melyda Corado's complete autopsy report, according to the family's attorneys.
But the family's lawyers said it's been impossible to get ahold of those materials, with LAPD placing a security hold on Corado's autopsy report and ordering toxicology tests for her that will further delay the report's release, said Ron Rosengarten, one of the attorneys.
https://ktla.com/2018/09/04/family-of-woman-killed-by-police-gunfire-in-trader-joes-shootout-dispute-lapds-highly-edited-videos-of-the-incident/
Edited video / Hold on the autopsy - Being Obstructive - With holding evidence
What else would you expect from a criminal gang.
When cops do all the above it’s ok though... ::)
No doubt they have a perfectly good reason - Only they do no one else ever has a good reason.
Same old double standards & protecting their own.
No gang like behaviour from the ever.
Let's see if the killer will go to prison. Not holding my breath though. It is possible that they could overcharge him to trick the family and the public to a faint hope of justice, only for him to be found not guilty because of overcharging or a jury that is reluctant to sentence a cop.
Officer who fatally shot Justine Damond charged with murder, turns himself in
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an Australian woman in July was charged with murder Tuesday after he turned himself in when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Officer Mohamed Noor turned himself in on Tuesday in connection to the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. his attorney confirmed.
The criminal complaint remained sealed by midday Tuesday, but according to the jail roster Noor was booked on a third-degree murder charge for perpetrating an eminently dangerous act while showing a "depraved mind." The second-degree manslaughter charge alleges he acted with "culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk."
Damond was shot July 15, minutes after calling 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. The 40-year-old life coach’s death drew international attention, cost the police chief her job and forced major revisions to the department’s policy on body cameras.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman was scheduled to discuss charges Tuesday afternoon.
Noor, a 32-year-old Somali-American, has not talked publicly about the case and declined to be interviewed by state investigators.
In a statement Tuesday, Damond's family praised the charges, calling them "one step toward justice."
"No charges can bring our Justine back. However, justice demands accountability for those responsible for recklessly killing the fellow citizens they are sworn to protect, and today's actions reflect that," the statement said.
A policeman who was with Noor at the time of the shooting, Matthew Harrity, told investigators that he was startled by a loud noise right before Damond approached the driver's side window of their police SUV. Harrity, who was driving, said Noor then fired his weapon from the passenger seat. Damond died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The officers did not turn on their body cameras until after the shooting, and there was no squad camera video of the incident.
The lack of video was widely criticized, and Damond's family members were among the many people who called for changes in procedure, including how often officers are required to turn on their cameras.
The shooting also prompted questions about the training of Noor, a two-year veteran and Somali-American whose arrival on the force had been celebrated by city leaders and Minnesota's large Somali community. Noor, 32, had trained in business and economics and worked in property management before becoming an officer.
Then-Chief Janee Harteau defended Noor's training and said he was suited to be on the street, even as she criticized the shooting itself. But Harteau — who was on vacation when the shooting happened and didn't make her first public appearance until several days after the shooting — was forced out soon after by Mayor Betsy Hodges, who said she had lost confidence in the chief.
Harteau's replacement, Medaria Arradondo, quickly announced a policy change requiring officers to turn on their body cameras in responding to any call or traffic stop.
If convicted of third-degree murder, Noor could face a maximum of 25 years in prison, though the presumptive sentence is 12 ½ years. A judge could issue a sentence ranging from about 10 ½ to 15 years.
The second-degree manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, but the presumptive sentence is four years.
Jail records show he’s being held on $500,000 bail.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/officer-who-fatally-shot-justine-damond-turns-himself-in-charges-pending.html
A man was shot and killed by an armed and violent thug but since she happened to have a badge it’s just a “mistake”. No arrest, no charges not even the name of the killer is released.
Dallas cop fatally shoots neighbor in his apartment after mistaking it for her own
A Dallas police officer returning home from work shot and killed a neighbor on Thursday after she mistook his apartment for her own, police said.
The Dallas Police Department said in a news release on Friday the officer had arrived at her apartment complex in uniform after working a shift. She called dispatch to report the shooting and told responding officers she believed the victim’s apartment was her own when she entered it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/07/dallas-cop-fatally-shoots-neighbor-in-his-apartment-after-mistaking-it-for-her-own-police-say.html
FFS
Shoot & Killed a completely innocent man!!!
No fucking charges ::) Jeez I struggle to believe this crap is real.
The stupid bitch shouldn’t have a badge - let alone be anywhere near a Gun.
"I won't go into that information right now," Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a spokesman for the police department, said. "I mean, we have not interviewed her, and like I said this is just a preliminary statement. We still have a lot to do in this investigation. ... This is all we can give you at this time."
Notice this from the article:
They haven't even interviewed her. Is this so she can have time to make up her story? You would think that police would want to interview suspects and witnesses as soon as possible. But when it comes to cops committing crimes they are often given time to interact with others and corroborate their story. Let's see how this turns out.
Notice this from the article:
They haven't even interviewed her. Is this so she can have time to make up her story? You would think that police would want to interview suspects and witnesses as soon as possible. But when it comes to cops committing crimes they are often given time to interact with others and corroborate their story. Let's see how this turns out.
Here is the reasoning for it
Unlike citizens, cops don't have the option of not cooperating or not giving a statement. Over time, history has shown that statements taken immediately after a traumatic experience aren't always as accurate as statements taken when a person has had time to calm down and reflect. Yes, you could say they can also make up a story but that's not an overwhelming reason to get what will likely be an incomplete statement right away. And a citizen correcting their earlier statement isn't viewed in the same light as an officer correcting an earlier statement. The latter is automatically viewed by many in the public of being a part of a cover up or lie. So they are given 72 hrs to collect their thoughts, review their reports and give a complete statement.
I can tell you that there were times when I was involved in an incident I thought X happened. For example, after a shooting incident and chase (not an officer involved shooting) after catching the shooter, adrenaline was high it was a chaotic scene. I remembered putting the suspect in my partners back seat. Would have sworn to it. When I watched the video, I was surprised to see that shortly before we walked him to the street, another unit had pulled up and that is the car we put him in. Small thing, but certainly could have been made to look like I was lying.
So yeah, officers get 72 hrs, but, they are also compelled to cooperate and give statements and answer all the questions.
A man was shot and killed by an armed and violent thug but since she happened to have a badge it’s just a “mistake”. No arrest, no charges not even the name of the killer is released.Fucked up. Sitting around in your chonies, watching South Park, eating pork rinds and chugging a beer when some slut comes walking in and caps your ass on your own couch.
Dallas cop fatally shoots neighbor in his apartment after mistaking it for her own
A Dallas police officer returning home from work shot and killed a neighbor on Thursday after she mistook his apartment for her own, police said.
The Dallas Police Department said in a news release on Friday the officer had arrived at her apartment complex in uniform after working a shift. She called dispatch to report the shooting and told responding officers she believed the victim’s apartment was her own when she entered it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/07/dallas-cop-fatally-shoots-neighbor-in-his-apartment-after-mistaking-it-for-her-own-police-say.html
Here is the reasoning for itOf course you would defend the killer.
Unlike citizens, cops don't have the option of not cooperating or not giving a statement. Over time, history has shown that statements taken immediately after a traumatic experience aren't always as accurate as statements taken when a person has had time to calm down and reflect. Yes, you could say they can also make up a story but that's not an overwhelming reason to get what will likely be an incomplete statement right away. And a citizen correcting their earlier statement isn't viewed in the same light as an officer correcting an earlier statement. The latter is automatically viewed by many in the public of being a part of a cover up or lie. So they are given 72 hrs to collect their thoughts, review their reports and give a complete statement.
I can tell you that there were times when I was involved in an incident I thought X happened. For example, after a shooting incident and chase (not an officer involved shooting) after catching the shooter, adrenaline was high it was a chaotic scene. I remembered putting the suspect in my partners back seat. Would have sworn to it. When I watched the video, I was surprised to see that shortly before we walked him to the street, another unit had pulled up and that is the car we put him in. Small thing, but certainly could have been made to look like I was lying.
So yeah, officers get 72 hrs, but, they are also compelled to cooperate and give statements and answer all the questions.
A man was shot and killed by an armed and violent thug but since she happened to have a badge it’s just a “mistake”. No arrest, no charges not even the name of the killer is released.
Dallas cop fatally shoots neighbor in his apartment after mistaking it for her own
A Dallas police officer returning home from work shot and killed a neighbor on Thursday after she mistook his apartment for her own, police said.
The Dallas Police Department said in a news release on Friday the officer had arrived at her apartment complex in uniform after working a shift. She called dispatch to report the shooting and told responding officers she believed the victim’s apartment was her own when she entered it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/07/dallas-cop-fatally-shoots-neighbor-in-his-apartment-after-mistaking-it-for-her-own-police-say.html
Fucked up. Sitting around in your chonies, watching South Park, eating pork rinds and chugging a beer when some slut comes walking in and caps your ass on your own couch.
She needs to fry for that.
Of course you would defend the killer.
How the hell do you get that I'm defending anyone by giving background on a process... jesus h christ
Here is the reasoning for it
Unlike citizens, cops don't have the option of not cooperating or not giving a statement.
Over time, history has shown that statements taken immediately after a traumatic experience aren't always as accurate as statements taken when a person has had time to calm down and reflect.
Yes, you could say they can also make up a story but that's not an overwhelming reason to get what will likely be an incomplete statement right away.
And a citizen correcting their earlier statement isn't viewed in the same light as an officer correcting an earlier statement.
The latter is automatically viewed by many in the public of being a part of a cover up or lie. So they are given 72 hrs to collect their thoughts, review their reports and give a complete statement.
I can tell you that there were times when I was involved in an incident I thought X happened. For example, after a shooting incident and chase (not an officer involved shooting) after catching the shooter, adrenaline was high it was a chaotic scene. I remembered putting the suspect in my partners back seat. Would have sworn to it. When I watched the video, I was surprised to see that shortly before we walked him to the street, another unit had pulled up and that is the car we put him in. Small thing, but certainly could have been made to look like I was lying.
So yeah, officers get 72 hrs, but, they are also compelled to cooperate and give statements and answer all the questions.
So if the Exact situation was the other way round & He had shot the Bitch dead mistakenly
He would be given 72hrs before having to make a statement So he could calm his
Mind and get the facts in the correct order.
As History has shown taking a statement after a traumatic event aren’t always as accurate.
Would’ve he been given the same treatment?? Simple Yes or No answer Please.
It's not a yes or no answer sorry. The answer is the citizen would have the option of NEVER giving a statement, ever. That is the difference. And Avxo, while cops are both citizens and cops, cops have the civil service they operate under as well as state and federal law. So while you are correct a cop ultimately has the choice of not saying anything, they will be terminated for not complying with civil service and department policy directives.
Right, so they are not compelled.The police collect statements at the scene all the time, they don't wait 72 hours for anything.
Affording cops and only cops 72 hours to calm down and collect their thoughts before a statement is wrong, especially if you, as you claim, getting accurate statements in the immediate aftermath of an event is not possible.
It's not a yes or no answer sorry. The answer is the citizen would have the option of NEVER giving a statement, ever. That is the difference. And Avxo, while cops are both citizens and cops, cops have the civil service they operate under as well as state and federal law. So while you are correct a cop ultimately has the choice of not saying anything, they will be terminated for not complying with civil service and department policy directives.
Right, so they are not compelled.
Affording cops and only cops 72 hours to calm down and collect their thoughts before a statement is wrong, especially if you, as you claim, getting accurate statements in the immediate aftermath of an event is not possible.
Yes it was a Yes / No answer.
That’s what I asked.
That murdering bitch needs terminating ASAP.
Take the job title away
Take the uniform away
Take the badge away
You have human beings & Your trying to justify how it’s fair for one set of humans to get 72hrs
To compose themselves & The other Humans Not allowed It.
That’s Totally & utterly Wrong & Double Standards.
I thought Better of you than that.
we can agree to disagree.Most cops, I would say 99% are interested in keeping their jobs and will give a statement within the time frame. Compared to citizens who do not have to give a statement at any time.. this is fair
No. It’s demonstrably not fair to have a caste-like system, where cops—who we are reminded all the time, are highly trained—are afforded 72 hours of quiet reflection in the aftermath of an incident to collect their thoughts to be followed by, in most cases, a friendly chat with your coworkers. It’s not fair because a non-cop would, in similar circumstances, end up getting arrested on the spot and interrogated, a process that you well know is adversarial and during which cops not only can and do lie, but also leverage several psychological tricks to extract a confession.Can't help you. I this case, she was arrested. the system worked
It’s demonstrably not fair when a cop can be pulled over while driving and found to be too drunk to even remember his name and will get a ride home, but a civilian will be arrested because a cop claims to have smelled alcohol and spotted bloodshot eyes. And that is just one example.
It’s demonstrably not fair when a cop is caught falsifying a police report—an official document—and I don’t mean an inconsequential mistake, like your example about which unit a perp was placed in; I mean writing up a complete fabrication which, if proven to be a fabrication, will end up sweeped under the rug, whereas a civilian can and frequently does suffer serious consequences for “lying to the police” because of an honest mistake in a statement, often in response to a leading question.
If a cop did nothing wrong, he should want to get his side out as soon as possible and writing his report should not require 72 hours of quiet reflection. And if he did something wrong, he can—and should—shut the fuck up and not talk to the police, but he should not expect to keep his job.
You’ve told us many times that you were a good and honest cop. I have no reason to doubt that. But that doesn’t make you objective. You’re firmly on one side of the thin blue line and your views are tainted very deeply blue. Which is why you can’t see the injustice in a system where a badge affords the badgeholder more rights than the rest of us.
Can't help you. I this case, she was arrested. the system worked
She was, and the outrage probably had a lot to do with it. I’ll ask you point blank: if I walked into the wrong apartment and shot someone, would I have gotten the same courtesy as she did because of her employment status?
I do appreciate that. But if I am torn between telling the facts as they are, and keeping your respect, I have to side with facts. As I said earlier, I am not defending her I was explaining the history behind the 72 hr rule.
Yes it was a Yes / No answer.
That’s what I asked.
That murdering bitch needs terminating ASAP.
Take the job title away
Take the uniform away
Take the badge away
You have human beings & Your trying to justify how it’s fair for one set of humans to get 72hrs
To compose themselves & The other Humans Not allowed It.
That’s Totally & utterly Wrong & Double Standards.
It's September and after a nice, long vacation, school's back in session. Let's learn together!
First, let's get a couple of things straight: The Fifth Amendment extends to everyone under its jurisdiction; that is, it extends to citizens and non-citizens alike. You likely meant to say "civilian" (a dreadful reminder of how militarized your profession has become), but even that would be wrong: the Fifth Amendment does not make exceptions for cops. The Fifth Amendment begins with "No person shall" and it doesn't include an exception for Cops.
If accurate statements are what's important and we know that people are unable to give accurate statements in the immediate aftermath of an incident—which does seem at least reasonable—should we not afford every the same courtesy of a cooldown and reflection period to everyone? Because, surely this inability to provide an accurate statement isn't something that only affects cops, right?
I could also say that time appears to be of the essence in every other investigation, except when cops are involved. I could also say that it's better to have as much information collected as soon after the incident as practicable, and allow for follow-up interviews, as necessary.
And do you blame the public? Not a day goes by when cops are caught in blatant lies; check out for one particularly egregious example (https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/photographers-rights/police-accidentally-record-themselves-conspiring-fabricate).
It's one thing to be mistaken about which unit you put the perp in; after all, all cop cars look alike. It's also something that's largely inconsequential (thought I'm sure an attorney would relish the opportunity to grill you over it in front of the jury to gain some points).
Yes, cops have to write reports about incidents they are involved in in their official capacity as cops. Airline pilots have to write reports if they declare an emergency, or they dip into their reserve fuel. University instructors have to write reports when a student complains about a grade. Doctors have to write reports after they finish giving your prostate a thorough tickling.
But they can't be compelled to testify against themselves. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and it firmly establishes our right to not answer any questions. This means that a cop could opt to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to not write the report and not answer questions. He'd lose his job, probably—and that's how it should be—but he could not be "compelled to cooperate and give statements and answer all the questions" anymore than any other person can be.
again... you would have the right to not answer questions, the officer, if they wished to maintain their jobs, would not.
Notice how you’ve shifted.
Originally, it was “well, in the aftermath it’s hard to give accurate statements, so the extra time helps make sure what they say is right.” No explanation for why only cops benefit from that period of quiet reflection.
When challenged, you moved to the “well cops are compelled to answer but citizens aren’t” which is, of course not true. Cops can plead the Fifth at any time.
And when that was pointed out you pivoted to “Oh, they can’t be compelled but if they want to keep their jobs they must answer.”
I’m not sympathetic. We all have things our jobs require us to do, and if we fail to do them are in jeopardy of being terminated. If a cop did something that he can’t truthfully describe in a report that his job requires him to file because that would lead to his prosecution then, to be blunt, he should lose his job.
Now, you’re like “oh well, she was arrested! The system works.” Yeah, maybe. The outrage and publlicity basically forced the hands of the Police in this instance. Shit, the few facts we know make this such an egregious case that if she weren’t arrested and charged, then we might as well codify that cops are above the law and call it a day.
I wasn’t asking you to clarify the fact cops are given 72hrs.
In all realism she cannot have any defence other than it Being Manslaughter.
I’m asking YOU if you Believe in the double standards
And a Privilege system for some People over Others
It is A Simple Yes / No Answer.
no
Dallas Officer Who Killed Man in His Own Home Says He Ignored Her Commands
Text has a pretty firm castle doctrine and hold your ground. Do you believe the homeowner would be justified in shooting this cop, Agnostic? And do you believe that if he had, he’d have been arrested on the spot?Lmao!! Of course he would have been arrested and charged within 24 hours. Face plastered all over tv, labeled a cop killer and we would have to hear about how she was coming home after a long, hard day on the job and accidentally walked into an ambush.
Dallas Officer Who Killed Man in His Own Home Says He Ignored Her Commands
The New York Times ^ | 10 September 2018 | Sarah Mervosh and Matthew Haag
Posted on 9/10/2018, 10:38:00 PM by Theoria
A Dallas police officer who fatally shot her neighbor in his apartment, claiming she mistook the unit for her own, told the authorities that the door was already ajar when she entered and that she shot him after he ignored verbal commands, according to court records released on Monday.
The officer, Amber R. Guyger, 30, who has been charged with manslaughter, could face additional charges in a case that has led to accusations that the officer received preferential treatment and debate about whether race may have played a role in the deadly encounter between a white police officer and a black man in his home.
On Monday, the Dallas County district attorney, Faith Johnson, insisted that the investigation into the death of the neighbor, Botham Shem Jean, 26, had not ended and that her office could seek charges “including anything from murder to manslaughter.”
“We’ll present a thorough case to the grand jury so that a right decision can be made,” Ms. Johnson said at a news conference.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
She was, and the outrage probably had a lot to do with it. I’ll ask you point blank: if I walked into the wrong apartment and shot someone, would I have gotten the same courtesy as she did because of her employment status?
Text has a pretty firm castle doctrine and hold your ground. Do you believe the homeowner would be justified in shooting this cop, Agnostic? And do you believe that if he had, he’d have been arrested on the spot?
As it has been mentioned many times before, we are dealing with criminal gangs here.
NYPD officers arrested in prostitution, gambling probe
Seven New York City police officers were arrested Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging gambling and prostitution inquiry, multiple media outlets reported.
According to the New York Post, the investigation centered on a retired vice detective who operated multiple brothels in Brooklyn and Queens with his prostitute wife.
WABC-TV reported that the arrested officers — three sergeants, two detectives and two officers — are suspected of providing protection for the ring.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/12/nypd-officers-arrested-in-prostitution-gambling-probe.html
"Reasonable" and "justified" as always...
‘You Killed My Son!’ Cop Kills Unarmed Boy in Courtroom In Front of His Mom—No Charges
Franklin County, OH — As TFTP reported at the beginning of the year, in juvenile court, a 16-year-old boy intervened after a police officer allegedly pushed his mother against the wall—so the police officer shot and killed him. Now, it’s just been announced that the officer who killed the unarmed boy was justified in doing so.
A Franklin County Grand Jury ruled that Deputy Richard Scarborough, who shot and killed the unarmed boy, was justified and his use of deadly force “reasonable under the law.”
The boy who was killed in January for allegedly intervening to help his mother fend off a cop was Joseph Haynes and he was unarmed.
As ABC 6 reports, Karen Haynes says as they were leaving the courtroom, she blocked the deputy with her arm and he pinned her to the wall. She says her son was coming to her defense when he grabbed the deputy by the shoulders. That’s when Haynes says Scarborough grabbed Joseph, flipping him on to the ground, and was on top of him when the shot was fired.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-you-killed-my-son-cop-kills-unarmed-boy-in-courtroom-in-front-of-his-mom-no-charges/
"Reasonable" and "justified" as always...
‘You Killed My Son!’ Cop Kills Unarmed Boy in Courtroom In Front of His Mom—No Charges
Franklin County, OH — As TFTP reported at the beginning of the year, in juvenile court, a 16-year-old boy intervened after a police officer allegedly pushed his mother against the wall—so the police officer shot and killed him. Now, it’s just been announced that the officer who killed the unarmed boy was justified in doing so.
A Franklin County Grand Jury ruled that Deputy Richard Scarborough, who shot and killed the unarmed boy, was justified and his use of deadly force “reasonable under the law.”
The boy who was killed in January for allegedly intervening to help his mother fend off a cop was Joseph Haynes and he was unarmed.
As ABC 6 reports, Karen Haynes says as they were leaving the courtroom, she blocked the deputy with her arm and he pinned her to the wall. She says her son was coming to her defense when he grabbed the deputy by the shoulders. That’s when Haynes says Scarborough grabbed Joseph, flipping him on to the ground, and was on top of him when the shot was fired.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-you-killed-my-son-cop-kills-unarmed-boy-in-courtroom-in-front-of-his-mom-no-charges/
Man I don't know. I believe the homeowner would be justified in shooting the cop. I just don't know if the homeowner would be arrested on the spot. I'd like to think they wouldn't but man I just don't know for sure.
And the victim blaming has begun: “We did a search and found marijuana!” The guy could have been running the biggest illegal dispensary in the world and he’d still be the victim here.
http://www.fox4news.com/news/search-warrant-marijuana-found-in-botham-jeans-apartment-after-deadly-shooting
There have been several warrants signed by judges and executed in this case aside from the arrest warrant for Guyger and the search warrant signed September 7 that were returned to the court on Thursday. The others are still sealed and not accessible.
The inventory return yielded:
2 fired cartridge casings
1 laptop computer
1 black backpack with police equipment and paperwork
1 insulated lunch box
1 black ballistic vest with "police" markings
10.4 grams of marijuana in ziplock bags
1 metal marijuana grinder
2 RFID keys
2 used packages of medical aid
The document does not say where any of the items were located in the apartment or who the items belong to.
That's honest of you
The awful behaviour of members of this gang is becoming hard to ignore
And defend - just look at the other posts on just this page and more of
the same type of behaviour is seen - let alone all that gets covered up
these bits are just the tip of the ice berg.
we've said it many many times on here there is something very wrong
with cops & policing in general.
No Doubt there are some very Good & Decent Cops Its Time for the
Good & decent ones to take a Stand & identify & speak out,
Otherwise they are condoning the Behaviour of the bad ones.
Just Like The Good Black folk not speak out against the huge number
of Black on Black shootings & Dindu Behaviour - The majority remain
silent.
BLM swing into action when a white person kills a Black.. ::) ::)
Exactly. Of primary importance to the police is whether one of their own is involved in the crime. The "us" (the sentinels of order and arbiters of law) and "them" (lowly scum who plot against us and must be scoured) mentality is very much alive (unlike so many of their victims).
Notice this:
I wonder if the killer's home was also searched and the search was part of the still sealed warrants.
So at this point the marijuana could have belonged to the cop or someone else or it might have even been planted by the cops. But as it often happens in these cases there is an attempt to divert the spotlight from the fact that a uniformed thug broke in to an apartment and then shot and killed the occupant and also that the killer was given 72 hours to make up her story while remaining anonymous and free (a privilege granted only to thugs with a badge).
Whether the occupant of the apartment possessed marijuana is irrelevant in this case. As mentioned, the victimy could have been running the biggest illegal dispensary in the world and it would not matter in this context. A person has every right to be in his apartment or residence. An intruder does not. "Issuing verbal commands" (gotta use cop language to appear "authoritative") does not matter in this case. If anything it should be working against the killer. The police will usually decline to comment when it comes to the cops involved in crimes citing "pending investigations" but they don't seem to have an issue with revealing (or leaking) information when that can be used to discredit the victim or support the cops' story. If the killer ends up in prison it will probably be because of the publicity that this story has received. Several other anonymous people whose cases haven't received publicity have been killed, attacked and abused by cops and usually nothing happens to the attackers.
Interestingly enough the cops searched the victim's apartment but it appears they didn't get a warrant to search inside the killer's apartment. So the killer "officer" was allowed to roam free for 72 hours after killing an innocent man in his own apartment, have ample time to make up or corroborate her story while enjoying the anonymity that her badge provides and now, according to this article, she had enough time to "vacate" her apartment. So even if the cops decided to conduct a search now (a week later), it is unlikely they would find something useful.Hahaaaa thin blue line!
Hahaaaa thin blue line!
Citizens have little they can do when they want action against cops. They are always told to "file a complaint". In this case, a man tried to do just that and the cop tracked him down, broke into his home, beat him and arrested him. This is one of the rare times that a uniformed violent criminal is imprisoned and still for all this abuse he only got 4 years in prison. It should have been 40 years.
Press release from a "police hating" website:
Former Kentucky Police Officer Sentenced for Wrongful Arrest
Officer Illegally Arrested Citizen After The Citizen Attempted To File Complaints Against Him
William Dukes, Jr., a former sergeant with the Providence, Kentucky, Police Department, was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for willfully depriving a Kentucky citizen of his constitutional rights under color of law, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman for the Western District of Kentucky.
The jury found that Dukes willfully violated the Constitution by arresting the victim, while knowing that he did not have probable cause to believe that the victim had committed any crime. The evidence presented at trial established that after the victim called the authorities seeking to file a complaint about an earlier interaction with Dukes, he wrongfully arrested the victim.
The jury heard evidence presented in court that when the victim called the Providence Police Department to complain about Dukes, Dukes responded by threatening to arrest him if he called back again. Still determined to file a complaint, the victim then called the local sheriff’s office and the Kentucky State Police. When Dukes became aware of these additional calls, he drove to the victim’s home in the middle of the night, without a warrant, to arrest him.
Upon arriving at the victim’s home after 1 a.m., Dukes attempted to arrest the victim based solely on the phone calls he had made complaining about Dukes. When the victim insisted he had done nothing wrong and retreated into his home, Dukes entered the victim’s home without a warrant. Dukes then tased the victim, sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, struck him repeatedly with a police baton, and punched him in the face, breaking the victim’s nose. Next, Dukes handcuffed the victim and charged him with four crimes, including a charge of property damage because blood from the victim’s broken nose got onto Dukes’s police uniform.
The jury convicted Dukes of willfully violating the victim’s constitutional rights, and found that the offense involved the use of a dangerous weapon or resulted in bodily injury.
“Police officers have a duty to protect the rights of members of their communities and safeguard them from harm or injury,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore. “Dukes abused his authority as a law enforcement officer by illegally arresting his victim and also by inflicting unwarranted physical harm, and the Justice Department held him responsible.”
“Kentucky lawmen and women are among the finest in the nation,” said U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman “But when they cross a clear line, as did Mr. Dukes, they will be held accountable like any other citizen of our Commonwealth.”
This case was investigated by the Louisville Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Seth Hancock of the Western District of Kentucky and Trial Attorney Zachary Dembo of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-kentucky-police-officer-sentenced-wrongful-arrest
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Notice how the other accomplices treat the scumbag like some sort of brave hero returning from the war zone:
Is that what you got out of my post? LOL 3 ways available and her partners didn't bother to use a single one?
Chaos. Do you know for a fact she didn't give consent to have her apartment searched? Do you? Did you know, there are at least 3 ways available to the cops to search her apartment? A warrant, consent and exigent circumstances. The latter wouldn't apply but the 1st 2 certainly do.
Is that what you got out of my post? LOL 3 ways available and her partners didn't bother to use a single one?
DO YOU KNOW FOR A FACT HER APT WASN'T Searched. YES OR NONobody knows, the big blue wall doesn't talk.
This armed and violent criminal tried to kill the man (and threatened to shoot him for a second time while the man was suffering on the ground from his wounds) but it is unlikely that this will be treated as attempted murder since the criminal had a uniform and claimed that he "feared for his life". The incident happened over 10 months ago but only a portion of the footage was released now. Let's see if the armed and violent attacker will end up in prison and for how long.
Innocent Unarmed Man Begs For His Life, As Cop Shoots Him Over Stealing His OWN CAR
Dallas, TX – Disturbing body camera footage has been released from the shooting of a man who police claimed was mistaken for a thief as he sat in the vehicle he owned. The video shows that when the man was approached by an officer, he attempted to comply before he was shot twice in the back.
Lyndo Jones is lucky to be alive after his encounter with police in November 2017 left him with severe injuries that forced him to spend several days in the intensive care unit. It has taken several months, but some footage from the night Jones was shot has finally been released, and it shows that the officer who confronted him was agitated from the start.
Officer Derick Wiley, a 10-year veteran of the Mesquite Police Department, started by approaching the vehicle with his gun raised, pointed at Jones, who was sitting the driver’s seat.
“Put your hands up! Or I will fucking shoot you,” Wiley yelled as soon as Jones started to slowly open the door.
“Get out of the truck and get on the ground! Get on the ground,” Wiley continued, and Jones appeared to comply, although it was clear that the man was confused as to why he was being confronted and screamed at by a police officer.
Jones attempted to speak, and Wiley immediately yelled, “I don’t give a fuck… get on the ground. Put your hands on your head!”
Jones complied, and Wiley then walked over to him and started saying “Turn over. Turn over on your stomach. Fucking turn over.”
The body camera turns so that Jones is out of view, and Wiley can be heard yelling, “Stay on the ground before I shoot you!”
Jones could then be heard responding, “Yes sir, yes sir. I’m on the ground, man.”
Wiley continued to yell at Jones, even though the footage shows that he was clearly complying with the officer’s orders. He appeared to escalate the situation by pushing his left foot into the man’s back, even though Jones was laying on the ground with his hands behind his back, and he did not look like he was trying to flee.
As soon as Wiley began using force, Jones turned his head and asked, “What are you doing, man? What are you doing?” and the officer responded by placing his hands on Jones’ throat.
As soon as Wiley tried to choke him, Jones then began scooting backward and got to his feet. Instead of lunging at the officer or making any moves towards him, Jones backed away and began pleading with Wiley and begging him not to shoot.
Wiley wasted no time and responded by firing two shots at Jones, hitting him in the back.
The most disturbing part of the video occurs after Wiley has just fired his weapon when Jones collapses to the ground and is seen writhing in pain. Even though it is clear that Wiley is on the ground, and his mobility is limited because he was just shot—therefore he poses even less of a threat to the officer—Wiley continues to yell.
“451 shots fired,” Wiley yelled into his radio, and then because his colleagues were listening, he continued to yell at Jones as if Jones was a threat to him, “Stay on the ground! Shots fired! I will shoot you again!”
The video ends as Wiley screams one final command, for Jones to put his hands behind his back, and the injured man is seen attempting to do so, even though he must have been in an incredible amount of pain, and no one was attempting to call in any aid for him.
As The Free Thought Project reported, police then continued to violate Jones’ civil rights, and while he was in the ICU recovering from the gunshot wounds, his attorneys claimed he was treated like a criminal, chained to the bed and forcibly interviewed by police when his legal counsel was not present.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-innocent-unarmed-man-begs-for-his-life-as-cop-shoots-him-over-stealing-his-own-car/
The Dallas Police Department general orders do allow the chief to take action, saying, "The Chief of Police may circumvent all formal disciplinary procedures to render an immediate decision when it deems it necessary to preserve the integrity of the department.”
The general orders are the policies that officers have to follow and are governed by within the department.
This took them a while. Notice the reason as well. "Engaged in adverse conduct when she was arrested for Manslaughter."
What's more interesting is that initially the police chief said she couldn't fire the killer (https://www.wfaa.com/article/guy-over-botham-jean-right-away-dpd-general-orders-say-otherwise/287-596185930): “I can’t do that because there are both local, state and federal laws that prohibit me from taking action. There are civil service laws we have to adhere to"
There were arguments that she could have fired the killer before that:
Apparently the "local, state and federal laws" that "prohibited" the police chief from taking action against the killer a few weeks ago, didn't seem to prohibit her today.
Dallas police officer accused in neighbor's death fired
DALLAS – A white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor inside his own apartment was fired Monday, the same day the man was being buried in his Caribbean homeland.
Police Chief U. Renee Hall dismissed Officer Amber Guyger during a hearing Monday, according to a statement posted on Twitter . Guyger is charged with manslaughter in the Sept. 6 shooting that left 26-year-old Botham Jean dead, and she was fired because of her arrest, according to Dallas police.
Court records show Guyger said she thought she had encountered a burglar inside her own home. She turned herself in three days later , and is currently out on bond.
A statement from police said an internal investigation concluded that on Sept. 9, Guyger "engaged in adverse conduct when she was arrested for Manslaughter." Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell later said that when an officer has been arrested for a crime, "adverse conduct" is often cited in the officer's termination.
Mitchell said that adverse conduct is "conduct which adversely affects the (morale) or efficiency of the Department or which has a tendency to adversely affect, lower, destroy public respect and confidence in the Department or officer."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/24/dallas-police-officer-accused-in-neighbors-death-fired.html
This is how you deal with criminal gangs.
Entire Mexican police force arrested after mayoral candidate’s murder
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A Mexican town’s entire police force has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a mayoral candidate.
The 28 officers from the town of Ocampo in the western state of Michoacan were arrested Sunday on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Fernando Angeles Juarez.
Juarez, 64, was running as the candidate for the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution in Ocampo, before being shot dead June 21.
State officials took the cops in for having alleged ties with criminal groups possibly involved in the candidate’s killing, El Universal reported.
Public Security Director Venancio Colin was chased out by 16 Ocampo cops in a hail of bullets when he first tried to arrest them Saturday, sources told the paper.
He came back Sunday with reinforcements and arrested the entire force, who were cuffed and taken to the state capital for questioning.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/25/entire-mexican-police-force-arrested-after-mayoral-candidates-murder/
The "heroes" who "serve and protect". Stealing Christmas gift money from the pocket of a dying elderly man...
Cop Caught on Own Body Cam Stealing Dying Elderly Man’s Christmas Money
TEXAS CITY, Texas (CN) – A widow claims in court that a former Texas City police officer found her husband unconscious on the side of the road with more than $2,000 in cash meant for Christmas gifts and stole the money, just before the man died.
Linda Mabe sued Texas City and former police officer Linnard Crouch Jr. in Galveston federal court Wednesday, claiming Crouch stole $2,400 in cash from her husband, James Mabe, while he was incapacitated on the side of the road.
Instead of returning the full amount, Crouch gave Mabe less than $300 in a “stack of $1.00 bills that James kept in the center console of the truck he drove,” according to the complaint.
“Some people would call that theft,” Linda’s attorney Randall Kallinen said during a press conference Thursday. “Many would call that theft.”
Linda’s husband was robbed by Crouch, victimized by someone who was supposed to protect and serve the public, she said during the press conference.
Crouch resigned from his position as a Texas City police officer on Jan. 30, according to a press release issued by the police department on Thursday.
“Mr. Crouch is facing criminal charges of theft and possession of a controlled substance,” the press release states. “These charges have been presented to the Galveston County District Attorney’s Office and will be presented to a grand jury upon completion of the investigation.”
The police department declined to give any additional details in the press release, citing the ongoing investigation.
Kallinen said that if the Texas City Police Department had taken more decisive action after several infractions, the incident involving Mabe and Crouch would not have occurred.
He also suggested that the Texas City District Attorney’s Office could face repercussions for corruption if they had failed to correct Crouch’s actions after repeated infractions.
On Dec. 19, 2016, Linda gave her husband the money to buy Christmas presents for the family, according to the complaint.
“Linda and James loved the Christmas Season with the family tradition for more than 45 years being that Linda and James would host a huge Christmas meal followed by the exchange and opening of Christmas gifts,” the lawsuit states.
Mabe didn’t complete the trip and stopped on the side of the road when he “felt that something was wrong physically,” according to the complaint.
Texas City police received a call about the vehicle and sent Crouch to investigate.
“After opening James’ locked truck door, Officer Crouch then reached into James’ right front pocket and removed James’ $2,400 in Christmas present money and other money,” the complaint states. “Officer Crouch never reported the $2,400 and other money [and] instead gave back less than $300.”
A police department memo from January corroborates Linda’s allegations.
“I have reviewed Officer Crouch’s body camera video and have observed Officer Crouch to have removed money from Mr. Mabe’s right front pocket he appears not to have reported,” according to the memo written by Assistant Chief Joe Stanton to Police Chief Robert Burby.
Crouch was suspended last year prior to the incident described in the lawsuit after several complaints were filed against him, dating back to 2011.
The former officer failed to complete incident reports, left information out of other completed reports and failed to wear his body camera at all times while on duty, according to a 68-page notice of suspension and a list of official complaints included as an exhibit with the plaintiff’s lawsuit.
Notices from the list characterized Crouch pattern of actions as “dereliction” and “neglect of duty,” but he didn’t resign until after the Mabe incident.
After emergency services were called, Mabe was taken to a local emergency room where he died later that evening, according to the complaint. His family says his heart failed.
Crouch met with Linda and her son, Michael Mabe, at the emergency room to return James’ personal belongings, the complaint states.
He handed them a baggie with a few hundred dollars inside and allegedly told them that the money was the only personal possession he had found on James.
According to the complaint, Crouch had also breached protocol by giving Linda and Michael the money directly instead of the usual documenting of property by the police department’s inventory process.
Michael said during Thursday’s press conference that the police department and district attorney did not believe that Crouch had taken his family’s money.
He said he didn’t find out about the department’s memo acknowledging the video proof of theft until he requested documents from the department.
When asked who he blames for the incident, Michael said there was “more than enough anger to go around.”
He said that in addition to seeking justice for his mother, he wants to help ensure that “this doesn’t happen to someone else” after seeing his mother’s “day-to-day struggle” since the incident in December.
Michael also indicated that his mother’s lawsuit was filed to focus on the alleged crimes committed, rather than reimbursement of the $2,400.
“The Mabe family’s Christmas, made so sad by James’ death, was shocking and appalling due to the theft or taking by a police officer of the Mabe’s Christmas money,” the lawsuit states.
Linda Mabe seeks punitive damages against Texas City and Crouch for alleged Fourth Amendment and due-process violations. Her attorney, Kallinen, is based in Houston.
Crouch could not be reached for comment.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-caught-body-cam-stealing-dying-elderly-mans-christmas-money/
Remember the deranged "logic" that cops and the government often employ? "If you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of?"
Ironic how they cite "unwanted invasion of personal privacy" as one of the reasons for not releasing information but when it comes to lowly plebs (i.e. non-cops) they rarely seem to have an issue with invading their privacy.
Dallas police, DA refuse to release officer's 911 call, other info related to Botham Jean killing
The city of Dallas refuses to release a recording of the 911 call that Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger made after she fatally shot Botham Jean in his apartment last month. Assistant City Attorney Pavala Armstrong wrote that releasing the information would interfere with the investigation into the Sept. 6 shooting.
Other records that police and prosecutors refuse to release include:
- Guyger's personnel file
- Records related to her shooting of a man she said took her Taser during a struggle in 2017
- Guyger's clock-in and clock-out times the day of the shooting
- Guyger's annual salary
- Previous administrative leave with the department
- Other 911 calls about the shooting
- Guyger's work schedule
- Body camera and dash camera videos
- Any off-duty jobs she was approved to work
The city cited a variety of other reasons for withholding the information, including that the release of some items would represent "an unwanted invasion of personal privacy" and would be "highly intimate or embarrassing and of no legitimate concern to the public."
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-police/2018/10/02/everything-city-dallas-wont-tell-death-botham-jean
Remember this case? A 74 year old man was about to purchase some Christmas gifts with some money that his wife gave him. On his way to the shops he started having chest pain so he pulled over and called for help. The "officer" who "swore" to "serve and protect" didn't help the man, but in this time of need when seconds count, he proceeded to rob him and take his money. This was captured on his bodycam. The poor man later died in the hospital. But that's not all. Not only did he steal $2400 but he later went to the hospital where the man died and gave his grieving wife just $300. Life in prison is the very least that this scumbag deserves but he's no ordinary pleb: he is a uniformed criminal with a badge so of course he got no prison time... And if you look at his record, we are talking about a ruthless and violent career criminal.
Cop Caught on Own Body Cam Stealing Dying Elderly Man’s Money Instead of Helping Him—NO JAIL
Texas City, TX — Officer Linnard R. Crouch was seen on his own body camera—not helping a 74-year-old man who was having a heart attack—but robbing him. The elderly victim, James Mabe had the cash to go buy Christmas presents for his grandchildren, but because the cop robbed him instead of helped him he’d never make it. Now, the officer who stole a dying elderly man’s Christmas money will not be going to jail.
Last month, with almost no news coverage, Crouch pleaded guilty to robbing the elderly dying man. Instead of being punished for his utter betrayal of public trust and despicable act, Crouch was given probation and will not spend one day behind bars.
But that’s not all, Crouch has a history of corruption. Crouch was suspended prior to robbing a dying elderly man on Chirstmas after several complaints were filed against him, dating back to 2011.
The former officer failed to complete incident reports, left information out of other completed reports and failed to wear his body camera at all times while on duty, according to a 68-page notice of suspension and a list of official complaints included as an exhibit with Linda Mabe’s lawsuit filed last year.
What’s more, he was also facing an aggravated assault charge stemming from an incident involving a gun and his girlfriend, according to the Dallas Morning News. But as part of the plea deal, that charge was dismissed.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-steals-elderly-mans-christmas-money/
Police dog attacks and mauls ordinary people? "Good boy!"
Police dog attacks cops? "Kill the dog!"
Waco PD dog killed after it attacks handler
A Waco officer shot and killed a police dog Friday after the dog bit its handler while police served a warrant, authorities said.
This isn’t the first episode in which a police dog had to be shot when it attacked an officer in the line of duty. In July 2001, Waco police shot and killed the department’s 3-year-old Dutch shepherd named Blur when the dog and its handler, Waco police Officer John Allovio, were searching for a stolen car suspect in the 800 block of Harlem Avenue. The dog attacked another officer who approached him from behind.
https://www.wacotrib.com/news/police/waco-pd-dog-killed-after-it-attacks-handler/article_4ec7a685-9772-59ed-b367-3c6c1a67b546.html
U guys having fun?
Remember this case? A 74 year old man was about to purchase some Christmas gifts with some money that his wife gave him. On his way to the shops he started having chest pain so he pulled over and called for help. The "officer" who "swore" to "serve and protect" didn't help the man, but in this time of need when seconds count, he proceeded to rob him and take his money. This was captured on his bodycam. The poor man later died in the hospital. But that's not all. Not only did he steal $2400 but he later went to the hospital where the man died and gave his grieving wife just $300. Life in prison is the very least that this scumbag deserves but he's no ordinary pleb: he is a uniformed criminal with a badge so of course he got no prison time... And if you look at his record, we are talking about a ruthless and violent career criminal.
Cop Caught on Own Body Cam Stealing Dying Elderly Man’s Money Instead of Helping Him—NO JAIL
Texas City, TX — Officer Linnard R. Crouch was seen on his own body camera—not helping a 74-year-old man who was having a heart attack—but robbing him. The elderly victim, James Mabe had the cash to go buy Christmas presents for his grandchildren, but because the cop robbed him instead of helped him he’d never make it. Now, the officer who stole a dying elderly man’s Christmas money will not be going to jail.
Last month, with almost no news coverage, Crouch pleaded guilty to robbing the elderly dying man. Instead of being punished for his utter betrayal of public trust and despicable act, Crouch was given probation and will not spend one day behind bars.
But that’s not all, Crouch has a history of corruption. Crouch was suspended prior to robbing a dying elderly man on Chirstmas after several complaints were filed against him, dating back to 2011.
The former officer failed to complete incident reports, left information out of other completed reports and failed to wear his body camera at all times while on duty, according to a 68-page notice of suspension and a list of official complaints included as an exhibit with Linda Mabe’s lawsuit filed last year.
What’s more, he was also facing an aggravated assault charge stemming from an incident involving a gun and his girlfriend, according to the Dallas Morning News. But as part of the plea deal, that charge was dismissed.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-steals-elderly-mans-christmas-money/
The Dogs even Know & Dislike which are the Thug Gang Members ;D
Not all that funny
No Not if your a Scumbag "Gang" member & you get mauled by your own Dog
Only The Rest of us decent Folk Think They got what they've long deserved & its Hilarious.
No Not at All funny for The Scumbag "Gang" Members Dog - poor thing is shot dead.
Indeed. There are several cases when cops unleash the dogs on handcuffed, cooperative or even innocent people and they laugh at the unnecessary suffering and abuse. However, when it's one of their own that gets attacked, all of a sudden they don't find it that entertaining.
According to Piqua police reports about the incident, Augustine reported the private property crash, telling his supervisor Lt. Rick Byron of the Piqua Police Department that he was trying to urinate near the southeast corner of the building.
Lt. Byron observed “significant damage to the entire passenger side” of Augustine’s patrol vehicle, beginning at the front windshield and ending on the rear quarter panel. The windshield and both passenger side door windows were broken, according to police reports.
When Lt. Byron asked Augustine what happened, Augustine reportedly said again that he was trying to urinate. Augustine said that he was driving 20 mph during the incident. Augustine would also occasionally yell obscenities while he was being questioned.
An officer observed that Augustine’s eyes “were bloodshot and red and that his speech was slow and slurred,” according to police reports. A Four Loko Gold 14 percent alcohol per volume malt beverage can was later located in the driver’s door of Augustine’s personal vehicle. An empty can of the same beverage was also found near the crash scene.
The Piqua Police Department attempted to have Augustine go to the Upper Valley Medical Center to undergo a drug and alcohol screen due to being in an accident with a city-owned vehicle, but he refused. Augustine reportedly admitted to drinking alcohol earlier in the day, but he refused all OVI tests and was placed under an Administrative License Suspension (ALS).
While ordinary plebs who drink and cause accidents (or don't drink but just drive "erratically") are beaten, tazed, arrested, have blood drawn forcibly or even shot or killed, the situation suddenly changes when it involves a cop. Of course he now enjoys paid vacation.
Cop Crashes His Patrol Vehicle While Drunk and Cries Like a Baby As He Gets Blue Privilege
Piqua, OH — Body camera video was released this week showing the extraordinary privilege granted to police officers when they commit crimes that would get the average citizen beaten, tasered, or even killed. A Piqua police department cop crashed his cruiser, while heavily intoxicated, pulled his gun, refused to obey commands, and was told he could simply “go home.”
On October 27, Officer Justin Augustine drove his police cruiser into a semi-trailer. As the body camera shows, he was clearly drunk out of his mind when he self-reported the crash into the flat-bed trailer hauling a concrete barrier used to separate lanes during road construction.
After Augustine had been taken back to the police station, another officer told the supervisor investigating that he felt the supervisor “needed to go on station to deal with Officer Augustine as he appeared to be impaired and was demonstrating odd behavior, to include hugging and kissing him and other officers and telling them that he loved them,” the report read.
As the Piqua Daily Call reports:
As the body camera footage shows, Augustine was entirely uncooperative and at one point, he held his pistol in his hand. Had an average citizen done the same thing, rest assured that they would’ve been killed on the spot.
“I’m done,” Augustine told Lt. Byron as he received his blue privilege. “I can drive fine,” he said as he refused to obey the officer’s commands.
“I might as well be dead,” said the drunk cop. Byron described Augustine as “totally insubordinate” in his report, yet he treated him as if he were his best friend. Byron also noted that Augustine was not wearing his bulletproof vest, saying, that Augustine “drove for an hour without a vest.”
Instead of being arrested and hauled off to jail, Augustine was simply cited for driving drunk, allowed to go home, and placed on paid vacation—blue privilege indeed.
Lt. Byron gave his fellow cop so much leeway that he even considered letting the drunken “Augie” drive home—after he just drove his police cruiser into a semi-trailer.
On Wednesday, Augustine pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated, in spite of admitting to drinking and having a .14 BAC.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-officer-drunk-patrol-vehicle-cries/
Agnostic are you out there ?
What’s your View
Did he receive Special treatment & Are civilians ever Taserd / Beaten or Shot
For similar type Behaviour.
Aren’t cops meant to apply the Law equally & Not Be Above The Law.
hard to take your questions serious when you say a civilian in that instance would be beaten or shot. As Trump would say.. "Thats a stupid question"
What the fuck? Let’s read this again:
A Piqua police department cop crashed his cruiser, while heavily intoxicated, pulled his gun, refused to obey commands, and was told he could simply “go home.”
Cops have shot and killed people for holding cell phones (https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/sacramento-police-shooting/index.html). They tackle grandfathers (https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j54w8b/video-emerges-as-alabama-cop-is-arrested-for-paralyzing-57-year-old-indian-man) and do it with impunity (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/assault-charges-dropped-alabama-cop-who-partially-paralyzed-indian-grandfather-n573806). They brutally beat handcuffed men (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/09/second-officer-walter-scott-video-sued-stomping) and women. If you need more, go back and reread this very thread.
Fact: an encounter with a cop is a scary fucking experience, because your brothers and your sisters in blue are either trigger-happy bullies that are drunk on power or cowards without the moral courage to stomp out the corrupt among themselves and uphold the oath they took.
You’re here, telling us what a good cop you are, and how this shit doesn’t happen in your department. Bullshit. It happens in every department and if you don’t see it, it’s because you aren’t looking. You come on here and defend the indefensible and pretend it’s bevause you have some refined and superior sense of justice.
(https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/11/13/former-skokie-cop-gets-probation-for-shoving-woman-in-cell/)
I didn't really the post you were responding to. Your post was just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe the situation was always this bad but we just didn't know it before. But we are in the era of YouTube and Facebook and this shit gets out and circulates, and now it's not just the word of a cop against a citizen's.
The line must be drawn at some point. And that point is here. We as a society need to say to cops "this far, no farther." You (and I use the plural form) aren't samurai, in the service of a feudal lord. And we aren't serfs who must revere and respect you lest our life be forfeit.
Cops enjoy tremendous privileges and are, in all but the most outrageous of outrageous cases, never subjected to any sort of justice. The norm seems to be the sort of talking to that Andy Griffith would deliver to Opie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KW6tuTJMwE&t=705).
If you aren't outraged with the posts in this thread, I got to tell: you're part of the problem. This stuff should make your blood boil. You say there are cases were cops didn't screw the pooch and that's true enough. But you say that like it's some kind of accomplishment. It's not! I submit to you that that alone should be an indication that something is very very wrong here.
Look back. You really don't know of any cop that lied on the stand? Or someone who roughed up someone while yelling the obligatory "stop resisting"? Who didn't abuse their power even a little bit? You really haven't seen any of those things ever?
I'll ask you an honest question:
All other things being equal, if I was discovered heavily intoxicated, having just crashed my vehicle, and I refused to obey commands and pulled my gun, would I just be told to "go home"? I think that if we're being honest, the answer is no: I'd probably be shot and I'd be lucky to end up in a hospital instead of the morgue.
Blue privilege is as real as that thin blue line; the one that cops drew separate themselves from the hoi polloi; it's a line between those whose life is valuable and matters and those whose life isn't and doesn't. This line is just an example of primitive thinking; a form of tribalism-the tribe of the badge. And like all forms of tribalism, it is wrong and morally repugnant.
hard to take your questions serious when you say a civilian in that instance would be beaten or shot. As Trump would say.. "Thats a stupid question"
Come on AgnosticHe always acts like everyone would be treated equally but we all know cops help cover each others crimes.
Are you Really trying to say That Cop & A Civilian would’ve received the same treatment.
As Trump would say & most others That’s a very stupid point of view.
;D
He always acts like everyone would be treated equally but we all know cops help cover each others crimes.
I didn't really the post you were responding to. Your post was just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe the situation was always this bad but we just didn't know it before. But we are in the era of YouTube and Facebook and this shit gets out and circulates, and now it's not just the word of a cop against a citizen's.
The line must be drawn at some point. And that point is here. We as a society need to say to cops "this far, no farther." You (and I use the plural form) aren't samurai, in the service of a feudal lord. And we aren't serfs who must revere and respect you lest our life be forfeit.
Cops enjoy tremendous privileges and are, in all but the most outrageous of outrageous cases, never subjected to any sort of justice. The norm seems to be the sort of talking to that Andy Griffith would deliver to Opie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KW6tuTJMwE&t=705).
If you aren't outraged with the posts in this thread, I got to tell: you're part of the problem. This stuff should make your blood boil. You say there are cases were cops didn't screw the pooch and that's true enough. But you say that like it's some kind of accomplishment. It's not! I submit to you that that alone should be an indication that something is very very wrong here.
Look back. You really don't know of any cop that lied on the stand? Or someone who roughed up someone while yelling the obligatory "stop resisting"? Who didn't abuse their power even a little bit? You really haven't seen any of those things ever?
I'll ask you an honest question:
All other things being equal, if I was discovered heavily intoxicated, having just crashed my vehicle, and I refused to obey commands and pulled my gun, would I just be told to "go home"? I think that if we're being honest, the answer is no: I'd probably be shot and I'd be lucky to end up in a hospital instead of the morgue.
Blue privilege is as real as that thin blue line; the one that cops drew separate themselves from the hoi polloi; it's a line between those whose life is valuable and matters and those whose life isn't and doesn't. This line is just an example of primitive thinking; a form of tribalism-the tribe of the badge. And like all forms of tribalism, it is wrong and morally repugnant.
Shoot 50 times and kill the wrong people? Who cares, it's cops who did they shooting, so the DA found their actions justified.
3 Denver officers cleared in shooting death of man who was mistaken for escaped inmate
Denver’s district attorney determined three police officers were justified when they shot and killed a man who had been mistaken for an escaped jail inmate, but lawyers for the man called the shooting “egregious” and are questioning whether the officers violated the department’s policies for firing at moving cars.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/16/denver-police-fatal-shooting-escaped-inmate/
The lazy bums didn't even get out of their car yet still claim they "investigated". They must be held responsible for this kid's death.
Body camera footage shows police never got out of cruiser to check for Ohio teen crushed by minivan seat
Body camera footage from two Cincinnati officers showed they never left their patrol car to investigate the 911 calls about a teen being stuck in a minivan last week.
Kyle Plush, 16, called 911 twice on April 10, 2018, from inside a minivan begging for help and providing a dispatcher with a description and location of the vehicle in a school parking lot. Plush suffocated after he became trapped under the third-row seat that flipped and pinned him while he was trying to reach his tennis equipment. Police said Amber Smith, the 911 operator who answered Plush’s second call, failed to relay information to the additional officers who were at the scene.
During the call, Plush explained to Smith the call was not a joke.
"I am trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of the Seven Hills...Send officers immediately," Plush pleaded. "I’m almost dead.”
Smith, who has been a 911 operator for four years, returned to work this week after being put on administrative leave. She told supervisors her computer froze and she was unable to put information into the system. She also told her supervisors she didn't hear the teenager, according to a police quality review report obtained by FOX19.
The footage showed Officers Edsel Osborne and Brian Brazile driving their cruiser around the parking lot but not leaving the vehicle, WCPO reported. Music appeared to be playing in the background.
"I don't see nobody, which I didn't imagine I would,” one of the officers was heard saying.
“I’m going to shut this off,” one of the officers was heard saying.
Records showed officers were at the school for about 11 minutes.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the footage also shows the officers did not check all the school's parking lots.
Osborne and Brazile were not placed on administrative leave, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Tiffany Hardy, a spokesperson for the Cincinnati Police Department, said the footage was “the entirety of what was recorded.”
A Hamilton County deputy who was directing traffic also looked for the teen but did not find anything.
Another officer was told to respond to the scene later in the day but thought the call was a joke.
"I think somebody's playing pranks. It was something about they were locked in a vehicle across from the school, we never found anything. But we'll respond and see what else we can find," an officer was heard saying in the radio transmission.
Plush was found dead hours later by his father.
Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac has called for an internal investigation into the teen’s death and why first responders failed to help him.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/21/body-camera-footage-shows-police-never-got-out-cruiser-to-check-for-ohio-teen-crushed-by-minivan-seat.html
Remember this case? The prosecutor will not file any charges... Then again you may remember for example that 911 dispatcher who hung up on emergency calls and even said "Ain't nobody got time for this. For real." and only got 10 days (not months or years) in prison. (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=329944.msg9025786#msg9025786) Don't expect any rioting or protests...
No criminal charges in case of teen crushed to death in van after calling 911
No criminal charges will be filed in the case of a 16-year-old boy who died trapped in his van after making multiple calls to 911 for help, prosecutors said.
Kyle Plush, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died in April from asphyxia due to chest compression while he was trapped in the third row bench seat of his Honda Odyssey in his school parking lot.
Following a thorough review, "no criminal charges are appropriate and, therefore, none will be filed," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters said in a statement Thursday.
In a harrowing call to 911 in April, Plush said, "Help! I'm stuck in my van. ... I need help!"
But Plush could not hear the dispatcher, police said. An operator repeatedly asked Plush where he was. The teen said several times he was at "Seven Hills," which is the name of the Cincinnati school he attended.
The terrified teen is heard screaming and later said on the call, "I'm in desperate need of help!"
The call disconnected, and dispatchers tried to call Plush back but reached his voicemail, police said at the time.
Officers responded to the area and tried to find the car but couldn't, police said at the time.
In another call to 911, Plush said, "I probably don't have much time left. Tell my mom I love her if I die."
"This is not a joke," Plush said. "I'm trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the ... parking lot of Seven Hills."
But Plush again said he couldn't hear the dispatcher.
The dispatcher and Plush didn't communicate and the information wasn't relayed to the officers who were still at the scene, police said.
"Send officers immediately. I'm almost dead," Plush said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/criminal-charges-case-teen-died-van-calling-911/story?id=59215644
This is just fuckin' insane!
It's always "unfortunate", "tragic" or "a mistake" when it involves cops and there rarely seem to be any criminal charges for them. The mother was of course arrested and will probably have the book thrown at her so that the blame will be placed on her instead of the parties (cops and towers and tow lot) who were responsible for this girl being ignored, abandoned and locked up in the cold.How the hell do you miss seeing a 4 year old kid???
4-year-old girl left in van overnight after vehicle towed to city lot
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee family is speaking out after city workers towed a van with a 4-year-old girl inside and left it in a lot overnight amid frigid temperatures, according to WITI.
Milwaukee police stopped the minivan near 39th and Forest Home Avenue around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday and arrested the driver of the minivan – who they suspected was intoxicated.
Officers took custody of a 10-month-old child, but apparently didn't notice the 4-year-old before the vehicle was towed to the Department of Public Works Tow Lot.
Around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, officials said they found the girl crying inside the minivan. An officer called in the fire department and emergency personnel evaluated the girl. Officials said she seemed to be "OK" but was taken to an area hospital for a more thorough review.
The minivan was towed to the city lot, where it received another quick inspection. DPW officials said when a vehicle comes to the city's tow lot, it is usually on a flatbed truck and vehicle information is taken and a walk-around with a flashlight is done.
https://fox2now.com/2018/11/13/4-year-old-girl-left-in-van-overnight-after-vehicle-towed-to-city-lot/
This cop was assigned to an "elite" "specialized" unit that investigated crimes against children and now he's accused of raping a 14 year old whose case he was investigating. How many more perverts like that serve on these "elite" units that investigate crimes against children? Incidents like this can make children victims of sexual assault think twice before contacting the police (and this cop is accused of doing this exact thing, dissuading the victim from testifying). Normally in such cases the police tries to name and shame the accused but it seems that when it's a cop involved the treatment is a bit different. In this case the Sheriff's Department did not announce the arrest initially and provided information after an inquiry by the LA Times.
L.A. County sheriff's sex crimes investigator arrested on suspicion of raping minor
(https://www.latimes.com/resizer/GDzjkteKW7lv6pm9BxE996dL40s=/1400x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5bf5ffcd/turbine/la-1542848455-m0dphufvgv-snap-image)
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy assigned to handle sensitive sex abuse crimes, often involving vulnerable minors, has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl in a case he was investigating.
Neil Kimball was taken into custody Friday evening after a monthlong inquiry into the allegations by the sheriff's criminal internal investigation bureau. He was booked on suspicion of rape by force and preventing or dissuading a victim from testifying.
The 45-year-old investigator with the special victims unit met the girl during the “scope of his work,” a department spokeswoman said Monday.
Kimball was relieved of duty with pay and was booked at the Los Angeles County Inmate Reception Center shortly after 11 p.m. Friday. His bail is set at $2 million.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-deputy-svu-rape-20181119-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-deputy-charged-20181121-story.html
Once again we see that these criminals are ruthless and don't care about truth, justice, laws or BS such as "noble causes". This happened a few years ago. Scum like this should be sent to the electric chair.
The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found
The indictment was damning enough: A former police chief of Biscayne Park and two officers charged with falsely pinning four burglaries on a teenager just to impress village leaders with a perfect crime-solving record.
But the accusations revealed in federal court last month left out far uglier details of past policing practices in tranquil Biscayne Park, a leafy wedge of suburbia just north of Miami Shores.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article213647764.html
Once again, we are dealing with criminal gangs. Remember this case?
Cop admits framing two black men as Florida town’s false arrest scandal widens
The federal investigation into a handful of former Biscayne Park police officers accused of framing innocent people widened this week, when another cop was accused of falsifying arrest warrants for two men at the direction of the police chief.
Guillermo Ravelo, who was fired from the force earlier this year, pleaded guilty Thursday in Miami federal court to a conspiracy charge that he violated the rights of the falsely accused men — one charged with a pair of home break-ins in 2013, the other with five vehicle burglaries the following year. The charges against the two men, both black, were eventually dropped.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article215589545.html
Grand jury hearing case against former Dallas officer Amber Guyger
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The criminal case against a fired Dallas police officer who shot and killed her neighbor is now being presented to a Dallas County grand jury.
Former officer Amber Guyger is charged with manslaughter for the shooting death of Botham Jean, who was fatally shot in his own apartment in early September by Guyger. She told investigators she mistakenly entered Jean's apartment and mistook him for a burglar in her own home.
Grand jury proceedings are secret, so the details and evidence being presented by the Dallas County District Attorney will not be made public until the grand jury finishes its review, which began Monday. Guyger could be indicted for manslaughter, face an upgraded charge of murder or be cleared of any potential charges.
An announcement of charges could come as soon as Wednesday.
https://www.fox7austin.com/home/grand-jury-hearing-case-against-dallas-officer-amber-guyger
https://news.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/wrong-man-killed-in-alabama-mall-altercation/
Shot 3 times in the back. In many cases homeowners defending their family can get in trouble if they fire 1 shot against an intruder, let alone if they shoot him in the back, and here the cops shot this man 3 times in the back, they initially gave all sorts of narratives to cover up for themselves and now they are refusing to release the videos..
E.J. Bradford shot in the back, attorneys say: What we learned from the private autopsy
Attorneys for a the man killed by police at a Hoover mall on Thanksgiving night released findings of a private medical review on Monday morning at a news conference.
Emantic “E.J." Bradford was fatally shot by Hoover police on Nov. 22 just before 10 p.m. Police were responding to gunfire in the Riverchase Galleria mall, where two others were injured. Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney hired by the Bradford family, said at a news conference Monday that 21-year-old Bradford was shot three times from behind while he was running away.
Hoover police initially described Bradford as the mall gunman, but later said they were wrong and Bradford was likely not the person who wounded an 18-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. Police said Bradford was brandishing a handgun moments after the shooting, which increased the threat for officers. The results of that review, as provided by Crump and Baraganier, show Bradford was shot three times: Once in the head, once in the neck, and once in the back. The bullets all entered the 21-year-old’s body from the back, the report showed. Mitchell also noted in the report that each of the three bullets entered the body at a slightly upward angle.
Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis announced Monday morning just before Crump’s press conference that details of the deadly shooting, including police body camera footage or mall surveillance video, will not be released by police at this time.
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/12/private-autopsy-of-emantic-ej-fitzgerald-bradford-expected-to-be-released.html
Shot 3 times in the back. In many cases homeowners defending their family can get in trouble if they fire 1 shot against an intruder, let alone if they shoot him in the back, and here the cops shot this man 3 times in the back, they initially gave all sorts of narratives to cover up for themselves and now they are refusing to release the videos..
E.J. Bradford shot in the back, attorneys say: What we learned from the private autopsy
Attorneys for a the man killed by police at a Hoover mall on Thanksgiving night released findings of a private medical review on Monday morning at a news conference.
Emantic “E.J." Bradford was fatally shot by Hoover police on Nov. 22 just before 10 p.m. Police were responding to gunfire in the Riverchase Galleria mall, where two others were injured. Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney hired by the Bradford family, said at a news conference Monday that 21-year-old Bradford was shot three times from behind while he was running away.
Hoover police initially described Bradford as the mall gunman, but later said they were wrong and Bradford was likely not the person who wounded an 18-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. Police said Bradford was brandishing a handgun moments after the shooting, which increased the threat for officers. The results of that review, as provided by Crump and Baraganier, show Bradford was shot three times: Once in the head, once in the neck, and once in the back. The bullets all entered the 21-year-old’s body from the back, the report showed. Mitchell also noted in the report that each of the three bullets entered the body at a slightly upward angle.
Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis announced Monday morning just before Crump’s press conference that details of the deadly shooting, including police body camera footage or mall surveillance video, will not be released by police at this time.
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/12/private-autopsy-of-emantic-ej-fitzgerald-bradford-expected-to-be-released.html
A homeowner did what he had to to protect his family and then the cops show up and kill him.
After Armed Homeowner Defends Family from Home Invader, Cops Show Up and Kill Him
Aurora, CO — When an armed intruder broke into a family’s home early Monday morning, and reportedly began harming a juvenile inside, the homeowner did what he was supposed to do. He armed himself, called 911, and defended his home—and he was successful. However, after he’d successfully fended off the home invader—by killing him—police then showed up and killed the innocent homeowner.
According to police, they received a call from the homeowner notifying them that a man had broken into the home. When officers arrived, the scene was chaotic, according to police.
“Officers arrived to a very chaotic and violent scene,” Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz wrote in a news release issued Monday afternoon.
Police say they heard gunshots inside the home and when they ran inside, they found an armed man. The armed man was the homeowner and they killed him.
There were no reports from officers claiming that the homeowner opened fire or even raised the gun toward officers. Also, none of the officers were hurt during the incident.
After clearing the scene, according to Metz, police found the intruder dead on the bathroom floor. Metz explained that officers also found a child in the residence who’d been seriously injured by the intruder. The child was taken to the hospital for “serious, but non-life-threatening injuries” caused by the intruder, Metz said.
According to Metz, the identities of the two men will be released by the Adams County Coroner’s Office. Metz also explained that the officer who killed the homeowner is on routine paid administrative leave.
As the Denver Channel reports, the Aurora Police Major Crimes Unit, the Denver Police Department and the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office will conduct the investigation into the shooting.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/homeowner-defends-home-police-kill-him/
Since 2011, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office (“SCDAO”) has opened at least 11 case files that involve a felony charge under Section 99. These have included Section 99 charges where the person recorded was a police officer performing her duties in public. During the same period, the Boston Police Department (“BPD”) has applied for a criminal complaint on a Section 99 violation against at least nine individuals for secretly recording police officers performing their duties in public.
Consistent with the language of Glik, the Court holds that Section 99 may not constitutionally prohibit the secret audio recording of government officials, including law enforcement officials, performing their duties in public spaces, subject to reasonable time, manner, and place restrictions.
The Court declares Section 99 unconstitutional insofar as it prohibits audio recording of government officials, including law enforcement officers, performing their duties in public spaces, subject to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions.
Bodycams on cops can conveniently "malfunction" or be "accidentally" turned off. However, a citizen recording cops committing crimes can be a problem for the blue gang because there is the grave danger that such a video could be used to expose police crimes or coverups. Of course the cops and DA wasted no time in investigating and prosecuting citizens who dared record public servants performing their duties (and/or crimes):
Fortunately, a District Judge issued the correct decision and this horrible legislation has been ruled unconstitutional.
Federal judge rules Mass. law prohibiting secret audio recording of police, government officials is unconstitutional
A federal court judge Monday ruled a Massachusetts General Law prohibiting the secret audio recording of police or government officials is unconstitutional.
Chief United States District Judge Patti B. Saris made the ruling on two similar cases -- one involving two Jamaica Plain residents who frequently record police officers and a second case involving Project Veritas, the undercover organization founded by conservative political activist James O'Keefe.
https://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2018/12/federal_judge_rules_mass_law_p.html
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MA-16-11362-item-159.pdf
Of Course They are Good Film You whenever it suits them
Only Your not Good to Film Them!!!
Seems Fair Enough...... ::) ::) ::)
One Rule For Them
And Different one for Everyone Else.
How you been?
Only 4 years...
Missouri Cop Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Leaving Teen in Coma for Video Recording Traffic Stop
It started off as a routine traffic stop on a high school student in a residential neighborhood in Missouri with the cop getting angry that the teen was asking questions, so he tasered him for 20 seconds, sending the 17-year-old into cardiac arrest.
Independence police officer Timothy Runnels then yanked the boy out of the car, handcuffing him before picking him up and slamming him face first into a sidewalk, leaving the boy in a coma.
Runnels later claimed he had smelled marijuana in the car.
But witnesses said that Runnels became angry when Bryce Masters would not fully roll down the window. They also said he pulled out his phone to record the traffic stop, asking the officer questions about the legality of the stop, which is what set Runnels off.
It was only later when Runnels discovered that Masters was the son of a Kansas City police officer, who had taught his son how to ask questions during traffic stops. And the window was apparently broken, which is why Masters was unable to roll it down.
On Tuesday, 20 months after the September 2014 incident, Runnels was sentenced to four years in prison.
According to the United States Department of Justice:
As part of his guilty plea, Runnels admitted that while he was employed as an officer of the Independence Police Department, he deprived the minor of his civil rights by deliberately dropping the minor face first onto the ground while the minor was restrained and not posing a threat to Runnels or others. According to the court filings, Runnels also admitted that his actions resulted in bodily injury to the minor.
During a sentencing hearing before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Dean Whipple of the Western District of Missouri, the government provided evidence that Runnels deployed his taser into the minor’s chest during a traffic stop and then caused the electric current to run for approximately 20 seconds, four times longer than officers are trained to deploy a taser. Evidence at the hearing revealed that as a result of the tasing, the minor went into cardiac arrest and became unresponsive. Dash camera video of the incident depicts Runnels handcuffing the minor after the taser deployment and then picking him up. The video and other evidence presented at the sentencing demonstrates that Runnels then deliberately dropped the handcuffed victim face-first into the pavement. Although the minor suffered cardiac arrest and facial injuries, he survived the incident due to timely medical treatment by medical personnel at the scene and at the hospital.
Judge Whipple issued the sentence, which will be followed by two years of supervised release.
Although Masters is said to have recorded the incident, his phone was seized by Independence police and no further mention was ever made of it. But the incident was also captured on Runnels’ dash cam, which also has not been released.
And as you can see in the news reports below, Independence police stuck to their guns after the incident, putting the blame on Masters for forcing the cop to almost kill him.
But because Masters’ friends witnessed the incident, even capturing the tail end of the altercation on video – not to mention the fact that his father is a cop – the FBI was asked to step in and investigate.
And as a result, Runnels will spend the next four years behind bars.
Masters recovered from the incident but still suffers from traumatic brain injury.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/06/missouri-cop-sentenced-four-years-prison-leaving-teen-coma-video-recording-traffic-stop/
Remember this case? For this horrific attack, instead of being imprisoned for life or executed, this violent criminal only received 4 years in prison. Now let a citizen just tap a cop on the shoulder and see what happens. Of course the $6m are nothing next to the damage this young man suffered and of course it will not be taken from the pockets of the criminal who committed the assault, nor from the coffers of his gang.
Notice how violent this criminal is:
Jury awards more than $6 million to Independence teen tased by officer in 2014
https://fox4kc.com/2018/12/14/jury-awards-more-than-6-million-to-independence-teen-tased-by-officer-in-2014/?fbclid=IwAR3kvHHGUW3UbegrlwhcYpscTV2Sbg9wePZJc80pi7CcRyILXl1DYFv3B2Y
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-eckerts-traffic-stop-in-new-mexico-2013-11 (http://www.businessinsider.com/david-eckerts-traffic-stop-in-new-mexico-2013-11)
For more details, check this: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml (http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml?cat=500#.Unk4H2u9K0f)
What the fuck? Wow!
Remember this case the avxo posted? Here is a similar recent case. To add insult to injury they sent the man the medical bill.
Syracuse cops push St. Joe’s to probe man’s rectum for drugs; ‘What country are we living in?’
Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse police, a city court judge and St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center worked together last year to conduct a highly unusual drug search.
They collaborated to sedate a suspect and thread an 8-inch flexible tube into his rectum in a search for illegal drugs. The suspect, who police said had taunted them that he’d hidden drugs there, refused consent for the procedure. Members of the Syracuse Police Gang Violence Task Force said they stopped Jackson because he didn’t signal a turn in time, records show.
At least two doctors resisted the police request. An X-ray already had indicated no drugs. They saw no medical need to perform an invasive procedure on someone against his will.
The notes from police and doctors suggest some tension, a standoff. At one point, eight police officers were at the hospital. A doctor remembers telling officers: “We would not be doing that.”
The hospital’s top lawyer got pulled in. He talked with the judge who signed the search warrant, which was written by police and signed at the judge’s home.
When they were done, the hospital lawyer overruled its doctors. The lawyer told his doctors that a search warrant required the doctors to use “any means” to retrieve the drugs, records show.
So St. Joe’s medical staff knocked out the suspect and performed the sigmoidoscopy, in search of evidence of a misdemeanor or low-level felony charge, records show.
https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2018/12/syracuse-cops-push-st-joes-to-probe-mans-rectum-for-drugs-what-country-are-we-living-in.html
Dancing FBI agent gets no jail despite shooting traumatized bar patronI feel for the guy, but this is just a bullshit line in order to play on peoples emotions about guns in society right now. ::)
NY Post ^ | 21 Dec 2018
Posted on 12/21/2018, 10:51:24 PM by DUMBGRUNT
He pleaded not guilty in November to second-degree assault, which carries a penalty of up to 16 years in prison.
Bishop, who will serve his probation in Georgia, was in Denver on FBI business and was off-duty at the time of the shooting
The man who was shot, Tom Reddington, 24, spoke emotionally in court about how he lost his job at an Amazon warehouse after the shooting, his chronic pain and his concern that he may never be able to run again.
“I have done months of physical therapy,” he said. “I have sought counseling. However, being in public, especially seeing law enforcement with guns, makes me very uncomfortable.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Government; Miscel
Remember this case the avxo posted? Here is a similar recent case. To add insult to injury they sent the man the medical bill.And they found no drugs.....fucking lawsuit up the ass right there.
Syracuse cops push St. Joe’s to probe man’s rectum for drugs; ‘What country are we living in?’
Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse police, a city court judge and St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center worked together last year to conduct a highly unusual drug search.
They collaborated to sedate a suspect and thread an 8-inch flexible tube into his rectum in a search for illegal drugs. The suspect, who police said had taunted them that he’d hidden drugs there, refused consent for the procedure. Members of the Syracuse Police Gang Violence Task Force said they stopped Jackson because he didn’t signal a turn in time, records show.
At least two doctors resisted the police request. An X-ray already had indicated no drugs. They saw no medical need to perform an invasive procedure on someone against his will.
The notes from police and doctors suggest some tension, a standoff. At one point, eight police officers were at the hospital. A doctor remembers telling officers: “We would not be doing that.”
The hospital’s top lawyer got pulled in. He talked with the judge who signed the search warrant, which was written by police and signed at the judge’s home.
When they were done, the hospital lawyer overruled its doctors. The lawyer told his doctors that a search warrant required the doctors to use “any means” to retrieve the drugs, records show.
So St. Joe’s medical staff knocked out the suspect and performed the sigmoidoscopy, in search of evidence of a misdemeanor or low-level felony charge, records show.
https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2018/12/syracuse-cops-push-st-joes-to-probe-mans-rectum-for-drugs-what-country-are-we-living-in.html
The hospital’s top lawyer got pulled in. He talked with the judge who signed the search warrant, which was written by police and signed at the judge’s home.
When they were done, the hospital lawyer overruled its doctors. The lawyer told his doctors that a search warrant required the doctors to use “any means” to retrieve the drugs, records show.
In Michigan, a person is legally intoxicated when his or her blood-alcohol level hits 0.08; a person is super drunk at 0.17. This "sheriff" registered 0.223.
Police body cam shows drunk driving arrest of Midland County sheriff
KALKASKA, MI – With a deputy’s body camera recording, Midland County Sheriff Scott A. Stephenson stood beside his car, begging and pleading, mumbling and cursing in an effort to keep himself from going to jail. The video shows the result of his preliminary breath test - 0.233 - puts him in the state’s “super drunk” range.
He was jailed on a drunken-driving charge.
“I’m the fucking Midland County sheriff,” Stephenson says, displaying a commemorative badge. “I’m fucking good. I had a bad day. I don’t need EMS. I don’t need you.”
Stephenson on Dec. 13 appeared in Kalkaska County District Court for arraignment and ended up pleading guilty to one count of operating a motor vehicle while visibly impaired. In exchange, the prosecution dismissed a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Stephenson was not charged under the super drunk statute, which comes with maximum potential penalty of 180 days in jail, as opposed to the 93-day maximum of standard operating while intoxicated.
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/fbi-harassing-family-jerome-corsi-015042582.htmlCan't trust anything from the Mueller con job.
How can you trust any of the previous testimony of this Mueller investigation when this type of coercion and coaching is used?
yes it was
Yet again a Bad Cop was let off very lightly
Had it been a member of the public the book would’ve been thrown at them.
Though at least this cop was arrested & charged & sentenced
That’s a step in the right direction.
yes it was
Only just a small step forwards
https://nypost.com/2019/01/07/cop-caught-on-camera-shooting-small-barking-dog/?utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook
scary ass chiaahuaha
Chicago Seized And Sold Nearly 50,000 Cars Over Tickets Since 2011, Sticking Owners With Debt
WBEZ News ^ | January 7, 2019 | Elliot Ramos
Posted on 1/8/2019, 6:10:56 PM by Forgotten Amendments
In 2017 alone, Chicago booted more than 67,000 vehicles for unpaid tickets. In about a third of those cases, the driver couldn’t afford to remove the boot, and the vehicle was later towed to a city impound lot.
Of those 20,000 impounded cars, more than 8,000 ended up like Botello’s: They were sold off, with the owners receiving none of the sale proceeds. Instead, the city and its towing contractor pocketed millions of dollars, while residents were left with ticket debt.
All told, there have been nearly 50,000 of these sales since 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbez.org ...
TOPICS: Con
Once again a cop endangering children by speeding through s stopped bus with its stop sign on. And this wasn't just any cop but the police chief. While the incident happened in October but the video was just released today. Of course the cop, being used to being exempt from laws, claimed he didn't think it was illegal. I'm certain that this "argument" doesn't fly when it's uttered by someone who's not a member of the blue gang.
Newark police chief caught on camera blowing school bus stop sign
Video has surfaced of the Newark Police Chief blowing through a school bus stop sign. Police say the chief thought what he was doing was legal.
Chief Barry Connell was responding to help his officers who were involved in a foot pursuit and struggle with a wanted felon.
The incident happened on October 10 and Patty Hughes was behind the wheel of the bus in question. Her camera captured footage as a student exited.
"I told him my concern, I told him I had a video. He basically said he's not interested in seeing the video. And he kept telling me, 'Oh we can do that. As long as we use due diligence.' I said, 'Okay, let's go with that argument. How do you have due diligence when you're coming from behind a 60-foot long vehicle where you can't see the front end of that?' Where's their due diligence?"
A police spokesperson says Connell believed emergency vehicles were allowed to pass school bus stop signs with caution.
After this incident, they say they know that's not the case.
The explanation doesn't wash with Hughes.
"As they tell every defendant, ignorance of the law is no excuse."
She says she'd also like to see the Chief charged as any other driver would be.
https://www.10tv.com/article/newark-police-chief-caught-camera-blowing-school-bus-stop-sign
VPOTUS: "Police officers are the best of us."
Cop Gets Just 90 Days in Jail for Horrific Child Porn as Man Selling Weed Gets 5 YEARS
Columbus, OH — A community is outraged this week as a former Columbus police officer of 20 years was sentenced to just 90 days in jail for possession and distribution of child porn involving small children. Meanwhile, a man in Louisiana who happened to get caught selling a plant to willing customers was sentenced to over 5 years behind bars.
Former Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Dean Worthington had been a police officer for over 20 years before being busted. During that time—as he allegedly served the public—he’d been secretly participating in and contributing to a vile child pornography ring.
According to NBC4i, in November, Worthington pleaded guilty to four counts of sex-related charges including illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance and three counts of pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor.
On Thursday, Worthington was handed down a 9-year sentence. However, due to his status as a former police officer, all but 90 days of it was suspended. His defense even had the audacity to ask for simple probation for the horrific exploitation of small children.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-sentenced-90-days-child/
VPOTUS: "Police officers are the best of us."
Cop Gets Just 90 Days in Jail for Horrific Child Porn as Man Selling Weed Gets 5 YEARS
Columbus, OH — A community is outraged this week as a former Columbus police officer of 20 years was sentenced to just 90 days in jail for possession and distribution of child porn involving small children. Meanwhile, a man in Louisiana who happened to get caught selling a plant to willing customers was sentenced to over 5 years behind bars.
Former Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Dean Worthington had been a police officer for over 20 years before being busted. During that time—as he allegedly served the public—he’d been secretly participating in and contributing to a vile child pornography ring.
According to NBC4i, in November, Worthington pleaded guilty to four counts of sex-related charges including illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance and three counts of pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor.
On Thursday, Worthington was handed down a 9-year sentence. However, due to his status as a former police officer, all but 90 days of it was suspended. His defense even had the audacity to ask for simple probation for the horrific exploitation of small children.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-sentenced-90-days-child/
Once again the dangerous buffoons keep seeing ghosts and imaginary enemies in order to cover up their incompetence. Were they charged for lying, dangerous driving and not paying attention to the road? (rhetorical question)
Irving Police Motorcycle Crash Not a Hit-and-Run
The northbound lanes of Texas 161 are open again in Irving after two motorcycle police officers crashed, apparently into each other.
The officers were just south of Texas 183 when they crashed. Police initially believed the officers were hit by a car that left the scene, but after investigating the incident said no one else was involved in the crash.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/traffic/stories/2-Irving-Motorcycle-Officers-Car-Collide-Shutting-Down-Texas-161-504377151.html
https://abc7ny.com/5105356
Crazy. This is big unaccountable govt.
3 years in jail without trial, half of them in solitary confinement and the charges were eventually dropped... Is this the US or some third world shithole?
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-cnn-airs-footage-of-fbi-arresting-roger-stone
For F's Sake - this looks like they were trying to take down bin laden.
SeveralI dunno….you make the cops chase you and you kinda deserve a kick or two.cockcop lovers often say: "Bodycams clear police officers falsely accused of misconduct"
In this case, a cop kicked a handcuffed man so hard the man suffered an epileptic seizure inside the cop car. The violent attacker high fived another gang member for his "success" and of course he and the other gang members tried to cover it up as it was hushed up for a year. Of course being a gang member comes with several privileges, this one got a sweetheart deal and just resigned from his department. He will probably be hired by another "department" that values people with such "policing" credentials.
Milwaukee cop resigns as part of plea deal in battery of handcuffed man
A Milwaukee police officer resigned as part of a plea deal to resolve criminal charges that he kicked a handcuffed subject enough to break his nose, but he likely won't go to jail.
Michael L. Gasser, 37, was charged, convicted and sentenced in the span of two days last month for the August 2017 assault on a driver who led police on a chase that ended in Franklin.
Gasser, a 10-year veteran of the department, pleaded guilty Sept. 7 before Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Kristy Yang to one count of battery and two counts of disorderly conduct, all misdemeanors. He was sentenced to 14 days of jail, with work release, as a condition of 18 months' probation, but the jail time was left to the discretion of his probation officer. A complaint had been filed Sept. 6.
He was also fined $500, ordered to perform 20 hours of community service and write an apology to the victim, Rafael Rosales.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/19/milwaukee-cop-resigns-plea-deal-over-battery-handcuffed-man/1696957002/
I dunno….you make the cops chase you and you kinda deserve a kick or two.
Or ten
I disagree. The man was placed in handcuffs (by other cops) and then this cop showed up, intent on committing the attack just to have "fun". The man was violently attacked after he was handcuffed by someone who wasn't even present during the apprehension. There is no excuse for that.Yes they are. However, when you run or fight against the cops, you stand the chance of getting your ass handed to you before, during and after your cuffed. Right or wrong. I feel for the guys that were going quietly and peacefully and still suffered abuse, those guys don't deserve to be slapped around.
According to the DA: "He wasn't even supposed to be in the chase. He was on another call for the city of Milwaukee and heard it go out, and he and his partner decided it would be fun to join in. So they joined in."
In fact, they didn't even radio in their involvement in the chase. And after the attack, he bragged with his partner saying "best fucking thing...best one ever."
These are unstable and violent people that you don't want to hold law enforcement authority (or any sort of authority for this matter).
https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/police-officer-allegedly-killed-by-fellow-officer-during-game-of-russian-roulette
Yes they are. However, when you run or fight against the cops, you stand the chance of getting your ass handed to you before, during and after your cuffed. Right or wrong. I feel for the guys that were going quietly and peacefully and still suffered abuse, those guys don't deserve to be slapped around.
You mean the case where the cops initially said it was "an accident", then claimed the weapon was "mishandled" and is now claimed to be a game or Russian roulette? By the "highly trained professionals", the only ones who are "qualified" to handle guns, unlikecitizensmere plebs whose gun rights are slowly eroding? 2 on-duty cops meet up with an off-duty cop at one of the on-duty cop's home and decided to play Russian roulette? Something seems off here, however, knowing how stupid and incompetent several of these buffoons are it wouldn't surprise me if that was their idea of "fun".
More FBI agents arrested Stone than SEALs sent to kill bin Laden: An American nightmare
Fox News ^ | January 31 2019 | Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Posted on 1/31/2019, 7:11:13 AM by knighthawk
Last Friday, on a quiet residential street at 6 in the morning, the neighborhood exploded in light, noise and terror. Seventeen SUVs and two armored vehicles arrived in front of one house. Each vehicle had sirens blaring and lights flashing. The house, which abutted a canal, was soon surrounded by 29 government agents, each wearing military garb, each carrying a handgun and most carrying high-powered automatic rifles.
In the canal were two amphibious watercrafts, out of which more heavily armed government agents came. Circling above all this was a helicopter equipped with long-range precision weaponry and high-powered spotlights.
Four agents approached the front door to the house. Two held a battering ram, and two pointed their rifles at the door. One of the agents shouted and banged on the front door until the terrified owner of the house emerged, barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He was greeted in the dark at his open front door by two rifle barrels aimed at his head.
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Unreal. What a pile of shit and waste of time and energy these "law enforcement" clowns are. Bunch of retards.
I guess if laws are supposed to apply equally to everyone we should now expect the FBI to conduct similar raids for everyone, every time.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: An American nightmare
In the current, unreal world -- where politics deeply infuse law enforcement -- prosecutors use brute force to send a message of terror to innocent defendants. Like all defendants at the time of arrest, Stone is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. What message does brute force send? It is a message of terror, and it has no place in American life. As if to add embarrassment to terror, the feds may have tipped off CNN, which carried all this live in real time.
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One item in the government's possession that is very problematic constitutionally is the transcript of the testimony Stone gave to the House Intelligence Committee, wherein the indictment accuses Stone of lying. Because that testimony is classified, Stone is not permitted to see it, and his lawyers -- who may view it only in a secret facility -- may not copy it.
How can they defend against these charges? How can it be that the government has a piece of paper that allegedly is proof of the crime charged and the defendant's lawyers may not copy it? Didn't the government waive the classified nature of this document by Stone's very presence at the hearing where the document was created? What remains of the constitutional guarantee of confronting one's accusers and challenging their evidence?
No innocent American merits the governmental treatment Stone received. It was the behavior of a police state where the laws are written to help the government achieve its ends, not to guarantee the freedom of the people -- and where police break the laws they are sworn to enforce. Regrettably, what happened to Roger Stone could happen to anyone.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitano-an-american-nightmare
Reps. Jordan and Meadows join call for FBI to explain show of force in Roger Stone arrest
Two more high-ranking Congressional Republicans are asking FBI director Christopher Wray to explain the bureau’s show of force when arresting Roger Stone, a longtime adviser and confidant of President Trump, last week at his Florida home.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the ranking member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to request a briefing on the tactics employed during the raid. The letter also raised concerns about CNN’s “apparent advanced knowledge of the raid.”
“These raids are dangerous, and they pose serious risks to the officers, the arrestee and his family, and the community," the two lawmakers said in their letter. "Given Stone's advanced age and the nature of charges against him, as well as his statement that he would have surrendered voluntarily, it is unsettling that the Justice Department chose to use agents in full tactical assault gear to arrest Stone.”
The letter continues: ‘”[T]he presence and proximity of television news cameras during Stone's arrest raise questions about whether any Justice Department or FBI personnel alerted the media about Stone's imminent arrest.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reps-jordan-and-meadows-join-call-for-fbi-to-explain-use-of-force-in-roger-stone-arrest
29 Agents - FFS !!!!!
No matter what political side your on I’d expect everyone to find that completely OTT
And Does warrant an Explanation.
CNN curiously enough was there to record the whole operation, talk about overkill.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/25/roger-stone-fbi-arrest-vo.cnn
FFS - So the FBI invited them along !!!
Serious questions need to be asked and answered.
Its wrong. Whether you stand the chance or not can be debated. That it is wrong to hand someone their ass after they have been handcuffed is wrong. That is not debatable.I never said it was right, just that when you run/fight with cops, many will take liberties before/during/after the cuffing. Have a good buddy who was nicknamed Opie for what a dopey, honest, straight guy he was. Mexican guy kept threatening his family after his arrest, he "accidentally" ran into a door jam a couple of times. I guess he was pretty quiet after that. ;)
I have fought, chased, handcuffed a LOT of people over the years. the rule was, once the handcuffs go on, it's over. There have been cops in my purview that let emotions get the best of them and those cops paid the price because the fact remains, once a subject is subdued, it is over.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/detroit-cop-posts-racist-video-225509470.html?fbclid=IwAR1_vKp4O5dlAn5-Qx4LZUw2ba4lG8fuedtE74VqghVeKT-yK_zZQapHtlY&ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca
So FNG dumb
https://www.disclose.tv/undercover-police-posing-as-drug-buyers-arrested-by-undercover-police-poses-as-drug-dealer-330650?fbclid=IwAR0-YmpSJ337bne1l4IMY_E3uR19HCNgLsP8NN12Do_Akys8nSXQ_SjQ1NI
You have got to be fng kidding me!!!!
:o :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
https://www.disclose.tv/undercover-police-posing-as-drug-buyers-arrested-by-undercover-police-poses-as-drug-dealer-330650?fbclid=IwAR0-YmpSJ337bne1l4IMY_E3uR19HCNgLsP8NN12Do_Akys8nSXQ_SjQ1NI
You have got to be fng kidding me!!!!
:o :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
https://www.disclose.tv/undercover-police-posing-as-drug-buyers-arrested-by-undercover-police-poses-as-drug-dealer-330650?fbclid=IwAR0-YmpSJ337bne1l4IMY_E3uR19HCNgLsP8NN12Do_Akys8nSXQ_SjQ1NIScene from a comedy movie ???
You have got to be fng kidding me!!!!
:o :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
What a shithole. Quite a racket they have there.We need more people like her out here in LA. :D
Brooklyn real estate agent allegedly brokered gun permits known as 'a de Blasio special' in corrupt NYPD License Division
It was known as “a de Blasio special.”
A politically connected businesswoman got gun permit applications upgraded and rubber-stamped by the NYPD’s corrupt license division in early 2014, multiple sources told the Daily News. Brooklyn real estate agent Charlene Gayle allegedly received the VIP treatment when she accompanied members of the Orthodox Jewish community seeking full-carry firearms licenses, the sources said.
Ex-NYPD Lt. Paul Dean alluded to the allegations in paperwork filed in Manhattan Federal Court Wednesday. Dean’s supervisor in the unit allegedly told him, “This person takes care of Mayor de Blasio and in return we are supposed to take care of this person,” Dean’s attorney wrote.
Sources identified the businesswoman as Gayle, a longtime donor to de Blasio who served on his 2014 inauguration team. She is currently on the board of advisers to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-mayor-ally-gun-licenses-20190123-story.html
https://nypost.com/2019/02/05/nypd-tried-to-hide-ms-13-gangster-accused-of-subway-slaying/?utm_source=NYPFacebook&sr_share=facebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&fbclid=IwAR3ZKUZq82XK32_Ko4MK3ny1HxT607cxT6BgAvllFfFtPoxQ0XT9ZlRcwPg&fbclid=IwAR2jl3cbdW8IPo9HHWtPVHuCyn9O3_oY7cEmSLaurARmDbIksbGmuqGn0mE
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Unreal - what a freaking joke
Cop punches a 16 year old boy that's almost unconscious from drugs and then lies by "forgetting" to mention the assault, gets no prison time, 1 year probation and $1000 fine.
Guy bites cop, gets 30 years in prison.
Even body camera footage is not enough to send these violent career criminals to prison.
Murray police sergeant convicted after body camera footage shows him punching a teen boy in the face
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/02/06/murray-police-sergeant/
Schneider, who has won multiple awards from the police chief and has represented Glendale twice on the TV show Cops, was suspended for 30 hours and remains an active officer on the force, records show.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kamala-harris-smoking-pot-as-prosecutor?fbclid=IwAR0lOus7sYdAfBCz8PFBnj3rMYpLQ-GVWjCzYcQQnrTPpCaERzJtxLalJIA&utm_campaign=theblaze&utm_content=buffer8512f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com
phony
First Amendment Coalition Sues CA Attorney General to Force Disclosure of Police Misconduct Files
The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) filed suit today against California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for failing to comply with the state’s new, landmark police transparency law.
The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, seeks the release of records regarding serious police misconduct—records that all state and local agencies are now required to disclose under Senate Bill 1421. The bill, which went into effect on Jan. 1, requires the disclosure of files that have been confidential for decades, including those involving police shootings and accusations of police misconduct.
The California Department of Justice, under the authority of the Attorney General, is one of a relatively small number of agencies that has refused to comply with the law. FAC requested records from the department under SB 1421 on January 4, but it refused to disclose the records in a response sent on January 28, prompting FAC’s lawsuit.
“As the highest law enforcement officer in the state, the Attorney General has an obligation to not only comply with the California Public Records Act, but to send the right message about transparency to police departments across the state,” said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. “Unfortunately, the Attorney General has done neither. By denying public access to these crucial files, he has given a green light to other departments to disregard the new law.”
Police unions across California have been working to undermine the law by arguing it doesn’t apply to records prior to Jan. 1 of this year. FAC has led media coalitions to work to defeat these efforts in various counties, including successfully opposing an attempt by a police union in San Bernardino County—the California Supreme Court denied the union’s request to make the law apply only after Jan. 1 after FAC filed a briefing to block the last-ditch effort.
FAC and a media coalition also prevailed last week in Contra Costa County Superior Courtwhere a judge sided with the organization and denied a preliminary injunction sought by police unions. A similar attempt is taking place in Los Angeles County and multiple other counties around the state.
https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2019/02/fac-sues-ca-attorney-general-to-force-disclosure-of-police-misconduct-files/
Listen to this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats:
Remember this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats?
Turns out that he didn't "wait for all the facts to come out", as cops often say.
Once again, another crime was committed based on lies and fabrications that the "law enforcement professionals" didn't bother to check. It only crossed their mind to do so after 2 people were murdered in their home. Just claiming "it was a mistake" will not bring these people back and their killing could have been avoided but apparently the lives of non cops are of little importance to these scumbags. Will this killer and his gang be held accountable for the killing of these 2 people?
'You lie, you die' | HPD undercover cop lied about drug buy that led to deadly raid, Chief Acevedo says
In a bombshell development, the undercover cop who led a drug raid that ended with a deadly shootout last month is now the target of a criminal investigation.
The narcotics officer lied in the search warrant affidavit about a drug buy that never happened, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed Friday.
"That’s totally unacceptable. I’ve told my police department that if you lie, you die," Acevedo said. "When you lie on an affidavit, that's not sloppy police work, that's a crime."
The case agent obtained a search warrant to conduct the no-knock raid on Jan. 28 after he swore a confidential informant bought heroin at the home the night before. He said the informant told him he saw a 9mm handgun and a large amount of heroin in the house.
Turns out, there never was a drug buy at the house or an informant who saw a large amount of heroin and weapons.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/you-lie-you-die-hpd-undercover-cop-lied-about-drug-buy-that-led-to-deadly-raid-chief-acevedo-says/285-54ca0bb4-ba03-4e9d-ab6e-7d40bab2b356
If the above wasn't enough, this lying criminal is the reason why 1400 cases that he's been involved in will be re-evaluated. Aside from any charges about the killing of the 2 people, will he also have to pay the costs for all the hours and resources that will be spent on re-examining these cases, as well as any charges for people who were wrongfully convicted and tortured because of his lies?
DA Ogg announces reviews of 1400 cases
The Harris County District Attorney's Office has launched a review of more than 1,400 criminal cases spanning Houston Police Officer Gerald Goines' decades-long career. Twenty-seven of those cases are active.
“Our duty is to see that justice is done in every case,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “Although the criminal investigation of Officer Goines is ongoing, we have an immediate ethical obligation to notify defendants and their lawyers in Goines' other cases to give them an opportunity to independently review any potential defenses."
https://app.dao.hctx.net/da-ogg-announces-review-1400-cases
Remember this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats?
Turns out that he didn't "wait for all the facts to come out", as cops often say.
Once again, another crime was committed based on lies and fabrications that the "law enforcement professionals" didn't bother to check. It only crossed their mind to do so after 2 people were murdered in their home. Just claiming "it was a mistake" will not bring these people back and their killing could have been avoided but apparently the lives of non cops are of little importance to these scumbags. Will this killer and his gang be held accountable for the killing of these 2 people?
'You lie, you die' | HPD undercover cop lied about drug buy that led to deadly raid, Chief Acevedo says
In a bombshell development, the undercover cop who led a drug raid that ended with a deadly shootout last month is now the target of a criminal investigation.
The narcotics officer lied in the search warrant affidavit about a drug buy that never happened, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed Friday.
"That’s totally unacceptable. I’ve told my police department that if you lie, you die," Acevedo said. "When you lie on an affidavit, that's not sloppy police work, that's a crime."
The case agent obtained a search warrant to conduct the no-knock raid on Jan. 28 after he swore a confidential informant bought heroin at the home the night before. He said the informant told him he saw a 9mm handgun and a large amount of heroin in the house.
Turns out, there never was a drug buy at the house or an informant who saw a large amount of heroin and weapons.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/you-lie-you-die-hpd-undercover-cop-lied-about-drug-buy-that-led-to-deadly-raid-chief-acevedo-says/285-54ca0bb4-ba03-4e9d-ab6e-7d40bab2b356
As California attorney general, Kamala Harris opposed a 2011 law restraining the practice of civil asset forfeiture. In 2015 she sponsored a bill to allow authorities to seize suspects’ assets before filing charges. That year California forfeitures totaled $50 million.
FOIA?
The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training — known as POST — provided the information last month in response to routine Public Records Act requests from reporters for the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and its production arm, Investigative Studios. But when Becerra’s office learned about the disclosure, it threatened the reporters with legal action unless they destroyed the records, insisting they are confidential under state law and were released inadvertently.
First Amendment Coalition Sues CA Attorney General to Force Disclosure of Police Misconduct Files
The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) filed suit today against California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for failing to comply with the state’s new, landmark police transparency law.
The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, seeks the release of records regarding serious police misconduct—records that all state and local agencies are now required to disclose under Senate Bill 1421. The bill, which went into effect on Jan. 1, requires the disclosure of files that have been confidential for decades, including those involving police shootings and accusations of police misconduct.
The California Department of Justice, under the authority of the Attorney General, is one of a relatively small number of agencies that has refused to comply with the law. FAC requested records from the department under SB 1421 on January 4, but it refused to disclose the records in a response sent on January 28, prompting FAC’s lawsuit.
“As the highest law enforcement officer in the state, the Attorney General has an obligation to not only comply with the California Public Records Act, but to send the right message about transparency to police departments across the state,” said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. “Unfortunately, the Attorney General has done neither. By denying public access to these crucial files, he has given a green light to other departments to disregard the new law.”
Police unions across California have been working to undermine the law by arguing it doesn’t apply to records prior to Jan. 1 of this year. FAC has led media coalitions to work to defeat these efforts in various counties, including successfully opposing an attempt by a police union in San Bernardino County—the California Supreme Court denied the union’s request to make the law apply only after Jan. 1 after FAC filed a briefing to block the last-ditch effort.
FAC and a media coalition also prevailed last week in Contra Costa County Superior Court where a judge sided with the organization and denied a preliminary injunction sought by police unions. A similar attempt is taking place in Los Angeles County and multiple other counties around the state.
https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2019/02/fac-sues-ca-attorney-general-to-force-disclosure-of-police-misconduct-files/
So this guy is issuing threats now.There are approximately 68,220 police and sheriff officers in California.
Notice, the list contains 12,000 names, that is quite a lot of "very few bad apples".
California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it
Attorney General warns reporters it's illegal to possess list of thousands of cop convictions
Their crimes ranged from shoplifting to embezzlement to murder. Some of them molested kids and downloaded child pornography. Others beat their wives, girlfriends or children.
The one thing they had in common: a badge.
Thousands of California law enforcement officers have been convicted of a crime in the past decade, according to records released by a public agency that sets standards for officers in the Golden State.
The revelations are alarming, but the state’s top cop says Californians don’t have a right to see them. In fact, Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned two Berkeley-based reporters that simply possessing this never-before-publicly-released list of convicted cops is a violation of the law.
The documents provide a rare glimpse at the volume of officer misconduct at a time of heightened interest over police accountability. The list includes cops who trafficked drugs, cops who stole money from their departments and even one who robbed a bank wearing a fake beard. Some sexually assaulted suspects. Others took bribes, filed false reports and committed perjury. A large number drove under the influence of drugs and alcohol — sometimes killing people on the road.
The Berkeley journalists chose not to publish the entire list until they could spend more time reporting to avoid misidentifying people among the nearly 12,000 names in the documents.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/02/26/california-keeps-a-secret-list-of-criminal-cops-but-says-you-cant-have-it/
So this guy is issuing threats now.
Notice, the list contains 12,000 names, that is quite a lot of "very few bad apples".
California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it
Attorney General warns reporters it's illegal to possess list of thousands of cop convictions
Their crimes ranged from shoplifting to embezzlement to murder. Some of them molested kids and downloaded child pornography. Others beat their wives, girlfriends or children.
The one thing they had in common: a badge.
Thousands of California law enforcement officers have been convicted of a crime in the past decade, according to records released by a public agency that sets standards for officers in the Golden State.
The revelations are alarming, but the state’s top cop says Californians don’t have a right to see them. In fact, Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned two Berkeley-based reporters that simply possessing this never-before-publicly-released list of convicted cops is a violation of the law.
The documents provide a rare glimpse at the volume of officer misconduct at a time of heightened interest over police accountability. The list includes cops who trafficked drugs, cops who stole money from their departments and even one who robbed a bank wearing a fake beard. Some sexually assaulted suspects. Others took bribes, filed false reports and committed perjury. A large number drove under the influence of drugs and alcohol — sometimes killing people on the road.
The Berkeley journalists chose not to publish the entire list until they could spend more time reporting to avoid misidentifying people among the nearly 12,000 names in the documents.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/02/26/california-keeps-a-secret-list-of-criminal-cops-but-says-you-cant-have-it/
12000 just in California :o
Out of 68000 - Close to 1 in 5 !!
That’s one big gang of Criminals.
Nothing startling or to be very concerned about is it. ::)
You've mentioned it previously that even if we consider the "very few bad apples" that cops often say we are still talking about many tens of thousands of criminals across the country. Now in this case, whether you look at it percentage wise or absolute numbers-wise, we see that the "very few bad apples" turn out to be 12000 in California alone. And on top of that you have the Attorney General trying to prevent the public from knowing about these criminals.
12000 just in California :oAnd those are just the ones that were caught. ;)
Out of 68000 - Close to 1 in 5 !!
That’s one big gang of Criminals.
Nothing startling or to be very concerned about is it. ::)
Let's see if the killer will go to prison. Not holding my breath though. It is possible that they could overcharge him to trick the family and the public to a faint hope of justice, only for him to be found not guilty because of overcharging or a jury that is reluctant to sentence a cop.
Officer who fatally shot Justine Damond charged with murder, turns himself in
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an Australian woman in July was charged with murder Tuesday after he turned himself in when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Officer Mohamed Noor turned himself in on Tuesday in connection to the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. his attorney confirmed.
The criminal complaint remained sealed by midday Tuesday, but according to the jail roster Noor was booked on a third-degree murder charge for perpetrating an eminently dangerous act while showing a "depraved mind." The second-degree manslaughter charge alleges he acted with "culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk."
Damond was shot July 15, minutes after calling 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. The 40-year-old life coach’s death drew international attention, cost the police chief her job and forced major revisions to the department’s policy on body cameras.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman was scheduled to discuss charges Tuesday afternoon.
Noor, a 32-year-old Somali-American, has not talked publicly about the case and declined to be interviewed by state investigators.
In a statement Tuesday, Damond's family praised the charges, calling them "one step toward justice."
"No charges can bring our Justine back. However, justice demands accountability for those responsible for recklessly killing the fellow citizens they are sworn to protect, and today's actions reflect that," the statement said.
A policeman who was with Noor at the time of the shooting, Matthew Harrity, told investigators that he was startled by a loud noise right before Damond approached the driver's side window of their police SUV. Harrity, who was driving, said Noor then fired his weapon from the passenger seat. Damond died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The officers did not turn on their body cameras until after the shooting, and there was no squad camera video of the incident.
The lack of video was widely criticized, and Damond's family members were among the many people who called for changes in procedure, including how often officers are required to turn on their cameras.
The shooting also prompted questions about the training of Noor, a two-year veteran and Somali-American whose arrival on the force had been celebrated by city leaders and Minnesota's large Somali community. Noor, 32, had trained in business and economics and worked in property management before becoming an officer.
Then-Chief Janee Harteau defended Noor's training and said he was suited to be on the street, even as she criticized the shooting itself. But Harteau — who was on vacation when the shooting happened and didn't make her first public appearance until several days after the shooting — was forced out soon after by Mayor Betsy Hodges, who said she had lost confidence in the chief.
Harteau's replacement, Medaria Arradondo, quickly announced a policy change requiring officers to turn on their body cameras in responding to any call or traffic stop.
If convicted of third-degree murder, Noor could face a maximum of 25 years in prison, though the presumptive sentence is 12 ½ years. A judge could issue a sentence ranging from about 10 ½ to 15 years.
The second-degree manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, but the presumptive sentence is four years.
Jail records show he’s being held on $500,000 bail.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/officer-who-fatally-shot-justine-damond-turns-himself-in-charges-pending.html
I've said it before that these are criminal gangs. Here is a prime example.
25 years is not enough. This career criminal and the rest of his criminal gang should have been executed. Slowly.
Rogue Baltimore police unit ringleader Wayne Jenkins sentenced
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The leader of a rogue Baltimore police unit sobbed as he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a corruption scandal prosecutors called "breathtaking". Ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins apologised in court for the crimes he committed while heading an elite squad called the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF).
"I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. "I'm so sorry to the citizens of Baltimore."
He was arrested along with almost every member of the unit in March 2017. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence.
He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records.
Jenkins pleaded guilty in January and admitted taking part in at least 10 robberies of Baltimore citizens, planting drugs on innocent people and re-selling drugs he stole from suspects on an almost daily basis, including heroin, cocaine and prescription painkillers.
He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year.
Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption resulted in 1,700 criminal cases being thrown out.
"The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court.
"He perverted the criminal justice system."
The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted.
Detectives Maurice Ward, Evodio Hendrix, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam all pleaded guilty.
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Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor went forward to trial and a jury found them guilty of robbery, extortion and fraud in February.
A former member of the unit, Sergeant Thomas Allers, also pleaded guilty.
Although the indicted officers committed many robberies individually before joining the Gun Trace Task Force, prosecutors charge that they grew bolder and more prolific after Jenkins took over the unit in June 2016.
According to testimony from Ward and Hendrix, Jenkins played an outsized role in the schemes.
They said he prepared an arsenal of weapons and tools to begin carrying out burglaries.
The jury was shown axes, machetes and pry bars, as well as black masks that were found in Jenkins' van after his arrest.
Prosecutors pointed to the fact that Jenkins fabricated evidence, like producing a bogus iPhone video of his officers cracking a drug dealer's safe, when they had in fact already broken into it and stolen $200,000 in cash.
"It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44402948
South Florida Cop Charged in Shooting Death of Corey Jones Because of Audio Recording
Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja had no idea he was being audio recorded when he pulled up to Corey Jones at 3 a.m. on the side of the road last year and killed him.
But it was that audio recording that led to his indictment today where he is now facing life in prison.
And he deserves nothing less.
He not only pulled up to Jones in an unmarked vehicle wearing plainclothes on October 18, 2015, he never identified himself as an officer.
And as we’ve seen so many times before, he rewrote the narrative as to what led to the shooting when he called 911 minutes after killing Jones.
But Jones, a 31-year-old drummer who had broken down on the side of an off-ramp on Interstate 95, was on the phone with a tow truck dispatcher when Raja pulled up.
And we all know those calls are always recorded for “quality assurance.”
But the recording became quality evidence against Raja.
The grand jury indicted Raja on one count of manslaughter by culpable negligence, a second-degree felony that carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, as well as one count of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, which can send him to prison for life.
Perhaps the legal experts will explain how a cold-blooded murder can turn into attempted murder, but if it lands him in prison for life, then it’s all good.
Raja had claimed he was in fear for his life, of course, claiming Jones pulled out a gun on him after he had identified himself as a police officer.
He even said Jones had charged him. Textbook police fiction from the cop with a history of disciplinary problems who was also a certified firearms instructor.
But forensics indicate Jones was running from Raja as he was being shot.
The recording, which became the key piece of evidence against Raja, captured the following exchange, according to the charging documents, which you can read here.
Jones: Huh?
Raja: You good?
Jones: I’m good
Raja: Really?
Special:
Jones: Yeah, I’m good.
Raja: Really?
Jones: Yeah
Raja: Get your fucking hands up! Get your fucking hands up!
Jones: Hold on!
Raja: Get your fucking hands up! Drop!
Raja then fired three time, causing the dispatcher to gasp, “oh my gosh!”
And he fired three more shots ten seconds later.
He then called 911 and before the dispatcher could respond, he said, “drop that fucking gun right now.”
And then he stated the following:
“I came out, I saw him come out with a handgun. I gave him commands, I identified myself, and he turned, pointed the gun at me, and started running. I shot him.”
Raja has been taken into custody.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/06/south-florida-cop-charged-shooting-death-corey-jones/
First time in 30 years that a cop in Florida is sentenced for killing a citizen.
Think about that.
30 years.
Unfortunately he is not facing execution but at least he may get life in prison.
Notice how most news outlets emphasize the "ex-police officer" or "fired police officer", but yet he was an on-duty cop when he murdered this innocent man.
Ex-police Officer Nouman Raja convicted in fatal shooting of black motorist Corey Jones
A fired Florida police officer was convicted Thursday of manslaughter and attempted murder in the fatal shooting of a stranded black motorist in 2015.
Nouman Raja, 41, faces life in prison for fatally shooting musician Corey Jones, 31, who was waiting for help for his broken down SUV on the side of a South Florida highway when he was killed by Raja.
Prosecutors say an audio recording of the shooting indicate Raja — who was on-duty but in plainclothes and driving an unmarked white van — had never identified himself.
They said Jones, who was returning home from a performance with drums valued at $10,000 in the back of his SUV, pulled his legally-owned handgun because he feared he was being robbed.
Raja shot him repeatedly. A medical examiner testified that Jones was killed by a shot through his heart. The musician, who also worked as a housing inspector, was also shot once in each arm.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-police-officer-nouman-raja-who-fatally-shot-stranded-black-n980436
Just a quick check in..are Cops still the scum of the earth?
Very Good to See you posting in here.
NO Not All Cops are - (Just like all Blacks aren’t Thick or Fellons )
There is No Denying a Very Large Number are & Operate in a Gang.
The Decent Honest One’s are Tarred with the Same Brush at Times Unfortunately.
Fair enough.. And I trust you do some research on Skeletor because he is prone to posting from anti cop websites that look like news organizations. if that is being done then it probably is what it appears to be
Since facts don't usually matter to several cops and their ilk, let's have a look at the links of the last few pages:
arstechnica.com Technology website.
foxnews.com Fox News network.
thefreethoughtproject.com Police accountability/anti cop.
minnesota.cbslocal.com CBS station in Minnesota.
kare11.com NBC affiliated news station and website in MN.
whio.com News channel, radio and website in OH.
wfaa.com ABC affiliated station in Dallas, TX.
cnn.com CNN, Cable News Network.
app.dao.hctx.net Harris County (TX) District Attorney's Office.
reviewjournal.com Las Vegas Review Journal, Adelson owned newspaper and news website in Las Vegas, NV.
wpbf.com ABC affiliated news station in Florida.
desmoinesregister.com Iowa station, part of USA Today network.
washingtonpost.com Washington Post, newspaper and news website.
argusleader.com South Dakota newspaper, part of USA Today network.
indystar.com Newspaper and website in Indianapolis.
wral.com NBC-affiliated television station and website in North Carolina.
dallasnews.com Newspaper and website in Dallas, TX.
wacotrib.com Waco Tribune-Herald, newspaper and website in Waco, TX.
detroitnews.com Detroit News, news website in Detroit.
jacksonville.com Florida Times Union, newspaper and website in Florida.
cbsnews.com CBS News.
ktla.com KTLA, news website in Los Angeles, CA.
fox8.com FOX8 News station in Cleveland, OH.
autoblog.com Car/automotive news website.
motherboard.vice.com Part of Vice Media network.
sltrib.com Salt Lake Tribune, news website in Utah.
coloradoindependent.com The Colorado Independent, newspaper and website in Colorado.
denverpost.com The Denver Post, newspaper and website in Denver, CO.
eastbayexpress.com The East Bay Express is an Oakland-based weekly newspaper serving the Berkeley, Oakland, and East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
syracuse.com The Post-Standard is a major newspaper serving the greater Syracuse, New York metro area, published by Advance Publications.
qz.com Quartz Business/news website.
chicago.cbslocal.com Local CBS news station in Chicago.
abcnews.go.co ABC News.
khou.com KHOU ABC affiliated station in Texas.
npr.org National Public Radio.
chron.com News station in Houston.
nytimes.com New York Times.
nbcnews.com NBC News.
firstamendmentcoalition.org First Amendment Coalition website. Per wikipedia: "The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) is a nonprofit public interest organization committed to freedom of speech, more open and accountable government, and public participation in civic affairs".
eastbaytimes.com News organization/website in California.
tcpalm.com Treasure Coast Newspapers in Florida, part of USA Today network.
courthousenews.com Courthouse News Service, reports on court cases.
ny1.com Spectrum News NY1 New York City news station.
baltimore.cbslocal.com CBS station in Baltimore.
nbcnews.com NBC News.
nj.com News website in New Jersey.
nydailynews.com New York Daily News, newspaper and news website.
wfsb.com TV station and website in Hartford, CT.
abc15.com ABC15 local news station in Arizona.
abc7chicago.com ABC7 Chicago, local news station in Chicago, IL.
chicago.suntimes.com The Chicago Sun Times, newspaper and website in Chicago, IL.
cleveland.com The Plain Dealer, major daily newspaper of Cleveland, OH.
kmov.com Local CBS affiliate in St Louis, Missouri.
tampabay.com The Tampa Bay Times, previously named the St. Petersburg Times through 2011, newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida. It has won twelve Pulitzer Prizes.
fox2now.com KTVI, Fox affiliated news station in St Louis, Missouri.
columbiatribune.com The Columbia Daily Tribune, one of two daily newspapers in Columbia, Missouri.
10tv.com WBNS-10TV local news station in Columbus, OH.
cbslocal.com CBS.
nbcdfw.com NBC local station, Dallas Forth Worth News.
startribune.com The Star Tribune, largest newspaper in Minnesota.
nbcmiami.com NBC local station in Miami, FL.
nbcnews.com NBC News.
deseretnews.com The Deseret News, newspaper and website in Salt Lake City, UT.
jsonline.com Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, news station in Milwaukee, WI.
insurancejournal.com The Insurance Journal, news website for the property and casualty insurance business.
conservativereview.com The Conservative Review is an American conservative news media company founded my Mark Levin.
mysanantonio.com Local San Antonio, TX news station.
fox4kc.com Fox 4 Kansas City, local news station in Kansas City, Missouri.
aclu.org American Civil Liberties Union.
eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation, website about digital privacy and communications.
latimes.com The Los Angeles Times, a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881. It has the fourth-largest circulation among United States newspapers.
wtvr.com WTVR-TV is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Richmond, Virginia, United States. The station is owned by Tribune Broadcasting, a subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company.
news4sanantonio.com WOAI-TV, virtual channel 4, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to San Antonio, Texas.
13wmaz.com WMAZ-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Macon, GA. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc.
fox7austin.com Local news station in Austin, TX.
local10.com WPLG is an ABC-affiliated television station in Miami, FL.
wptv.com WPTV-TV is an NBC-affiliated TV station in West Palm Beach, Florida.
al.com The Birmingham News, largest newspaper in Alabama.
kdvr.com KDVR, Fox-affiliated TV station in Denver, CO.
masslive.com News website owned by Advance Publications.
I almost forgot, the most notable anti-cop source:
justice.gov Department of Justice.
That’s a Long List
Agnostic are any of them known anti Police Sites. ?
Out of all the aforementioned websites only one could be classified as "anti cop" by some people, and it has been mentioned as such. Maybe some people could even label another website such as the ACLU to be "anti cop" though I don't necessarily agree. Almost every other site is a large national news network or a local TV station/newspaper. Also, the Department of Justice, a notorious anti cop institution.
Just a quick check in..are Cops still the scum of the earth?From CA stats I'd say at least 20% are, and those are just the ones they've caught.
Once again "ex cop" is on the headline but he was a cop when he was committing these crimes and stalking his victims. The first time he was caught was back in 2012 where he was suspended for 3 days without pay, but that didn't stop him of course, he continued until recently. As expected he wasn't fired, he resigned last October.
Ex-BPD cop misused badge in 2011 to meet woman. There are now at least 150 victims, chief says
Former Bradenton police sergeant Leonel Marines was suspended for three days without pay in 2012, after the first time he was caught misusing police databases and his badge to target women for dates or to have sex with them, according to internal affairs records.
The pattern of abuse would continue for six years before another internal affairs investigation would fully reveal the scope of his abuse, which is now the subject of an FBI investigation, Police Chief Melanie Bevan said Thursday.
During those six years, Marines abused his access to information to target a minimum of 150 women for dates or to have sex with them, sometimes while on duty, Bevan revealed during a news conference.
https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article227210994.html
Granted it IS Little Rock after all... Another PIG executing a civilian:
Now, the PIG knows when escalation is about to occur because he's got his gun drawn and pointing at the person. The PIGS have this car cornered and with no possible escape... this PIG decides right there and then to escalate and murder the civilian. IFFFFF the intent was to get the person out of the car, the PIG could've just as easily shoot at the tires and effectively parked the car for the guy. Instead, as is always the case with PIGS, the guy escalates under the false premise that he has to exit his car, starts shooting repeatedly at the man through the windshield and, while being driven around like the Mercedes logo, this PIG keeps on shooting.
This is exactly why 90% of the PIGS can't and shouldn't be allowed to be cops. Once the civilian decided to not follow the officer's instructions, the PIG then decides to kill this man because, at the moment, he thinks it's the best decision to make.
Verdict? Civilian dead and PIG gets to live.
Granted it IS Little Rock after all... Another PIG executing a civilian:Meh. Gotta go with the pig on this one, I'd have shot his ass too.
Now, the PIG knows when escalation is about to occur because he's got his gun drawn and pointing at the person. The PIGS have this car cornered and with no possible escape... this PIG decides right there and then to escalate and murder the civilian. IFFFFF the intent was to get the person out of the car, the PIG could've just as easily shoot at the tires and effectively parked the car for the guy. Instead, as is always the case with PIGS, the guy escalates under the false premise that he has to exit his car, starts shooting repeatedly at the man through the windshield and, while being driven around like the Mercedes logo, this PIG keeps on shooting.
This is exactly why 90% of the PIGS can't and shouldn't be allowed to be cops. Once the civilian decided to not follow the officer's instructions, the PIG then decides to kill this man because, at the moment, he thinks it's the best decision to make.
Verdict? Civilian dead and PIG gets to live.
Granted it IS Little Rock after all... Another PIG executing a civilian:
Now, the PIG knows when escalation is about to occur because he's got his gun drawn and pointing at the person. The PIGS have this car cornered and with no possible escape... this PIG decides right there and then to escalate and murder the civilian. IFFFFF the intent was to get the person out of the car, the PIG could've just as easily shoot at the tires and effectively parked the car for the guy. Instead, as is always the case with PIGS, the guy escalates under the false premise that he has to exit his car, starts shooting repeatedly at the man through the windshield and, while being driven around like the Mercedes logo, this PIG keeps on shooting.
This is exactly why 90% of the PIGS can't and shouldn't be allowed to be cops. Once the civilian decided to not follow the officer's instructions, the PIG then decides to kill this man because, at the moment, he thinks it's the best decision to make.
Verdict? Civilian dead and PIG gets to live.
Remember this case? No drugs were found but it seems like the usual nebulous "searching for drugs" was just the pretext this gang of perverts wanted.Gross
Not only was this pervert not charged but he was allowed to quietly resign like many other gang members do. Of course the city continues to shell thousands of dollars in order to stall the process and protect the criminals.
SAPD officer pulled out woman's tampon, did vaginal search on side of road, lawsuit claims
A lawsuit filed in federal court Friday claims a San Antonio Police officer pulled a woman's tampon out and searched her vaginal cavity along the shoulder of a public street in 2016.
Natalie D. Simms' attorney filed the lawsuit against the City of San Antonio and a female officer, identified as Mara Wilson, stating that the search violated Simms' constitutional rights.
According to the filing, Simms was approached by officers while sitting on a curb, talking on the phone and waiting for her boyfriend. The lawsuit claims Simms consented to a search of her car, which was parked across the street from where she was sitting, and that authorities found no illegal items.
Then, the lawsuit alleges, authorities called a female officer, Wilson, to the scene to search Simms.
The lawsuit details parts of the conversations between Simms and Wilson, recorded from Wilson's body camera. According to the court documents, Simms and Wilson went back and forth about the kind of clothes she was wearing before Wilson began searching her vaginal cavity.
Court documents report that Wilson told a detective she was "searching everything," and had removed Simms' tampon because she "just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything in there."
The document states Simms never consented to the vaginal cavity search and that authorities never found anything illegal during their search. She was allowed to leave.
An internal investigation, the lawsuit states, revealed the officer that called Wilson to the scene "never indicated to do a cavity search." Court documents state Wilson retired on May 1.
https://www.ksat.com/news/sapd-officer-pulled-out-womans-tampon-did-vaginal-search-on-side-of-road-lawsuit-claims
Florida cop who shot unarmed therapist was aiming for his patient
nydailynews.com ^ | July 22, 2016 | Meg Wagner
Posted on 7/24/2016, 1:44:14 PM by Morgana
Sorry about that bullet, man. I was aiming for the autistic guy.
A Florida cop who wounded an unarmed black therapist was actually trying to shoot the man’s patient, a union official said Thursday.
The unidentified North Miami police officer thought Charles Kinsey — who was lying on his back with his arms in the air — was in danger, his union chief said. The patient, who escaped from MACtown Inc., a nearby group home where Kinsey works, had a toy in his hand.
“All he has is a toy truck, a toy truck,” Kinsey told the cop Monday, according to video obtained by his lawyer. “I am a behavior therapist at a group home.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
It seems that once again the taxpayers will be extorted to pay the bill while the deranged armed criminals walk around free without losing a cent from the pocket or a minute in jail.
Police shooting victim files federal lawsuit against North Miami officer
Two weeks after a controversial shooting, Charles Kinsey has filed a federal lawsuit against North Miami police Officer Jonathan Aledda.
In the lawsuit, Kinsey argues that Aledda and other officers wrongfully arrested him and used excessive force — saying that Aledda did not help stop the bleeding after the shooting, even after officers recognized there was no weapon at the scene. They are demanding a jury trial, unstated monetary damages and any other fees due to the physical, emotional and mental pain the incident caused.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/north-miami/article93720952.html
Committing crimes then investigating themselves to clear themselves of wrongdoing. Extorting and stealing from citizens to fill their coffers. Citizens get assaulted, beaten, raped, killed, arrested or imprisoned even for minor infractions and in some cases even if they're completely innocent. Now this. What will happen to these criminals?
South Carolina sheriffs fly first class, bully employees and line their pockets with taxpayer money
South Carolina sheriffs have embezzled, bribed and dipped into public funds for expensive chauffeurs. They’ve driven drunk and bullied other public officials. They’ve been accused of leveraging their power to sexually assault their female employees.
In the past decade, no fewer than 11 of South Carolina’s 46 counties have seen their sheriffs accused of breaking laws — nearly one in four.
Like the sheriff in Orangeburg who funneled public funds into bogus credit union accounts to buy a $72,000 motor home. The missing money was discovered only after the sheriff died.
And the sheriff in Chesterfield County who embezzled money, gave weapons to inmates — even let a prisoner host a dinner at the sheriff’s home. A judge sentenced the sheriff to two years.
Among the findings by The Post and Courier investigation: some sheriffs spent public money on luxury accommodations, personal clothing and a host of other questionable purchases. Chester County Sheriff Alex Underwood spent thousands to fly first class to conferences. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott used thousands of dollars in campaign funds to join a private club where members dine on beef tenderloin and rack of lamb.
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/sc-sheriffs-fly-first-class-bully-employees-and-line-their/article_bed9eb48-2983-11e9-9a4c-9f34f02f8378.html
It is a long article because there are several "sheriffs" who misappropriate funds or outright steal, threaten and intimidate. Definitely worth a read.
Another child dead because the scum "was visiting" and left the child unattended for 4 hours. Tragically ironic that cops will arrest parents who leave children in the car unattended even for minutes but somehow it appears that it's different if someone is a cop. As of yet, no arrests of course.
2 Mississippi officers on paid leave after child left in patrol car dies
KILN, Miss. – Two police officers in Mississippi are on paid leave after a 3-year-old daughter of one of the officers died unattended in a patrol car.
Hancock County Chief Deputy Sheriff Don Bass said Long Beach police officer Cassie Barker's daughter died Friday after the child was left in the car for four hours while her mother was visiting with Long Beach patrolman Clark Ladner. Both officers were off-duty at the time.
Long Beach Police Chief Wayne McDowell told The Sun Herald that Barker and Ladner were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation.
Hancock County Sheriff Ricky Adam said the car was running and the air conditioning was on when investigators found the child, who died at a hospital.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/03/2-mississippi-officers-on-paid-leave-after-child-left-in-patrol-car-dies.html
http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/hancock-county/article105649806.html
Jesus fng Christ.
The "very few bad apples" were so few that the vice unit was disbanded.
Columbus, Ohio, police unit that focused on 'moral crimes' disbanded amid scandals
After a series of scandals and investigations, Ohio's capital city is disbanding its police department's unit that was supposed to focus on "moral crimes."
Columbus' vice unit has been subject to internal and FBI investigations, and came under scrutiny last year when vice officers arrested adult film actress Stormy Daniels at a strip club. More recently, charges were brought against Columbus vice squad officer Andrew Mitchell, 55, alleging he forced two women to have sex with them under threat of an arrest.
Interim Columbus Police Chief Thomas Quinlan announced the closing of the vice unit Tuesday on Twitter, saying the remaining officers will be assigned to other departments. Three of the vice unit's 10 officers are currently under suspension.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbus-ohio-police-unit-focused-moral-crimes-disbanded-amid-scandals-n985351
https://nj1015.com/prosecutors-say-nj-cops-pulled-over-drivers-to-rob-them/?fbclid=IwAR2pEP17A0MIkjaah2uMH8Lq_F5k-vXQ2QZG8rDefq4cS2GBt4BXFlG4Akw
holy F!!!
A city police officer accused of stealing money during illegal traffic stops and shakedowns and then falsifying reports has been indicted on charges he conspired to violate individuals' civil rights.
Federal prosecutors announced the indictment against 28-year-old Eudy Ramos on Wednesday. They claim he conspired with four other officers — two already arrested and two who remain unnamed — to commit the crimes.
Prosecutors say the conspirators stopped drivers and pedestrians and robbed them of cash, then split the proceeds in a scheme that included coded text messages and falsifying reports. The conspiracy allegedly occurred from at least 2016 through April 2018.
Listen to this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats:
Remember this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats?
Turns out that he didn't "wait for all the facts to come out", as cops often say.
Once again, another crime was committed based on lies and fabrications that the "law enforcement professionals" didn't bother to check. It only crossed their mind to do so after 2 people were murdered in their home. Just claiming "it was a mistake" will not bring these people back and their killing could have been avoided but apparently the lives of non cops are of little importance to these scumbags. Will this killer and his gang be held accountable for the killing of these 2 people?
'You lie, you die' | HPD undercover cop lied about drug buy that led to deadly raid, Chief Acevedo says
In a bombshell development, the undercover cop who led a drug raid that ended with a deadly shootout last month is now the target of a criminal investigation.
The narcotics officer lied in the search warrant affidavit about a drug buy that never happened, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed Friday.
"That’s totally unacceptable. I’ve told my police department that if you lie, you die," Acevedo said. "When you lie on an affidavit, that's not sloppy police work, that's a crime."
The case agent obtained a search warrant to conduct the no-knock raid on Jan. 28 after he swore a confidential informant bought heroin at the home the night before. He said the informant told him he saw a 9mm handgun and a large amount of heroin in the house.
Turns out, there never was a drug buy at the house or an informant who saw a large amount of heroin and weapons.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/you-lie-you-die-hpd-undercover-cop-lied-about-drug-buy-that-led-to-deadly-raid-chief-acevedo-says/285-54ca0bb4-ba03-4e9d-ab6e-7d40bab2b356
In my region, I'm around a wide variety of conservative Trump voters.
What surprised me, is how "anti-police" some are.
I wrongly assumed that respect and deference for law enforcement was something we could agree on.
Nope.
In fact, a few told me they hate cops.
Over time ( in gym), I leared they were pissed at being pulled over and charged with drunk driving.
A few others were pissed off they got ticketed for excessive speeding ( 90+ mph) or driving on a suspended license, etc.
While I'm sure plenty of liberals hate cops for similar reasons, Trumpers hating them really surpised me.
AGAIN, I respect the poilce and tend to take their side. I wrongly assumed all Trumpers would as well. WRONG.
Every police dept is composed of human beings and some do bad things.
I'm NOT about to defend corrupt police conduct
At least the internal affairs dept and the courts reign in and sentence bad cops.
Notice in my post, I used examples of those who had clearly broken some law.
They seem outraged about being stopped for drunk driving or ticketed for going 90 in a 55 mph zone.
How do we enforce these laws if the police never bother to enforce them?
https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/police-chief-and-his-friend-charged-with-raping-underage-girl-over-7-year-span
Insane.
Damn. The girl reported this several times but she was shut down. And this is the Chief of Police in that town...
Attorney General Josh Shapiro Announces Arrests of Two Carbon County Men, Including Weissport Police Chief, for Child Rape
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Shapiro today announced the arrests of two Carbon County men for child rape. Weissport Chief of Police Brent Getz, 27, and Gregory Wagner, 28, both of Lehighton, PA, were charged on Tuesday with Rape of Child, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse with a Child, Aggravated Indecent Assault of Child, and several related charges.
This investigation began in May 2012 when the victim, then 12-years-old, reported to a substitute teacher that Gregory Wagner, then 22-years-old, was sexually assaulting her. The teacher reported it to the Franklin Township Police Department and, after an investigation, no charges were filed at that time.
In 2015, the case was reassigned and police prepared a criminal complaint charging Wagner with various crimes. The complaint was dismissed by the Magisterial District Judge due to a paperwork error. The charges were never refiled.
In August 2018, a Franklin Township Police Officer revisited the case and asked the victim to come back in for an interview. At this time, the victim also disclosed that Brent Getz, who was Wagner’s friend, had sexually assaulted her too. Getz is now the Chief of Police in Weissport, Carbon County.
The victim revealed that, consistent with her prior disclosures and examinations, from age 4-11 she was orally, vaginally, and anally raped by Wagner. She reported that Getz would also join in these assaults. Additionally, she said that Wagner often made her watch pornography with him, which she recalled depicted teenagers.
“The defendants terrorized this young victim by assaulting her hundreds of times over seven years,” said Attorney General Josh Shapiro. “My Office will listen to survivors and prosecute anyone who sexually abuses children to the fullest extent of the law we are able—no matter how much time has passed. I’m grateful for the work of my agents to bring these predators to justice and prevent them from harming anyone else.”
Agents executed a search warrant of Wagner’s residence on March 26, 2019. They located numerous electronic devices, including his cell phone, which contained Google searches of terms which are indicative of child pornography.
Wagner was interviewed and admitted to sexually abusing the victim over the course of several years. He also admitted that Getz sexually abused the victim and that they would do so together.
The case of Brent Getz was referred to the Office of Attorney General by Carbon County District Attorney Jean Engler because Getz was a police officer employed or formerly employed at several police departments in Carbon County. The case of Gregory Wagner was also referred to the Office of Attorney General. The case is being prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General Rebecca Elo.
https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/press-releases/attorney-general-josh-shapiro-announces-arrests-of-two-carbon-county-men-including-weissport-police-chief-for-child-rape/
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/
Investigating everyone else is ok but when it comes to investigating him, his cronies or the organization he used to head suddenly it becomes an issue?
Comey says he fears possible counterinvestigation after Mueller report
Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s calls for a possible investigation into how special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry started, adding that it creates a troubling precedent.
During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Comey was asked about whether he feared possible counterinvestigations.
“I don't fear it personally. I fear it as a citizen,” he said. “Right? Investigate what? Investigate that investigations were conducted? What would be the crime you’d be investigating? So it’s a terrible cycle to start.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/comey-mueller-counter-investigation-1249236
Also, notice this question by CNN's Amanpour. Did she want the FBI to investigate, arrest, censor or "shut down" people who were saying "lock her up"?
CNN's Amanpour Asks Comey Why the FBI Didn't Censor 'Lock Her Up' Chant as 'Hate Speech'
“Of course, ‘lock her up’ was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign,” Amanpour said, asking “do you in retrospect wish that people like yourself, the FBI, I mean, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language — that it was dangerous potentially, that it could’ve created violence, that it’s kind of hate speech. Should that have been allowed?”
Comey replied by explaining the First Amendment to the CNN host.
“That’s not the role for government to play,” he said. “The beauty of this country is people can say what they want, even if it’s misleading and it’s demagoguery.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2019/04/02/cnns-amanpour-asks-comey-why-he-and-the-fbi-didnt-censor-lock-her-up-chant-as-hate-speech-n2544169
First Amendment Coalition Sues CA Attorney General to Force Disclosure of Police Misconduct Files
The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) filed suit today against California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for failing to comply with the state’s new, landmark police transparency law.
The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, seeks the release of records regarding serious police misconduct—records that all state and local agencies are now required to disclose under Senate Bill 1421. The bill, which went into effect on Jan. 1, requires the disclosure of files that have been confidential for decades, including those involving police shootings and accusations of police misconduct.
The California Department of Justice, under the authority of the Attorney General, is one of a relatively small number of agencies that has refused to comply with the law. FAC requested records from the department under SB 1421 on January 4, but it refused to disclose the records in a response sent on January 28, prompting FAC’s lawsuit.
“As the highest law enforcement officer in the state, the Attorney General has an obligation to not only comply with the California Public Records Act, but to send the right message about transparency to police departments across the state,” said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. “Unfortunately, the Attorney General has done neither. By denying public access to these crucial files, he has given a green light to other departments to disregard the new law.”
Police unions across California have been working to undermine the law by arguing it doesn’t apply to records prior to Jan. 1 of this year. FAC has led media coalitions to work to defeat these efforts in various counties, including successfully opposing an attempt by a police union in San Bernardino County—the California Supreme Court denied the union’s request to make the law apply only after Jan. 1 after FAC filed a briefing to block the last-ditch effort.
FAC and a media coalition also prevailed last week in Contra Costa County Superior Courtwhere a judge sided with the organization and denied a preliminary injunction sought by police unions. A similar attempt is taking place in Los Angeles County and multiple other counties around the state.
https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2019/02/fac-sues-ca-attorney-general-to-force-disclosure-of-police-misconduct-files/
Esquibel was awarded the Navy Cross for braving machine gun fire to rescue two Marines and carrying out the body of another Marine during operation Phantom Fury, also known as the Second Battle of Fallujah, in Iraq in 2004. Esquibel declined the award, citing personal reasons. His lawyer, Butch Wagner, told the Post that his client “didn’t feel right about the award” and that other Marines would have done the same for him.
Haha! Screw the cop unions and the AG. Transparency for everyone, not just forcitizensplebs. Were the worms trying to destroy files before the court decision like the Stasi scum when their headquarters were stormed by angry citizens?
Court upholds broad release of police misconduct records in California
A new law granting public access to police misconduct records and investigations of officers’ use of force applies to all records that existed when the law took effect this year no matter when they were created, a state appeals court has ruled in a decision with immediate statewide impact.
Police unions in numerous localities, including Contra Costa County and five of its cities in the current case, sued to block release of records created before 2019. The unions, which had opposed the disclosure law in the Legislature, contend the law was not drafted to apply to earlier records.
Superior Court judges around the state have generally disagreed with the unions. But in the first decision with broad impact, the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco late Friday published an earlier two-page order in the Contra Costa case making all existing records available to the public.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Court-upholds-broad-release-of-police-misconduct-13733312.php
Cops find an dirt bike that an allegedly reckless rider abandoned, stupid cop proceeds to ride it, no helmet, revs it, pops a wheelie, runs a red light, almost hits a car and falls, much to the excitement of onlookers.Saw this video earlier, hilarious! :D
Let's see if he will be charged for all these violations or they'll try to blame the car going legally through the intersection.
NYPD officer wipes out on dirt bike in Harlem
An NYPD cop went on a wild dirt-bike ride in Harlem on Sunday afternoon — and injured himself when he tumbled off the bike and slammed into the road, video of the crash shows.
The cop popped a wheelie, and then sped off into traffic on the bike on Lenox Avenue and 135th Street at about 6 p.m., according to the video and police.
During the ride, he veered to his left to avoid a car that pulled into the intersection and then completely lost control of the bike, the video shows.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/08/nypd-officer-wipes-out-on-dirt-bike-in-harlem/
Cops find an dirt bike that an allegedly reckless rider abandoned, stupid cop proceeds to ride it, no helmet, revs it, pops a wheelie, runs a red light, almost hits a car and falls, much to the excitement of onlookers.
Let's see if he will be charged for all these violations or they'll try to blame the car going legally through the intersection.
NYPD officer wipes out on dirt bike in Harlem
An NYPD cop went on a wild dirt-bike ride in Harlem on Sunday afternoon — and injured himself when he tumbled off the bike and slammed into the road, video of the crash shows.
The cop popped a wheelie, and then sped off into traffic on the bike on Lenox Avenue and 135th Street at about 6 p.m., according to the video and police.
During the ride, he veered to his left to avoid a car that pulled into the intersection and then completely lost control of the bike, the video shows.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/08/nypd-officer-wipes-out-on-dirt-bike-in-harlem/
The former director of the FBI... ‘surveillance’ is not ‘spying’
Comey scoffs at Barr testimony, claims ‘surveillance’ is not ‘spying’
Former FBI Director James Comey joined the chorus of Democratic critics complaining about Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony this week that “spying did occur” against the 2016 Trump campaign, claiming he has no idea what the Justice Department leader is talking about -- and saying he “never thought of” electronic surveillance as “spying.”
Comey sought to draw a distinction between surveillance -- which was authorized against a Trump adviser -- and spying during a cybersecurity conference in California on Thursday, echoing Democratic lawmakers who have accused Barr of going too far in his Senate testimony this week.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-scoffs-at-barr-testimony-claims-surveillance-is-not-spying
She couldn't distinguish between her tazer and her firearm so she shot the man and could also have hurt the other cop who was fighting him. These are the "highly trained professionals" who are "qualified" to handle firearms, unlike the citizens whose gun rights are being slowly eroded. Lack of training, lack or experience and in this case probably being a small female doesn't help.
Video shows former Lawrence police officer shoot driver during May 29 traffic stop
Police dash cam video released Monday shows a driver wrestle a Lawrence police officer to the ground and fight him before being shot in the back by another officer during a traffic stop last year.
Brindley Blood, the officer who shot the man, is charged in Douglas County District Court with reckless aggravated battery. Blood has maintained the May 29 shooting was accidental and she meant to reach for her stun gun instead of her firearm.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article228379669.html
Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.
The police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking his phone to the site where a man was shot nine months earlier. They had made the discovery after obtaining a search warrant that required Google to provide information on all devices it recorded near the killing, potentially capturing the whereabouts of anyone in the area.
But after he spent nearly a week in jail, the case against Mr. Molina fell apart as investigators learned new information and released him. Last month, the police arrested another man: his mother’s ex-boyfriend, who had sometimes used Mr. Molina’s car.
Long article but very interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html
Let's see if the killer will go to prison. Not holding my breath though. It is possible that they could overcharge him to trick the family and the public to a faint hope of justice, only for him to be found not guilty because of overcharging or a jury that is reluctant to sentence a cop.
Officer who fatally shot Justine Damond charged with murder, turns himself in
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an Australian woman in July was charged with murder Tuesday after he turned himself in when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Officer Mohamed Noor turned himself in on Tuesday in connection to the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. his attorney confirmed.
The criminal complaint remained sealed by midday Tuesday, but according to the jail roster Noor was booked on a third-degree murder charge for perpetrating an eminently dangerous act while showing a "depraved mind." The second-degree manslaughter charge alleges he acted with "culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk."
Damond was shot July 15, minutes after calling 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. The 40-year-old life coach’s death drew international attention, cost the police chief her job and forced major revisions to the department’s policy on body cameras.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman was scheduled to discuss charges Tuesday afternoon.
Noor, a 32-year-old Somali-American, has not talked publicly about the case and declined to be interviewed by state investigators.
In a statement Tuesday, Damond's family praised the charges, calling them "one step toward justice."
"No charges can bring our Justine back. However, justice demands accountability for those responsible for recklessly killing the fellow citizens they are sworn to protect, and today's actions reflect that," the statement said.
A policeman who was with Noor at the time of the shooting, Matthew Harrity, told investigators that he was startled by a loud noise right before Damond approached the driver's side window of their police SUV. Harrity, who was driving, said Noor then fired his weapon from the passenger seat. Damond died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The officers did not turn on their body cameras until after the shooting, and there was no squad camera video of the incident.
The lack of video was widely criticized, and Damond's family members were among the many people who called for changes in procedure, including how often officers are required to turn on their cameras.
The shooting also prompted questions about the training of Noor, a two-year veteran and Somali-American whose arrival on the force had been celebrated by city leaders and Minnesota's large Somali community. Noor, 32, had trained in business and economics and worked in property management before becoming an officer.
Then-Chief Janee Harteau defended Noor's training and said he was suited to be on the street, even as she criticized the shooting itself. But Harteau — who was on vacation when the shooting happened and didn't make her first public appearance until several days after the shooting — was forced out soon after by Mayor Betsy Hodges, who said she had lost confidence in the chief.
Harteau's replacement, Medaria Arradondo, quickly announced a policy change requiring officers to turn on their body cameras in responding to any call or traffic stop.
If convicted of third-degree murder, Noor could face a maximum of 25 years in prison, though the presumptive sentence is 12 ½ years. A judge could issue a sentence ranging from about 10 ½ to 15 years.
The second-degree manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, but the presumptive sentence is four years.
Jail records show he’s being held on $500,000 bail.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/officer-who-fatally-shot-justine-damond-turns-himself-in-charges-pending.html
As it has been mentioned previously, we are dealing with a criminal gang. The Mafia has the omerta, this criminal gang has the blue wall of silence. All who participated in this coverup or knew about it and didn't act should be rounded up and charged as accomplices to the killing of Justine Damond.
Light shined on cops’ code of silence
Testimony in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her home has shined a light on officers’ actions at the scene and raised questions about whether they were trying to protect one of their own.
The incident commander turned her body camera off when talking to Mohamed Noor in the moments after the July 2017 shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, while other officers told him not to say a word, according to prosecutors and court testimony. Many responding officers turned their body cameras on and off at will; one had his camera recording while headed to the scene and shut it off upon arrival.
“These are extremely troublesome things,” said Phil Turner, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor in Chicago who is not connected to the case. “They’re law enforcement officers and they are supposed to enforce the law equally, whether someone is a sworn law enforcement officer or not.”
Prosecutors have told the court that about 20 police officers refused to talk to investigators and met with union officials to discuss withholding information.
https://www.avpress.com/news/newsline/light-shined-on-cops-code-of-silence/article_2fc3c1aa-60c8-11e9-a8c4-fff1ee46e975.html
Holy SHIIIIIIT!
What a horrible way to approach any situation.
That pig should be unloading trucks in Secaucus, not protecting The People.
Once again, "former" cop in the headline but he was a cop, acting in his official capacity when he allegedly committed the crime.
Press release from a notorious "anti-cop" website:
Former Alabama Police Investigator Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Handcuffed Arrestee
The Department of Justice announced today that a former Tallassee Police investigator, Brandon Smirnoff, 27, pleaded guilty to assaulting a handcuffed, 24-year-old man.
According to the guilty plea, Smirnoff, who was on duty as an investigator with the Tallassee Police Department, used his patrol car to pursue the victim, J.M., who was on a four-wheeler. After the pursuit, J.M. stepped off his four-wheeler, laid face down on the ground, and allowed several Tallassee police officers to handcuff him. While J.M. was handcuffed and compliant, Smirnoff lifted him into the air and then slammed him to the ground. Smirnoff then repeated the assault. Moments later, before Smirnoff placed the victim into his patrol car, Smirnoff slammed the victim’s head into the side of the vehicle. For each assault, the victim was handcuffed, compliant, and did not pose a threat.
“Police officers who willfully use excessive force not only violate the Constitution, they erode public trust in law enforcement,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. “The Civil Rights Division is committed to protecting victims of these abuses and upholding the Constitution and laws that protect us all.”
“It is especially important in a climate of distrust between law enforcement and the public, that officers act ethically and within the bounds of the law,” said U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin for the Middle District of Alabama. “This police officer’s brutal behavior was unacceptable and criminal. He violated this young man’s constitutional rights and the trust placed in law enforcement officers to faithfully, ethically, and morally enforce the law. You can be sure that anytime an officer steps over the line and into criminal behavior, as this one did, my office will hold that individual accountable.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge James E. Jewell stated, "the FBI supports our state and local law enforcement partners but will not tolerate the intentional abuse of a citizen. The position of police officer should convey compassion as well as trust and we intend to hold that line."
Smirnoff faces a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
This case is being investigated by the FBI’s Montgomery Division. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise Simpson of the Middle District of Alabama and Trial Attorney Michael J. Songer of the Civil Rights Division.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-alabama-police-investigator-pleads-guilty-assaulting-handcuffed-arrestee
https://nypost.com/video/chilling-footage-captures-deputy-violently-assaulting-handcuffed-man/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook&fbclid=IwAR30Waf4mXkXaIpIdn7bJ7ZX16XjBHzwKCXBbVolFd-v_5zCMA9vIxr8aOI
Insane.
As it has been mentioned previously, we are dealing with a criminal gang. The Mafia has the omerta, this criminal gang has the blue wall of silence. All who participated in this coverup or knew about it and didn't act should be rounded up and charged as accomplices to the killing of Justine Damond.
Light shined on cops’ code of silence
Testimony in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her home has shined a light on officers’ actions at the scene and raised questions about whether they were trying to protect one of their own.
The incident commander turned her body camera off when talking to Mohamed Noor in the moments after the July 2017 shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, while other officers told him not to say a word, according to prosecutors and court testimony. Many responding officers turned their body cameras on and off at will; one had his camera recording while headed to the scene and shut it off upon arrival.
“These are extremely troublesome things,” said Phil Turner, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor in Chicago who is not connected to the case. “They’re law enforcement officers and they are supposed to enforce the law equally, whether someone is a sworn law enforcement officer or not.”
Prosecutors have told the court that about 20 police officers refused to talk to investigators and met with union officials to discuss withholding information.
https://www.avpress.com/news/newsline/light-shined-on-cops-code-of-silence/article_2fc3c1aa-60c8-11e9-a8c4-fff1ee46e975.html
First time in 30 years that a cop in Florida is sentenced for killing a citizen.
Think about that.
30 years.
Unfortunately he is not facing execution but at least he may get life in prison.
Notice how most news outlets emphasize the "ex-police officer" or "fired police officer", but yet he was an on-duty cop when he murdered this innocent man.
Ex-police Officer Nouman Raja convicted in fatal shooting of black motorist Corey Jones
A fired Florida police officer was convicted Thursday of manslaughter and attempted murder in the fatal shooting of a stranded black motorist in 2015.
Nouman Raja, 41, faces life in prison for fatally shooting musician Corey Jones, 31, who was waiting for help for his broken down SUV on the side of a South Florida highway when he was killed by Raja.
Prosecutors say an audio recording of the shooting indicate Raja — who was on-duty but in plainclothes and driving an unmarked white van — had never identified himself.
They said Jones, who was returning home from a performance with drums valued at $10,000 in the back of his SUV, pulled his legally-owned handgun because he feared he was being robbed.
Raja shot him repeatedly. A medical examiner testified that Jones was killed by a shot through his heart. The musician, who also worked as a housing inspector, was also shot once in each arm.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-police-officer-nouman-raja-who-fatally-shot-stranded-black-n980436
The official statement by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation:
"As they tried to approach the suspect, there was an incident that happened. An officer involved shooting took place,"
3 children shot as Oklahoma police open fire on alleged robbery suspect
Three children aged 1, 4 and 5 were injured as police in Oklahoma opened fire on a robbery suspect Friday evening. The suspect was also shot in the incident.
William Devaughn Smith, 21, was located in Hugo, near the Texas-Oklahoma border, where police attempted to take the man into custody, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Smith is suspected of robbing a Pizza Hut in Hugo on April 11.
While attempting to "make contact" with Smith, police officers opened fire and shot him, as well as three children, the OSBI said in a statement. Smith and four children were in a vehicle when the detectives from the Hugo Police Department opened fire, Brook Arbeitman, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, told The Associated Press.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/children-shot-oklahoma-police-open-fire-alleged-robbery/story
The excuses this cop uses to justify killing an innocent woman... Btw, this phrase in bold sounds familiar, it has probably been uttered several times to justify wounding or killing innocent people.
Ex-cop: Saw woman at window, fired ‘to stop threat’
A former Minneapolis police officer on trial in the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman testified Thursday that he saw fear in his partner’s eyes, then saw a woman in a pink shirt with blond hair appear at the partner’s window and raise her right arm before he fired his gun “to stop the threat.”
Mohamed Noor refused to talk to investigators after the July 2017 shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond , a dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia, making his testimony his first public statements since her death.
“Action is better than reaction,” Noor said. “If you’re reacting, that means it’s too late ... to protect yourself. ... You die.”
https://www.apnews.com/cca7e99bc92c431391abfd0d893ef57a
The former director of the FBI... ‘surveillance’ is not ‘spying’
Comey scoffs at Barr testimony, claims ‘surveillance’ is not ‘spying’
Former FBI Director James Comey joined the chorus of Democratic critics complaining about Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony this week that “spying did occur” against the 2016 Trump campaign, claiming he has no idea what the Justice Department leader is talking about -- and saying he “never thought of” electronic surveillance as “spying.”
Comey sought to draw a distinction between surveillance -- which was authorized against a Trump adviser -- and spying during a cybersecurity conference in California on Thursday, echoing Democratic lawmakers who have accused Barr of going too far in his Senate testimony this week.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-scoffs-at-barr-testimony-claims-surveillance-is-not-spying
This is insane. The cop should be made an example of and get several years in prison for this BS.
Florida man arrested for refusing to remove "I Eat Ass" sticker from his pickup truck
A man has been arrested on suspicion of obscenity after refusing to remove a bumper sticker from his vehicle reading “I eat ass.”
Dillon Shane Webb, 23, of Lake City, Florida, has been charged with misdemeanor counts of possession of obscene material and resisting arrest without violence following an incident on Highway 90 on May 5.
The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said a deputy spotted the sticker on the rear window of a brown Chevrolet truck traveling west on the highway at around 5:50 p.m.
The deputy believed that the sticker violated the state’s Statute 847.011 which prohibits the possession of obscene or lewd material, including drawings, pictures, or any other written or printed matter.
The deputy also asked Webb how a parent of a small child would explain the meaning of the graphic sticker if they saw it, to which Webb replied it would be “up to the parent.”
Webb was initially cited with obscenity and handed a notice to appear in court by the deputy. After being asked to remove one of the letters from the sticker to make it less offensive, Webb refused citing his First Amendment rights, according to the report. He was then also charged with resisting arrest.
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-obscenity-remove-bumper-sticker-1418881
Once again, "former" cop in the headline but he was a cop, acting in his official capacity when he allegedly committed the crime.
Press release from a notorious "anti-cop" website:
Former Alabama Police Investigator Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Handcuffed Arrestee
The Department of Justice announced today that a former Tallassee Police investigator, Brandon Smirnoff, 27, pleaded guilty to assaulting a handcuffed, 24-year-old man.
According to the guilty plea, Smirnoff, who was on duty as an investigator with the Tallassee Police Department, used his patrol car to pursue the victim, J.M., who was on a four-wheeler. After the pursuit, J.M. stepped off his four-wheeler, laid face down on the ground, and allowed several Tallassee police officers to handcuff him. While J.M. was handcuffed and compliant, Smirnoff lifted him into the air and then slammed him to the ground. Smirnoff then repeated the assault. Moments later, before Smirnoff placed the victim into his patrol car, Smirnoff slammed the victim’s head into the side of the vehicle. For each assault, the victim was handcuffed, compliant, and did not pose a threat.
“Police officers who willfully use excessive force not only violate the Constitution, they erode public trust in law enforcement,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. “The Civil Rights Division is committed to protecting victims of these abuses and upholding the Constitution and laws that protect us all.”
“It is especially important in a climate of distrust between law enforcement and the public, that officers act ethically and within the bounds of the law,” said U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin for the Middle District of Alabama. “This police officer’s brutal behavior was unacceptable and criminal. He violated this young man’s constitutional rights and the trust placed in law enforcement officers to faithfully, ethically, and morally enforce the law. You can be sure that anytime an officer steps over the line and into criminal behavior, as this one did, my office will hold that individual accountable.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge James E. Jewell stated, "the FBI supports our state and local law enforcement partners but will not tolerate the intentional abuse of a citizen. The position of police officer should convey compassion as well as trust and we intend to hold that line."
Smirnoff faces a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
This case is being investigated by the FBI’s Montgomery Division. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise Simpson of the Middle District of Alabama and Trial Attorney Michael J. Songer of the Civil Rights Division.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-alabama-police-investigator-pleads-guilty-assaulting-handcuffed-arrestee
Back to the daily crimes, this man was picking up trash in the place he resided, yet he was confronted by an armed thug who called in reinforcements. The thug is now enjoying paid vacation but his gang will not release his name.
Boulder police launch investigation into contact with man picking up trash
Boulder police have launched an internal investigation after officers confronted a black man who was picking up trash at his own house.
According to a release, a Boulder police officer observed a man sitting in a partially enclosed patio area behind a "private property" sign in the 2300 block of Arapahoe Avenue at 8:30 a.m. Friday and asked if the man was allowed to be there.
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_32490946/boulder-police-launch-investigation-into-contact-man-picking
More police state madness from the UK. Unfortunately it looks like the world is heading towards this Orwellian dystopia.
Moment police fine pedestrian after he covered face for facial recognition camera
Footage has shown the moment police fined a pedestrian £90 for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face from a facial recognition camera in London.
Police set up the camera on a van in east London which matches faces of passers-by with a database of wanted suspects, according to BBC Click.
One man walking past hid his face with his hat and jacket as he spotted the camera in Romford.
He was later handed a fine for disorderly behaviour, the clip shows.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/moment-police-fine-pedestrian-after-he-covered-face-from-facial-recognition-camera/ar-AABsbrv
Haha! Screw the cop unions and the AG. Transparency for everyone, not just forcitizensplebs. Were the worms trying to destroy files before the court decision like the Stasi scum when their headquarters were stormed by angry citizens?
Court upholds broad release of police misconduct records in California
A new law granting public access to police misconduct records and investigations of officers’ use of force applies to all records that existed when the law took effect this year no matter when they were created, a state appeals court has ruled in a decision with immediate statewide impact.
Police unions in numerous localities, including Contra Costa County and five of its cities in the current case, sued to block release of records created before 2019. The unions, which had opposed the disclosure law in the Legislature, contend the law was not drafted to apply to earlier records.
Superior Court judges around the state have generally disagreed with the unions. But in the first decision with broad impact, the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco late Friday published an earlier two-page order in the Contra Costa case making all existing records available to the public.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Court-upholds-broad-release-of-police-misconduct-13733312.php
As it has been said many times previously, we are dealing with organized and violent criminal gangs.
Once again, the body cameras "conveniently" did not record footage of the violent attacks or they were not even equipped. More importantly, the most violent and heavily armed gang members, the SWAT teams, are not even required to wear body cams. These things don't just happen, they're planned to ensure the criminals can commit their crimes without fear of getting caught.
Key Body Camera Footage Missing After Chicago Police Officers Raid Wrong Homes, Point Guns At Children
During one incident, the family was in the middle of celebrating a 4-year-old’s birthday party. They say police pointed their guns at children.
On another night, a family had just sat down to eat dinner together. A child accused an officer of pointing an assault rifle at him.
And in a third incident, a woman was spending time at home with her grandchildren. She said an officer pointed a gun at her grandson’s head.
In all three cases, Chicago Police officers had the incorrect address listed on a warrant and raided the wrong home, traumatizing innocent families and children. But now, CBS 2 has uncovered more troubling information. Critical moments – and possible wrongdoing – that should have been captured on police body worn cameras are missing or were never recorded at all.
CBS 2 Investigators have reported on these incidents for nearly a year. Some families have even filed federal lawsuits.
CBS 2’s ongoing investigation has revealed a troubling pattern when officers execute search warrants at the wrong homes. Multiple families have accused officers of pointing guns at children, handcuffing innocent people and continuing to search the home after learning they were at the wrong location.
While every patrol officer is required to wear a body camera – 8,200 have been issued to officers, including tactical teams – many are executing search warrants without wearing them.
In addition, members of Chicago Police’s SWAT team, which accompanies officers on these raids, are not required to wear them, according to police.
Our team requested an interview with Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and sent specific questions to Chicago Police asking about missing body camera video and wrong raids data. Instead, in a statement, Thomas Ahern, deputy director of news affairs, said Johnson was “unavailable for an interview this week” and that his schedule is “completely booked.” Our questions were not answered.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/05/04/key-body-camera-footage-missing-after-chicago-police-officers-raid-wrong-homes-point-guns-at-children/
The Fourth Amendment right to protection against illegal search and seizures does not apply for private entities like bounty hunters, Johnson said.2 to the chest does.
https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article230692964.html
https://nypost.com/2019/05/28/cop-killed-self-after-accusations-he-sexually-abused-teen-girl/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=NYPFacebook&fbclid=IwAR1W35ttdQc65xUxmKKv8445h3RGXvhifB79fhPggituhfJc8RWrFSxT1kw
>:(
It only took 6+ years to fire him... But, he was on paid desk duty since 2012!
Chicago cop fired for soliciting sexual favors from teenage girl after police impounded car
A veteran Chicago police officer has been fired over allegations he solicited sexual favors from a teenage girl in return for offering his help to get her mother’s impounded car released from the city pound.
The Chicago Police Board voted 9-0 to dismiss Officer Darius Alexander while sharply criticizing the Police Department for its delay of more than six years in bringing the disciplinary charges.
Alexander was on paid desk duty for nearly half of his almost 13 years with the department. Records show he was paid about $87,000 a year most recently.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-cop-fired-sexual-favors-20190520-story.html
Look at thehonorable heroescriminal scum.
7 Baltimore officers federally indicted for racketeering, including robbing victims
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Seven Baltimore City Police officers are being federally indicted for a racketeering conspiracy, according to the Justice Department, in an investigative case that was secretly conducted and kept quiet about even from the city's State's Attorney.
The arrests of the officers allegedly involved in racketeering were announced in the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday morning. The accused officers were reportedly robbing victims ranging from $200,000 to a 'couple hundred dollars,' filing false affidavits, and making fraudulent overtime claims while officers vacationed in Myrtle Beach and gambled at casinos.
One officer is also charged in a separate drug distribution indictment. Sometimes, narcotics and weapons were seized in addition to money and, "in several instances, the defendants did not file any police reports," the indictment alleges.
"These seven police officers betrayed the trust" of not only the police department but also the public, said Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, during a time when the city was "under scrutiny" and trying to heal in a post-Freddie Gray climate.
According to a handout by the U.S. Attorney's Office, the involved officers have been identified as Momodu Bondeva Kenton Gondo a/k/a 'GMoney' and 'Mike,' Wayne Earl Jenkins, Evodio Calles Hendrix, Maurice Kilpatrick Ward, Jemell Lamar Rayam, Daniel Thomas Hersl and Marcus Roosevelt Taylor. All have been suspended without pay and are in custody of the FBI as police are search for more victims who may have interacted with any of these officers under suspicious circumstances.
The Baltimore DEA’s Assistant Special Agent in Charge Don Hibbert explained that the DEA was conducting a probe when they "discovered information in the course of our drug investigation and we were able to work with our partners at Baltimore PD and the FBI and passed the information along and it worked the way it should” have been.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/01/7-baltimore-officers-federally-indicted-for-racketeering-including-robbing-victims.html
He was sobbing... But he wasn't sobbing when he committed the crimes. 12 years are not nearly enough.
(and of course "former" is in the headline, but he was a cop when he was committing these crimes)
Another one of the many examples of a criminal gang.
Former Baltimore Police detective sentenced to 12 years in Gun Trace Task Force corruption case
A former Baltimore Police officer who robbed people for the better part of a decade was ordered Tuesday to serve 12 years in prison, the final sentence handed down against members of the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force.
Wearing an orange jail-issue uniform, Jemell Rayam apologized to city residents and the law enforcement community, saying he was raised to know better and had tried to make things right after getting caught. He cooperated extensively, admitting to additional crimes and helping lead to the indictment of at least four co-conspirators.
Complete coverage: Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption case »
“I did take an oath to protect and serve, and I broke that oath,” Rayam told U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Derek Hines reminded Blake of the breathtaking scope of Rayam’s crimes, which included armed home invasions and drug dealing.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-rayam-sentencing-20190528-story.html
Great News One Less Scumbag Gang Member
I'm not going to miss him..
Baltimore really is a shithole
Outrageous... Even though the maximum sentence he faces is just 12.5 years for killing an innocent woman, now his attorneys are asking that he serves just 2 weeks per year in a workhouse: one week on the anniversary of his victim's death and another week on his victim's birthday.
The article also mentions how several letters of support were submitted from cops as well as a State Rep of Somali descent who, oddly enough, in her campaign said that "residents of color are over policed" and advocated for "greater police accountability" (it is quite odd then that now she supports a cop who killed an innocent woman, maybe because the victim was white and innocent and the cop who killed her was of Somali descent).
Attorneys for Noor propose unusual sentence
Two days before Mohamed Noor is to be sentenced, attorneys for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond have asked a judge to consider an unusual sentence that would only have Noor locked up for two weeks a year.
In their memorandum in support of a "mitigated sentencing departure," attorneys Thomas Plunkett and Peter Wold asked the court to consider Noor's lack of a criminal history, remorse and community support.
In the first of two proposed sentences, the attorneys asked for no prison time, instead requiring Noor to turn himself in to the Hennepin County workhouse for one week on the anniversary of Damond's death in July, and one more week on her birthday in April.
https://kstp.com/news/mohamed-noor-sentencing-justine-ruszczyk-damond/5379143/
Outrageous... Even though the maximum sentence he faces is just 12.5 years for killing an innocent woman, now his attorneys are asking that he serves just 2 weeks per year in a workhouse: one week on the anniversary of his victim's death and another week on his victim's birthday.
The article also mentions how several letters of support were submitted from cops as well as a State Rep of Somali descent who, oddly enough, in her campaign said that "residents of color are over policed" and advocated for "greater police accountability" (it is quite odd then that now she supports a cop who killed an innocent woman, maybe because the victim was white and innocent and the cop who killed her was of Somali descent).
Attorneys for Noor propose unusual sentence
Two days before Mohamed Noor is to be sentenced, attorneys for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond have asked a judge to consider an unusual sentence that would only have Noor locked up for two weeks a year.
In their memorandum in support of a "mitigated sentencing departure," attorneys Thomas Plunkett and Peter Wold asked the court to consider Noor's lack of a criminal history, remorse and community support.
In the first of two proposed sentences, the attorneys asked for no prison time, instead requiring Noor to turn himself in to the Hennepin County workhouse for one week on the anniversary of Damond's death in July, and one more week on her birthday in April.
https://kstp.com/news/mohamed-noor-sentencing-justine-ruszczyk-damond/5379143/
Outrageous... Even though the maximum sentence he faces is just 12.5 years for killing an innocent woman, now his attorneys are asking that he serves just 2 weeks per year in a workhouse: one week on the anniversary of his victim's death and another week on his victim's birthday.
The article also mentions how several letters of support were submitted from cops as well as a State Rep of Somali descent who, oddly enough, in her campaign said that "residents of color are over policed" and advocated for "greater police accountability" (it is quite odd then that now she supports a cop who killed an innocent woman, maybe because the victim was white and innocent and the cop who killed her was of Somali descent).
Attorneys for Noor propose unusual sentence
Two days before Mohamed Noor is to be sentenced, attorneys for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond have asked a judge to consider an unusual sentence that would only have Noor locked up for two weeks a year.
In their memorandum in support of a "mitigated sentencing departure," attorneys Thomas Plunkett and Peter Wold asked the court to consider Noor's lack of a criminal history, remorse and community support.
In the first of two proposed sentences, the attorneys asked for no prison time, instead requiring Noor to turn himself in to the Hennepin County workhouse for one week on the anniversary of Damond's death in July, and one more week on her birthday in April.
https://kstp.com/news/mohamed-noor-sentencing-justine-ruszczyk-damond/5379143/
Horrific. And it happened 5 years ago. Incredible how in 2015 a grand jury found there was "insufficient evidence" to indict this abuser (see video below for the insufficient evidence). The victim filed the lawsuit in 2016 and only now a judge decided he could proceed.
Handcuffed Houston man whose injury was captured on video headed for trial against police on civil rights violation
A Houston police officer holds a young man’s head against a sky blue wall at a city lockup and moments later fresh blood can be seen on video dripping from the wall and on the white linoleum floor of the holding cell.
These images captured in 2014 surveillance videos at the municipal facility on Riesner helped convince a federal judge this week that a federal civil rights complaint should proceed to trial against the officer on charges he slammed the handcuffed man’s head into a metal door jamb and pressed it against the wall, causing him to lose consciousness. A medical provider administered 10 stitches to his forehead to seal the wound.
Police suspended the officer with pay during an internal investigation, but he was reinstated, a department spokesman previously said.
The police department’s internal affairs division disciplined Corral after the incident for “not being aware of his surroundings,” according to Kallinen.
In June 2015, a grand jury in the 174th District Court found insufficient evidence to indict the officer.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Handcuffed-Houston-man-whose-injury-was-captured-13973626.php
Sacramento County Deputy Arrested for Alleged Sex With 16-Year-Old Boy
A Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old boy.
Authorities say 44-year-old Shauna Bishop of Citrus Heights turned herself into Folsom police on Thursday. She was booked and later released.
An investigation began in May and authorities had obtained an arrest warrant. Bishop could face charges of child molestation and unlawful sex.
https://ktla.com/2019/06/13/sacramento-county-deputy-arrested-for-alleged-sex-with-16-year-old-boy/
Once again, the "brave" and "fearless" "heroes" attack an elderly person. This time an 87 year old woman cutting vegetation FFS...
Of course the local gang boss was quick to defend his goons...
87yo Great-Grandmother Tasered in Her Breast by Police While Cutting Dandelions with a Knife
Chatsworth, GA — A family is outraged and a great-grandmother recovering after she was tasered in her breast for failing to understand police when they told her to drop a knife she was using to reportedly cut flowers.
According to police, they received a call from a Boys and Girls club employee noting that Martha Al-Bishara, 87, was walking a trail with a knife. The caller noted that Al-Bishara was not threatening anyone and appeared to be “walking around looking for something, like, vegetation to cut down or something.” She also had a bag.
According to her family Al-Bishara’s taser attack was captured on body camera footage and they were able to watch it. However, citing pending charges against the great-grandmother, police are not releasing it publicly.
The family told police that Al-Bishara was simply on the property to cut dandelions with a kitchen knife—a story backed up by the transcripts of the 911 call. The bag in her hand, the description from the 911 call, and the fact that the woman never threatened anyone should’ve given officers this impression. Instead, however, a gun and a taser were pointed at her.
Being that Al-Bishara speaks Arabic, she likely did not understand the officers when they were telling her to put down the knife.
According to the family, the video shows Chatsworth Police Chief Josh Etheridge pointing a gun at Al-Bishara before another officer deploys the taser striking the great-grandmother in her left breast and her stomach.
She then falls over in agony and begins sobbing as the officers move in to handcuff her.
Naturally, police are standing by their decision to taser the non-threatening great-grandmother and noted that even though she never moved toward anyone with the knife that she still presented a threat.
“I completely understand and if I hadn’t been there and it would come across my desk, that is the first thing I would ask as well,” Etheridge said. “Why did we Tase an 87-year-old woman? I guess in that circumstance, I am glad I was there and saw it firsthand and understand why it occurred. An 87-year-old woman with a knife still has the ability to hurt an officer.”
“The question’s always going to be why did he (the officer) not retreat,” Etheridge said. “The thought behind that would be if the officer had retreated, with her being in an elevated position, he could have easily fell down,” Etheridge said, “at which time she could have been progressing on top of him and deadly force could have been used at that point in time. And that was the whole goal, to try to avoid using any type of force, but if we have to use force, use the minimum force.”
Family members disagree and said the officers made no attempt to be kind or show bravery.
“If they would have approached her with an open hand rather than with their guns drawn, she would have handed it (the knife) to them right away,” said grandson Timothy Douhne. “My grandmother is the most kind, generous-hearted woman.”
“You don’t Tase an 87-year-old woman,” said great-nephew Solomon Douhne, a former Dalton Police Department officer. “She was not a threat. If anything, she was confused and didn’t know what was going on. It was a ridiculous turn of events. If three police officers couldn’t handle an 87-year-old woman, you might want to reconsider hanging up your badge.”
The fact that she still hasn’t been charged with a crime speaks to unnecessarily violent nature of the stop. Walking with a knife is not a crime, especially while holding a bag and collecting dandelions. Sadly, however, the great-grandmother was traumatized by the incident.
“She is OK,” great-granddaughter Martha Douhne said. “She is still repeating the incident over in her mind and telling us she didn’t mean for this to happen and apologizing that she didn’t want to bring this on us. She is having trouble sleeping and is stressed.”
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/great-grandmother-tasered-police-picking-flowers/
Alabama gov. signs law allowing Briarwood Presbyterian Church to have own police force
After several years of seeking to establish a private police force to adequately protect its church and school campuses, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation allowing the Briarwood Presbyterian Church to do just that despite objections from critics.
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Ivey approved the legislation some two week ago.
In a statement on the approval, Briarwood said that despite having a great relationship with local law enforcement agencies, establishing a private police force had become necessary because the state was unable to provide adequate security for the approximately 2,000 students and faculty of Briarwood Christian School located on two campuses in unincorporated Jefferson and Shelby County due to budget cuts.
Randall Marshall, the executive director of the ACLU of Alabama, told the AP that the law could allow the church to cover-up criminal activity that occurs on its campuses and expects it to be challenged in courts for unconstitutionally granting government power to a religious institution.
Matthew Moore, Briarwood's church administrator, told ABC 33/40 that they won’t be hiring their own officers immediately. He added that police officers in the agency they establish will be answerable only to the church.
“Line officers will report to supervisors and supervisors will report to the director of safety and security/chief of police,” Moore said. “The director/chief reports to the administrator/chief operating officer/dean/college president, who is then responsible for reporting to the governing body, ie: board of trustees, board of education or ruling elders.”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/alabama-gov-signs-law-allowing-briarwood-presbyterian-church-have-own-police-force.html
The Coward of Broward has been arrested...
Disgraced Broward Deputy Scot Peterson Arrested
Following an investigation by FDLE, former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, 56, was arrested in Broward County today on seven counts of neglect of a child and three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury. The arrest comes after a 15-month investigation into the actions of law enforcement following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
“The FDLE investigation shows former Deputy Peterson did absolutely nothing to mitigate the MSD shooting that killed 17 children, teachers and staff and injured 17 others,” said FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen. “There can be no excuse for his complete inaction and no question that his inaction cost lives.”
https://953wdae.iheart.com/featured/florida-news/content/2019-06-04-disgraced-broward-deputy-scot-peterson-arrested/
This is good news. I have utter contempt for that POS. I get that a citizen might not want to enter a building where shots are being fired. Hell, I get that a cop wouldn't really want to.. but when you signed up for that, and put on that badge and uniform, you should have known that if you found yourself in that position, that's what you had to do, and whatever the punishment is for failing to respond in combat, should at least be the penalty for this case. This wasn't a gray area, this wasn't a case where there was confusion and he might not have known what to do. This is what you train for, and understand if it happens, you act. I would love to sit on that jury.
I've talked to several of my police friends and they are all disgusted by his lack of action.
Great to hear that from your good self.
Hopefully you feel the same about many other dreadful things on here.
Dirty Cops beat Suicide patient in hospital and film it laughing.
Another "brave hero" who shot amonstrous 250 lb Cerberussmall chihuahua in the head, "fearing for his safety"... Notice how after shooting the dog, the resident orders him to leave the property and not only does he disobey and refuses to comply but he advances towards him. Maybe the resident should have feared for his life and shot at the armed attacker in self defense. After 5 months, and the sheriff sayign otherwise, he has been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Former Faulkner County deputy charged with animal cruelty in dog shooting
A former Faulkner County sheriff's office deputy has been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty after shooting a loose Chihuahua in January.
Faulkner County court records show an arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for Keenan Wallace. The warrant had been served by Wednesday morning, according to court records.
Sheriff's office spokesman Erinn Stone confirmed that Wallace was the defendant in the case.
Wallace shot a Chihuahua named Reese's in the head on Jan. 4 after being called about a loose and aggressive dog in a Conway neighborhood, according to the sheriff's office. Wallace, a former K-9 handler, reportedly said he opened fire after the dog lunged at him and tried to bite him. The dog survived.
The dog's caretaker, Doug Canady, said the dog posed no threat to Wallace and was turning away from the deputy when he opened fire. He posted a video of the incident that went viral.
The sheriff's office fired Wallace after investigating the shooting. Sheriff Tim Ryals said in a statement that it did not appear that Wallace violated any state law or agency policy, but had fallen short of department standards.
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https://katv.com/news/local/former-faulkner-county-deputy-charged-with-animal-cruelty-in-dog-shooting
Another bad decision that could have wider implications. Apparently, warrants do not matter anymore. What other rights will be waived through the ridiculous "implied consent" and "exigent circumstances" doctrine?
Supreme Court Affirms Police Can Order Blood Drawn From Unconscious DUI Suspects
The Supreme Court has ruled that police may, without a warrant, order blood drawn from an unconscious person suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol.
The Fourth Amendment generally requires police to obtain a warrant for a blood draw. But in a 5-4 vote on Thursday, the court upheld a Wisconsin law that says people driving on a public road have impliedly consented to having their blood drawn if police suspect them of driving under the influence. It also said that "exigent circumstances" permit police to obtain a blood sample without a warrant.
The decision conflicts with previous court rulings in which the justices ruled that a blood draw is a significant bodily intrusion into a person's privacy and that there are less intrusive ways of enforcing drunken driving laws against unconscious motorists — getting a warrant, for instance, which in these tech-savvy days can be done relatively easily and quickly.
In 2013, for instance, the high court ruled that police violated the Constitution when they ordered a nonconsensual blood draw without a warrant in a routine DUI case. The vote then was 5-4, but two of the justices in that majority, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, are no longer on the court.
The constitutional rights case produced four opinions — two concurring and two in dissent. In a break with his conservatives benchmates, one of those dissents came from Justice Neil Gorsuch.
In his concurring opinion, Thomas wrote that because the evidence of alcohol in drivers' blood will dissipate over time, states can invoke the "exigent-circumstances doctrine" on that basis alone to allow police to order a blood test without a warrant. Explaining why he took a stand apart from Alito's plurality opinion, Thomas wrote that it "adopts a rule more likely to confuse than clarify."
Alito's concurring opinion agreed that speed is vital in obtaining blood-alcohol evidence. But he also said that the demands on police officers' time contribute to creating exigent circumstances that allow an exception to warrant requirements — especially if an unconscious motorist has caused a crash. And he noted that police usually take such drivers to the emergency room — removing their chance of administering a breath test at the police station.
Twenty-eight states have laws similar to Wisconsin's. The case, Mitchell v. Wisconsin, was accepted by the court at the start of this year, amid sharp divisions among state appellate courts over whether the blood draws violate motorists' Fourth Amendment rights.
In separate dissents, Justices Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor said the majority had erred in deciding the case on the grounds of exigent circumstances, rather than through an analysis of Wisconsin's implied consent law — the statute they say the state was actually seeking to test.
Sotomayor emphasized that in lower courts, Wisconsin officials admitted there had been time to get a warrant — but they said the step wasn't needed because of implied consent.
"Wisconsin has not once, in any of its briefing before this Court or the state courts, argued that exigent circumstances were present here," Sotomayor wrote. "In fact, in the state proceedings, Wisconsin 'conceded' that the exigency exception does not justify the warrantless blood draw in this case."
In his terse one-page dissent, Gorsuch said the case should have never risen to the Supreme Court in the first place.
"We took this case to decide whether Wisconsin drivers impliedly consent to blood alcohol tests thanks to a state statute," Gorsuch wrote. "That law says that anyone driving in Wisconsin agrees — by the very act of driving — to testing under certain circumstances. But the Court today declines to answer the question presented. Instead, it upholds Wisconsin's law on an entirely different ground—citing the exigent circumstances doctrine."
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/732852170/supreme-court-affirms-police-can-draw-blood-from-unconscious-drivers
Doesn't matter. Wisconsin liberal judges only give a slap on the wrist to repeat offenders. It's not uncommon to have drunkards out on the streets with 3-5-7 duis
The State of Wisconsin conceded in the state courts that it had time to get a warrant to draw Gerald Mitchell’s blood, and that should be the end of the matter. Because the plurality needlessly casts aside the established protections of the warrant requirement in favor of a brand new presumption of exigent circumstances that Wisconsin does not urge, that the state courts did not consider, and that contravenes this Court’s precedent, I respectfully dissent.
The "brave heroes" shot dead a 6 year old kid in "self defense"... #kidlivesmatter? Where is the outrage for this killing? Even though it happened almost a year ago it has been hardly mentioned in the news.
Louisiana Cops Shoot into Car, Killing 6-Year-Old Jeremy Mardis
Body cam footage showing Louisiana cops shooting into a car and killing a 6-year-old boy sitting in the passenger seat of his father’s car was released earlier today, showing no evidence that the cops were in fear for their lives as they have been claiming since last year.
After all, not only does the video not show Christopher Few using his car as a weapon by ramming his car into their cars.
His car is not even pointed in their direction.
What it does show is Few sitting in his car with both hands out the window as his car is angled perpendicular to the two Marksville City Marshals who pull up in their cars, step out and start shooting.
The incident took place November 3, 2015 after marshals Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr. claimed they tried to pull Few over for an outstanding warrant.
But it turned out, there was never a warrant for Few’s arrest. Nor was there a gun in the car.
But his son was in the car, a 6-year-old boy named Jeremy Mardis who had been diagnosed with autism. He was shot five times.
At the time, there was talk that perhaps the deputies had a personal vendetta against Few but that has not been talked about since.
The video, which is what led to murder and attempted murder charges against the two cops, captures their surprise when they realized they had just killed a child.
“I never saw a kid in the car, man,” Stafford tells Greenhouse according to the Associated Press, which has not published that part of the video yet.
“I never saw a kid, bro.”
But ballistics indicate he fired his gun 14 times, striking the child at least three times.
Greenhouse fired four times, but they have not determined if his bullets struck anybody.
The footage is from a body cam worn by a third cop, Marksville Police Sgt. Kenneth Parnell, III, who did not fire his gun, although it certainly looks that way from the video.
The video was released today by a judge during a hearing for the two cops. Local media says it has much more footage but much of it is gruesome, so they are deciding what is appropriate to release.
There is no audio for the first 30 seconds of the video, which indicates Parnell turned it on as the other cops were shooting Few, resulting in the half-minute buffer with no audio also being recorded.
Both face second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder charges.
As is the case with many cops we write about, both cops had a history of violence and unchecked abuses, especially Stafford, who was once charged with aggravated rape, so if only they would have fired him from the get-go, little Jeremy Mardis would be alive today.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/28/watch-louisiana-deputies-shoot-into-car-killing-6-year-old-jeremy-mardis/
Remember this case? Once again a thug gets away with shooting, this time he shot at a harmless innocent man who was on the ground and had his hands up. What more could this man have done so that he wouldn't be shot by this violent thug?
North Miami police officer not guilty on lesser charge; jury hung on others
A North Miami police officer on trial in the 2016 shooting of an unarmed man has been found not guilty on one count of culpable negligence, but the jury remains hung on the more serious charges of attempted manslaughter.
Officer Jonathan Aledda was charged with two counts of attempted manslaughter and two counts of culpable negligence in the 2016 shooting of Charles Kinsey.
Jurors returned to deliberate Friday, but they couldn't decide on both counts of attempted manslaughter and one count of culpable negligence.
They asked to re-watch three videos that showed Kinsey on the ground prior to the shooting and also asked to rehear part of Aledda's testimony, in which he talked about what he did after the shooting.
https://www.local10.com/news/florida/north-miami/officer-jonathan-aledda-verdict
Remember this case? What do these violent gang members need to do to go to prison? They abuse, kidnap, shoot, kill innocent people, the elderly, the deaf, even children and they still somehow manage to avoid harsh punishment.
This particular one will not stay a single day in prison, but he has to write an essay. Is this elementary school or what?
He shot at a harmless innocent man, a caretaker, who, probably knowing that an encounter with the criminal gang can turn fatal, laid flat on the ground with his hands up and begged the gang members not to shoot but to no avail.
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North Miami Police Officer Avoids Prison in Caretaker Shooting
A North Miami Police officer who was convicted of a misdemeanor but acquitted of attempted manslaughter for shooting at a severely autistic man and wounding the man's caretaker won't be spending time in prison.
At a hearing Wednesday, Officer Jonathan Aledda was sentenced to one year of administrative probation and told he must complete 100 hours of community service related to the developmentally disabled. Aledda also must write an essay about better radio communication at police scenes.
Prosecutor Don Horn said: "His conduct was gross and flagrant, his course of conduct that day showed reckless disregard for human life. It showed reckless disregard for the safety of persons exposed to his dangerous effect. It showed grossly careless disregard for the safety and welfare of the public."
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/North-Miami-Police-Officer-Avoids-Prison-in-Caretaker-Shooting-512174221.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/sacramento-county-says-its-illegal-to-work-on-your-own-car-in-your-own-garage/ar-AADOizD?ocid=spartanntp
Insane
Watchdog says FBI has access to about 640M photographs
A government watchdog says the FBI has access to about 640 million photographs — including from driver’s licenses, passports and mugshots — that can be searched using facial recognition technology.
The figure reflects how the technology is becoming an increasingly powerful law enforcement tool, but is also stirring fears about the potential for authorities to intrude on the lives of Americans. It was reported by the Government Accountability Office at a congressional hearing in which both Democrats and Republicans raised questions about the use of the technology.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-has-access-to-about-640m-photographs-watchdog-says
Seriously :o :o :o
WTFF
Like you said it Fucking Insanity!!
The law seems pretty cut and dry. However, there's sometimes more to the story than the media reports.
A friend has at times owned as many as five vehicles, most of them relics from the 60's and 70's. His garage is full of computer stuff, which he also repairs. So, the cars are in front of his home, which is located in a residential neighborhood, in the city of Milwaukie, Clackamas County, Oregon.
Across the street form my previous home in Rivercrest Park, OR, the owner did auto body repairs inside his garage as a business. He worked on one vehicle at a time. This is how he skirted the zoning code which disallowed running a business out of your home. Also, none of his neighbors reported him.
Remember this case?
Cop Who Killed Unarmed Dad Begging for His Life Claims Showing Jury Body Cam is “Unfair”
Phoenix, AZ — In March of 2016, Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford was charged with second-degree murder for gunning down Daniel Shaver, an innocent husband, and father of two. The shooting was captured on his body cam, part of which was released the following May.
Now, however, Brailsford’s defense is claiming that the prosecution showing the jury the body cam during opening statements would be unfair to the killer cop.
According to AZ Central, Brailsford, 26, is scheduled to stand trial starting Oct. 23 on a charge of second-degree murder. The trial is expected to last 16 days. In a memorandum filed in Maricopa County Superior Court on Monday, attorney Michael Piccarreta says prosecutor Susie Charbel plans to show an 18-minute police body- camera recording during her opening statement, scheduled for Oct. 25.
Piccarreta says in the memo “that it is extremely unfair to the defense” to show the video during the opening statement because that wouldn’t allow the defense lawyer to immediately cross-examine any witnesses about the footage.
However, the playing of the video is in line with standards of opening statements allowing the prosecution to establish their credibility in this case. The video of Brailsford killing Shaver will undoubtedly be at the very center of the case so the defense’s claim of not being allowed to cross-examine any witness about the footage is unfounded.
Regardless of when the body camera video is shown, it will be the first time the full, unedited version will be played.
Last year, an Arizona judge announced that they would be releasing the body camera footage showing Brailsford murder Shaver. When they did release it, however, the city released two videos, both of which were clearly edited and portions redacted.
Police said Shaver, a 26-year-old from Texas staying at the La Quinta Inn & Suites on a business trip on Jan. 18, 2016, had invited a couple he met to his room for drinks. No one was in any danger and the entire incident was a misunderstanding. For the majority of the video, police appear to be in a standoff with people who simply can’t hear them.
“Occupants of room 5-0-2, this is the Mesa Police,” the officer is heard yelling on the video, to which he receives no response.
“Listen to my instructions or it’s going to become very uncomfortable for you,” the officer said. “The female is to step outside the room.”
When ‘the female’ does step out the room, she is escorted away by an officer as she tells him how scared she is.
“I’m so scared,” she told the officer, clearly in shock with the multiple officers in the hallway responding to a hotel in which no crime had been committed and innocent people were simply sharing drinks.
Below are the redacted versions of the police body cameras.
The videos above clearly illustrate the intentions behind only releasing a portion of the body camera footage. It is made to look like it was an intense standoff as well as make the police look like heroes as they comforted the woman.
However, as we pointed out, it was likely that there was no standoff and they simply did not hear the officers. Also, the woman was most likely not scared of the man who she voluntarily consented to have drinks with — she was scared of the multiple armed men pointing AR-15s at them. This will likely come out when the defense is allowed to cross-examine her.
When Laney Sweet, Shaver’s wife originally asked to see the footage, she was told that if she watched it, she would be forced to remain completely silent about its contents.
During an interview with Maricopa County attorney, Bill Montgomery, Sweet was given the ultimatum — watch the disturbing video and never speak of it, or don’t. The widow of an innocent man, killed by the government, was told that the video proves her husband did not deserve to die. However, Sweet will now have to wait until the city decides to release the unedited version of the video to get closure—this would have been over a year.
In a statement to the press, the county stated that Daniel Shaver was complying with officers, crawling on his hands and knees and begged not to be shot, just before Brailsford opened fire.
“Please don’t shoot me,” Shaver is quoted in the police report.
However, last year, Brailsford’s attorney denied Shaver begged not to shoot him while at the same time thanking Superior Court Judge Sam Myers for not releasing the entire video.
On January 18, Brailsford, along with several other officers, responded to a call about a suspect with a rifle in a hotel room. The ‘rifle’ was nothing more than a pellet gun that was used in Shaver’s business of pest control, and Shaver was not in possession of the pellet gun when he was murdered in cold blood by officer Brailsford.
According to KTAR, Brailsford told investigators that Shaver was ordered to crawl toward officers with his hands on the ground, but the officer believed Shaver’s move forward was an attempt to get “a better firing position on us.”
The officer said he could no longer see Shaver’s right hand and worried that Shaver could have easily drawn on officers, who were just feet away in a hallway outside his room. However, none of the other officers fired, illustrating the lack of danger.
“So that’s when I assessed the threat. I fired my weapon, uh, five times,” Brailsford said, adding that it was terrifying the first time Shaver reached back.
Charging an officer with murder in Arizona is an exceptionally rare incident, which speaks to the severity of what must be shown on the body camera. It also means that this coward officer was in no danger when he decided to pull the trigger — 5 times.
Brailsford was fired from the department in March of 2016 for multiple policy violations not associated with the murder of Shaver. After he was fired, we learned that he should have never had a badge that night he killed an innocent man.
Aside from his unsatisfactory performance, records released by Mesa Police revealed that Brailsford was accused of beating three people a few months before he killed Shaver. He also etched “You’re Fucked” into his AR-15 police rifle — illustrating his disregard for human life.
Two children and a wife will now live the rest of their lives without their loving father because of the actions of this public servant. The one thing that could help get this family closure is to see the man who stole the life of their dad and husband put behind bars. Hopefully, this case ends differently than the countless cases before which ended with killer cops walking free for needlessly killing other human beings.
The Free Thought Project will continue to cover the trial as it unfolds next week.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-killed-unarmed-dad-begged-life-claims-showing-jury-body-cam-unfair/
This cop was assigned to an "elite" "specialized" unit that investigated crimes against children and now he's accused of raping a 14 year old whose case he was investigating. How many more perverts like that serve on these "elite" units that investigate crimes against children? Incidents like this can make children victims of sexual assault think twice before contacting the police (and this cop is accused of doing this exact thing, dissuading the victim from testifying). Normally in such cases the police tries to name and shame the accused but it seems that when it's a cop involved the treatment is a bit different. In this case the Sheriff's Department did not announce the arrest initially and provided information after an inquiry by the LA Times.
L.A. County sheriff's sex crimes investigator arrested on suspicion of raping minor
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A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy assigned to handle sensitive sex abuse crimes, often involving vulnerable minors, has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl in a case he was investigating.
Neil Kimball was taken into custody Friday evening after a monthlong inquiry into the allegations by the sheriff's criminal internal investigation bureau. He was booked on suspicion of rape by force and preventing or dissuading a victim from testifying.
The 45-year-old investigator with the special victims unit met the girl during the “scope of his work,” a department spokeswoman said Monday.
Kimball was relieved of duty with pay and was booked at the Los Angeles County Inmate Reception Center shortly after 11 p.m. Friday. His bail is set at $2 million.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-deputy-svu-rape-20181119-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-deputy-charged-20181121-story.html
Remember this case?Didn't a female teacher just get 20 years?
Molesting a 15 year old girl who was already the victim of sexual abuse and thought she would get help by going to the police... He is expected to get just 3 years in prison...
LASD Sex Crimes Detective Pleads Guilty to Molesting Teen Whose Sex Assault Case He Was Investigating
A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detective pleaded guilty to child molestation involving a teenager whose sexual assault case he was investigating, authorities said Wednesday.
Neil David Kimball, 46, of Agoura, pleaded guilty to a lewd act with a child and unlawful sexual intercourse, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said.
The former detective was initially charged with forcible rape against a minor 14 years or older while the victim was tied or bound, as well as witness intimidation by threat of force, the DA said.
While working as a detective with the Special Victims Bureau for sex crimes in 2017, he met with a 15-year-old when she reported being a victim of sexual assault.
Kimball’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 8, 2019, at a Ventura court. He is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison under the terms of a plea agreement.
https://ktla.com/2019/07/10/l-a-county-sheriffs-sex-crimes-detective-pleads-guilty-to-molesting-teen-whose-sexual-assault-case-he-was-investigating
Didn't a female teacher just get 20 years?
Yes, one of the few females to get a sentence that somewhat resembles what men get in similar cases. Most of the times the female teachers get very little if any prison time.How does this cop only get 3?
I wanted the 10,000th post to be something remotely funny or in reply to a WYHI thread but, alas, this came up.
Once again, we are dealing with organized criminal gangs. Initially this gang member was facing 40 years in prison for attacking, kidnapping and robbing innocent people but instead he now faces a possible sentence of just 30 to 37 months (months, not years)... Meanwhile ordinary people serve more time than that for less severe and less violent crimes..
'Everything we do is illegal': 7th Paterson cop arrested in FBI police corruption probe
Police Officer Frank Toledo pleaded guilty on Tuesday to participating in illegal traffic stops and shakedowns, making him the seventh city cop arrested in an ongoing FBI corruption probe.
Standing in federal court in Newark, Toledo admitted joining with other rogue cops in a conspiracy that allegedly started in late 2016 and continued until 2018. He also admitted beating people he arrested in at least two instances. During his plea, Toledo said he sent a text message to another cop in which he said, “Everything we do is illegal.”
As part of the probe, five officers were arrested in 2018 and a sixth earlier this year.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/paterson-press/2019/07/16/paterson-feds-nab-7th-cop-police-corruption-probe/1744294001/
Notice how once again the cops try to downplay their abuse through creative use of language and of course trying to discredit the person they abused.
Phoenix Police Suspended Officer Involved in Unwarranted Body Cavity Search
The Phoenix Police Department suspended an officer who performed an unwarranted body cavity search on a 37-year-old black mother in violation of department policy, according to a press statement.
The police narrative did not name the female officer who conducted the search, reveal the length of the suspension (which began in February), or say whether the officer was paid during her disciplinary period. It did not use the phrase "body cavity search," opting instead for "thorough search."
The statement also failed to answer accusations that officers orchestrated a cover-up of the alleged sexual assault of Erica Reynolds, the details of which are outlined in a notice of claim filed Monday.
The situation began on December 26, when Phoenix police surveilled Reynolds meeting with Charles Riggins, the suspected leader of a criminal drug ring. After the meeting, officers pulled Reynolds over and claimed to smell marijuana in her car.
They searched her vehicle, patted her down, and brought out a drug-sniffing dog. None of those procedures turned up any drugs. Still, the officers took her to a substation where they asked her to strip naked and bend over, her claim states. A female cop used her fingers to probe Reynolds' anus and vagina.
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-officer-suspended-over-cavity-search-11318316
Facial recognition software mistook 1 in 5 California lawmakers for criminals, says ACLU:D
California Assemblyman Phil Ting has never been arrested, but he was recently mistaken for a criminal.
He’s not surprised.
Ting (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill to ban facial recognition software from being used on police body cameras, was one of 26 California legislators who was incorrectly matched with a mug shot in a recent test of a common face-scanning program by the American Civil Liberties Union.
About 1 in 5 legislators was erroneously matched to a person who had been arrested when the ACLU used the software to screen their pictures against a database of 25,000 publicly available booking photos. Last year, in a similar experiment done with photos of members of Congress, the software erroneously matched 28 federal legislators with mug shots.
The results highlight what Ting and others said is proof that facial recognition software is unreliable. They want California law enforcement banned from using it with the cameras they wear while on duty.
“The software clearly is not ready for use in a law enforcement capacity,” Ting said. “These mistakes, we can kind of chuckle at it, but if you get arrested and it’s on your record, it can be hard to get housing, get a job. It has real impacts.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-12/facial-recognition-software-mistook-1-in-5-california-lawmakers-for-criminals-says-aclu
This man was pulled over by cops without probable cause (according to one of the cops) and when the cops couldn't find any drugs they beat him up while he was handcuffed, resulting in trauma that required brain surgery and then they locked him in a closet for 4 days (!) without food or use of a toilet, only 1 carton of milk. As expected, the dashcam portion that showed the cops beating the man was conveniently "missing" during request for discovery...
For all this brutality, the man was awarded $20m back in 2016 but an appeals court overtruned this. Now he is receiving $50m but once again, the taxpayers will foot the bill instead of the criminals or their gang's coffers. No information of course on whether the cops were charged with anything. Maybe they were "punished" with paid vacation..
Jury awards $50 million to man beaten, locked in East Cleveland police department storage room
A Cuyahoga County jury on Friday awarded $50 million ($20 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages against the city of East Cleveland) to an East Cleveland man who filed a lawsuit that said police in that city beat him while he was in handcuffs in 2012, then locked him in a concrete storage room for four days with no food or restroom.
The award came after the second jury trial in the case of Arnold Black, after an appeals court last year overturned a previous award for $22 million.
In the run up to the first civil trial in 2016, East Cleveland’s law department did not respond to any requests from Black’s lawyers for evidence it planned to present to jurors in the city’s defense. A judge ruled that the move violated the rules of discovery and barred East Cleveland from presenting any evidence at trial.
The portion of the police dashboard camera video showing Hicks punching Black was missing when the department handed it over to Black’s lawyers prior to the first trial. The lawsuit claimed that the officers deliberately edited that portion out.
https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2019/08/jury-awards-50-million-to-man-beaten-locked-in-east-cleveland-police-department-storage-room.html
This man was pulled over by cops without probable cause (according to one of the cops) and when the cops couldn't find any drugs they beat him up while he was handcuffed, resulting in trauma that required brain surgery and then they locked him in a closet for 4 days (!) without food or use of a toilet, only 1 carton of milk. As expected, the dashcam portion that showed the cops beating the man was conveniently "missing" during request for discovery...
For all this brutality, the man was awarded $20m back in 2016 but an appeals court overtruned this. Now he is receiving $50m but once again, the taxpayers will foot the bill instead of the criminals or their gang's coffers. No information of course on whether the cops were charged with anything. Maybe they were "punished" with paid vacation..
Jury awards $50 million to man beaten, locked in East Cleveland police department storage room
A Cuyahoga County jury on Friday awarded $50 million ($20 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages against the city of East Cleveland) to an East Cleveland man who filed a lawsuit that said police in that city beat him while he was in handcuffs in 2012, then locked him in a concrete storage room for four days with no food or restroom.
The award came after the second jury trial in the case of Arnold Black, after an appeals court last year overturned a previous award for $22 million.
In the run up to the first civil trial in 2016, East Cleveland’s law department did not respond to any requests from Black’s lawyers for evidence it planned to present to jurors in the city’s defense. A judge ruled that the move violated the rules of discovery and barred East Cleveland from presenting any evidence at trial.
The portion of the police dashboard camera video showing Hicks punching Black was missing when the department handed it over to Black’s lawyers prior to the first trial. The lawsuit claimed that the officers deliberately edited that portion out.
https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2019/08/jury-awards-50-million-to-man-beaten-locked-in-east-cleveland-police-department-storage-room.html
Cop near me busted for child porn in port Chester
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2019/08/cleveland-cop-urinated-on-12-year-old-girl-waiting-for-school-bus-while-recording-on-cellphone-prosecutors-say.html
Seriously- WTF !!
Guess the Race 🤣😂
There are some really crazy people in the world. The girl was smart not to accept the ride. Goes to show, cops can sometimes be criminals.
Yep definitely so.
And reading this thread There Most Certainly are a Lot of Criminal cops
And sadly most often times they’re getting away with their Crimes
Which is worse than the criminal’s as they are supposed to be up holding
The Law & Should Be held to higher standard.
Listen to this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats:
Remember this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats?
Turns out that he didn't "wait for all the facts to come out", as cops often say.
Once again, another crime was committed based on lies and fabrications that the "law enforcement professionals" didn't bother to check. It only crossed their mind to do so after 2 people were murdered in their home. Just claiming "it was a mistake" will not bring these people back and their killing could have been avoided but apparently the lives of non cops are of little importance to these scumbags. Will this killer and his gang be held accountable for the killing of these 2 people?
'You lie, you die' | HPD undercover cop lied about drug buy that led to deadly raid, Chief Acevedo says
In a bombshell development, the undercover cop who led a drug raid that ended with a deadly shootout last month is now the target of a criminal investigation.
The narcotics officer lied in the search warrant affidavit about a drug buy that never happened, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed Friday.
"That’s totally unacceptable. I’ve told my police department that if you lie, you die," Acevedo said. "When you lie on an affidavit, that's not sloppy police work, that's a crime."
The case agent obtained a search warrant to conduct the no-knock raid on Jan. 28 after he swore a confidential informant bought heroin at the home the night before. He said the informant told him he saw a 9mm handgun and a large amount of heroin in the house.
Turns out, there never was a drug buy at the house or an informant who saw a large amount of heroin and weapons.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/you-lie-you-die-hpd-undercover-cop-lied-about-drug-buy-that-led-to-deadly-raid-chief-acevedo-says/285-54ca0bb4-ba03-4e9d-ab6e-7d40bab2b356
Remember that union goon's outrage about cops being victimized and shot, with the whole narrative about "war on cops"? He is not very vocal now.
It seems that it took some members of his gang to get shot to end the no knock warrants, instead of the members of his gang who invaded the house of an innocent couple and killed them.
Houston Police To Cease 'No Knock' Warrants, Chief Announces After Deadly Raid
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says his department will stop serving "no knock" search warrants, weeks after a raid on a house left two married suspects dead and five officers injured. Acevedo also reiterated that the officer who led that raid may face criminal charges.
"The no-knock warrant's going to go away, kind of like leaded gasoline in our city," Acevedo said. He added that raids that stem from those warrants would only be used in very limited cases — and that they would not be used to nab people suspected of dealing small amounts of drugs.
No heroin was found at the residence, and Acevedo and the Houston police were forced to backtrack after initially saying the two suspects had opened fire on officers as soon as they reached the door of the house in the Pecan Park neighborhood, south of downtown Houston. The official narrative changed after it emerged that the police seemed to have opened fire first — shooting the couple's dog.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/695926963/houston-police-to-cease-no-knock-warrants-chief-announces-after-deadly-raid
Now let's see if anyone will end up in prison for the murder of this couple.
FBI opens civil rights investigation into botched Houston drug bust, police chief says
The FBI has launched an independent civil rights investigation into the conduct of officers involved in the botched no-knock drug raid that left two people dead and five officers wounded, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Wednesday at a City Hall press conference.
The probe is the latest aftershock after last month's deadly drug raid, which left two people dead, thrown the Houston Police Department into turmoil, and sent city and county leaders scrambling to contain a burgeoning scandal.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-chief-mayor-and-DA-set-to-speak-on-13630749.php
News stations: "BREAKING NEWS: DEPUTY SHOT, GUNMAN AT LARGE"
Mayor: "Think about what happened today, a sniper took out one of our deputies. The only reason that deputy is alive is because he had his vest on." "Thank god we don't have a funeral"
According to sources, the mayor even stated that he went to the hospital and saw the "injured officer" in "pain" and saw his "wound"...
SWAT teams with helicopters and armored vehicles (because apparently this is Ramadi or Kabul) started looking for the "active shooter".
An evil sniper shooting at "heroic" cops...
But as it turns out once again, a cop LIED, he made it up all up.
(as apparently did the mayor, if he "saw" the liar in the hospital with the fictional wound)
Officer Jussie...
BLUELIESMATTER
Officials: LA County Sheriff’s deputy in Lancaster fabricated report he was shot by sniper
In a rare Saturday night press conference, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials revealed that the rookie deputy who claimed he was shot in the shoulder at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station “completely fabricated” the incident and would be relieved of his duties.
Investigators who met Saturday with 21-year-old Deputy Angel Reinosa “saw no visible injury to Reynosa’s shoulder,” department officials said.
After getting interrogated due to doubts raised from his testimony, Reinosa admitted that he was not shot at from an apartment complex near the station as he previously claimed, sheriff’s Capt. Ken Wegener said.
“He also told investigators that he had caused the holes in his uniform shirt by cutting it with a knife,” Wegener said. “There was no sniper, no shots fired and no gunshot injury sustained to his shoulder. “(It was) completely fabricated.”
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/08/24/officials-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-in-lancaster-fabricated-report-he-was-shot-at-by-sniper/
News stations: "BREAKING NEWS: DEPUTY SHOT, GUNMAN AT LARGE"Good old CA.
Mayor: "Think about what happened today, a sniper took out one of our deputies. The only reason that deputy is alive is because he had his vest on." "Thank god we don't have a funeral"
According to sources, the mayor even stated that he went to the hospital and saw the "injured officer" in "pain" and saw his "wound"...
SWAT teams with helicopters and armored vehicles (because apparently this is Ramadi or Kabul) started looking for the "active shooter".
An evil sniper shooting at "heroic" cops...
But as it turns out once again, a cop LIED, he made it up all up.
(as apparently did the mayor, if he "saw" the liar in the hospital with the fictional wound)
Officer Jussie...
BLUELIESMATTER
Officials: LA County Sheriff’s deputy in Lancaster fabricated report he was shot by sniper
In a rare Saturday night press conference, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials revealed that the rookie deputy who claimed he was shot in the shoulder at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station “completely fabricated” the incident and would be relieved of his duties.
Investigators who met Saturday with 21-year-old Deputy Angel Reinosa “saw no visible injury to Reynosa’s shoulder,” department officials said.
After getting interrogated due to doubts raised from his testimony, Reinosa admitted that he was not shot at from an apartment complex near the station as he previously claimed, sheriff’s Capt. Ken Wegener said.
“He also told investigators that he had caused the holes in his uniform shirt by cutting it with a knife,” Wegener said. “There was no sniper, no shots fired and no gunshot injury sustained to his shoulder. “(It was) completely fabricated.”
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/08/24/officials-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-in-lancaster-fabricated-report-he-was-shot-at-by-sniper/
As it has been shown over and over, we are dealing with criminal gangs.
Think about this also: some cops were making $302,000 a year (!) — including $131,650 in overtime (!).
How a trooper’s alleged racist remark ignited the State Police overtime scandal
The woman was driving through the Ted Williams Tunnel on her way to Logan Airport on a weeknight three years ago when a Massachusetts State Police trooper popped out of nowhere in front of her car, arms flailing, gesturing to pull over.
“Do you not speak English?” the trooper yelled after she rolled down the window.
An Asian-American with a medical degree from Harvard, the woman spoke 4 languages fluently.
Eventually, a second trooper at the scene handed her a ticket for driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. The citation she received was for the following day, not the night she was pulled over.
The federal and state investigations have revealed troopers were writing bogus traffic citations to meet unconstitutional ticket quotas, falsified other paperwork, and destroyed documents. The convictions showed how troopers and supervisors stole money and coordinated a coverup of their tracks — signs, prosecutors say, of systemic cultural problems and lax oversight at the state’s largest law enforcement agency.
Read more: Boston Globe (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/08/17/how-one-trooper-alleged-racist-remark-ignited-state-police-overtime-fraud-scandal/xrzYDzQHFRFA9RTIhWPDHP/story.html)
Yeah....And don't drive in Lake Oswego, Oregon after cocktail hour or after 10:00 p.m.. If you do, you run the risk of the city police pulling you over for no good reason so they can check your sobriety. If you are sober, they'll give you a ticket anyway for some bogus infraction. -Go to the courthouse and they pretty much reduce the fine to nothing. I guess it helps keep drunks off the road. But, when you are the person pulled over, it is more than annoying.Tell us more about your experience trolling the streets of Lake Oswego, Oregon after 10 PM
Even this horrific abuse, attack and kidnapping of a nurse who was following the law and serving her community and the flagrant and purposeful disregard for the laws and the courts was not enough it seems to make citizens fully realize the abusive nature of these violent criminals.
Firing and/or demotion is not enough. Until now, these violent criminals were on paid vacation. It is likely that Payne will appeal, the cop union will get involved and enforce their own rules and he won't suffer any actual consequences. He along with his supervisor should rot in prison as should any other cops that might have been present but did not subdue and arrest Payne.
Utah Cop who Forcibly Arrested Nurse for Refusing Blood Draw Fired
The Utah cop video recorded roughly handcuffing a nurse after she refused to allow a blood draw on an unconscious patient has been fired.
Salt Lake Police Chief Mike Brown relieved detective Jeff Payne of his duties for violating department policies when he arrested Alex Wubbels and dragged the screaming nurse out of the hospital.
Chief Brown demoted Payne’s supervisor, watch commander Lt. James Tracey, to the rank of officer after viewing the video, which was recorded on police body cams on July 26.
The decision to fire Payne comes after an internal affairs report released Sept. 13 found both officers violated department policy by failing to uphold the department’s requirement to treat all citizens “equally with courtesy, consideration and dignity.”
“You demonstrated extremely poor professional judgment (especially for an officer with 27 years of experience), which calls into question your ability to effectively serve the public and the department,” Brown wrote in a termination letter to Payne, which can be read below.
“In examining your conduct, I am deeply troubled by your lack of sound professional judgment and your discourteous, disrespectful, and unwarranted behavior, which unnecessarily escalated a situation that could and should have been resolved in a manner far different from the course of action you chose to pursue.”
“You inappropriately acted against Ms. Wubbels,” Brown added.
Payne’s attorney Greg Skordas argued firing Payne was excessive and said his client served the department well for nearly three decades.
“I‘m really frustrated by the way this case has been processed,
Skordas told the Salt Lake Tribune.
“I do think that Salt Lake City did a fair job of doing the investigation, and I think that their findings are, by and large, accurate. But I think the chief reacted to a lot of public pressure and scrutiny in making a decision that doesn’t fit the conduct.”
Payne was previously disciplined in 2013 after an internal affairs investigation confirmed he sexually harassed a female co-worker.
The former officer worked part-time as a paramedic, but was fired from that job on September 5 after fallout from his arrest of Wubbels continued.
During the incident, Payne threatened to punish the hospital as well as Wubbels by bringing “all the transients” to the hospital and taking the “good patients” elsewhere.
“I’ll bring them all the transients and take good patients elsewhere,” Payne says in the video.
Body cam footage of the incident, which sparked a nationwide conversation on the level of force used by police, can be seen below.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/10/utah-cop-forcibly-arrested-nurse-refusing-blood-draw-fired/
Tell us more about your experience trolling the streets of Lake Oswego, Oregon after 10 PM
If cops have "no duty to protect" the citizens they are supposed to serve and will ignore crimes or cries for help, citizens should also not be forced to help cops or be charged with a crime.
It’s no longer a crime to refuse to help a cop after Gavin Newsom signed this law
A legal vestige from California’s Wild West days is no more.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill striking down a law that makes it a crime to refuse a police officer’s request for help.
The California Posse Comitatus Act of 1872 made it a misdemeanor for any “able-bodied person 18 years of age or older” to refuse a police officer’s call for assistance in making an arrest.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article234664847.html
Its a shame either of these are acceptable. I don't think a citizen should be compelled by law to aid an officer, I think they should be compelled by morals and eithics. But I do think officers should be compelled to assist citizens.This
Its a shame either of these are acceptable. I don't think a citizen should be compelled by law to aid an officer, I think they should be compelled by morals and eithics. But I do think officers should be compelled to assist citizens. Can't think of many instances where this has been an issue but I am sure Skeletor can educate me
https://www.firearmsandliberty.com/kasler-protection.html
While the ruling pertained to domestic violence it has also been used on pursuit cases where the police, determining the subject in the vehicle was not going to stop, was wanted for a misdemeanor and therefore the pursuit was called off. The suspect later continuing to drive like an idiot crashed and caused injury to others., Police were sued and the courts determined the police did the right thing, but some people interpret it as the police have no duty to protect citizens..
Agree pretty much with what you say.
And as Far as Educating you - Your well aware of the endless
Horrendous reports on this thread posted by Skeletor & others
Pertaining to the activities & behaviour of criminal cops.
One of the most recent court decisions about cops not having a "duty to protect" stemmed from the Parkland school shooting, and more specifically the "heroic" Coward of Broward. Point is, citizens are always at a disadvantage, they are in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation because unlike cops they are not covered by immunities (as well as others covering up for them).
Cops and schools had no duty to shield students in Parkland shooting, says judge who tossed lawsuit
A federal judge says Broward schools and the Sheriff’s Office had no legal duty to protect students during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom dismissed a suit filed by 15 students who claimed they were traumatized by the crisis in February. The suit named six defendants, including the Broward school district and the Broward Sheriff’s Office, as well as school deputy Scot Peterson and campus monitor Andrew Medina.
“His arbitrary and conscience-shocking actions and inactions directly and predictably caused children to die, get injured, and get traumatized,” the lawsuit claimed.
Medina knew Cruz and saw him arrive on campus, but did not confront him.
Bloom ruled that the two agencies had no constitutional duty to protect students who were not in custody.
“The claim arises from the actions of [shooter Nikolas] Cruz, a third party, and not a state actor,” she wrote in a ruling Dec. 12. “Thus, the critical question the Court analyzes is whether defendants had a constitutional duty to protect plaintiffs from the actions of Cruz.
“As previously stated, for such a duty to exist on the part of defendants, plaintiffs would have to be considered to be in custody” — for example, as prisoners or patients of a mental hospital, she wrote.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-ne-douglas-survivor-lawsuit-federal-judge-20181217-story.html
That maybe the Legal Bollocks
Only Any Sane Rational Person Thinks That The Law Is Fucked Up.
And Badly Fucked Up.
Kids are Being Shot & Killed in School & The Police Don’t Have To Protect Them ::) ::)
What are they For Then just to Protec Each Other.
The suit also alleged that Peterson had remained outside the building while Cruz was inside shooting students. And the suit claimed that a Broward sheriff’s commander at the scene prevented emergency responders from entering the building to confront Cruz or help the victims.
U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom cited the 1989 Supreme Court decision DeShaney v. Winnebago County, which said that the due process clause “is phrased as a limitation on the state’s power to act, not as a guarantee of certain minimal levels of safety and security.”
The government does have a duty to protect when a person such as a prisoner is in custody, Bloom said.
But school custody doesn’t rise to a level that requires an obligation to protect, Bloom said, citing appellate precedent.
Perjury? Lying to both the FBI and a federal grand jury? Of course thesescumbags"sworn law enforcement officers" will lie to cover up their crimes. The victim of this violent attack happened to be an undercover cop. If the victim was just an "ordinary" person things would have been different. She's getting off lightly. The other 4 cops are still awaiting trial.
One of the messages they allegedly exchanged before the attack said: "The more the merrier! It's gonna get IGNORANT tonight!! But it's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!"
Once again: criminal gangs.
Former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Committing Perjury
Bailey Colletta, 26, a former police officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri to one count of making false statements to a federal grand jury about her knowledge of the arrest and assault of a fellow SLMPD police officer, who was working undercover in downtown St. Louis during protests following the 2017 acquittal of a former SLMPD officer on a state murder charge. Colletta’s co-defendants, SLMPD officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hays, and Christopher Myers, remain under indictment on federal charges related to the assault and subsequent cover-up. They have pleaded not guilty.
According to the plea agreement, in addition to facing a maximum of five years in prison, Colletta must forfeit her law enforcement certification. A sentencing date has been set for Dec. 13. The trial of Boone, Hayes, and Myers is set for Dec. 2, 2019.
This case is being investigated by the St. Louis Division of the FBI and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Reginald Harris of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Special Litigation Counsel Fara Gold and Trial Attorney Janea Lamar of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Criminal Section.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-st-louis-metropolitan-police-officer-pleads-guilty-committing-perjury
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-cop-admits-lying-to-fbi-grand-jury-about/article_6bb1bc58-80fe-5195-a790-10a394293104.html?fbclid=IwAR2aNiMPfCQva-7pxBOgMQOaO_UO8vEBZ7Fv3Rj5Es41dIspiFghyCAfaRA
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Only the finest people...
This one just happened to be charged with a mere 61 counts:
2 counts of sexual abuse
2 counts of attempted sexual abuse
1 count of attempted sexual assault
4 counts of sexual extortion
4 counts of unlawful sexual conduct
8 counts of unlawful imprisonment
8 counts of kidnapping
4 counts of harassment
8 counts of forgery
5 counts of fraudulent schemes and artifices
7 counts of fraudulent schemes and practices, willful concealment
8 counts of tampering with a public record
Arizona trooper arrested on sex-related, kidnapping and fraud charges
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An Arizona state trooper was arrested Tuesday and charged with 61 counts -- ranging from alleged sexual abuse and extortion to kidnapping and fraud -- after his department said he was using his position to trade "leniency for favor."
Tremaine Jackson, 43, worked for the Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) for 13 years and was assigned to the department's Metro Motors District when authorities say they started receiving calls from women alleging that he'd made inappropriate comments and sexually abused them while on the job.
Col. Frank Milstead, director of AZDPS, said at a press conference Tuesday that on May 19, the department received its first complaint from a female motorist. who said Jackson made inappropriate comments to her during a traffic stop.
While investigating that complaint, police received a second complaint that alleged Jackson made inappropriate comments and engaged in "criminal behavior to the extent of sexual abuse," Milstead said. Jackson was put on administrative leave.
As the AZDPS's special investigation unit began to further probe Jackson's behavior while on duty, it contacted several women who had been stopped or cited by him dating back to Oct. 29, 2018, when police believe the first account of inappropriate and unlawful contact occurred.
Milstead said the investigation revealed at least eight women were alleged to have been harassed or sexually abused by Jackson while he was in uniform and in a marked or unmarked Arizona Department trooper car. Further, Milstead said, "we believe this may not be all of our victims."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-trooper-arrested-on-sex-related-kidnapping-and-fraud-charges-police
That maybe the Legal Bollocks
Only Any Sane Rational Person Thinks That The Law Is Fucked Up.
And Badly Fucked Up.
Kids are Being Shot & Killed in School & The Police Don’t Have To Protect Them ::) ::)
What are they For Then just to Protec Each Other.
Speaking for a vast majority of the cops, we don't care what a judge decides in an aftermath, 1 of the main reasons we chose the career was the possibility we at some point could intervene and stop something like this. That an officer had the chance and chose not to act, I have no sympathy for them. Throw them to the wolves. If you wear the badge, and aren't willing on a daily basis to risk your safety for others, especially children, you are in the wrong professionThe most rational thing you've ever posted.
Speaking for a vast majority of the cops, we don't care what a judge decides in an aftermath, 1 of the main reasons we chose the career was the possibility we at some point could intervene and stop something like this. That an officer had the chance and chose not to act, I have no sympathy for them. Throw them to the wolves. If you wear the badge, and aren't willing on a daily basis to risk your safety for others, especially children, you are in the wrong profession
Only the finest people to protect the children..
ECISD officer charged with sexual assault of a child
An Ector County ISD officer is facing charges for sexual assault of a child. David Franco, 43, worked at Wilson and Young Middle school, though it's unclear if that's where the assault happened. He has since been terminated.
According to police records, on Sept. 14, a parent reported that her 14-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by Franco. The child's parents found inappropriate text messages, to which Franco later admitted having sent. Franco also admitted to having intercourse with the child, an arrest affidavit reads.
Franco has also been charged with improper relationship between educator and student as well as indecency with a child (sexual contact). All three of his charges are second degree felonies.
https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/crime/ecisd-officer-arrested-sexual-assault-child/513-5d384f7e-8a4e-4d2c-913e-742db1214325
should be executed
VPOTUS: "Police officers are the best of us".
Multiple sexual assault charges against a 5 year old girl, four of the charges were Class A felonies carrying mandatory 20-year prison terms.
NO PRISON TIME.
No jail time for former HPD officer charged with sexually assaulting child
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A former Honolulu Police Department officer charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl for several years will not go to jail.
According to an indictment, Teddy Van Lerberghe assaulted the girl from 2004 to 2008.
Van Lerberghe initially pleaded not guilty, but he changed his plea to no contest earlier this month after reaching a deal with prosecutors.
Felony sex assault charges usually carry long prison terms, but the 45-year-old only faces five years probation when he's sentenced in August.
He will also have to register as a sex offender.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/05/29/no-jail-time-former-hpd-officer-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-child/
Remember this case?
Molesting a 15 year old girl who was already the victim of sexual abuse and thought she would get help by going to the police... He is expected to get just 3 years in prison...
LASD Sex Crimes Detective Pleads Guilty to Molesting Teen Whose Sex Assault Case He Was Investigating
A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detective pleaded guilty to child molestation involving a teenager whose sexual assault case he was investigating, authorities said Wednesday.
Neil David Kimball, 46, of Agoura, pleaded guilty to a lewd act with a child and unlawful sexual intercourse, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said.
The former detective was initially charged with forcible rape against a minor 14 years or older while the victim was tied or bound, as well as witness intimidation by threat of force, the DA said.
While working as a detective with the Special Victims Bureau for sex crimes in 2017, he met with a 15-year-old when she reported being a victim of sexual assault.
Kimball’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 8, 2019, at a Ventura court. He is expected to be sentenced to three years in prison under the terms of a plea agreement.
https://ktla.com/2019/07/10/l-a-county-sheriffs-sex-crimes-detective-pleads-guilty-to-molesting-teen-whose-sexual-assault-case-he-was-investigating
The UK Police State... Police bragging on Twitter about how they took several "weapons" off the streets like kitchen knives, and more importantly, a spoon! Terrifying to imagine that such weapons of mass destruction are in the hands of billions of people...
Police station mocked for photo of knife haul – that includes a spoon
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"Yesterday we conducted weapons sweeps,dealt with a person injured from a van reversing on them, reported a burglary and collected all these from @scope charity shop who diligently didn’t want them to get into the wrong hands & disposed of correctly & safely"
https://twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/1128259712984735744
A British police station this week lauded themselves with a picture on Twitter designed to showcase their efforts at tackling knife crime — but didn’t quite scoop up the coverage they were hoping for thanks to the presence of a rogue spoon in the image.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/16/police-station-mocked-for-photo-of-knife-haul-that-includes-a-spoon/
These fearless heroes have also conducted major operations against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Here is another one of their successes:
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https://twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/974645778558980096
Hahaha! Lunacy in the UK...
Police stop publishing seized knives pictures
A police force has stopped publishing images of knives seized in amnesties to avoid upsetting the public.
Photos of dozens of weapons laid out on tables by police are a common sight after successful knife amnesties.
But Thames Valley Police said it had stopped doing it because of the impact "knife imagery can have on those who see it".
The force is currently taking part in Operation Sceptre, a national campaign to reduce knife crime.
Its knife amnesty, which lasts until Sunday, involves members of the public anonymously dropping off weapons in special bins at 16 police stations across the region.
The force said it had made the decision to "stop publicising images of seized knives to help reduce the fear of knives and knife carrying in our local communities".
It came to the decision as a result of discussions held by the National Police Chiefs' Council and other forces.
A spokesperson added: "Although no formal guidance has been put in place, the force has decided that it will not publicise images of knives that have been seized throughout this week of action."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49755080
Grand jury hearing case against former Dallas officer Amber Guyger
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The criminal case against a fired Dallas police officer who shot and killed her neighbor is now being presented to a Dallas County grand jury.
Former officer Amber Guyger is charged with manslaughter for the shooting death of Botham Jean, who was fatally shot in his own apartment in early September by Guyger. She told investigators she mistakenly entered Jean's apartment and mistook him for a burglar in her own home.
Grand jury proceedings are secret, so the details and evidence being presented by the Dallas County District Attorney will not be made public until the grand jury finishes its review, which began Monday. Guyger could be indicted for manslaughter, face an upgraded charge of murder or be cleared of any potential charges.
An announcement of charges could come as soon as Wednesday.
https://www.fox7austin.com/home/grand-jury-hearing-case-against-dallas-officer-amber-guyger
Now let's see how the trial goes and if she'll go to prison (better yet, though highly unlikely, sent to death row).
Fired cop Amber Guyger indicted on a murder charge in Botham Jean killing
Guyger was arrested on a manslaughter charge on Sept. 9, three days after the shooting. But after a week of hearing evidence in the case, a grand jury on Friday indicted Guyger on a charge of murder.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/guy-indicted-on-a-murder-charge-in-botham-jean-killing/287-619078538
Only the finest people..
Especially in a unit that is "supposed" to keep track of sex offenders...
NYPD Special Victims detective arrested for molesting 12-year-old girl
An NYPD detective responsible for keeping tabs on city sex offenders found himself behind bars for molesting a 12-year-old girl, police said Saturday.
Det. Juan Jimenez, 37, was arrested at 7 p.m. Friday after he was accused of sexually abusing the child, his daughter’s friend, cops said.
Jimenez was babysitting his daughter and her pal in his Brooklyn home over the summer when he allegedly groped and tried to kiss the girl. The victim reported it and cops launched an investigation, authorities said. Jimenez grabbed the child by the waist and “attempted to kiss (the victim) about the mouth,” according to court papers. He also grabbed the girl’s behind, prosecutors said.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-detective-arrested-for-molesting-girl-20190928-vgvkzisucrbrfo7hg7l22mobr4-story.html
Only the finest people..
Especially in a unit that is "supposed" to keep track of sex offenders...
NYPD Special Victims detective arrested for molesting 12-year-old girl
An NYPD detective responsible for keeping tabs on city sex offenders found himself behind bars for molesting a 12-year-old girl, police said Saturday.
Det. Juan Jimenez, 37, was arrested at 7 p.m. Friday after he was accused of sexually abusing the child, his daughter’s friend, cops said.
Jimenez was babysitting his daughter and her pal in his Brooklyn home over the summer when he allegedly groped and tried to kiss the girl. The victim reported it and cops launched an investigation, authorities said. Jimenez grabbed the child by the waist and “attempted to kiss (the victim) about the mouth,” according to court papers. He also grabbed the girl’s behind, prosecutors said.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-detective-arrested-for-molesting-girl-20190928-vgvkzisucrbrfo7hg7l22mobr4-story.html
Ordinary people end up behind bars for smoking weed or even for possessing doughnuts, a cop overdosing on heroin inside his patrol car gets probation and zero prison time... Not only that but if he completes a drug program, his record will be expunged..
Franklin police officer who overdosed on heroin in patrol car gets probation
A former Franklin Township police officer was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to attend Drug Court on charges of possessing heroin and driving while intoxicated while on duty in April.
Matthew D. Ellery, 29, of Middlesex Borough, was sentenced Friday by Superior Court Judge Kathy Qasim as part of a plea agreement reached in July with the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office.
Ellery, who forfeited his job as a police officer, also had his driver's license revoked for seven months.
If Ellery completes the Drug Court program, his record will be expunged. If he does not complete the program, he faces a potential prison sentence of three to five years.
https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/23/franklin-nj-police-officer-matthew-ellery-overdosed-heroin-probation/2096886001/
Finally. She should've been sentenced to death but even life sentence, if served fully i.e. die in prison, is still something. Of course she might receive a lesser sentence.
Amber Guyger guilty in Botham Jean shooting, jury finds
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Amber Guyger, the white Dallas cop who shot black neighbor Botham Jean when she mistook his apartment for hers, on Tuesday was found guilty of murder.
She faces a maximum of life in prison.
Guyger was off duty but in uniform when she shot Jean twice, hitting him in the head and chest on Sept. 6, 2018. She had worked a 13-1/2 hour shift on the Dallas Police Department's crime response team that day, and mistakenly parked on the fouth floor of the complex's garage.
Guyger lived on the third floor and Jean, a 26-year-old accountant from St. Lucia, lived in the apartment above hers.
Prosecutors said Jean was watching television and eating a bowl of ice cream in his living room when Guyger burst inside. Prosecutors said the trajectory of the bullets showed that Jean was either getting up from his couch or cowering when Guyger fired her service weapon.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/amber-guyger-guilty-in-botham-jean-shooting-jury-finds
Finally. She should've been sentenced to death but even life sentence, if served fully i.e. die in prison, is still something. Of course she might receive a lesser sentence.
Amber Guyger guilty in Botham Jean shooting, jury finds
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Amber Guyger, the white Dallas cop who shot black neighbor Botham Jean when she mistook his apartment for hers, on Tuesday was found guilty of murder.
She faces a maximum of life in prison.
Guyger was off duty but in uniform when she shot Jean twice, hitting him in the head and chest on Sept. 6, 2018. She had worked a 13-1/2 hour shift on the Dallas Police Department's crime response team that day, and mistakenly parked on the fouth floor of the complex's garage.
Guyger lived on the third floor and Jean, a 26-year-old accountant from St. Lucia, lived in the apartment above hers.
Prosecutors said Jean was watching television and eating a bowl of ice cream in his living room when Guyger burst inside. Prosecutors said the trajectory of the bullets showed that Jean was either getting up from his couch or cowering when Guyger fired her service weapon.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/amber-guyger-guilty-in-botham-jean-shooting-jury-finds
She just got sentenced to 10 years. What a travesty! Ordinary people receive this sort of sentence for lesser crimes and here we see this killer breaking into an innocent man's apartment and murdering him and she only gets 10 years...
A homeowner is trying to defend his life and property inside his house. Even that is apparently not allowed in police state USA though, so a cop shot him through the front window..
Now an ordinary criminal or tresspasser or burglar would have faced charges. But we are not talking about "ordinary" criminals, this is the uniformed criminal division we're dealing with here.
"We investigated ourselves and cleared ourselves of any wrongdoing".
SC deputy cleared by internal affairs after shooting homeowner through front window
Greenville County Sheriff's Office investigators have determined a deputy acted according to policy when he shot a 62-year-old man through a front window of his Simpsonville home.
The Sheriff's Office's Officer of Professional Standards conducted an internal investigation to see if Deputy Kevin Azzara violated any written policies during the incident. The investigation concluded and found that no agency policies were violated, spokesman Lt. Ryan Flood told The Greenville News Wednesday.
Azzara responded to an alarm call on Eastcrest Drive in Simpsonville June 14. After approaching the front door, he saw a man inside, later identified as the homeowner, armed with a handgun. According to the Sheriff's Office, the man pointed the gun at Azzara, at which point Azzara fired his weapon into the home.
Azzara struck homeowner Dick Tench twice, once in the pelvis and once in the aortic artery.
Initial statements from the Sheriff's Office claimed Tench opened the front door and pointed a gun at Azzara before Azzara fired shots. An edited video presentation of body camera footage the Sheriff's Office shared 45 days later showed that Tench never opened the door.
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2019/08/07/sc-deputy-cleared-internal-affairs-after-shooting-homeowner/1944593001/
(source may not be reliable:)
A key witness that helped convict the cop for murder has been shot dead...
Botham Jean's neighbor, a key witness in Amber Guyger trial, shot to death in Dallas
A key witness in Amber Guyger's murder trial was shot and killed Friday evening at an apartment complex near Dallas' Medical District, authorities said. Joshua Brown, a neighbor of Botham Jean's and Guyger at the South Side Flats apartments, was slain about 10:30 p.m. in the 4600 block of Cedar Springs Road. Witnesses told police they heard several gunshots and saw a silver four-door sedan speeding out of the parking lot.
Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean and testified about the night he was killed. Dallas County prosecutor Jason Hermus, the lead prosecutor in the Guyger case, said Saturday that Brown stood up at a time when others won't say what they know.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/05/man-fatally-shot-apartment-complex-near-dallas-medical-district-suspect-loose/
A key witness that helped convict the cop for murder has been shot dead...
Botham Jean's neighbor, a key witness in Amber Guyger trial, shot to death in Dallas
A key witness in Amber Guyger's murder trial was shot and killed Friday evening at an apartment complex near Dallas' Medical District, authorities said. Joshua Brown, a neighbor of Botham Jean's and Guyger at the South Side Flats apartments, was slain about 10:30 p.m. in the 4600 block of Cedar Springs Road. Witnesses told police they heard several gunshots and saw a silver four-door sedan speeding out of the parking lot.
Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean and testified about the night he was killed. Dallas County prosecutor Jason Hermus, the lead prosecutor in the Guyger case, said Saturday that Brown stood up at a time when others won't say what they know.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/05/man-fatally-shot-apartment-complex-near-dallas-medical-district-suspect-loose/
Facial recognition software mistook 1 in 5 California lawmakers for criminals, says ACLU
California Assemblyman Phil Ting has never been arrested, but he was recently mistaken for a criminal.
He’s not surprised.
Ting (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill to ban facial recognition software from being used on police body cameras, was one of 26 California legislators who was incorrectly matched with a mug shot in a recent test of a common face-scanning program by the American Civil Liberties Union.
About 1 in 5 legislators was erroneously matched to a person who had been arrested when the ACLU used the software to screen their pictures against a database of 25,000 publicly available booking photos. Last year, in a similar experiment done with photos of members of Congress, the software erroneously matched 28 federal legislators with mug shots.
The results highlight what Ting and others said is proof that facial recognition software is unreliable. They want California law enforcement banned from using it with the cameras they wear while on duty.
“The software clearly is not ready for use in a law enforcement capacity,” Ting said. “These mistakes, we can kind of chuckle at it, but if you get arrested and it’s on your record, it can be hard to get housing, get a job. It has real impacts.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-12/facial-recognition-software-mistook-1-in-5-california-lawmakers-for-criminals-says-aclu
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Apparently the cops decided that there is a special exemption that allows criminal gangs to shoot anybody they want and get away with it. This woman was inside her home when an armed criminal who was prowling suspiciously around her home "orders" her to put her hands up and instantly shoots her dead through the window. Of course the killer is now enjoying paid vacation and remains anonymous due to his gang affiliation. Let's see what sort of excuses the criminals will concoct to cover up their crimes.
Woman fatally shot inside her home by Fort Worth officer
A Fort Worth Police Department officer fatally shot a woman who was inside her home early Saturday morning.
This fatal officer-involved shooting happened just before 2:30 a.m., when police got a call about a home’s front door being open in the 1200 block of E. Allen Ave.
Just hours after the shooting, police released the officer's body camera video, which is less than two minutes long. It shows him arrive at the home, and while searching the area, he looks inside the home through a window and sees a person standing inside.
According to police, the officer pulled out his service weapon after “perceiving a threat.”
On the body camera video, the officer can be heard saying, “Put your hands up. Show me your hands,” before shooting through the window at the person inside.
The officer couldn’t be heard saying anything before that.
Officers then went into the home, and found a woman, identified as 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, who had been shot by the officer, along with a handgun. Police have not said whether the gun was found near Jefferson, or found in another part of the home.
Just hours after the shooting, police released the officer's body camera video, which is less than two minutes long.
https://www.fox4news.com/news/woman-fatally-shot-inside-her-home-by-fort-worth-officer
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Apparently the cops decided that there is a special exemption that allows criminal gangs to shoot anybody they want and get away with it. This woman was inside her home when an armed criminal who was prowling suspiciously around her home "orders" her to put her hands up and instantly shoots her dead through the window. Of course the killer is now enjoying paid vacation and remains anonymous due to his gang affiliation. Let's see what sort of excuses the criminals will concoct to cover up their crimes.
Woman fatally shot inside her home by Fort Worth officer
A Fort Worth Police Department officer fatally shot a woman who was inside her home early Saturday morning.
This fatal officer-involved shooting happened just before 2:30 a.m., when police got a call about a home’s front door being open in the 1200 block of E. Allen Ave.
Just hours after the shooting, police released the officer's body camera video, which is less than two minutes long. It shows him arrive at the home, and while searching the area, he looks inside the home through a window and sees a person standing inside.
According to police, the officer pulled out his service weapon after “perceiving a threat.”
On the body camera video, the officer can be heard saying, “Put your hands up. Show me your hands,” before shooting through the window at the person inside.
The officer couldn’t be heard saying anything before that.
Officers then went into the home, and found a woman, identified as 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, who had been shot by the officer, along with a handgun. Police have not said whether the gun was found near Jefferson, or found in another part of the home.
Just hours after the shooting, police released the officer's body camera video, which is less than two minutes long.
https://www.fox4news.com/news/woman-fatally-shot-inside-her-home-by-fort-worth-officer
Apparently you are anti police and drew a conclusion based on thatLMAO ;D
As usual, the killer resigned before he could be fired...
Fort Worth police officer accused of shooting and killing black woman has resigned, chief says
The white Fort Worth police officer accused of shooting a black woman inside her home over the weekend has resigned, Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus announced Monday. Kraus on Monday identified the officer involved in the shooting as Aaron Dean. He said Dean was placed on detached duty and stripped of his badge and firearm after he was served with his written administrative complaint yesterday.
“My intent was to meet with him today to terminate his employment with the Fort Worth Police Department. However, the officer tendered his resignation this morning before we met," Kraus told reporters Monday. "Even though he no longer works for the city, we will continue the administrative investigation as if he did. The case will be completed and reviewed by the chain of command.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fort-worth-police-officer-in-shooting-investigation
Officer draws gun, breaks man’s leg during traffic stop. Driver not charged with crime
A police body camera video showing a Doral officer pulling his weapon and breaking a man’s leg while forcefully arresting him during a traffic enforcement detail appears to contradict the chain of events described in the arrest report.
The video was damning enough that state prosecutors decided not to move forward with charges against motorist Craig Nembhard. The officer who pulled his weapon on the unarmed man is now under internal investigation and the city of Doral was given notice in late September that the man whose leg was broken intends to file a civil rights lawsuit arguing police used excessive force.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article236229843.html
Stand by. Any moment now, the Police will announce that the femur in question was given detention twice during high school, before stating that they can't comment on an active investigation.
“The guy was arrested and during the arrest his leg was broken,” said Doral Police spokesman Rey Valdes.
The video seems at odds with the arrest report written by Doral Police Officer Jack St. Thomas.
In the report, Thomas said that Nembhard “directed his vehicle towards officer Cooper, which created a well-founded fear that defendant, who was agitated and angry, was about to thrust his vehicle at officer Cooper. Officer Cooper, in fear for his life, unholstered his duty weapon and pointed it at the defendant while simultaneously stepping out of the direct path of he vehicle, which was driving directly towards him.”
The video shows Cooper calmly stepping to the side of Nembhard’s barely moving car and quickly pulling his gun. Nembhard was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest without violence. After reviewing the evidence, state prosecutors decided against moving forward with the charges. The state said it couldn’t prove the case “beyond a reasonable doubt” and that Cooper was made aware of the decision.
Still, Cooper maintains the support of his union, the Miami-Dade branch of the Police Benevolent Association. President Steadman Stahl said from the “limited” video he’s seen, the officer acted properly and that two officers actually drew their weapons.
Fort Worth police officer jailed on murder charge after resigning in shooting that killed woman in home
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The white Fort Worth police officer accused of shooting a black woman inside her home over the weekend, killing her, has been jailed on a murder charge, online court records revealed Monday. The charge against Aaron Dean was made public hours after the officer resigned from the force. Bond was not immediately set.
Dean's resignation letter read: "Effective immediately I am tendering my resignation from the Fort Worth Police Department." The letter was released by the state's largest police union, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas. The group’s executive director, Charley Wilkison, said that Dean has not yet hired an attorney but that one will be provided with financial support from the union.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fort-worth-police-officer-in-shooting-investigation
The "highly trained professional" determined that "based on his training and experience", powdered milk is cocaine and this man would have served 15 years in prison... Had there been no lab testing, this scumbag would have sent a man in prison for 15 years and he wouldn't lose a second of sleep. Of course he doesn't care either way since he won't face any consequences for this actions.
Homeless man facing prison cleared by lab results
A homeless man who pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine had his case dismissed after the substance turned out to be powdered milk.
Cody Gregg told a judge he entered the plea so he could get out of the Oklahoma County jail.
Gregg, 26, pleaded guilty last week to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, court records show. He asked to withdraw his plea after receiving a negative lab report. Oklahoma County District Judge Timothy R. Henderson granted the request on Thursday and the case was dismissed the next day.
Gregg had been in Oklahoma County jail since his arrest in August. He was released Friday, according to jail records.
https://oklahoman.com/article/5644076/homeless-man-facing-prison-cleared-by-lab-results
Let's see if these criminals will end up in prison or if they'll get a promotion and a hefty bonus.
Florida Cop and Police Chief Both Charged in Shooting Death of Elderly Woman During Training Exercise
Punta Gorda police officer Lee Coel was finally charged in the shooting death of Mary Knowlton, the 73-year-old retired librarian who was shot and killed during a citizens academy last year.
Punta Gordo Police Chief Tom Lewis, who has defended Coel throughout his troubled career, was also charged, State Attorney Steve Russell announced during a press conference Wednesday.
Coel, who shot and killed Knowlton during an exercise in which he was supposed to use blanks last August, was charged with manslaughter, which is a first degree felony. He is facing up to 30 years in prison.
Lewis was charged with culpable negligence, which is a misdemeanor. He faces up to 60 days in jail, according to a press release from the state attorney’s office.
Coel turned himself in earlier today but was quickly released after posting a $5,000 bond. Lewis was issued a summons to appear in court, according to WINK News.
Coel, who has been on paid administrative leave since August 9, 2016 incident, has a long history of abuse as we pointed out last year.
He is the same cop who allowed his police dog to maul a man for riding a bicycle at night without lights.
“I’ve been saying for months that this guy was going to kill somebody and now he has killed somebody,” attorney Scott Weinberg said during a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime last year.
“Everybody had been put on notice that he was a loose cannon, that he should not have had a badge and a gun. The city, the state attorney and the police department knew he was not mentally fit to serve the public.”
But Chief Lewis continued to defend Coel, even after the cop fired a gun with live ammunition during a “shoot, don’t shoot” exercise, celebrating the fact that Coel was an award-winning officer, even if he did have a history of disciplinary actions against him, including a forced resignation from another law enforcement agency.
Knowlton had signed up for the citizens academy class because she wanted to show her support for police during a time when police were being criticized nationwide for their abusive tactics.
The incident led to a $2 million settlement for her family in November.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/02/22/florida-cop-and-police-chief-both-charged-in-shooting-death-of-elderly-woman-during-training-exercise/
Florida Cops Went to Absurd Lengths to Entrap Man Who Showed No Interest in Underage Sex
Reason ^ | 10 21 2019 | Lenore Skenazy
Posted on 10/21/2019, 2:10:02 PM by yesthatjallen
How do you catch a predator in Sarasota, Florida? You create one.
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) is going to "outrageous lengths" to make law-abiding lonely guys into sex offenders. That's according to Noah Pransky, a fearless journalist who has been covering Florida's addiction to entrapment for years.
In September, SCSO arrested 23 men for allegedly soliciting underage girls for sex. Pransky's most recent piece in Florida Politics chronicles the elaborate back and forth between one of those men and a police officer pretending to be a young female. Pransky writes:
In one example from a 2017 operation, SCSO spent two days trying to seduce a 20-year-old man who showed no interest in having sex with a child. Detectives, who posted an ad for an 18-year-old woman on Tinder, matched with the young man and proceeded to swap "getting-to-know-you" texts for more than an hour; only then did detectives tell the man he was chatting with a 14-year-old girl, not an 18-year-old.
Undercover detectives continued to try and talk about sex with the man the next day; he again rebuffed the attempts, but continued the small talk because he indicated he was bored. Detectives then sent unsolicited, flirty photos to the man; a tactic that violates best practices and ethical standards for this type of stings.
The terrible thing about this case is that the sheriff's office is not trying to save any actual kids. It is just trying to get an easy win.
Most parents who worry about predators online are picturing a creepy guy lurking on some kiddie site where he lures unsuspecting youngsters away to a sordid encounter at the Dairy Queen.
But the SCSO folks flip that scenario entirely. They log onto adult sites, claiming to be adult age. It's only once they establish some kind of bond with an adult who went online hoping to find a legal-age companion that they then confess that they are underage.
SNIP
Fucking arsehole cops
They should all be arrested & Prostituted
Another man shot inside his own home by cops. The man was begging for police to arrive to his house in response to burglars but as usual when seconds count, the cops are late and may attack the victims, not the criminals. The cops claim they mistook him for a burglar (inside his own home!). As a result this young man at just 26 years old is paralyzed from the neck down, unable to feed or bathe himself and in need of medical care for the rest of his life. Of course the cops investigated themselves and determined that the cop who paralyzed this poor man "acted appropriately in response to an apparent deadly threat".
The Sheriff's Office will only pay $750,000 for this which amounts to nothing for destroying an innocent young man's life and of course none of this will come from the pockets of the cops who shot him or their union's coffers.
Man paralyzed by shooting awarded $750K after officers mistook him for burglar in his own home
A South Carolina man has settled a lawsuit against the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, ending a years-long battle that began when an officer shot him in his own home after mistaking him for a burglar.
Bryant Heyward, who was left paralyzed by by a police shooting in 2015 after calling 911 to report a home invasion, settled his lawsuit against the sheriff's office for $750,000 -- a far cry from the $25 million he'd originally asked for, his attorney revealed Sunday.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-paralyzed-shooting-awarded-750k-officers-mistook-burglar/story?id=66409696
Another man shot inside his own home by cops. The man was begging for police to arrive to his house in response to burglars but as usual when seconds count, the cops are late and may attack the victims, not the criminals. The cops claim they mistook him for a burglar (inside his own home!). As a result this young man at just 26 years old is paralyzed from the neck down, unable to feed or bathe himself and in need of medical care for the rest of his life. Of course the cops investigated themselves and determined that the cop who paralyzed this poor man "acted appropriately in response to an apparent deadly threat".
The Sheriff's Office will only pay $750,000 for this which amounts to nothing for destroying an innocent young man's life and of course none of this will come from the pockets of the cops who shot him or their union's coffers.
Man paralyzed by shooting awarded $750K after officers mistook him for burglar in his own home
A South Carolina man has settled a lawsuit against the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, ending a years-long battle that began when an officer shot him in his own home after mistaking him for a burglar.
Bryant Heyward, who was left paralyzed by by a police shooting in 2015 after calling 911 to report a home invasion, settled his lawsuit against the sheriff's office for $750,000 -- a far cry from the $25 million he'd originally asked for, his attorney revealed Sunday.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-paralyzed-shooting-awarded-750k-officers-mistook-burglar/story?id=66409696
Probably not the first time they "misused" surveillance data... But don't expect any punishment or prison sentences.
FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds
In an October 2018 ruling unsealed and posted on October 8, 2019 by the Office of the Director of Intelligence, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that the employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had inappropriately used data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FBI was found to have misused surveillance data to look into American residents, including other FBI employees and their family members, making large-scale queries that did not distinguish between US persons and foreign intelligence targets.
The revelation drew immediate outcry from privacy advocates and renewed calls for the termination of FISA and USA FREEDOM Act that authorized bulk intelligence collection. President Donald Trump signed a bill extending Section 702 collection authorizations for six years in 2018; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced earlier this year that the administration would seek the extension of authority for collection of call data granted under the USA FREEDOM Act.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruling found that the FBI's "querying procedures" for intelligence data did not properly record when the database of intelligence data was searched for information about US persons. "The querying procedures did not require FBI personnel to document the basis for finding that each United States-person query term satisfied the relevant standard—i.e., that queries be reasonably designed to return foreign-inteligence information or evidence of crime," the FISC opinion stated. "Without such documentation and in view of reported instances of non-compliance with that standard, the procedures seemed unreasonable under FISA's definition of 'minimization procedures' and possibly the Fourth Amendment."
Among those instances of "non-compliance" were:
- Between March 24 and 27, 2017, the FBI ran queries against intelligence data "using identifiers for over 70,000 communications facilities 'associated with' persons with access to FBI facilities and systems," the court noted, "notwithstanding advice from the FBI Office of General Counsel (OGC) that they should not be conducted without the approval of the OGC and the National Security Division of the Department of Justice."
- On December 1, 2017, a redacted FBI division "conducted over 6,800 queries using the Social Security Numbers of individuals" against raw, unredacted FISA data. A week later, the same unit conducted 1,600 queries using another set of identifiers for US persons. The person who conducted the queries "advised he did not intend to run them against raw FISA information, but nonetheless reviewed raw FISA information returned by them."
- In February of 2018, the FBI searched raw FISA data for information, with about 30 queries regarding "potential [redacted] sources," and conducted about 45 other queries on people "under consideration as potential sources of information."
- In an undated event, reported to the Department of Justice's National Security Division in April of 2018, the FBI ran queries against raw FISA metadata using identifiers for "approximately 57,000 individuals" where it was not clear that the information would return foreign intelligence information.
- Queries against individual US persons were run against the FISA data on a number of occasions, including people about to be served a FISA order—and "a small number of cases in which FBI personnel apparently conducted queries for improper personal reasons—for example, a contract linguist who ran queries on himself, other FBI employees, and relatives."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/unsealed-fisa-ruling-slaps-fbi-for-misuse-of-surveillance-data
Once again the taxpayers are being held liable for the crimes of the "finest" people who "just do their job"..
Why not liquidate all the assets of those responsible for this man's death to pay for the compensation and then tie them up to a chair and leave them to die, exactly like they did to that poor man?
But do you know what happened? The jail administrator got sentenced to 55 hours (!) in prison for tying up a drunk man to a chair and letting him die.
Not 55 years.
Not 55 month
Not even 55 days just 55 hours!
And of course the sentence would not be served in the same prison she worked..
County leaders agree to $12.5 million settlement in connection to inmate’s death
Garfield County Commissioners say county officials have agreed to a settlement following the death of an inmate in custody.
Officials say Anthony Huff was arrested on June 4, 2016, for public intoxication and was held at the Garfield County Jail. Investigators say Huff was placed in a restraint chair on June 6 and was found unresponsive in the chair on June 8. Later that day, he was pronounced dead. During his time in the chair, Huff was not given “proper amounts of food, water or medical treatment for illnesses he was suffering from,” a release from Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter read.
An autopsy performed on June 9, 2016, said Huff died of natural causes, with the probable cause of death being chronic alcoholism due to a compulsive condition from a prior disease. In a federal lawsuit filed in 2017, lawyers allege jail employees were negligent because they should have known about Huff’s medical conditions from previous incarcerations and been aware that he took medications for heart disease, hypertension, depression, and other conditions.
Huff started hallucinating and exhibiting delusions at some point during his incarceration and was placed in the restraint chair, the lawsuit says.
Jail personnel didn’t receive a medical recommendation to use the chair, the lawsuit says, and jail employees didn’t check his blood pressure regularly, didn’t give him blood pressure medication and didn’t offer him hydration every two hours.
https://kfor.com/2019/10/22/county-leaders-agree-to-12-5-million-settlement-in-connection-to-inmates-death/
“Slap the shit out of me and get it off your chest.”
“Are you going to arrest me?”
“No, I'm giving you permission to slap the shit out of me, and get it off your chest”
Old guy starts to slowly and lightly move his hand as if to slap but before he finishes, the cop slaps him so hard he is knocked on the ground and as if that's not enough, the cop immediately arrests him...
Pussy with a badge. Notice also how the other cops do nothing.
The pussy has now been charged with a misdemeanor. Had the old man slapped him it would have been felony charges, along with a more severe beating.
Deputy indicted for punching 61-year-old outside IHOP
A grand jury indicted a Harris County Sheriff's Office deputy for knocking a man to the ground outside of an IHOP in 2018 after encouraging him to slap him.
Deputy Ellison Collins was indicted for assault, according to District Attorney Kim Ogg.
The incident happened outside of an IHOP on the Katy Freeway. Deputies were there responding to a disturbance when Collins, now 39, invited Jerry Allen Vaco, now 61, to slap him in the face.
https://abc13.com/deputy-indicted-for-punching-61-year-old-outside-ihop/5657112/
This is some crazy S#$%$
https://reason.com/2019/11/06/a-michigan-man-underpaid-his-property-taxes-by-8-41-the-county-seized-his-property-sold-it-and-kept-the-profits
Colorado homeowner owed nothing after police SWAT shootout destroys his house, federal court rules
A federal appeals court in Colorado ruled Tuesday that a local police department does not have to compensate a homeowner whose house was destroyed by 19 hours of gunfire between officers and an armed shoplifting suspect who had chosen to barricade himself inside to evade arrest.
Judges on the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a lower court’s decision, ruling that the city of Greenwood Village, near Denver, did not owe homeowner Leo Lech any additional compensation, even though the suspect was a stranger to the homeowner, the Denver Post reported.
Lech’s home, valued at $580,000, was marked for demolition in 2015 after a SWAT team used armored vehicles to breach the structure, deployed tear gas and explosives and shot 40 mm rounds in an effort to drive the suspect out after he refused to surrender and shot at officers, the Post reported. The suspect broke into the house when no one was home to use it as a hideout.
“The bottom line is that destroying somebody’s home and throwing them out in the street by a government agency for whatever circumstances is not acceptable in a civilized society,” Lech told the Post. “It destroyed our lives completely.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-federal-court-rules-police-dept-owes-homeowner-nothing-after-swat-destroys-his-house
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That Really is Unbelievable
And Totally & Utterly Stupid of The Court.
I wonder if homeowners insurance covered anything.
Horrible story.
I wonder if homeowners insurance covered anything.
Horrible story.
Lech's attorney told the Post that his home insurance company paid him $345,000 for the damage but that amount did not come close to covering additional costs related to personal property damage, demolishing and rebuilding the home and taking out a new mortgage on the new house.
“It’s a miracle insurance covered any of it in the first place,” attorney Rachel Maxam told the Post. “Insurance is for fires, floods. There’s no ‘police blew up my house’ insurance.”
Fort Worth police officer jailed on murder charge after resigning in shooting that killed woman in home
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The white Fort Worth police officer accused of shooting a black woman inside her home over the weekend, killing her, has been jailed on a murder charge, online court records revealed Monday. The charge against Aaron Dean was made public hours after the officer resigned from the force. Bond was not immediately set.
Dean's resignation letter read: "Effective immediately I am tendering my resignation from the Fort Worth Police Department." The letter was released by the state's largest police union, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas. The group’s executive director, Charley Wilkison, said that Dean has not yet hired an attorney but that one will be provided with financial support from the union.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fort-worth-police-officer-in-shooting-investigation
That Really is Unbelievable
And Totally & Utterly Stupid of The Court.
Cop was doing 66 in a 30 mph zone without emergency lights or sirens when he hit and killed an 11 year old kid riding a minibike. It took 50 seconds for the cop to get out of the car and look at what he had done but didn't even offer the child any help. Of course the cop was not charged.
Family wants public to watch dashcam of 11-year-old’s fatal crash with deputy
It has been 23 weeks since Norman Hood died after a Calhoun County deputy hit the 11-year-old riding a minibike. Michigan State Police have released dash camera footage from the moment it happened on May 28. Much of it was blurred by MSP as a redacted version.
FOX 17 obtained the video from the Calhoun County deputy’s cruiser through the Freedom of Information Act. According to MSP, the deputy was traveling 66 mph in a 30 mph zone. The law enforcement officer was en route to an emergency call but did not have emergency lights or sirens on when the collision happened.
According to video, CPR and resuscitating measures were not done in the minutes prior to the paramedics' arrival.
"He didn't treat him like he was a human," said Regina Hale. "He didn't look for a pulse. He didn't do CPR. He just flashed a light in his face."
https://fox17online.com/2019/11/05/norman-hood-family-dascham/
Cop was doing 66 in a 30 mph zone without emergency lights or sirens when he hit and killed an 11 year old kid riding a minibike. It took 50 seconds for the cop to get out of the car and look at what he had done but didn't even offer the child any help. Of course the cop was not charged.
Family wants public to watch dashcam of 11-year-old’s fatal crash with deputy
It has been 23 weeks since Norman Hood died after a Calhoun County deputy hit the 11-year-old riding a minibike. Michigan State Police have released dash camera footage from the moment it happened on May 28. Much of it was blurred by MSP as a redacted version.
FOX 17 obtained the video from the Calhoun County deputy’s cruiser through the Freedom of Information Act. According to MSP, the deputy was traveling 66 mph in a 30 mph zone. The law enforcement officer was en route to an emergency call but did not have emergency lights or sirens on when the collision happened.
According to video, CPR and resuscitating measures were not done in the minutes prior to the paramedics' arrival.
"He didn't treat him like he was a human," said Regina Hale. "He didn't look for a pulse. He didn't do CPR. He just flashed a light in his face."
https://fox17online.com/2019/11/05/norman-hood-family-dascham/
As it has been mentioned many times in this topic, we are dealing with violent criminal gangs.
One of the few times that cops are indicted for beating someone. Maybe that's because the person they assaulted happened to be an undercover cop. As expected, the scumbags are represented by the cop union lawyers.
St. Louis cops indicted for assaulting undercover officer posing as protester: 'Gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads'
hen a judge acquitted a white St. Louis police officer in September 2017 for fatally shooting a young black man, the city's cops braced for massive protests. But St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Dustin Boone wasn't just prepared for the unrest - he was pumped.
"It's gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!" he texted another officer on Sept. 15, 2017, the day of the verdict. "It's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!"
Two days later, prosecutors say, that's exactly what Boone did to one black protester. Boone, 35, and two other officers, Randy Hays, 31, and Christopher Myers, 27, threw a man to the ground and viciously kicked him and beat him with riot shields, even though he was complying with their instructions.
But the three cops had no idea that the man was actually a 22-year police veteran working undercover, whom they beat so badly that he couldn't eat and lost 20 pounds.
On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted the three officers in the assault. They also indicted the men and another officer, Bailey Colletta, 25, for destroying evidence and lying about the attack. Prosecutors released text messages showing the officers bragging about assaulting protesters, with Hays even noting that "going rogue does feel good."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-st-louis-police-officers-charged-in-beating-20181129-story,amp.html
Intra-gang violence?
Mannford police chief allegedly killed by one of his officers
The Mannford, Oklahoma, police chief was killed by one of his officers while the two were in Florida for a conference, according to the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.
Chief Lucky Miller and Mannford Officer Michael Nealey were in Pensacola Beach, Florida, attending the Southeast Public Safety Training Conference at the Hilton.
The Sheriff's Office said there was a physical altercation between Miller and Nealey.
Miller, 44, died from his injuries.
https://ktul.com/news/local/mannford-police-chief-killed-in-florida-by-mannford-officer
http://www.wbrz.com/news/despite-driving-nearly-double-the-speed-limit-no-charges-for-off-duty-cop-in-crash-that-killed-infant?fbclid=IwAR2kc_N75cv3ArO5v4Zot0aLGhfAxPRhcT4SgqkK1dGGI_frJQZ_j2u5FG0
Crazy
The "brave hero" attacked a teen with no arms and no legs... And then arrested another teen who was filming the attack...
A 15-year-old with no arms or legs was tackled and pinned by a sheriff’s deputy in a ‘horrific’ video
The shirtless 15-year-old screams as he lies facedown on the kitchen floor of his Tucson group home. He has no arms or legs, so he can’t flee or fight back. But a sheriff’s deputy at least twice his size is crouching over him and pinning him to the ground, using his body weight to restrain the quadruple amputee.
The eight-minute cellphone video, which was first published by KOLD, has now prompted an internal affairs investigation at the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. A spokesman told The Washington Post on Friday that the deputy in the video, Manuel Van Santen, has been placed on administrative leave.
But Pima County Public Defender Joel Feinman told The Washington Post that the disturbing incident likely wouldn’t have come to light if it weren’t for another teenager at the group home, who recorded the confrontation and then had his head pushed into the wall by deputies.
While most information about the teens is being withheld to protect their privacy, Feinman said that Immanuel, the 15-year-old quadruple amputee, is in state custody because he was abandoned by his parents. On the morning of Sept. 26, an adult who works at the group home called police to report that Immanuel had knocked over a trash can and was yelling and screaming. Feinman isn’t sure what got the teenager riled up, and, in his opinion, it doesn’t matter.
The deputy from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department who responded to the call determined that Immanuel was disturbing the peace and decided to restrain him, Feinman said. That’s when C.J., a 16-year-old who also lives at the group home, began surreptitiously recording from an adjoining room.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/15/pima-county-sheriffs-office-year-old-video-quadruple-amputee/
https://news.yahoo.com/ive-dying-25-years-cop-015659608.html
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Macedonio and Wimmer said Forte maintained close relationships with prosecutors and at least one powerful judge. Macedonio recalled being beckoned to the dugout of a ballfield at midnight by a prosecutor who warned him to tread carefully. And Macedonio said that the prosecutor who presented Dinko’s allegations to a grand jury for potential sexual abuse and attempted rape charges informed him that a judge had ordered her to water down her presentation.
Macedonio said he ignored his supervisor’s order to leave the case alone and instead brought it to the Vermont State Police for them to investigate Dinko’s allegations, since much of the alleged abuse occurred there.
Macedonio believes his pursuit of Forte cost him professionally. When he later asked to be transferred to the homicide squad, he was denied the coveted assignment despite 23 years on the job. He retired from the department out of frustration and moved to Florida, where he got a $6-an-hour security job at a racetrack before joining the Port Richey Police Department, ultimately becoming its police chief. According to personnel records, his career in both departments was unblemished.
A Vermont jury initially convicted Forte in 1988 of three counts of sexual assault, which could have meant a 60-year prison sentence. But Judge Theodore S. Mandeville tossed out the verdict on grounds that prosecutors would decry as sexist, ruling that the female prosecutor in the case had prejudiced the jury by being overly emotional.
A new prosecutor, Vermont Assistant Attorney General David Tartter, decided 7 years later to retry the case before he agreed to Forte’s request for a health-related delay.
The 12-year-old girl who accused him of rape in 1987 is now a 45-year-old mother to her own teenagers. She has spent nearly three-quarters of her life waiting for him to appear in a Vermont courtroom.
More innocent people ("civilians" as cops called them) killed... I doubt any cops will face murder charges for the death of innocents,as usual. They'll probably pat each other in the back and get a medal or a promotion for their "bravery". Apparently it was more important to them that no cops died during the shootout:
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’They murdered him:’ Family of UPS driver killed in shootout lashes out at police
While mourning his death, the family of the UPS driver killed in Thursday’s shootout in Miramar is also lashing out at police who they believe are responsible for the loss of life.
“They murdered him,” Joe Merino, the stepfather of Frank Ordonez, told Local 10 News. “I hope you can understand that and how I feel because it could have been prevented.”
While admitting he’s not a police officer, Merino wondered why there was a rush to open fire at the truck before other options were considered.
“I have common sense, like we all do, and it shows me, where’s the protocol? Where was protocol? Where was SWAT? Where was the hostage negotiator? Where was the sniper?” Merino said. “They shot him dead!"
Merino believes police failed to consider the innocent victims, including his stepson, during the incident.
“The negligence, the irresponsibility, the lack of life, the lack of concern," Merino said. “The disregard for life for the victim.”
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2019/12/06/they-murdered-him-family-of-ups-driver-killed-in-shootout-lashes-out-at-police/
As is usual is such cases, the violent gang members faced no charges. But if the "good cop" saw the assault by these criminals why did he not arrest them on the spot (and use appropriate force if they resisted) instead of just testifying against them afterwards? Why did he allow the man to be assaulted and tortured by these violent criminals while he watched?
Good Cop Quits, Crosses Blue Line After Video Shows Fellow Cops Allow K9 to Maul Innocent Man
St. Paul, MN — On the night of June 24, 2016, Frank Baker ‘fit the description’ of a ‘black man’ in the area, so he was attacked by police and their K9. For several minutes, Baker was beaten, tasered, and viciously mauled by their K9. Also at the scene that fateful night was officer Tony Spencer — whose dashcam recorded the violent assault on Baker, who was entirely innocent.
That night, Spencer and his partner responded to a call, which ended up being fake, about a man with dreadlocks wearing a white t-shirt and armed with a gun.
When they arrived on the scene, Spencer and his partner saw Baker and realized he did not look like a suspect.
“There are about 50 people who would have matched that description that night,” Spencer said of Baker. “He is not acting agitated. To me, he does not appear to be engaged in a fight. He did not appear to have run from a fight … so we continue to roll through.”
However, just after they passed Baker, two less experienced and far more violent cops showed up, pulled out their guns, and unleashed a dog.
Because police said Baker was slow to respond when showing his hands, officer Brian Ficcandenti let loose the K9, ‘Falco.’
“I’m thinking he (Ficcadenti) saw something we didn’t see or missed and is now performing a felony-style stop,” Spencer recalled. “As I turn the car and see the dog pulling out this man from the cars, I recognize it’s (Baker). I can clearly see there’s nothing in his hand as he comes between the cars.”
While having his flesh literally torn from his body, Ficcandenti is heard encouraging the dog. “Get him, buddy. Good,” said the officer. “Get him.”
The dashcam then captured the following beat down — after Baker had been mauled. When officer Brett Palkowitsch exited the vehicle, he ran over to the innocent man and began kicking and stomping Baker’s ribs.
Baker’s legs were so severely injured during the attack that he spent weeks in the hospital recovering. He also suffered several broken ribs and collapsed lungs.
According to his attorney Robert Bennett, the dog tore “hunks of flesh” as its teeth bit “down to the bone” of Baker’s legs.
After watching his fellow officers do this to an innocent person, Spencer could no longer stand it and decided to become a good cop. He crossed the thin blue line and testified against the officers who nearly killed an innocent man.
“It was very difficult because it was something I had been programmed throughout my career to never do,” Spencer, 46, told Ruben Rosario from Twin Cities.
“But I decided that the right thing to do was tell Mr. Baker’s story,” he added as he looked away momentarily, tears starting to form in his eyes, explained Rosario. “I owed it to him. How do you explain to that guy what happened to him was justified?”
Spencer, who felt horrible after watching his fellow officers do this to an innocent man, he visited Baker in the hospital.
“He had these big tears in his eyes,” Spencer noticed. “He was still having trouble breathing. And then he tells me: ‘I know there are good cops and there are bad cops. The thing is I know what you guys are up against out there. I know what St. Paul cops deal with. I live in that area. I love my St. Paul cops. The dog thing I almost get because I did not come out as quick as I probably should have. But those kicks he did were bogus.’ ”
Sadly, the officer who released the dog was not fired and remains on the force. As for officer Palkowitsch, who kicked the innocent Baker as he bled out, he will likely be getting his job back. Neither of the cops faced any charges.
“We are the department that brought (cop killer) Guy Harvey Baker to jail alive,” Spencer said. “That’s what the community expects of us. The younger cops don’t understand the legacy of the department. In our darkest hour on our worst day, we brought in that guy alive. And he did not have seven broken ribs and two collapsed lungs, did he? And he killed two of our cops.”
Because of Spencer’s testimony, which was described as the entire department against him and his partner, Baker received the largest settlement for police misconduct in the history of St. Paul. Attorneys for Frank Arnal Baker said Monday that they have a verbal agreement with the city for $2 million for the case. The agreement, they noted, has yet to be signed by all parties, reports the pioneer press.
Officer Spencer is the epitome of a good cop as he was unafraid of pointing out the crimes of his fellow cops against an innocent member of society — whom they ostensibly protect.
However, that good cop is now gone and he will, like he alluded to above, be replaced by “younger cops [who] don’t understand the legacy of the department” who are more prone to destroy first and attempt to justify later.
Below is a video showing the type of legacy the new cops intend to leave for the St. Paul police department — and it is terrifying.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/good-cop-quits-video-shows-fellow-cops-allow-k9-maul-innocent-man-nearly-death/
More innocent people ("civilians" as cops called them) killed... I doubt any cops will face murder charges for the death of innocents,as usual. They'll probably pat each other in the back and get a medal or a promotion for their "bravery". Apparently it was more important to them that no cops died during the shootout:
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’They murdered him:’ Family of UPS driver killed in shootout lashes out at police
While mourning his death, the family of the UPS driver killed in Thursday’s shootout in Miramar is also lashing out at police who they believe are responsible for the loss of life.
“They murdered him,” Joe Merino, the stepfather of Frank Ordonez, told Local 10 News. “I hope you can understand that and how I feel because it could have been prevented.”
While admitting he’s not a police officer, Merino wondered why there was a rush to open fire at the truck before other options were considered.
“I have common sense, like we all do, and it shows me, where’s the protocol? Where was protocol? Where was SWAT? Where was the hostage negotiator? Where was the sniper?” Merino said. “They shot him dead!"
Merino believes police failed to consider the innocent victims, including his stepson, during the incident.
“The negligence, the irresponsibility, the lack of life, the lack of concern," Merino said. “The disregard for life for the victim.”
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2019/12/06/they-murdered-him-family-of-ups-driver-killed-in-shootout-lashes-out-at-police/
Oh look, another one. "Only the finest people".
Tennessee sheriff's deputy indicted on 44 charges including rape, sexual battery amid ongoing lawsuits
A Chattanooga-area sheriff's deputy has been charged with more than 40 counts ranging from rape and sexual battery to oppression and extortion.
Daniel Wilkey, 26, was indicted on 44 charges stemming from allegations of inappropriate behavior and assault while he was working for the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, the Associated Press reports.
Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond told news outlets he was notified on Tuesday that a grand jury had indicted Wilkey, AP reports.
Wilkey has been named, along with other HCSO deputies, in four lawsuits that accuse him of misconduct during traffic stops. The alleged misconduct ranges from a forced baptism, groping underage girls and an illegal, forcible drug search, AP reports.
In July, dashboard camera footage appeared to show Wilkey and another deputy involved in a strip search of a man on the side of the road in Soddy-Daisy.
Wilkey faces an excessive force lawsuit related to the stop in which the defendant says the effects of the search required treatment for anal contusions and surgery on a previously-untreated hernia.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2019/12/11/chattanooga-hamilton-county-daniel-wilkey-deputy-charged-rape-extortion-indicted/4402076002/
This "profession" seems to attract child abusers. Ordinary people would have been arrested on the spot and most likely jailed if they attacked a child like that. But this "brave hero" is still out there and enjoys paid vacation.
SRO on paid administrative leave after video of student being thrown, dragged surfaces
Law enforcement authorities in Vance County told the Associated Press on Sunday that a school resource officer has been placed on paid administrative leave after school surveillance video showed him violently slamming a middle school student to the ground twice before dragging him off camera.
School district officials reported the officer to authorities Thursday.
The incident was captured on video shot inside the school. The video shows a student wearing a red top and the school resource officer in uniform walking toward the camera side by side. The officer stops, reaches out, lifts the student against the wall, flips the child head-down and slams the child to the floor. The officer then bends over, drags the student to a standing position and lets him drop a second time. As the video ends, the officer drags the student toward the camera. The officer appears to be dragging the student by the shirt.
https://www.wral.com/vance-county-deeply-concerned-by-video-that-shows-school-resource-officer-throwing-dragging-middle-school-student/18831501/
We’ve said it over & over Again
There is a Massive Problem in Law Enforcement
Either the Job power / privileges / gang mentality Corrupts them
Or it Attract Bullies & Cowards Who Need the Badge / uniform / Gang to Protect them.
It’s Sickening Behaviour over & over again.
Another innocent person attacked and shot. Don't expect the"highly trained professionals"criminals to go to prison.
Wanted man was already in jail when agents raided his former home and shot woman inside
The man who investigators were looking to arrest was already in jail when a task force raided his former home in Wilmer on Thursday morning.
Ann Rylee, a 19-year-old woman who now lives at the home on Old Moffat Road, was shot several times as investigators made their way inside the house. Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran claims that Rylee had a shotgun in her hand and pointed it at officers.
Family members told FOX10 News that Rylee is hospitalized in stable condition and is expected to survive. The family also disputed the sheriff's claims and said that the agents never identified themselves as law enforcement and never told Rylee to drop the gun.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security, and US Customs and Border Patrol conducted the raid. Sheriff Cochran said that the shots were not fired by Mobile County Sheriff's Office deputies. He said the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation will be the agency investigating the shooting.
https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_county/wanted-man-was-already-in-jail-when-agents-raided-his/article_a650cf04-22bd-11ea-9246-0bbf3725f06f.html
Another innocent person attacked and shot. Don't expect the"highly trained professionals"criminals to go to prison.
Wanted man was already in jail when agents raided his former home and shot woman inside
The man who investigators were looking to arrest was already in jail when a task force raided his former home in Wilmer on Thursday morning.
Ann Rylee, a 19-year-old woman who now lives at the home on Old Moffat Road, was shot several times as investigators made their way inside the house. Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran claims that Rylee had a shotgun in her hand and pointed it at officers.
Family members told FOX10 News that Rylee is hospitalized in stable condition and is expected to survive. The family also disputed the sheriff's claims and said that the agents never identified themselves as law enforcement and never told Rylee to drop the gun.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security, and US Customs and Border Patrol conducted the raid. Sheriff Cochran said that the shots were not fired by Mobile County Sheriff's Office deputies. He said the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation will be the agency investigating the shooting.
https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_county/wanted-man-was-already-in-jail-when-agents-raided-his/article_a650cf04-22bd-11ea-9246-0bbf3725f06f.html
Fort Worth police officer jailed on murder charge after resigning in shooting that killed woman in home
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The white Fort Worth police officer accused of shooting a black woman inside her home over the weekend, killing her, has been jailed on a murder charge, online court records revealed Monday. The charge against Aaron Dean was made public hours after the officer resigned from the force. Bond was not immediately set.
Dean's resignation letter read: "Effective immediately I am tendering my resignation from the Fort Worth Police Department." The letter was released by the state's largest police union, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas. The group’s executive director, Charley Wilkison, said that Dean has not yet hired an attorney but that one will be provided with financial support from the union.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fort-worth-police-officer-in-shooting-investigation
The old school republican used to proudly back the police , FBI, etc.
Now, the Trumpers question these law enforcement agencies like Black Lives Matter did/does.
I don't get it? I tend to give deference to the police, and FBI. Always did.
Recently there was a story about how a cop ordered a coffee from a McDonalds and supposedly the coffee cup he received said "Fucking pig".
As usual there were the usual statements of "support" for cops as well as the media narrative of cops getting "disrespected" and "attacked" everywhere they go and of course there were calls for the McDondalds staff to be fired.
However, as we often see with similar incidents where there are racial slurs or some sort of "offensive" language, it was a hoax, perpetrated by the victim. Only after the McDonalds store reviewed the video footage and determined there was no offensive message on the cup did the cop resign. Officer Juicy Smollett made this whole thing up and later claimed "it was a joke".
What's more interesting is how the cops often say "wait for the facts to come out", only when it suits them of course (usually when they try to cover up something). In this case the police chief was all too quick to jump into conclusion and didn't even bother to wait for the facts. He initially posted this on facebook but it was later deleted for some odd reason:
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Herington PD: Officer made up story about expletive on his coffee cup
A Herington Police Officer is no longer employed after admitting he "fabricated" a story a McDonald's employee wrote an expletive on his coffee cup over the weekend.
After initially standing by his story, Hornaday said the officer has since told him the note was "meant to be a joke."
The officer made the claims Saturday, telling the Chief he was on his way to work when he ordered a coffee at the Junction City McDonald's drive-thru. As he continued on his way, he saw the words "f***ing pig" written on his cup.
Hornaday shared his concerns over the incident, along with a photo of the cup, in a Facebook post which quickly garnered thousands of shares. McDonald's immediately said it was taking the allegation seriously. McDonald’s Owner/Operator Dana Cook addressed the matter in a written statement Monday as well, saying, “My McDonald’s have the utmost respect for all members of law enforcement and the military and were troubled by the accusation made. We thoroughly reviewed our security video from every angle, which clearly shows the words were not written by one of our employees. We look forward to working with Chief Hornaday as he continues his investigation."
https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Herington-PD-Officer-made-up-story-about-expletive-on-his-coffee-cup-566583271.html
Once again, armed criminal gangs attacking innocent people inside their home.
Charges dismissed against homeowner alleging excessive force by Cheatham County Sheriff's deputies
CHEATHAM COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — Criminal charges filed against a Cheatham County homeowner alleging excessive force by sheriff's deputies have been dismissed after body camera video was viewed by a judge.
Back in August of 2018, Cheatham County deputy Doug Fox fired eight rounds through the front door of Mark Campbell's rural home. A federal lawsuit against the deputies involved is moving forward.
Body cam video shows deputies Fox and Chris Austin investigating two 9-1-1 cellphone hang-ups from an unknown location in the area. It's after dark when the deputies approached Campbell's home. They knocked, but never identified themselves, before calling out to Campbell:
"Come on out Mark. What's up man? You gotta gun. What's going on Mark?"
"I got one too," Campbell responded.
At that moment, Sgt. Fox turned and pulled his weapon, firing eight rounds through the front door seconds later. The deputies said they saw Campbell open the door with a weapon. But, the video only shows Campbell peeking from behind the door. The deputies never identified themselves. And, no gun was ever found. Those are two keys that will be part of that federal lawsuit which seeks damages claiming the homeowner's constitutional rights were violated.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/charges-dismissed-against-homeowner-alleging-excessive-force-by-cheatham-county-sheriffs-deputies
“It’s a lie, but it’s fun" said the cop. These scumbags don't give a damn that lives are at stake through their actions.
Ordinary people "lying" to police: prison.
Police lying, conspiring or "omitting" information that might even result in deaths: no problem, no punishment.
But according to these cops, it wasn't lying; it was a "ruse". And the lowlife will not even accept responsibility, he said it was "regrettable" the poor man took his own life, yet he insisted that he was not responsible and said he had not abused his discretion or acted unprofessionally.
Seattle police officer contributed to man’s death with ruse that ‘shocked the conscience,’ investigation finds
“It’s a lie, but it’s fun,” a Seattle police officer remarked to his partner as they approached a West Seattle home in search of a suspect in a hit-and-run collision.
His comment referred to a ruse he planned to use in their pursuit of a man who had fled the collision.
When the two officers reached the home, they spoke with a woman who said the man used her address to register his car. She told the officers he wasn’t there but she would get his phone number.
The officer who had devised the ruse he described as fun then set it in motion, unleashing events that spiraled into unforeseen tragedy when the man took his own life days later. Now, a police watchdog has found that the officer’s action “shocked the conscience” and contributed to the man’s death.
The two officers had not been involved in investigating the collision, which occurred in another precinct and involved several vehicles. They were asked to go to the home after the address was tied to the fleeing driver’s vehicle. They were told no one was injured, which made the hit-and-run a misdemeanor.
But as the woman searched her phone for the suspect’s number, the officer with the ruse plan told her they were looking for the man because he was involved in a hit-and-run that left a woman in critical condition.[/b] A summary report on the 2018 incident was recently released by the Police Department’s Office of Police Accountability (OPA).
The officer told her the injured woman “might not survive.”
The woman was “clearly emotionally affected” by the news, police body-camera video showed, according to the OPA report. After the officers left, the woman tracked down the hit-and-run suspect, told him what the police had said and advised him to get an attorney. Initially, he didn’t appear overly concerned, saying he didn’t think he had been involved in a collision that left anyone injured, the woman later told the OPA.
But he began to worry that he might have hit a pedestrian without realizing it, the OPA report said. He became increasingly despondent over the possibility he had killed someone, the woman told the OPA. She said he had been a heroin addict for nearly 20 years and had prior legal troubles.
Shortly after, the man died by suicide, according to the OPA report.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-officer-contributed-to-mans-death-with-ruse-that-shocked-the-conscience-investigation-finds/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6609888-OPA-Summary-Report.html
Disgusting.
In other words these cops are making up their own laws and acting on them based on their personal opinions. This seems very similar to what is being discussed in another thread. The only difference being that it is Getbig vigilantes advocating for taking the law into their own hands
In other words these cops are making up their own laws and acting on them based on their personal opinions. This seems very similar to what is being discussed in another thread. The only difference being that it is Getbig vigilantes advocating for taking the law into their own hands
Cops get to investigate themselves (and often clear themselves of any wrongdoing), they get much different treatment from their buddies and the prosecutors (like the ones who give sweet plea deals to child raping pedophile cops) compared to ordinary people, they make their own additional rules through their unions and often even the juries are reluctant to convict cops sometimes even through intimidation. There is also the “minor” detail that aside from all the above, cops have qualified immunity and special protections and are even outright exempt from several laws. But in your soggy perverted mind you can keep thinking about laws and courts of “justice”.
News stations: "BREAKING NEWS: DEPUTY SHOT, GUNMAN AT LARGE"
Mayor: "Think about what happened today, a sniper took out one of our deputies. The only reason that deputy is alive is because he had his vest on." "Thank god we don't have a funeral"
According to sources, the mayor even stated that he went to the hospital and saw the "injured officer" in "pain" and saw his "wound"...
SWAT teams with helicopters and armored vehicles (because apparently this is Ramadi or Kabul) started looking for the "active shooter".
An evil sniper shooting at "heroic" cops...
But as it turns out once again, a cop LIED, he made it up all up.
(as apparently did the mayor, if he "saw" the liar in the hospital with the fictional wound)
Officer Jussie...
BLUELIESMATTER
Officials: LA County Sheriff’s deputy in Lancaster fabricated report he was shot by sniper
In a rare Saturday night press conference, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials revealed that the rookie deputy who claimed he was shot in the shoulder at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station “completely fabricated” the incident and would be relieved of his duties.
Investigators who met Saturday with 21-year-old Deputy Angel Reinosa “saw no visible injury to Reynosa’s shoulder,” department officials said.
After getting interrogated due to doubts raised from his testimony, Reinosa admitted that he was not shot at from an apartment complex near the station as he previously claimed, sheriff’s Capt. Ken Wegener said.
“He also told investigators that he had caused the holes in his uniform shirt by cutting it with a knife,” Wegener said. “There was no sniper, no shots fired and no gunshot injury sustained to his shoulder. “(It was) completely fabricated.”
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/08/24/officials-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-in-lancaster-fabricated-report-he-was-shot-at-by-sniper/
Remember the story about this uniformed liar? The cops launched a huge manhunt, sent SWAT teams and armoured vehicles, blocked off roads and buildings searching for the imaginary sniper while the liar was taken to the hospital.
Former Deputy Arrested in Lancaster Shooting Hoax
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The former Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy accused of falsely claiming he'd been shot by a sniper in the parking lot of the Lancaster Sheriff's Station has been arrested and has been charged with insurance fraud and filing a false report, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/former-deputy-arrested-in-lancaster-shooting-hoax/2293393/
Ordinary people "lying" to police: prison.
Spoiled, gay, black actors - No prison.
Police lying, conspiring or "omitting" information that might even result in deaths: no problem, no punishment.
She couldn't distinguish between her tazer and her firearm so she shot the man and could also have hurt the other cop who was fighting him. These are the "highly trained professionals" who are "qualified" to handle firearms, unlike the citizens whose gun rights are being slowly eroded. Lack of training, lack or experience and in this case probably being a small female doesn't help.
Video shows former Lawrence police officer shoot driver during May 29 traffic stop
Police dash cam video released Monday shows a driver wrestle a Lawrence police officer to the ground and fight him before being shot in the back by another officer during a traffic stop last year.
Brindley Blood, the officer who shot the man, is charged in Douglas County District Court with reckless aggravated battery. Blood has maintained the May 29 shooting was accidental and she meant to reach for her stun gun instead of her firearm.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article228379669.html
Government-run racket.
Family Sues DEA and TSA After Elderly Man's Life Savings Were Seized at Airport
Terrence Rolin kept his life savings in a Tupperware container, but all that money now belongs to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), even though the 79-year-old retired railroad engineer hasn't been charged with a crime.
When Rolin's daughter, Rebecca Brown, tried to take her fathers' savings—$82,373 in cash—on an airplane, a DEA agent seized it simply because large amounts of cash are considered suspicious by the agency.
Brown and Rolin are now the lead plaintiffs in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public interest law firm, challenging the DEA and TSA's practice of seizing large amounts of cash from airline passengers without any evidence of any underlying crime.
"Flying with any amount of cash is completely legal, but once again we see government agents treating American citizens like criminals," Institute for Justice senior attorney Dan Alban said in a press release. "You don't forfeit your constitutional rights when you try to board an airplane. It is time for TSA and federal law enforcement to stop seizing cash from travelers simply because the government considers certain amounts of cash 'suspicious.'"
Rolin and Brown's trouble started last August. Rolin had asked his daughter to take his money and open a joint savings account, the Washington Post reports:
Rebecca Brown was catching a flight home from the Pittsburgh airport early the next day and said she didn't have time to stop at a bank. She confirmed on a government website that it's legal to carry any amount of cash on a domestic flight and tucked the money in her carry-on.
But just minutes before departure in late August, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent met her at the busy gate and questioned her about the cash, which showed up on a security scan. He insisted Brown put Rolin on the phone to confirm her story. Brown said Rolin, who is suffering mental decline, was unable to verify some details.
"He just handed me the phone and said, 'Your stories don't match,'" Brown recalled the agent saying. "'We're seizing the cash.'"
The DEA then notified Brown that it was seeking to permanently forfeit Rolin's life savings. Neither Rolin or Brown have been charged with a crime.
In the meantime, the lawsuit says the loss of Rolin's savings has left him unable to fix his truck, which is his primary means of transportation, or get needed dental work.
https://reason.com/2020/01/16/family-sues-dea-and-tsa-after-elderly-mans-life-savings-were-seized-at-airport/
Really- From reading that they come across as utter Bastards deserving of being shot.
Surely they would have a duty to investigate this further after seizing $ ?
Unfortunately that’s what “civil asset forfeiture” is, you don’t need to be convicted or even charged to have your property or money stolen by the government. There have been many cases where people would be pulled over and have their money confiscated because a cop thought it’s “suspicious” to carry cash, even when the cops can’t articulate their suspicions or even bring charges. A government run racket indeed.
Government-run racket.
Family Sues DEA and TSA After Elderly Man's Life Savings Were Seized at Airport
Terrence Rolin kept his life savings in a Tupperware container, but all that money now belongs to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), even though the 79-year-old retired railroad engineer hasn't been charged with a crime.
When Rolin's daughter, Rebecca Brown, tried to take her fathers' savings—$82,373 in cash—on an airplane, a DEA agent seized it simply because large amounts of cash are considered suspicious by the agency.
Brown and Rolin are now the lead plaintiffs in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public interest law firm, challenging the DEA and TSA's practice of seizing large amounts of cash from airline passengers without any evidence of any underlying crime.
"Flying with any amount of cash is completely legal, but once again we see government agents treating American citizens like criminals," Institute for Justice senior attorney Dan Alban said in a press release. "You don't forfeit your constitutional rights when you try to board an airplane. It is time for TSA and federal law enforcement to stop seizing cash from travelers simply because the government considers certain amounts of cash 'suspicious.'"
Rolin and Brown's trouble started last August. Rolin had asked his daughter to take his money and open a joint savings account, the Washington Post reports:
Rebecca Brown was catching a flight home from the Pittsburgh airport early the next day and said she didn't have time to stop at a bank. She confirmed on a government website that it's legal to carry any amount of cash on a domestic flight and tucked the money in her carry-on.
But just minutes before departure in late August, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent met her at the busy gate and questioned her about the cash, which showed up on a security scan. He insisted Brown put Rolin on the phone to confirm her story. Brown said Rolin, who is suffering mental decline, was unable to verify some details.
"He just handed me the phone and said, 'Your stories don't match,'" Brown recalled the agent saying. "'We're seizing the cash.'"
The DEA then notified Brown that it was seeking to permanently forfeit Rolin's life savings. Neither Rolin or Brown have been charged with a crime.
In the meantime, the lawsuit says the loss of Rolin's savings has left him unable to fix his truck, which is his primary means of transportation, or get needed dental work.
https://reason.com/2020/01/16/family-sues-dea-and-tsa-after-elderly-mans-life-savings-were-seized-at-airport/
That really is astonishing- and they don’t have to investigate or provide any proof !!
How on earth do Innocent people get their money back.?
They have to go to court and request the money. That in itself is a costly and time consuming process for ordinary people. In these cases the prosecutors will often extort the people to either accept half the money or risk being sued or charged, especially if they have no reason or evidence to verify their “suspicions”. In some other cases the cops or prosecutors make the victims sign an agreement that if they receive their stolen property they will not sue the cops/prosecutors. Think about it: it is like having a thief tell you he will give you back what he stole from you if you don’t sue him or threatening to attack you or sue you if you “dare” to demand more than half of your possessions that he stole. All this after the victims endure significant expenses for this procedure. This is really no different than organized crime.
Any peace officer may stop any person in a public place whom the officer
encounters under circumstances which reasonably indicate that the person has
committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, and the officer may demand:
(a) 1. The person's name, address, and date of birth; or
The person's government-issued identification, if in the person's possession;
and
(b) An explanation for the person's actions.
(2) Any person stopped under subsection (1) of this section who fails to identify
himself or herself or explain the person's actions to the satisfaction of the officer
may be detained and further questioned and investigated by the peace officer for
a period not to exceed two (2) hours.
(3) Detention under this section is not an arrest and shall not be recorded as an
arrest in any official record. At the end of the detention period, the detained
person shall be released or arrested and charged with a crime outside of this
section.
VPOTUS: "Police officers are the best of us"
Only 12 years in prison? Ordinary people get 5-10 years in prison for much lesser crimes.
(link from a notorious "anti-police" website)
Former Montgomery County Sheriff’s Officer Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Offenses
First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Matthew Laver, age 38, of Souderton, in Montgomery County, PA, entered a plea of guilty before United States District Judge Michael Baylson to multiple counts of distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
The defendant was indicted in March 2019 after an investigation into the defendant’s collection of almost 4,000 images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children that he downloaded and distributed to other users on the internet over approximately ten years. The investigation revealed that Laver trafficked in child pornography that depicted children as young as infants being sexually assaulted and raped, and that he did so during the time that he was employed as a Montgomery County Sheriff’s Officer.
“The harm caused by child exploitation is devastating and long-lasting, which is why we prosecute these cases aggressively,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Williams. “In this case, the conduct was particularly egregious because the defendant was a member of a law enforcement organization charged with enforcing the law. We stand ready with our federal and local partners to identify and prosecute all those who would prey upon minor children.”
“Law enforcement officers take an oath to serve and protect, thus our conduct must be beyond reproach ,” said Marlon V. Miller, special agent in charge of HSI Philadelphia. “Homeland Security Investigations special agents worked closely with our law enforcement partners to further prevent this perpetrator from victimizing children by distributing images of sexual assault.”
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a nationwide program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce sexual crimes against children. The Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney’s Offices work in partnership with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and the local community to develop effective, locally-based strategies to reduce sexual crimes against children.
The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security and the Abington Police Department, and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Eileen Zelek and Michelle Rotella.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/former-montgomery-county-sheriff-s-officer-pleads-guilty-child-pornography-offenses
That really is astonishing- and they don’t have to investigate or provide any proof !!
How on earth do Innocent people get their money back.?
Remember the story about this uniformed liar? The cops launched a huge manhunt, sent SWAT teams and armoured vehicles, blocked off roads and buildings searching for the imaginary sniper while the liar was taken to the hospital.
Former Deputy Arrested in Lancaster Shooting Hoax
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The former Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy accused of falsely claiming he'd been shot by a sniper in the parking lot of the Lancaster Sheriff's Station has been arrested and has been charged with insurance fraud and filing a false report, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/former-deputy-arrested-in-lancaster-shooting-hoax/2293393/
Sick fuck.
Of course he got a sweet plea deal and will serve unsupervised probation.
Nanny cam at Phoenix home catches federal agent smelling 3 year old girl's underwear
A former federal law enforcement officer, accused of having a sexual motive for smelling a girl's dirty underwear in her bedroom, will be allowed to serve unsupervised probation.
https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/nanny-cam-catches-federal-agent-smells-girls-panties
Sick fuck.What the fuck?
Of course he got a sweet plea deal and will serve unsupervised probation.
Nanny cam at Phoenix home catches federal agent smelling 3 year old girl's underwear
A former federal law enforcement officer, accused of having a sexual motive for smelling a girl's dirty underwear in her bedroom, will be allowed to serve unsupervised probation.
https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/nanny-cam-catches-federal-agent-smells-girls-panties
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nypd-officer-charged-with-possessing-hundreds-of-child-porn-images/2290180/?_osource=SocialFlowFB_NYBrand
Another case of elderly abuse. This time the "trained professionals" assumed an elderly couple, 86 and 67 years old were bank robbers...
Elderly couple swarmed by police, handcuffed after being mistaken for bank robbers in Oak Park
A couple is upset and shaken up after suburban police swarmed their car in a parking lot after they left their normal bank. Ottis Dugar, 86, and his 67-year-old wife Demitri still can't believe they were mistaken for armed thieves. The two great grandparents said they were handcuffed and detained for about 40 minutes.
Ottis is a Korean War veteran with glaucoma and Demitri is diabetic. They said the incident happened after they left their Oak Park bank. Demtiri was driving Ottis to a Denny's when they were surrounded by Oak Park and River Forest police, all with guns drawn.
"Yelling, 'Get out of the car! Put your hands up!' And when I'm having a bad knee, I cannot get out," Demitri said. "They asked me, 'Who's in the car?' I said my husband. 'What's his name?' I said it's Ottis. 'Does he have a gun in the car?' I said no, we don't have any guns. 'Well if he's got a gun in the car we're going to shoot him!'"
The couple said they were handcuffed in separate vehicles, detained for about 40 minutes and ordered out of the cars several times to be identified by bank witnesses.
https://abc7chicago.com/elderly-couple-swarmed-by-police-in-case-of-mistaken-identity-in-oak-park/5970427/
Scanning obituaries to break into and burglarize homes while the families were at a funeral... How much lower can these people go?
Former Jefferson Co. sheriff’s deputy accused of burglarizing homes when residents were attending funerals
A charge of felony burglary has been filed against former Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Janelle Gericke.
According to a news release, sheriff’s office personnel discovered evidence that led officials to suspect Gericke, 29, may be involved in illegal conduct while off duty. Specifically, “evidence showed she may have attempted to gain access to a house without consent.”
The criminal complaint against Gericke says these attempts to gain access to homes “occurred while the homeowners were attending the funeral of a family member. In such instances, the deceased person’s online obituary listed the homeowners as surviving relatives along with the date and time of funeral services. If confronted, Gericke would explain that she was there to complete a transaction arising from Facebook.”
https://fox6now.com/2019/12/17/former-jefferson-co-sheriffs-deputy-accused-of-burglarizing-homes-when-residents-were-attending-funerals/
Remember this case?
In trouble again: Former Jefferson deputy accused of breaking into home, stealing hydrocodone
A former Jefferson County deputy accused of breaking into or trying to break into homes of grieving families is in trouble again. Charges of burglary and felony bail jumping were filed Tuesday, Feb. 25 after prosecutors said she was caught on camera breaking into a Jefferson home.
https://fox6now.com/2020/02/26/in-trouble-again-former-jefferson-deputy-accused-of-breaking-into-home-stealing-hydrocodone/
The "brave hero" attacked a teen with no arms and no legs... And then arrested another teen who was filming the attack...
A 15-year-old with no arms or legs was tackled and pinned by a sheriff’s deputy in a ‘horrific’ video
The shirtless 15-year-old screams as he lies facedown on the kitchen floor of his Tucson group home. He has no arms or legs, so he can’t flee or fight back. But a sheriff’s deputy at least twice his size is crouching over him and pinning him to the ground, using his body weight to restrain the quadruple amputee.
The eight-minute cellphone video, which was first published by KOLD, has now prompted an internal affairs investigation at the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. A spokesman told The Washington Post on Friday that the deputy in the video, Manuel Van Santen, has been placed on administrative leave.
But Pima County Public Defender Joel Feinman told The Washington Post that the disturbing incident likely wouldn’t have come to light if it weren’t for another teenager at the group home, who recorded the confrontation and then had his head pushed into the wall by deputies.
While most information about the teens is being withheld to protect their privacy, Feinman said that Immanuel, the 15-year-old quadruple amputee, is in state custody because he was abandoned by his parents. On the morning of Sept. 26, an adult who works at the group home called police to report that Immanuel had knocked over a trash can and was yelling and screaming. Feinman isn’t sure what got the teenager riled up, and, in his opinion, it doesn’t matter.
The deputy from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department who responded to the call determined that Immanuel was disturbing the peace and decided to restrain him, Feinman said. That’s when C.J., a 16-year-old who also lives at the group home, began surreptitiously recording from an adjoining room.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/15/pima-county-sheriffs-office-year-old-video-quadruple-amputee/
Cowards. They're only brave when they abuse the elderly, molest children, attack the deaf or beat handcuffed and incapacitated people. But when they have to protect and serve the community, they shit their pants. This happened while Paddock was shooting so the coward's inaction might have caused the death of many innocent concert goers. All this is part of the information, documents and videos that the police wanted to keep and they were only released after months of delaying and stalling tactics by the police when a Court finally ordered them to release them immediately (ordinary people can be sent to prison for contempt of Court, the police of course get away with it).
Las Vegas cop 'terrified with fear' as gunman murdered dozens, body camera footage shows
An armed, veteran police officer stood idle for several minutes last October as the Las Vegas gunman slaughtered dozens of concertgoers from a perch one floor up, and now that cop's actions -- and inaction -- are being reviewed by the Metropolitan Police Department.
The investigation into Cordell Hendrex, and the rest of the city’s police department, comes as Las Vegas prepares to release its ninth batch of footage and records related to the shooting, which left 58 dead and hundreds injured.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/03/las-vegas-cop-froze-with-fear-as-gunman-murdered-dozens-body-camera-footage-shows.html
Remember the coward? With the cop union's help not only is he reinstated but he will not be disciplined and receive back pay. Unfortunately, it pays to be a coward with a badge (in his own words, he was "terrified with fear").
Metro officer wins case, reinstated after waiting in hallway during 1 October mass shooting
A Metro Police officer who was fired for hesitating and not acting during the 1 October mass shooting has been reinstated.
Steve Grammas, Las Vegas Police Protective Association president, said Officer Cordell Hendrex won his case and will get back to work with Metro once he completes paperwork. He also noted Hendrex will not be disciplined and will receive back pay.
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/metro-officer-wins-case-reinstated-after-waiting-in-hallway-during-1-oct-mass-shooting/
I don’t even understand how the guy has the balls to even come back to work?
Westport Police to Test ‘Pandemic Drone’ That Can Sense Fevers, Coughing
Westport police are going to be testing a “pandemic drone” that can monitor people’s temperatures from 190 feet away and detect sneezing, coughing and heart and breathing rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Westport police said they are working with Draganfly, a drone company, to test technology in an effort to help combat the spread of the coronavirus.
A news release from Draganfly said the pandemic drone will be equipped with a specialized sensor and computer vision systems that can display fever/temperature, heart and respiratory rates, as well as detect people sneezing and coughing in crowds, and wherever groups of people may work or congregate.
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/westport-police-to-test-pandemic-drone-that-can-sense-fevers-coughing/2258746/
Damn 😱
Big Brother IS watching us
Technology Now is another Double edged Sword.
And another disgusting piece of shit:
Anne Arundel County Police Officer Zachary Koshlap Arrested, Charged With Soliciting Child For Sex
An Anne Arundel County police officer was arrested Friday and faces multiple charges of child pornography possession as well as sexual solicitation of a minor, officials said.
Zachary Steven Koshlap, 33, of Glen Burnie, is a six-year veteran of the department’s patrol bureau.
The FBI reportedly told police a member of an FBI Task Force was working undercover when they got a message from an unknown user who solicited a sexual encounter involving an eight-year-old child.
Anne Arundel County detectives began investigating and identified the user as Koshlap. Later that day, they got a search warrant to search his home. During the search, officers seized multiple devices and other evidence.
Police said Koshlap admitted during the search to taking part in the conversation. He was suspended from the force that day and is currently suspended without pay.
He’s charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of sexual solicitation of a minor.
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/04/03/anne-arundel-county-police-officer-zachary-koshlap-arrested-charged-with-soliciting-child-for-sex/
In a statement, Police Chief Timothy Altomare said he is “heart sick, physically ill, disgusted and enraged” by Koshlap’s alleged conduct.
“If someone wearing a badge betrays our oath of protection, we will do everything within our power to bring them to justice and make sure they never wear our uniform again,” he said.
Refreshing, thanks for bringing this to our attention skeletor
"Only the finest people"...
Fucking disgusting child abusers once again...
Louisiana sheriff’s deputy, junior-high teacher wife held on child rape and porn charges: reports
Photos of two suspects, a married couple, posing nude with a child were among the items authorities seized when a longtime sheriff’s deputy and a junior high school teacher were arrested this week in Louisiana on child rape and pornography charges, according to a report.
Taken into custody Wednesday were Dennis Perkins, 44, and his wife, Cynthia Perkins, 34, FOX 8 of New Orleans reported.
Both husband and wife were charged with 60 counts of production of pornography involving a child under 13, as well as rape charges, authorities said.
Dennis Perkins was additionally charged with obstruction of justice because he allegedly tossed his cellphone into a river after realizing investigators were about to arrest him while he was on a fishing trip, a source told FOX 8.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-sheriffs-deputy-junior-high-teacher-wife-held-on-child-rape-and-porn-charges-report
Good decision. However, this man spent almost 5 years in jail.
Court rules ‘Stand Your Ground’ applies in Florida man’s case in deputy shooting
A Fifth District Court of Appeals ruling means a Port St. John man will not face prosecution in connection with shooting of a Brevard County deputy.
Citing the ‘Stand Your Ground,’ law, the Fifth District Court of Appeals dismissed the longstanding charges against a Port St. John man accused of shooting a Brevard County Sheriff’s deputy during a botched arrest in front of his home in 2015.
The decision — issued Wednesday — ends the prosecution of John DeRossett, 60, on the attempted premeditated first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer while discharging a firearm. DeRossett spent nearly five years at the Brevard County Jail Complex in Sharpes as he awaited a trial. He was allowed to leave on bond in March.
“The appellate decision is better than a jury acquittal. An acquittal only means ‘not guilty.’ This order means that John is innocent, that his actions were justified, and that he never should have been arrested in the first place. It’s a total vindication,” said DeRossett’s Orlando-based attorney, Michael Panella.
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20200416/court-rules-stand-your-ground-applies-in-florida-mans-case-in-deputy-shooting
That's what happens when you give fat, incompetent people a badge and "authority". All this because according to the cops "a man was moving between 2 train cars, in violation of City ordinance".
Charges dropped in case of man shot by Chicago police in incident captured on 'extremely disturbing' video
Chicago authorities are dropping charges against a man shot twice by a police officer at a downtown train station in an incident caught on cellphone video that the mayor described as "extremely disturbing."
Interim Police Superintendent Charlie Beck has asked prosecutors to drop narcotics and resisting-arrest charges against Ariel Roman in light of the events around the episode, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement tweeted Sunday.
Roman was initially accused of illegally moving between two train cars and was shot during an altercation with police officers. Multiple investigations into Friday's incident were underway Sunday, and both officers involved were placed on administrative duties pending the outcome.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/01/chicago-shooting-extremely-disturbing-video-shows-train-incident/4922204002/
Video:
https://twitter.com/FreeRangeCritic/status/1233536447749201921
More videos of this incident:
Police Watchdog Agency Releases New Videos Of Officer Shooting Ariel Roman At Red Line Station
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Tuesday released 18 new videos showing a Chicago police officer shooting an unarmed man at a busy CTA station in February, after confronting him for passing between cars on a Red Line train.
The videos include a longer version of the infamous cell phone video showing Officer Melvina Bogard shooting Ariel Roman in the stomach and lower at the Grand Red Line station on Feb. 28.
As CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported Tuesday night, some of the videos are also body camera videos, while others are from the Chicago Transit Authority and bystanders. But what you won’t see are the body camera videos from the perspective of the officers at the center of the incident, which were not included.
The FBI and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office have opened criminal investigations into the shooting.
Use of force experts who reviewed the video with CBS 2’s Megan Hickey have said the footage is problematic, particularly given that Roman was walking away when he was shot.
“The law simply doesn’t allow what I saw in the video,” said University of Pittsburgh law professor David A. Harris.
“I don’t see him strike the officers. I don’t see him at any time with a weapon,” said Retired LAPD SWAT Sgt. Scott Defoe.
Both Harris and Defoe said the video does not suggest that Roman was a deadly threat. And police are not allowed to use deadly force to prevent an escape – which appeared to be what happened when the shot rang out as Roman ran up the escalator.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/04/28/ariel-roman-police-shooting-red-line-civilian-office-of-police-accountability-videos-officers-melvina-bogard-bernard-butler/
https://www.chicagocopa.org/case/2020-0988/
Turns out the female cop who shot this man had been charged with assault 2 years before being hired as a cop.
Officer involved in Grand Red Line shooting was charged with assault 2 years before CPD hired her
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The Chicago police officer who shot an unarmed man at the Grand Red Line station on Friday was charged with assaulting a McDonald’s restaurant worker in 2015, less than two years before the city hired her to become a cop. Prosecutors dropped the case when the alleged victim failed to appear in court.
https://cwbchicago.com/2020/03/officer-involved-in-grand-red-line-shooting-was-charged-with-assault-2-years-before-cpd-hired-her.html
Nothing to see here folks.. move alone
https://champ.gothamist.com/champ/gothamist/news/nypd-officer-seen-beating-man-social-distancing-arrest-has-history-alleged-brutality
The NYPD officer who violently arrested a man in the East Village during a social distancing stop this weekend has a lengthy history of alleged brutality — garnering more than half a dozen misconduct lawsuits in five years, and costing city taxpayers nearly $200,000, according to the Legal Aid Society.
According to a complaint filed in 2013, Garcia allegedly told a woman eating with her partner inside a Harlem restaurant that she "dressed like a man." When the woman attempted to get his badge number, Garcia allegedly pushed her, then replied: "Take a fucking picture of it, fucking dyke." The city settled that suit for $8,500.
A year later, Garcia was accused of wrongfully arresting a man trying to visit his girlfriend inside a Washington Heights NYCHA building. According to a federal lawsuit, which the city settled for $27,500, Garcia "forced [the man] to the floor face-first," then punched, kicked, and clubbed him.
A spokesperson for the NYPD did not respond to inquiries about whether Garcia ever faced discipline for past instances of misconduct. The department is not required to disclose such records, due to a state secrecy law that is among the nation's most restrictive.
https://www.foxla.com/video/681204
How can anyone defend this?
Kentucky State Police trooper punches, kicks handcuffed mentally ill man
A Kentucky State Police trooper beat a handcuffed schizophrenic man after arresting him in March 2019, slamming his head against a wall, and punching and kicking him repeatedly before throwing him to the ground, according to video from a jail recording system.
The footage sheds light on a Bowling Green case that left the beaten man, Timothy “Michael” Heston, in jail for 11 months because state police withheld the video, a new lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit claims State Police Trooper Aaron Tucker “attacked Michael, who is bi-racial, without provocation, warning or justification and then fabricated a report about the assault.”
Heston spent nearly a year in jail; police failed to provide the video to prosecutors, defense attorneys or the judge, according to the suit. The charges were later dismissed.
When the trooper took Heston to jail on charges of terroristic threatening and resisting arrest, among other charges, Heston “tensed up” when he was taken out of the cruiser, resisted, attempted to spit on Tucker and “used his head to hit me,” according to the arrest citation.
“After the altercation had ensued, I was able to regain control of the above offender by placing him on the ground,” Tucker wrote.
But in the video, obtained by WDRB News, Tucker gets Heston out of the cruiser and, after walking him to the door, Heston seems to weave or stumble and the trooper punches him in the face, pins him against the wall and hits him with his fist several more times. Tucker also knees the defendant in the face and chest several times before taking him to the ground, the video shows. Heston was handcuffed behind his back.
There is no sound in the video and it does not appear Heston was resisting. It is unclear if Heston spit on or toward the trooper.
State Police conducted an internal investigation of the case and fired Tucker, according to the lawsuit. KSP confirmed that Tucker is no longer employed but did not comment on the lawsuit. The charges against Heston, 27, were eventually dismissed, but not until after he had been indicted.
The lawsuit claims State Police initially withheld the video from the prosecution, the defense, and the judge, causing him to remain in jail until the case was ultimately dismissed.
https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/video-kentucky-state-police-trooper-punches-kicks-handcuffed-mentally-ill-man/article_f05ed566-9089-11ea-81b1-6f601210b02c.html
Police Officer Compelled To Speak Out Against Tyrannical Enforcement&t=9s
Sentenced to death and remained in prison for a combined 100+ years... No amount of money can bring back the years these men lost. The cops who were involved in this injustice will not pay a penny out of their own pockets and of course will not spend the rest of their life in prison, let alone get sentenced to death like these poor men.
Cleveland men reach $18 million settlement after being wrongfully convicted, spending years in prison
Three Cleveland men have reportedly reached an $18 million settlement in a lawsuit against the City of Cleveland and former detectives.
According to a press release from attorneys Friedman and Gilbert, the lawsuit was for police misconduct and wrongful imprisonment. They said it puts an end to a 45-year “nightmare.”
According to the release, Kwame Ajamu, formerly known as Ronnie Bridgeman; Wiley Bridgeman; and, Ricky Jackson were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a combined 100-plus years for “a murder they did not commit.”
The men were convicted on the testimony of a witness who was 12 years old in 1975 at the time of the murder. That witness, Edward Vernon, has since recanted, saying he was pressured by police into making the identifications.
https://fox8.com/news/cleveland-men-reach-18-million-settlement-after-being-wrongfully-convicted-spending-years-in-prison/
Remember the coward? With the cop union's help not only is he reinstated but he will not be disciplined and receive back pay. Unfortunately, it pays to be a coward with a badge (in his own words, he was "terrified with fear").
Metro officer wins case, reinstated after waiting in hallway during 1 October mass shooting
A Metro Police officer who was fired for hesitating and not acting during the 1 October mass shooting has been reinstated.
Steve Grammas, Las Vegas Police Protective Association president, said Officer Cordell Hendrex won his case and will get back to work with Metro once he completes paperwork. He also noted Hendrex will not be disciplined and will receive back pay.
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/metro-officer-wins-case-reinstated-after-waiting-in-hallway-during-1-oct-mass-shooting/
May 15, 2020
Police State Dry Run a Huge Success
By Carol Brown
When the coronavirus landed on our shores, communist China came with it.
We have become part of a mass scale human experiment in government control and it turned out that stripping away our freedom wasn’t all that difficult. Under the guise of concern for our health and well-being, tyrants came out of the woodwork. Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our lives are being destroyed as the left solidifies and expands their oppressive powers. We’ve been herded around like cattle, threatened, isolated, confined, silenced, and arrested. You name it, it’s happening.
You tell me if what follows sounds like the United States, or China.
We’ve been told who can work and who can’t, with language that separates us according to who is and who isn’t “essential” as the almighty State supersedes individual rights and the family unit.
We’ve been physically and verbally harassed, threatened, fined, detained, arrested, jailed, and/or placed in forced quarantine. Business licenses have been revoked. Going to work without the permission of the government is now a crime. So is going to the park or a beach. Children playing together is also in defiance of the government. So is placing flags on the graves of veterans. The list of infractions goes on and on and on and on. Examples read like the manifesto of a demented madman. (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here)
A talking drone warns Savannah, GA residents to maintain social distancing (YouTube screen grab)
Stay home. Do not go out. Do not earn money. Do not pay your bills, feed your family, maintain your credit rating, live your life. Do not make a single move without permission from the State or you will be punished.
Do not dare go to church. They have been shut down, some threatened with permanent closure. Even services that maintained social distancing were not tolerated. (here, here, here, here, here)
Religion cannot thrive in a totalitarian state, as the state must reign supreme.
Meanwhile, as churches are closed, jails are opened -- criminals are released en masse, including child predators, rapists, and murderers. Prisoners, wise to the ruse, are now intentionally infecting themselves so they can be released early. And the left can’t get enough of it. (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here)
In several places, our right to protest has been stripped away as has our right to promote protests. Tech tyrants are involved, shutting down social media for those trying to spread the word about peaceful gatherings. The Bill of Rights has been set on fire and tossed off the top of a skyscraper as a police state rushes in. (here, here, here, here, here, here)
We’ve been subjected to inhumane separations, as the oldest among us are left to suffer alone in nursing homes, senior care facilities, and hospitals where there is often an impenetrable wall of secrecy surrounding patients.
Meanwhile, “contact tracing” has become the next frontier to advance the police state as fascist tech gets in on the act, tracking our every move. The government will hunt you down, find you, and force you and other members of your household to stay in your home, even if there’s no food in the house. The quarantine cycle could leave an entire household locked up for weeks and weeks on end, with no end in sight as we are essentially placed under house arrest. Strategies for how to identify people who’ve met certain criteria have been discussed, including government issued armbands. (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here)
To help the government keep us in line, we’ve been encouraged to snitch on our neighbors and hotlines have been set up for us to do just that. (here, here, here, here, here)
And in keeping with the good for me, but not for thee reality of all oppressive regimes, many prominent leftists have broken their own rules so they could meet their lover, go golfing, take a walk with their family, get a haircut, and so on, all the while pointing their fingers and admonishing us little people to stay inside and do as we’re told. (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here)
For the most part, law enforcement has been willing to follow these tyrannical orders, often with multiple officers arriving on the scene.
As for the American Civil Liberties Union, not only are they missing in action, they’re part of the cabal of tyrants with upside down values, evidenced by the message featured on their home page which states their priorities as follows:
“…protect voting rights, demand that vulnerable people in prisons, jails and immigration detention centers be released, and fight to ensure reproductive health care remains open and accessible to all who need it…”
In other words, voter fraud, prisoner release, illegal invader released, and abortion. (here)
All of this unfolds against the backdrop of an aggressive media campaign to parrot China’s talking points, replete with lavish praise for the communist regime that waged war against the entire world. There’s been a cascade of fools eager to align themselves with WHO and China, including many prominent individuals. The rush to embrace our enemies has resulted in silencing speech, as words such as “Wuhan flu” are deemed “hate speech.” Punishment to be determined. (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here)
And while the lust for power underpins this shocking spectacle, it’s wrapped up in the guise of “safety.” Who could possibly question a doctor in a white coat touting such an idea? No good totalitarian regime would be without its idealized worldview to sell fools down the river.
And so we’ve sailed, as our economy has collapsed, Americans have been controlled, law enforcement has complied, and people are bombarded with fearful messages every hour of every day – messages riddled with distorted information and lies, from bogus models to inflated mortality rates and everything in between, all of which serve to strengthen the left’s case against Trump while corrupt hospital administrators rake in money from cooking the books on cause of death. But perhaps more than that, it’s easier to control people who feel desperate and afraid. (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here)
An exhausted and increasingly impoverished populace does not a healthy nation make. In fact, if you think this is bad, what could await is even more terrifying. As Dennis Praeger wrote in March:
…Economic disasters rarely remain only economic disasters. To give a particularly dramatic example, the Nazis came to power because of economics more than any other single reason…Nazi success at the polls was almost entirely related to the Weimar economy. Communist parties don’t fare well in robust economies, but they’re very tempting when people are in dire economic straits. Only God knows what economic dislocation the shutting down of American and other Western economies will lead to. I am not predicting a Nazi or communist ascendancy, but economic and political disaster may be as likely, or even more likely, than a health disaster.
It is quite apparent by now that even if the most horrific scenario as described above does not unfold, we have already sealed our fate with respect to a disaster of monumental proportions that runs the gamut from increased drug and alcohol addiction, increased domestic violence, suicide, and avoidance of medical care, among other concerns. Tragically, the things that put human beings at risk for many of these dire outcomes are the very things that are being thrust upon us: unemployment and isolation. At the same time, one of the most powerful forces that serves as a protective factor offering comfort and hope has been denied us, as Americans have been barred from attending church. (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here)
As for the oft-cited idea that we are at war with an invisible enemy, I would say, no, we are not. When nations go to war, they do so to defend their culture and way of life. Instead, we are destroying ours.
But there is a war being waged. The left is determined to take this nation down and the perfect time arrived to go in for the kill. Maximum suffering, pain, and destruction is on the menu and they’re serving it up every day as they plunge small towns, cities, counties, and states into protracted lockdowns and shifting goalposts.
The scale of human suffering and the long-term effects of this are incalculable. They will not be seasonal, like a virus. They will be long-lasting. And the left cares not a bit.
There is one thing and one thing only they desire: power. And they’re having at it. So far, the police state has been a wild success.
The court finds, based on the testimony of Dr. Cablk and the records before it, that Utah POST Training inadequately addresses, and therefore fails to remove the risk of, inadvertent handler bias or cuing. Specifically, Utah POST’s failure to implement double-blind training raises questions as to the independence of its K9s and casts doubt as to whether the K9s are alerting or indicating because they actually detect the odor of narcotics or because they have learned that displaying such action is the best way to please their masters. This doubt is not allayed by Utah POST’s certification process, as the final test that a K9 must pass in order to be certified is not even performed single-blind. As such, the K9’s handler in the exam, who is the same officer who has worked with the K9 for months and has a clear interest in having his K9 be certified, knows exactly how many hides will be present in the exam and can therefore continue to search until the K9 finds them all. Such an examination does not reflect a real-world setting and does not, therefore, indicate that a passing K9 can reliably detect, and communicate his detection of, narcotics in the field.
https://www.foxla.com/video/681204
How can anyone defend this?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-shows-minneapolis-cop-with-knee-on-neck-of-motionless-moaning-man-he-later-died/?fbclid=IwAR2NC--tff7Q1DG27BCBCrFtVZa3ZVJw6jC1lVt-9pDRjl8Y5CXX9HomWe0
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Minneapolis police now calls the 4 cops "former employees".
Four Minneapolis police officers fired after death of unarmed man George Floyd
Four officers have been fired following the death of an unarmed black man taken into custody in Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey announced on Twitter.
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said that four officers are now "former employees" with the department, CBS Minnesota reports. Frey said the firing was the "right call."
The death of the man identified by a family attorney as George Floyd has drawn outrage after video showed an officer kneeling on Floyd's neck as he cried out that he couldn't breathe. Floyd had been arrested outside a deli on suspicion of forgery. He died later at a hospital.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-officers-fired-kneeling-death-video/
Cops attacking another elderly man and then try to cover it up by claiming "he tripped and fell".
Buffalo police shove elderly man to ground, injuring him; claim he tripped
Two Buffalo police officers have been suspended after shoving an elderly man to the ground, seriously injuring him, and then claiming he tripped.
Video quickly went viral Thursday night of two cops appearing to push a 75-year-old man in front of City Hall as protests began wrapping up shortly after Buffalo’s curfew began at 8 p.m. The man fell to the pavement, hitting his head; a painful crack is heard as blood started rushing from his head.
WBFO reports two medics quickly came forward to treat the unidentified man. He was taken to Erie County Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition with a concussion and lacerations. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he is expected to recover, but no other details were released.
Buffalo Police claimed in a statement that the man fell: “A 5th person was arrested during a skirmish with other protestors and also charged with disorderly conduct. During that skirmish involving protestors, one person was injured when he tripped & fell.”
https://www.syracuse.com/state/2020/06/buffalo-police-shove-elderly-man-to-ground-injuring-him-claim-he-tripped-graphic-video.html
As if the dindus, antifa and various other vandals attacking old people was not enough now you have cops attacking the elderly as well.
ABC4 News captures police officer armed in protest gear pushing down man with cane
While ABC4 News was live on air during riots in Salt Lake City Saturday night they captured a police officer armed in protective gear shoving a man with a cane down onto the street.
The incident happened while ABC4’s Nicole Neuman and photojournalist Josh Witzel were in the field reporting live on air to the commuity.
That video has now gone viral after it was posted to the station’s ABC4 YouTube channel and has been picked up by viewers around the country, many expressed anger at the officers actions.
Salt Lake City Police Department Chief Mike Brown responded to the video and said he has opened investigation though Internal Affairs and the Civilian Review Board.
https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/abc-4-news-captures-police-officer-armed-in-protest-gear-pushing-down-man-with-cane/
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"Chair of the New York Democratic Party
May 23, 2016 – January 14, 2019
He is a close political ally of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Brown
Cops are always quick to expose or defame their victims but they also try to keep their own records of malfeasance, abuse and crime to be hidden.
In a Historic Victory, NY Legislature Repeals 50-A
Upon the Governor's signature, police misconduct in New York will no longer be hidden from the public.
Today, the New York State Legislature passed critical legislation that will fully repeal 50-a, which up until now has allowed law enforcement to shield police misconduct records from the public. These disciplinary records will now be publicly disclosed, increasing systemic accountability through transparency and taking New York one step forward to addressing police violence in our communities.
https://www.innocenceproject.org/in-a-historic-victory-the-new-york-legislature-repeals-50-a-requiring-full-disclosure-of-police-disciplinary-records/
Now how about the send the cops and the original prosecutors to death row?
Philadelphia death row inmate freed after conviction in child's murder reversed
A Philadelphia man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for the murder of a 4-year-old girl has had his conviction overturned.
Walter Ogrod, 55, convinced prosecutors his confession to the murder of Barbara Jean Horn in 1988 had been coerced by cops investigating the homicide. A judge freed him from prison Friday.
Orgrod was a neighbor of Barbara Jean’s. He spent most of his time behind bars on death row. The case was profiled on an episode of “Death Row Stories” narrated by Susan Sarandon, the station reported.
“I’m sorry it took 28 years for us to listen to what Barbara Jean was trying to tell us: that you are innocent, and that the words of your statement of confession came from Philadelphia Police detectives and not you,” prosecutor Carrie Wood told Ogrod.
Philadelphia Judge Shelley Robins-New vacated Ogrod’s conviction and death sentence Friday, based on prosecutorial misconduct and new evidence that supports his claim of innocence, The Associated Press reported.
Ogrod's lawyers said Friday they are unsure whether authorities have a different suspect.
The first trial against Ogrod ended in a mistrial when one juror announced he did not agree with a not guilty verdict as the foreman was about to read it, according to the AP. He was convicted after a second trial in 1996 of first-degree murder and attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.
Barbara Jean’s mother Sharon Fahy urged the judge to release Ogrod, NBC 10 reported.
"My daughter is never coming home, but I wanted justice for her, not simply a closed case with an innocent person in jail. Two families have already been destroyed," she said in a court filing.
Ogrod was hospitalized in March after contracting coronavirus.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/philadelphia-death-row-inmate-freed-after-conviction-in-childs-murder-reversed
As if the dindus, antifa and various other vandals attacking old people was not enough now you have cops attacking the elderly as well.
ABC4 News captures police officer armed in protest gear pushing down man with cane
While ABC4 News was live on air during riots in Salt Lake City Saturday night they captured a police officer armed in protective gear shoving a man with a cane down onto the street.
The incident happened while ABC4’s Nicole Neuman and photojournalist Josh Witzel were in the field reporting live on air to the commuity.
That video has now gone viral after it was posted to the station’s ABC4 YouTube channel and has been picked up by viewers around the country, many expressed anger at the officers actions.
Salt Lake City Police Department Chief Mike Brown responded to the video and said he has opened investigation though Internal Affairs and the Civilian Review Board.
https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/abc-4-news-captures-police-officer-armed-in-protest-gear-pushing-down-man-with-cane/
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Cops attacking another elderly man and then try to cover it up by claiming "he tripped and fell".
Buffalo police shove elderly man to ground, injuring him; claim he tripped
Two Buffalo police officers have been suspended after shoving an elderly man to the ground, seriously injuring him, and then claiming he tripped.
Video quickly went viral Thursday night of two cops appearing to push a 75-year-old man in front of City Hall as protests began wrapping up shortly after Buffalo’s curfew began at 8 p.m. The man fell to the pavement, hitting his head; a painful crack is heard as blood started rushing from his head.
WBFO reports two medics quickly came forward to treat the unidentified man. He was taken to Erie County Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition with a concussion and lacerations. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he is expected to recover, but no other details were released.
Buffalo Police claimed in a statement that the man fell: “A 5th person was arrested during a skirmish with other protestors and also charged with disorderly conduct. During that skirmish involving protestors, one person was injured when he tripped & fell.”
https://www.syracuse.com/state/2020/06/buffalo-police-shove-elderly-man-to-ground-injuring-him-claim-he-tripped-graphic-video.html
(https://www.startribune.com/officers-slashed-tires-on-vehicles-parked-during-mpls-protests-unrest/571105692/)
Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune
June 8, 2020 — 6:12pm
Two law enforcement agencies acknowledged Monday that officers patrolling Minneapolis during the height of recent protests knifed the tires of numerous vehicles parked and unoccupied in at least two locations in the midst of the unrest.
Cops attacking another elderly man and then try to cover it up by claiming "he tripped and fell".
Buffalo police shove elderly man to ground, injuring him; claim he tripped
Two Buffalo police officers have been suspended after shoving an elderly man to the ground, seriously injuring him, and then claiming he tripped.
Video quickly went viral Thursday night of two cops appearing to push a 75-year-old man in front of City Hall as protests began wrapping up shortly after Buffalo’s curfew began at 8 p.m. The man fell to the pavement, hitting his head; a painful crack is heard as blood started rushing from his head.
WBFO reports two medics quickly came forward to treat the unidentified man. He was taken to Erie County Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition with a concussion and lacerations. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he is expected to recover, but no other details were released.
Buffalo Police claimed in a statement that the man fell: “A 5th person was arrested during a skirmish with other protestors and also charged with disorderly conduct. During that skirmish involving protestors, one person was injured when he tripped & fell.”
https://www.syracuse.com/state/2020/06/buffalo-police-shove-elderly-man-to-ground-injuring-him-claim-he-tripped-graphic-video.html
This one not good for cops - older man appears to have over reacted to the shove
Only when hit the ground & banged his head with it bleeding the Cops did fuck all
To help him just left him there. Them lot are Lowlife Scumbags for sure.
They should all be fired & never allowed to be cops again.
(https://www.startribune.com/officers-slashed-tires-on-vehicles-parked-during-mpls-protests-unrest/571105692/)
Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune
June 8, 2020 — 6:12pm
Two law enforcement agencies acknowledged Monday that officers patrolling Minneapolis during the height of recent protests knifed the tires of numerous vehicles parked and unoccupied in at least two locations in the midst of the unrest.
In cop speak, that is "strategically deflating tires" or "disabling illegally abandoned vehicles via tire deflation". Because when you want to deflate your car's tires you just take a knife and slash them. The (rhetorical) question is if the cops will pay -from their own pocket- to replace the tires they damaged.
Minnesota state troopers admit "strategically" deflating tires during George Floyd protests
Minnesota State Patrol troopers have admitted to "strategically" deflating tires during protests following the death of George Floyd. The state's Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed the action, CBS Minnesota reports, after social media videos emerged of officers appearing to slash tires in parking lots amid the demonstrations.
The department said troopers deflated tires to keep the vehicles from being used in attacks against law enforcement or protesters and for the vehicles to be towed if a collection of evidence was necessary. According to DPS, it was only done in certain situations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-state-patrol-deflated-tires-protests-george-floyd-black-lives-matter/
I wonder who has to pay for this damage?
In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, the cops kill an EMT while she is sleeping in her home.
Conveniently, the killers did not wear body cameras. Of course none of them has been arrested.
Family of Louisville EMT killed during LMPD raid files wrongful death lawsuit against officers
(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/03/16/PLOU/80f13613-aaa9-489c-ab65-4fe24dbdb258-Breonna_Taylor_1.jpg?crop=479,639,x0,y0&quality=50&width=640)
The family of a Louisville EMT killed in what's been alleged to have been a botched Louisville Metro Police raid has filed a lawsuit against the officers involved, claiming she did "nothing to deserve to die at their hands."
Attorneys say police had the wrong home and that the suspect they were looking for was already in custody before the raid. Nothing illegal was found in Taylor's home.
The officers burst into the home without knocking and "blindly fired" into it, spraying bullets into Taylor's house and neighboring apartments "with a total disregard for the value of human life," according to the lawsuit. Taylor, 26, was shot eight times.
Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, thought they were being robbed, according to his attorney, and fired at officers when they rushed in, hitting LMPD Sgt. John Mattingly in the leg.
Breonna Taylor was shot multiple times after officers used a battering ram to get into her home on Springfield Drive in south Louisville about 1 a.m. on March 13 in order to serve a warrant.
Police say there is no body camera footage from the raid as officers in LMPD criminal interdiction division do not wear body cameras.
https://www.wdrb.com/news/family-of-louisville-emt-killed-during-lmpd-raid-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-officers/article_8caf7c9c-93b7-11ea-8253-5fbf4d80f0e7.html
A City of Wharton police officer was charged with three counts of sexual assault of a child in 2016. In a negotiated deal that included the permanent surrender of his peace officer license, he pleaded guilty to one count and received 10 years’ probation. His punishment also included fines, sex offender registration and community service, according to court records.
A law enforcement officer in the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office was charged with four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, all first-degree felonies, in 2012. He pleaded guilty to one count of injury to a child and received 10 years of probation, no prison time, and was required to permanently surrender his peace officer license.
Texas officers accused of violence, other crimes avoid prison in deals with prosecutors
Across Texas, hundreds of law enforcement officers have permanently surrendered their peace officer license in the past four years. A KXAN investigation of 297 of those surrenders has discovered nearly all the officers were accused or charged with a crime – most often felonies. And, in almost every case the officers used their license as a bargaining tool by agreeing to surrender it as part of a deal to avoid jail or prison.
KXAN reviewed 297 permanent surrender cases in Texas from 2015 through mid-2018. In nearly every case, the peace officers were accused of or charged with a crime. At least half of the cases were felonies.
Peace officer licenses are issued and maintained by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). All law enforcement officers at the municipal, county and state level, except for state corrections officers, must be licensed.
In at least 245 instances, peace officers used their licenses to leverage a lesser sentence in a plea bargain. More than 30 officers surrendered their licenses in lieu of prosecution or to halt an investigation.
KXAN uncovered the system of deals by analyzing records obtained from more than 100 public information act requests filed at all levels of state and local governments, including TCOLE, county and district courts, as well as local, county and state law enforcement agencies.
Officers who agreed to surrender their licenses received little or no jail time for offenses including sexual assault of children and women in custody, taking bribes and dealing narcotics to prisoners, lying about the circumstances of a police shooting and destroying evidence in criminal cases.
In some instances, the accused police officers already had histories of misconduct yet were able to trade their badges in a plea bargain and walk away with deferred adjudication and probation.
KXAN found more than two dozen cases in the last four years in which police officers or jailers permanently surrendered their licenses to avoid prosecution or to end investigations into possible misconduct.
The only indication KXAN could find of possible misconduct in many of these cases was noted in a portion of the file TCOLE maintains for each delicensed officer titled “summary of the reason for permanent surrender.” It’s a sheet each officer is supposed to provide, but that does not always happen.
It is unclear what level of punishments those officers may have faced. It is also more difficult, if not impossible, to obtain records of police misconduct when charges are not filed against the officer.
In Texas, state law limits TCOLE’s authority to permanently revoke an officer’s license, unless he or she has been convicted of a felony or certain misdemeanors. If district attorneys want to get a bad police officer out of law enforcement, in most cases they either have to go to trial or make a deal, said Roger Goldman, professor emeritus at Saint Louis University School of Law.
Texas’ license decertification laws are pushing district attorneys to make these plea bargains, according to Goldman.
Texas has the most licensed peace officers of any state, yet Florida and Georgia decertify far more officers per year than Texas does. Those states have broader authority to revoke the license, Goldman said.
https://www.kxan.com/bargaining-the-badge/
Just some of the cases and thepunishmentgift these scumbags received. Sexual assault of a child and not a single day in prison:
“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, PBA president.
The firing took a while but the chief of police is trying to cover his ass and his department. Of course the cops who participated in this execution, have not been arrested or charged.
"He wantonly and blindly fired ten (10) rounds".
Not only was Breonna Taylor executed in her own apartment while she was sleeping, but three of the rounds Hankison fired entered the apartment next to Taylor's. These are the "brave heroes" who are given a badge that they think gives them unlimited "authoritay", are supposedly "trained" to use firearms and whose supposed job is to "enforce laws".
Louisville Police Department fires officer involved in Breonna Taylor's death
The Louisville Metro Police Department announced Tuesday that it has fired Brett Hankison, one of the officers involved in the March shooting death of 26-year-old emergency medical worker Breonna Taylor. In a letter to Hankison tweeted by the department, the Louisville police chief called his conduct "a shock to the conscience."
Taylor was killed on March 13, when officers entered her home looking for illegal drugs. Officials claimed the officers knocked on the door and announced themselves, and only started shooting after they were "immediately met by gunfire" from Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. But Taylor's family said in a lawsuit that the officers did not identify themselves, and that Walker — a licensed gun owner — thought someone was trying to break in.
The letter states that Hankison was found to have violated two standard operating procedures: obedience to rules and regulations and use of deadly force.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-shooting-officer-brett-hankison-involved-fired/
Perverted freak. Of course he is enjoying paid vacation.
Trooper charged with stalking after taking woman's phone, sending himself nude photos
A Minnesota State Patrol trooper was charged with felony stalking for taking a woman’s cell phone and using it to send himself nude photos of her, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.
Albert Kuehne, 36, was charged with two counts of stalking with bias due to the fact the victim was a woman.
According to the criminal complaint, on March 25, Kuehne worked a single-car accident at Interstate 94 and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis. The driver, a 25-year-old woman, was detained by Kuehne as a possible drunk driver. She was taken to a hospital where she was treated and released.
When the woman returned home, her boyfriend was using her laptop, which is linked to her cell phone. According to the complaint, the laptop records showed the woman’s phone was accessed and nude photos of her were texted from it to an unknown phone.
Her boyfriend called the phone number, and the person who answered eventually identified himself as Kuehne. The woman called a lawyer, who reported the incident. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension began an investigation.
According to the complaint, Kuehne’s squad video showed him leading the woman to his squad car. Along the way, the woman took out her phone, and Kuehne demanded that she give it to him. The cell phone records indicate the photos were sent from the woman’s phone at 4:44 p.m. The video showed Kuehne alone in his squad at that time while paramedics treated the woman.
Investigators obtained a search warrant and seized Kuehne's phone. They found three photos of the woman on his phone, according to the complaint.
According the the Minnesota State Patrol, Kuehne was placed on paid investigatory leave May 20, 2020.
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/trooper-charged-with-stalking-after-taking-womans-phone-sending-himself-nude-photos
In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, the cops kill an EMT while she is sleeping in her home.
Conveniently, the killers did not wear body cameras. Of course none of them has been arrested.
Family of Louisville EMT killed during LMPD raid files wrongful death lawsuit against officers
(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/03/16/PLOU/80f13613-aaa9-489c-ab65-4fe24dbdb258-Breonna_Taylor_1.jpg?crop=479,639,x0,y0&quality=50&width=640)
The family of a Louisville EMT killed in what's been alleged to have been a botched Louisville Metro Police raid has filed a lawsuit against the officers involved, claiming she did "nothing to deserve to die at their hands."
Attorneys say police had the wrong home and that the suspect they were looking for was already in custody before the raid. Nothing illegal was found in Taylor's home.
The officers burst into the home without knocking and "blindly fired" into it, spraying bullets into Taylor's house and neighboring apartments "with a total disregard for the value of human life," according to the lawsuit. Taylor, 26, was shot eight times.
Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, thought they were being robbed, according to his attorney, and fired at officers when they rushed in, hitting LMPD Sgt. John Mattingly in the leg.
Breonna Taylor was shot multiple times after officers used a battering ram to get into her home on Springfield Drive in south Louisville about 1 a.m. on March 13 in order to serve a warrant.
Police say there is no body camera footage from the raid as officers in LMPD criminal interdiction division do not wear body cameras.
https://www.wdrb.com/news/family-of-louisville-emt-killed-during-lmpd-raid-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-officers/article_8caf7c9c-93b7-11ea-8253-5fbf4d80f0e7.html
https://abc7ny.com/arrest-made-after-daughter-investigates-dads-murder-herself/6308024/?fbclid=IwAR3ukhnlOILbYiYR99-ym7QnF3HCNVB0S0jv5Pex9Kj2lYqwCAO10B1FWoU
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Espinal said police at the 103 Precinct refused to investigate what happened to her dad. When the lieutenant there refused to write up a police report, he told Espinal that she should go out into the neighborhood, and find her own evidence of a crime -- and so she did.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/three-lapd-officers-face-felony-charges-falsely-labeling-people-gang-n1233412?fbclid=IwAR3sguSXy1ScIi6U_ZmuqWFr7O_jANSoZaFhw-W6Q5DDZS_aazP6xrrfsFw
Geezus
According to a 59-count criminal complaint, the three were charged with conspiracy, filing false reports, and preparing fraudulent documents for court. It was not immediately clear how many of each of the charges applied to each officer.
The three defendants are accused of falsifying cards used by officers to conduct interviews while in the field.
In some instances, the defendants allegedly wrote on the card that a person admitted to being a gang member even though body-worn camera video showed the defendants never asked the individual about gang membership, prosecutors said.
In other instances, the defendants allegedly wrote that a person admitted to being a gang member though the person had denied gang affiliation.
Shaw is accused of falsifying 43 field interview cards. Coblentz is accused of falsifying seven cards and Martinez is accused of falsifying two cards.
If convicted, Shaw faces up to 31 years and eight months in county jail, while Coblentz faces up to seven years and eight months and Martinez faces up to four years and four months.
Damn, talk about a criminal gang:
Alas, it is unlikely they will serve these prison sentences. Probably they'll get a sweet plea deal with probation.
Another criminal enterprise.
Hidden guns, bodyguards and a DA raid on the Santa Clara County sheriff
Prosecutors in Santa Clara County have served at least three search warrants while investigating whether Sheriff Laurie Smith’s office gave out coveted concealed-gun permits in exchange for campaign money, sources familiar with the investigation told The Chronicle.
The Santa Clara County district attorney’s office raided the sheriff’s San Jose headquarters Aug. 2, seizing evidence through a search warrant that remains sealed. About a week before that, sources said, prosecutors served search warrants on two of the sheriff’s higher-ranking supervisors.
Among those who have been contacted by investigators is AS Solution, a security company whose bodyguards protect Silicon Valley tech executives. Public records show one of the company’s managers gave a large contribution last year to an independent expenditure committee supporting Smith’s re-election.
Prosecutors are investigating the Sheriff’s Office at a time when demand for specialized security is high among Silicon Valley companies and executives, particularly since April 2018, when a disgruntled YouTube video creator stormed the company’s San Bruno headquarters and shot three people before taking her own life. Many private guards are retired police officers who may carry hidden guns in California. Those who are not retired officers must apply for permits from their home city or county. The permits generally must be renewed after two years.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Tech-security-firm-part-of-DA-investigation-into-14438702.php
Four indicted in Santa Clara County Sheriff concealed gun permit scandal
Captain, reelection committee officer, two others charged with conspiracy and bribery; Sheriff Laurie Smith and security firm that got permits were not indicted, but DA says ‘we’re not done’
A grand jury has indicted a Santa Clara County Sheriff’s captain and three political supporters of Sheriff Laurie Smith for allegedly brokering a pay-for-play scheme in which campaign donations were exchanged for concealed-carry weapons permits. The sheriff herself avoided indictment, but prosecutors said Friday that their corruption probe is far from over.
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced felony charges including conspiracy and bribery against Capt. James Jensen; Christopher Schumb, an officer for a sheriff reelection committee and a prominent South Bay litigator; attorney Harpaul Nahal; and Milpitas gun-parts maker Michael Nichols. All four are accused of plotting to illegally secure concealed-gun permits for employees of Seattle-based executive security contractor AS Solution.
The indictment marks the first criminal case to come out of a decade’s worth of complaints regarding political favoritism in Smith’s issuing of the hard-to-get concealed-carry permits. Rosen said Friday that an 18-month investigation uncovered a two-tiered policy for the concealed gun permits: a process for regular citizens whose applications were destined for a filing cabinet, and another for VIPs whose applications were fast-tracked for approval.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/06/da-to-reveal-results-of-sheriff-corruption-probe-into-concealed-gun-permits/
Horrific. This is how easily this system can throw a man in prison accusing him of horrific crimes. At least unlike other cases where people are exonerated after 20 or 30 or 40 years this was much shorter but still this man's name has been permanently stained.
When the cops realized that this man was not even there when the alleged abuse took place they simply decided to "backtrack" the date so that it fit their narrative.
Cops, prosecutors and this poor fella's first lawyer should all have been sentenced for life or executed.
The police chief "retired" shortly after and then was hired as chief of police in another town, but resigned a few weeks ago. The other cops were promoted as is usual in such cases.
The female district attorney who prosecuted the poor man had a long history of misconduct and was repeatedly jailed for contempt. She was later found dead, possibly suicide. At least that's something.
The Trials of Greg Kelley: A High School Football Phenom Wrongly Convicted of Molesting a 4-Year-Old Boy
On August 9, 2013, Kelley was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a four-year-old boy.
According to authorities, the child alleged that Kelley “put his pee-pee” in his mouth on two occasions at a daycare operated by Shama McCarty. McCarty, a booster of the Leander Lions’ football team, had been allowing Kelley, a friend and classmate of McCarty’s son Johnathan, to stay at their home in nearby Cedar Park after his mother was hospitalized with a brain tumor. Days later, a second boy came forward to accuse Kelley of making him touch his penis. Kelley was charged with two counts of indecency with a child and two counts of super aggravated sexual assault, the latter carrying a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison.
At the McCarty’s urging, the Kelley’s sold their house to pay for Patricia Cummings, a top defense attorney in the area.
Over the course of the trial, several clues appeared to point to another suspect: Johnathan McCarty, who bore a striking resemblance to Greg Kelley.
In his outcry interview conducted at the Child Advocacy Center in Georgetown, Texas, the first boy alleged that Kelley was wearing SpongeBob Squarepants pajamas during the assaults, and that the assaults occurred in a bedroom with a couch, a crib, and trophies. The boy reported it to his mother on July 13, leading police to determine that the assaults happened on July 12. The second boy initially named Johnathan as the assailant in his outcry interview, before a series of leading questions from a detective led the child to name Greg. Both boys were interviewed over a half-dozen times by various officials, prompting a child psychologist for the prosecution to testify at trial that asking a young child “repeated questions” about a particular event may cause them to believe that it happened.
Here’s the thing: Kelley had moved out of the McCarty’s home on June 11, and on July 12 was many miles away from Cedar Park, helping his brother move from Hutto to a new place in South Austin. Plus, he spent most of his days in weight training or football practice. Johnathan, on the other hand, was still living in the home at the time of the alleged assaults, owned a pair of SpongeBob Squarepants pajamas that he regularly wore to school, and—unlike Kelley—slept in a bedroom with a couch, a crib, and trophies.
None of these facts, however, were brought up at trial. In lieu of offering up Johnathan as an alternate suspect, Cummings sought to prove that the boys made the whole thing up—thereby pitting their words against Kelley’s.
Both young boys testified in a separate room via closed-circuit television. The second boy recanted, repeatedly saying that “Greg” did not assault him; the first boy maintained that Kelley did assault him but was not made to identify him in court. On July 16, 2014, Kelley was acquitted of the charges concerning the second boy but found guilty of two counts of super aggravated sexual assault against the first. Facing life in prison, he agreed to accept the minimum sentence of 25 years with no possibility for parole in exchange for waiving his right to appeal—though he reserved the right to file a motion for a new trial.
In March of 2017, thanks to the financial assistance of a local activist named Jake Brydon, Kelley had managed to hire a new lawyer, Keith Hampton, who’d filed a writ of habeas corpus.
Hampton’s writ of habeas corpus contained a bunch of new potentially exonerating evidence that was not presented at trial, including: that Kelley was not living at the house and helping his brother move when the alleged assaults took place; that Johnathan owned the SpongeBob Squarepants pajamas; that Johnathan’s bedroom contained the couch, crib and trophies; that a cache of child pornography was found on both Johnathan’s cell phone and computer; that four women had accused Johnathan of drugging and raping them while Kelley was behind bars; and that two witnesses heard Johnathan confessing to sexually assaulting the boy. Hampton also accused Cummings and the Cedar Park police department of negligence.
Kelley also learned his initial attorney, Patricia Cummings, had strange ties to the McCarty family—including defending one of Johnathan’s half-brothers of sex crimes.
Kelley was released on bond on August 22, 2017; that December, a judge recommended Kelley’s conviction be overturned due to actual innocence. It wasn’t until November 6, 2019, that Kelley’s conviction was finally vacated
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-trials-of-greg-kelley-a-high-school-football-phenom-wrongly-convicted-of-molesting-a-4-year-old-boy?ref=home
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5645
visited to see what was going on. Was willing to discuss issues with folks beside skeletor and soul crusher who don't respond past posting but didn't see any which is a good sign.
I'm around. Still broadly disgusted with bad cops and also the "good" ones that all too often turn a blind eye. Slightly amused too, I guess, at all the police union mouthpieces and the various apologists who are telling us how hard cops have it and how we need to respect them and stand with them, when cops have, at every opportunity, chosen to adopt the "us vs. them" mentality that has gotten us where we are today.
And how you doin'?
I'm doing pretty good. Glad I retired in 2016. I'm with you on the apologists and union mouth pieces. with great authority comes great responsibility
The FBI falsified documents, lied to the court and abused its already broad and nearly unlimited powers. Business as usual. But of course since they're "law enforcement", it was just a "mistake" and they will take "corrective actions" (ie they will monitor themselves).
Meanwhile, "lying" to the FBI, the catch-all charge when the government can't get nothing else to stick, will send ordinary people to prison.
The criminals and their gang should be sent to prison and their crime ring dismantled.
DOJ, FBI announce 'corrective actions' in push to prevent FISA abuse
The Justice Department and FBI will implement "foundational" reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process as well as changes to promote "active oversight" of FISA applications to surveil federal elected officials, candidates and their staffs, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
"Since the Inspector General's Crossfire Hurricane report was issued last December, I have made clear that it describes conduct that was unacceptable and unrepresentative of the FBI as an organization," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. "That's why I immediately ordered more than 40 corrective actions, including foundational FISA reforms, many of which went beyond those recommended by the Inspector General."
"FISA is an indispensable tool that the FBI uses to protect our country from national security threats, and Americans can rest assured that the FBI remains dedicated to continuously strengthening our FISA compliance efforts and ensuring that our FISA authorities are exercised in a responsible manner," Wray continued.
The recently announced reforms include requiring the FBI to perform routine audits of its use of National Security Letters and compliance with FISA.
Crossfire Hurricane was the code name of the FBI counterintelligence investigation into links between Trump associates like George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn and Carter Page and Russian officials and whether they worked "wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
Page was surveilled largely because of a discredited dossier funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. An FBI lawyer in that case even falsified a CIA email submitted to the FISA court in order to make Page's communications with Russians appear nefarious, the Justice Department inspector general found; and the Justice Department has concluded that the Page warrant was legally improper.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-abuse-surveillance-william-barr-fbi-doj
The FBI falsified documents, lied to the court and abused its already broad and nearly unlimited powers. Business as usual. But of course since they're "law enforcement", it was just a "mistake" and they will take "corrective actions" (ie they will monitor themselves).
Meanwhile, "lying" to the FBI, the catch-all charge when the government can't get nothing else to stick, will send ordinary people to prison.
The criminals and their gang should be sent to prison and their crime ring dismantled.
DOJ, FBI announce 'corrective actions' in push to prevent FISA abuse
The Justice Department and FBI will implement "foundational" reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process as well as changes to promote "active oversight" of FISA applications to surveil federal elected officials, candidates and their staffs, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
"Since the Inspector General's Crossfire Hurricane report was issued last December, I have made clear that it describes conduct that was unacceptable and unrepresentative of the FBI as an organization," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. "That's why I immediately ordered more than 40 corrective actions, including foundational FISA reforms, many of which went beyond those recommended by the Inspector General."
"FISA is an indispensable tool that the FBI uses to protect our country from national security threats, and Americans can rest assured that the FBI remains dedicated to continuously strengthening our FISA compliance efforts and ensuring that our FISA authorities are exercised in a responsible manner," Wray continued.
The recently announced reforms include requiring the FBI to perform routine audits of its use of National Security Letters and compliance with FISA.
Crossfire Hurricane was the code name of the FBI counterintelligence investigation into links between Trump associates like George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn and Carter Page and Russian officials and whether they worked "wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
Page was surveilled largely because of a discredited dossier funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. An FBI lawyer in that case even falsified a CIA email submitted to the FISA court in order to make Page's communications with Russians appear nefarious, the Justice Department inspector general found; and the Justice Department has concluded that the Page warrant was legally improper.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-abuse-surveillance-william-barr-fbi-doj
Fucking disgusting state of affairs - Those responsible should be sacked & held accountable
Not left in place & it all swept under the carpet. The Corruption is Big.
can't question a fox news source..
Very Sadly at this present time it’s Best to Question anything & everything
There’s so much lies & misinformation.
Perhaps this is a deliberate tactic to confuse & divide people
The Golden Rule of Control - Divide & Rule.
You've got this right.
After reviewing all the evidence as well as considering all the facts and circumstances, I have decided that the just outcome is the dismissal of all charges against Mr. Ometu. It is important to note the officers involved in this case have requested dismissal as well. Neither officer wishes to have him incur any future consequences are a result of this incident. This case is one of competing interests. It is the officer’s duty to investigate and detain a person of interest that may be a suspect in a crime versus a citizen’s right not to disclose their identification where no arrest has been made. In this case, the officers did have a description that led them to believe that Mr. Ometu may have been the suspect they were seeking. However, Mr. Ometu was not that person and did not have an obligation to identify himself or make a statement. Ultimately, the officers agree that dismissal is in the interest of justice,” Gonzales said.
The FBI falsified documents, lied to the court and abused its already broad and nearly unlimited powers. Business as usual. But of course since they're "law enforcement", it was just a "mistake" and they will take "corrective actions" (ie they will monitor themselves).
Meanwhile, "lying" to the FBI, the catch-all charge when the government can't get nothing else to stick, will send ordinary people to prison.
The criminals and their gang should be sent to prison and their crime ring dismantled.
DOJ, FBI announce 'corrective actions' in push to prevent FISA abuse
The Justice Department and FBI will implement "foundational" reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process as well as changes to promote "active oversight" of FISA applications to surveil federal elected officials, candidates and their staffs, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
"Since the Inspector General's Crossfire Hurricane report was issued last December, I have made clear that it describes conduct that was unacceptable and unrepresentative of the FBI as an organization," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. "That's why I immediately ordered more than 40 corrective actions, including foundational FISA reforms, many of which went beyond those recommended by the Inspector General."
"FISA is an indispensable tool that the FBI uses to protect our country from national security threats, and Americans can rest assured that the FBI remains dedicated to continuously strengthening our FISA compliance efforts and ensuring that our FISA authorities are exercised in a responsible manner," Wray continued.
The recently announced reforms include requiring the FBI to perform routine audits of its use of National Security Letters and compliance with FISA.
Crossfire Hurricane was the code name of the FBI counterintelligence investigation into links between Trump associates like George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn and Carter Page and Russian officials and whether they worked "wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
Page was surveilled largely because of a discredited dossier funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. An FBI lawyer in that case even falsified a CIA email submitted to the FISA court in order to make Page's communications with Russians appear nefarious, the Justice Department inspector general found; and the Justice Department has concluded that the Page warrant was legally improper.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-abuse-surveillance-william-barr-fbi-doj
"It must be noted, however, that there still appear to be widespread violations of the querying standard by the FBI.· For example, NSD's oversight review of the Bureau's in June 2019 revealed queries of unminimized Section 702 information that were not reasonably likely to retrieve foreign-intelligence information or evidence of crime, including:
• queries to vet a potential source;
• queries to vet a candidate to become a local police officer; and
• queries to find information related to a planned visit by foreign government officials.
In July 2019 an oversight review discovered 87 queries of raw FISA acquired information that were not reasonably likely to retrieve foreign intelligence information or evidence of a crime including:
• queries of college students participating in a "Collegiate Academy"; and
• queries of individuals who had visited the FBI office (e.g. for maintenance).
Additional improper queries include:
• conducted queries to vet potential sources and to get information about a victim complainant and conducted other overly broad queries
• conducted queries using a complainant's identifying data
• conducted queries using identifiers of police officer candidates
Based on the facts reported, the FBI's position that the queries for all 16,000 persons were reasonably likely to retrieve foreign-intelligence information or evidence of a crime is unsupportable. Apart from the seven individuals referenced above, there was no indication that as involved in criminal activity or foreign intelligence related conduct or any other reason to believe that running queries using identifiers for would return foreign-intelligence information or evidence of a crime. There is no relevant distinction between queries and other broad, suspicionless queries previously identified by the government and the Court as violations of the querying standard.
Fucking disgusting state of affairs - Those responsible should be sacked & held accountable
Not left in place & it all swept under the carpet. The Corruption is Big.
Very Sadly at this present time it’s Best to Question anything & everything
There’s so much lies & misinformation.
Perhaps this is a deliberate tactic to confuse & divide people
The Golden Rule of Control - Divide & Rule.
Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Doctoring Email in Russia Inquiry
A former F.B.I. lawyer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to doctoring an email from the C.I.A. that he forwarded to a colleague during preparations in 2017 to ask a court to renew an order to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser, in a case that has attracted intense political attention.
The lawyer, Kevin E. Clinesmith, who was working at the time with the F.B.I.’s Trump-Russia investigation team, admitted to a judge that he had intentionally inserted words into the text of the email, which discussed past relations between the C.I.A. and Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser.
The alteration was uncovered last year by an inspector general report laying out a litany of errors and omissions in the Page wiretap applications. They included the F.B.I.’s failure to tell judges about Mr. Page’s history of talking to the C.I.A. about his interactions with Russian intelligence officials, a fact that might have made him look less suspicious. The report suggested that Mr. Clinesmith’s move prevented a colleague from recognizing the problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/kevin-clinesmith-guilty.html
Even reported by the "reliable" CNN:
Judge accepts FBI lawyer's guilty plea for false statement in Carter Page warrant paperwork
Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith formally pleaded guilty on Wednesday to changing text in an email when working to renew the surveillance application of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2017. Judge James Boasberg of the DC District Court accepted his plea at a hearing that lasted about an hour Wednesday.
Clinesmith admitted to one charge of inserting the words "not a source" into an email in 2017 about Page's history with the CIA, when Page had been a contact. The email was part of preparations officials were making to apply for a renewal to Page's wiretap in 2017. The Justice Department has since invalidated that renewal application, and several officials have harshly criticized FBI procedures in the handling of surveillance applications.
"At the time I believed the information I was providing in the email was accurate. But I am agreeing that the information I inserted into the email was not originally there and I inserted that information," Clinesmith told the judge over the phone on Wednesday.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/clinesmith-carter-page-fisa-warrant/index.html
Also:
FBI Attorney Admits Altering Email Used for FISA Application During "Crossfire Hurricane" Investigation
Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, 38, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a false statement offense stemming from his altering of an email in connection with the submission of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) application, announced John H. Durham, Special Attorney to the Attorney General.
Pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the guilty plea proceeding occurred via videoconference before U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg.
According to court documents and statements made in court, between July 2015 and September 2019, Clinesmith was employed with the FBI as an Assistant General Counsel in the National Security and Cyber Law Branch of the FBI’s Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C. On July 31, 2016, the FBI opened a Foreign Agents Registration Act investigation, known as “Crossfire Hurricane,” into whether individuals associated with the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign were coordinating activities with the Russian government. By August 16, 2016, the FBI had opened cases under the Crossfire Hurricane umbrella on four individuals, including an individual identified in this case as “Individual #1.”
Clinesmith was assigned to provide legal support to FBI personnel working on Crossfire Hurricane, and he assisted FBI personnel with applications prepared by the FBI and the Justice Department’s National Security Division to conduct surveillance under the FISA. During the investigation, there were a total of four court-approved FISA applications targeting Individual #1. Each of the FISA applications alleged there was probable cause that Individual #1 was a knowing agent of a foreign power, specifically Russia.
On August 17, 2016, prior to the approval of the first FISA application #1, another U.S. government agency (“OGA”) provided certain members of the Crossfire Hurricane team a memorandum indicating that Individual #1 had been approved as an “operational contact” for the OGA from 2008 to 2013 and detailing information that Individual #1 had provided to the OGA concerning Individual #1’s prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers. The first three FISA applications did not include Individual #1’s history or status with the OGA.
Prior to the submission of the fourth FISA application, and after Individual #1 stated publicly that he/she had assisted the U.S. government in the past, an FBI Supervisory Special Agent (“SSA”) asked Clinesmith to inquire with the OGA as to whether Individual #1 had ever been a “source” for the OGA. On June 15, 2017, Clinesmith sent an email to a liaison at the OGA (“OGA Liaison”) seeking clarification as to whether Individual #1 was an OGA source, and the OGA Liaison responded via email to Clinesmith. On June 19, 2017, Clinesmith altered the email he received from the OGA Liaison by adding the words “not a source,” and then forwarded the email to the FBI SSA. Relying on the altered email, on June 29, 2017, the SSA signed and submitted the fourth FISA application to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The application did not include Individual #1’s history or status with the OGA.
Clinesmith pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement within both the jurisdiction of the executive branch and judicial branch of the U.S. government, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years and a fine of up to $250,000. Judge Boasberg scheduled sentencing for December 10, 2020.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/fbi-attorney-admits-altering-email-used-fisa-application-during-crossfire-hurricane
Lying cops, none of whom wore body cameras quite conveniently, nearly blank police reports and now rubber stamping judges approving ridiculous warrants. And all this despite the fact that the man the cops were looking for had already been arrested. Now an innocent woman, an EMT who served her community unlike these domestic terrorists, was executed in cold blood.
The judge who approved the warrant in Breonna Taylor's case signed 5 warrants in 12 minutes!
Louisville detective who obtained no-knock search warrant for Breonna Taylor reassigned
Detective Jaynes wrote five affidavits seeking a judge's permission for no-knock searches, including at Taylor's South End apartment, as a part of a narcotics investigation in March.
Jefferson Circuit Judge Mary Shaw signed all five within 12 minutes.
The language on all five warrants is similar, describing the criminal history of the suspects and Jaynes' observations. All end by asking for a no-knock entry "due to the nature of how these drug traffickers operate."
Jaynes wrote that the subjects have a history of attempting to destroy evidence, use cameras to monitor police and have a history of fleeing law enforcement.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/06/10/breonna-taylor-louisville-detective-joshua-jaynes-no-knock-warrant-reassigned/5333604002/
The Pineville Police Department has received an overwhelming response of support from our Community following the shooting of our Officer.
We are appreciative of all the offers of fundraising and financial support. However, at this time, we covet your prayers for the Officer, his family, the Department and our City. Your continued support and information for the investigation is most needed.
The Officer is home recuperating and a full recovery is expected. Please know that your support has been shared with the Officer.
We will keep you posted as the investigation allows.
Sincerely,
Chief Donald Weatherford
If invented a time machine I'd go back as a vice cop so I could arrest Shizzo for turning tricks in a San Francisco bath house
Multiple arrests made between August 26, 2020 and September 3, 2020 are the culmination of a months-long proactive operation to combat child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking in Pinal County.
Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) detectives led the joint effort comprised of local, state and federal agencies in Operation Home Alone 2, which targeted sexual predators who attempted to lure underage children with the intent of engaging in sexual activity.
On September 2, 2020, detectives arrested 44-year-old Christopher Butts, of Phoenix, for aggravated luring of a minor for sexual exploitation and furnishing harmful items to a minor. Butts, a former Maricopa County Sheriff's Office detective, was out on bond for his arrest in February 2020 for the same charges.
The young man who was killed was white so of course there was no rioting or looting. Had this young man been black it would have been a much different story.
But secretly spending taxpayer money to give to the cop who killed this young man is outrageous.
Overland Park paid former police officer who fatally shot teen to resign
A former Overland Park police officer who fatally shot 17-year-old John Albers as he backed out of his driveway in January 2018 was paid $70,000 as part of a deal to resign.
The city confirmed Tuesday that it negotiated an $81,040 buyout with former Overland Park Police Officer Clayton Jenison — which included $70,000 in severance pay and $11,040 owed for his regular salary ($8,000), compensation time ($2,354) and unused vacation and holiday pay ($686).
The separation agreement came despite the fact the police department and prosecutor's office found nothing wrong with Jenison's conduct.
After a review that was never made public by the Johnson County Officer Involved Shooting Investigation Team, Jenison was cleared of any wrongdoing by Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe and Overland Park Police Chief Frank Donchez.
Sheila Albers called Donchez's comments "false" in an interview Tuesday. She also pointed out there was no mention of any payout for Jenison at that time and said the entire process surrounding her son's fatal shooting lacked transparency.
"The dollars and the data speak for themselves, and I'm stunned," Sheila Albers said. "This was protecting a police officer at all costs, and those costs also mean the lack of truth. This was, in my opinion, a complete abuse of power."
The Albers family won a wrongful death settlement in the case. Judge Daniel Crabtree, a U.S. District Court judge for the District of Kansas, ruled that Jenison was never in the path of Albers' vehicle and did not act reasonably in opening fire on the Blue Valley Northwest student.
An expert the family hired for the lawsuit determined John Albers was backing out of the driveway at 2 1/2 mph when Jenison shot at the vehicle 13 times and killed him.
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/investigations/overland-park-paid-former-police-officer-who-fatally-shot-teen-to-resign
Female and cop means just 1 year in prison.
Sacramento ex-deputy sentenced to jail for sex with ex-boyfriend’s teenage son
A Sacramento County woman was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor — the 16-year-old son of her ex-boyfriend.
At the time of the crime, in April 2019, Shauna Bishop was a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy. The boy’s father, who had ended a yearlong relationship with Bishop, also worked for the sheriff’s department.
In addition to the county jail time, Bishop, 46, was sentenced to five years probation and 180 hours of community service, and she’ll be required to register as a sex offender.
She had pleaded guilty in July as part of a deal in which four other charges were dropped.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/24/sacramento-ex-deputy-sentenced-to-jail-for-sex-with-ex-boyfriends-teenage-son/
Once again the taxpayers are on the hook for the execution of a handcuffed man inside a police car. Surprising they didn't say the victim shot himself. 6 times. While his hands were cuffed behind his back.
Family to receive $20 million in handcuffed man's shooting death
The family of a man shot to death by a Maryland police officer has reached a $20 million-dollar settlement with Prince George’s County, announced county officials Monday.
The settlement, which appears to be among the highest ever paid in a single police shooting death, comes 9 months after Cpl. Michael Owen shot William Green, 43, six times in the back while he was handcuffed in the front seat of a police cruiser following his January 27 arrest.
The night of Green’s death, Owen and one other officer were investigating traffic accidents in Silver Hill, Md., when Green was found in the nearby Temple Hills asleep in his car. Thought to be a suspect in the traffic accidents, Green was arrested and placed in the front seat of the police vehicle where Owen ultimately shot him six times while his hands were handcuffed behind his back. Owen was not wearing a body camera during the incident.
Hours following the shooting, police said there was reason to believe Green was under the influence of PCP and that there were independent witnesses who could verify a struggle in the vehicle before the shooting. The next day, police recanted both claims.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-receive-20-million-handcuffed-man-s-shooting-death-n1241268
This woman was tried 3 times, the first 2 ending in a mistrial and after the 3rd trial due to, among other things, prosecutor misconduct and an incompetent attorney she received 2 life sentences. She spent 17 years in prison before she was released. As usual the prosecutor responsible for this left the office afterwards and did not spend a single day in prison. The prosecutor's office tries to absolve itself of any responsibility and claims it will "provide training" to "increase awareness". Very smooth talking there and not a single mention of prison time for crimes, unlike how they spoke about the woman they sent to prison.
Brockton woman wrongfully convicted of arson, murder freed after 17 years in prison
A Brockton woman who was convicted of arson and the murder of her parents in 2011 was freed Tuesday after Plymouth County prosecutors dropped the charges, making her the first Asian-American in Massachusetts to be exonerated for crimes she didn’t commit, her lawyers said.
Frances Choy was incarcerated for 17 years following her arrest at age 17 on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson in the 2003 Brockton housefire that killed her parents. She was tried three times, with the first two ending in mistrials, according to legal filings.
Superior Court Judge Linda Giles, who presided over the third trial in 2011 and sentenced Choy to two life sentences, vacated Choy’s convictions on Sept. 17.
Giles made her ruling based on evidence that prosecutors in the case were racially biased against her, that her nephew had confessed to the crimes, and that her attorney failed to pursue leads that could have exonerated her, according to court filings.
Choy’s parents, Jimmy and Ann Trahn Choy, died following a fire on April 17, 2003. according to court filings.
Kenneth Choy, Jimmy Choy’s grandson from a previous relationship who was then 16 and living at the Brockton home, allegedly told a friend that he planned and set the housefire to get revenge, according to court documents. Jimmy Choy allegedly beat and verbally abused his grandson, whom he suspected of dealing drugs, documents show.
Kenneth Choy was later charged with two counts of murder but was acquitted in 2008, a month after the first mistrial in Frances Choy’s case. Kenneth Choy testified that the fire was Frances Choy’s scheme and he had backed out, according to court records.
He later fled to his native Hong Kong shortly before Frances Choy’s third trial began in 2011, court documents show.
In her order vacating the convictions, Giles detailed a long list of issues with the case, including misconduct by prosecutors and a failure of Choy’s attorney to pursue leads and recruit an expert witness.
Prosecutors in the case exchanged e-mails, discovered later, that included numerous racist jokes about Asians, including references to a stereotypical character in the movie “Sixteen Candles,” Giles said.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/29/metro/brockton-woman-wrongfully-convicted-arson-murder-freed-after-17-years-prison/
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/incredible-video-perp-with-giant-knife-charges-chicago-cop-shot-15-times-before-falling-warning-graphic
Holy S@#$%
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/incredible-video-perp-with-giant-knife-charges-chicago-cop-shot-15-times-before-falling-warning-graphic
Holy S@#$%
A cop sexually assaulted a 5 year old girl but he gets probation, NO PRISON TIME! Cops sure seem to get some sweet plea deals for abhorrent crimes.
Former Honolulu police officer gets probation in sex assault of 5-year-old girl
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Deputy Prosecutor Loren Haugen said in state court Tuesday that he offered fired Honolulu police officer Teddy Van Lerberghe a plea deal in the sexual assault case against him involving a victim who was 5-year-old when the sexual assaults started because that’s what the victim wanted.
“There was one aspect that she did deem quite important. And that by pleading to the charges, Teddy Van Lerberghe could never, ever again be a police officer or become a police officer in this state or any state,” Haugen said.
The victim did not show up in court Tuesday for Van Lerberghe’s sentence.
Somerville sentenced Van Lerberghe, 45, to five years of probation for 4 counts of second-degree sexual assault and 3 counts of third-degree sexual assault, and did not order him to serve any of the five years behind bars, according to the terms of the plea agreement. She also ordered Van Lerberghe to pay $735 in fees into a state special fund for crime victims, $700 into a fund used to investigate and prosecute internet crimes against children and a $150 probation services fee.
In addition, Van Lerberghe must submit to sex offender treatment and register as a convicted sex offender for the rest of his life.
An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment in 2017 charging Van Lerberghe with four counts of first-degree sexual assault and the three third-degree sexual assaults. The state agreed to reduce the first-degree sexual assaults to second-degree sexual assaults. Van Lerberghe pleaded no contest in May.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/08/27/hawaii-news/former-honolulu-police-officer-gets-probation-in-sex-assault-of-5-year-old-girl/
Disgusting child abusers.. This "highly trained professional" considered an 11 year old special needs girl a "threat"...
Of course he is allowed to quietly resign instead of being fired.
Officer resigns amid accusations of excessive force on 11-year-old student
A veteran Farmington police officer is out of a job following accusations he used excessive force on a middle school student with special needs. Lapel video from the Aug. 27 incident shows Officer Zachary Christensen roughing up an 11-year-old girl at Mesa View Middle School.
The incident in question involved a 6th grade student who was in trouble for behavioral issues. The day of the incident, school administrators can be seen on the lapel video following the girl around campus as she waits for her mom to pick her up from school.
“This morning, she went straight to the cafeteria. She took more milks that she was supposed to. She threw a milk on the ground,” said Officer Christensen in the lapel camera footage obtained by the KOB 4 Investigates team.
According to Officer Christensen’s field report, the child assaulted two school employees that morning. The officer claims one assault occurred when the girl walked past the assistant principal and brushes past him and the second occurred when the girl attempted to open the door and walked past the principal. Ultimately, the charges against the girl did not stick.
Following the perceived offenses, Officer Christensen loses his patience, grabs the girls backpack and throws her to the ground. The struggle lasts for roughly six minutes.
Officer: Put your arms behind your back!
Student: Ow! You're hurting my arm! Get off of me!
Officer: Turn over! Turn over! Do not resist. Do not resist!
Officer: Stop resisting!
Student: Ow! You're hurting me!
Administrator: (redacted) stop resisting...
Officer: Put your arms behind your back!
Student: Okay, let me stand up!
School Administrator: Zach, let's let her stand up.
At one point, a school administrator repeatedly tells the officer to allow the girl to get up:
“Officer Christensen – she is not a threat to yourself or others at this moment,” said the school employee to which the officer replied: “No, she is!”
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/4-investigates-farmington-police-officer-resigns-amid-accusations-of-excessive-force-on-11-year-old-student/5529724/
Another child abuser.
Former Farmington police officer faces up to 3 years in prison for excessive force on a child
Former Farmington Police Officer Zachary Christensen pleaded no contest to a felony charge of child abuse and a misdemeanor battery charge after roughing up an 11-year-old student at school. As part of a plea deal, two other battery charges were dropped.
The case was referred to the local district attorney which declined to prosecute. However, The New Mexico Attorney General's office stepped in to take on the case, which led to Christensen's conviction. Despite the conviction, Christensen still has his state certification to be a law enforcement officer.
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/former-farmington-police-officer-faces-up-to-3-years-in-prison-for-excessive-force-on-a-child/5915748/
Another case of mass falsified tests.
She got off very lightly, just 15 years, the sentence should have been the maximum 99 years. Of course the state doesn't know how many people were affected, otherwise they'd probably end up bankrupt.
Woman who cost parents custody of their children headed to prison
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The state of Alabama has no way to determine how many drug tests a woman falsified, per court testimony.
However, several victims said Thursday that Brandy Murrah’s deceit cost them custody of their children. That’s because she purposely reported incorrect drug test findings to the Alabama Department of Human Resources.
Jennifer Severs lost custody of her three children for several months after a forged lab report incorrectly showed she had used methamphetamine and marijuana.
Furious, Judy McGinnis, Jennifer’s mother, tracked down the doctor whose name appeared on that paperwork. That’s when she learned that he had not tested the hair follicle sample. Meanwhile, Jennifer submitted a second sample through another lab, and it came back clean.
Her persistence led to an investigation that revealed Murrah's crimes.
After collecting samples, she never forwarded them for testing. Instead, she created false results and submitted those to DHR, an agency that relied on her firm, A and J Labs, for correct analysis. It is believed Murrah owed for previous tests and the labs that tested samples she collected may have no longer been willing to extend her credit.
In another case, a reformed addict was also wronged. On the verge of reuniting with her children, test results submitted by Murrah wrongly showed Grace Faulk had relapsed.
https://www.wtvy.com/2020/11/13/woman-who-cost-parents-custody-of-their-children-headed-to-prison/
Another man killed but since he was white there will be no protests, riots, looting or twitter hashtags.
It started as a noise complaint. It ended in another fatal Phoenix police shooting
Ryan Whitaker had heard a stranger knock on his Ahwatukee apartment door in the middle of the night earlier in May. So when he heard a similar knock on a Thursday after 10 p.m. later that same week, he answered the door holding his 9 mm gun.
Holding the gun in his right hand, he was confronted by two Phoenix police officers standing on either side of the door. They appeared surprised by the sight of the firearm, body camera footage shows.
3 seconds after Whitaker opened the door, Phoenix Officer Jeff Cooke shot Whitaker in the back at least two times, killing the 40-year-old man. Phoenix police had portrayed Whitaker's shooting as an emergency domestic violence call. A 30-minute police body camera video released this week indicates the incident started over a noise complaint from a neighbor upstairs who called police twice.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2020/07/17/noise-complaint-fatal-police-shooting-ryan-whitaker/5459142002/
Once again the taxpayers have to pay for the killing of this man on his front door. No arrests and no charges for his killers who, as usual, claimed to "instantly fear for their lives". The neighbor who called should also be held accountable.
Of course don't expect any rioting or looting, the victim was white.
Phoenix approves $3M payout over deadly police shooting; family member vows to continue pursuit for justice
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The family of a man shot and killed by Phoenix Police will receive a $3 million payout, as members of the Phoenix City Council voted to approve the settlement during a meeting on Dec. 2.
According to FOX 10's Justin Lum, the settlement over the police shooting that killed 40-year-old Ryan Whitaker was approved on a 9-0 vote, seven months after the shooting that killed a father of two children.
During the meeting, City Council member Carlos Garcia spoke out about the deadly shooting.
"We not only failed this family in our policies, but also, I feel like we failed them in being able to walk them through this process," said Councilmember Garcia.
Councilmember Sal DiCiccio, who is usually vocal on his support of law enforcement, sided with Whitaker, saying he handled the situation correctly, and the settlement amount is low.
Councilmember DiCiccio also called out Phoenix Police for allegedly not getting Whitaker medical help fast enough
"We don't know if he would have lived or not, but the fact of the matter is it showed a strong callousness from those individuals that were there to not immediately call for help," said Councilmember DiCiccio.
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/phoenix-approves-3m-payout-over-deadly-police-shooting-family-member-vows-to-continue-pursuit-for-justice
Happens in the dystopian UK.
Police deploy border patrols and number plate recognition cameras to track drivers moving between tier 3 and 2
North Yorkshire Police has been accused of “totalitarian” tactics after deploying border patrols and number plate recognition cameras to deter drivers from travelling into the county from areas with stricter coronavirus rules.
The force warned it could take “enforcement action” against anyone from a tier 3 area caught visiting the region to go to a pub or restaurant or for a day trip.
All of North Yorkshire was placed under tier 2 restrictions, which allow hospitality venues to open, when England emerged from its national lockdown this week. But the county is surrounded by tier 3 areas including the northeast, West Yorkshire, East Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, where pubs and restaurants are shut.
The government’s tier 3 guidance state people should avoid travelling out of their area “other than where necessary" and lists work, education, volunteering, caring and medical appointments among the acceptable reasons. However, there is no law prohibiting travel between tiers.
Superintendent Mike Walker, who is leading North Yorkshire Police’s Covid response, said: “I realise there may be some confusion over what is deemed necessary in these circumstances, so I’d like to be clear here. It is neither necessary or acceptable to leave a tier 3 area and enter a lower tier area for a day trip or to visit a pub or restaurant for a meal."
Police have also been stopping drivers entering the country to check why they are travelling. Adam Wanger, a human rights barrister, said: “There is no legal restriction on travelling from one tier to another, or within one tiered area. There is no power under the regulations for police to stop cars. So in short, this should not be happening.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/north-yorkshire-police-drive-tier-3-b1766243.html
Another case of mass falsified tests.
She got off very lightly, just 15 years, the sentence should have been the maximum 99 years. Of course the state doesn't know how many people were affected, otherwise they'd probably end up bankrupt.
Woman who cost parents custody of their children headed to prison
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The state of Alabama has no way to determine how many drug tests a woman falsified, per court testimony.
However, several victims said Thursday that Brandy Murrah’s deceit cost them custody of their children. That’s because she purposely reported incorrect drug test findings to the Alabama Department of Human Resources.
Jennifer Severs lost custody of her three children for several months after a forged lab report incorrectly showed she had used methamphetamine and marijuana.
Furious, Judy McGinnis, Jennifer’s mother, tracked down the doctor whose name appeared on that paperwork. That’s when she learned that he had not tested the hair follicle sample. Meanwhile, Jennifer submitted a second sample through another lab, and it came back clean.
Her persistence led to an investigation that revealed Murrah's crimes.
After collecting samples, she never forwarded them for testing. Instead, she created false results and submitted those to DHR, an agency that relied on her firm, A and J Labs, for correct analysis. It is believed Murrah owed for previous tests and the labs that tested samples she collected may have no longer been willing to extend her credit.
In another case, a reformed addict was also wronged. On the verge of reuniting with her children, test results submitted by Murrah wrongly showed Grace Faulk had relapsed.
https://www.wtvy.com/2020/11/13/woman-who-cost-parents-custody-of-their-children-headed-to-prison/
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses...
This happened 2 years ago and still the intruders tried to keep the video secret.
‘You Have the Wrong Place:’ Body Camera Video Shows Moments Police Handcuff Innocent, Naked Woman During Wrong Raid
For the first time, police body camera video reveals what an innocent woman said happened to her nearly two years ago: police officers wrongly entered her home with guns drawn and handcuffed her naked as she watched in horror.
Last year, Anjanette Young filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the video to show the public what happened to her that day. CBS 2 also filed a request for the video. But the Chicago Police Department denied the requests.
Young recently obtained the footage after a court forced CPD to turn it over as part of her lawsuit against police.
“I feel like they didn’t want us to have this video because they knew how bad it was,” Young said. “They knew they had done something wrong. They knew that the way they treated me was not right.”
Hours before the TV version of this report broadcast, the city’s lawyers attempted to stop CBS 2 from airing the video by filing an emergency motion in federal court.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/12/15/you-have-the-wrong-place-body-camera-video-shows-moments-police-handcuff-innocent-naked-woman-during-wrong-raid/
Great work by the Innocence Project.
This man served 19 years despite being innocent. The "justice system" surely worked for him 19 years ago. How about they imprison for several decades the cops that framed him? But they probably received a promotion or retired comfortably.
Police shot a Philly man, then accused him of rape. He was exonerated after 19 years.
It was before dawn on Nov. 27, 2001, and Termaine Joseph Hicks was at the wrong place at precisely the wrong time.
A woman had been pistol-whipped, dragged into an alleyway behind what was then St. Agnes Hospital in South Philadelphia, and raped — until the rapist was startled and fled the scene. Hicks heard her screams and rushed to help. But, seconds later, police officers arrived, took him for the rapist and shot him three times. Hicks survived, but was charged with the rape and sentenced to 12½ to 25 years in prison.
On Wednesday, after 19 years’ incarceration, Hicks, 45, was, at last, exonerated.
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit agreed with Hicks and his lawyers, civil-rights attorney Susan Lin, and the Innocence Project, that the case was built on lies — possibly to cover up the unjustified shooting — that were contradicted by newly analyzed and compelling forensic evidence.
When he was sentenced to a maximum of 25 years, he told the judge: “An innocent man can’t sit in jail for long.” But at parole hearings, according to his lawyers, he was penalized for refusing to accept responsibility for the crime.
The new analysis outlined a case in which ample physical evidence available 19 years ago ought to have been enough to clear Hicks, who was known in court records as Jermaine Weeks.
Hicks fought for years to get the forensic evidence in his case reviewed but it was not provided to Hicks or his lawyers until after his trial had concluded.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-wrongful-conviction-exoneration-police-misconduct-tremaine-hicks-20201216.html
I'd let her jerk me off on her face.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses...
This happened 2 years ago and still the intruders tried to keep the video secret.
‘You Have the Wrong Place:’ Body Camera Video Shows Moments Police Handcuff Innocent, Naked Woman During Wrong Raid
For the first time, police body camera video reveals what an innocent woman said happened to her nearly two years ago: police officers wrongly entered her home with guns drawn and handcuffed her naked as she watched in horror.
Last year, Anjanette Young filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the video to show the public what happened to her that day. CBS 2 also filed a request for the video. But the Chicago Police Department denied the requests.
Young recently obtained the footage after a court forced CPD to turn it over as part of her lawsuit against police.
“I feel like they didn’t want us to have this video because they knew how bad it was,” Young said. “They knew they had done something wrong. They knew that the way they treated me was not right.”
Hours before the TV version of this report broadcast, the city’s lawyers attempted to stop CBS 2 from airing the video by filing an emergency motion in federal court.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/12/15/you-have-the-wrong-place-body-camera-video-shows-moments-police-handcuff-innocent-naked-woman-during-wrong-raid/
There's no way she'd let you...
...she'd insist on swallowing.
(And be ready for the wave of self-loathing that would wash over you in that moment of cold regret immediately 'posr-pop')
It's something I'd have to learn to live with. I used to hate when broads would want to keep sucking away after nutting down the hatch. Sensitive as all hell. Used to want to throat punch this one pig back in the 90's for doing it.
Why is the criminal gang spoliating evidence and recordings and releasing only edited portions that suit their narrative? They killed an innocent woman and the only thing they care about is to cover up their own incompetence?
Family of Woman Killed by Police Gunfire in Trader Joe’s Shootout Disputes LAPD’s ‘Highly-Edited’ Videos of the Incident
Hours after police released more videos of the deadly Silver Lake Trader Joe's shootout in July, attorneys for the family of the 27-year-old woman killed by LAPD gunfire in the incident have called the footage "highly-edited" and slammed the department for withholding other video and delaying the release of her autopsy report.
When the Corado family tried getting ahold of surveillance video from the Trader Joe's store, they were informed "LAPD has taken custody of the original video card," according to Ron Rosengarten, one of the attorneys.
Her father directly addressed the Los Angeles Police Department, calling on the agency to release all the evidence "so we can move on with our lives."
That includes all raw video of the incident, from the store's surveillance video to unedited body cam footage, as well as Melyda Corado's complete autopsy report, according to the family's attorneys.
But the family's lawyers said it's been impossible to get ahold of those materials, with LAPD placing a security hold on Corado's autopsy report and ordering toxicology tests for her that will further delay the report's release, said Ron Rosengarten, one of the attorneys.
https://ktla.com/2018/09/04/family-of-woman-killed-by-police-gunfire-in-trader-joes-shootout-dispute-lapds-highly-edited-videos-of-the-incident/
Another case where the "brave heroes" attacked an innocent woman. Of course don't expect the cops to pay out of their pockets or go to prison. That's only for plebs and serfs.
Fremont County pays $2.4 million to woman wrongly arrested while naked
Fremont County paid $2.4 million last week to a woman who was wrongly arrested while naked and in her own apartment, then locked into a restraint chair and shocked with a Taser.
A jury last year awarded the woman, Carolyn O’Neal, $3.6 million after she sued the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office over the 2014 incident, but a federal judge later reduced that amount to about $2.1 million, prompting both sides to appeal.
The county later agreed to drop its appeal and settle with O’Neal for $2.4 million, her attorney, David Lane, said Sunday.
“This was an outrageous case,” he said. “Law enforcement officers who believed they were above the law got smacked down hard by a jury. And unfortunately this costs the taxpayers of Fremont County a lot of money. But I hope it inspires the citizenry to demand accountability from law enforcement — otherwise it’s coming out of their pockets.”
Sheriff’s deputies were called to O’Neal’s apartment in a sober living facility in May 2014 for a welfare check over concerns she might harm herself. She told the deputies who came to her door to go away, that she was naked and about to take a bath, and that she had no intention of harming herself.
The three men used a key to enter her apartment anyway, then threw her on a bed and arrested her.
She was still unclothed when she was taken to jail and put into a restraint chair for several hours. At one point, deputies released her legs from the chair, but later decided to strap them back in. O’Neal resisted their efforts and deputies shocked her twice with a Taser, even though her arms and torso were still completely restrained by the chair, and she’d been forced to wear a spit mask.
O’Neal was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest; those charges were later dismissed.
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https://www.denverpost.com/2020/12/20/carolyn-oneal-naked-arrest-fremont-county-sheriff-lawsuit/
It's something I'd have to learn to live with. I used to hate when broads would want to keep sucking away after nutting down the hatch. Sensitive as all hell. Used to want to throat punch this one pig back in the 90's for doing it.
That's when you sneak the ol' thumb up her butt and watch her squirm. ;D
Just hope she doesn't bite your cack off.
Another child abuser.
Former Farmington police officer faces up to 3 years in prison for excessive force on a child
Former Farmington Police Officer Zachary Christensen pleaded no contest to a felony charge of child abuse and a misdemeanor battery charge after roughing up an 11-year-old student at school. As part of a plea deal, two other battery charges were dropped.
The case was referred to the local district attorney which declined to prosecute. However, The New Mexico Attorney General's office stepped in to take on the case, which led to Christensen's conviction. Despite the conviction, Christensen still has his state certification to be a law enforcement officer.
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/former-farmington-police-officer-faces-up-to-3-years-in-prison-for-excessive-force-on-a-child/5915748/
More gang violence.
This incident is so absurd that the gang leader issued an "apology". And this particular gang member appears to have a history of crimes but don't expect him to go to prison.
North Texas man sues two Keller police officers after August arrest
A North Texas man is suing two officers in the Keller Police Department following his arrest in August. Keller PD demoted Sergeant Blake Shimanek for his role in the incident.
The arrest occurred Aug. 15 when 22-year-old Dillon Puente was pulled over for making a wide right turn. Puente was on his way to his grandmother’s house when he was stopped in the Riverdance neighborhood.
Bodycam video shows Shimanek ask Dillon to get out of the car before he places him in handcuffs. In a police report obtained by WFAA, Shimanek said he detained Dillon because he was worried about his safety.
“He was ticketed and taken to jail for a wide right turn,” said Dillon’s dad Marco Puente in an interview with WFAA.
Marco Puente was following Dillon to his grandma’s house, and he pulled up his vehicle after he saw his son was pulled over by police.
Bodycam video shows Shimanek threaten Marco Puente with arrest if he continued to remain in the roadway with his truck.
After obeying the order to move his vehicle, Marco started recording his son’s arrest on his cellphone, while he was waiting on the sidewalk across the street from the scene.
“The officer didn’t like me being there recording anything,” Marco told WFAA.
Bodycam video shows Shimanek ordering Officer Ankit Tomer to arrest Marco too.
“Put your phone down,” Tomer said, while his body-worn camera recorded. “Put your hands behind your head.”
“This guy is arresting me for just standing here,” Marco said in video captured by the body-worn camera.
“They tried to take me down and pepper spray me, and it was a fiasco,” Marco told WFAA.
Dillon Puente ultimately paid a ticket for his wide turn.
Police records show Shimanek has had previous problems as a Keller officer. In 2016, an Internal Affairs review found that he entered a home without a search warrant and without approval from the homeowner.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/north-texas-man-sues-two-keller-police-officers-after-august-arrest/287-89109d20-37c0-403f-86cf-c5921bc348ce
Once again the taxpayers have to pay for the killing of this man on his front door. No arrests and no charges for his killers who, as usual, claimed to "instantly fear for their lives". The neighbor who called should also be held accountable.
Of course don't expect any rioting or looting, the victim was white.
Phoenix approves $3M payout over deadly police shooting; family member vows to continue pursuit for justice
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The family of a man shot and killed by Phoenix Police will receive a $3 million payout, as members of the Phoenix City Council voted to approve the settlement during a meeting on Dec. 2.
According to FOX 10's Justin Lum, the settlement over the police shooting that killed 40-year-old Ryan Whitaker was approved on a 9-0 vote, seven months after the shooting that killed a father of two children.
During the meeting, City Council member Carlos Garcia spoke out about the deadly shooting.
"We not only failed this family in our policies, but also, I feel like we failed them in being able to walk them through this process," said Councilmember Garcia.
Councilmember Sal DiCiccio, who is usually vocal on his support of law enforcement, sided with Whitaker, saying he handled the situation correctly, and the settlement amount is low.
Councilmember DiCiccio also called out Phoenix Police for allegedly not getting Whitaker medical help fast enough
"We don't know if he would have lived or not, but the fact of the matter is it showed a strong callousness from those individuals that were there to not immediately call for help," said Councilmember DiCiccio.
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/phoenix-approves-3m-payout-over-deadly-police-shooting-family-member-vows-to-continue-pursuit-for-justice
Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Police Can Enter A Home To Seize Guns Without A Warrant
The 4th Amendment right against warrantless searches of a person’s home is a pillar of Americans’ constitutional liberties. Before a police officer, or any other government official, can enter your home, they must show a judge that they have probable cause that they will discover specific evidence of a crime.
There are some limited exceptions to this right. There is an “exigent circumstances” exception. If a police officer looks through a home’s window and sees a person about to stab another person, the officer can burst through the door to prevent the attack. There is also the “emergency aid” exception. If the officer looked through the same window and saw the resident collapsing from an apparent heart attack, the officer could run into the house to administer aid. Neither of these cases violates the 4th Amendment and few would argue that it should be otherwise.
However, there is a broader cousin to these amendments called the “community caretaking” exception. It originally derives from a case in which the police took a gun out of the trunk of an impounded vehicle without first obtaining a warrant. The Supreme Court held that there is a community caretaking exception to the 4th Amendment’s warrant requirement because police perform “community caretaking functions, totally divorced from the detection, investigation, or acquisition of evidence relating to the violation of a criminal statute." The Court held that police activity in furtherance of these functions does not violate the 4th Amendment as long as it is executed in a “reasonable” manner.
Note that, unlike the first two exceptions, this exception is not limited to immediate emergencies. In the Supreme Court case just described there was only a general concern that vandals might eventually break into the impounded car and steal any weapons that were in the trunk. So the community care exception is far broader than the other two.
Also, all three exceptions allow warrantless searches so long as the police officer acted “reasonably”. That is one of the easiest constitutional standards to meet and is a significantly lower standard than “probable cause”, which is required for a warrant. As long as an officer might reasonably think that a warrantless search will alleviate a danger to the community, the search is considered constitutional.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2021/02/05/supreme-court-will-decide-whether-police-can-enter-a-home-to-seize-guns-without-a-warrant
A sheriff’s deputy bilked $11 million from investors. They don’t know where the money went
Craig Harbaugh made a convincing case while seeking loans and investments in his firearms company, Tactical Solutions Gear LLC.
The Fremont, Neb., man rattled off law enforcement agencies in states from Alaska to Tennessee as clients. He had the contracts and purchase orders to back up his claims. And, in a detail that reportedly resonated with at least one investor, he himself worked as a Dodge County sheriff’s deputy.
But Harbaugh, 50, admitted this week that none of the 12 agencies he named were actually doing business with him: He had falsified the documents. It was, he acknowledged in a guilty plea filed in Nebraska federal court, “effectively a Ponzi scheme.”
In what the Omaha World-Herald described as potentially “one of the largest individual embezzlements in Nebraska history,” Harbaugh’s ploy bilked nearly $11 million from a bank and four investors.
The now-former deputy could not be reached for comment Tuesday. He faces up to 20 years in prison at his May sentencing.
Under the terms of the deal accepted in court Monday, he pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss 12 other charges and to not pursue Harbaugh for fraud, tax and money laundering crimes uncovered during the discovery process.
It’s not clear what happened to the millions of dollars Harbaugh stole. Nebraska Department of Justice Criminal Chief Michael Norris told The Washington Post “it would be premature” to disclose that information.
An unidentified couple who lost $4.6 million to Harbaugh said in an interview with the World-Herald they weren’t counting on seeing their money again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2021/02/09/sheriffs-deputy-fraud-scheme/
Idaho man fatally shot in own backyard after officer mistakes him for suspect, police say
A police officer in Idaho fatally shot a man who was in his own backyard on Monday after mistaking him for a suspect on the loose in the neighborhood and believed to be armed, authorities said.
Idaho Falls police did not immediately identify the victim or the officer involved in what Chief Bryce Johnson called a "devastatingly tragic" incident.
The incident began just after midnight in Idaho Falls when a deputy from the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office pulled over a vehicle and saw a male passenger wearing a black shirt get out and flee into a residential neighborhood, the police statement said.
Idaho Falls police officers and Bonneville County sheriff's deputies began searching the neighborhood for the suspect, authorities said.
The deputy who had stopped the vehicle spoke with the driver, who identified the suspect as 22-year-old Tanner J.N. Shoesmith, the sheriff's office said in a news release. Deputies learned Shoesmith had multiple active warrants for his arrest, including for felony battery on an officer, resisting or obstructing arrest, and providing false information to law enforcement.
As the search continued, police said a resident told officers they spotted the suspect run through a backyard and believed that he had a gun.
Meanwhile, the driver who had stayed in the vehicle showed officers a message they received from the suspect that showed his GPS location, police said. The GPS appeared to show the suspect in a backyard of a nearby residence. Officers and deputies then surrounded the home.
"Due to the information that the suspect may be armed, and a prior history of violence when interacting with police officers, law enforcement personnel entered the location with their service weapons drawn," the police statement said.
Officers said they heard yelling when approaching the home and found a man wearing a black shirt and wielding a gun in the yard. They told the man to drop the gun, according to the statement.
"We do not currently have the answers as to what exactly occurred during these moments," Johnson said. "We do know that during this interaction, an Idaho Falls police officer discharged his service weapon, firing one shot which struck the man."
Johnson said officers and first responders attempted life-saving measures but they were unsuccessful.
Officers and deputies determined that the man who had been shot was not the suspect but actually the resident of that address.
After the shot was fired, Shoesmith was again spotted running through the area, police said. Officers tracked him to the yard of a nearby home and found him hiding in a shed.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/idaho-police-shoot-man-backyard-mistaken-identity-suspect-search
An innocent woman's home destroyed by cops who as usual are hiding behind "immunity".
They fired tear gas, blew out the garage door and destroyed the fence. The family's dog was also left deaf and blind from the explosions.
A SWAT team destroyed a Texas home and refused to pay for the damage. Now the homeowner is fighting back.
Last summer, Vicki Baker woke up one morning to every homeowner’s worst nightmare: the night before, a fugitive had taken refuge in her second home, and after a standoff, the police SWAT team used tear gas grenades, explosives and an armored vehicle to utterly destroy the home. They called it “shock and awe.”
The incident left Vicki in shock, too. When the smoke cleared, the home—which her daughter was living in and which was under contract to sell—was uninhabitable. The only living thing that survived the raid was her daughter’s dog, which was left deaf and blind from the explosions.
Vicki, who had recently moved to Montana to retire, was left holding the bill. The city of McKinney and her homeowner’s insurance company told her that police had “immunity” and wouldn’t pay for a dime of the damage. A few days later, the buyer walked away and the sale fell through.
All told, Vicki spent more than $50,000 and months of time to repair her home. She ran up debt on her credit cards, and when those ran out, she had to withdraw funds from her retirement account to afford the repairs. When she finally sold the home this winter, it was for substantially less than before the raid.
https://ij.org/press-release/after-a-swat-team-destroyed-a-texas-home-it-refused-to-pay-for-the-damage-now-the-homeowner-is-fighting-back/
The police department and of course the police union tried to protect one of their own who now faces 33 charges including child sexual abuse and even rose up to be the the union's president.
For years, the Boston Police kept a secret: the union president was an alleged child molester
A Globe investigation has found that the Boston Police Department in 1995 filed a criminal complaint against him for sexual assault on a 12-year-old, and, even after the complaint was dropped, proceeded with an internal investigation that concluded that he likely committed a crime. Despite that finding, Rose kept his badge, remained on patrol for another 21 years, and rose to power in the union that represents patrol officers.
Today Boston police are fighting to keep secret how the department handled the allegations against Rose, and what, if any, penalty he faced. Over the years, this horrific case has come full circle: The father who brought his daughter in last summer to report abuse by Rose was the boy allegedly abused at age 12 in the 1995 case. The department’s lack of administrative action back then may have left Rose free to offend again and again, from one generation to the next.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/10/metro/years-boston-police-kept-secret-union-president-was-an-alleged-child-molester/
Boston Police Files on Ex-Officer's Child Sex Abuse Allegation Are Released
Boston Police internal investigators found sufficient evidence in 1996 to support allegations that an officer sexually assaulted a minor, yet the officer remained on the force and was eventually returned to full duty, according to documents released Tuesday.
The internal affairs file was ordered released by acting Mayor Kim Janey after The Boston Globe reported earlier this month that Patrick Rose, a retired officer and the one-time president of the Boston Patrolmen's Association, had been able to keep his badge despite a criminal complaint in 1995 for sexual assault on a 12-year-old child.
The criminal complaint was eventually dropped, but the department's Internal Affairs Division concluded there was enough evidence to support the allegations, according to the documents. Then-Boston Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans was notified in a June 1996 memo of the results of the probe.
Rose had been relieved of his weapon and placed on administrative duty, but was returned to full duty after an attorney for the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association wrote to the commissioner in October 1997 and threatened to file a grievance, according to the documents.
Janey called it "deeply unsettling and entirely unacceptable" that Rose remained on the force for two decades and eventually became head of the police union.
"What's more, Rose was allowed to have contact with young victims of sexual assault during the course of his career, and we now know that he allegedly went on to assault several other children," she said in an emailed statement. "His alleged behavior is disgusting, and the apparent lack of leadership shown by the department at the time is extremely troubling. This culture of secrecy cannot be tolerated."
Rose now faces 33 charges involving six alleged victims. He has pleaded not guilty and his lawyer says he maintains his innocence.
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/boston-police-files-on-ex-officers-abuse-allegation-to-be-released-tuesday/2359558/
Boston Police Commissioner knew of allegations against former officer Patrick Rose Sr., but patrolman was allowed to keep his job amid union pressure, internal documents show
Even after Boston Police Department investigators informed then-Commissioner Paul F. Evans in 1996 that there was credible evidence supporting allegations that one of the department’s officers had sexually assaulted a child, that officer was allowed to keep his job, according to internal documents released by Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey.
The officer, 66-year-old Patrick M. Rose Sr., has since been charged with molesting multiple children. The internal affairs documents released on Tuesday show that Boston Police Patrolman’s Association — the union Rose would later become president of — threatened to file a grievance on his behalf.
The Boston Police Department had reassigned Rose to administrative duty and confiscated his weapon after the allegations were sustained by the internal affairs division of the department. He was allowed to stay on the force — often sent to respond to cases involving children, according to the Globe.
Janey said it is “deeply unsettling and entirely unacceptable that Rose remained on the force for two decades,” enabling his ascent to the top of the police union.
“What’s more, Rose was allowed to have contact with young victims of sexual assault during the course of his career, and we now know that he allegedly went on to assault several other children,” Janey said, in a statement.
https://www.masslive.com/boston/2021/04/boston-police-commissioner-knew-of-allegations-against-former-officer-patrick-rose-sr-but-patrolman-was-allowed-to-keep-his-job-amid-union-pressure-internal-documents-show.html
This must be another one of those "split second decisions" these "brave heroes" have to make every day while they "fear for their lives"....
They fractured the arm of a 73 year old woman with dementia who weighed just 80 lbs... These uniformed thugs should be sent to the electric chair.
Loveland police face federal civil rights lawsuit over arrest of 73-year-old woman
A Loveland law office has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department over the arrest of a 73-year-old Loveland woman last summer that the woman’s attorney called “a nightmare.”
According to a press release from attorney Sarah Schielke, the Life and Liberty Law Office filed the lawsuit and initiated the case Wednesday, alleging excessive use of force against the department and officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali and Sgt. Phil Metzler for the arrest of Karen Garner on June 26, 2020.
The arrest left Garner with a fractured arm and dislocated shoulder, the suit says.
As of 6 p.m. Wednesday, the Loveland Police Department had not provided an official comment on the case.
The suit alleges that Garner, who is 5 feet tall and weighs 80 pounds, suffered a fractured upper arm and dislocated shoulder, along with other injuries.
According to the suit, in the late afternoon of June 26, 2020, Hopp “violently assaulted Garner without provocation” as she was walking home from the east Loveland Walmart.
The suit says Garner suffers from dementia and sensory aphasia, which impairs her ability to communicate and understand. She had left the store at 1325 N. Denver Ave. without paying for $13.38 worth of items, according to the suit. Employees stopped her at the exit to retrieve the items but reportedly refused to let her pay for them.
https://www.greeleytribune.com/2021/04/14/loveland-police-face-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-over-arrest-of-73-year-old-woman/
The FBI Seized Heirlooms, Coins, and Cash From Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes in Beverly Hills, Despite Knowing 'Some' Belonged to 'Honest Citizens'
https://reason.com ^ | ERIC BOEHM | 5.10.2021 10:15 AM
Posted on 5/11/2021, 1:53:07
Victims of the FBI's constitutionally dubious raid say they've been told to come forward and identify themselves if they want their stuff back.
Dagny discovered that the FBI had seized the contents of her safe deposit box—about $100,000 in gold and silver coins, some family heirlooms like a diamond necklace inherited from her late grandmother, and an engagement ring she'd promised to pass down to her daughter—almost by accident.
She'd been asked by a friend to recommend a convenient and secure location for keeping some valuables. Dagny searched Yelp to find the phone number for U.S. Private Vaults, a Beverly Hills facility where she'd rented a safe deposit box since 2017. That's when she saw the bad news.
"Permanently closed."
After a brief moment of panic, some phone calls, and several days, Dagny and her husband Howard (pseudonyms used at their request to maintain privacy during ongoing legal proceedings) figured out what happened. On March 22, the FBI had raided U.S. Private Vaults. The federal agents were armed with a warrant allowing them to seize property belonging to the company as part of a criminal investigation—and even though the warrant explicitly exempted the safe deposit boxes in the company's vaults, they were taken too. More than 800 were seized.
Howard tells Reason there was no attempt made by the FBI to contact him, his wife, or their heirs—despite the fact that contact information was taped to the top of their box. Six weeks later, the couple is still waiting for their property to be returned. (Both individuals are supporters of Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes this website.)
The FBI and federal prosecutors have "no authority to continue holding the possessions of some 800 bystanders who are not alleged to have been involved in whatever USPV may have done wrong," Benjamin Gluck, a California attorney who is representing several of the people caught up in the FBI's raid of U.S. Private Vaults, tells Reason.
Legal efforts to force the FBI to return the items seized during the March 22 raid have so far been unsuccessful, but at least five lawsuits are pending in federal court.
A federal grand jury indicted U.S. Private Vaults (USPV) on counts of conspiracy to distribute drugs, launder money, and avoid mandatory deposit reporting requirements.
In legal filings, federal prosecutors have admitted that "some" of the company's customers were "honest citizens," but contend that "the majority of the box-holders are criminals who used USPV's anonymity to hide their ill-gotten wealth."
Whatever the original motivation for the raid, the FBI's seizure of hundreds of safe deposit boxes held by U.S. Private Vaults raises serious Fourth and Fifth Amendment issues. In order to have the contents of their boxes returned, federal authorities are asking owners to come forward, identify themselves, and describe their possessions. Some owners may be unwilling to do that—U.S. Private Vaults allowed anonymous rentals of safe-deposit boxes—while others may rightfully object to being subjected to the scrutiny of federal law enforcement when they have done nothing wrong.
"The constitution does not abide guilt by association," argues Robert Frommer, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm, in an op-ed published by The Orange County Register.
"What the government has done here is completely backward," writes Frommer. "The government cannot search every apartment in a building because the landlord is involved in a crime. After all, when somebody rents an apartment, that apartment is theirs."
Indeed, the unsealed warrant authorizing the raid of U.S. Private Vaults granted the FBI permission to seize the business's computers, money counters, security cameras, and "nests" of safe deposit boxes—the large steel frames that effectively act as bookshelves for the boxes themselves.
Importantly, the warrant "does not authorize a criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safe-deposit boxes," according to a copy of the warrant contained in court filings. The warrant also states that it "authorizethe seizure of the nests of the boxes themselves, not their contents."
But the FBI's own policies seem to have allowed a roundabout legal rationale for seizing the boxes as well. Agents are required to take into custody any property that could otherwise be stolen or left "in a dangerous manner" after carrying out a warrant. To put it in the context of a simpler situation: If the FBI seized a truck carrying cargo, it would not simply dump the cargo on the side of the road. Instead, there is a specific procedure for law enforcement to follow, which involves identifying and notifying rightful property owners, as well as securing the property.
In court filings, however, Gluck and other attorneys representing anonymous plaintiffs argue that the seizure of the nests "does not appear to be the government's true purpose here."
"A reasonable person could easily conclude that taking and searching the contents of the boxes was the true purpose of the USPV seizure, not just an unintended but unavoidable byproduct as the government seeks to portray and justify it," they write.
Now that the FBI has nearly 1,000 safe deposit boxes in its custody, anyone who comes forward to identify themselves and claim their possessions risks becoming the target of a criminal investigation. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California told the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a legal industry publication, last month that "each box is being considered on a case-by-case basis, and we will investigate the boxes, or claims made on them" to determine if "the contents are related to criminal activity."
Attorneys for the plaintiffs argue that this amounts to an admission that prosecutors intend "to use any information gleaned in the claims process in order to conduct criminal investigations." U.S. Private Vaults had assured its customers that their anonymity would be protected, and people could have valid, non-criminal reasons for wanting to keep their identities a secret.
The rights violations are bad enough, but the FBI raid seems to have had serious procedural shortcomings as well. One 80-year-old woman represented by Gluck—and identified in court documents only as "Linda R."—may have lost a significant portion of her life savings due to what legal filings say are shoddy inventories of the safe deposit boxes' contents.
In a lawsuit filed on April 26, Linda R.'s attorneys argue that the FBI "failed to account for or return" 40 gold coins worth an estimated $75,000 that had been stored in a safe deposit box housed at U.S. Private Vaults. Department of Justice documentation detailing the contents of Linda's box makes note of "miscellaneous coins" without any specific amounts or other identification of the coins—Linda's attorneys note that the description could apply to everything from a pair of pennies to a box full of 1933 double eagle gold coins, some of the rarest and most valuable coins ever minted. For now, it remains unclear whether the government even possesses an accurate accounting of what was in her safe deposit box when it was seized.
Despite the broad claims of criminality from prosecutors, Linda has been charged with no crimes but may have lost tens of thousands of dollars of her retirement savings anyway. Even if the FBI's raid of U.S. Private Vaults eventually uncovers criminal activity relating to some of the safe-deposit boxes stored there, that hardly seems to justify the potential losses incurred by innocent bystanders like Linda, who kept her retirement savings there because she distrusted the banking system, according to court filings.
"It was improper that the government seized these possessions in the first place, unconscionable that they are using them as hostages to pressure owners to divulge private information, and outrageous that they apparently treated the possessions so carelessly that they seem to have lost at least some of them," Gluck tells Reason.
Jeffrey B. Isaacs, an attorney for another anonymous customer of U.S. Private Vaults—identified in court records as "James Poe"—tells the Los Angeles Times that the FBI's raid is "as illegal a search and seizure as I've ever seen."
For Dagny and Howard, the situation seems particularly cruel. They'd rented the box at U.S. Private Vaults after having their home burgled several years ago. They have the key and rental agreement for the box—and, Howard notes, they paid for the box with a credit card, hardly the sort of thing you'd do if you were trying to hide your identity from the feds or engage in criminal conduct. None of that has made a difference so far.
Because this time, the burglars wore badges.
This must be another one of those "split second decisions" these "brave heroes" have to make every day while they "fear for their lives"....
They fractured the arm of a 73 year old woman with dementia who weighed just 80 lbs... These uniformed thugs should be sent to the electric chair.
Loveland police face federal civil rights lawsuit over arrest of 73-year-old woman
A Loveland law office has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department over the arrest of a 73-year-old Loveland woman last summer that the woman’s attorney called “a nightmare.”
According to a press release from attorney Sarah Schielke, the Life and Liberty Law Office filed the lawsuit and initiated the case Wednesday, alleging excessive use of force against the department and officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali and Sgt. Phil Metzler for the arrest of Karen Garner on June 26, 2020.
The arrest left Garner with a fractured arm and dislocated shoulder, the suit says.
As of 6 p.m. Wednesday, the Loveland Police Department had not provided an official comment on the case.
The suit alleges that Garner, who is 5 feet tall and weighs 80 pounds, suffered a fractured upper arm and dislocated shoulder, along with other injuries.
According to the suit, in the late afternoon of June 26, 2020, Hopp “violently assaulted Garner without provocation” as she was walking home from the east Loveland Walmart.
The suit says Garner suffers from dementia and sensory aphasia, which impairs her ability to communicate and understand. She had left the store at 1325 N. Denver Ave. without paying for $13.38 worth of items, according to the suit. Employees stopped her at the exit to retrieve the items but reportedly refused to let her pay for them.
https://www.greeleytribune.com/2021/04/14/loveland-police-face-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-over-arrest-of-73-year-old-woman/
Just when you thought it doesn't get any worse. The "brave heroes" celebrating the abuse of a frail 73 year old woman weighing just 80 lbs and laughing when they hearing her arm break.
Life without parole or death penalty is the only way to deal with these sick violent criminals. But of course they haven't even been charged or arrested even though this happened almost 1 year ago and only now is there any information released.
New information released on Karen Garner incident; officers seen laughing over her arrest in newly released video
Officer Austin Hopp, the Loveland Police Department officer who arrested Karen Garner in 2020 can be seen laughing with other police officers in newly released video footage as he reviews body camera footage from her arrest - an arrest the has prompted a civil rights lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department and several of its employees.
Early in the video, Blackett can be heard asking if Hopp read Garner her Miranda rights when arresting her.
"Nope, I did not", he responds.
Later in the released footage, the officers are seen re-watching Hopp's body camera footage together while laughing about the incident. As Hopp watches his body camera footage, he can be heard laughing and "celebrates" with Jalali and Blackett.
In the video, Jalali can be heard saying that "bodycams are my favorite thing to watch". Just minutes later she can be seen pulling her hat down over her face saying "I hate this".
"This is great", Hopp responds.
"Ready for the pop? Hear the pop?" Hopp can be heard saying in the video in regards to the alleged dislocation of the 73 year old woman's shoulder.
According to the release, during the first hour Garner was in custody she can be heard saying:
"they hurt my shoulders" 22 times
"they hurt my wrists" 13 times
"they keep hurting" 8 times
"it hurts" 8 times".
Garner was allegedly not given any medical treatment while at the Loveland Police Department.
https://www.reporterherald.com/2021/04/26/new-information-released-on-karen-garner-incident-officers-seen-laughing-over-her-arrest-in-newly-released-video/
FBI tears innocent New Yorker’s life into shreds after Jan. 6
New York Post ^ | June 23, 2021 | Miranda Devine
Posted on 6/24/2021, 8:17:07 AM by karpov
Joseph Bolanos was a pillar of his community. President of his Upper West Side block association for the past 23 years, he looked out for his neighbors during the pandemic. He dropped off masks and kept extra heaters in his rent-controlled apartment for seniors. He raised morale with a weekly street dance to show his support for essential workers.
A Red Cross volunteer after the 9/11 attacks, the 69-year-old security consultant once received a police commendation for heroism after saving a woman from being mugged.
Unmarried, and caring for his 94-year-old mother, he was a well-loved character in the quiet residential area.
But now his neighbors think he is a domestic terrorist.
Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.
Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.
“It’s destroyed my reputation,” he says. “I’m not a violent invader . . . I do not condone the criminality and violence on [Jan. 6] whatsoever.”
The FBI told Bolanos he was raided because of a tip to the Jan. 6 hotline from a neighbor who said he had overheard him “boasting” about being at the Capitol.
An FBI agent phoned Bolanos the Sunday after the riot and left a message. He returned the call the next day, but never heard back.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Capitol Police, Armed With $2 Billion in New Funding, Expanding Operations Outside of D.C.m
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-capitol-police-armed-with-2-billion
As usual, it's always a "botched" investigation or raid, a "mistake", an "error", an "oversight", a "misstatement", an "omission". They ignored the abuse and then lied to cover up for themselves and both the FBI and DOJ are complicit. But of course none of them will go to prison.
Inspector General Says F.B.I. Botched Nassar Abuse Investigation
The Justice Department’s inspector general released a long-awaited report on Wednesday that sharply criticized the F.B.I.’s handling of the sexual abuse case involving Lawrence G. Nassar, the former doctor for the U.S.A. Gymnastics national team and Michigan State sports, which led to Mr. Nassar’s continued abuse of girls and women.
Mr. Nassar, who is serving what amounts to life in prison, has been accused of abusing hundreds of female patients — including the Olympic champion Simone Biles and a majority of the last two United States women’s Olympic gymnastics teams — under the guise of medical treatment.
The report, citing civil court documents, said that 70 or more young athletes had been sexually abused by Mr. Nassar between July 2015, when U.S.A. Gymnastics first reported allegations against Mr. Nassar to the F.B.I.’s Indianapolis field office, and August 2016, when the Michigan State University Police Department received a separate complaint.
John Manly, a lawyer for many of the victims, said that number is likely even higher — about 120 patients, including one as young as 8 years old.
“This is a devastating indictment of the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice that multiple federal agents covered up Nassar’s abuse and child molestation,” Mr. Manly said. “They’ve failed these women. They’ve failed these families. No one seems to give a damn about these little girls.”
The inspector general’s report said senior F.B.I. officials in the Indianapolis field office failed to respond to the allegations “with the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserved and required” and the investigation did not proceed until after a September 2016 report by The Indianapolis Star detailed Mr. Nassar’s abuse.
F.B.I. officials in the office also “made numerous and fundamental errors when they did respond” to the allegations and failed to notify state or local authorities of the allegations or take other steps to address the ongoing threat posed by Mr. Nassar, the report said.
According to the report, the special agent in charge of the Indianapolis field office, W. Jay Abbott, lied to the inspector general’s office numerous times when it asked him about the Nassar inquiry.
Mr. Abbott gave false statements “to minimize errors made by the Indianapolis Field Office in connection with the handling of the Nassar allegations,” the report said.
It also said Mr. Abbott violated F.BI. policy when he spoke with Steve Penny, then the president and chief executive of U.S.A. Gymnastics, about potential job opportunities with the U.S. Olympic Committee, even as the two discussed the allegations against Mr. Nassar. Mr. Abbott later applied for a job at the U.S.O.C., but twice lied to the inspector general about seeking that job.
The Justice Department declined to prosecute Mr. Abbott, who retired in January 2018, and an unnamed supervisory special agent in Indianapolis in September 2020, according to the report.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/sports/olympics/fbi-nassar-report.html
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/investigation-and-review-federal-bureau-investigations-handling-allegations-sexual-abuse
As usual, it's always a "botched" investigation or raid, a "mistake", an "error", an "oversight", a "misstatement", an "omission". They ignored the abuse and then lied to cover up for themselves and both the FBI and DOJ are complicit. But of course none of them will go to prison.
Inspector General Says F.B.I. Botched Nassar Abuse Investigation
The Justice Department’s inspector general released a long-awaited report on Wednesday that sharply criticized the F.B.I.’s handling of the sexual abuse case involving Lawrence G. Nassar, the former doctor for the U.S.A. Gymnastics national team and Michigan State sports, which led to Mr. Nassar’s continued abuse of girls and women.
Mr. Nassar, who is serving what amounts to life in prison, has been accused of abusing hundreds of female patients — including the Olympic champion Simone Biles and a majority of the last two United States women’s Olympic gymnastics teams — under the guise of medical treatment.
The report, citing civil court documents, said that 70 or more young athletes had been sexually abused by Mr. Nassar between July 2015, when U.S.A. Gymnastics first reported allegations against Mr. Nassar to the F.B.I.’s Indianapolis field office, and August 2016, when the Michigan State University Police Department received a separate complaint.
John Manly, a lawyer for many of the victims, said that number is likely even higher — about 120 patients, including one as young as 8 years old.
“This is a devastating indictment of the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice that multiple federal agents covered up Nassar’s abuse and child molestation,” Mr. Manly said. “They’ve failed these women. They’ve failed these families. No one seems to give a damn about these little girls.”
The inspector general’s report said senior F.B.I. officials in the Indianapolis field office failed to respond to the allegations “with the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserved and required” and the investigation did not proceed until after a September 2016 report by The Indianapolis Star detailed Mr. Nassar’s abuse.
F.B.I. officials in the office also “made numerous and fundamental errors when they did respond” to the allegations and failed to notify state or local authorities of the allegations or take other steps to address the ongoing threat posed by Mr. Nassar, the report said.
According to the report, the special agent in charge of the Indianapolis field office, W. Jay Abbott, lied to the inspector general’s office numerous times when it asked him about the Nassar inquiry.
Mr. Abbott gave false statements “to minimize errors made by the Indianapolis Field Office in connection with the handling of the Nassar allegations,” the report said.
It also said Mr. Abbott violated F.BI. policy when he spoke with Steve Penny, then the president and chief executive of U.S.A. Gymnastics, about potential job opportunities with the U.S. Olympic Committee, even as the two discussed the allegations against Mr. Nassar. Mr. Abbott later applied for a job at the U.S.O.C., but twice lied to the inspector general about seeking that job.
The Justice Department declined to prosecute Mr. Abbott, who retired in January 2018, and an unnamed supervisory special agent in Indianapolis in September 2020, according to the report.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/sports/olympics/fbi-nassar-report.html
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/investigation-and-review-federal-bureau-investigations-handling-allegations-sexual-abuse
Idaho man fatally shot in own backyard after officer mistakes him for suspect, police say
A police officer in Idaho fatally shot a man who was in his own backyard on Monday after mistaking him for a suspect on the loose in the neighborhood and believed to be armed, authorities said.
Idaho Falls police did not immediately identify the victim or the officer involved in what Chief Bryce Johnson called a "devastatingly tragic" incident.
The incident began just after midnight in Idaho Falls when a deputy from the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office pulled over a vehicle and saw a male passenger wearing a black shirt get out and flee into a residential neighborhood, the police statement said.
Idaho Falls police officers and Bonneville County sheriff's deputies began searching the neighborhood for the suspect, authorities said.
The deputy who had stopped the vehicle spoke with the driver, who identified the suspect as 22-year-old Tanner J.N. Shoesmith, the sheriff's office said in a news release. Deputies learned Shoesmith had multiple active warrants for his arrest, including for felony battery on an officer, resisting or obstructing arrest, and providing false information to law enforcement.
As the search continued, police said a resident told officers they spotted the suspect run through a backyard and believed that he had a gun.
Meanwhile, the driver who had stayed in the vehicle showed officers a message they received from the suspect that showed his GPS location, police said. The GPS appeared to show the suspect in a backyard of a nearby residence. Officers and deputies then surrounded the home.
"Due to the information that the suspect may be armed, and a prior history of violence when interacting with police officers, law enforcement personnel entered the location with their service weapons drawn," the police statement said.
Officers said they heard yelling when approaching the home and found a man wearing a black shirt and wielding a gun in the yard. They told the man to drop the gun, according to the statement.
"We do not currently have the answers as to what exactly occurred during these moments," Johnson said. "We do know that during this interaction, an Idaho Falls police officer discharged his service weapon, firing one shot which struck the man."
Johnson said officers and first responders attempted life-saving measures but they were unsuccessful.
Officers and deputies determined that the man who had been shot was not the suspect but actually the resident of that address.
After the shot was fired, Shoesmith was again spotted running through the area, police said. Officers tracked him to the yard of a nearby home and found him hiding in a shed.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/idaho-police-shoot-man-backyard-mistaken-identity-suspect-search
Are the police chief and the city complicit in supporting a convicted murderer in uniform?
Huntsville still paying police officer convicted of murder two months ago
The records show that Darby has been on sick leave since a jury found him guilty two months ago. He is off work under the Family and Medical Leave Act, a federal law requiring employers to allow workers unpaid extended time off for medical or family reasons.
The most recent pay records, from mid-June, show that Darby is paid about $2,162 before taxes every two weeks.
The city also appears to have asked other police officers to donate accrued sick leave while Darby awaits sentencing.
https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/huntsville-still-paying-police-officer-convicted-of-murder-two-months-ago.html
The ruiner in chief.
" According to CNN, the Biden Admin will no longer allow workers to get tested weekly instead of taking the vaccine. Instead, he's signing an executive order Thursday requiring all workers to get the vaccine or face indefinite suspension.
What's more, Biden's order will extend to employees of government contractors. "
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-eliminates-testing-opt-out-requiring-all-public-workers-and-contractors-get
Another "brave hero" attacking a 75 year old man. As usual the taxpayers will probably foot the bill.
Body cam shows Colorado police officer use Taser on 75-year-old man, place knee on his neck
An Idaho Springs police officer issued no warnings to a 75-year-old man before shocking him with a Taser and later placing his knee on the unconscious man’s neck, newly released body camera footage of the incident shows.
The 75-year-old, Michael Clark, was living independently at the time of the incident but now resides in a nursing facility after suffering health complications following the incident, according to his attorney, Sarah Schielke.
Schielke released the body camera footage Thursday after receiving it from the district attorney’s office.
Nicholas Hanning, the officer who used the Taser on Clark, was fired from his job July 13 and is facing an assault charge for his actions. The other officer on scene, Ellie Summers, remains employed by the Idaho Springs Police Department.
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/07/22/idaho-springs-nicholas-hanning-body-camera/
The "brave hero":
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Once again the uniformed criminal gangs abuse the weak and the disabled. The same cops who attacked and abused that 75 year old man, now attacked a deaf man. Such "brave heroes"... Because of these career criminals the deaf man spent 4 months in jail until suddenly the charges against him were dropped.
Deaf Colorado Man Sues Police After Being Wrongfully Arrested And Jailed For 4 Months
A deaf man is suing two Colorado officers who banged his head against the concrete and tasered him for “resisting arrest” after not realizing he couldn’t hear their instructions.
Brady Mistic was sentenced to four months in prison on charges of second-degree assault on a police officer and resisting arrest following the violent arrest in September 2019. The charges were ultimately dismissed and Mistic was released, the lawsuit said.
Now Mistic is suing officers Nicholas Hanning and Ellie Summers, seeking unspecified compensation for pain and suffering, as the officers failed to issue a “warning or attempted communication” before knocking him to the ground. He is also suing the City of Idaho Springs and the Clear Creek County Board of Commissioners.
Hanning was fired from the department in July in connection with another violent arrest, while Summers currently remains on active duty.
The incident began on September 17, 2019, when Mistic was arrested for allegedly running a stop sign.
According to the indictment, Mistic did not realize he had done anything illegal and entered the parking lot of a laundromat, got out of his car and started walking towards the building. After his arrest, he lost his car.
He was unaware that Hanning and Summers had pulled up behind him until he saw the flashing lights of their police vehicle.
Mistic, who cannot read lips and can only form a few words verbally, relies on American Sign Language to communicate. He attempted to use his hands to communicate with the officers, but to no avail, the lawsuit alleges.
https://whatsnew2day.com/deaf-colorado-man-sues-police-after-being-wrongfully-arrested-and-jailed-for-four-months/
No justice for Justine Damond. Don't expect any riots or looting. She was a white woman killed by a black cop.
Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor's murder verdict reversed over Justine Damond Ruszczyk's death
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The family of an Australian woman fatally shot by a police officer in 2017 has responded to the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision to reverse the man's third-degree murder conviction, saying they are "heartbroken" the "depraved and senseless shooting" does not count as murder.
In 2019, Mohamed Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Damond Ruszczyk, a dual US-Australian citizen who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.
Noor, who is no longer a police officer, was sentenced to 12 and a half years on the murder count but was not sentenced for manslaughter.
The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed the third-degree murder conviction, saying the charge did not fit the circumstances in the case.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-16/mohamed-noor-minneapolis-shooting-justine-damond-ruszczyk/100465680
Kidnapping, assassination... Just another day for the government and its goons.
Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.
Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request “sketches” or “options” for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred “at the highest levels” of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. “There seemed to be no boundaries.”
The conversations were part of an unprecedented CIA campaign directed against WikiLeaks and its founder. The agency’s multipronged plans also included extensive spying on WikiLeaks associates, sowing discord among the group’s members, and stealing their electronic devices.
While Assange had been on the radar of U.S. intelligence agencies for years, these plans for an all-out war against him were sparked by WikiLeaks’ ongoing publication of extraordinarily sensitive CIA hacking tools, known collectively as “Vault 7,” which the agency ultimately concluded represented “the largest data loss in CIA history.”
President Trump’s newly installed CIA director, Mike Pompeo, was seeking revenge on WikiLeaks and Assange, who had sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden on rape allegations he denied. Pompeo and other top agency leaders “were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about Vault 7,” said a former Trump national security official. “They were seeing blood.”
The CIA’s fury at WikiLeaks led Pompeo to publicly describe the group in 2017 as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” More than just a provocative talking point, the designation opened the door for agency operatives to take far more aggressive actions, treating the organization as it does adversary spy services, former intelligence officials told Yahoo News. Within months, U.S. spies were monitoring the communications and movements of numerous WikiLeaks personnel, including audio and visual surveillance of Assange himself, according to former officials.
This Yahoo News investigation, based on conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials — eight of whom described details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange — reveals for the first time one of the most contentious intelligence debates of the Trump presidency and exposes new details about the U.S. government’s war on WikiLeaks. It was a campaign spearheaded by Pompeo that bent important legal strictures, potentially jeopardized the Justice Department’s work toward prosecuting Assange, and risked a damaging episode in the United Kingdom, the United States’ closest ally.
The CIA declined to comment. Pompeo did not respond to requests for comment.
“As an American citizen, I find it absolutely outrageous that our government would be contemplating kidnapping or assassinating somebody without any judicial process simply because he had published truthful information,” Barry Pollack, Assange’s U.S. lawyer, told Yahoo News.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html
Most have heard of George Floyd by now but who knows or remembers Tony Timpa?
He was killed by cops despite pleading for help more than 30 times. After killing him the cops laughed and joked.
But his death didn't matter since he was white. No riots, no looting, no beating up innocent bystanders, no taking down statues. Very few even know his name.
Now to add insult to injury, his killers enjoy the travesty known as "qualified immunity".
Federal judge tosses excessive force suit against five Dallas officers in Tony Timpa case
A federal judge in Dallas has thrown out an excessive force lawsuit filed against five Dallas police officers who handcuffed and pinned a mentally ill man to the ground shortly before he died.
In a 27-page ruling, U.S. District Judge David Godbey granted the officers’ motion for summary judgment in the case of Tony Timpa. The unarmed Rockwall man died in 2016 from “sudden cardiac death due to the toxic effects of cocaine and physiological stress associated with physical restraint,” court records show.
Godbey based his decision, signed Monday, on the controversial doctrine of qualified immunity. Under that standard, Timpa’s family had to identify a specific case in the Fifth Circuit court of appeals that clearly established that the officers’ conduct at the time was unconstitutional.
A private security guard handcuffed Timpa before Dallas officers arrived. Timpa was unarmed, in shorts and barefoot. The responding officers mocked the 32-year-old as he screamed for his life, with one officer’s knee pinned in his back for about 14 minutes as he lay face down in the grass, according to court records. They joked after he became unresponsive that he was going to be late for school, the lawsuit says.
The officers involved were Dustin Dillard, Raymond Dominguez, Kevin Mansell, Domingo Rivera and Danny Vasquez.
Three of the officers later faced misdemeanor deadly conduct charges in connection with the death.
But last year, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot dismissed the charges against Dillard, Mansell and Vasquez. Creuzot said he met with three medical examiners who told him they did not believe the officers acted recklessly.
All but one of the five officers remain on the force, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday. Mansell retired in August 2019, the spokeswoman said.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2020/07/07/federal-judge-tosses-excessive-force-suit-against-five-dallas-officers-in-tony-timpa-case/
Remember this case? What do these violent gang members need to do to go to prison? They abuse, kidnap, shoot, kill innocent people, the elderly, the deaf, even children and they still somehow manage to avoid harsh punishment.
This particular one will not stay a single day in prison, but he has to write an essay. Is this elementary school or what?
He shot at a harmless innocent man, a caretaker, who, probably knowing that an encounter with the criminal gang can turn fatal, laid flat on the ground with his hands up and begged the gang members not to shoot but to no avail.
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North Miami Police Officer Avoids Prison in Caretaker Shooting
A North Miami Police officer who was convicted of a misdemeanor but acquitted of attempted manslaughter for shooting at a severely autistic man and wounding the man's caretaker won't be spending time in prison.
At a hearing Wednesday, Officer Jonathan Aledda was sentenced to one year of administrative probation and told he must complete 100 hours of community service related to the developmentally disabled. Aledda also must write an essay about better radio communication at police scenes.
Prosecutor Don Horn said: "His conduct was gross and flagrant, his course of conduct that day showed reckless disregard for human life. It showed reckless disregard for the safety of persons exposed to his dangerous effect. It showed grossly careless disregard for the safety and welfare of the public."
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/North-Miami-Police-Officer-Avoids-Prison-in-Caretaker-Shooting-512174221.html
Settlements top $1M for much-sued NYPD sergeant accused of unwarranted stops, arrests and raids
An NYPD sergeant has hit a less than enviable milestone — lawsuits against him have topped the $1 million mark in settlements, the Daily News has learned.
Sgt. David Grieco, nicknamed “Bullethead” by his detractors, has been sued 46 times — believed to be near the top of the list for the most-sued cop — with 24 lawsuits thus far settled. The city has paid out $1,066,750 in taxpayer money to those who have accused him of unconstitutional street stops, illegal arrests and raids without warrants.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-bullethead-lawsuit-figure-nypd-20220306-vzmqnuvssnf47neai7nacqzdve-story.html
Weissport police chief charged with rape of a childKill them both.
A Carbon County police chief and his friend have been charged in the alleged rape and sexual assault of a girl when they were teenagers.
Weissport Police Chief Brent Getz , 27, was arrested Tuesday night on a number of charges, including rape of a child.
According to court paperwork, Getz and a friend raped and sexually assaulted a girl numerous times from 2005 through early 2012, when she was 4-11 years old.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/crime/weissport-police-chief-charged-with-rape-of-a-child/article_ee792479-2f64-5233-92ba-71a94d617c5d.html
James O’Keefe Releases Video Footage of Armed FBI Agents Raiding Project Veritas Journalist’s Home
American Greatness ^ | 15 Mar, 2022 | Debra Heine
Posted on 3/16/2022, 7:41:12 AM by MtnClimber
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe released video footage from last November, showing armed FBI agents raiding and ransacking an employee’s home. The Feds raided two of O’Keefe’s employees’ homes on November 4, on the orders of federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. They raided O’Keefe’s apartment in Mamaroneck, N.Y., a couple of days later in connection with Ashley Biden’s allegedly stolen diary.
O’Keefe contends that he and his journalists were targeted because of their investigative journalism.
The footage begins with the FBI banging loudly on the door, and with the startled journalist responding shakily, “I’m sorry, what is this regarding?”
“This is a search warrant, just open up!” the agent barked. After the journalist opened the door, the agent hollered: “Let me see your hands, let me see your hands!”
As the Feds filed into the home, the lead agent told the journalist that another agent would have to sit with him while the team searched his home “for our safety and for yours.” He said the journalist did not have to speak to the agent, and that he wasn’t being detained.
“We just want to see you calm, and then … are you okay with that?” the agent said. He told the journalist that another team of FBI agents was on the way.
O’Keefe said this invasion of his employee’s constitutional rights should “send shivers down the spines of every journalist around the country.”
“What you’ve just seen is an effort by the government to intimidate and silence us as journalists,” O’Keefe declared. “But Project Veritas will never be silenced. The 1st Amendment protects journalists and all people who speak out. We will stand firm to vindicate our own 1st Amendment rights, fight for the rights of our fellow journalists,
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This happened less than 2 months before George Floyd's death. Of course there was no rioting, no looting, no burning, no beatings, no killings, no hashtags from the blue checkmark mob, no media coverage. Why would that be?
Moreover, the state of California fought to not have the video released. Why would they try to block the release of the video?
Family suing in death of California man who officers restrained calls for charges
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The family of a California man suing over his 2020 in-custody death called Tuesday for charges against the officers, and released video showing the man repeating “I can’t breathe.”
Edward Bronstein, 38, died early March 31, 2020, after the California Highway Patrol sought to take a blood sample following a traffic stop for allegedly driving under the influence, according to lawyers for the family and court documents.
The family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in December 2020, but they also want Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón to file criminal charges against the officers.
In video, which was ordered released by a federal judge and shown at a news conference Tuesday, Bronstein is told there’s a court order for a blood draw before five officers hold him down at a CHP garage in Altadena, in the Los Angeles area.
Bronstein, who is handcuffed, is heard asking why they need to draw blood. Officers tell him the draw is a court order and if he doesn’t agree, he will be restrained.
As officers move to restrain him he says “I’ll do it willingly” repeatedly and is told to calm down and “too late,” the video shows. Bronstein screams and says, “I can’t breathe,” repeatedly before falling silent, and the procedure continues.
“Not one officer took the action to pull the others off of him. Pull him to the side, do something to give him air,” the family's attorney Michael Carrillo said. “... When they finally flip him over, he’s lifeless.”
The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office ruled Bronstein’s cause of death as “acute methamphetamine intoxication during restraint by law enforcement” and the manner as “unknown,” according to online records and court documents filed by the state opposing the release of the video at this time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-suing-death-california-man-officers-restrained-calls-charges-rcna20211
Not much media coverage so far for the death of this young man.
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Family demands justice after teen fatally shot by Lonoke County sheriff's deputy
Members of the Lonoke community are outraged and demanding answers after the death of a teenage boy at the hands of a Lonoke County sheriff's deputy.
Arkansas State Police reported that 17-year-old Hunter Brittain was pulled over for a traffic stop around 3 a.m. at a local auto shop. That's when Sgt. Michael Davis reportedly pulled out a gun and shot the teenager.
State police said in a news release that the circumstances of the traffic stop and what may have led up to the deputy firing his gun will be documented in an investigation, which is still ongoing.
Jesse said that Hunter had been up all night trying to fix his truck’s transmission to get to work at 6 a.m. Family members said his car was rolling backwards and Hunter pulled out an oil jug to stop the vehicle from running into the cop car.
Now Jesse and family want justice.
“Justice looks like this officer getting what’s coming to them, just like any one of us would if we shot and killed somebody,” Jesse said.
https://www.katv.com/news/local/family-demands-justice-after-teen-fatally-shot-by-lonoke-county-sheriffs-deputy
“Now, there’s no question in my mind that that happened. I’m being honest. No question in my mind that something did happen,” the detective tells Villarreal. “How bad it was? How many times it was?”
Villarreal responds, saying nothing happened. Minutes later, the detectives claimed to have video of Villarreal and the client in her car.
“Is there any reason why we would have video of you and [the student] in your car?” the detective asks.
“No,” she replied.
There was no reason because according to Geller, that video did not exist.
Criminal gangs.
Inspector general identifies 41 sheriff’s deputies who allegedly belong to gang-like groups
The top watchdog for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has identified more than 40 alleged members of gang-like groups of deputies that operate out of two sheriff’s stations.
In a letter dated Monday, Inspector General Max Huntsman said his office has compiled a partial list that includes 11 deputies who allegedly belong to the Banditos, which operate out of the East L.A. sheriff’s station, and 30 alleged Executioners from the Compton sheriff’s station.
He wrote that the list is based on information gleaned from investigations conducted by the Sheriff’s Department. Huntsman did not name the deputies and said his office has identified additional possible members from other sources.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-22/sheriff-deputies-executioners-banditos
The cop was not arrested when he killed the poor man, neither was he arrested after being indicted.
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I.F. police officer who shot man in backyard indicted for manslaughter
A grand jury has indicted an Idaho Falls Police officer for shooting a man who was in his own backyard during a February manhunt.
Elias Aurelio Cerdas, a 26-year-old officer who graduated from training less than a year before the shooting, was indicted Friday for felony involuntary manslaughter. The Feb. 8 shooting left Joseph “Joe” Johnson, a father of four, dead behind his house.
Cerdas was not arrested after being charged but issued a summons for his arraignment at the Bonneville County Courthouse on Aug. 23. The Idaho Attorney General’s Office is prosecuting the case after the Bonneville County Prosecutor’s Office handed the case over for unspecified reasons.
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2021/08/i-f-police-officer-who-shot-man-in-backyard-indicted-for-manslaughter/
And as expected the cop who murdered that innocent father in his home and forever ruined the family gets away with ZERO PRISON TIME.
As the cop's trial went on the judge halted the trial (!) and dismissed that case as long as the cop completes 100 hours of "firearm, use of force and supervised patrol training in the next year". Insane. What a travesty.
Idaho Falls police officer ‘very relieved’ after judge dismisses case against him
Day two of a trial for an Idaho Falls police officer accused of shooting and killing a man last year took an unexpected turn.
After a 90 minute delay, the jury entered the courtroom. District Judge Darren Simpson convened the proceedings by announcing the case against Elias Cerdas is dismissed on the condition that Cerdas complete 100 hours of firearm, use of force and supervised patrol training in the next year.
“During that time, he (Cerdas) will be on modified duty, which he is currently on,” Simpson said. “At the time it is completed, the case would be dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can not be refiled.”
If Cerdas does not complete the training in that timeframe, the case can be refiled and the trial would resume.
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2022/04/idaho-falls-police-officer-very-relieved-after-judge-dismisses-case-against-him/
Drunken off-duty NYPD cop allowed to do yoga as part of punishment
A vacationing NYPD cop who got “belligerent” with officers in California after drunkenly wandering onto a highway dodged possibly being fired — and instead was allowed to do yoga as part of her punishment.
The behind-the-scenes deal was new NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell’s first act of leniency involving departmental discipline.
Off-duty Harlem cop Catherine Lamonica, 38, was at dinner with two friends in San Francisco on April 10, 2021, when she ditched her pals to continue on to a nearby bar, according to NYPD disciplinary documents obtained through the state Freedom of Information Law.
About an hour later, Lamonica called her friends and told them she was heading back to their hotel. She turned off her phone when she started walking because it was at 1 percent battery life, the documents say.
It isn’t clear how far Lamonica walked, but after about an hour, she turned on her phone again for directions to the hotel — and the device allegedly sent her straight onto Interstate 80, according to the papers.
Multiple people called 911 reporting that “a female was walking in the freeway,” and, when California Highway Patrol responded to the scene, they found the officer “standing in the median center divider looking over the railing by the concrete,” the records say.
“Officers removed Office Lamonica, place[d] her in handcuffs for everyone’s safety, placed her in their police vehicle and transported Officer Lamonica to their headquarters,” documents say. Once in custody, Lamonica “refused to comply with the Officers[sic] request allowing them to speak to the NYPD Supervisor while on the phone, because she wanted to make the notification to her command and operations first,” the records say.
The Big Apple cop was “belligerent, argumentative and discourteous” to the Highway Patrol officers — and when reporting her arrest to her NYPD supervisor, she accused the California cops of assaulting her, according to records. Lamonica later admitted the officers acted “reasonably” because an intoxicated pedestrian on the freeway created a “dangerous situation for everyone,” the documents say.
The West Coast cops then took Lamonica to San Francisco General “because [she] was intoxicated, could not care for herself.”
The trio of California charges filed against Lamonica — for public intoxication, pedestrian prohibited on restricted freeways and failure to obey signs — were eventually dropped by a local assistant district attorney because her “office doesn’t file infractions,” the NYPD’s internal records say.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/26/drunken-off-duty-nypd-cop-allowed-to-do-yoga-as-part-of-punishment/
Most have heard of George Floyd by now but who knows or remembers Tony Timpa?
He was killed by cops despite pleading for help more than 30 times. After killing him the cops laughed and joked.
But his death didn't matter since he was white. No riots, no looting, no beating up innocent bystanders, no taking down statues. Very few even know his name.
Now to add insult to injury, his killers enjoy the travesty known as "qualified immunity".
Federal judge tosses excessive force suit against five Dallas officers in Tony Timpa case
A federal judge in Dallas has thrown out an excessive force lawsuit filed against five Dallas police officers who handcuffed and pinned a mentally ill man to the ground shortly before he died.
In a 27-page ruling, U.S. District Judge David Godbey granted the officers’ motion for summary judgment in the case of Tony Timpa. The unarmed Rockwall man died in 2016 from “sudden cardiac death due to the toxic effects of cocaine and physiological stress associated with physical restraint,” court records show.
Godbey based his decision, signed Monday, on the controversial doctrine of qualified immunity. Under that standard, Timpa’s family had to identify a specific case in the Fifth Circuit court of appeals that clearly established that the officers’ conduct at the time was unconstitutional.
A private security guard handcuffed Timpa before Dallas officers arrived. Timpa was unarmed, in shorts and barefoot. The responding officers mocked the 32-year-old as he screamed for his life, with one officer’s knee pinned in his back for about 14 minutes as he lay face down in the grass, according to court records. They joked after he became unresponsive that he was going to be late for school, the lawsuit says.
The officers involved were Dustin Dillard, Raymond Dominguez, Kevin Mansell, Domingo Rivera and Danny Vasquez.
Three of the officers later faced misdemeanor deadly conduct charges in connection with the death.
But last year, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot dismissed the charges against Dillard, Mansell and Vasquez. Creuzot said he met with three medical examiners who told him they did not believe the officers acted recklessly.
All but one of the five officers remain on the force, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday. Mansell retired in August 2019, the spokeswoman said.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2020/07/07/federal-judge-tosses-excessive-force-suit-against-five-dallas-officers-in-tony-timpa-case/
Student calls to 911 in Uvalde
Twitter/ Nyslimes ^ | 5/27/2022 | Mike Baker
Posted on 5/27/2022, 2:00:30 PM by mooncoin
Student calls to 911:
12:03—whispered she's in room 112
12:10—said multiple dead
12:13—called again
12:16—says 8-9 students alive
12:19—student calls from room 111
12:21—3 shots heard on call
12:36—another call
12:43—asks for police
12:47—asks for police
________________________ __________
FNG worthless cowards
Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance
Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had about 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist's plans to murder Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, two law enforcement officials told The Buffalo News.
Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with accused gunman Payton Gendron in an online chat room where racist hatred was discussed, the two officials said.
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/authorities-investigating-if-retired-federal-agent-knew-of-buffalo-mass-shooting-plans-in-advance/article_bd408f18-dd39-11ec-be53-df8fdd095d6f.html
Student calls to 911 in Uvalde
Twitter/ Nyslimes ^ | 5/27/2022 | Mike Baker
Posted on 5/27/2022, 2:00:30 PM by mooncoin
Student calls to 911:
12:03—whispered she's in room 112
12:10—said multiple dead
12:13—called again
12:16—says 8-9 students alive
12:19—student calls from room 111
12:21—3 shots heard on call
12:36—another call
12:43—asks for police
12:47—asks for police
________________________ __________
FNG worthless cowards
Just an observation but your timeline is pretty meaningless without the transcripts from the dispatchers and the cops. Knowing this page like I do, I don't expect a response from Skeletor, he never responds to critiques.. he just lays out the propaganda and mover on.. but for those with a lick of sense... the timeline is meaningless.
Just an observation but your timeline is pretty meaningless without the transcripts from the dispatchers and the cops. Knowing this page like I do, I don't expect a response from Skeletor, he never responds to critiques.. he just lays out the propaganda and mover on.. but for those with a lick of sense... the timeline is meaningless.
A cop mother tazing her 3 sons. No surprise here. Of all professions, cops are at the top for domestic violence and abuse.
Texas Deputy Used Boyfriend’s Department-Issued Taser to ‘Drive-Stun’ Her Three Young Boys: Prosecutors
A now-former deputy constable in Texas was arrested earlier this week for allegedly using her stun gun on her three minor children, according to court documents obtained by Law&Crime.
Xochitl Ortiz, 34, stands accused of three counts of felony injury to a child under the age of 15 over the allegations. The alleged victims are her three minor children, all boys, aged 8, 11, and 12.
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/fired-texas-deputy-used-boyfriends-department-issued-taser-to-drive-stun-her-three-young-boys-prosecutors/
Um - the head of the police department said they made the wrong calls and decisions. This fiasco is a disgrace and the entire PD should be disbanded and fired.
^Defund the police supporter^
A police department engaging in international arms trafficking?
Miami Police Try Hard to Explain How It’s Legal for Them to Ship Guns to Ukraine…and Fail Miserably
The Miami Police Department currently has no export licenses or permit to ship firearms to the Ukraine, but they’re working on getting them, or at least they claim they are.
In a story published Wednesday, we revealed how the department has a gun buyback scheduled for Saturday, which they’re calling “GUNS 4 UKRAINE.” Miami Police spokeswoman Officer Kenia Fallat said that the weapons collected at the buyback will be shipped to the Ukraine for use in their ongoing war against the Russian military.
Their plan was fraught with legal entanglements, since shipping firearms to a foreign country without the proper paperwork violates federal law, specifically the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, known as ITAR. The plan also violates state law, specifically, Florida Statute 790.08, which regulates what police can do with firearms or other weapons that come under their control. Shipping guns to a foreign military is not one of the options allowed by the statute.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/miami-police-try-hard-to-explain-how-its-legal-for-them-to-ship-guns-to-ukraine-and-fail-miserably/
No justice for Justine Damond. Don't expect any riots or looting. She was a white woman killed by a black cop.
Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor's murder verdict reversed over Justine Damond Ruszczyk's death
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The family of an Australian woman fatally shot by a police officer in 2017 has responded to the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision to reverse the man's third-degree murder conviction, saying they are "heartbroken" the "depraved and senseless shooting" does not count as murder.
In 2019, Mohamed Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Damond Ruszczyk, a dual US-Australian citizen who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.
Noor, who is no longer a police officer, was sentenced to 12 and a half years on the murder count but was not sentenced for manslaughter.
The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed the third-degree murder conviction, saying the charge did not fit the circumstances in the case.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-16/mohamed-noor-minneapolis-shooting-justine-damond-ruszczyk/100465680
And the killer is now out on the streets again. Don't expect any riots or looting.
Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor who fatally shot unarmed Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk released from jail
The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot unarmed Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk after she rang to report a possible rape behind her home has been released from prison on parole.
Mohamed Noor, 36, walked free on Monday, just months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was sentenced instead on a lesser charge.
His release comes just 18 days shy of the fifth anniversary of the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk, a 40-year-old dual US-Australian citizen and yoga teacher who was engaged to be married to US citizen Don Damond.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-28/minneapolis-mohamed-noor-released-jail-shooting-justine-rusczyzk/101188614
And the killer is now out on the streets again. Don't expect any riots or looting.
Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor who fatally shot unarmed Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk released from jail
The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot unarmed Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk after she rang to report a possible rape behind her home has been released from prison on parole.
Mohamed Noor, 36, walked free on Monday, just months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was sentenced instead on a lesser charge.
His release comes just 18 days shy of the fifth anniversary of the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk, a 40-year-old dual US-Australian citizen and yoga teacher who was engaged to be married to US citizen Don Damond.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-28/minneapolis-mohamed-noor-released-jail-shooting-justine-rusczyzk/101188614
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unsolved-murders-crime-without-punishment
Wow.
As soon as the cop realizes he pulled over the head of the state police his body camera is "mysteriously" turned off. The dash cam caught them shaking hands and the police chief is let off without a ticket within just 30 seconds.
According to another news station the state police chief was doing over 90 mph on a road section that he himself urged his goons to crack down on speeding.
‘Well I’ll be...’ reaction from La. state trooper as he realizes he’s just pulled over head of LSP for speeding
The head of Louisiana State Police (LSP) was stopped for speeding along a dangerous stretch of a Louisiana interstate last month, a state police spokesman confirmed Thursday, July 7.
Col. Lamar Davis was driving an unmarked Louisiana State Police vehicle to a meeting in Lake Charles when an LSP trooper pulled him over on June 28 on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge along Interstate 10 near Ramah.
Louisiana State Police Captain Nick Manale, head of LSP Public Affairs, said the responding trooper “utilized his discretion and did not issue a citation” to Davis.
Manale said the responding trooper did not make any notes about how fast Davis was driving in the 60-mile-per-hour zone when he was stopped just after 1 p.m. that day.
Late Thursday evening, July 7, Louisiana State Police released both the trooper’s limited body camera footage as well as a snippet of video captured from the trooper’s dash cam recorder.
However, the body camera footage that was released cuts off as soon as the trooper exits his vehicle and recognizes that the motorist he has just pulled over is his boss, Colonel Lamar Davis.
The dash cam footage, which does not have audio, shows the trooper and Davis talking for a few seconds between their two vehicles before the two shake hands. Within 30 seconds of first exiting his vehicle, Davis steps back inside his vehicle and prepares to drive off.
https://www.fox8live.com/2022/07/08/well-ill-be-reaction-state-trooper-he-realizes-he-has-just-pulled-over-head-state-police-speeding/
A cop parks his car in the emergency room ambulance bay. After an ambulance arrives and a paramedic unloads a patient and tries to check him in, the cop proceeds to attack the paramedic and arrests her because he claimed the paramedic dinged his car's door... These people think they own the land and can do whatever they want and that their perceived "disrespect" of their "authority" trumps everything else, even the lives and wellbeing of others. What the fuck was the cop doing in the emergency ambulance bay? And why did he disrupt a paramedic who was caring for a patient?
Of course it's not the first time cops attack paramedics, we have seen them before choking paramedics or tazing people while paramedics treat them. They don't care about interfering with a paramedic, they think they're above everyone else. It's possible they see it as a challenge to their "authority" when EMTs or firefighters try to do their duty and save lives. Maybe the next time a cop gets injured the EMTs should take their sweet time or refuse to treat the cops. But unlike cops, who have no duty to protect you, the paramedics don't have that option.
As usual the attacker is now receiving paid vacation.
RPD Investigator suspended with pay following dispute with EMT in ambulance bay
A Rochester Police investigator has been put on desk duty following an altercation with an EMT outside and inside the emergency department at Strong Memorial Hospital.
The investigator’s car was parked in the ambulance bay in front of the emergency room when an EMT hit it while opening her door to unload a patient. Sources tell News10NBC that the investigator insisted on getting her identification, she insisted on bringing the patient inside first. News10NBC Investigative Reporter Jennifer Lewke was able to get an exclusive video of what happened from there.
The incident happened on Monday. The ambulance bay in front of the emergency room is typically reserved for ambulances only but the investigator was parked there, planning to go inside for a case. Sources tell News10NBC that’s when the EMT from Monroe Ambulance got out to unload the patient and hit the police car with her door.
The investigator asked for identification but the EMT was intent on getting her patient inside first. She kept moving with the man on a stretcher and when she was at the check-in desk, she was approached by the investigator, her arm pulled behind her back and cuffed before forcefully being taken outside to a police car.
https://www.whec.com/rochester-new-york-news/exclusive-rpd-investigator-on-desk-duty-following-dispute-with-emt-in-ambulance-bay/6526199/?cat=565
Remember this story? No prison for the cop who killed this poor woman, despite the fact that there were warning signs about his behavior before he killed her...
Ex-Florida officer who fatally shot retired librarian during drill gets no jail time
A former Florida police officer who fatally shot a 73-year-old retired librarian during a demonstration for the public in 2016 will not serve jail time. Then-officer Lee Coel was performing in a "shoot/don't shoot" exercise with the Punta Gorda Police Department in the summer of 2016 when he shot Mary Knowlton, who had volunteered to participate.
She was struck by the fatal bullet in front of about three dozen people, including Knowlton's husband of 55 years, who were at the citizen police academy watching the drill about police use of firearms.
Coel, who was charged the following year with felony manslaughter with a firearm, accepted a plea deal this week, sparing him from serving jail time, according to NBC affiliate WBBH. The deal stipulates that he spend 10 years on probation. He had faced up to 30 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-florida-officer-who-fatally-shot-retired-librarian-during-drill-n1068046
As if zero prison time was not enough, the killer now wants his probation to end after just a quarter of its duration and without having paid any restitution to the family of the woman he killed. The family mentioned he hasn't even directly apologized to them.
Would an ordinary person who "accidentally" shot and killed a cop get zero prison time? Probably wouldn't even make it to court alive.
(Oddly enough, no rioting or looting for the poor woman's death.)
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Lee Coel files to end 10-year probation early for death of Mary Knowlton
Former Punta Gorda police officer Lee Coel, who shot and killed an elderly woman during a demonstration in 2016, filed in May for early termination of his probation.
Lee Coel was sentenced to 10 years probation and to pay restitution after a plea deal was reached to avoid trial and jail time. Coel shot and killed retired librarian Mary Knowlton during a “Shoot Don’t Shoot” demonstration with the Punta Gorda Citizens Academy.
https://www.winknews.com/2022/07/14/lee-coel-files-to-end-10-year-probation-early-for-death-of-mary-knowlton/
This must be another one of those "split second decisions" these "brave heroes" have to make every day while they "fear for their lives"....
They fractured the arm of a 73 year old woman with dementia who weighed just 80 lbs... These uniformed thugs should be sent to the electric chair.
Loveland police face federal civil rights lawsuit over arrest of 73-year-old woman
A Loveland law office has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department over the arrest of a 73-year-old Loveland woman last summer that the woman’s attorney called “a nightmare.”
According to a press release from attorney Sarah Schielke, the Life and Liberty Law Office filed the lawsuit and initiated the case Wednesday, alleging excessive use of force against the department and officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali and Sgt. Phil Metzler for the arrest of Karen Garner on June 26, 2020.
The arrest left Garner with a fractured arm and dislocated shoulder, the suit says.
As of 6 p.m. Wednesday, the Loveland Police Department had not provided an official comment on the case.
The suit alleges that Garner, who is 5 feet tall and weighs 80 pounds, suffered a fractured upper arm and dislocated shoulder, along with other injuries.
According to the suit, in the late afternoon of June 26, 2020, Hopp “violently assaulted Garner without provocation” as she was walking home from the east Loveland Walmart.
The suit says Garner suffers from dementia and sensory aphasia, which impairs her ability to communicate and understand. She had left the store at 1325 N. Denver Ave. without paying for $13.38 worth of items, according to the suit. Employees stopped her at the exit to retrieve the items but reportedly refused to let her pay for them.
https://www.greeleytribune.com/2021/04/14/loveland-police-face-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-over-arrest-of-73-year-old-woman/
Now the gang members are attacking military personnel.
Lawsuit claims Windsor police officers drew guns, pepper-sprayed uniformed Army officer during traffic stop
Two Windsor police officers are facing a civil lawsuit that alleges they acted aggressively towards a minority, uniformed Army officer during a traffic stop.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Norfolk.
Documents from the lawsuit claim officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker (the defendants) pulled over a newly-bought SUV for not having a rear license plate on December 5, 2020.
They approached with guns pointed at the car, gave opposing instructions to a uniformed soldier behind the wheel, and then pepper-sprayed him -- all while threatening him with different charges and levels of violence for noncompliance.
Nazario says once he was out of the vehicle, after being sprayed, the officers struck him multiple times, handcuffed him, and interrogated him.
The documents say the officers ended up letting Nazario go after threatening to charge him with obstructing justice, eluding police, and assaulting a law enforcement officer (with the intent of derailing Nazario's military career).
https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/lawsuit-claims-windsor-police-officers-drew-guns-pepper-sprayed-uniformed-army-officer-during-traffic-stop/291-713b97e3-a415-4b27-b11c-37620a9eb4ef
Top FBI Agent Resigns after Allegedly Thwarting Hunter Biden Investigation: Report
National Review ^ | 8/30/2022 | Caroline Downey
Posted on 8/30/2022, 1:31:19 PM
A top FBI agent based in Washington, D.C., reportedly resigned from his position last week after being accused of attempting to thwart a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.
Timothy Thibault, an FBI assistant special agent in charge, was escorted out of the Washington field office by at least two “headquarters-looking types” last Friday, sources told the Washington Times on Monday.
Thibault had already been on leave since FBI director Christopher Wray revealed during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month that he found the whistleblower claims against the agent and his colleague, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten, “deeply troubling.”
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Prime and the libs are still utterly clueless as to what happened here.
FBI and CIA need to go away. So far 2 elections in a row they rigged it.
Got to wonder who they are actually working for - it certainly doesn't appear its for
The greater good of the American people.
CIA seem to be a law unto themselves- wreaking havoc all over America
& the rest of the world.
MTG Calls Out DC US District Attorney For His Malicious Prosecutions Of Jan. 6th Defendants Including Matthew Perna (RIP)
Twitter ^ | May 16 | Columbia Bugle
Posted on 5/16/2023, 2:55:47 PM by RandFan
@ColumbiaBugle
Rep. @mtgreenee Calls Out DC US District Attorney Matthew Graves For His Malicious Prosecutions Of January 6th Defendants Including Matthew Perna
-Matthew Perna had no criminal record.
-Peacefully entered the Capitol through an open door.
-Stayed inside roughly 20 minutes and never assaulted anyone or damaged any property.
Right before his sentencing DA Graves intervened and asked the Judge to delay the sentencing so they could seek more prison time for Matthew Perna.
Two weeks later Matthew Perna committed suicide. He was 37 years old.
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If what you say about him is accurate, Matthew Perna should not have pleaded guilty to obstruction of Congress (a felony), and three related misdemeanors. He was not in custody while awaiting sentencing. He hung himself in the garage.
Mark Roderick Aungst who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol died by suicide. He was 47 years old.
One other person who pleaded guilty to charges relating to the Capitol riot committed suicide.
Four officers who responded to Capitol riot have died by suicide.
FBI and CIA need to go away. So far 2 elections in a row they rigged it.
Alas they won't. Even in the worst and most obvious cases they never admit wrongdoing, they claim it was a mistake and they learned from it and took nebulous "corrective actions" (that somehow don't prevent the same crimes for reoccurring). Arrests, asset seizure, imprisonment and execution are only for the serfs.
JFK laid it out specifically clear in his secret societies speech before he was killed.
Why all the suicides ??
Can you point me in right direction to find these.
Thanks 👊🏻
Long time I've been baffled by the actions of CIA in particular
As they seem anti American in so many ways.
FBI and CIA need to go away. So far 2 elections in a row they rigged it.
Rigged! Lmfao. 🤣
Can you point me in right direction to find these.
Thanks 👊🏻
Long time I've been baffled by the actions of CIA in particular
As they seem anti American in so many ways.
What would you call it?
I'd call it not rigged.
You are part of the cult.
And what 'cult' would this be? It is much more likely that by definition you are who is part of a political cult.
https://medium.com/@gpavela/nine-signs-youve-become-part-of-a-political-cult-bb2cd8967eb3
Durham proved that this thing was a hoax.
And yet you still bury your head in the sand. F you pedophile.
Durham proved that this thing was a hoax.
And yet you still bury your head in the sand. F you pedophile.
Fixed:
Ohio Representative Jim Jordan is facing backlash after a report found that three witnesses who testified before his "weaponization" committee have ties to former President Donald Trump and numerous conspiracy theories.
The hearing came one day after the FBI said it revoked the security clearances of three agents who either attended the January 6 2021, riot at the US Capitol or espoused alternate theories about the Capitol attack, according to a letter the FBI sent the subcommittee on Wednesday, a copy of which was obtained by CNN. At least two of those agents – Marcus Allen and Steve Friend – were among the individuals testifying before the panel on Thursday.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/politics/whistleblower-hearing-jim-jordan/index.html
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FBI and CIA need to go away. So far 2 elections in a row they rigged it.
95 year old women suffering from dementia are becoming a menace against the frail vulnerable cops worldwide it seems. Moreover, the police refuse to release bodycam footage and the "Police Commissioner" even states she doesn't need to see it.
Outcry as Australian police Taser 95-year-old care home resident
An elderly Australian woman with dementia is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being Tasered by police at a care home.
Officers were called to Yallambee Lodge in Cooma, New South Wales (NSW), after reports that 95-year-old Clare Nowland was carrying a knife.
The early morning incident has sparked outcry, over what advocates say was a disproportionate response.
The New South Wales police chief has said an investigation is under way.
Ms Nowland was found "armed" with a steak knife at the care home - which is in the town of Cooma about 114km (71 miles) south of Canberra - in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Assistant Police Commissioner Peter Cotter told media on Friday.
Two officers and care home staff tried to de-escalate the situation, before she began approaching police - "it is fair to say at a slow pace" - and was Tasered.
"She had a walking frame. But she had a knife," he said.
Family friend Andrew Thaler claimed Ms Nowland was struck twice - in the chest and the back - before she fell, suffering a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed.
Her family are already grieving as they do not expect her to survive, he told BBC News.
Australian police say they will not release bodycam footage of the moment an elderly woman with dementia was Tasered by an officer. NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said she was "not sure" why there were calls for the footage to be released.
"I am not sure why they want to see it," she told reporters at a press conference.
"Body-worn video is subject to legislative requirements around the surveillance devices act and other things, so it is not routine and we don't intend to release it, unless there is a process at the end of this that would allow it to be released."
Ms Webb said she had not seen the video but had heard audio from the footage. She said she does not "see it necessary" for her to view it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65642974
Mueller also found there was zero evidence remember you senile old fool ?
95 year old women suffering from dementia are becoming a menace against the frail vulnerable cops worldwide it seems. Moreover, the police refuse to release bodycam footage and the "Police Commissioner" even states she doesn't need to see it.
Outcry as Australian police Taser 95-year-old care home resident
An elderly Australian woman with dementia is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being Tasered by police at a care home.
Officers were called to Yallambee Lodge in Cooma, New South Wales (NSW), after reports that 95-year-old Clare Nowland was carrying a knife.
The early morning incident has sparked outcry, over what advocates say was a disproportionate response.
The New South Wales police chief has said an investigation is under way.
Ms Nowland was found "armed" with a steak knife at the care home - which is in the town of Cooma about 114km (71 miles) south of Canberra - in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Assistant Police Commissioner Peter Cotter told media on Friday.
Two officers and care home staff tried to de-escalate the situation, before she began approaching police - "it is fair to say at a slow pace" - and was Tasered.
"She had a walking frame. But she had a knife," he said.
Family friend Andrew Thaler claimed Ms Nowland was struck twice - in the chest and the back - before she fell, suffering a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed.
Her family are already grieving as they do not expect her to survive, he told BBC News.
Australian police say they will not release bodycam footage of the moment an elderly woman with dementia was Tasered by an officer. NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said she was "not sure" why there were calls for the footage to be released.
"I am not sure why they want to see it," she told reporters at a press conference.
"Body-worn video is subject to legislative requirements around the surveillance devices act and other things, so it is not routine and we don't intend to release it, unless there is a process at the end of this that would allow it to be released."
Ms Webb said she had not seen the video but had heard audio from the footage. She said she does not "see it necessary" for her to view it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65642974
The poor old woman died. Her attacker gets paid vacation as usual.
95-year-old woman Tasered by police in Australia dies
A 95-year-old woman who was Tasered by police at an Australian care home, sparking a public outcry, has died.
Clare Nowland was critically injured after police responded to reports she was wandering around the home with a steak knife at about 04:00 last Wednesday.
New South Wales Police (NSW) said she died "surrounded by family and loved ones".
The officer who Tasered Mrs Nowland has been charged with assault. The 33-year-old senior constable will face court in early July on charges of recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault. He remains suspended from duty with pay while investigations continue.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65696475
I doubt the coward of Broward will be punished as he deserves. The Supreme Court, along with inventing the ridiculous concept of "qualified immunity", has previously ruled that police have no duty to protect and in the rare cases cops end up in court they are usually treated very leniently.
Parkland officer accused of failing to confront school shooter faces trial
Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday in the trial of a former school resource officer charged with felony child neglect for allegedly failing to confront the Parkland school shooter.
Scot Peterson was assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland as a school resource officer when a gunman opened fire at the South Florida high school on Feb. 14, 2018, killing 14 students and three staff members.
Peterson, 60, was terminated from his position and charged with multiple counts of child neglect in 2019 after an internal investigation found that he retreated while students were under attack.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/parkland-officer-accused-failing-confront-school-shooter-faces/story?id=99702049
As much as I'm not a fan of bible thumpers and street preachers, this is insane. These cops should have been forcefully detained and arrested and thrown in prison.
Man arrested while citing Bible verse in protest of Pride event, then video evidence sinks case
Charges were dropped against a self-professing Christian "street preacher" who was arrested while citing the Bible in protest of an LGBTQ Pride event in Reading, Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Damon Atkins was arrested June 6 for "disorderly conduct, engaged in fighting," but the charges were dropped after an official review of video evidence, the Berks County District Attorney's Office said in a press release.
"The charges were withdrawn after the District Attorney’s Office reviewed the videos of the incident along with applicable case law," the statement said.
Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach had told the Lancaster Patriot that he believed the arrest of Atkins was "unlawful" and "could open the City of Reading and their police department to legal action."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-arrested-citing-bible-verse-protest-pride-event-video-evidence-sinks-case
A travesty but unfortunately not surprising, as the Supreme Court has shamefully ruled that cops have no duty to protect. Hopefully everyone shuns the Coward of Broward anywhere they see him but even then I doubt he'll care with a $104,000 annual pension.
Florida jury finds former Parkland school resource officer not guilty on all counts
A Florida jury has found former Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson not guilty on all counts.
Peterson faced seven counts of felony child neglect and was the first law enforcement officer in the U.S. to face criminal charges stemming from his alleged inaction during an active school shooting. He was also charged with three counts of misdemeanor culpable negligence in relation to the adults shot in the building. Additionally, he was charged with perjury for allegedly lying to detectives.
Peterson would have faced prison time and a loss of his $104,000 annual pension if convicted of the child neglect charges.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-jury-finds-former-parkland-school-resource-officer-not-guilty-all-counts
I side with you on this one. Sometimes the job demands cops put their life on the line.. That's what has been expected since police reform in the last 100 years. Yes, it is absolutely scary, yes, you may die, but the entire job is founded on the principle you are willing to sacrifice your life for your fellow citizens. We all hope it never comes to that, but that is the expectation and right so. I was personally disgusted with his inaction. I've personally put my life on the line and was fortunate to have survived as have many of my ex co workers. So this cowardice pisses me and those who would have gone in tremendously
Unfortunately, it comes down to training. Unless you’re a full time tactical SWAT unit that trains almost everyday, you’re (or whoever) not ready to enter an active shooter situation. That being said, what little training a patrol cop or SRO has is almost useless UNLESS they keep up with ongoing training. Bottom line.
Like Uvalde, this SRO was a coward and he was a coward because he was too lazy to train for his job and the possibilities of what could happen, as rare as it is.
U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Personal Data, U.S. Says
The vast amount of Americans’ personal data available for sale has provided a rich stream of intelligence for the U.S. government but created significant threats to privacy, according to a newly released report by the U.S.’s top spy agency.
Commercially available information, or CAI, has grown in such scale that it has begun to replicate the results of intrusive surveillance techniques once used on a more targeted and limited basis, the report found.
“In a way that far fewer Americans seem to understand, and even fewer of them can avoid, CAI includes information on nearly everyone that is of a type and level of sensitivity that historically could have been obtained” through targeted collection methods such as wiretaps, cyber espionage or physical surveillance, the report concluded.
The report was commissioned by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines after Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) requested that the intelligence community detail and make public how it uses commercially available data. Ms. Haines agreed to the request during her 2021 confirmation hearing. The report was completed in January 2022; it was released to the public last week.
The report showed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence appeared unaware which federal intelligence agencies were buying Americans’ personal data, Wyden said, reflecting the need for stronger oversight and transparency from within the executive branch. He said legislation also was needed to establish guardrails on U.S. government purchases, rein in data brokers that collect and sell the data and protect the data from being used by foreign adversaries. Like the U.S., other countries are widely thought to be acquiring commercial data sets for intelligence purposes, current and former U.S. officials have said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-agencies-buy-vast-quantities-of-americans-personal-data-report-says-f47ec3ad
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Asset Forfeiture Scheme Where Police Seize and Keep Cars, Cash & Homes of Innocent Owners
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal challenging a modern-day form of highway robbery which empowers police to seize and keep private property (cash, jewelry, cars, homes, and other valuables) they “suspect” may be connected to a crime.
In Culley v. Marshall, The Rutherford Institute, ACLU, and Cato Institute joined in an amicus brief to argue against the government’s use of delaying tactics in asset forfeiture proceedings which make it difficult for individuals innocent of any wrongdoing to timely recover their property—especially cars and cash—seized by police who stand to profit from the forfeiture.
Civil asset forfeiture is a practice where government agents (usually the police) seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity, then whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizen’s property, often divvying it up with the local police who did the initial seizure. Relying on the topsy-turvy legal theory that one’s property can not only be guilty of a crime but is guilty until proven innocent, government agencies have eagerly cashed in on this revenue scheme, often under the pretext of the War on Drugs. By asserting that someone’s property, a building or a large of amount of cash for example, is tied to an illegal activity, the government—usually, the police—then confiscates the property for its own uses, and it’s up to the property owner to jump through a series of legal hoops to prove that the property was not connected to criminal activity or that the owner had no involvement or knowledge of the criminal activity. But challenging these “takings” in court can cost the owner more than the value of the confiscated property itself.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/supreme_court_agrees_to_hear_challenge_to_asset_forfeiture_scheme_where_police_seize_and_keep_cars_cash_homes_of_innocent_owners
Unfortunately, it comes down to training. Unless you’re a full time tactical SWAT unit that trains almost everyday, you’re (or whoever) not ready to enter an active shooter situation. That being said, what little training a patrol cop or SRO has is almost useless UNLESS they keep up with ongoing training. Bottom line.
Like Uvalde, this SRO was a coward and he was a coward because he was too lazy to train for his job and the possibilities of what could happen, as rare as it is.
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Asset Forfeiture Scheme Where Police Seize and Keep Cars, Cash & Homes of Innocent Owners
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal challenging a modern-day form of highway robbery which empowers police to seize and keep private property (cash, jewelry, cars, homes, and other valuables) they “suspect” may be connected to a crime.
In Culley v. Marshall, The Rutherford Institute, ACLU, and Cato Institute joined in an amicus brief to argue against the government’s use of delaying tactics in asset forfeiture proceedings which make it difficult for individuals innocent of any wrongdoing to timely recover their property—especially cars and cash—seized by police who stand to profit from the forfeiture.
Civil asset forfeiture is a practice where government agents (usually the police) seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity, then whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizen’s property, often divvying it up with the local police who did the initial seizure. Relying on the topsy-turvy legal theory that one’s property can not only be guilty of a crime but is guilty until proven innocent, government agencies have eagerly cashed in on this revenue scheme, often under the pretext of the War on Drugs. By asserting that someone’s property, a building or a large of amount of cash for example, is tied to an illegal activity, the government—usually, the police—then confiscates the property for its own uses, and it’s up to the property owner to jump through a series of legal hoops to prove that the property was not connected to criminal activity or that the owner had no involvement or knowledge of the criminal activity. But challenging these “takings” in court can cost the owner more than the value of the confiscated property itself.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/supreme_court_agrees_to_hear_challenge_to_asset_forfeiture_scheme_where_police_seize_and_keep_cars_cash_homes_of_innocent_owners
Seriously WTF - The cops are behaving as bad as criminals. Unfurling believable !!
This has been going on for decades. The cops can often keep the money that theysteal"seize" so they have a strong incentive to continue this criminal activity.
But I am not too optimistic about the Supreme Court, they have regularly made shameful rulings to suit the government. They ruled previously that civil asset forfeiture is not unconstitutional, that cops have no duty to protect you, the internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional and of course they concocted the ridiculous concept of "qualified immunity" which to this days shields countless cops from being punished for their crimes. Maybe this iteration of the SCOTUS will see things differently.
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Asset Forfeiture Scheme Where Police Seize and Keep Cars, Cash & Homes of Innocent Owners
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal challenging a modern-day form of highway robbery which empowers police to seize and keep private property (cash, jewelry, cars, homes, and other valuables) they “suspect” may be connected to a crime.
In Culley v. Marshall, The Rutherford Institute, ACLU, and Cato Institute joined in an amicus brief to argue against the government’s use of delaying tactics in asset forfeiture proceedings which make it difficult for individuals innocent of any wrongdoing to timely recover their property—especially cars and cash—seized by police who stand to profit from the forfeiture.
Civil asset forfeiture is a practice where government agents (usually the police) seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity, then whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizen’s property, often divvying it up with the local police who did the initial seizure. Relying on the topsy-turvy legal theory that one’s property can not only be guilty of a crime but is guilty until proven innocent, government agencies have eagerly cashed in on this revenue scheme, often under the pretext of the War on Drugs. By asserting that someone’s property, a building or a large of amount of cash for example, is tied to an illegal activity, the government—usually, the police—then confiscates the property for its own uses, and it’s up to the property owner to jump through a series of legal hoops to prove that the property was not connected to criminal activity or that the owner had no involvement or knowledge of the criminal activity. But challenging these “takings” in court can cost the owner more than the value of the confiscated property itself.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/supreme_court_agrees_to_hear_challenge_to_asset_forfeiture_scheme_where_police_seize_and_keep_cars_cash_homes_of_innocent_owners
This has been going on for decades. The cops can often keep the money that theysteal"seize" so they have a strong incentive to continue this criminal activity.
But I am not too optimistic about the Supreme Court, they have regularly made shameful rulings to suit the government. They ruled previously that civil asset forfeiture is not unconstitutional, that cops have no duty to protect you, the internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional and of course they concocted the ridiculous concept of "qualified immunity" which to this days shields countless cops from being punished for their crimes. Maybe this iteration of the SCOTUS will see things differently.
Agree, this is an overreach and an embarrassment to most of the cops.
Okay good to hear.
Only did most cops stand up & challenge it or just keep quiet & go along with it. ?
No clue. Just went off the post.
If you have No Clue,
You said most cops found it an embarrassment??
How did you reach that conclusion then ?
Wow! That is pretty impressive! Good call! What
I was commenting on, and didn’t bother to offer supporting information because frankly I didn’t think anyone cared but kudos to you
So from about 2008- 2016 I found myself dealing with seizure laws. Not because I wanted to but because sometimes you’re assigned to jobs.
During about four of those years I was privvy to the asset forfeiture numbers of a few high profile departments or organizations within our department. Highway Interdiction, Gang Unit and Narcotics..
I erroneously based my response on real world attitudes among the rank and file officers of my department during that time over asset forfeiture laws. Forgive me if I spoke out of turn Illuminate
FBI Agent Who Spearheaded False ‘RussiaGate’ Trump Connection To Plead Guilty For Illegally Working For Russian Oligarch
One America News ^ | August 8, 2023 | Brooke Mallory
Posted on 8/9/2023, 2:32:09 PM by Navy Patriot
Charles McGonigal, a former FBI agent who helped lead the investigation into Trump-Russia connections, is expected to plead guilty to charges of unlawfully working for a Russian oligarch.
In an ironic turn of events, one of the individuals who worked tirelessly to take down former President Donald Trump by falsely accusing him of secretly collaborating with Russian officials and hackers was, in fact, the one engaging with influential Russians at the time.
McGonigal, 54, a former top FBI counterintelligence agent based in New York, was charged in January with money laundering and violating United States sanctions by working for a Russian oligarch and business magnate named Oleg Deripaska.
(Excerpt) Read more at oann.com ...
This happened in "the land of the free". Unless these uniformed criminals end up in prison and pay out of their own pockets, nothing will change.
Rutherford Institute Calls Foul After Police Twice Arrest the Wrong Man and Hold Him in Jail for Three Days Before Verifying His Identity
The Rutherford Institute is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hold police accountable for misidentifying and wrongly arresting an innocent man twice in five years, then jailing him for three days before taking a few minutes to verify his identity.
Although David Sosa shares the same name as a man from another state named in an outstanding warrant more than 20 years old, he has a different date of birth, height, weight, and social security number, and did not have any tattoos, unlike the suspect listed in the warrant. Nevertheless, police failed to take the necessary, fundamental steps to confirm Sosa’s identity before arresting and jailing him. Weighing in before the Supreme Court in Sosa v. Martin County, Florida, The Rutherford Institute warns that if police are not held accountable for violating Sosa’s rights, then nothing will deter law enforcement officers from wrongfully arresting him over and over again or from committing similar reckless behavior toward other innocent citizens.
“What this case shows is that we have no real due process,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “If the powers-that-be want to lock you up, then you’ll be locked up, whether you’re innocent or guilty, with no access to the protections our Constitution provides.”
In 2014, David Sosa was stopped for a traffic violation by a sheriff’s deputy for Martin County, Florida, which is where Sosa lived. Sosa worked in research and development of airplane engines. The deputy discovered an arrest warrant for a “David Sosa” from 22 years earlier out of Texas for selling crack cocaine. Even though Sosa had a different date of birth, height, weight, and social security number, and did not have any tattoos as listed for the accused in the warrant, the deputy arrested him anyway. After three hours, the sheriff’s department confirmed Sosa was not the same person named in the warrant and released him.
However, 4 years later, another deputy from the same department made a traffic stop on Sosa and found the same outstanding warrant. Once again, despite the identifying information on the warrant not matching his description and Sosa informing the deputy about the previous misidentification incident, the deputy arrested Sosa on the same warrant. But this time the jail held Sosa for three days before taking just a few minutes to run his fingerprints to confirm his identity and release him.
After his release, Sosa sued the sheriff’s department for violations of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable seizure and to not be deprived of liberty without due process, but the trial court ruled that the deputies had not violated Sosa’s rights and dismissed the case. On appeal, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the case, likewise ruling that Sosa’s constitutional rights were not violated. Sosa and The Rutherford Institute have now asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and reverse the lower court rulings to hold the police accountable.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/rutherford_institute_calls_foul_after_police_twice_arrest_the_wrong_man_and_hold_him_in_jail_for_three_days_before_verifying_his_identity
He should have been paid way more (out of the cops' pocket) and the cops sent to prison.
Notice how these gang members were fully aware of their crimes and even threatened to take away the man's child.
But unfortunately most people don't have the time or money to go against criminal gangs with more money and resources, along with the fear of harassment and retaliation.
Delaware man who police blocked from warning of speed trap wins $50K judgment
Delaware State Police have agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve a federal lawsuit filed by a man who said troopers violated his constitutional rights by preventing him from warning motorists about a speed trap.
A judgment was entered Friday in favor of Jonathan Guessford, 54, who said in the lawsuit that police unlawfully prevented him from engaging in peaceful protest by standing on the roadside and holding up a small cardboard sign reading “Radar Ahead!”
After Guessford raised a middle finger at troopers while driving away from an initial encounter, he was stopped and cited for “improper use of a hand signal.” The charge was later dropped.
The cell phone video shows troopers approaching Guessford, who was standing in a grassy area next to the shoulder of Route 13 north of Dover. Douglas told Guessford that he was “disrupting traffic,” while Gallo, based on a witness report, said Guessford was “jumping into traffic.”
“You are a liar,” Guessford told Gallo.
“I’m on the side of the road, legally parked, with a sign which is protected by the First Amendment,” he told troopers.
Dascham video shows Douglas twice lunging at Guessford to prevent him from raising his sign. Gallo then ripped it from his hands and tore it up.
“Could you stop playing in traffic now?” Gallo sarcastically asked Guessford.
As Guessford drove away, he made an obscene hand gesture at the troopers. Dashcam video shows Douglas racing after him at speeds of more than 100 mph in a 55 mph zone, followed closely by Gallo and Box.
Box told Guessford he was engaging in “disorderly conduct” and opened the front passenger door of Guessford’s vehicle.
“Take it to court. That’s what I want you to do,” Box replied after Guessford told troopers he was going to take legal action. Box also threatened to charge Guessford with resisting arrest.
“We’re going to take you in. We’re going to tow the car, and we’ll call social services for the kid,” Box said, referring to Guessford’s young son, who was with Guessford and witnessed his profanity-laden tirade against the officers. “It’s not a threat, it’s a promise,” Box added.
Box’s dashcam audio also captures his subsequent phone call with a supervisor, Lt. Christopher Popp, in which Box acknowledges that citing Guessford for his hand gesture is “pushing it.”
“You can’t do that,” Popp tells Box. “That will be dropped.”
“Yeah, it’s gonna get dropped,” Box replies. “I told (Douglas) it’s definitely going to get thrown out. … I said, ‘Ah, that’s not really going to fly, buddy.’”
Douglas is heard saying that even if the charge would be dropped, it at least “inconvenienced” Guessford.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/delaware-man-police-blocked-warning-speed-trap-wins-50k-judgment-rcna103118
Not only did the cops kill this poor woman but the scumbag laughing about her death is the vice president of the cop union. No surprise that union scum are the worst.
Notice how pieces of shit like him treat people they are supposed to "serve and protect": "She was 26 anyway, she had limited value". I wonder how he'd react if one of his children or relatives was killed by a gang who then laughed and insulted the dead.
Remember a former VP saying "Police officers in this country are the best of us"?
Police officer laughs about woman struck and killed by patrol car in shocking bodycam video
Shocking body cam footage shows a police officer laughing about a woman who was struck and killed by a patrol car in Seattle.
Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, was killed in January on a crosswalk near her university campus after she was struck by a patrol car while police were responding to an overdose in the South Lake Union neighborhood.
Seattle Police said the officer driving the patrol vehicle was responding to a priority-one call when the incident happened. The officer was going 74mph in a 25mph speed zone.
Police ruled the incident was an accident, and returned the unnamed officer to duty shortly after.
Authorities are now investigating bodycam footage released by Seattle Police on Monday from the incident which shows officer Daniel Auderer — who is also the vice president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild — insulting and laughing about the 23-year-old student.
In the footage, Mr Auderer can be heard saying: “There is initially – he said she was in a crosswalk, there is a witness that said, ‘No she wasn’t,’ but that could be different, because I don’t think she was thrown 40 feet, either.”
Mr Auderer can then be heard saying: “She is dead,” before laughing.
He continues: “No, it’s a regular person – yeah, yeah, just write a check, just, yeah,” before laughing again.
“$11,000. She was 26 anyway, she had limited value,” he says.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/seattle-police-jaahnavi-kandula-bodycam-footage-b2409895.html
Where's our Resident Cop defender
See No Evil
Hear No Evil
Speak No Evil
Ag007
Those Scumbags should be Flogged Publicly & made to pay His compensation
out of their pockets & Never be allowed to work as Cops again.
Khvnts all of them.
A fuck big criminal gang.
I don't come to this page anymore Illuminati. The main reason is, Skeletor rarely if ever responded to my rebuttals on the posts I commented on. His M.O. is to post and forget about it. That's cool, that's his thing. My thing is opening a dialogue to discuss maybe why something happened.
Also, I don't believe I am a cop defender. I built a career and suffered some consequences which I have told you about, holding cops responsible. I guarantee you I hate bad cops more than you do as I have invested 34 years of my life to law enforcement. I have faced the blue wall of silence, so I feel I have been tested by fire more than once
In all the pages on this thread, there are a great many that are exactly as Skeletaor portrays them. There are a LOT of examples of bad, corrupt, criminal behaviors here that have no defense, they are what they are. There are a lot that are not what is reported. I used to spend a great deal of time researching the posts here.. but I found that when the initial reports and subsequent reports and ultimate conclusion contradicted the initial posting where made aware to the OP no acknowledgement was done, no retractions..
So in summary, whatever post you just named me in turns out to be true.. I don't doubt it. Having been in that world 34 years I know bad cops exist. Hell, I sent you a book on Corruption of the noble cause. If that doesn't tell you I'm not a "Resident Cop Defender" I don't know what would. I feel a bit slighted by your post, like you and I have never had a conversation.
Fair points 👊🏻
For me its not only there's so many bad / evil cops
It's that they're protected by other cops & do not face the proper consequences
of their awful behaviour - That Boils Me.
Hey , You've slighted me on many occasions in the recent past.
How many times Have I stated on here to others that I had time for you & a Level of Respect.
??
about the same I've defended you. And yes, I have been hard on you recently but only when I felt the bond was broken. You and I see many things differently, some things the same. But I feel we share a bond, I confided in you, you confided in me, and while I would still call my mother out if I thought she was wrong, there are 10 options to how I would do that. I try and match those options to the situation.
The cops thing.. while I have vast insight into procedure, tactics and process. I have limited insight into every department in the country. At AUstin, we had a policy that if you lied during an incident, if you came clean upon investigation you would get suspended but you would keep your job. ( varies as to the incident and the lie but the bottom line was if you told the truth your job could be save. BUT.. if you lied to cover for another officer, you were done. This came about around 2005.
As I once confided to you, as a Sergeant, I voted to fire an officer because he had said his siren was on prior to a collision and the evidence indicated his overheads were on but not his siren. Some might think that a small thing but for me, truth has always mattered and the evidence from eyewitnesses was that his lights were on but no siren.
Very disturbing incident and shows how much a cop can mess up a person's life if he wants to. He even managed to involuntarily commit the poor woman to a hospital for 5 days. I hope the cop (and the person recording and any others who aided him in his criminal scheme) gets life in prison but he will probably get away with very little, if any, prison time.
Pennsylvania cop arrested for improperly committing ex-girlfriend to mental facility
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A married Pennsylvania State Police trooper is facing false imprisonment charges after he allegedly violently detained his ex-girlfriend and committed her to a mental health treatment program under bogus claims.
Ronald Davis, 37, was arrested Thursday on accusations he abused his authority to carry out the twisted takedown that left his former girlfriend improperly stuck in a medical facility for multiple days, the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office said.
Davis reportedly told her: “I know you’re not crazy, I’ll paint you as crazy” leading up to the forced medical treatment, the victim claimed, according to court documents released by the district attorney’s office.
His quest to have his ex committed began on Aug. 21 when he sought help from fellow troopers because he said the victim — identified by the district attorney as M.F. — had mental health problems, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
On advice from state police, Davis, off duty at the time, contacted county officials via his police email account and identified himself as a trooper, to obtain an order after he submitted purported texts from her in which she threatened suicide, according to the court docs.
Once he got the order approved, the trooper went after the woman, whom he had dated for about four months, before uniformed troopers reached her, authorities alleged.
“I’ll take care of it myself,” he allegedly said.
Davis, who prosecutors said is married with a family, is facing charges of:
felony strangulation
unlawful restraint
false imprisonment
simple assault
recklessly endangering another person
official oppression
https://nypost.com/2023/09/24/pa-state-police-trooper-ronald-davis-tackled-ex-to-ground-dauphin-da/
The "brave heroes" waited over 1 hour to enter the classroom while children were being murdered but they were quick to to stop and threatened to taze any parents who wanted to would go inside and save their kids instead of waiting for the cowards to react.
Of course the DOJ and their goons are the last ones who should be talking about accountability, failures and pointing fingers.
DOJ's Uvalde report finds "unimaginable failure" in school shooting response
A federal report investigating the police response to the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, found multiple failures by officers that allowed the attack to continue even as police were at the school.
The report, conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing, known as the COPS Office, looked at thousands of pieces of data and documentation and relied on more than 260 interviews, including with law enforcement and school personnel, family members of victims, and witnesses and survivors from the massacre. The team investigating visited Uvalde nine times, spending 54 days on the ground in the small community.
In a news conference after the release of the report, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said the law enforcement response was an "unimaginable failure," and that "a lack of action by adults failed to protect children and their teachers."
In the report, much of the blame was placed on former police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, , who was terminated in the wake of the shooting, although the report also said that some officers' actions "may have been influenced by policy and training deficiencies."
Here are some other takeaways from the 600-page report:
The report found that police were on the scene within minutes of the attack being reported, and 11 officers went into the school three minutes after arriving on the scene. Five went toward the classroom, but all of the officers retreated for cover after initial shots.
After three attempts to approach the classrooms where 19 students and two teachers were killed, the focus shifted from stopping the shooter to evacuating other rooms, the report said.
The report found there was "a great deal of confusion, miscommunication, a lack of urgency and a lack of incident command."
The report referred to this response as a critical failure, stating that several officers acted consistently with accepted practices before retreating after hearing gunfire. Police also focused more on additional SWAT tactical officers arriving, a strategy that the report said should not delay a response. Since the Columbine school shooting, a "fundamental precept" of active shooter response "must be to immediately neutralize the subject," according to the report.
"Everything else, including officer safety, is subordinate to that objective," the report said.
The report stated that Uvalde Police Department acting chief Mariano Pargas, who has since resigned from his position, was in the "best position to start taking command and control and start coordinating with approaching personnel," but Arredondo wound up in charge of the scene. Arredondo has previously said he did not know he was in charge of the scene.
The report found that the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District did not have an active shooter policy, but did have a policy specifically related to incident command roles and responsibilities.
Twenty-seven minutes after the second round of gunshots and 75 minutes after officers first entered the building, the classroom doors were opened, the report said, and two minutes later, police entered the classroom. Responding officers included members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, the Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit, and deputies from Uvalde and Zavala counties.
The shooter fired 45 rounds "in the presence of officers" before being killed, the report said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/uvalde-school-shooting-doj-report-takeaways-failure/
https://www.justice.gov/storage/Critical-Incident-Review-Active-Shooter-at-Robb-Elementary-School-20240118.pdf
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And liberal idiots still believe in gun control.
Libtards are a Huge part of the Problem 🤬🤬🤬
Which problem?
Most of them
It'd be a very very long list & of course you'd deny all of them.
Oh & men cannot Biologically become women & vice versa 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Show me the list and I will decide who is to blame for said problems. My guess is that it is people in general, both left and right.
Who said men can become biological women and women can become biological men?
A person with XX chromosomes usually has female sex and reproductive organs, and is therefore usually assigned biologically female. A person with XY chromosomes usually has male sex and reproductive organs. But this doesn't end here. Because there are men with XX chromosomes and women with XY chromosomes. This can happen, when a gene on the Y chromosome ends up on an X chromosome, causing that X chromosome to function more like a Y. The term “sex chromosomes” is really something of a misnomer. Confused yet?
What the heck are you going on about? If you have nothing on topic to add to the conversation, butt out with your irrelevant comments.
Facial recognition technology causes man’s false arrest for Sunglass Hut, Macy’s robberies leading to jail gang rape
A Texas man filed a lawsuit against the owners of Sunglass Hut and Macy’s after he was falsely identified as a violent armed robber through facial technology.
Harvey Murphy was arrested in October 2022 for the armed burglary of a Huston-area Sunglass Hut store after a facial recognition device identified him as the burglar. The only problem? Murphy was in Sacramento, California at the time of the crime—thousands of miles away.
Making matters worse, Murphy, now 61, says he was brutally sexually assaulted in jail just hours before he was set to be released after the charges against him were dropped. In a lawsuit filed last week, Murphy claims that his arrest was the result of gross negligence from the facial recognition company—and he demands $10 million in damages to compensate for his wrongful imprisonment.
https://reason.com/2024/01/24/man-sues-sunglass-hut-after-faulty-ai-facial-recognition-tech-led-to-wrongful-arrest/
Florida Cop shoots his own car after thinking an acorn was gunfire. He even yelled "I'm hit" even though no one attacked him. Thankfully he didn't kill anyone.
Florida deputy fires weapon after mistaking sound of acorn hitting patrol car for gunshot
A Florida deputy is seen firing his weapon repeatedly at his patrol vehicle after mistaking the sound of an acorn hitting the roof of the car for a muffled gunshot, according to video released alongside a sheriff's office investigation.
Newly released body camera footage of the November 2023 incident shows the dramatic moments the Okaloosa County deputy shot at his patrol vehicle while a handcuffed suspect was inside.
"I'm hit! I'm hit!" the deputy, Jesse Hernandez, can be heard yelling, though no one was shooting at him.
As he stumbled to the ground, Hernandez yelled "Shots fired!" four times, according to the video and an internal investigation conducted by by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office of Professional Standards. He then opens fire on his vehicle.
A sergeant with the sheriff's office also fired her weapon multiple times at the patrol vehicle, believing Hernandez was in danger, according to the report.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-fires-weapon-after-mistaking-acorn-for-gunshot/story?id=107229338
Not only did the cops kill this poor woman but the scumbag laughing about her death is the vice president of the cop union. No surprise that union scum are the worst.
Notice how pieces of shit like him treat people they are supposed to "serve and protect": "She was 26 anyway, she had limited value". I wonder how he'd react if one of his children or relatives was killed by a gang who then laughed and insulted the dead.
Remember a former VP saying "Police officers in this country are the best of us"?
Police officer laughs about woman struck and killed by patrol car in shocking bodycam video
Shocking body cam footage shows a police officer laughing about a woman who was struck and killed by a patrol car in Seattle.
Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, was killed in January on a crosswalk near her university campus after she was struck by a patrol car while police were responding to an overdose in the South Lake Union neighborhood.
Seattle Police said the officer driving the patrol vehicle was responding to a priority-one call when the incident happened. The officer was going 74mph in a 25mph speed zone.
Police ruled the incident was an accident, and returned the unnamed officer to duty shortly after.
Authorities are now investigating bodycam footage released by Seattle Police on Monday from the incident which shows officer Daniel Auderer — who is also the vice president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild — insulting and laughing about the 23-year-old student.
In the footage, Mr Auderer can be heard saying: “There is initially – he said she was in a crosswalk, there is a witness that said, ‘No she wasn’t,’ but that could be different, because I don’t think she was thrown 40 feet, either.”
Mr Auderer can then be heard saying: “She is dead,” before laughing.
He continues: “No, it’s a regular person – yeah, yeah, just write a check, just, yeah,” before laughing again.
“$11,000. She was 26 anyway, she had limited value,” he says.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/seattle-police-jaahnavi-kandula-bodycam-footage-b2409895.html
The cops did say the poor woman had "limited value" and unfortunately the police/prosecution/court syndicate confirmed it. This is how they treat "ordinary" people, but if it's one of their ilk that is affected they raise hell.
Police officer gets traffic infraction for fatally hitting college student at 63 mph
The police officer who fatally struck a college student while driving almost three times the speed limit was charged Friday with a traffic infraction, according to local articles out of Seattle, Washington.
Prosecutors said that there’s no evidence that Officer Kevin Dave was impaired or driving recklessly when hitting Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, reported The Seattle Times. They previously said there would be no criminal case.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office previously said that there’s not enough evidence to show that Dave was driving “consciously disregarding safety,” according to Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/police-officer-gets-traffic-infraction-for-fatally-hitting-college-student-at-63-mph/
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/03/17/81983073-13151681-Some_rights_groups_and_locals_have_lashed_out_against_the_city_a-a-8_1709487136439.jpg) (https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/03/17/75344285-13151681-Detective_Daniel_Auderer_is_a_drug_recognition_officer_who_was_a-a-19_1709486351534.jpg)
The cops did say the poor woman had "limited value" and unfortunately the police/prosecution/court syndicate confirmed it. This is how they treat "ordinary" people, but if it's one of their ilk that is affected they raise hell.
Police officer gets traffic infraction for fatally hitting college student at 63 mph
The police officer who fatally struck a college student while driving almost three times the speed limit was charged Friday with a traffic infraction, according to local articles out of Seattle, Washington.
Prosecutors said that there’s no evidence that Officer Kevin Dave was impaired or driving recklessly when hitting Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, reported The Seattle Times. They previously said there would be no criminal case.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office previously said that there’s not enough evidence to show that Dave was driving “consciously disregarding safety,” according to Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/police-officer-gets-traffic-infraction-for-fatally-hitting-college-student-at-63-mph/
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/03/17/81983073-13151681-Some_rights_groups_and_locals_have_lashed_out_against_the_city_a-a-8_1709487136439.jpg) (https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/03/17/75344285-13151681-Detective_Daniel_Auderer_is_a_drug_recognition_officer_who_was_a-a-19_1709486351534.jpg)
A 15 year girl that was reported kidnapped by her father, was shot dead by the the "trained professionals" despite "complying" with their "commands".
Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows
Newly released footage and audio recordings from a vehicle pursuit in September 2022 show that a 15-year-old girl who had been kidnapped by her father was fatally shot by gunfire from deputies as she followed their instructions to exit her father’s truck.
The girl, Savannah Graziano, was fatally shot on Sept. 27, 2022, off Interstate 15 in San Bernardino County, one day after the California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert that said her father, Anthony Graziano, 45, was believed to have abducted her, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
The Sheriff’s Department did not initially disclose exactly how Savannah or Mr. Graziano had been killed, and said at the time that it was possible that Savannah might have participated in the shooting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/us/kidnapped-teen-shot-california-police.html
A 15 year girl that was reported kidnapped by her father, was shot dead by the the "trained professionals" despite "complying" with their "commands".
Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows
Newly released footage and audio recordings from a vehicle pursuit in September 2022 show that a 15-year-old girl who had been kidnapped by her father was fatally shot by gunfire from deputies as she followed their instructions to exit her father’s truck.
The girl, Savannah Graziano, was fatally shot on Sept. 27, 2022, off Interstate 15 in San Bernardino County, one day after the California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert that said her father, Anthony Graziano, 45, was believed to have abducted her, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
The Sheriff’s Department did not initially disclose exactly how Savannah or Mr. Graziano had been killed, and said at the time that it was possible that Savannah might have participated in the shooting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/us/kidnapped-teen-shot-california-police.html
No surprise there, they want to investigate themselves so they can clear themselves of any wrongdoing while also having the authority to investigate and charge everyone else.
DeSantis signs controversial bill banning civilian boards from investigating police misconduct
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill Friday stripping civilian oversight boards of their power to investigate police misconduct.
The bill, HB 601, instead allows local chiefs of police agencies to create their own “civilian oversight” boards composed of three to seven members, all appointed by the chief or sheriff. But these boards can only review policies and procedures, not oversee use-of-force complaints or internal affairs investigations.
The new legislation “puts the kibosh on these extrajudicial investigations against law enforcement,” DeSantis said at a news conference at the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, describing the boards as “stacked with activists.” “You have review boards, that’s fine, but it’s got to be done in ways where you have the Sheriff or Chief of Police appointing people,” the governor said. “It can’t be people that have an agenda.”
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/12/desantis-signs-controversial-bill-banning-civilian-boards-from-investigating-police-misconduct/
You are exactly right. DeSantis must believe the police in Florida have something to hide. Otherwise, why would he ban investigations into police misconduct? Portland police does not have a pristine record devoid of police misconduct. Currently Portland has the IPR which is an independent, civilian oversight agency tasked by Portland City Council to investigate and monitor allegations of misconduct. This is better than nothing at all.
Appeals Court Rules That Cops Can Physically Make You Unlock Your Phone
This week, a federal court decided that police officers can make you unlock your phone, even by physically forcing you to press your thumb against it.
In November 2021, Jeremy Payne was pulled over by two California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers over his car's window tinting. When asked, Payne admitted that he was on parole, which the officers confirmed. After finding Payne's cellphone in the car, officers unlocked it by forcibly pressing his thumb against it as he sat handcuffed. (The officers claimed in their arrest report that Payne "reluctantly unlocked the cell phone" when asked, which Payne disputed; the government later accepted in court "that defendant's thumbprint was compelled.")
The officers searched through Payne's camera roll and found a video taken the same day, which appeared to show "several bags of blue pills (suspected to be fentanyl)." After checking the phone's map and finding what they suspected to be a home address, the officers drove there and used Payne's keys to enter and search the residence. Inside, they found and seized more than 800 pills. Payne was indicted for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine.
In a motion to suppress, Payne's attorneys argued that by forcing him to unlock his phone, the officers "compelled a testimonial communication," violating both the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure and the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against self-incrimination. Even though the provisions of his parole required him to surrender any electronic devices and passcodes, "failure to comply could result in 'arrest pending further investigation' or confiscation of the device pending investigation," not the use of force to make him open the phone.
The district court denied the motion to suppress, and Payne pleaded guilty. In November 2022, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Notably, Payne had only served three years for the crime for which he was on parole—assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.
Payne appealed the denial of the motion to suppress. This week, in an opinion authored by Judge Richard Tallman, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled against Payne.
Searches "incident to arrest" are an accepted part of Fourth Amendment precedent. Further, Tallman wrote that as a parolee, Payne has "a significantly diminished expectation of privacy," and even though the conditions of his parole did not require him to "provide a biometric identifier," the distinction was insufficient to support throwing out the search altogether.
But Tallman went a step further in the Fifth Amendment analysis: "We hold that the compelled use of Payne's thumb to unlock his phone (which he had already identified
for the officers) required no cognitive exertion, placing it firmly in the same category as a blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking," he wrote. "The act itself merely provided CHP with access to a source of potential information."
From a practical standpoint, this is chilling. First of all, the Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that police needed a warrant before drawing a suspect's blood.
And one can argue that fingerprinting a suspect as they're arrested is part and parcel with establishing their identity. Nearly half of U.S. states require people to identify themselves to police if asked.
But forcibly gaining access to someone's phone provides more than just their identity—it's a window into their entire lives. Even cursory access to someone's phone can turn up travel history, banking information, and call and text logs—a treasure trove of potentially incriminating information, all of which would otherwise require a warrant.
https://reason.com/2024/04/19/appeals-court-rules-that-cops-can-physically-make-you-unlock-your-phone/
Another shameful decision on the issue by the Supreme Court. The argument about not requiring a separate preliminary hearing is a cop out, since the "timely forfeiture hearing" took almost 2 years for one of the victims.
Supreme Court Rules No Due Process Right to Preliminary Hearings in Civil Asset Forfeiture Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the due process rights of two Alabama women were not violated when they both had to wait over a year for a court hearing to challenge the police seizure of their cars.
In a 6–3 decision, the Court's conservative majority held in the case Culley v. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama that property owners in civil asset forfeiture proceedings have no due process right to a preliminary court hearing to determine if police had probable cause to seize their property.
"When police seize and then seek civil forfeiture of a car that was used to commit a drug offense, the Constitution requires a timely forfeiture hearing," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett. "The question here is whether the Constitution also requires a separate preliminary hearing to determine whether the police may retain the car pending the forfeiture hearing. This Court's precedents establish that the answer is no: The Constitution requires a timely forfeiture hearing; the Constitution does not also require a separate preliminary hearing."
Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police can seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even if the owner is never charged or convicted of a crime. Law enforcement groups say it is a vital tool to disrupt drug trafficking and other organized crime.
Those criticisms have been echoed in the past by not just the Supreme Court's liberal justices but also Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, giving forfeiture critics hope that a skeptical majority on the Court would clamp down on civil forfeiture.
However, despite writing in a concurrence that "this case leaves many larger questions unresolved about whether, and to what extent, contemporary civil forfeiture practices can be squared with the Constitution's promise of due process," Gorsuch, joined by Thomas, both agreed with the majority opinion.
https://reason.com/2024/05/09/supreme-court-rules-no-due-process-right-to-preliminary-hearings-in-civil-asset-forfeiture-cases/
This is horrific. In "the land of the free", regime henchmen can make people confess to anything if they torture them enough.
These criminals interrogated a man for 17 hours and told him to confess that he murdered his father (who was still alive but the cops lied as they usually do) and then threatened to kill his dog, even bringing it to the interrogation cell for a final goodbye. As usual, instead of disbanding the criminal gang and locking up its members for life or executing them, the taxpayers will have to foot the bill. How many others have made false confessions because they were kidnapped, extorted and tortured by criminal gangs?
Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession
Within hours after Thomas Perez Jr. called police to report his father missing, he found himself in a tiny interrogation room confronted by Fontana detectives determined to extract a confession that he killed his dad.
Perez had told police that his father, 71-year-old Thomas Perez Sr., went out for a walk with the family dog at about 10 p.m. on Aug. 7, 2018. The dog returned within minutes without Perez’s father. Investigators didn’t believe his story, and over the next 17 hours they grilled him to try to get to the “truth.”
According to court records, detectives told Perez that his father was dead, that they had recovered his body and it now “wore a toe tag at the morgue.” They said they had evidence that Perez killed his father and that he should just admit it, records show.
Perez insisted he didn’t remember killing anyone, but detectives allegedly told him that the human mind often tries to suppress troubling memories.
At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. “OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,” said an investigator.
“How can you sit there, how can you sit there and say you don’t know what happened, and your dog is sitting there looking at you, knowing that you killed your dad?” a detective said. “Look at your dog. She knows, because she was walking through all the blood.”
Finally, after curling up with the dog on the floor, Perez broke down and confessed. He said he had stabbed his father multiple times with a pair of scissors during an altercation in which his father hit Perez over the head with a beer bottle.
He was so distraught that he even tried to hang himself with the drawstring from his shorts after being left alone in the interrogation room. Perez was arrested, handcuffed and transported to a mental hospital for 72-hour observation.
But later that day, the truth derailed the detectives’ theory and their prized confession.
Perez’s father wasn’t dead — or even missing. Thomas Sr. was at Los Angeles International Airport waiting for a flight to see his daughter in Northern California. But police didn’t immediately tell Perez.
https://www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/fontana-pays-nearly-900000-for-psychological-torture-inflicted-by-police-to-get-false-confession/
Tulsi Gabbard under gov’t surveillance after criticizing Biden, Harris, whistleblowers warn: Report
A new whistleblower report claims that former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is currently under surveillance as part of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA’s) Quiet Skies program after criticizing the Biden-Harris administration.
According to Undercover DC, multiple Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers have claimed that Gabbard, who was a Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate before leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent in 2022, is being monitored under the Quiet Skies program. The outlet noted that Quiet Skies is a TSA surveillance program that tracks a list of suspected terrorists.
Undercover DC reported that while Quiet Skies is a program intended to protect U.S. citizens from domestic terrorist suspects, the program is allegedly being used to monitor people involved in the Capitol Hill protest on January 6, 2021.
According to Undercover DC, the whistleblower information was first shared with Air Marshal National Council Executive Director Sonya LaBosco. The Air Marshal National Council is an advocacy group for the Federal Air Marshals. LaBosco noted that at least one whistleblower was prepared to share documentation regarding the allegations.
LaBosco reportedly warned that Gabbard is currently unaware that she has three federal air marshals, one TSA supervisor, two explosive detection canine teams, and one Transportation Security Administration specialist shadowing her on every flight.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/08/fmr-congresswoman-under-govt-surveillance-after-criticizing-biden-harris-whistleblowers-warn-report/
https://uncoverdc.com/2024/08/04/fams-whistleblowers-report-tulsi-gabbard-on-quiet-skies-list
The FBI Raided This Innocent Woman's House. Will She Ever Get Justice?
On an early morning in 2017, Curtrina Martin inadvertently attended a pyrotechnic exhibit she compares to the Fourth of July. Except it was October, and it was inside her home in Georgia.
The source was considerably less joyful. The FBI detonated a flash grenade in the house and ripped the door from its hinges in a raid to arrest a man, Joseph Riley, accused of gang activity, who lived in a different house approximately one block over.
The agents would not realize their mistake until after they made their way into Martin's bedroom, where they found her and her then-fiancé, Hilliard Toi Cliatt, hiding in the closet, which the couple had retreated to when they were jolted awake by the commotion. An officer on the SWAT team dragged Cliatt out and handcuffed him, while another officer screamed and pointed his gun at Martin, who had reportedly fallen on a rack amid the chaos.
"I don't know if there is a proper word that I can use" to describe her fear that night, Martin tells me. She says she initially had no idea it was law enforcement that had broken into her home. Her 7-year-old son was in a different room she couldn't get to.
The leader of the SWAT raid, Lawrence Guerra, who was then a special agent with the FBI, noticed that Cliatt did not match the physical description of Riley, while Michael Lemoine, another FBI special agent, saw a piece of mail with a different address than the target. Guerra ultimately ended the raid.
Almost 7 years have gone by, and Martin and Cliatt are still trying to find recourse for what happened that night. A federal lawsuit they filed continues to wind its way through the judiciary, although the courts have thus far immunized the government from having to pay any damages.
The most recent decision came in April of this year, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that Guerra—who, according to his LinkedIn, retired from the FBI in 2022—did not violate the Constitution when he led the SWAT team to the wrong house. In the court's view, Guerra had taken reasonable steps to prepare for the raid, despite that they didn't pay off. Martin's home and the target home "share several conspicuous features," the judges wrote in a per curiam opinion, such as both being "beige in color" and having "a large tree in the front." It was also dark outside, rendering it "difficult to ascertain the house numbers on the mailboxes," they wrote.
"Therefore, the decisions that Guerra made—albeit mistaken—in the rapidly-changing and dangerous situation of executing a high-risk warrant at night," the court ruled, "constitute the kind of reasonable mistakes that the Fourth Amendment contemplates." He received immunity.
Martin and Cliatt also sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), which allows victims of abuse to bring certain state torts against the federal government. There are a few wide-ranging exceptions to that, too, however. Such claims are doomed if the government's misconduct arose from a duty that "involves discretion." Since "the FBI did not have stringent policies or procedures in place that dictate how agents are to prepare for warrant executions," Guerra had discretion, the 11th Circuit said, and is thus protected. Next came the Supremacy Clause, the rule that bars state tort claims if "a federal official's acts 'have some nexus with furthering federal policy and can reasonably be characterized as complying with the full range of federal law,'" as the court recently reiterated in Kordash v. United States (2022). The 11th Circuit said that stipulation foreclosed Martin and Cliatt's remaining claims.
More recently, Amy Hadley's home was left a shell of what it was after police detonated dozens of tear gas grenades in the house, threw flash grenades through the front door, shattered windows, punched holes in the walls, destroyed the security cameras, and more. An officer's faulty investigation led them there. The government said that it's her problem to shoulder alone. (Her lawsuit is ongoing.)
https://reason.com/2024/08/08/the-fbi-raided-this-innocent-womans-house-will-she-ever-get-justice/
Listen to this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats:
Remember this angry effeminate dirtbag making threats?
Turns out that he didn't "wait for all the facts to come out", as cops often say.
Once again, another crime was committed based on lies and fabrications that the "law enforcement professionals" didn't bother to check. It only crossed their mind to do so after 2 people were murdered in their home. Just claiming "it was a mistake" will not bring these people back and their killing could have been avoided but apparently the lives of non cops are of little importance to these scumbags. Will this killer and his gang be held accountable for the killing of these 2 people?
'You lie, you die' | HPD undercover cop lied about drug buy that led to deadly raid, Chief Acevedo says
In a bombshell development, the undercover cop who led a drug raid that ended with a deadly shootout last month is now the target of a criminal investigation.
The narcotics officer lied in the search warrant affidavit about a drug buy that never happened, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed Friday.
"That’s totally unacceptable. I’ve told my police department that if you lie, you die," Acevedo said. "When you lie on an affidavit, that's not sloppy police work, that's a crime."
The case agent obtained a search warrant to conduct the no-knock raid on Jan. 28 after he swore a confidential informant bought heroin at the home the night before. He said the informant told him he saw a 9mm handgun and a large amount of heroin in the house.
Turns out, there never was a drug buy at the house or an informant who saw a large amount of heroin and weapons.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/you-lie-you-die-hpd-undercover-cop-lied-about-drug-buy-that-led-to-deadly-raid-chief-acevedo-says/285-54ca0bb4-ba03-4e9d-ab6e-7d40bab2b356
A key witness that helped convict the cop for murder has been shot dead...
Botham Jean's neighbor, a key witness in Amber Guyger trial, shot to death in Dallas
A key witness in Amber Guyger's murder trial was shot and killed Friday evening at an apartment complex near Dallas' Medical District, authorities said. Joshua Brown, a neighbor of Botham Jean's and Guyger at the South Side Flats apartments, was slain about 10:30 p.m. in the 4600 block of Cedar Springs Road. Witnesses told police they heard several gunshots and saw a silver four-door sedan speeding out of the parking lot.
Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean and testified about the night he was killed. Dallas County prosecutor Jason Hermus, the lead prosecutor in the Guyger case, said Saturday that Brown stood up at a time when others won't say what they know.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/05/man-fatally-shot-apartment-complex-near-dallas-medical-district-suspect-loose/
A van suddenly stops outside a home and armed goons come storming out and violently kidnap a frail 66 year old woman. Did it happen in Iran? Russia? Ukraine? Albania? Mexico? Nope, it happened in the "land of the free" and the "home of the brave" and that pesky 4th Amendment.
Once again the "brave heroes" violently arrest and kidnap an innocent 66 year old woman. Another proud "back the blue" moment.
Of course don't expect the armed goons to be violently arrested and thrown in prison or even pay a cent out of their pocket.
Shocking video shows Ariz. grandma falsely arrested by US Marshals at gunpoint: ‘I felt like I was being kidnapped’
Shocking footage shows US Marshals aggressively arresting an Arizona woman who they thought skipped out on probation 25 years ago — but they got the wrong person and instead pulled their guns on a grandmother who had never heard of the suspect.
“I truly felt like I was being kidnapped,” 66-year-old Penny McCarthy told ABC 15 after the outlet obtained bodycam footage from the arrest.
“I am so disappointed in my government. It’s not funny.”
McCarthy was going about her day at home outside Phoenix on March 5, when a van full of people claiming to be US Marshals pulled up and pointed heavy rifles in her face, telling her she was under arrest.
Astonished, McCarthy asked them to verify that they had the right person — pleading with them to just “tell me who I am” — but the officers refused, and instead yelled at her to give herself up.
“Turn away. Turn around. Turn away. We’ll discuss it later. Turn away. You’re gonna get hit,” the officers roared at her.
“Can you prove you’re the police?” McCarthy asked — but the officers refused to even show any identification or warrant until she allowed herself to be cuffed, the footage showed.
“You see that we’re the police,” officers instead replied.
“How can I see that?” she responded.
“If you turn around again, you’re gonna get tased,” an officer warned.
Eventually, McCarthy allowed the officers to detain her, and they insisted she was a 70-year-old Oklahoma woman named Carole Anne Rozak, who skipped out on her probation in 1999 after being jailed for a series of non-violent crimes.
Even though McCarthy denied being Rozak — and said she could prove it — the US Marshals did not allow her to and instead took her into custody.
“They did nothing but treat me like crap and lie to me,” McCarthy told ABC 15.
She was thrown in federal prison for a night, but was sprung the next day after prosecutors presented little evidence beyond “Facebook posts” that a probation office in Oklahoma thought indicated she was really Rozak living under an alias.
Her case was dismissed shortly after she was released from prison.
US Marshals in Oklahoma later said a fingerprinting “glitch” matched McCarthy to Rozak, and a month after the arrest confirmed that McCarthy was not their suspect.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/29/us-news/ariz-grandma-falsely-arrested-by-us-marshals-at-gunpoint-video/
The killer is eligible for parole on what would have been her victim's 33rd birthday. She was initially sentenced to just 10 years for the murder and has only served 5.
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Dallas police officer Amber Guyger now eligible for parole six years after murder
The former Dallas police officer convicted of murdering Botham Jean in his apartment six years ago is eligible for parole Sunday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Amber Guyger, who shot and killed Jean in September 2018, attracted national attention and sparked protests around the city.
Guyger will be up for parole on what would have been Botham's 33rd birthday.
She was convicted of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019. She appealed the conviction but lost her appeal two years ago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/former-dallas-police-officer/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/guy-now-eligible-for-parole-six-years-after-murder/)
Qualified immunity strikes again...
An Oregon woman’s nude cellphone photos ended up the talk of town. She tracked it back to the DA
An Oregon woman’s nude photos ended up the topic of conversation in her small town after a prosecutor looked through her sensitive cellphone data and told the county sheriff what he found despite no warrant, no consent and no suspicion that she had committed a crime.
But the district attorney involved won’t face legal consequences under a federal appeals court ruling released Monday.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 that Grant County District Attorney Jim Carpenter’s actions amounted to “a troubling example of the intrusion on Fourth Amendment rights” against illegal searches.
But all three judges upheld a lower court’s decision to grant Carpenter qualified immunity and dismiss the woman’s lawsuit.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/02/an-oregon-womans-nude-cellphone-photos-ended-up-the-talk-of-town-she-tracked-it-back-to-the-da.html
Biden commuted the sentence of the judge who was responsible for the "kids for cash" scheme, i.e. the judge was getting a cut from private for-profit prisons for every kid he sentenced to prison. No surprise that Biden would grant this favor to a scumbag who preyed on children. Maybe for every kid sentenced there was also a 10% for the big guy? Incidentally, both judges in this scheme were Democrats.The only news I'd like to hear about that POS Biden is that he died!
Biden stirs outrage in Scranton by commuting 'kids for cash' judge's sentence
President Biden has sparked anger among Pennsylvanians after he commuted the sentence of a corrupt judge who was jailed for more than 17 years after he was caught taking kickbacks for sending juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.
In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, former Judge Michael Conahan shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and shared $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Another judge, Mark Ciavarella, was also involved in the illicit scheme, the effects of which are still felt today among victims and families.
The scandal is considered Pennsylvania’s largest-ever judicial corruption scheme with the state's supreme court throwing out some 4,000 juvenile convictions involving more than 2,300 kids after the scheme was uncovered.
Conahan, 72, pleaded guilty in 2010 to one count of racketeering conspiracy but was released from prison to home confinement in 2020 because of COVID-19 health concerns with six years left in his sentence.
But Biden, the so-called favorite son of Scranton, commuted his sentence Thursday as part of the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history in which he commuted jail sentences for nearly 1,500 people and granted 39 pardons.
The decision has raised questions as to why Biden would choose to commute the sentence of a judge who is detested in the area.
Sandy Fonzo, who once confronted Ciavarella outside federal court after her son was placed in juvenile detention and committed suicide, said that the president’s actions were an "injustice" and "deeply painful."
The scheme began in 2002 when Conahan shut down the state juvenile detention center and used money from the Luzerne County budget to fund a multimillion-dollar lease for the private facilities. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care.
Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders deemed delinquent for petty theft, jaywalking, truancy, smoking on school grounds and other minor infractions. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to put up a defense or even say goodbye to their families.
In 2022, both Conahan and Ciavarella were ordered to pay more than $200 million to nearly 300 people they victimized, although it's unlikely the now-adult victims will see even a fraction of the damages award.
The scheme, per The Citizens Voice, involved former Pennsylvania attorney Robert Powell paying Ciavarella and Conahan $770,000, who in turn funneled juvenile defendants to two private, for-profit detention centers Powell partly owned.
Powell served an 18-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to felony counts of failing to report a felony and being an accessory to a conspiracy.
Real estate developer Robert K. Mericle paid the judges $2.1 million and was later charged with failing to disclose to investigators and a grand jury that he knew the judges were defrauding the government. Mericle served one year in federal prison, per The Citizens Voice.
Ciavarella is serving a 28-year prison sentence on honest services mail fraud charges, per the publication.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-stirs-outrage-scranton-commuting-kids-cash-judges-sentence
Business as usual for the cops. It is unlikely they will end up in prison.
Colorado SWAT Team Raids Wrong Apartment, Locks Innocent Family in Police Car
A Denver SWAT team burst into the wrong family's apartment, holding several women and children at gunpoint before locking them in a police car for hours. Despite multiple signs that the cops had raided the wrong apartment, they still searched it, forced out its terrified occupants, and—according to a lawsuit filed this week—attempted to cover up their misconduct.
On June 6, 2023, a Denver SWAT team was set to arrest a man named Danny Garcia on "very serious alleged violent crimes," according to the lawsuit. In the documents listed in the complaint, the officers repeatedly documented that Garcia lived in unit 307 of his apartment building. However, despite this fact—and the apartment numbers prominently displayed by each apartment door—the officers rammed the door to apartment 306, shouting "that they knew Danny Garcia was in their apartment and to come out with their hands up," according to the complaint.
Inside, the SWAT team found Sharon Shelton-Knight, her two adult daughters Kristy and Brittany, and Kristy's two young daughters. Body camera footage referenced in the suit shows the officers pointing their guns at the women, one of whom had just gotten out of the shower when police burst in.
After forcing Sharon and Kristy out of the apartment with guns drawn, the officers entered the apartment, and found the two children hiding in their bedroom.
After forcing Brittany and her two children out of the apartment, an officer locked the family in the back of an unmanned vehicle for several hours. Making matters worse, the suit claims that the officers soon attempted to cover up their mistake. In a report on the incident, one of the officers wrote that "due to the layout of the 3rd floor, occupants in #306 were contacted, advised of the situation, and evacuated for their safety." Another officer wrote that "an elderly female exited 306 and was advised of the situation. We then evacuated her and two adult females and two young children from their apartment due to the suspects apartment directly across the hallway."
https://reason.com/2025/02/27/colorado-swat-team-raids-wrong-apartment-locks-innocent-family-in-police-car
https://hheglaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-25-08-12-21-SHELTON-COMPLAINT-01.pdf
A 24 hour suspension for violently attacking a deaf man with cerebral palsy...
Phoenix officers suspended for 24 hours after repeatedly punching deaf man with cerebral palsy during arrest
Three Phoenix police officers will receive 24-hour, unpaid suspensions, and two of them must undergo more training, after the arrest of a deaf man who has cerebral palsy last year, the police chief said Wednesday.
Tyron McAlpin was arrested on Aug. 19 after a man who was involved in a fight at a convenience store pointed to McAlpin — who was walking by — as he was talking to officers, according to a police report.
Video showed McAlpin being arrested almost as soon as police got out of their vehicle. McAlpin was punched and shocked with a stun gun, the video shows.
McAlpin had been charged with felony aggravated assault and resisting arrest, but Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell dismissed the charges in October after having reviewed the case.
McAlpin's attorney said at the time that the officers’ injuries during the arrest resulted from their “frenzied and violent attack on Tyron.”
Phoenix police said in a statement Wednesday: “The Department identified policy violations” following an administrative investigation into the arrest.
The statement did not identify the officers. A police spokesperson said the department was not naming them because a possible appeal process is pending.
All three offices were suspended without pay for 24 hours, and two of them will be required to undergo additional de-escalation training, the police department said.
The suspensions are for 24 hours in total, so if officers work eight-hour shifts, they would be three-day suspensions, police said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/phoenix-officers-suspended-24-hours-repeatedly-punching-deaf-man-cereb-rcna198296
Masks are back in fashionDonald J. performing an excellent service to Americans by deporting those roaches back to their shitholes. Keep it up! MAGA or GTFO.
https://zeteo.com/p/watch-the-moment-masked-ice-agents (https://zeteo.com/p/watch-the-moment-masked-ice-agents)
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Nick Miroff of the Atlantic reported that Trump administration lawyers admitted, in a court of law, that immigration officials mistakenly deported an individual with protected legal status to El Salvador’s “Terrorism Confinement Center.”MS13 gang leader. Guy can go eat shit!
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/)
Kilmar Abrego Garcia fled gang threats in his native El Salvador in 2011, when he was 16 years old, and came to the United States. He has lived here since, has no criminal record, works full time as a union sheet-metal apprentice, is married to an American citizen, and is the father of a five-year old child who is a U.S. citizen. He was accused by an informant of being a member of MS-13, which his lawyer has strenuously denied and for which there seems to be no proof. He was never convicted of or even charged with any crime.
In 2019, Abrego Garcia filed an application for asylum and an immigration judge granted him legal protection from being sent to El Salvador based on legitimate fears of persecution and torture.
The administration admits in its court filing that it “was aware of this grant of withholding of removal” at the time it violated that court order and sent Abrego Garcia off to prison in El Salvador anyway.
And yet, the administration now claims that there is nothing a U.S. court can do to rectify their willful mistake. And they apparently have no intention of doing anything on their own to bring Abrego Garcia home.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.11.0.pdf (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.11.0.pdf)
Why are you calling this guy a gang member when you haven’t proven he is one?” one asks. They reply: “Why are you sticking up for a known gang member by asking me that?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-ruling-immigration (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-ruling-immigration)The good news just keeps coming.
US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/ice-immigration-agents-worship-houses-ruling (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/ice-immigration-agents-worship-houses-ruling)
Ice can conduct enforcement actions in places of worship, US judge says
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