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weird how the "rules of war" dont apply outside of a warzone. be a cop.
Virginia cop Stephen Rankin indicted in teen's death - CNN.com A grand jury has indicted Portsmouth, Virginia, police Officer Stephen Rankin on a first-degree murder charge related to the shooting of an unarmed teen in a Walmart parking lot, according to public Virginia court records. William Chapman, 18, was fatally shot on April 22. Police responded to a shoplifting call at a Walmart, after which the officer approached Chapman, according to Jon Babineau, an attorney for the teen's family. There was a struggle between the officer, who has been fired, and Chapman before the shooting, according to a witness. ... |
hate when hospital patient are discharged? be a cop.
Police in Texas Hospital Shoot Patient in the Chest Christian Alexander Pean, a fourth-year medical student in New York City, had been anxiously texting his father in Houston throughout the morning to inquire about his younger brother, Alan Christopher Pean, a patient at St. Joseph Medical Center in Texas. The night before, on August 26, Alan had called his parents to tell them he was in the middle of a panic attack. ... Frustrated that their concerns were dismissed but assured that their son was in good hands, Alan's parents left to their hotel a few blocks from the hospital. A few hours later, they received a call from St. Joseph Medical Center: Alan was being discharged and was ready to be picked up. In the short time it took his parents to walk back to the hospital, however, something terrible happened to Alan. His parents were told when they arrived that their son was in the intensive care unit. When Christian heard the news, his mind immediately leaped to horrifying possibilities; as a Black man living in the US, he had been conditioned to fear the worst for himself and his family. "My dad texts me and says, something happened, he's in the ICU," Christian said. "And one minute after, I asked, did they shoot him? I instantly thought that was what had happened." Christian's worst fears proved true. Somehow in the 10 minutes between the call to pick up Alan and his parents' arrival, two off-duty Houston police officers working security at St. Joseph were summoned by hospital staff to help them control Alan, who had allegedly become combative. During the violent encounter, according to the police and the family's legal team, Alan struck the two officers in the head, leaving one of them with a concussion. After using a Taser weapon to subdue Alan, one of the officers unholstered his gun and fired a single bullet into Alan's chest. Fortunately, the bullet missed all of his vital organs. But the news utterly broke his parents. How, they wondered, could trained medical professionals have sicced armed police on their son, a registered mental health patient in the hospital's care? It was beyond devastating for Christian, too. But it never surprised him that police came so close to fatally shooting his little brother in a space designed to care for people. "That's what is sad about it," he told Truthout. "I trusted my brother to the system, and I still inherently had this fear that something like that could happen to him." ... |
want to beat people to death? be a cop.
3 California deputies arrested; inmate died of blunt trauma Three Northern California jail guards have been arrested after an inmate under their watch was found dead of multiple blunt trauma, authorities said Thursday. Santa Clara County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. James Jensen said the deputies — Rafael Rodriguez, 27, Jereh Lubrin, 28, and Matthew Farris, 27 — remain in custody without bail. Medical Examiner Dr. Joseph O'Hara said that Michael James Pipkin Tyree, 31, died of multiple blunt force injuries, "visceral lacerations" and internal bleeding. Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith, her voice breaking and eyes tearing up, apologized Thursday to Tyree's family and said "the disappointment and disgust I feel cannot be overstated." She was flanked by 18 uniformed officers, and at least another dozen members of her agency in plain clothes attended a news conference. She said the three officers, who she called "accused murderers," were treated as anyone else as they were handcuffed, booked and locked in protective custody in the same jail where Tyree was killed. They've since been transferred to an unnamed facility for their own protection, she said. Exactly what happened leading up to Tyree's death remains murky. Last Thursday, Tyree and other inmates in his jail wing were securely locked in their cells when the beating apparently took place. Smith refused to provide details but said the three officers were conducting a routine clothing search and left the wing. She said about an hour later one officer re-entered the cell and issued a "man down" call. Tyree, naked and covered in feces and vomit, was declared dead by responding paramedics. Smith said she apologized directly to two of Tyree's sisters earlier Thursday, and repeated her "profound sorrow" over his death. Smith said the day after Tyree was declared dead, the guards — who had begun working their regular shift — were removed from duty, stripped of their weapons, uniforms and peace officer status. It took several more days for them to be arrested. They currently are on unpaid administrative leave, Smith said. Attorney Paula Canny, representing Tyree's family, commended the sheriff for an "extraordinary" response. "This could have been dragged out," Canny said. Canny urged community members to think about "how we, as a system, treat mentally ill people" and said she hopes the district attorney will bring the officers to justice. ... |
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oh hey look, cops need to follow the constitution...
weird. FBI, DEA and others will now have to get a warrant to use stingrays | Ars Technica The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced sweeping new rules Thursday concerning the use of cell-site simulators, often called stingrays, mandating that federal agents must now obtain a warrant in most circumstances. The policy, which takes effect immediately, applies to its agencies, including the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the United States Marshals Service, among others. "Cell-site simulator technology has been instrumental in aiding law enforcement in a broad array of investigations, including kidnappings, fugitive investigations and complicated narcotics cases," Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates said in a statement. "This new policy ensures our protocols for this technology are consistent, well-managed and respectful of individuals’ privacy and civil liberties." The move comes after federal agencies, most notably the FBI, have tried to tightly control information about stingrays for years. The FBI and the Harris Corporation, one of the primary manufacturers of the devices, have refused to answer specifics questions from Ars. Not only can stingrays be used to determine location by spoofing a cell tower, but they can also be used to intercept calls and text messages. Once deployed, the devices intercept data from a target phone as well as information from other phones within the vicinity. For years, federal and local law enforcement have tried to keep their existence a secret while simultaneously upgrading their capabilities. Over the last year, as the devices have come under increased scrutiny, new information about the secretive devices has come to light. Ars has previously reported that while stingrays have been used at the local level for serious violent crimes, they have also been used to investigate ATM robberies, and 911 hangups. In 2015, federal authorities have shown a willingness to open up a little about the technology, although the FBI declared in January that it has a right to use the devices in public without a warrant. ... |
employees late to work? be a cop and strip search them.
My name is Serg Gonzalez, I am a former New York City Police Officer. I say former because I made some mistakes that cost me my job. There is so much more to my story but I would like to focus on a particular incident that occurred Sept. of last year upon arriving late to sign in to Internal Affairs Bureau. My supervisor Det. Robert Massey ordered me into a small side room with no windows, he then ordered me to empty my pockets on the table. When I asked why I was being searched, Det. Massey explained that it was ordered by his supervisor Sgt. Fallon because of lateness and I couldn't leave until I did so. I emptied my pockets on the table and emptied the contents of my wallet. Upon reviewing my possessions he told me I was free to leave now and not to tell anyone this happened. In New York City, It is illegal to search someone for drugs, even if you know they are present. Even if you go in there pockets and feel the alleged contraband, you cannot pull those out of someones pocket. you would be surprised how many bags of weed tend to get stuck to someones keys in certain neighborhoods. You can only search for weapons or hard objects that can be used as weapons. A month later once again I was late and once again ordered into the small windowless room, only this time I recorded what was to take place. Sgt. Fallon had ordered I be strip searched for lateness, I was ordered to remove my clothing. Det. Massey acknowledged that what he was doing is illegal, strip searches are not allowed in the dept. He creepily insisted it was to teach me a lesson, I refused at first but Det. Massey once again made it clear that I didn't have much of a choice and could not leave until I did what I was told, take my cloths off. I emptied my pockets on the table, he then ordered me to take my pants and shirt off. I reluctantly did unbutton my shirt and raised my arms, exposing my chest and back, I pulled my shorts down to the base of my penis as well as exposing the top region of my buttox, I wasn't wearing underwear and refused to drop them all the way. Det. Massey then closely inspected, his face within inches of my pubic region and bottox looking for needle pricks or any other ridiculous sign of drug use he knew he wouldn't find. I remember the look on his face while he did this to me but what reassured me was listening to the recording, he is obviously enjoying this. We exchanged some words and he let me go after about 15 minutes. Strip searches are illegal and in the 5 years I was an active police officer and 5 years I spent suspended have never conducted one or seen one happen, I was sexually assaulted. |
<p>want to rob people at gunpoint and shoot them if they dont cough up? be a cop.</p><p>Constable charged in shooting that left man paralyzed, DA announces | lehighvalleylive.com</p><p>
</p><p>A local constable will be charged with shooting a man outside a Whitehall Township home last year while trying to arrest him for unpaid parking tickets, Lehigh County prosecutors announced Thursday.</p><p>District Attorney Jim Martin said Howard W. Altemos Jr. has been charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment, based on a recommendation from the Lehigh County grand jury. The man who was shot and left paralyzed, Kevin McCullers, will also be charged with resisting arrest, Martin said.</p><p>A message left for attorneys representing Altemos, of South Whitehall Township, was not immediately returned.</p><p>The grand jury recommended charging a second constable, 55-year-old Carlos Bernardi, who also opened fire during the July 17, 2014, incident, Martin said.</p><p>Bernardi struck a tire of the car McCullers was driving, and Martin said he declined to charge Bernardi because prosecutors would not be able to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.</p><p>"He acted prudently and carefully," Martin said of Bernardi.</p><p><strong>Constables can only use deadly force if they are in imminent danger of seriously bodily injury or death, Martin said.</strong></p><p>"That ceased to exist at the time Mr. McCullers was shot," Martin said.</p><p>...</p><p><strong><span style="color:rgb(54, 54, 54)">The 39-year-old McCullers </span>was shot<span style="color:rgb(54, 54, 54)"> as he attempted to drive away from the constables, and was left paralyzed after the shooting.</span></strong></p><p id="241"> |
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<p>florida post.</p><p>FL Cop: Targeting Blacks ?Is Just Plain Fun!? ? Secret Audio Reveals Rampant Racism</p><p>
</p><p>Bombshell revelations from a Russian website that leaked explosive secret audio recordings of a Florida Sheriff have revealed extreme racism and targeting of black citizens. The recordings acknowledge that Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his Chief Deputy, Michael Gauger, created a secret investigative unit for the purpose of engaging in illegal investigations of dissidents to find evidence of any crime, to subvert their First Amendment rights.</p><p>During the horrifying audio, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Detective Kenneth “Mark” Lewis begins talking about the city of Riviera Beach, a predominantly black city in Palm Beach County. In explaining why there is so much crime in Riviera Beach, Det. Lewis tells a woman identified only as “Jessica” that “Unfortunately, this city is run by a bunch of dumb blacks.”</p><p>The conversation shifts to the treatment of black citizens, and Det. Lewis tells Jessica he pulls over black citizens in new cars because he knows they can’t afford to be driving new cars. “And,” adds Lewis, “It’s just plain fun.”</p><p>Such racially-charged statements are rarely heard directly from Law Enforcement officers, but in this case, Det. lewis was speaking to a romantic interest he met online. An interest<br />that didn’t share the same goal; her interest was to catch Det. Lewis admitting to crime and corruption, to which Lewis admitted in droves.</p><p>The numerous criminal activity was originally broken by Gossip Extra, the Palm Beach Post and PINAC before being reported here. This story, however, comes as no surprise Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told drivers to “run protesting thugs over,” as reported here.</p><p>...</p><p id="171"> |
<p>florida post.</p><p>FL Cop: Targeting Blacks ?Is Just Plain Fun!? ? Secret Audio Reveals Rampant Racism</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Bombshell revelations from a Russian website that leaked explosive secret audio recordings of a Florida Sheriff have revealed extreme racism and targeting of black citizens. The recordings acknowledge that Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his Chief Deputy, Michael Gauger, created a secret investigative unit for the purpose of engaging in illegal investigations of dissidents to find evidence of any crime, to subvert their First Amendment rights.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>During the horrifying audio, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Detective Kenneth “Mark” Lewis begins talking about the city of Riviera Beach, a predominantly black city in Palm Beach County. In explaining why there is so much crime in Riviera Beach, Det. Lewis tells a woman identified only as “Jessica” that “Unfortunately, this city is run by a bunch of dumb blacks.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The conversation shifts to the treatment of black citizens, and Det. Lewis tells Jessica he pulls over black citizens in new cars because he knows they can’t afford to be driving new cars. “And,” adds Lewis, “It’s just plain fun.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Such racially-charged statements are rarely heard directly from Law Enforcement officers, but in this case, Det. lewis was speaking to a romantic interest he met online. An interest<br /><br />that didn’t share the same goal; her interest was to catch Det. Lewis admitting to crime and corruption, to which Lewis admitted in droves.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The numerous criminal activity was originally broken by Gossip Extra, the Palm Beach Post and PINAC before being reported here. This story, however, comes as no surprise Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told drivers to “run protesting thugs over,” as reported here.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>... |
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Selling children to commercially-operated prisons ruled illegal in Pennsylvania: PA Judge Who Sold Juveniles to Jails Gets 28 Years in Prison
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So do they get a fair retrial?
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Originally Posted by triple88a
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So do they get a fair retrial?
Between 2003 and 2008, the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court tossed 4,000 convictions issued by Ciavarella because the judge violated the constitutional rights of the kids. |
Originally Posted by rleete
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Uh, yes it should. You hired the lying dumbass.
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Originally Posted by z31maniac
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Give me a fucking break. It's pretty easy to misrepresent yourself, change with time, etc.
Until you've been part of the hiring process at the manager level, it's impossible to appreciate just how difficult it can be to genuinely ascertain the personality, fitness, etc., of an applicant without stepping over many of the various boundaries vis-a-vis "questions you're not allowed to ask." |
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund: Preliminary 2015 Fatality Statistics
So far cops being killed by firearms is down from last year. Traffic and "Other causes" is up. |
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So far cops being killed by firearms is down from last year.
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want to break faces over non-arrestable simple ticketable offenses? be a cop.
This entire ordeal was over a tinted license plate cover that can be purchased at auto parts stores throughout the state of Florida. According to Florida Statute 316.605(1), “…all letters, numerals, printing, writing, and other identification marks upon the plates regarding the word “Florida,” the registration decal, and the alphanumeric designation shall be clear and distinct and free from defacement, mutilation, grease, and other obscuring matter, so that they will be plainly visible and legible at all times 100 feet from the rear or front.” Despite the low quality of the video, we can see on the officer’s own dashcam that Vargas’ plate was legible. The precedent set after failing to hold Fitzpatrick accountable is that police can initiate violence against citizens for no reason, even innocent mothers, in front of their children, and this is “following procedure.” |
want to mock people from other races? be a police chief.
Oregon police chief steps down after cops say he ?compared African-Americans to monkeys? The chief of police in Clatskanie, Oregon was suspended in August after officers said that he compared black people to monkeys. The city council then allowed the chief to resign from his job without ever addressing the charges of on-duty racism. KOIN Channel 6 reported that Police Chief Marvin Hoover was placed on paid leave in early August after two officers claimed that Hoover made offensive, racist statements that shocked them. Court documents say that Hoover “made monkey sounds and moved around the room with his hands under his armpits in an offensive manner” during a discussion about the arrest of a black city resident. “As Chief Hoover was comparing African-Americans to monkeys, I began to become extremely uncomfortable,” Officer D. Alex Stone said in the complaint. “I have never been in a work environment where a manager, especially an executive officer, is openly racist.” Stone said of a woman he arrested, “I relayed several of the arrestee’s remarks such as, ‘When you look at me, my black skin and my nappy hair, all you see is an animal,’” said Officer Stone in the incident report. “Chief Hoover interrupted me and said ‘That’s what she is.’” Since filing his complaint, Stone said that he and his wife have been harassed by other officers eager to protect Hoover. “I’ve already faced a lot of retaliation, my wife’s been forced off the road twice,” Stone said. “I’ve had people in the community yelling the N-word at me.” Clatskanie resident Aimee Driskill said that she is appalled by the city’s kid-gloves treatment of Hoover. “It feels disgusting to be honest with you,” Driskill said. “The reason why I am really affected by this is because I have seen my father being mistreated by police officers.” |
want to be more likely to be shot by yourself than a criminal? be a cop.
American police are 300% more likely to kill themselves than be shot and killed by someone else In 2013, the last year on public record, 126 police officers committed suicide. Compare that to 47 police officers who were shot and killed in 2014 or the 43 that are predicted to be shot and killed this year, and it's increasingly clear that people who love police officers and want to see them do well in life should seriously consider focusing on their mental health. Instead, police departments stock up on military-style tanks and body armor, which do nothing whatsoever when your greatest pain is in your mind. Not only that, but studies are showing that as many as 25 percent of police officers are battling drug addictions, more than twice the national average. |
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want to slam peoples faces into burning hot pavement for no reason whatsoever? be a cop.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1441649867 Severe Burns - Mom Says Cop Slammed Son's Face Into Newly Laid Asphalt | Cop Block Marisa Amann says that on Friday at around 3:30 pm, her son Brent Culpepper was a passenger in a truck stopped in a line of traffic waiting on road workers that were laying down new asphalt. Amann contends that the workers were upset at the driver of the vehicle because he had “marked up the new asphalt,” and called the cops before a “Pearl River County sheriff’s department truck pulled up behind the vehicle and another approached them from the front and told the driver to get out.” According to Amann, her son was in the military, spent four years as a local sheriff’s explorer, and has family members who are former cops. So, when an undercover Narcotics deputy responded to the passenger side of the truck and asked him for his ID, he asked the officer why. It is at this point, the mother says, that the deputy opened the door, told Brent to get out of the vehicle, and then grabbed him and slammed his face into the newly laid asphalt. Amann says that her son, who was screaming in agony, repeatedly told the officer that his face was burning and tried to lift it off the pavement but “the deputy shoved his face back onto the burning hot asphalt” – which paramedics latter determined was about 300 degrees. This is when two more deputy’s jumped on Brent, Amann says, and all three “held him down with their knees digging in to his back and their hands pressed on his face [and] handcuffed him.” The mother said Brent was then taken across the road where he sat for about 30 minutes in the summer sun before officers moved him under a shade tree, poured water on his face, and then called paramedics when they saw his burns were getting worse. Meanwhile, Amann said, Brent asked the officers why he was cuffed and on what charge he was being held, but deputies refused to answer him other than to say “he was in custody.” Brent reportedly remained handcuffed while he was loaded into an ambulance and when paramedics inquired about whether or not he was in custody, a deputy told them yes but again refused to say what for. After informing Brent that his injuries were severe, he was taken to a local ER where a deputy remained stationed outside his room until a Doctor told him that his injuries were so bad that he needed to be transferred to the Jackson Burn Center. “Once that was revealed,” Amann said, “the arresting deputy entered Brent’s room a total of three times” and placated the situation by “asking if he was alright,” and being “all nice to him.” When Brent asked the officer for the names and badge numbers of the deputies involved in the incident, “he was told he could get all that info on the report,” the mother said, but added that it was at that point that the cop left and didn’t come back. Brent then reportedly asked nurses if the officers were still there and he was told that they had left and released him from their custody. Amann says family contacted the sheriffs department on Saturday morning and was told Brent was never arrested and would not be charged with anything. Additionally, the mother said, no report had been filed about the incident. ... |
want to spend hours and hours learning how to shoot at everyday civilians in training, and they forget all it once you need it? be a cop.
NYPD #1 at wild pointless shootings! NYPD Officers Fire 84 Shots At Suspect, Miss 83 Times An attempted murder suspect who fired at New York police was apprehended only after police engaged him in a gun fight, firing a barrage of bullets. Of the 84 total shots cops fired, one struck the suspect. Early Friday morning, 27-year-old Jerrol Harris ran from police after allegedly robbing a Brooklyn man, then shooting the victim in the arm as he fled, according to multiple news reports. When police identified Harris, the suspect immediately began to fire on the cops, police said. "He fired at them, and they fired back," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Stephen Davis told the New York Daily News. "That’s when he was hit." The incident took place in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn at about 1:15 a.m., starting when 52-year-old Leon Faison discovered Harris inside his car attempting to steal items, ABC 7 reported. Harris then shot Faison in the arm before running off, according to police. Despite being wounded, Faison managed to alert police on the street, who found Harris a short time later, after he allegedly fired at them with his black .40-caliber Taurus Millennium pistol, according to the New York Times. |
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want to investigate normal human interactions because you have nothing better to do because solving actual crimes would mean youre out of a job? be a cop.
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want to be a soldier in the war on dogs? be a cop.
Couple questions response that killed dog - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida An East Naples couple has been mourning the loss of their dog after it was shot and killed last week by a Collier County sheriff's deputy. Now they're questioning how deputies handled the situation that began as a domestic disturbance call last weekend. When deputies arrived last Saturday morning at 2:30, they separated Jessica Busse and Ben Zacks and helped pack belongings for them to spend a night apart. Busse told deputies their dog, Alf, had been frightened by the arguing and was in the bathroom. As Busse exited the bathroom, she said the dog woke up and came out, too. That's when shots were fired. "I heard her yelp and I was outside," Zacks said. "I screamed, 'Did you shoot my dog?'" The incident report said a deputy fired five times, hitting Alf in her side and face. The deputy claimed he was "in fear for his life and possibly being injured." The report says Alf, a black lab mix, was a foot from the deputy when the gun was fired. Busse and Zacks say there were at least 18 feet between the dog and the deputy - one of several inconsistencies they said were in the report. A private investigator was on the scene Friday measuring bullet holes at the apartment. The couple is hoping the incident will be an eye-opener and prompt better incident training for deputies in the future. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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Shoting deaths of police officers has, on the whole, been in continuous decline since the Reagan administration:
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1441624720 Clinton certainly wanted to flood the streets with more cops to regulate us. I forget if I ever heard if he got all the new cops he wanted. There is a lot of room for play with figures in police killing civilians, armed or unarmed, since they fight against any requirement to report. I suppose that the unions would wish to bullshit the police along with trying to paint a picture of police under attack and their jobs being more dangerous than farming. |
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Or logging, fishing, roofing, etc.
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how many roofers have had to shoot people or dogs or ponies.
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No innocent dogs or ponies shot in this video:
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Jeez, I wonder why people hate rapists:
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1441710271 sounds pretty us vs. them to me... cop logic: we are here to serve you, so do what we say or we'll kill you. We'll protect and serve you all the way to the morgue, bitch! Yeah, we're supposed to help you but only a little. We mainly just wanna kill people. Hey, you know how people keep saying we threaten and murder innocent folk? Well, I threatened to murder them. |
We were followed by an unmarked car so we voluntarily pulled over to allow him to pass. We were detained, searched for weapons & drugs and when that turned up nothing & instead of being allowed to drive away – 4 cruisers pulled up with a the K-9 dog and they proceeded to walk the dog inside & out. RESULT- That turned up nothing. So 2 cops ripped the car apart, looking for God knows what on the side of a country road for 1.5hrs and 5 other cops on standby in tactical gear. Picture 1 cop working the driver’s side & the other on the passenger side. After ripping through the car, the passenger side cop (Jr. officer) walks away and leaves his superior to finish. After finding NOTHING; the superior officer walks back to his squad car, the Jr. officer steps over to him, mumbles under his breath & the Superior officer bolts to the passenger side floorboard (my seat) and miraculously finds a morsel of marijuana. Something the dog & the other cop didn’t detect. He puts it in a tester, claims it to be Marijuana and that b/c it was found on MY side of the car—says ‘he’s giving me a citation for possession’. Why not arrest me –BECAUSE apparently the quantity was so small. WEIRD – So ask yourself, how is it a passenger with No marijuana (furthermore – 2 Non users), get pulled over for tinted windows (ONLY after I questioned the stop, the officer replied, give me your I.D. –UNFORTUNATELY for them I had NO warrants etc.), has a K-9 dog & 2 cops search the car with NO results UNTIL 1 officer does something blatantly illegal WEIRDER – So ask yourself, how is it the officer on the driver’s side of the car, magically finds marijuana a dog couldn’t discover? WEIRDEST – After paying $1500 to a lawyer, the VA Prosecutor dropped the charges knowing there was a video. BUT NOW, I’M SADDLED WITH EXPUNGING THIS RIDICULOUS CHARGE FROM MY RECORD—ANOTHER FEE, and get this – Since Virginia is a Commonwealth, they reserve the right to DENY my request! |
want to shake down foreigners for papers? well you can't.
Alabama cop had no right to assault Patel: Prosecution to US court An American police officer accused of violently assaulting an unarmed 58-year-old Indian grandfather and leaving him partially paralysed had no reason to think he may have committed a crime, a US court was told. Sureshbhai Patel was never "fleeing" and that police had no right "to shake him down for immigration papers", assistant US Attorney Robert Posey told the Alabama federal court in Huntsville during the trial. Alabama police officer Eric Parker, 26, has been charged for violating civil rights by assaulting Patel in February. "Is there a language barrier? They had no reason to try to think of a crime he (Patel) may have committed," Posey was quoted as saying by Al.com news website. On the third day of the testimony, the defense called some police officers but each one told the jury that the front leg sweep and takedown of Patel did not violate the policy and training of the Madison Police Department. "In that situation, I believe officer Parker did what he had to do to adapt and overcome," testified officer Russell Owens on Friday. Sergeant Nicholas McRee said that the use of a takedown is consistent with policy and training if a suspect pulls away. In all, 10 officers have testified for the defense and three officers were called to testify by the prosecution. The defense argued that a suspicious person tried to walk away and that he was non-compliant, he pulled an arm away when Parker tried to control his hands. The Justice Department, meanwhile, argued that evidence showed Parker telling this was an older man who did not speak English and the trainee had already patted him down for weapons when Parker slammed him to the ground. At the end, the judge said she was troubled by the assertions that police had no right to stop and investigate Patel but had less trouble with the second part of the federal case questioning the takedown itself. The government must prove that Parker's action were willful, or that he intended to deprive Patel of the right to be free from unreasonable force. If convicted, Parker will face up to 10 years in prison on the federal charge. The incident occurred on the morning of February 6 when Patel, who was walking down the sidewalk "was violently assaulted by a police official without provocation, and left partially paralysed", the 11-page lawsuit said. A day before, Patel had arrived in the US to assist his son and daughter-in-law in caring for their 17-month-old child who suffered a developmental delay after premature birth. |
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need some weed? be a cop.
Why a cop who seized tons of marijuana stole a handful ? and how Sullivan City handled it : News : ValleyCentral.com Officer Angel de la Mora squatted on the dirty floor, picking through stray bits of marijuana. Sullivan City police stopped so many smugglers and seized so much marijuana that nobody bothered with the bits that littered the evidence room floor. De la Mora grabbed a handful and stuffed the marijuana inside a bottle of rubbing alcohol. “It was a stupid, dumb mistake,” de la Mora said months later during an interview. “But there’s more to it.” Police Chief Miguel Martinez stood by the door, watching de la Mora take handful after handful of marijuana. Police Inv. Reynaldo Cortes also stood nearby, occasionally chatting with the chief. They weren’t concerned about two security cameras that recorded the incident on May 21. If a police sergeant hadn’t tipped off the Texas Rangers, nobody would have missed the marijuana. “For me, it was more of a Barney Fife deal,” said attorney Ricardo Salinas, who represents de la Mora — referencing the dimwitted but well-meaning deputy from “The Andy Griffith Show.” “I don’t believe that him or the chief really meant to do anything wrong,” Salinas said. “Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but I don’t think it’s really worth pursuing.” The Texas Rangers apparently didn’t agree. Nearly three weeks later, the Rangers raided the Sullivan City Police Department and seized the surveillance footage. They also presented Sullivan City with a search warrant that placed the police department on notice: The Rangers believed the incident may have constituted theft by a public servant, a state jail felony, and abuse of official capacity, a Class A misdemeanor. While the raid surprised Sullivan City administrators, problems with the police department aren’t anything new. The troubled police department went through five police chiefs during the past five years. ... |
want to sic your attack dog on a handcuffed man? be a cop.
Caught On Cellphone: Florida Cops Allow Police Dog To Maul Handcuffed Man's Face! | New Video Delray Beach police are seen surrounded a handcuffed man and allowed their police dog to maul his face outside a South Florida bar. A police car pulls up as the police dog barks at the restrained man. They let the dog go as witnesses scream in horror for the police to stop the attack. |
border patrol doesn't understand how to border.
when faced with an actual scenario, border patrol has no idea what to do, because not drugs. |
safety first.
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dont like when people record you? be a cop and pull them over later in reltaliation on the most bogus RAS you can think of.
I got a ticket for the plate not being properly displayed ... I got a ticket for the plate not being properly displayed From the NJ DMV-----License plate display When you title and register a vehicle, you will receive two license plates – one for the front and one for the rear of the car. Trailers, motorized bicycles and motorcycles only receive one. They must be clean and visible at all times. Even though the rear plate is reflectorized, it must be illuminated to make it visible from 50 feet away at night. If your license plate holders obscure or conceal any lettering on the license plate, you are subject to a fine. Did not see anything about mounting laws but there may be somewhere. this guy was missing a screw and the plate wasn't perfectly horizontal to ground. |
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cant make your sweet DUI arrest? dont worry, just arrest him anyway.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1441714582 because, god forbid THEY drive him home instead of to jail... |
need to commit murder? be a cop first so you only get house arrest.
Home detention for white police chief who shot black man - US News A white former police chief will have to spend a year under home detention but won't have to serve any prison time in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed black man. Prosecutors agreed Tuesday to drop a murder charge against 38-year-old Richard Combs, the former police chief of the small town of Eutawville, in exchange for his guilty plea to misconduct in office. The murder charge carried a penalty of 30 years to life. Circuit Judge Edgar Dickson suspended a 10-year prison sentence for Combs as long as he completes his home detention and five years of probation. Combs stood trial twice on the murder charge, but both cases ended with hung juries. Defense attorney Wally Fayssoux said Combs was ready to end a four-year ordeal. "My client is financially and emotionally exhausted," Fayssoux said. Bernard Bailey's family told the judge he was a good man who stayed out of trouble and was targeted for arrest by an officer who was on a power trip, which set the tragedy in motion. "We have been on a mission of justice. We know the outcome of this trial will not help Walter. But perhaps it will help some other family, some other young man," said Bailey's sister, JoAnn Bailey-Lawton. Eutawville suspended Combs after the shooting and dismissed him several months later. The town reached a $400,000 wrongful death settlement with Bailey's family. Combs shot Bailey in May 2011 as he tried to arrest him on an obstruction of justice charge weeks after he argued about his daughter's traffic ticket on the side of a highway. Eutawville is a town of 300 people about 50 miles southeast of Columbia. Bailey came to Town Hall to discuss the ticket and Combs told him he was under arrest. Bailey stormed out and got in his pickup truck and Combs followed, authorities said. Bailey was shot three times as he backed his truck out. Prosecutors said Combs was trying to arrest Bailey on a trumped up charge, was not threatened and could have stepped out of the way. Combs testified he was leaning into Bailey's pickup and had just seconds to react. They said he had no pepper spray or stun gun, which left him no option but his gun. He was the only officer in the town. Combs had been a police officer for several jurisdictions for 10 years after serving time in the Marines. He won't be a law officer again, Fayssoux said. "He has to completely start over. He was branded a racist," Fayssoux said after the hearing. "All of that wasn't true." Combs' guilty plea to the lesser charge was a good outcome because it punishes him for "a totality of poor judgment," Solicitor David Pascoe said. The jury in the first case voted 9-3 to convict Combs. The jury in the second case voted 8-4 to convict, with four jurors wanting to convict Combs of murder, four wanting to convict him of voluntary manslaughter and four who thought he was not guilty, Pascoe said in a hearing at the Orangeburg County courthouse. Fayssoux said he thought the juries were leaning even closer to an acquittal for Combs, but didn't give numbers. Combs was one of four South Carolina police officers charged with felonies for on-duty shootings in the past year. The officers in the other three cases are awaiting trials. |
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hate the Posse Comitatus Act? ignore it.
Texas Air Force Personnel Detain Dove Hunters on Private Property - OutdoorHub https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1441715117 Hunters in San Angelo are upset after a recent incident with guards from Goodfellow Air Force Base. On Tuesday, the opening day of dove season in Texas, six hunters were detained by base personnel while traveling through private farmland adjacent to the base. The property was leased by the company that organized the hunt, Wildlife Systems, and had been used previously for hunting. Despite that, 17th Training Wing Security Forces entered the property and detained the hunting party—which reportedly also included the property owner. “I’m disappointed in our local Goodfellow Airforce Base Security for what they did today,” wrote Greg Simons, the operator of Wildlife Systems, on Facebook. “On a farm field that we lease that’s adjacent to the Base, surrounded by a security fence, they swarmed our group of 6 hunters, made them lay on their belly, spread eagle, for almost 30 minutes at gunpoint, two of them on asphalt in almost 100 degree temps and would not let them move, with our hunters pleading with them. One was laying in a red ant bed and they would not let him move.” Base officials later stated that the hunters were detained because they were believed to be a threat, especially due to their proximity to the base. After it was determined that the hunters were only after doves, base officials said they were promptly released. According to the San Angelo Standard-Times, the hunters actually met with local police and wildlife wardens just to make sure such an incident would not occur. “What’s even more amazing is that our local television news was there and minutes earlier had finished filming an interview on the importance of hunting to our local economy. Appears they may have also filmed this very unfortunate event,” Simons wrote. “Seems to me that Goodfellow should provide a formal apology to some folks. I’m thankful to our local police department for intervening and providing some relief to this matter.” Sure enough, the local news crew, KIDY, did record footage of the incident. You can see the video below. |
Hate the 5th amendment and want people to give you the evidence to convict them of a crime you do not suspect them of? be a cop.
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hate the 1st amendment? be a cop and lose your arguments and just look silly.
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too scared to do your job? be a cop and just pull your gun on people reaching for their wallets.
Pearland police released a timeline and dashcam video of a traffic stop of former NFL player Lamar Lathon after his claims that he was mistreated by the officer.Lathon, 47, was pulled over for speeding in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the intersection of Shadow Creek Parkway at Almeda Road.Pearland police said the former Houston Oilers player was talking on his cell phone when the officer approached and asked for his license and registration. The officer three times told Lathon not to reach under his car seat, but he did, police said.The officer then drew his weapon and again told Lathon not to reach under his seat, according to police. When Lathon brought his hands back into view with his wallet, the officer holstered his weapon, police said.Pearland police said the officer returned to his vehicle. Once a second officer arrived, the first officer asked Lathon to exit the vehicle. Lathon, according to police, can be heard in the video saying, "With all the stuff that's happening and I'm a big guy and you're a little guy." Lathon got out of the vehicle and the officer told him he was going to search the car for weapons. Lathon objected because the officer pulled a gun on him and he was only reaching for his wallet. The officer searched the car, then gave Lathon a speeding ticket. Pearland police released a statement that read, "Based on review of the video footage, it is the position of the Pearland Police Department that the response of the officers involved in this traffic stop was professional and within both the law and policies of this agency. The primary officer was tactically aware, maintained control of the scene and attempted to de-escalate a volatile situation brought on by a driver who refused to follow directions and whose primary complaint seemed to be the issuance of a citation." |
NYPD!
Since when has it been illegal to drink out of a brown bag in public? Shawn Randall Thomas was unlawfully detained and arrested for drinking a non-alcoholic beverage in New York City last month. On August 28, 2015, Thomas was walking home while drinking a malta in a brown bag. Officer Kevin McAlister (badge number 17304) saw Thomas walking with the drink and approached him demanding to see identification. Thomas refused, stating that he wasn’t breaking the law. McAlister assumed that Thomas was drinking alcohol in public. As the officer asked to see the container – Thomas refused. McAlister proceeded to arrest Thomas for “open container.” Handcuffed and in the police vehicle, the officers recognized that the beverage in Thomas’ brown bag was non-alcoholic; so they let him go. However, before they removed the handcuffs, police confiscated Thomas’ wallet, cell phone and identification, a clear violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. Especially when it became clear he had committed no crime or violated any city ordinance. But those were eventually returned to him. Thomas has retained ACLU legal backing in the past for Constitutional violations from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. He has also received a $3,500 settlement from the NYPD from a 2006 incident where he was wrongly arrested for video recording police. |
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Area police department adds "In God We Trust" to cruisers | WBRZ News 2 Louisiana : Baton Rouge, LA |
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1441720845 I wonder if they ignore the ten commandments along with the ten bill of rights. |
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also in louisana:
Louisiana detective refusing to resign after photo of him at KKK rally last year surfaces https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1441721133 That image above is Detective Raymond Mott of the Lake Arthur Police Department (LAPD—but not that LAPD). He has admitted as much according to the Jennings Daily News. The photo began circulating on social media and was picked up by the newspaper starting quite a stir—since he's straight up clearly in the Klu Klux Klan. The police chief of the Lake Arthur PD, Ray Marcantel is saying that if Mott doesn't resign by today, Marcantel will ask the town council to fire him. Raymond Mott has an answer that is so frightening it begs the question how this guy got his job in the first place. “I refuse to resign,” the detective told the newspaper. “I have been baptized – after the events and have the documents to prove that – and a short while after my baptism, I have become an ordained minister and started a charity-based ministry in Lake Arthur.” Mott initially claimed he attended the Klan rally in Troy, N.C., while on a “secret mission” for the FBI, but he later said that wasn’t true. The detective has made more recent arrests than any other officer with the tiny Lake Arthur Police Department, and now those cases are under review for possible bias, given Mott’s involvement with the KKK, officials say. [...] Michael Cassidy, the district attorney for the 31st Judicial District Court, said arrests made by Mott leading the prosecutions will be reviewed. |
misuse gov't resources? that's okay, you can have your job back, and the back-pay even though you quit.
Metro captain gets job back ? with back pay ? after rock star helicopter tour - Las Vegas Sun News A former Metro Police captain who resigned rather than be demoted for helping a Guns N' Roses guitarist use the department's helicopter for an elaborate wedding proposal is poised to get his job back, have his record cleared and be paid what he would have earned since Dec. 20, 2013, when he left the department. A state agency that resolves disputes between public agencies and employees ordered Metro Police Friday to reinstate David O'Leary to his job as captain. Metro said in a statement that the agency disagrees with the ruling and plans to appeal. Any appeal would be made to the state's district court in Clark County. ... O'Leary had been with the department for nearly 25 years and led its financial crimes division. He ultimately resigned before he could be demoted a rank to lieutenant, later applying with the department to rescind his resignation. It was not rescinded. cause getting paid for non-work for the last 3 years is not a misuse of resources... |
Want to call Braineack slime? Be a rapist.
“Freedom Loving” Sheriff Calls for “Eradicating the Slime” Who Would Dare Criticize the Police | The Free Thought Project David Clarke, who acts as the elected sheriff of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County in whatever spare time is left over from his cable TV and talk radio appearances, is demanding the suppression – and even the eradication – of the “vulgar, vile, vicious” people whose “anti-cop rhetoric” he blames for the murder of police officers in Texas and Illinois. “This is part of a pattern now,” Sheriff Clarke declared during an August 31 CNN discussion of the hideous, execution-style murder of Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth by a man who had been institutionalized for mental illness. “You would have to stick your head in the sand to think that this thing here wasn’t fueled by this vile, vulgar, slimy movement.” Clarke’s chief target is the “Black Lives Matter” movement, to which he assigns the responsibility for a nationwide outpouring of criticism over police misconduct. “This slime needs to be eradicated from American society and American culture,” Clark insisted during an August 29 interview with Fox News host Jeanne Pirro. While professing to “love the First Amendment” and “freedom of speech,” Clarke maintained that the right is “not absolute.” You can’t saying you want in the United States. You cannot threaten people’s lives…. This is not First Amendment-protected.” Under existing judicial precedents (chiefly the US Supreme Court’s 1969 ruling in Brandenburg v. Ohio) incendiary speech is protected by the First Amendment unless it displays an intent to bring about imminent, lawless action. By this standard, a small group of protesters chanting “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon” is engaging in a profoundly offensive exercise that is fully protected by the First Amendment. Sheriff Clarke applies a different standard in which police officers are at “war” with a hostile public, and can view verbal hostility as a threat to “officer safety” warranting the use of potentially lethal force. This was made clear in yet another Fox News interview – this one with Meghan Kelly – discussing the arrest and subsequent death in detention of Chicago activist Sandra Bland. ... Asked by Kelly if he considered Trooper Encinia’s actions to be appropriate, Clarke said that he “wholeheartedly” supported the officer. This encounter, he continued, was a “classic case of a citizen who did not comply with an officer’s [illegal] lawful commands.” |
want to commit suicide? have a rapist help you.
Man Threatening Suicide Shot by Police Officers - ABC News A North Carolina police chief says his officers have shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at them after threatening to commit suicide. Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez said at a news conference that officers negotiated with the 21-year-old man for at least 30 minutes Saturday morning before he began walking toward them, pointing his gun. Lopez says it was a dangerous situation. The chief says the four officers involved have all been put on administrative leave while the State Bureau of Investigation reviews the shooting. Their names were not released. Authorities also did not release the name of the man killed by the officers. Durham is about 25 miles northwest of Raleigh. |
want to be a warrior on the bench and make up laws as you go? be a judge.
A Surreptitious Courtroom Video Prompts Changes in a Georgia Town But one surreptitious video in a small-town Georgia court has led to an overhaul of court practices there. The video showed the judge threatening to jail traffic violators who could not come up with an immediate payment toward their fines. “You can pay what you have, you can call whoever you need to call, go to an A.T.M. if you need to, do what you need to do,” Judge Richard A. Diment of Bowdon Municipal Court said to one defendant. “Call friends, call family, call your employer. But until you get $300 here tonight, you won’t be able to leave.” The defendant said she had recently begun working at a supermarket and had $150 with her. To another defendant, a man who said he had been unemployed for two years and received food stamps, Judge Diment said: “You’re going to have to figure out a way to get this paid, do you understand me? Or you’re going to go to jail. One or the other. You understand?” Neither defendant had a lawyer. The United States Supreme Court has held that people cannot be jailed for failing to make a payment if they are unable to pay, but advocates for indigent defendants say that in many jurisdictions, meaningful assessments of ability to pay are rare. In Georgia, poor defendants are supposed to have access to a court-appointed lawyer if they face jail or probation. Sarah Geraghty, a lawyer with the Southern Center for Human Rights, an Atlanta-based group that has been fighting what it calls “debtors’ prison” cases throughout Georgia, said Bowdon was unique only in that Judge Diment’s practices were caught on video. “The practice that we see here is one that happens in courts around the state, and it shows an overzealousness to collect fines and fees at the expense of basic fairness,” she said. The center sent observers to Judge Diment’s monthly court sessions this summer after it was alerted to the video, taken in February 2014 and later posted on YouTube. This June, the observers said in a complaint letter to the city, Judge Diment demanded immediate payments ranging from $20 to more than $1,000. One woman, on probation for driving with a suspended license, had already spent a month in jail but was ordered to remain incarcerated until she made a $500 payment, the letter said. In July, a man who said he worked only a few days every other week asked to convert his court debt to community service. Judge Diment refused, the letter said, on the grounds that the man might find a better job. ... |
the city sure cares about their citizens when they have heart attacks.
Baltimore reaches $6.4 million settlement with Freddie Gray family - The Washington Post Baltimore officials have reached a $6.4 million wrongful death settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who died in April from a neck injury he suffered in police custody. The deal still must be approved by the city’s Board of Estimates, the governing body that oversees the city’s spending. That group, which includes Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), is expected to meet Wednesday. The agreement comes a week after renewed demonstrations sparked by a court hearing in which a judge concluded that the six Baltimore police officers indicted in Gray’s death and arrest should be given separate trials. This week, the judge will consider whether those trials should be held in Baltimore or moved to another jurisdiction. Gray was arrested the morning of April 12 and died days later from a catastrophic injury that occurred while he was being driven in a police van. Authorities said Gray was handcuffed and unbelted at the time. |
wanna beat your wife? chances are you're a rapist.
Third Montgomery police officer arrested in three weeks An officer with the Montgomery Police Department and his wife are facing a domestic violence charges after an incident that occurred early Sunday. MPD arrested 23-year-old Dan Barrett and his wife Trudy Barrett, 30, early Sunday morning for alleged domestic violence, according to Lt. Zedrick Dean with MPD. The department also began termination proceedings against Barrett. ... Barrett’s arrest marks the third domestic violence related charge against a police officer in the last two weeks. |
2015 may be one of the safest years for law enforcement in a quarter century | US news | The Guardian
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), which keeps data on officer deaths going back over 100 years, 24 officers have been shot and killed by suspects this year. This puts the US on pace for 36 non-accidental, firearm-related police fatalities in 2015. Each one of such deaths is a tragedy for the officers killed, their families and the communities they serve, but this would be the lowest total in 25 years, aside from 2013 which saw 31 such deaths. Today, workplaces are much safer and healthier, going from 38 fatal injuries a day to 12. But there is still much work to be done. |
keep filming police, especially in NYC.
The Power of Filming Cops: Nearly Half of All NYPD Brutality Claims are Now Being Proven by Video | The Free Thought Project New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board is an independent agency that is empowered to receive, investigate, mediate, hear, make findings, and recommend action on complaints against New York City police officers. According to the CCRB, nearly half (45%) of all claims of brutality and excessive force of NYPD cops have been substantiated by video in the first six months of 2015. This increase is an 11% jump from 2014 alone. ... It is hard for people to remain blind to something that is shown to them day in and day out. One can only deny the police state for so long before they see enough videos of cops beating non-violent people to open their eyes. |
wanna get paid? have a cop "come help"
Jury awards $5.5 million to family of Euclid man killed by Cleveland cop | cleveland.com A federal jury on Tuesday awarded $5.5 million to the family of a Euclid man shot and killed by an off-duty Cleveland police officer in March 2012. The eight-member jury, which began deliberating on Friday following a week-long trial, announced its verdict a couple of hours after restarting deliberations that began before the Labor Day weekend. It found that Cleveland police officer Roger Jones was liable for using excessive force when he shot Kenny Smith in the head at East 9th Street and Prospect Avenue following a disturbance outside Wilbert's Food & Music on East Huron Road. Jones had just gotten off his shift that night and was downtown to get a drink. Smith, an aspiring rapper with no criminal record, was a passenger in a car driven by Devonta Hill, whom police believe caused the disturbance by firing into a crowd. ... But Gilbert, during his closing arguments, said that Jones has changed his story several times, between interviews, depositions and testimony. He also said two witnesses and a forensic scientist proved that Smith was not have been shot in the car and that blood was found a few feet away. "They were banking on the fact that there was a gun in the car and that's all they needed," Gilbert said. "That's all they needed to justify, in their minds, that they did the right thing." |
hate when a father has a healthy relationship with his son? be a cop.
On June 20th, a man and his son were simply sitting on a public sidewalk, waiting for a friend to pick them up, when they were confronted by a person sworn to “protect and serve” the citizens. Deputy Todd Hoy of the Lomita Sheriff’s Station (part of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department), arrived on scene and claimed that someone had reported the duo as “suspicious.” . However, this wouldn’t be the first time a cop has liedto support his illegal actions. Upon approaching the pair, Deputy Hoy demanded to know why they were sitting on the sidewalk. The citizen calmly stated that his reasons for being there were irrelevant. This single act of asserting one’s basic rights upset the officer enough to the point that he reached down and grabbed the citizen, trying to pull him up. The officer quickly stopped when the man demanded to know why the officer was touching him. The officer could not think of a legal reason why he assaulted the man, so instead of answering the question, he demanded his identification. Luckily, this is one citizen who knows his rights under the law, even if the cop doesn’t. Eventually, the citizen told the deputy multiple times that he was waiting on a friend, to which the deputy replied that his answer was “not good enough.” Deputy Hoy then radioed into dispatch, requesting backup because he was dealing with an “uncooperative citizen.” The cop exhibited the gold standard of unprofessionalism when he stated, “You know what it is? You’re just being a jerk…You are being a jerk, brother.” When the man told the cop that standing up for your rights doesn’t mean you’re a jerk, the officer responded with, “It just goes to show you that you’re a troublemaker” and that the father was “setting a poor example for this young kid right here.” Apparently, any citizen who stands up for his rights under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, is a jerk, troublemaker, and an all-around bad father. In what can only be described as a child-like temper tantrum, the officer had to get in the “last word,” telling the child, “Good luck in the future young man,” implying that he’ll end up in jail for standing up for his rights. When an average citizen on the streets knows the law better than the officer trying to enforce it, it should prove to anyone that this cop is better suited for something else – perhaps standing in the unemployment line. |
wanna prey on ez victims? be a cop.
Man ticketed for broken windshield while trying to fix it For a man who was just trying to fix his vandalized windshield, there is no break over the break. "I got a ticket for something that I was close as I could be to resolving," Nick Berlin said. A day after a vandal had thrown a rock at his windshield, Berlin made an appointment at a local auto glass shop to have it replaced. Just as he was about to pull into the auto glass shop, an Adams County Sheriff's Deputy pulled Berlin over and issued him a ticket for an "unsafe vehicle." The ticket was issued in the parking lot of Absolute Auto Glass at Broadway and West 64th Avenue on Aug. 19. 9Wants to Know acquired the ticket from the Adams County Sheriff's Department and reviewed invoices and schedules provided by Absolute Auto Glass. Records corroborate Berlin's account of when and where he was issued the ticket and his set appointment at the shop. The ticket shows the officer wrote up the citation at 3:39 p.m., just minutes after Berlin's set appointment. "We were just standing here in our door and were ready for his appointment and all of the sudden we see a cop out there writing the guy a ticket," shop owner David Sprague said. "We were pretty astounded to think that was what happened." Images provided by Absolute Auto Glass show damages to the passenger side of the windshield. "He had plenty of visibility on the driver side," Sprague said. Berlin insists he tried explaining to the Adams County deputy he had an appointment to repair the windshield, but in the end, it didn't make difference. "I don't know if he's a no-nonsense kind of cop," Berlin said, while claiming he never raised his voice or got angry with the officer. "It was definitely a bummer." The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado called the ticket part of a larger problem. "The more and more police officers see their role as ticketing as opposed to protecting public safety, that has a tendency to erode the public trust," said Denise Maes, the public policy director for the ACLU. |
OBEY.
"You just spoke out of turn one too many times, instead of just doing what you were told to do." |
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