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..."I know this girl don't got nobody and I couldn't believe this was happening," Kenny explained. "I had never seen nothing like that in my life, a man use that much force on a little girl. A big man, like 300 pounds of full muscle. I was like 'no way, no way.' You can't do nothing like that to a little girl. I'm talking about she's like 5'6"."

Kenny says her classmate was not participating and was asked to leave the room by her teacher. When she refused an administrator was called in and asked her to leave. She refused and Officer Fields was called in, asking her the same thing.

Kenny filmed a part of the altercation on her phone. The six second video shows Officer Fields arresting the student.

"I was screaming 'What the f, what the f is this really happening?' I was praying out loud for the girl," says Kenny. "I just couldn't believe this was happening I was just crying and he said, since you have so much to say you are coming too. I just put my hands behind my back."

Her mother Doris Kenny was shocked and upset when she saw the video.

"My child, and I'm not mad at her, she was brave enough to speak out against what was going on and didn't back down and it resulted in her being arrested," says Doris Kenny.

Her daughter was charged with disturbing schools.

"But looking at the video, who was really disturbing schools? Was it my daughter or the officer who came in to the classroom and did that to the young girl?"

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On the evening of Sept 2nd 2015 I flew into Chicago O'Hare after a long business trip. I walked a quarter of a mile away from the terminal to order a Lyft. (My preferred Taxi service that I stay loyal to).

While waiting on the side of the road with my luggage I was approached by a male and female in "Plain Clothes". I thought they were Airport Security and they asked me if I was aware I was standing on the side of the road. I informed them that I was completely aware that I was standing on the side of the road while waiting for my ride home. I was exhausted and not in the mood to be bothered by anyone unless they were going to take me home. They asked me who was picking me up. Annoyed by the intrusive questions I quickly replied "MY Girlfriend". I was not in the mood to continue this conversation. I then asked if it was illegal to stand on the side of the road.
They told me it was illegal. This is obviously not true.

At this point my Taxi showed up and parked a few hundred yards ahead of their vehicle. I bid the individuals questioning me good night, loaded my belongings into the taxi, got in the passenger side seat and began the final leg of my journey home.

The individuals immediately began to follow me in the Taxi, and pulled the driver over. I then realized that these must be police officers that were not in uniform.

The male officer (Michael Orlando Badge #5594), approached the driver side window as the female officer stayed out of sight (Jamie Gillardo badge # 9431). Orlando began yelling at me and accusing me of lying to him. I attempted to explain that I was simply not in the mood for unwarranted questions and he continued to yell at the driver and I. At this point I began to fear for my well being and began to video tape the officer. He immediately stopped yelling but continued using scare tactics.

He ordered us out of the car once an additional Police Officer arrived on the scene. This officer was in a uniform and was clearly a police officer. I put my cell phone in my pocket while it was still recording as the new officer ordered me to put my hands on the roof of the car as he patted me down. It was obvious he knew I was recording because he immediately located my cell phone, pulled it out of sleep mode and stopped it from recording anything in addition. I was never able to obtain this officers name and badge number, but he video taped himself on accident while fumbling with my phone. It is very brief and within the last few seconds of this video. I was able to capture a still frame using my limited technical abilities and I made it the thumbnail to this video.

As he fumbled with the phone to try to delete the video I asked him if what he was doing was legal. He screamed in my face something along the lines of "You better fucking believe this is legal", and he followed up with "You may be big shit where you are from but you are in my territory and I AM KING". The officer then continued to yell in my face trying to make me verbally admit that "HE was the King". He and officer Orlando then began taking turns screaming at me. At some point they began yelling at me about 3 officers that had recently been shot. I asked them what that had to do with me taking a taxi and they just kept screaming. He eventually handed me my cell phone without successfully deleting the video because it eventually required a code to unlock.

They also berated me for assuming they were security and accused me of thinking I am better than other people. I never insinuated that a security guard is anything to be ashamed of. They injected this into the conversation along with many other things that I am to tired to go over at this time. I whole heartedly feel that they were doing and saying all of these horrible things in an attempt to get me to lose my cool. I refused to give them any reason to place me under arrest, no matter how hard they tried. I just wanted to go home.

Eventually Officer Orlando offered me a "Solution". He would let us go if I deleted the video footage that I had taken of him. I declined because what he was doing is called extortion, and I feared he would only arrest me once the evidence had been deleted.

I asked them if I was free to go, and they said yes. However they would not let me retrieve my belongings from the Taxi. I was ordered into the back of a police car and taken to the Police Dept in order to retrieve my belongings.

Once we arrived their Supervisor showed up to speak with us. Officer Orlando instantly began treating the driver and I like human beings and denied the fact that he had attempted to black mail me. I sat and waited for a friend to pick me up for fear of getting another college students car impounded. I sat and waited for hours.

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Charles Lynem, 28, and Chancellor Searcy, 31, were arraigned this morning in 36th District Court on the felony charges that included embezzlement by an agent or trustee, larceny and filing a false report. Both officers stood mute and not guilty pleas were entered on their behalf.

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A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.

“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.”

He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.

Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.

Jordan alleged his rejection from the police force was discrimination. He sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law.

But the U.S. District Court found that New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover.

Jordan has worked as a prison guard since he took the test.

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1) Concerns about crime led schools to adopt 'zero tolerance' policies

2) Schools have outsourced discipline to juvenile courts and officers in schools

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3) Black students are more likely to be disciplined

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4) Even when schools aren't deliberately sending children into the juvenile justice system, disciplining them makes it more likely they'll end up there

5) The Education Department is pushing schools to change their discipline policies

6) Some school districts are taking the matter into their own hands

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A Kern County sheriff’s deputy who had been arrested over the weekend on suspicion of brandishing a firearm at children was rearrested Tuesday night — but fled from a patrol car before he could be booked into jail, the sheriff’s department said.

“Somehow Deputy (Edward) Tucker was able to escape” from the rear seat of a patrol car, sheriff’s spokesman Ray Pruitt told The Californian early Wednesday morning.

A search was underway for the 44-year-old deputy near the Central Receiving Facility in downtown Bakersfield. Bakersfield Police were assisting in the manhunt, and as of 2:30 a.m., Tucker had not been found.

Patrol cars swarmed the area, and a sheriff’s helicopter could be heard late Tuesday night.

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There was “some indication he may have been able to slip his handcuffs,” Pruitt said.

Tucker has been a deputy with the Sheriff’s Office for nearly 19 years and has been on “approved leave” since October 2014. Earlier Tuesday Pruitt said he couldn’t say whether that leave was paid or unpaid, as it involved a personnel matter.

Tucker’s initial arrest was Saturday. He was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a firearm in front of a residence in the 3100 block of Belle Terrace, being under the influence of a controlled substance while in possession of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance, driving under the influence, and felony willful cruelty to a child.

He had been released on bail sometime between his arrest Saturday and Tuesday, but it wasn’t immediately known exactly when.

Shortly after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Sheriff’s Office issued a news release saying Tucker was arrested in the park Tuesday on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance, being under the influence of a controlled substance while armed with a firearm, possession of methamphetamine, possession of an illegal weapon, and possession of paraphernalia.

A wanted poster described him as white, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

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Anderson Cooper breaks down the classroom arrest video with Sheriff Leon Lott as he decides whether the officer should keep his job.

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A deputy was fired Wednesday after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk and tossing her across a classroom, with the sheriff saying the officer did not follow proper procedures and training.

Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields was told of his firing late Wednesday morning, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said. Fields had been a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School.

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A Live Oak police sergeant is facing federal charges for child pornography.

The FBI arrested Sgt. Kyle Kirby around 9 a.m. today and took him directly to its detention facility in Jacksonville after it searched his home last week for child pornography.

Live Oak Police Chief Buddy Williams said he first became aware last Thursday when the FBI met with him at the police department to serve the search warrant.

“That’s when the bomb was dropped,” Williams said.

Agents went through Kirby’s home after he was called into Williams’s office.

The LOPD cooperated but was not involved in the investigation in any capacity, Williams said.

The department turned in one work laptop issued to Kirby to the FBI.

Kirby was suspended on the day of the search.

His first appearance in front of a judge is set for 3 p.m. today, at which time the details of the investigation will become unsealed.

Kirby is well-known in the community and worked frequently with youth, particularly as an athletics coach, Williams said. He has a wife and children, around the ages of 12 and 15, the chief added.

There will be further investigation by the FBI about his involvement with local youth, Williams said.

“It’s something that we all, right now, are just really having a hard time processing,” Williams said. “The only way to face something like this is head-on.”

Kirby was hired at the LOPD in September 2002.

This is an ongoing breaking story. Check back here for more details.

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A New York City woman, who is deaf and says NYPD officers wrongfully arrested her and then ignored her pleas for an American Sign Language interpreter, has settled her lawsuit against the city for $750,000, a sum her lawyers say is the largest ever deaf discrimination settlement for a single person.

"Our client is pleased that she can now move on with her life and put this horrific situation behind her," Andrew Rozynski and Eric Baum, the lawyers representing 58-year-old Diana Williams, said in a statement Tuesday.

"Due to the immense barriers they face when trying to communicate with the hearing world, Deaf individuals often find themselves without a voice to assert their rights," Rozynski and Baum added. "Deaf individuals have rights, and they do not have to tolerate discrimination and injustices of any kind."

Williams and her husband, Chris Williams, both of whom are deaf, are landlords of a building in Staten Island. On Sept. 11, 2011, when the couple were trying to evict tenants who hadn't paid rent, the boyfriend of one of the tenants allegedly gestured that he had a gun.

Chris then called for police using a video relay service -- which the couple later argued should've signified to police that they would need a sign language translator. But when officers arrived on the scene there was no translator, and it was only the tenant and the boyfriend, both of whom can hear, who could communicate their side of the story.

Some deaf tenants in the building later testified that the officers rejected their offers to translate for Williams, who cannot hear, speak English or read lips. Instead, Williams was arrested for allegedly getting into a fight with one of the tenants.

Panicked, Williams attempted to scrawl "HOSPITAL" in the dust on the window of the police cruiser, according to The New York Daily News. She made it to "HOSP."

Williams was detained for 24 hours, during which a translator was never provided. She was released without charge.

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The Officer was in the neighborhood in response to complaints that someone in the neighborhood was violating City parking codes. While checking registration on cars he noticed a man standing on the sidewalk by a truck. The officer saw the resident quickly duck behind the truck after his patrol car came into view.

The officer considered this suspicious behavior, and decided to investigate further. After the Officer got out of his patrol car, he also noticed other unusual behavior, including the resident’s agitated demeanor and his initial refusal to comply with the officer’s instruction to remove his hand from his pocket, which had a bulge in it.

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In one of the most shocking cases of police brutality inside a school, 17-year-old Noe Niño de Rivera spent 52 days in a medically induced coma after police tased him at school in November 2013. He was permanently brain injured. Last year Bastrop County in Texas settled a federal lawsuit for $775,000 with his family. We speak to his attorney, Adam Loewy.

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...three Lake County deputies were out of line when they charged into an apartment complex looking for a suspect and killed an innocent man instead.

On Monday night, friends of Andrew Scott laid flowers on the front step where he was shot and killed.

"Certainly, the police will be held accountable for this by way of a wrongful death suit," said WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer.

He believes it all has to do with the fact that the deputies did not identify themselves when they pounded on the victim's door in the middle of the night.

Officials said the incident started when deputies were looking forattempted murder suspect 31-year-old Jonathan Brown at the Blueberry Hill apartment complex on Ryan Drive in Leesburg.

According to authorities, Brown fled from deputies on a motorcycle, which they later found parked in front of Apartment 114. However, that was not the apartment in which Brown lived.

Three deputies were in uniform when they banged on Scott's door of Apartment 114 around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, believing Brown was inside.

Deputies said they admit they knocked on the wrong apartment door but said they had to open fire when 26-year-old Scott came out, armed with a gun.

Scott was shot and killed, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Originally, the Sheriff's Office said deputies had announced who they were.

But an email the Sheriff's Office sent Sunday revealed deputies "didn't announce and identify themselves" and called it a "minor detail."

And on Monday, the Sheriff's Office told WFTV's Kathi Belich that deputies didn't have to identify themselves at all.

A spokesman with the Sheriff's Office told Belich that all deputies saw when the door opened was the muzzle of a gun, and they did what they had to protect themselves.

But friends of Scott WFTV talked to said deputies are painting him in the wrong light.

A friend of Scott's called him a gentle giant and said he's the one who gave Scott the gun for his protection. He said Scott had just gotten home from working late when the deputies came to his door.

"They banged on the door. They didn't yell out, 'Lake County Sheriff!' They weren't being loud; vocal. The guy opened the door at 2 in the morning," said a witness who did not want to be identified.

"I saw him six hours before (the shooting), and he was fine," said one of Scott's friends. "When I heard about it I thought it was a joke."

Drugs and drug paraphernalia were found in Scott's home, deputies said.

K-9 Deputy Richard Sylvester, who shot and killed Scott, was wearing a black utility vest with the word "sheriff" on the front.

WFTV learned in the six weeks before Sunday's shooting, Sylvester has been working around 40 hours of overtime per two-week pay period.

WFTV asked if that could've been a factor.

"Regardless of how tired he was, regardless of how much overtime he had this week, or last week, or the last three weeks, or the last month, he took the action he was forced to take that given moment," said Lt. John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
No matter what, the Sheriff's Office said, Scott opened the door with the gun pointed at them, and at this point, there's no indication anyone said anything before Sylvester opened fire.

"This individual was in his home. He was at a place he had a right to be. He's awoken early in the morning by someone banging at his door; certainly he had a right to go to that door armed," said Sheaffer.

In some cases, officers don't identify themselves for the element of surprise if they don't want a suspect to get away. But the only way in or out of Scott's apartment is through the front door and the front windows.

"The bottom line is police went to the wrong house. This was an otherwise innocent person, and he was shot to death," said Sheaffer.

The officers could have surrounded the front and then identified themselves, especially since the officers did not actually see Brown go into the door.

"It was the middle of the night, so they felt it'd be more tactically advantageous to just knock on the door, and that's what we did," said Herrell.

"If the name of the law enforcement agency was announced, do you think this could've been prevented?" asked WFTV reporter Ryan Hughes.

"Well, based upon what we found inside his home -- drugs, scales, pipes, baggies -- I can't answer that. I don't know what he thought," Herrell said.

Sylvester never used his dog to track the suspect. Investigators said Brown's motorcycle was still hot and was parked in front of the door.

They eventually caught Brown at his apartment, which is in the next building.

Sylvester is now on administrative leave. He was also involved in last week's deputy shooting behind an Advanced Auto Parts store in Eustis.

WFTV was told he's a police dog handler and that he witnessed two other deputies kill Gilberto Rivera.

The Sheriff's Office said Rivera had just killed the auto shop clerk he was stalking and wounded another employee.

The deputy who fired the shot that killed Rivera has been placed on administrative leave.

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A few months ago, Obama turned on American police officers when he blamed them for the violent race riots spreading throughout the country, instead of the race-baiting protesters themselves.

Since then, the number of attacks on U.S. cops has dramatically increased as thugs now feel that it is ok to attack police officers because “the president said they could.”

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The blood of this officer, like thousands of other murdered cops, is on Obama’s hands. The president MUST call for an end to violence against police, or else thousands of other officers will die at the hands of thugs.

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Mr. Alfano said it also appeared that Mr. Preiti had intended to commit suicide, but told officers that he had run out of bullets.

A prosecutor working on the investigation said that Mr. Preiti had intended to target politicians. “He’s a man full of problems who has lost his job, he’d lost everything, he’d had to move back home, he was desperate,” the prosecutor, Pierfilippo Laviani, told the news agency ANSA. Mr. Preiti had planned the attack 20 days ago, according to news media reports.

“He wanted to strike politicians, but when he couldn’t reach them, he shot the police,” Mr. Laviani said.

After the swearing-in ceremony, Mr. Letta met with his ministers for a cabinet meeting that had been scheduled beforehand. The new government will face a confidence vote in Parliament this week.

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...But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man’s deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense. Such a government substitutes for morality the following rule of social conduct: you may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his.

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As [the vigilantes] controlled the press, they wrote their own history, and the world generally gives them the credit of having purged San Francisco of rowdies and roughs; but their success has given great stimulus to a dangerous principle, that would at any time justify the mob in seizing all the power of government; and who is to say that the Vigilance Committee may not be composed of the worst, instead of the best, elements of a community? Indeed, in San Francisco, as soon as it was demonstrated that the real power had passed from the City Hall to the committee room, the same set of bailiffs, constables, and rowdies that had infested the City Hall were found in the employment of the "Vigilantes."

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An unnamed Naples cop is on administrative leave this week after he was caught on camera flipping off a citizen.

The video, posted to Facebook on Wednesday by David Tripp, shows the officer callously walking up to the innocent man and flipping him off — something that cops have a tendency to arrest people for.

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A school resource officer was recently arrested after he was caught assaulting a student on a surveillance recording. The student had reportedly been in the hallway without a pass, and after he was confronted by officer Thomas Jaha, he went to get a drink of water.

Since he did not leave the hallway immediately and go directly back to class, Jaha went into a rage and attacked the 16-year old boy. Jaha is now facing a misdemeanor assault charge.

Jaha says that the student took an “aggressive stance” so he began to strike the boy, and it was all caught on the school’s video surveillance camera.

“He struck a student twice in the head after this student got in an aggressive stance and faced the master sergeant,” Capt. Paco Balderrama of the Oklahoma City Police Department said.

In the video, the student can be seen walking out of the bathroom with the officer, and while, on his way back to class, he stops at the water fountain for a drink. The water fountain was directly next to the bathroom that they were walking out of, and the teen did not have to go out of his way or waste any time to get a drink of water. The student’s choice to get a drink of water along the way was seen as a sign of disrespect by the officer, who then took it upon himself to assault the boy.

While the teenager did not hit the officer at any time, the officer claims that he hit him in self-defense because the boy allegedly took an aggressive stance and balled his fists, which is not depicted in the video.

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