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In today's news, here are a bunch of upstanding citizens exercising their second amendment rights, and using good judgement in doing so.

Video released of Waco biker shootout - YouTube

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Passing anti-gun laws does not stop criminals from using guns.

Passing pro-gun laws does not stop idiots from exercising bad judgement.

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A deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was arrested on suspicion of performing sexual acts with a 13-year-old girl.

The sheriff's department said it assisted the Costa Mesa Police Department with the arrest of 26-year-old Jovanni Argueta in Whittier on Wednesday.

Costa Mesa police said they were called by staff from Costa Mesa Middle School on the morning of Oct. 22, regarding a suspicious man seen on campus.

The man was later identified as Argueta and he left the campus before officers arrived, police said.

Detectives said it was learned Argueta and a 13-year-old student from the middle school originally met online a year earlier through an online fantasy computer game.

Over the course of the year, when the girl was 12-years-old, Argueta met with her on numerous occasions, according to police.

Detectives said Argueta reportedly performed sexual acts with the girl and would meet her both on campus and away from school.

The sheriff's department said Argueta was immediately relieved of duty pending the outcome of his case.

Argueta was hired as a deputy in August of 2014 and was working at a local men's jail.

In a statement, the sheriff's department said in-part, "The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department expects all of its members to hold themselves to the highest ethical and professional standards at all times. Allegations of this magnitude are disturbing and disappointing."

Argueta has been charged with child molestation and child annoyance. He posted bond on Thursday and was released from jail.

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A police officer in Texas who was being criminally prosecuted for shooting dead an unarmed black man has persuaded a judge to throw out the charge against him by arguing that he enjoyed immunity under the US constitution.

Charles Kleinert, who killed Larry Jackson Jr while serving as a City of Austin police officer, will no longer face a manslaughter trial after a federal judge ruled on Thursday that Kleinert had protection from state charges because he also worked for a federal taskforce.

Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that Kleinert was shielded by the supremacy clause of the constitution when he shot Jackson in the neck during a struggle at the end of a pursuit in July 2013. Kleinert, 51, was indicted for manslaughter by a grand jury last year. He claimed that he fired his pistol accidentally and had intended instead to strike Jackson with the weapon.

Yeakel said the Texas courts had no jurisdiction over Kleinert because he had been investigating an unrelated bank robbery for his federal task force when he began to chase Jackson, and because he believed his actions against the 32-year-old “were no more than was necessary and proper”.

The decision was described as a “complete outrage” by Adam Loewy, an attorney for Jackson’s family, who said he planned to respond by pleading with the US Department of Justice to bring an unlikely federal prosecution against Kleinert.

“This is a legal technicality that will allow a killer to walk free,” Loewy said on Thursday evening. “It is one of the most horrendous moments in the history of civil rights in this country.”

The supremacy clause of the constitution says federal law “shall be the supreme law of the land” and takes primacy over state law. In 1890 special deputy US marshal David Neagle succeeded in having a murder charge against him in California thrown out by arguing to the US supreme court that thanks to the supremacy clause, a federal officer enjoyed immunity from state prosecution for carrying out “necessary and proper” federal duties.

In Texas Kleinert succeeded in arguing that despite being employed by Austin “he was a specially deputised agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a specially deputised United States deputy marshal, and a member of a federal taskforce and was pursuing his duties as a federal officer when he shot Jackson”.

Eric Nichols, an attorney for Kleinert, said in a statement that the court’s decision was “100% correct” and the prosecution “should never have been brought”. Nichols suggested Texas prosecutors had attempted to “second-guess, Monday morning quarterback or micromanage the conduct of a federal officer”.

‘It is one of the most horrendous moments in the history of civil rights in this country,’ the attorney for Jackson’s family said of the ruling. Photograph: Family photo
The state prosecutors had argued that Kleinert was operating as an Austin police department detective when he decided to pursue Jackson, who had abruptly fled after trying to enter the locked door of the bank where Kleinert was collecting surveillance footage of the earlier armed robbery. It was suggested that Jackson may have been attempting to cash a fraudulent check.

The judge agreed with Kleinert despite the fact he flagged down a car and yelled at the driver: “Austin police – stop!” and showed her his Austin police ID badge before ordering her to help him chase Jackson. According to Kleinert’s attorneys, at the time he was on full-time assignment to the taskforce and used office space at the FBI’s Austin bureau.

When the driver asked if Jackson was dangerous, Kleinert replied: “No.” After getting out of the car and chasing on foot Kleinert caught up to Jackson and struck him twice before firing his gun, which he claimed was accidental.

Texas prosecutors said Jackson was “unarmed, fleeing and posed no threat of serious physical harm to anyone”, and that Kleinert’s actions violated Austin police policies.

Yet the court ruled [PDF] that Kleinert had been entitled to pursue Jackson over suspected bank fraud and was entitled to physically restrain him. “The court concludes that Kleinert subjectively believed that his actions were necessary and proper,” said the judge, who added: “There is no evidence that Kleinert intentionally shot Jackson, nor is Kleinert charged with intentionally shooting Jackson.”

The use of the supremacy clause to have charges against law enforcement officers thrown out has been seen most notably in the cases of full agents of the FBI or other federal agencies. In 1998 a federal judge cited the clause in dismissing an involuntary manslaughter charge against an FBI sniper who six years earlier had killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of the white separatist Randy Weaver, during the siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

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Former Gov Mitch Daniels and now President of Purdue University, gets pulled over for driving 42 in a 20 AND running a stop sign, and is immediately let off after officer recognizes him

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"Daniels was not given a written warning for speeding or running through the stop sign, not asked for his license and registration, and was not told of the dangers of opening his door. The entire encounter lasted 1 min, 13 seconds."

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Police in St. Louis say they chased an 18-year-old man down a street until he stopped, placed a gun against his face and shot himself dead.

But witnesses say police shot the man, who has been identified as Amonderez Green, only to later claim he had shot himself.

And although several people were recording, there does not appear to be a video of the actual shooting.

However, one video captures audio of the man’s mother exclaiming, “don’t shoot my baby,” following by a single gunshot.

Then a man can be heard yelling, “don’t kill me, please, oh God!”.

And several video surfaced online of witnesses saying he did not shoot himself along of one video showing his distraught mother asking for her son.

The shooting took place Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Normandy, a municipality just south of Ferguson, where the Green was said to be from.

St. Louis County police issued the following statement:

On 10/28/2015 at approximately 2:00 pm, Normandy Police Officers responded to the 5800 block of Bermuda Drive for a report of a suicidal subject. The individual was being followed by members of his family, who were seeking police and medical intervention.

Normandy officers made contact with this individual, an 18 year old male, in that area, and attempted to open a dialogue with him. The male was uncooperative with the officers and members of his family, and continued walking into the 7700 block of Ellington.

Normandy officers exited their patrol vehicles and again attempted to speak with the individual at which time the male retrieved a handgun from his waist band and began firing shots at the officers.

A Normandy officer deployed their less lethal department issued taser which was ineffective. Officers returned fire, however it appears at this time the male was not struck by law enforcement gunfire. The individual fled through the rear yards on Ellington into the 7700 block of Paddington.

Officers in pursuit of the male momentarily lost sight of him, however, heard one additional gunshot.

As officers turned the corner, they observed the male lying on the ground unresponsive and immediately began rendering first aid. The male was transported to an area hospital where he is in critical condition. Normandy police recovered a handgun lying next to the subject at the scene.

The Normandy Police Department requested the Saint Louis County Police Department’s Bureau Crimes Against Persons to conduct the investigation.

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A St. Louis cop investigating a double-homicide Wednesday pulled out a gun to kill a dog, but ended up shooting the dog’s owner instead, who happened to be the mother of one of the murder victims.

The woman was struck in the leg and will survive.

The dog, who was not shot, apparently did not attack the cop as he had feared. The cop’s name has not been released.

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

A woman whose son was killed in a double homicide Wednesday was shot in the leg when police fired at her dog during an incident at a home near the homicide scene Thursday afternoon.

Chief Sam Dotson told reporters that at least three officers responded to a home in the 4400 block of Taft Avenue at the request of Missouri’s Children’s Division, as social workers tried to remove a 1-year-old from the home. Officers also were in the area investigating a double homicide that occurred in front of the home about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, he said.

When the social workers and at least one officer made their way into the home, a pit bull jumped a waist-high barricade that was keeping it confined to the kitchen and ran toward the officer and the social workers, Dotson told reporters.

The officer then fired one shot at the dog fearing it would attack him or the social workers, but struck a 42-year-old woman in the leg who was trying to contain the dog, he said.

Dotson characterized the woman’s injury as non-life-threatening and minor.

The shooting is reminiscent of another incident that took place in Iowa in January where a cop, also fearing for his life, shot at a dog, only to strike the dog’s owner, Autumn Steele, killing her.

The dog was only grazed and did not attack Burlington police officer Jesse Hill, who was cleared of any wrongdoing in that incident.

Then in June, an Ohio cop, also fearing for his life, shot at a family dog, only to strike a four-year-old girl instead.

Ava Ellis was struck in the leg and survived. And miraculously the dog did not attack Columbus police officer Jonathan Thomas as he had feared, even though it did not get shot.

Ellis, who is now five, continued to ask her mother, “Mommy, am I going to die?” after she was shot.

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a Dallas police recruit is under investigation after a night at a strip club ended in a shooting.

The department says the rookie officer called in sick for his shift, then went to "club v live" with a friend.

That's when investigators say the officer got into an argument with someone there.

The officer wound up getting shot in the ankle at a nearby gas station.

He then drove to a hospital in Irving to get treatment and apparently tried to give them a fake name.

The officer is on leave, while the department investigates.

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THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has been fighting hard for years hide details about its use of so-called stingray surveillance technology from the public.

The surveillance devices simulate cell phone towers in order to trick nearby mobile phones into connecting to them and revealing the phones’ locations.

Now newly released documents confirm long-held suspicions that the controversial devices are also capable of recording numbers for a mobile phone’s incoming and outgoing calls, as well as intercepting the content of voice and text communications. The documents also discuss the possibility of flashing a phone’s firmware “so that you can intercept conversations using a suspect’s cell phone as a bug.”

The information appears in a 2008 guideline prepared by the Justice Department to advise law enforcement agents on when and how the equipment can be legally used.

The Department of Justice ironically acknowledges in the documents that the use of the surveillance technology to locate cellular phones 'is an issue of some controversy.'
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California obtained the documents (.pdf) after a protracted legal battle involving a two-year-old public records request. The documents include not only policy guidelines, but also templates for submitting requests to courts to obtain permission to use the technology.

The DoJ ironically acknowledges in the documents that the use of the surveillance technology to locate cellular phones “is an issue of some controversy,” but it doesn’t elaborate on the nature of the controversy. Civil liberties groups have been fighting since 2008 to obtain information about how the government uses the technology, and under what authority.

Local law enforcement agencies have used the equipment numerous times in secret without obtaining a warrant and have even deceived courts about the nature of the technology to obtain orders to use it. And they’ve resorted to extreme measures to prevent groups like the ACLU from obtaining documents about the technology.

Stingrays go by a number of different names, including cell-site simulator, triggerfish, IMSI-catcher, Wolfpack, Gossamer, and swamp box, according to the documents. They can be used to determine the location of phones, computers using open wireless networks, and PC wireless data cards, also known as air cards.

The devices, generally the size of a suitcase, work by emitting a stronger signal than nearby towers in order to force a phone or mobile device to connect to them instead of a legitimate tower. Once a mobile devices connects, the phone reveals its unique device ID, after which the stingray releases the device so that it can connect to a legitimate cell tower, allowing data and voice calls to go through. Assistance from a cell phone carrier isn’t required to use the technology, unless law enforcement doesn’t know the general location of a suspect and needs to pinpoint a geographical area in which to deploy the stingray. Once a phone’s general location is determined, investigators can use a handheld device that provides more pinpoint precision in the location of a phone or mobile device—this includes being able to pinpoint an exact office or apartment where the device is being used.

In addition to the device ID, the devices can collect additional information.

Investigators also seldom tell judges that the devices collect data from all phones in the vicinity of a stingray—not just a targeted phone—and can disrupt regular cell service.

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The documents add, however, that the devices “may be capable of intercepting the contents of communications and, therefore, such devices must be configured to disable the interception function, unless interceptions have been authorized by a Title III order.”

Title III is the federal wiretapping law that allows law enforcement, with a court order, to intercept communications in real time.

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Two top senators are probing use by the Internal Revenue Service of secret cellphone tracking systems that are more often utilized by federal or local law enforcement agencies.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen admitted this week that the agency does use the technology, known as cell-site simulators, or StingRays. The admission came after a report by The Guardian that indicated the IRS has spent more than $71,000 to upgrade a version of the device and to receive training from a company that manufactures the devices.

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“We were surprised to learn that IRS investigators may be using these devices,” Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican, and Mr. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, wrote in the letter. “While the devices can be useful tools for identifying the location of a suspect’s cell phone or identifying an unknown cell phone, we have previously expressed concerns about the privacy implications of these devices.”

Cell site-simulators work by mimicking cellphone towers to trick cellphones to connect to them, enabling investigators to obtain identifying information about the phones and their locations. Law enforcement officers often deploy the suitcase-sized StingRays by hauling them around in vehicles as they drive through neighborhoods looking for a suspect’s phone, scooping up data on the cellphones of any passers-by in the process.

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Texas cops told a man it was against the law to take photos of people’s homes from public property.

Eustace cops were wrong, of course, but we all know cops depend on people being ignorant of the law in order to assert their authority.

In this case, the man knew his rights.

The video was uploaded to YouTube Wednesday by a man named James Meyer, who described it as “my first detainment for having a camera on my neck and walking down the street.”

Meyer is a photographer who apparently is the son of a local firefighter and audio visual technician named Tim Meyer.

This is relevant because at one point in the video, he tries to identify himself to an arriving cop, who apparently is the chief, that he is “Tim’s son.”

Eustace is a town of less than 1,000 people, according to Wikipedia, so apparently everybody knows everybody.

Except the cops didn’t know James, not that it should make a difference.

The cops claimed they were responding to a call of “suspicious activity” – which might sound serious, but it’s vague and holds no concrete grounds for detainment.

“Anytime somebody is around the schools taking pictures, we talk to them,” one cop said.

Sure, but that doesn’t mean the person has any obligation to talk back with them.

The cops went on to tell him that it’s an “invasion of privacy” to photograph people in their front yards from a public street.

And that it’s just better not to take pictures in the direction of their homes anyway, just to be on the safe side.

Meyer admittedly is a rookie when it comes to these audit videos, but he would have done us all a favor had he kept the camera trained on the faces instead of their crotches.

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The off-duty officer who was driving the car had posted a photo on his Instagram hours earlier of three shot glasses full of alcohol. In his Instagram post, Officer Pedro Abad identifies the drinks in the photos as “Jack Daniels Fire.” He was at a strip club with a number of other police officers for several hours until they eventually left in a car together and crashed into a tractor trailer going the wrong way down a one-way street.
Read more at Cop Who Posted Shot Pics Before Killing People in Drunken Car Crash Claims He Was Drugged | The Free Thought Project

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I guess I was simply a brown face in an affluent neighborhood. I told the police I didn’t like to walk in the rain, and one of them told me, “My dog doesn’t like to walk in the rain.” Ouch!

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Although I am not related to Sandra Bland, I thought about her, Freddie Gray and the dozens of others who have died while in police custody. For safety’s sake, I posted the photo of the officers on Facebook, and within hours, more than 100 Facebook friends spread the news from New York to California.

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For anyone who doesn’t think racial profiling happens, I can assure you it does happen. For a sanity check, I stopped by the mayor’s house and asked him, “Do I look like a criminal?” Mayor Bill Heidemann said no and shook his head in disbelief. I appreciate the mayor being a good neighbor, but why should he need to verify that I am not a menace to society?

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At 9:46 p.m. on Tuesday, Tucker can be seen on surveillance video unlocking the back door of a patrol car, while deputies Branden Routh and Salvador Orona remain focused on a computer in the parking spot next to their cruiser. According to Sheriff Donny Youngblood, the deputies rolled down Tucker’s window because he complained of nausea and gave him longer handcuffs because he complained of back problems. Instead of following protocol, the deputies also did not escort Tucker directly to jail and allowed him to escape.

For those of you who have never been arrested, cops don’t roll down your window, they don’t offer you longer handcuffs, and they certainly don’t leave you unattended in the parking garage no matter what excuses you give them. Even if Routh and Orona were engrossed in hardcore porn or fantasy football, they would have easily seen Tucker escaping from the next parking spot over or heard his flip-flops echoing across the garage as he ran towards the ramp.

Although Sheriff Youngblood doesn’t think Tucker had inside help escaping from the garage, the sheriff admitted that he doesn’t understand how Routh and Orona were unable to see or hear Tucker escape right next to them. Youngblood later speculated,

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Cali was a fun-loving, caring, peaceful family dog. On March 19, 2014, she escaped the backyard fence.

When cops saw the dog, the situation turned tragic.

When the cops pulled up, Officer Brice Woolley stepped out of the car.

He then went to his car, pulled out his shotgun and shot Cali in her neck.

After he shot her, he laughed and bragged about how “awesome” it looked when her collar flew off.

She had done nothing to provoke the officer. She died immediately.

Woolley informed the animal control that he had shot the dog.

He was then seen laughing and sneering, saying, “Did you see her collar fly off when I shot her? That was awesome!”

Woolley is then reported to have said, “We’ll just write in the report that it tried to attack people in the neighborhood.”

Police have a history of bragging and laughing after committing horrendous crimes.

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An NOPD officer twice arrested on domestic abuse allegations rejected a plea offer Wednesday (Oct. 28) that would have required him to resign from the force, his lawyer said. That helped pushed the trial of Officer James Cunningham until January.

Cunningham, 34, was arrested Jan. 13 and again Aug. 10, each time on allegations that he became violent during early morning arguments at the Algiers apartment of the same 36-year-old woman. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

The January arrest on domestic abuse battery and home invasion charges stemmed from allegations that he injured a woman's hand when he kicked down the door of her home during an argument.

The August arrest on domestic abuse battery and false imprisonment charges stemmed from allegations that he grabbed the woman, threatened her and refused to allow her to leave a home.

The state had offered to downgrade the felony home invasion charge to a misdemeanor domestic abuse battery charge, "with caveat that Mr. Cunningham resigns from the NOPD," said Orleans Parish Assistant District Attorney Tony Tran, in Criminal District Judge Laurie White's court.

Cunningham's attorney Greg Carter later, outside the courtroom, said his client rejected the plea deal. Court records indicate the trial for the two separate incidents was reset for Jan. 13, a year after Cunningham's first arrest.

Cunningham, an eight year veteran of the department, remains suspended pending the resolution of the criminal charges and of an NOPD Public Integrity Bureau's investigation. He appeared in court Wednesday, wearing a suit.

He had no comment on the development in his case.

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In a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, The Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault; sex crimes that included possession of child pornography; or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited on-duty intercourse.

The number is unquestionably an undercount because it represents only those officers whose licenses to work in law enforcement were revoked, and not all states take such action. California and New York — with several of the nation's largest law enforcement agencies — offered no records because they have no statewide system to decertify officers for misconduct. And even among states that provided records, some reported no officers removed for sexual misdeeds even though cases were identified via news stories or court records.

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The FBI recently released its data on assaults on police officers in 2014. The good news is that reported assaults are down sharply. Unarmed and assaults with guns both dropped, while assaults with knives and edged weapons went up slightly. But overall, as this chart tweeted by University of South Carolina law professor Seth Stoughton shows, assaults on cops are at their lowest point since 1996 and have been dropping consistently since 2008.

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Federal Court Order: Atlanta residents have the right to video police
and APD must fire an officer who interferes

by Dan Grossman on August 20, 2014

Under federal court orders in Calhoun v. Pennington and Anderson v. City of Atlanta, two cases I litigated with fellow Atlanta attorneys, Atlanta police officers are prohibited from interfering with the public’s right to photograph or video police activity, and the penalty for interfering with photography or video is dimsissal.

Anderson concerned a woman who was arrested, and had her cell-phone confiscated and her photos deleted, after photographing Atlanta police officers beating a handcuffed suspect. Calhoun concerned an unlawful police raid on a gay bar, during which Atlanta police officers prevented the victims from recording the actions of the police.

As part of the resolution of these cases the Atlanta Police Department was ordered to implement the following Standard Operating Procedures:
The Anderson order also required the Atlanta Police Department to amend its disciplinary regulations to make violation of these prohibitions an offense requiring dismissal of the officer.

Section 4.3.5(3) shall be revised to designate violation of the above-referenced rule regarding “Interference with Citizen’s Right to Record” as a Category D (Dismissal) offense.

Anderson v. City of Atlanta (1:11-CV-03398-SCJ, N.D. Ga.); APD.SOP.2011, Section 4.4.1 (“Interference with Citizen’s Right to Record”); APD.SOP.2020, Section 4.3.5(3) (“Disciplinary Process”).

It is important to remember that one may not physically obstruct or hinder a police officer in the process of recording him; the officer has a right and duty to do his job without interference, but as long as you are not physically interfering with the officer, an Atlanta police officer may not interfere with your right to record him in public.

We are proud that Atlanta residents have these additional protections regarding this important right. If anyone feels his or her right to record police has been restricted in any way, or if you would like a copy of the federal court orders in either of these cases, please email me at Dan@DanGrossmanLaw.com.

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Philip White was travelling back home from a conference on technical advancements to assist the blind on May 22, 2012, when he missed his bus in Denver. White, who was 77-years-old at the time, and blind, called the police after the bus station security guard told him he had to leave the station. This call would prove to be detrimental.

White was told that the bus was full and he couldn’t get on board. He only wanted to discuss options with staffers at the terminal, but he eventually was told by a security guard that he was “trespassing” and he’d have to leave the terminal, according to court documents.

“Philip White missed his bus to the mountains, when he asked Greyhound staff for help in catching the next bus home, he was told by a security guard he was trespassing and had to leave the Greyhound Bus Depot,” said White’s attorney Mari Newman. “This is a Master’s Degree holder and long-time educator who was set upon with excessive force as police violated his civil rights, all over a bus ticket.”

After being told to leave, White declined and then called the police. Officer Kyllion Chafin of the notoriously brutal Denver police department showed up.

Chafin did not care that White was the person who had placed the call to police and instead of helping the man in need, he escalated the situation to violence.

Chafin quickly attacked White. White, having no idea if his aggressors were actually who they said they were, asked to feel Chafin’s badge to confirm he was an officer.

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The cop grabbed his arms, forcing them behind him, then cuffed him so tightly he suffered nerve damage in his fingers — or eyes, for him. He was then slammed into the ticket counter leaving his head bleeding.

When Sgt. Bob Wykoff arrived, instead of trying to defuse the situation and offer the blind man help, without reading White his Miranda Rights, he began to video tape a bus station interrogation without White’s consent.

White was then brought to the downtown jail where he sat for 8 hours before police realized that they had no reason to keep him. He was then released, bloodied and bruised, without charges.

“I thought they would have killed me if they thought they could get away with it,” said White. “I always trusted cops, but now my confidence in them is shaken. I felt so bad I wanted to leave the USA.”

On Friday, the Denver taxpayers were held liable for Chafin’s violence. A jury awarded White $100,000 in compensatory damages and $300,000 in punitive damages.

Chaffin faced zero discipline and his department defended his brutal actions against this now 80-year-old blind man.

“We respect the court and we respect the jury’s decision,” said Sonny Jackson, a police spokesman. “We reviewed the case. We didn’t find any violations of policy. We are always looking for ways to improve.”

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The city has agreed to a $500,000 settlement in a police brutality suit but claims its officers committed no "wrongful conduct" in the 2013 incident following a traffic stop.

With allegations of brutal mistreatment at the hands of six city police officers, married couple Phillip A. DuBose and his wife, Cheryl, both of Lebanon Road, settled in U.S. District Court in April for $500,000 with the city, the Bridgeton Police Department and several of its officers.

The settlement — which the defendants said in their request for a confidentiality agreement is not an admission of guilt — stems from a Feb. 20, 2013, incident in which DuBose was arrested and allegedly viciously beaten because he honked his horn.

DuBose's initial complaint documents the sequence of events that reportedly led to his arrest and the beating officers allegedly administered.

DuBose claims he was attempting to back his vehicle into a parking spot near Wood and York streets but was blocked by a police cruiser. In response, DuBose said he moved up Wood Street and found another parking spot but was issued tickets for double parking and excessive use of his horn.

DuBose admitted in the suit that at that point he “momentarily lost his temper” after being ticketed and struck his steering wheel, causing the car horn to sound again.

The officers then returned and allegedly told DuBose to get out of his vehicle.

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Seconds after he was shot by a suspected car thief Friday, a Utah police officer pulled out his gun and fired back – striking an innocent bystander twice.

The Unified Police Department justified the shooting by saying the bystander looked “extremely close” to the suspect.

They also said the innocent bystander was suspicious because the cop saw him running away.

But they later learned he was running away from the initial gunfire.

Police eventually captured the original suspect, Jeremy Bowden, 32, arresting him on charges of attempted aggravated murder as well as a number of drug and weapons charges.

Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder told the media that Bowden a “very violent offender” with a lengthy criminal history.

But Winder didn’t offer much information on Bowden’s 25-year-old doppelgänger, who was initially listed in serious condition.

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A Florida driver reportedly tweeted about being drunk on codeine before he struck and killed a 16-year-old boy and then posted a photo of his corpse on social media.

"I just killed a man," the since-deleted photo showing Trevius Williams' body and a "RIP" read, according to local media.

Now that boy's equally disgusted and heartbroken mother is fuming over not just the driver escaping charges but a drug test as well.

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A spokesperson for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, reached by The Florida Times-Union, said there were no signs that 19-year-old driver, Keenan Slaughter, was impaired at the time of Sunday's incident.

Slaughter's tweet, reading "I drunk so much damn lean I feel like I'm off a NyQuil," are lyrics to a rap song. The mention of "lean" is to a homemade cocktail of promethazine with codeine.

The sheriff's office further said that posting the picture of the boy's body online was not illegal.

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The ex-South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper who was charged after he shot an unarmed man in a gas station parking lot during a traffic stop in 2014 was recently charged for shoplifting along with his wife, officials said.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Sean Martin Groubert, 32, and 23-year-old Morgan Groubert were both charged with shoplifting on Oct. 18 at the Walmart located in the 10000 block of Two Notch Road.

Lott said deputies responded to the store after receiving a call from the store’s loss prevention employee. When deputies arrived, Lott said the employee told them that both Sean and Morgan Groubert were at the self-check out register paying for $136.04 worth of merchandise with $29.84.

Further investigation revealed that the price tags were changed on the items to alter the prices, Lott said.

Groubert was fired from the S.C. Highway Patrol shortly after Sept. 4, 2014 when his dash cam video recorded Groubert firing several shots at 36-year-old Levar Edward Jones. Several of Groubert’s shots hit Jones in the hip as Jones reached inside of his vehicle to retrieve his driver’s license from his wallet.

Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson had Groubert indicted on a charge of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. A trial date has not yet been publicly announced in relation to that charge.

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Police in the East Rock section of New Haven are trying to send a strong message to residents to lock their doors amid several car break-ins and they are doing it an a rather unconventional way.

Starting today, police who notice valuables left in plain view inside unlocked cars will take them to keep them safe from would-be burglars, according to the New Haven Register.

There have been eight car break-ins in one week alone and Lt. Herbert Sharp told the Register that this strategy will prevent burglars from getting expensive items from cars, while forcing residents to make a trip to the police station to pick up belongings.

After taking the valuables, police will either leave a note or call the resident.

The hope is that this will send the message to hide valuables and lock car doors.

Residents have a mixed reaction.


“I think that’s kind of a different way of looking at it. I don’t know how I’d feel about that,” Darin Curts, of New Haven, said.

“I think if it’s something really valuable, if they see something, like a wallet maybe or cell phone or camera, and it’s something that should be protected, it could be a good idea,” Allison Khoe, of New Haven, said.

George Critides, of New Haven, said he does not know if that would solve the break-ins.

"I think there should be more foot patrols and more bicycle police in the neighborhood,” he said.

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Tacoma, WA - After every attempt to evade this lunatic was met him him still in pursuit, I was forced to face my attacker and subdue him. I held him in a headlock to prevent him from being able to continue his attack. I made sure to give him loud, simple and representative verbal commands. I did this for his sake as well as as mine....for any witnesses who would be nearby.
His whining about me spitting on him was about the mouthful of coffee that I just took a sip of. When I saw he was rapidly approaching me, I believed his threatened attack was now imminent. I was not going to try to take this crazy man down with a mouthful of hot coffee and risk burning my throat or choking on it in a fight.

The crazed government employee - employed by InterCity Transit - who never identified himself, was arrested but not placed in cuffs. Eventually he was simply cited and released. You See....the guy had a route to drive.

I was not charged with anything, as I was merely acting in self defense from my government-funded attacker.
I was also legally carrying my holstered handgun when I was attacked. At no point did I introduce my weapon into the situation or threaten my assailant with it...EVEN when he tried gouging my eye out with his finger. It's uncomfortable to imagine what might have happened if this psychopath were issued a gun for some reason.

Even with all this in mind, it was ME who was banned from all Pierce Transit properties, including all bus stops, or I would be arrested.

I walked some distance to a cab stand to pay 30 unexpected dollars to get to a job I was now an hour late for.
Oh....and riding on the bus is out for a while.

I walked away with minor cuts and abrasions to my face, eye, head, both hands, wrists and legs. Before you laugh at such trivial injuries, keep in mind that is they were on HIS skin, under reversed circumstances, the would mean additional incarceration time to the felony I would be charged with.

What makes his skin more valuable than mine?

This is a perfect and real-life example of how the government (in this case, Pierce and InterCity Transit) are using the government (in this case, the police) to threaten citizens who dare to exercise their First and Second Amendment rights in this country.

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Another win has arrived for citizens who play an key part in the law enforcement accountability process. Photography Is Not A Crime reports that New Hampshire native Alfred Valentin has had wiretapping charges against him dismissed. Incredibly, New Hampshire prosecutors tried to use another state's law (via an appeals court decision) against Valentin in hopes of getting the charges to stick.

In an attempt to convict the Manchester man, prosecutors tried to take advantage of the Massachusetts wiretapping law, which is different than New Hampshire’s law.

In Massachusetts, the wiretapping law criminalizes all secret recording of conversations, even those that take place in public.

The prosecution claimed that Valentin secretly audio recorded two Manchester police sergeants by holding his phone by his leg, although it apparently wasn’t so secret that the cops didn’t notice.

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The events leading to the failed prosecution of Valentin began with a no-knock raid by Manchester's SWAT team. Valentin had taken in a roommate who, unbeknownst to him, was currently under investigation for heroin trafficking. While Valentin was at work, the police raided his house, firing incendiary devices through his windows and seizing his home security cameras.

Valentin was summoned home by a neighbor who had found his dog wandering the streets. When he arrived, he was greeted by plainclothes officers who refused to identify themselves. The officers refused to show him a search warrant, telling him to "come back in an hour" when a supervisor would be there. Valentin returned to see the supervisor (and warrant) and began recording his interactions with the officers. The officers responded by arresting him for violating the state's wiretapping law.

This arrest was followed up by the police department issuing a press release falsely stating Valentin had been arrested in connection with a heroin trafficking investigation. In fact, he was never a suspect and was never charged with any drug-related violations. Because of this bogus press release, Valentin lost his job. He is now suing the involved officers for over $1 million, citing a list of constitutional violations and libel-related complaints.

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After his arrest for being under the influence of alcohol as a minor, he was placed in the cell I recognized, by two officers and the same jailer, and his pants and shirt were taken away. Like me, Franklin was rushed, shoved up against the wall, then down to the floor, where an officer and the jailer, kneeling on his back, held him face down. But then they did something to him that they did not do to me. With two already on his back, and after punching him in the face, the third officer stepped back, and began tasering Franklin's bare leg, more than ten times.

When the police withdrew, Franklin's arms and legs, which were held hog tied behind his back, collapsed, and he remained on the ground, unresponsive. They left him like this. A last officer leaving the cell can be heard saying, "What a douche bag!"

After the video finished, I was told that Kelton, who tasered Franklin, had been suspended previously by a department in New Mexico for tasering a man in custody to death. Then, in speaking with another local attorney, I discovered that the jailer, Hanson, had been suspended for the use of excessive force twice before.

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Allison submitted a commentary to KCAW, describing his arrest in February while observing officers conduct a drunk driving investigation on a friend, also outside a bar.

“Without being charged, without being read my rights, without being given a phone call, I was handcuffed, taken into custody, placed in a cell, stripped naked, given a concussion, and held until late the following morning. After being released, I was not arraigned for seven weeks. My arrest wasn’t reported in the local police blotter. Appearing in court, the district attorney pulled me aside, apologized for the circumstances, and offered to dismiss my charges of drunk and disorderly conduct, and criminal mischief for my behavior after my arrest. Though not physically resisting, I did not go quietly.”

Allison posted the proposed radio commentary along with the video in social media. The commentary is under review by a broadcasting attorney, because it alleges that two of the three officers involved in the Hoogendorn arrest had been involved in disciplinary action for excessive use of force. Sitka police chief Sheldon Schmitt says that one officer disciplined for using a taser against a man in Roswell, New Mexico, who subsequently died, was cleared of any wrongdoing along with his fellow officers at the time. Schmitt says the allegations against the second Sitka officer — involved in a shooting — have also been taken out of context.

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An angry mother recently posted cellphone video of her 7-year-old son in handcuffs at his elementary school. The officer who detained him was unable to release him because he lost his set of keys to the handcuffs.

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Idaho State Police are investigating after a Council rancher was shot and killed Sunday by deputies with the Adams County Sheriff's Office.

The incident began when a Subaru station wagon crashed into a bull on US 95 north of Council at about 6:45 p.m. Emergency responders and Adams County deputies responded and were working to extricate the two people inside the car. Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman said the bull, which was injured in the collision, started charging at emergency responders and other vehicles.

"The bull was very agitated and was aggressive to emergency services, as well as the other cars coming up and down the highway," he said.

Deputies were getting ready to put the animal down when the bull's owner, 62-year-old Jack Yantis, arrived on the scene with a rifle. Zollman said dispatchers had called Yantis after the crash, telling him that the bull that was hit appeared to be his, and was down on the highway near his house.

What happened next is still under investigation, but Zollman said there was an altercation and Yantis and both deputies all fired their weapons.

Yantis was fatally wounded and died at the scene. One of the deputies suffered a minor injury.

An emotional Zollman said Monday that his thoughts went out to everyone involved, and that his office took the shooting very seriously. ISP has taken over the investigation to prevent a conflict of interest.

"This is going to be a big hit to this community," Zollman said. "The gentleman involved, Mr. Yantis, was a well-known cattle rancher around here. It's just a sad deal for everybody involved, for the whole community."

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George Filenko, commander of the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force, called Gliniewicz's actions the "ultimate betrayal" that included intentionally leaving a staged trail of police equipment at the crime scene in an attempt to mislead police to believe his death was a homicide.
Filenko and other law enforcement officials announced details of the investigation's findings that Gliniewicz took a large sum of money from Fox Lake Explorer Post 300. Thousands of dollars was used by Gliniewicz for personal purchases, including travel expenses, mortgage payments, gym memberships, adult websites, facilitating personal loans and unaccounted cash withdrawals, Filenko said.

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Louisiana Bureau of Investigations announced this week that an investigation had been opened after law enforcement officers killed a 6-year-old boy who was in the passenger seat of a fleeing car.

According to The Town Talk, preliminary details indicated that city marshals from Ward 2 “discharged their duty weapons, at a vehicle” while pursuing a man on Martin Luther King Drive in Marksville at around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday night.

Officers said that after the suspect’s SUV backed into one of their vehicles, the marshals got out of their patrol cars and began to fire through the driver’s window.

A 6-year-old boy who was sitting in the passenger seat was pronounced dead at the scene. The boy’s father was listed in stable condition after being air-lifted to an Alexandria hospital.

The boy, who was identified as Jeremy David Mardis, was attending first grade at Lafargue Elementary. The father was identified as Chris Few.

State police opened an investigation at the request of the Marksville Police Department, where the Ward 2 marshals were stationed.

Marksville Police Chief Elster Smith said that the officers could be placed on leave until the investigation was concluded.

It was not immediately clear if the driver was armed.

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