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Passenger 1 allegedly flipped off a bunch of police who were conducting seatbelt checks along the side of the road. We were then pulled over, and Passenger 1, Passenger 2, and Myself were all detained and searched. After I reminded them that federal courts have ruled that flipping off police officers is protected speech, they decided to detain me for Careless Driving, which is a crime. Of course, my dashcam shows that I was not driving carelessly. The first officer went in his vehicle and performed LEIN searches on us while a second officer watched us.

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Police said the sequence of events began about 7:30 p.m. Friday night when Cadence Harris of Leavenworth was reported kidnapped. Police said there was some relationship between the young girl and her abductor but would not provide details.

Police in both Missouri and Kansas were involved in the chase as the suspect crossed the state line before the incident ended in the northeast Kansas town of Leavenworth. At some point the suspect exited his vehicle and pointed a gun at officers and they exchanged fire, Kitchens said.

It was not clear if the abductor shot the girl or if she was hit by police gunfire in the exchange, he said.

The suspect was seriously wounded and is hospitalized in Kansas City, he said.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has been called in to help investigate the matter.

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A Miramar Police officer was arrested on petit theft and official misconduct charges after officials say he stole two bottles of liquor while investigating a shoplifting case.

Antonio Dwayne Hester, 34, is also facing a charge of falsifying records stemming from his investigation into a May 14 theft at a Walgreens store, Miramar Police said Thursday.

Hester was booked into jail and later released on bond. It was unknown whether he has an attorney.

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He asked again: Are you paying to have this person drive you to the airport?
I said yes. He then asked me how much I was being charged. I said I didn’t know the exact amount because I hadn’t reached the destination yet. He pushed the issue about the cost and then asked if this was an Uber ride. Both the driver and I said yes. Then the officer asked again how much the driver was charging me. I said the estimate was somewhere in the $35 to $45 range.

The officer then told us that “he was going to educate us on Colorado law today.” Uber was illegal in the state, he said.

The officer then left with the driver’s information.

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The officer returned to the car, and gave the driver a citation for speeding. He never once mentioned that, and I’m not sure whether he was exceeding the speed limit or not.
After the officer gave the citation, he opened the back door again and offered me a “free” ride to the airport. I told him that I had learned while he was gone that the state had just enacted a law allowing Uber. In fact, I referenced that the Governor was proud of it.

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Officers use important words like debate, authorize, behaviour, deliberate, report, failure, grievance, identification, improper, obstruct, investigation, endangering, interview, involvement, maintain, notification, citation, official, penalty, prior, procedure, property, regulations, require, services, situation, successful, suppress, suspicious, threatening, unauthorized, unjust, unknown, and unlawful. They use these words in situations which do not warrant them from either an academic or social standpoint. There has to be a boundary between social communication and persistent, unfounded incrimination and interrogation. These particular moron-words, as I like to call them, are used to needlessly escalate passive situations to allow further use of force by the officer. Period. These men are idiots. All of them. They have no interest in language unless it can be used to incriminate a person who has had the misfortune of getting their attention. Their job sucks (proven fact) and they want to make sure you know how bad it is out there so they, themselves, are combative, argumentative, and horribly licentious when it comes to choosing words to have a conversation with any non-officer. When they're off the clock, they use a total of 15 words including some foods, some weaponry, and some obscenity.

Their only interest in language, plainly, is in the ways they can abuse it to suit their ego-maniacal needs. Your phone could ring outside of a public restroom, you could continue to have a heated discussion over outstanding credit debts, and a cop could come out of the bathroom and cite you for improper use of foul language in a public place resulting in deliberate obstruction of his investigation of his bowels while at the same time, endangering an officer of the law because now he's going to be in rush hour traffic on the drive back to the babysitter club.

Ask an officer an honest question about the true nature of Freedom and Liberty and they'll be lost in a haze of stupidity, arrogance, and blatant anger at their own stupidity and arrogance. When they realize your ability to recognize it and communicate it, they are enraged further and all the more interested in ruining your life because you have "insulted" their "honor." The only freedom they've ever wanted for themselves is to carry a gun and dominate other humans without having to risk their lives regularly or commute overseas (soldier) and without having to use their brain in an academic capacity any more than is absolutely necessary. Logic is a burden to these men. They do not have the ability to affect a society in non-violent ways. They do not contribute intellectually to the human race. Many of them cannot read or write particularly well. But they follow orders blindly and inventory crime to make money for the municipality. They have some sort of emotional down syndrome, truncated intelligence, and are armed and frustrated with their shitty job and all around pathetic life picking up society's garbage with their bare hands.

To your point, officers do not treat citizens with enough respect to answer our simple questions. Any attempt to find fault in an officer's logic or procedure or demands or allegations is perceived as a direct attack on all officers' municipal purpose as authoritative, unchecked maniacs. They do not assist the public. They assign allegations of crime quickly and flippantly with their embarrassing grasp of vocabulary and impregnate honest and unbiased civilian answers with suspicion and guilt simply to reduce the amount that they must actually clean up true crime which would endanger their lives. It's a complete head game as they seek to arrest as many people as possible without putting their lives in immediate danger. And it's fucking awful to deal with every day as a civilian -- knowing full well it's better to avoid helping someone in danger because you will certainly be treated like a suspect and to an infuriating degree, at that. They are all training to be detectives but lack the intelligence and problem solving skills to actually be a detective. So they "play" detective any way they can, under the guise of "protecting the public," and harass every available human in sight with their wild goose-chase logic and ego-psychotic (as I like to call it) emotional self preservation through official vocabulary they spout like goddamned parrots. The only problem is, if you lose an argument (make no mistake -- all conversations with police are a direct argument defending your right to be a free human being), your life will be ruined. They are like flies on shit except they're harder to get rid of.

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They do not have the ability to affect a society in non-violent ways.

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...The Police must effect the arrest and rise above any resistance. That resistance or lack of resistance is determined by the suspect. This was a huge man and it appears to me they used minimal force. Sometimes people with pre-existing conditions die when they exert themselves. There are Police Officers that have heart attacks and die every year during physical altercations with subjects. You will not see main stream media featuring those in their headlines. This is nothing more than petty blame shifting and fuel for extremist with an agenda.

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In the first place, if it turns out that the force used by the officers was legal and within departmental policy, it doesn't make ANY other cop look bad. If the public isn't willing to accept the fact that the officers did nothing wrong, they can go to hell. I could care less how the public perceives us when we're in the right and if YOU were any kind of law enforcement professional, you would understand that officer safety is FAR more important than public perception.

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Again if Mr walking heart attack had simply put his hamburger shovels behind his back, he wouldn't have had a heartbattackmfor over exerting himself. The NYPD did absolutely nothing wron. Tomthe guys slamming these NYPD officekrs, I and many here wouldn't want any of you guys around us on a critical,incident. Hopefully you guys are desk jockeys.

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was not a choke hold. he resisted arrest, and was twice the size as the two who tried initially to arrest him. once again, if he would have just turned around and put his hands behind his back, he may still be alive today. he resisted and his heart gave out, not the police fault.

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The police generally don't show up ten deep at your door just to say hey. This pervasive mentality that these assholes seem to have about not listening to the lawful orders of the police is what leads to these deaths and injuries. All he had to do was comply and he would not be dead. Tough shit and too damn bad.

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Of course the media isn't going to point out how many thousands of dollars of untaxable income a mope can make in a week selling illegal cigarettes (while also receiving welfare benefits)...

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Dont resist. I don't understand why these people don't simply comply. He would be out already with a DAT. What would his penalty have been? A fine perhaps? More than likely, he would have been cut loose with a warning. Unreal. I wish the officers well, its gonna be a bumpy ride.

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A more accurate headline would be "Non Compliant Fat Bastard Gets Just Due In Resisting Law Enforcement Officers"

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I guess it's the best thing for his tribe. He probably never worked a legit job. They city will pay off the family and they will be in Nigggaaa heaven for the rest of their lives!!

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It's going to be an up hill battle for the cops, you can clearly hear the fat bastard crying out "I can't breath". If ever a person wanted to know why police work is so difficult, here is a good reason. Best of luck to those guys who's lives (and their families) have just been turned upside down for all eternity.

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Yes, they'll pay off the "family"...
It's a lot cheaper than a riot...
And therein lies the problem...
The cities of America are held hostage by the strong-arm tactics of the savages

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Sometime between 7 and 8 p.m. Friday, Paul Thomas Trott let his dogs out of the north Minneapolis home near Aldrich Avenue and 39th Avenue he shares with his partner, Josh Lyczkowski.

Unbeknownst to both of them, the gate on their fence had been broken by a car theft suspect who had fled from cops through their yard shortly before, and the dogs, Tito and Vita, made their way into a nearby alley.

In the alley, Tito -- a nearly two-year-old, 120-pound Cane Corso -- approached an officer who was still hunting for the car theft suspect. The officer ended up opening fire and killing Trott and Lyczkowski's beloved dog.

"I ran out the door and was hollering for him," Trott tells us. "I didn't get halfway to the gate when you could hear the officer yell, 'Stop!' He just yelled 'Stop!' and shot him and that was it."

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Eddie Overholt, a 76 year old veteran was arrested in Greeneville, TN Friday, July 18, 2014 for asking Mayor Alan Broyles and board members to speak louder during an Industrial Development Board meeting at Greeneville Light and Power. The Mayor and board were speaking in extremely low voices during the discussion of an unpopular decision to submit a second application to TDOT (the first was denied) that would allow a private company, US Nitrogen, to install and run wastewater pipes to the Nolichucky River so they would be able to get free water and a free place to dump wastewater instead of signing an agreement with the local water utility which would help the community.

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When Mr. Overholt asked them to please speak up the Mayor ordered his removal and subsequent arrest. He was forced to walk to the jail despite having health problems and was also charged for resisting arrest when he needed to rest.

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A 73-year-old Middlesbrough woman has died days after being bitten by a police dog in her home.

Irene Collins, of Penrith Road, was bitten several times by the German shepherd after Cleveland Police went into her garden to search for a suspected burglar last Wednesday.

She was taken to James Cook University Hospital but died at the weekend.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will now decide how the incident should be investigated.

...Ms Collins was bitten in her kitchen after giving police permission to search her garden.

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North Ridgeville humane officer Barry Accorti has a penchant for blasting helpless animals in front of people. Last June, the former detective and SWAT team commander made headlines after a homeowner discovered a feral cat and her five kittens, leading to Accorti pulling out his gun and shooting them all, sending them "to kitty heaven" because the animal shelter was full.

A year later, Accorti is back in the news for allegedly blasting a trapped baby raccoon in front of three little kids.

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Fox said one of the Scouts took a picture of a border official, which spurred agents to detain everyone in that van and search them and their belongings.

“The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison,” Fox said.

Fox said he was told it is a federal offense to take a picture of a federal agent.

Not wanting things to escalate, Fox said he did not complain.

Another of the Scouts was taking luggage from the top of a van to be searched when something startling happened.

“He hears a snap of a holster, turns around, and here’s this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man’s head,” Fox explained.

Fox said that had them all in fear.

Ultimately no one was hurt or arrested, and after about four hours they were allowed to continue their trip into Alaska.

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A Beaufort police officer pleaded guilty to simple assault against his 10-year-old stepdaughter, then resigned from the police department.

Robert Dunn, 46, pleaded guilty to simple assault on Monday. According to warrants, he slapped his 10-year-old stepdaughter on the right side of her head.

The judge gave Dunn a 45-day suspended sentence and a year of unsupervised probation, a court official said.

Dunn turned in his resignation from the Beaufort Police Department later Monday, which became effective on Tuesday, said Town Manager Charlie Burgess. Dunn was a police captain.

The Carteret County Sheriff's Office arrested Dunn on April 20 and charged him with one count of misdemeanor assault on a child under 12. He was placed on paid administrative leave from the Beaufort Police Department.

Dunn's wife, Tara Keys Dunn, called 911 after the alleged incident occurred. She alleged that Dunn was "stoned drunk."

"My husband just assaulted my daughter. He's drunk, he's stoned drunk. He just came into the room and slapped her across the face while she was sleeping," Tara said to the 911 operator.

But Tara Dunn later requested that the charge against her husband be dropped, saying it was a big misunderstanding.

Tara Dunn said her husband was playing with her daughter when he went to give her a high five. However, the child moved in the midst of the high five, causing Dunn to accidentally touch the child's face, Tara said.

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WINSTON COUNTY, Alabama -- A Winston County sheriff's investigator faces a charge of manufacturing methamphetamine, Sheriff Rick Harris said Wednesday.

Sgt. Grady Keith Concord, 41, of Nauvoo, is charged with second-degree manufacturing methamphetamine and has been transferred to the Lauderdale County Jail, where he's being held on a $500,000 bond, Harris said.

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A mother had taken her seven-year-old son to a doctor’s appointment in Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri; one of many visits her son must go through because he is going deaf.

Mandi Kay Wilson takes photos of her son during these visits to post online, part of a Go Fund Me campaign to help raise money for her son’s medical expenses.

But last week, the audiologist berated her for taking photos, insisting that it was against policy to photograph her son in her office. The doctor then admitted she was upset because a framed picture of the her daughter had come out in the background of one of Wilson’s previous photos posted online.

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The doctor called a security guard, who told her she had no right to photograph her son because of the federal HIPAA law, which is a huge misconception we’ve seen played out many times over the years by cops, paramedics and hospital staff.

HIPAA laws pertain to the privacy of medical records and has nothing to do with photography or videography in hospitals, especially of your own relative (patients with an expectation of privacy should not be photographed against their will but that wouldn’t fall under the HIPAA law).

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The city of Estelline is reviewing its police procedures after Hall County authorities reached a $77,500 legal settlement with an Azle woman who alleged officers illegally seized more than $29,000 from her pickup and kept $1,400 of her cash.

The federal suit, filed last year by Laura Dutton, 64, alleged that the cities of Estelline and Memphis, former Officer Jayson Fry and Memphis Police Chief Chris Jolly violated her Fourth Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure when she was arrested Nov. 28, 2012, in Estelline on a felony money laundering charge.

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Fry told Jolly he thought he smelled raw marijuana in the pickup and that he thought Dutton was acting nervously. The drug dog “hit” on the vehicle and the officers found more than $29,000 inside Dutton’s purse, still bundled in bank currency wrapping. Dutton told officers she didn’t do drugs and denied having any marijuana in her truck. She told officers the cash came from a recent property sale, and no drugs were found during the search.

During the stop, the Memphis police chief reportedly contacted Dutton’s two sisters, who confirmed her account that the money was received from a recent real estate transaction. Jolly, according to court records, then called an experienced local criminal investigator, who advised that officers did not have enough evidence to justify Dutton’s arrest. After consulting with Jolly, Fry arrested Dutton, who was held overnight and bonded out the next day.

In January 2013, District Attorney Luke Inman’s office refused the case for prosecution, citing the fact that Dutton provided records of the land sale. Dutton later returned to claim her seized cash, but said the city didn’t return all the money that was seized during the arrest, a claim she noted on her signed receipt. The city returned $29,640 to Dutton on Jan. 10, 2013, and her speeding ticket was dismissed.

The city of Estelline, according to court records and depositions, did not properly investigate Dutton’s complaint that officers seized $1,400 more than was returned to her and could not produce video recordings of Dutton’s roadside interrogation by Jolly and
Fry in Jolly’s police vehicle.

“The city of Memphis claims they destroyed their copy of that recorded interrogation. The city of Estelline says they didn’t make any such video or audio recording of Dutton’s roadside interrogations; only Memphis did,” court records show.

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BLOOMFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Authorities say a northern New Jersey police officer accidentally shot himself when a dog apparently attacked him.

Anthony Ambrose, chief of detectives for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, tells NJ.com (Clifton officer accidentally shoots himself after Bloomfield dog attack | NJ.com) that the officer was treated at a hospital for injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

But his name and further details on his condition were not disclosed.

Ambrose said the Clifton officer was on duty when he was apparently attacked by a dog in Bloomfield. The officer drew his service weapon, which somehow fired accidentally.

A Clifton police spokesman declined comment on the shooting, citing the ongoing investigation.

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Atlantic City must turn over a "representative sampling" of all police officer Internal Affairs reports from 2003 to 2011, a federal judge ruled in a case that is attempting to prove the department has been indifferent to its officers’ misconduct.

The civil lawsuit filed by Matthew Groark claims Sgt. Frank Timek and Officer Sterling Wheaten beat him during a 2010 incident at Dusk in Caesars Atlantic City. Groark alleged he was thrown down stairs, punched and repeatedly kneed by the officers in an unprovoked attack.
But now the files of other officers must be turned over to see whether alleged failures in internal investigations went beyond the two officers.

After reviewing 70 of those reports, Richard Rivera — the plaintiff’s expert — found a “catastrophic failure of (the department’s) Internal Affairs to impartially and thoroughly investigate” the two officers in those complaints. None of them was substantiated by investigators.

A Press special report in May found that Atlantic City dismisses most police brutality and civil rights complaints against its police officer. During a five-year span, the city has disciplined officers in only one of 473 excessive force complaints.

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Police claimed that they knocked, received no answer, then barged in when they discovered the door was unlocked. The individual sleeping on the couch was quickly detained and the intruders made their way to Mr. Westcott’s bedroom.

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In the split-second confusion of being jarred awake by strange noises, Westcott picked up his pistol in a futile effort to defend himself. It would be the last decision he ever made. Police skillfully entered his sleeping quarters and opened fire on the man that supposedly “threatened the officers.”

Mr. Westcott did not fire a shot. He was mortally wounded when struck with multiple shotgun slugs and pistol rounds.

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Call it what you will—taxes, penalties, fees, fines, regulations, tariffs, tickets, permits, surcharges, tolls, asset forfeitures, foreclosures, etc.—but the only word that truly describes the constant bilking of the American taxpayer by the government and its corporate partners is theft.

We’re operating in a topsy-turvy Sherwood Forest where instead of Robin Hood and his merry band of thieves stealing from the rich to feed the poor, you’ve got the government and its merry band of corporate thieves stealing from the poor to fatten the wallets of the rich. In this way, the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. All the while, the American Dream of peace, prosperity, and liberty has turned into a nightmare of endless wars, debilitating debt, and outright tyranny.

What Americans don’t seem to comprehend is that if the government can arbitrarily take away your property, without your having much say about it, you have no true rights. You’re nothing more than a serf or a slave.

In this way, the police state with all of its trappings—from surveillance cameras, militarized police, SWAT team raids, truancy and zero tolerance policies, asset forfeiture laws, privatized prisons and red light cameras to Sting Ray guns, fusion centers, drones, black boxes, hollow-point bullets, detention centers, speed traps and abundance of laws criminalizing otherwise legitimate conduct—is little more than a front for a high-dollar covert operation aimed at laundering as much money as possible through government agencies and into the bank accounts of corporations.

The rationalizations for the American police state are many. There’s the so-called threat of terrorism, the ongoing Drug War, the influx of illegal immigrants, the threat of civil unrest in the face of economic collapse, etc. However, these rationalizations are merely excuses for the growth of a government behemoth, one which works hand in hand with corporations to profit from a society kept under lockdown and in fear at all times.

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A three-year federal investigation into the conduct of the Newark Police Department found that the vast majority of pedestrian stops conducted by police were unconstitutional, that many officers used unreasonable force and that some officers even stole from prisoners, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

DOJ's Civil Rights Division, working with federal prosecutors in New Jersey, found that about 75 percent of pedestrian stops had an insufficient constitutional basis, that 20 percent of reported use-of-force incidents were unreasonable and unconstitutional, and that the Newark Police Department was plagued by inadequate supervision, training and investigations.

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The Sandusky County Sheriff's Office will have to answer for their use of a flashbang grenade in the death of a Fremont man.

Last week, federal Judge Jack Zouhary, of the U.S. Northern District Court, in Toledo, put Sandusky County and the Sandusky County Sheriff's Office on notice they will have to face a jury and explain their use of a flashbang grenade in the July 11, 2010, death of 26-year-old Bryan Jones.

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"Jones had not fired a gun at neighbors or officers. Nor had he refused to surrender to police. Jones was instead asleep for some time and police, at best, made one failed attempt to talk to him; Jones made no threatening gestures with the shotgun he held on his lap during that time; and his mom, against whom Jones made the earlier verbal threat, was not nearby," Zouhary wrote.

"A jury could find that Jones posed no immediate risk to anyone until (at the earliest) after the TRT deployed the flash-bang. Moreover, a jury could conclude that a reasonable officer would know that if the officer awakened a sleeping suspect with a flashbang device, the explosion would disorient the suspect."

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Sheriff Kyle Overmyer ordered the Tactical Response Team (TRT) to storm the house about 90 minutes after the first deputy arrived and 20 minutes after he arrived on the scene. Overmyer later told investigators he was concerned Jones needed medical help when it appeared he stopped moving.

There was no one else in the home when deputies Mario and Jose Calvillo, who are brothers, quietly led the four-man team into the home.

All told, Mario fired five shots from his .40-caliber handgun and Jose fired nine shots from an M16A2 rifle. Jones was ultimately shot five times.

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The Lafayette Police Department has apologized on behalf of an officer who wrongfully ticketed and detained a bicyclist for riding through a crosswalk.

"Police officers are human just like everyone else, and they do tend to make mistakes from time to time," Lafayette police Chief Rick Bashor said. "In this case, the officer made a mistake. He misinterpreted a state law."

The incident took place last week at the corner of Minotaur Circle and South Boulder Road in Lafayette, when officer Sean Jenneiahn stopped a male cyclist — listed on Facebook as Vince Marten, of Louisville, but whose name and age police have not confirmed — for not dismounting at the crosswalk.

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Police in Enfield, Connecticut, were ready to arrest one of their own, Matthew Worden, for punching a suspect when it was "neither necessary nor needed." They prepared a 7-page arrest warrant where it sounded like the cop's excuse was that his victim got in the way of his punches, but the state's attorney in Hartford rejected the application because, well, the incident was too complicated to follow.

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In her letter rejecting the arrest warrant [state's attorney Gail] Hardy said the video "depicts many moving parts where it is extremely difficult to keep up with everything that is going on with all parties."

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Florida sheriff's officers falsely arrested and imprisoned a woman with allergies for buying two boxes of Sudafed at a drug store, she claims in Federal Court.

Mickey Lynn Goodson claims she bought the two boxes of the over-the-counter drug because the pharmacist recommended it. She sued Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young and the two officers who arrested her, Rodney Moore and William Buckhalt.

Charges of possession of a controlled substance were eventually dropped, Goodson says in the July 18 complaint.

In July 2010, Goodson says, she went to a Winn-Dixie store to get Sudafed "because she has allergy flare-ups." Sudafed contains pseudoephedrine, which can be used as a precursor chemical in some recipes for methamphetamines.

"The pharmacist on duty suggested that plaintiff buy two boxes of Sudafed and she did," the complaint states.

"Almost immediately," defendant Officer Moore drove up in an unmarked police car, Goodson says. Moore blocked her and her husband's car, prevented them from leaving, and asked if she had just bought Sudafed. She said she had. Moore then took the Sudafed and told the Goodsons they had to wait for more officers to arrive, detaining them against their will, they say in the complaint.

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olice are investigating another video of an officer placing a man in a chokehold and punching him in the face at an East Harlem subway station, an NYPD spokesman said.

Video of the incident surfaced about a week after the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner, on whom police also used the banned technique while trying to arrest him July 17 for selling untaxed cigarettes.

The new video shows police arresting Ronald Johns, 22, on July 14 at about 4:20 p.m. at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station. During the confrontation he is placed in what looks to be a chokehold at least twice.

Police Officer Colin McGuire stopped Johns after he entered the station through an exit gate, according to court papers.

Johns refused to show police his identification and then "flailed his arms and twisted his body to prevent Officer McGuire from putting handcuffs on him," according to a criminal complaint.

The officers "had to struggle" with Johns and use pepper spray to subdue him, according to the court papers.

He was charged with turnstile-jumping, resisting arrest and trespassing, records show. He was arraigned the next day and released without bail. Johns is due back in court on Sept. 17.

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A Southern California police officer arrested a man for video recording “private cars” from a public sidewalk.

The Covina police officer named K. Counts then handcuffed the man when he refused to provide identification, claiming that they were looking for a suspect on the loose, and that it could have very well been the man with the camera who decided to return to the crime of the scene, knowing he was being sought.

But from the video, it didn’t appear to be much of a manhunt.

There were no helicopters or cops searching yards. There were just a group of cops talking to some citizens from several yards away when the man, who goes by Damon Enz on Youtube, but identified himself as “David” to the officer.

The cop then told him he had the right to pat him down for “officer safety reasons.”

David obliged to let himself be patted down, which was when the cop knocked the camera out of his hand and handcuffed him.

David’s mother came out and picked up the camera, continuing to record, pleading with the cop to release her son, but the cop insisted that he was “obstructing my investigation.”

Another cop came up and walked towards his mother, which is when the video stops.

The incident took place June 30, 2014. David was incarcerated for six hours. Charges have since been dropped.

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BATON ROUGE - Members of Metro Council will have to give the final approval to pay $495,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit over an officer-involved shooting where a drunken man was shot and killed in 2011.

On March 6th, 2011, Baton Rouge police officer Christopher Magee shot and killed Carlos Harris, 21, in the parking lot of Club Insomnia off Florida Boulevard. Harris was at the bar with a friend, Ryan Dominique, the night he was shot.

Leading up to the incident, police were called to the scene related to Domingue driving recklessly in the parking lot. As events unfolded and he was taken into custody, Magee either told or asked (accounts differ) Harris to move Dominique's car despite witnesses saying Harris told Magee he was drunk.

Harris was shot while moving the car after he smashed into various vehicles in the parking lot, including police cruisers. Magee said at the time he was worried for his safety, and those around him, so he opened fire. Harris was shot dead. Magee also suggested Harris had some sort of weapon.

"He told [Officer Magee] he was drunk...[But Magee] commanded him to move the car," witness Aisha Loliss told WBRZ News 2 after the shooting in 2011.

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The homicide went unsolved for eight years until then-Detective Todd Harwood of the Kentucky State Police was assigned to investigate it as a cold case and concluded 18 days later that King was the perpetrator. Facing life in prison if convicted of murder, King, while maintaining her innocence, pleaded guilty in 2008 to manslaughter and accepted a 10-year sentence.

The Innocence Project began investigating after concluding it would have been physically impossible for King, who has only one leg and weighed 97 pounds at the time of the offense, to have thrown Breeden's body off a bridge into the Kentucky River, where it was found.

Then in May 2012, while he was being interrogated by Louisville Metro Police about another crime, Richard Jarrell Jr. confessed to killing Breeden and two other homicides. Louisville narcotics Detective Barron Morgan then passed his statement to the Innocence Project.

After a two-day hearing, Spencer Circuit Judge Charles Hickman said Jarrell had offered a "startling level of details" about the homicide in his confession. But as a matter of law, Hickman said he couldn't grant King's motion for a new trial because she had pleaded guilty.

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A Syracuse man plans to sue city police, claiming officers brutalized him after he called 911 to break up a dispute outside his residence.

Alonzo Grant returned home from work at 7:30 p.m. one Saturday night. He found his adult daughter in a verbal argument with a woman who lived nearby. Things escalated, so he called police to calm things down, his lawyer said.

But by the time police arrived, his daughter had left. Grant told an officer the dispute was over, then walked back into his house, said Syracuse lawyer Jesse Ryder.

The officer entered the residence, the lawyer said, and told Grant to go outside and talk to another officer.

As Grant walked down the front steps, he claims the officer charged him without warning, grabbed him in a bear hug and flung him over a railing before putting him in a chokehold as another officer struck him repeatedly with his fist.

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Imagine that your 2 year old son has just been stung by a scorpion. He begins to react to the venom, seething in agony and vomiting.

Your first instinct would be to get him to a hospital as soon as possible. Knowing that every minute counts you do not have the time to wait for an ambulance to get you there, you drive yourself.

Most people would speed to the hospital in this position, which is exactly what Jennifer Garbet did when her two year old son Easton was stung by a scorpion while playing in the backyard.

A speeding ticket is an afterthought at this point. While speeding to the hospital Garbet and the family friend who was driving see a police officer on the side of the road. They decide to proactively contact the officer to ensure a positive and swift outcome. So they pull over and tell him that they are in an emergency situation, thinking that he will help them.

Garbet said the officer nodded, as if he acknowledged their emergency, so they drove off. However, instead of helping, the officer actually pulls them over. He tells them to stop speeding and then they can go on their way. As they pull out onto the highway, they are immediately pulled over again!

The DPS patrolman, then detains the family, with the 2 year old boy suffering in the back. He forces them to stay there until an ambulance, that he said he called, arrives. ”You’re not going anywhere or you’ll be arrested,” the officer tells the frantic mother who just wants to save her son.

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Over-Policing America

SWAT teams were once used only in emergencies such as riots or hostage situations. But today there are more than 50,000 "no-knock raids" a year.

I want the police to be better armed than the bad guys, but what exactly does that mean today? Apparently it means the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security equip even the tiniest rural police departments with massive military vehicles, body armor, and grenade launchers. The equipment is surplus from the long wars we fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The Texas Dept. of Public Safety has apparently decided that if you'd like to be allowed to drive a vehicle in the state, you'd also perfectly fine with a criminal booking-style fingerprinting and having those immediately uploaded to a criminal database (that reps swear isn't a criminal database).

For years, Texas has only required a thumbprint as a minor security measure when obtaining a driver's license or ID card. That has now changed. It's unclear exactly when this went into effect (the Texas DPS made no announcement of this policy change), but longtime Dallas Morning News consumer affairs columnist, Dave Lieber, experienced it firsthand back in June.

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Vinger may be correct that the DPS is allowed to collect prints as the result of this law, but it's not specifically ordered (or permitted) to collect all 10 prints. Note that the section quoted says "thumbprints or fingerprints." This "or" is important. A look at the actual amendments to existing law shows that the DPS isn't actually required to demand a full set of prints.

The amendments also refer to 521.042(b), which states the following:
(b) The application must include:
(1) the thumbprints of the applicant or, if thumbprints cannot be taken, the index fingerprints of the applicant;

So, there's no legal backing to Vinger's claims. Sure, the DPS is technically permitted to collect all 10 prints, but only because nothing specifically forbids this practice. But the law does not demand all 10 prints be provided in order to obtain a license or identification card. The law only asks for thumbprints or index prints.

This is why it was rolled out quietly. The DPS has no legal "authority" to demand a full set of prints before handing out a license. What it can do, however, is ask for them. At this point, supplying a full set of prints is purely voluntary. The DPS can't prevent you from obtaining a license if you refuse, but the whole system is set up to make it appear as though it's mandatory.

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The state gave the DPS the authority to collect index prints if thumbprints couldn't be obtained. For whatever reason, the DPS -- nearly a decade later -- has decided to roll out a very imaginative reading of the 2005 statute. Worse, it's claiming its interpretation of words that aren't actually there is "legal authority." And when questioned, it's falling back on "terrorism" and but-surely-you-want-criminals-to-be-caught rationalizing.

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The state Attorney General's Office has agreed to pay $150,000 to a Philadelphia man who was injured in a pre-dawn car crash in 2009 involving a State Police vehicle, and then kept in the dark for two years about the identity of the trooper who was driving.

The man, Clayton Tanksley, was struck from behind by an unmarked patrol car while traveling on Interstate 295 in Camden County, rolling his sports utility vehicle onto its roof and leaving him hanging upside down from his seat belt as he awaited emergency crews.

The troopers who arrived first at the scene not only did not ask the off-duty trooper, Detective Sgt. William Billingham, to take an alcohol test, but also used his undercover identification on their accident report, sending Tanksley on a two-year search for someone who did not exist.

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This week at an intersection in Syracuse, New York, two police cars collided when an officer in one of the cars ran a red light. The officer who was driving the vehicle that ran the light was actually distracted because he was using a laptop computer in his car.

It was reported that 35 year old Officer Robert Harrington ran the light at the intersection of East Water and South Townsend streets, colliding with an unmarked police car that contained 51-year-old Detective Edward MacBlane.

Tickets were not issued to anyone involved in the incident, but if it was not a police officer who was responsible for this collision, then there would have easily been a number of fines and tickets, if not an arrest.

Harrington claims that he was in pursuit of a “suspicious person”, but his emergency lights or sirens were not on at the time of the crash, and there has been no proof put forward to verify this claim. According to the police department, neither officer was injured in the crash and both vehicles sustained minor damage.

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