A Florida family has contacted a lawyer after they said they discovered a photo one of their members was being used by the North Miami Beach Police Department in a series of images of black men for target practice, according to television station WTVJ.
“The picture actually has like bullet holes,” Woody Deant told WTVJ in an article published Thursday. “One in my forehead and one in my eye."
Deant's sister, who serves in the Florida Army National Guard, said she discovered her brother's face last month among a set of black male mugshots that were being used for target practice when she attended a shooting range, the station reported. Members of the the North Miami Police Department had been practicing there earlier, she told the station.
The mugshot was 15 years old, according to the family.
“Now I’m being used as a target?” Woody Deant told the station. “I’m not even living that life according to how they portrayed me as. I’m a father. I’m a husband. I’m a career man. I work 9-to-5.”
Police Chief J. Scott Dennis told WTVJ that the practice of using images of actual people is standard. He also denied any evidence of racial profiling, saying that police also have white and Hispanic faces in its inventory.
“Our policies were not violated,” Dennis told the station. “There is no discipline forthcoming from the individuals who were involved with this.”
WTVJ spoke to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, all of whom said that departments only use commercially produced targets rather than photos of human beings, let alone former suspects.
Dennis told the station that using real people is vital to facial recognition drills.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security paid private firms millions to train local and state officers in the techniques of an aggressive brand of policing known as “highway interdiction.” That training, developed by the firms, included methods for ferreting out suspicious drivers and coaxing them into granting warrantless searches of vehicles, according to internal company training documents obtained by The Post. The files emphasized the importance of targeting cash.
DORAL, Fla. -- Former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal is now a reserve police officer in South Florida.
Doral Police Chief Donald De Lucca swore the retired basketball player in during a ceremony Tuesday afternoon. Shaq had originally applied in September. He will not receive a salary and will cover his own insurance costs.
O'Neal will commute to work from his homes in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando. De Lucca told The Miami Herald that Shaq will mostly be doing community work, serving as a role model for children.
O'Neal has previously served as a reserve police officer for Miami Beach and Golden Beach in Florida; in Tempe, Arizona; and the Port of Los Angeles.
From the politics thread, but it seems like talking about state-sanctioned police robbery of the citizenry could also be a good topic here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.htmlQuoteThe Departments of Justice and Homeland Security paid private firms millions to train local and state officers in the techniques of an aggressive brand of policing known as “highway interdiction.” That training, developed by the firms, included methods for ferreting out suspicious drivers and coaxing them into granting warrantless searches of vehicles, according to internal company training documents obtained by The Post. The files emphasized the importance of targeting cash.
The stories of abuse regarding that program were just absolutely unbelievable. It should have ended a long time ago, but at least is ending [in part].
I love you guys, but I guaran-fucking-tee I can fill this thread with positive (and lamentable) cop stories quicker than you guys can fill it with negative ones.
I think what really makes those bad cases so bad is how quickly and completely other cops and cop organizations circle the wagons around those bad apples and try to prevent any action being taken. I understand that it's a brotherhood and all that, but some cops just don't deserve that kind of protection.
I love you guys, but I guaran-fucking-tee I can fill this thread with positive (and lamentable) cop stories quicker than you guys can fill it with negative ones.
These are not equal though. Stories of cops doing cop work the way cops are supposed to do cop work doesn't offset stories of cops abusing their station and being protected as if they are elevated above the law. One bad apple spoils the whole bunch, as the saying goes.
I think what really makes those bad cases so bad is how quickly and completely other cops and cop organizations circle the wagons around those bad apples and try to prevent any action being taken. I understand that it's a brotherhood and all that, but some cops just don't deserve that kind of protection.
:lol Waze was putting officers at risk by reporting their location? These dudes realize that if anyone wants to hurt cops at random that they can just dial three numbers and a bunch of cops will show up shortly thereafter?
smh at them saying he "allegedly" pushed her when there's video and pics taken from only a few feet away that show the incident clear as day.
"If you continue with this I will arrest you for resisting arrest."
What.
Well Boogie, I for one am glad you guys seem to have quit bothering with busting cannabis grow-ops and instead seem to be focusing on Meth labs. It would seem your priorities are in order.
New Rochelle City officials did not respond immediately to a request for comment. Unofficially, two reliable sources are telling Talk of the Sound that police on the scene that day have said they were called to the scene based on a report of a person with a gun. It is worth mentioning here that it has been the policy of the New Rochelle Police Department for the past two years not to respond to requests for information from Talk of the Sound, to allow Talk of the Sound to participate in daily press briefing or attend press conferences such as the one in November after Operation City Sweeper II. So, Talk of the Sound has no way to obtain any official comment on that matter.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site?CMP=share_btn_tw
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site?CMP=share_btn_tw
:holeup
:holeup please tell me the feds are looking into this
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site?CMP=share_btn_tw
:holeup
:holeup please tell me the feds are looking into this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGSrGmHsT8s&feature=youtu.be
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-investigating-video-officer-harassing-uber-driver-article-1.2167958
https://news.vice.com/article/south-carolina-cop-charged-with-murder-after-video-shows-him-shooting-unarmed-black-man-in-the-back?utm_source=vicenewsfbhappened less than an hour away from me :(
She says she was pulled over for a broken license plate light, but the officer told them to get out of the car saying he smelled marijuana.
On Wednesday morning, “Fox & Friends” invited legal analyst Arthur Aidala onto the show to discuss the death of Walter Scott at the hands of Officer Michael Slager in North Charleston, S.C. In a recently surfaced video of the shooting, some have suggested that Slager can be seen planting a taser on the victim, to corroborate the story that Scott had been threatening him.
Aidala said that’s pretty much the norm.
“When I was in the DA’s office in the ’80s and ’90s, that was standard operating procedure,” he said. “Police officers — I hate to say this — would keep a second gun that nobody knew about on their ankle, so if they ever killed someone they shouldn’t have they would take that gun out…
Aerial footage showed the man falling off the horse he was suspected of stealing during the pursuit in San Bernardino County Thursday afternoon.
He then appeared to be stunned with a Taser by a sheriff's deputy and fall to the ground with his arms outstretched. Two deputies immediately descended on him and appeared to punch him in the head and knee him in the groin, according to the footage, reviewed several times by NBC4.
The group surrounding the man grew to 11 sheriff's deputies.
In the two minutes after the man was stunned with a Taser, it appeared deputies kicked him 17 times, punched him 37 times and struck him with batons four times. Thirteen blows appeared to be to the head. The horse stood idly nearby.
The man did not appear to move from his position lying on the ground for more than 45 minutes. He did not appear to receive medical attention while deputies stood around him during that time.
The man, identified as Francis Jared Pusok, 30, of Apple Valley, was hospitalized with unknown injuries, authorities said.
That isn't even a case of "guy's on the ground but still struggling so the cops hit him a few times" this dude was clearly in a spread eagle position with his face in the dirt before the cops even got to him, then he clearly moves his hands to his back so they can be cuffed. And the cops don't even care, they just immediately attack him and then continue attack him for nearly five minutes.
How are more people not upset by this?
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Boogie pls:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/30/new-canadian-counter-terrorism-law-threatens-environmental-groups/
https://news.vice.com/article/south-carolina-cop-charged-with-murder-after-video-shows-him-shooting-unarmed-black-man-in-the-back?utm_source=vicenewsfb
And they wanted his phone. Of course.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d46_1428632483
Wow WTF I like how the audio cuts right as the cops start kicking the dude
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/Man-on-Stolen-Horse-Stunned-by-Sheriffs-Deputies-in-IE-299250951.htmlQuoteAerial footage showed the man falling off the horse he was suspected of stealing during the pursuit in San Bernardino County Thursday afternoon.
He then appeared to be stunned with a Taser by a sheriff's deputy and fall to the ground with his arms outstretched. Two deputies immediately descended on him and appeared to punch him in the head and knee him in the groin, according to the footage, reviewed several times by NBC4.
The group surrounding the man grew to 11 sheriff's deputies.
In the two minutes after the man was stunned with a Taser, it appeared deputies kicked him 17 times, punched him 37 times and struck him with batons four times. Thirteen blows appeared to be to the head. The horse stood idly nearby.
The man did not appear to move from his position lying on the ground for more than 45 minutes. He did not appear to receive medical attention while deputies stood around him during that time.
The man, identified as Francis Jared Pusok, 30, of Apple Valley, was hospitalized with unknown injuries, authorities said.
Officers determined an elderly woman, whom they declined to identify to protect her privacy, was suffering from dementia, and her husband was having trouble caring for her by himself.
There were no groceries in the house and the man explained he had started selling their possessions to make ends meet. Things had gotten so bad, he admitted to having pawned his wedding ring for food.
The two responding officers alerted the Alzheimer Society and the Community Care Access Centre, but felt they could do more. So they took up a collection at the station and bought the couple $150 worth of groceries.
The next day, the officers again went beyond the call of duty, and bought back the man’s pawned wedding ring (for $131) and returned it to him.
“They don’t want recognition,” said Cornwall Police Chief Dan Parkinson, who declined to name the nine officers and five civilian staff members involved. “They’re a humble group.”
Two major cells of a Canada-wide prostitution ring were disrupted between March 27 and April 1, 2015 in the wake of an investigation targeting an Asian-based international criminal organization that is allegedly involved in the smuggling of young women into Canada for sexual exploitation through various bawdy-houses.
As part of an investigation dubbed Project Confidence, investigators of the RCMP Immigration and Passport Section conducted a three-step operation in the Greater Montréal and Toronto areas, resulting in six arrests and sixteen searches.
It is alleged that the victims, who are mainly from Korea and China, received assistance from the criminal organization to enter Canada illegally via land crossings or with visas obtained through false pretenses. Upon entering Canada, the victims were taken over, controlled and exploited by a prostitution ring operating Canada-wide (Halifax, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver).
Information came forward to police via a Crime Stoppers tip that suggested that a 19-year-old Timberlea male and a 23-year old Geneva, Illinois female had access to firearms and it was their intention to go to a public venue in the Halifax region on February 14th with a goal of opening fire to kill citizens, and then themselves. Evidence also supports that a 20-year-old male from Halifax was involved.
A third individual, a 17-year-old male from Cole Harbour, was released overnight without charge. Through the investigation, officers determined that the male was a person of interest. At this time, there is no evidence to link him to charges before the courts. The investigation is ongoing.
A fourth individual, a 19-year-old man, was found dead inside a Timberlea home. The death is under investigation by the Nova Scotia Serious Incident Response Team.
'RCMP and HRP have laid charges in this incident and have eliminated the threat,' said Chief Jean-Michel Blais, Halifax Regional Police. 'This is a reminder that this type of incident can happen anywhere. Recognizing our citizens may be anxious in the wake of this news, we have additional high visibility patrols in and around the city. We encourage people to go about their daily lives.'
Atlanta Hawks star Thabo Sefolosha appeared to suffer a severe blow from an NYPD officer's nightstick during his arrest Wednesday night ... based on this new video of the violent take down.
TMZ Sports just obtained this new angle of Sefolosha's arrest, shot by a witness outside 1Oak Nightclub in NYC ... moments after Pacers Chris Copeland was stabbed.
In this video you can clearly see Sefolosha being tugged in different directions by 6 officers. Additionally ... you can see one of the officers take a big swing with his baton, and it sounds like he makes contact with something.
A witness says Thabo told police, "Calm down."
As we've reported ... Sefolosha broke his fibula during the scuffle with cops, and based on this video it's possible it could've been caused by the officer's baton.
In their report, police said Thabo was aggressively charging at one of the officers before they got physical with him. That's not evident from either video we've obtained ... since they start after the scuffle began.
Thabo is out for the remainder of the season ... due to the injury. He was arrested for obstruction, but plans to fight the charges.
Hill, a Philadelphia native and student at Allegany College of Maryland, explained how he was home from college and playing basketball with some little kids outside on the court, when two police officers approached and started to talk smack about how Hill wasn’t that good. Hill challenged the officers to a game and told Complex that he crossed up the officers every chance he got.
“The first cop, I crossed him and laid it up,” Hill said. Hill said the cop then got his partner to guard Hill, but the footage shows that the other officer didn’t stand a chance, either.
But then, in a third video, Hill is seen with handcuffs on, being arrested by the same cops with whom he had played basketball days earlier.
Hill told Complex that the officers said they arrested him because they “thought they saw something” in a car Hill and his friend were in. Hill said the officers took him down to the precinct and held him for an hour and a half while they searched the car.
Hill said that he and the officers agreed to meet for a rematch the next day, but the cops never showed. “I was at the courts and everything. ... They said they were bringing their basketball stuff, but they never showed up,” Hill explained. “I don’t wanna play them anymore, though. There’s no point. I did what I had to do to them.”
"fuck your breath"
http://www.tmz.com/2015/04/10/thabo-sefolosha-arrest-video-nypd-officer-swing-baton/QuoteAtlanta Hawks star Thabo Sefolosha appeared to suffer a severe blow from an NYPD officer's nightstick during his arrest Wednesday night ... based on this new video of the violent take down.
TMZ Sports just obtained this new angle of Sefolosha's arrest, shot by a witness outside 1Oak Nightclub in NYC ... moments after Pacers Chris Copeland was stabbed.
In this video you can clearly see Sefolosha being tugged in different directions by 6 officers. Additionally ... you can see one of the officers take a big swing with his baton, and it sounds like he makes contact with something.
A witness says Thabo told police, "Calm down."
As we've reported ... Sefolosha broke his fibula during the scuffle with cops, and based on this video it's possible it could've been caused by the officer's baton.
In their report, police said Thabo was aggressively charging at one of the officers before they got physical with him. That's not evident from either video we've obtained ... since they start after the scuffle began.
Thabo is out for the remainder of the season ... due to the injury. He was arrested for obstruction, but plans to fight the charges.
I love you guys, but I guaran-fucking-tee I can fill this thread with positive (and lamentable) cop stories quicker than you guys can fill it with negative ones.
"He made an error," Sheriff Stanley Glantz told The Tulsa World newspaper. "How many errors are made in an operating room every week?"
Asked whether the shooting was justified, Glantz told the newspaper that the question was difficult to answer.
"It was unintentional," he said. "You know, justified means you had reason to do something. He had reason to get the gun out when the guy was fleeing."
Prosecutors on Monday charged the Tulsa County, Oklahoma reserve sheriff's deputy who shot and killed an unarmed man earlier this month with second degree manslaughter.
The Tulsa World previously reported that Bates chaired Glantz's 2012 re-election effort and donated $2,500 to the sheriff's campaign.
I'd rather an error be made by a licensed professional doctor than some random dude with a fucking scalpel.
The admissions mark a watershed in one of the country’s largest forensic scandals, highlighting the failure of the nation’s courts for decades to keep bogus scientific information from juries, legal analysts said. The question now, they said, is how state authorities and the courts will respond to findings that confirm long-suspected problems with subjective, pattern-based forensic techniques — like hair and bite-mark comparisons — that have contributed to wrongful convictions in more than one-quarter of 329 DNA-exoneration cases since 1989.
PARMA, MO (KFVS) -
Voters in Parma, Missouri voted in their first African-American female mayor.
Tyrus Byrd will be sworn in as mayor on Tuesday evening, April 14, at the Parma Community Building.
According to Mayor Randall Ramsey, five out of six police officers resigned this week, effectively immediately.
Mayor Ramsey said the city's attorney, the clerk and the waste water treatment plant supervisor also turned in resignation letters citing "safety concerns."
A Cook County judge ruled prosecutors didn't prove their case — that a Chicago police detective acted recklessly when he fired into a crowd in 2012, killing 22-year-old Rekia Boyd.
Judge Dennis Porter's directed verdict means the legal team for Dante Servin didn't have to put on a defense before he was acquitted of all charges, touching off an angry scene in the courtroom as Boyd's family screamed.
Porter handed down the verdict Monday afternoon amid heavy security in his courtroom, but not before asking anyone who might become emotional to leave.
"I know this case has generated a lot of emotion ... but this is a court of law, not a court of emotion," Porter said before issuing a long ruling.
Porter said while he had no doubt that Servin did indeed shoot Boyd, he said prosecutors didn't prove Servin acted recklessly when he did so, a requirement for finding someone guilty of manslaughter.
After the verdict was read, screaming members of Boyd's family were dragged from the courtroom as Servin hugged relatives.
Porter pointed to a history of Illinois court rulings that say: When someone intends to fire a gun, points toward his victim and shoots — much like Servin did on March 21, 2012 — that behavior is not reckless.
FAIRFIELD (CBS13) — A terrified mother in Fairfield on the ground in handcuffs, just moments after her son had been kidnapped.
Her husband recorded the altercation on Monday morning, and now the family is demanding an explanation from Fairfield Police.
The Guzman family says they were treated like criminals instead of worried parents after their son became the center of an Amber Alert. They’re happy to have their son home, but they’re saying police made a terrible situation worse.
The video shot by Paul Guzman picks up as Fairfield Police decide to take an emotional Suzanne Guzman to the ground.
The Fairfield mother had called the same police officers to her home after her car was stolen from her driveway with her 8-year-old son, Broc in the back seat.
“The cop grabbed her and and they dragged her down here too around the corner, where they slammed her to the ground and handcuffed her,” he said.
He says Fairfield Police officers insisted on first searching their home, something he says Suzanne stopped them from doing until Paul returned to corral their dogs.
“We have two dogs and one of them would bite somebody that they didn’t know coming into the house,” he said.
The Fairfield Police Department released the following body camera video from the encounter along with this statement:
“…Even though our initial information was that Brock was last seen in the vehicle, it was only assumed he remained inside when it was stolen. In order to account for every possible scenario, including Brock escaping as the vehicle was being taken, officers requested to search the Guzman home to make sure Brock was not inside hiding.
Suzanne Guzman refused to consent to officers checking her home for Brock. A Police Sergeant and one of our Crisis Intervention trained officers spoke to Suzanne Guzman for several minutes in an attempt to explain why we needed to search her home and gain compliance. Suzanne Guzman continually refused, at one point demanding we get a search warrant. Officers became so concerned they had dispatchers log the fact we were being denied entry into the home.
Based on the growing concern for Brock, and the exigent need to check the home, officers approached the front door. As they did, one officer saw a “reddish substance smeared in the carpet” that at first look appeared to be blood. Suzanne Guzman got up and pushed past officers toward the front door attempting to enter the residence. Suzanne Guzman refused to move away from the door and struggled with officers as they attempted to move her away from the door. After a short struggle, she was detained in handcuffs. Paul Guzman was also later detained in handcuffs for trying to interfere with officers searching the home.
HOUSTON, Texas – A Houston Community College police officer has survived an assassination attempt after being stabbed by her assailant 14 times. The officer was saved by civilians who stepped in and stopped the attacker. The attacker told investigators he did this to get back at police for their brutality. A spokesman from the family said it might be related to the Baltimore riots.
Officer April Pikes remains in critical condition at Houston’s Ben Taub Hospital, a public relations official at the Houston Police Department said to Breitbart Texas. Her alleged attacker, Jeremiah M. Matthews, 23, was pulled off of her by a group of men while he was stabbing her and attempting to grab her pistol
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Harris County prosecutors said that Matthews told them “he had the intent to attack a police officer and his desire to kill a police officer,” according to a Click2Houston.com report. One of the witnesses, Abe Baker, who helped stop the attack said, “I saw him on her, just stabbing her.”
“I wasn’t really thinking,” Baker said. “His arm was just up getting ready to stab her and I just grabbed his arm and took him down, and that’s when everybody else came over and we all just took him down.”
The HPD statement revealed that Matthews stabbed her several times before he was tackled and disarmed. The statement says he was attempting to gain control of her duty weapon. After taking down the suspect, the good Samaritans used the officer’s handcuffs to detain Matthews until other police officers arrived and arrested him.
The Click2Houston report states that Pike may lose her right arm. She was stabbed repeatedly in her right arm and torso.
The scene of the attack was a Walmart located in Meyerland (Southwest Houston), where Pikes was working an approved off-duty security job. Pikes was in uniform when she was attacked.
“He was in an upbeat mood, whistling and he had a fast pace, walking fast,” Baker said of the assailant, who was smiling and cheerful right up until the moment he began his surprise attack.
“He does have a diagnostic history of mental illness in the past. To what degree that played into what happened, we don’t know,” local community activist Deric Muhammad said, speaking on behalf of the Matthews family. He said it is possible that Matthews was inspired by the riots in Baltimore Monday night.
Cyrano66 • 7 hours ago
That vile, pile of societal excrement and star MSNBC host, Al Sharpton, is directly and personally responsible for this attempted murder. He needs to be put in jail for inciting violence and civil unrest.
Missie Ogyny • 5 hours ago
String him up and pike him on a picket fence, in front of Walmart! It's ONLY fair!
And did anyone else notice that the RACIST BLACK HOMICIDAL MANIAC [Is that redundant?] has a "Family SpokesHole" named Derick MUHAMMED--a "local community activist"? Perhaps Muhammed is an analjihadist at the local Houston mosque??? Aass-salaami lickum...
WaitYourTurn • 4 hours ago
Democrat violence is getting out of hand. It's beyond time for Democrat leaders to decry this anti-police behavior. Democrats are the only ones who can stop this insanity, short of vigilantism.
http://gothamist.com/2015/04/29/cop_watch.phpWhile this is true for New York (I'll assume they did their research) it does remain illegal in a number of states. I think Maryland was one or only recently changed their law.
http://gothamist.com/2015/04/29/cop_watch.phpWhile this is true for New York (I'll assume they did their research) it does remain illegal in a number of states. I think Maryland was one or only recently changed their law.
It's premised on the officers having a right to privacy even while conducting their job in full public view. Plus using wiretapping statutes and stuff.
Over a period of nearly 20 years, Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge and his “midnight crew” allegedly tortured at least 118 people, forcing them to make confessions.
The police officers beat the victims, burned them with lit cigarettes and handcuffed them to hot radiators. They tied plastic bags over their heads and nearly suffocated them. They put cattle prods on their genitals and in their mouths and electrocuted them.
I still think Obama should consider a three-day waiting period for anti-personnel mines and tactical nukes.
I still think Obama should consider a three-day waiting period for anti-personnel mines and tactical nukes.smh leaving our police defenseless as they stand on the frontlines against evil
Nothing in the White House announcement prevents local police from dressing up like Navy Seals so I think most departments will be able to live with this. Ferguson cops can still carry ka-bar fighting knives (upside down so you know they are real BAs.)
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What a police officer could need a tracked vehicle or anti-material .50 cal rounds for I don't know.
Nothing in the White House announcement prevents local police from dressing up like Navy Seals so I think most departments will be able to live with this. Ferguson cops can still carry ka-bar fighting knives (upside down so you know they are real BAs.)
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How you been, Biz?
Michigan State Police picture retweeted by Governor Rick Snyder last year:
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:neogaf :goty2
Police officers fired 137 rounds at the car after it was cornered, prosecutors have said, including 49 by Officer Brelo.
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Officer Brelo had climbed onto the car’s hood and fired at least 15 rounds from close range.
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Prosecutors said Officer Brelo’s actions crossed the line from justifiable to reckless when he climbed onto the car’s hood, but the judge disagreed.
Patrick A. D’Angelo, one of Officer Brelo’s lawyers, said his team was “elated” with the verdict, and he blamed an “oppressive government” for bringing the charges.
I'm sure people were getting a lot of good footage on their phones...PalmOS
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Highway patrol troopers in Oklahoma fatally shot a man whom they had been trying to get out of high water, authorities said.
The two troopers responded to a stranded motorist call south of Tulsa late Friday and found two men with two vehicles, said Capt. Paul Timmons of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
The troopers told the men to come toward them to safer ground out of the high water, Timmons said. But at some point, an altercation broke out.
The troopers fired, killing one of the men, 35-year-old Nehemiah Fischer, according to Timmons. They arrested the other man, Fischer's older brother, Brandon, who was uninjured.
The shooting is under investigation.
Timmons said Nehemiah Fischer, 35, was armed. But he said it was unclear why the altercation had broken out.
The highway patrol's practice is to place any patrolman involved in a fatal shooting on administrative leave. Timmons couldn't confirm whether that had been done yet for the two troopers in this case.
Nehemiah, who is an assistant pastor at Faith Bible Church in Tulsa, was pronounced dead at the scene. Brandon was arrested for assault and public intoxication.
Laura is adamant that her husband, an assistant pastor at Faith Bible Church in Tulsa, and Brandon would never go after the troopers on their own volition.
'He was the nicest person I’ve ever met. He was very giving. He made me want to be a better person,' Laura said of Nehemiah.
The two would have celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary next month.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. Paul Timmons said he confrontation occurred as the men were exiting the water after the troopers told them to leave the vehicle and come to safety on higher ground near Hectorville and Bixby Roads, CNN reports.
Details of what led to the altercation are unclear, but Timmons said the two brothers were 'really upset' about having to leave the vehicle in the water.
Neither trooper was injured.
'[The troopers] were trying to get them to come out of the water,' he said. 'They were worried about them getting swept away.'
Timmons said Nehemiah had a weapon, according to CNN. Officials have not said if the weapon was used or shown.
However, a friend of Nehemiah, Mike Haesloop, told The Guardian that the 35-year-old is 'not the kind of guy that’s going to pull a gun on anybody.'
'He’s more one that’s going to pray for you,' he said. '...I don’t get it. None of this is making any sense.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX4uPxZFa7g&app=desktop
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/2015/05/25/6-arrested-after-water-attacks-on-pedal-pubs/27915957/
:lol that biker is such a bitch. 'They had violent intent in their eyes' :lol
'Obviously looking for trouble' • Taylor's 22-year-old brother and 21-year-old cousin were the two men with him and whose clothing matched that described by a 911 caller, who told dispatchers "some gangbangers" walking near 200 East and 1900 South had "flashed" a gun.
"They're obviously looking for trouble, just the way they look," the caller said, according to a transcript of the call.
"He was digging at something," Cruz said, according to the district attorney's report. "He was manipulating something. I knew there was a gun in those pants."
When Taylor withdrew his hands from his waistband, Cruz told investigators: "I was scared to death. The last thought I had go through my mind when I pulled the trigger ... was that 'I was too late. I was too late.' And because of that I was gonna get killed."
Maybe the cops shouldnt hire pansies that are scared to death all the time
There is no middle ground here? We can't say that kids who weren't invited showed up, there was overflow and the kids were being kids, ie unruly assholes?Have you followed this story at all? Have you even checked the links that we posted about it?
There is no middle ground here? We can't say that kids who weren't invited showed up, there was overflow and the kids were being kids, ie unruly assholes?
I offered no defense of cops. I've seen multiple posts about how kids were doing nothing and then *boom* cops. In reality kids were being assholes, cops showed up and started being dicks to the black kids.Check the 2nd vid and explanation in the link I posted.
There is no middle ground here? We can't say that kids who weren't invited showed up, there was overflow and the kids were being kids, ie unruly assholes?
There is no middle ground here? We can't say that kids who weren't invited showed up, there was overflow and the kids were being kids, ie unruly assholes?
The other cops were not backing this guy's gung-ho play, which probably should be the central focus.
I just watched the whole video, and can't see what you're referring to. What's the timestamp?The other cops were not backing this guy's gung-ho play, which probably should be the central focus.
Look at how those two cops react when that guy pulls his gun. They instantly jump to his side and one of them puts his hand on the guy's shoulder.
3:10, when the Rambo cop has the girl on the ground and the two guys approach him.
"He came into the call out of control, and as the video shows, was out of control during the incident. I had 12 officers on the scene, and 11 of them performed according to their training," Police Chief Greg Conley said of Casebolt during a Tuesday press conference.
"I do not condone the actions of those individuals who violated the rules of the community, showed disrespect to the security person on scene, and to the officers who responded," he continued. "However, we as a department are held to a high standard of action as we do our jobs."
State officials in Mississippi are investigating the death of an unarmed black man who was killed in a physical struggle with a police officer while saying “I can’t breathe”, according to his attorney.If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that night being choked to death by a cop.
Jonathan Sanders suffered “some kind of asphyxiation” during an altercation with white officer Kevin Harrington on Wednesday night, in the small town of Stonewall, in the eastern part of the state, said the attorney, J Stewart Parrish.
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Parrish told several local media outlets that Harrington pulled Sanders from a horse and choked him to death with a flashlight. Parrish told the Guardian on Friday that allegation had come from relatives who live beside the site of the struggle and witnessed it.
But Stonewall police chief Michael Street denied the details of the attorney’s allegations, telling the Guardian the two men engaged in “a fight” without weapons after Sanders voluntarily stepped down from a horse-drawn buggy.
“We won’t know until the autopsy is over what was the actual cause of death,” said Street. “But there was no flashlight used to choke anybody – that’s false. And there were no shots fired by either man, there were no weapons at all, and he was not dragged off a horse.”
Parrish described the chief’s denial as “a difference without a distinction” because Sanders “was choked to death”, according to the relatives. “Towards the end of the incident, he was telling the officer ‘Let me go, I can’t breathe,” Parrish said they had recalled.
The attorney, who is a former law enforcement officer, said Harrington appeared to have used excessive force. “Officers typically have Tasers, they have pepper spray – there are lots of different non-lethal ways to subdue somebody,” he said. “And one way, of course, is to walk away and come back with more officers.”
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Street has asked the Mississippi bureau of investigation (MBI) to look into the incident. He declined to specify why Harrington stopped Sanders. “But there’s no lighting on a horse carriage, and at 10.30 at night that’s ... well I can’t discuss that further,” he said in a telephone interview.
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“He was asking ‘Why do you stop me? What are you hassling me for?’,” Parrish said the witnesses had recounted. “He pulled him off the buggy, and they went to the ground, and it went from there.”
The police chief said Sanders had no active warrants against him and that Harrington did not know who he was when the confrontation took place.
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Street said his department is composed of 10 part-time officers – nine white and one black. He said one of the white officers was a woman and the other nine officers were men. “So we’re kind of diverse,” he said.
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The police chief appealed people to remain calm while the inquiry was carried out. “We don’t need anything being taken out into the street,” he said. “Our community is a good community. We don’t see any issues there. We are going to continue our good relationship.”
Some, uh... levity?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/nypd-sergeant-throws-semen-on-his-crush.html
“Everyone who has been questioned says he looks very professional; he wears the uniform well,” the source said. “ This is not some creepy looking pervert. He’s entirely normal looking.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwh0lBPHg9o
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-federal-judge-orders-release-of-videos-20150714-story.html
Newly obtained video shows the arrest of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, a Naperville woman whose death at a Texas jail is being angrily questioned by her friends and relatives.They say she hung herself with a plastic bag.
Sandra Bland was found dead in a Waller County, Texas, jail cell on Monday at 9 a.m. after being arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer during a routine traffic stop, the I-Team has learned. Authorities say her death appears to be suicide.
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Bland was pulled over Friday for improper signaling a lane change, according to Waller County Sheriff's Department officials. They say she was charged with "Assault on a Public Servant" and taken into custody by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper.
"After he pulled her out of the car, forced her and tossed her to the ground, knee to the neck, and arrested her," says her friend Malcom Jackson.
Bland's friends say she had been with her family in suburban Chicago over the July 4th holiday, and drove to Texas for a job interview at her alma mater, Texas Prairie View A & M. Family members say she got the position and was to begin working in student outreach today.
In the video of the arrest, an officer is heard telling the bystander taking the video to leave.
In the video he shot, Bland is heard saying, "You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that? I can't even hear!"
Then, as she is taken into custody, she repeats, "You slammed me into the ground and everything."
Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith says Bland "had been combative on the side of the road."
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Smith says that jailers saw Bland at 7 a.m. Monday when they gave her breakfast and again at 8 a.m. when they spoke with her over the jail intercom. Smith says she was found dead an hour later. In a press release from the sheriff's department, authorities say they applied CPR, but that Bland was pronounced dead shortly after she was found.
The Willowbrook High School graduate died by "self-inflicted asphyxiation," according to sheriff's deputies,
Was she a thug?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/u-s-world/cell-phone-video-chandler-officer-illegally-enters-womans-home-arrests-her-while-she-is-naked
http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-investigator-who-found-cops-fault-shootings-112423Since I was going to post it, I'll quote from it:
A Chicago investigator who determined that several civilian shootings by police officers were unjustified was fired after resisting orders to reverse those findings, according to internal records of his agency obtained by WBEZ.
Scott M. Ando, chief administrator of the city’s Independent Police Review Authority, informed its staff in a July 9 email that the agency no longer employed supervising investigator Lorenzo Davis, 65, a former Chicago police commander. IPRA investigates police-brutality complaints and recommends any punishment.
Davis’s termination came less than two weeks after top IPRA officials, evaluating Davis’s job performance, accused him of “a clear bias against the police” and called him “the only supervisor at IPRA who resists making requested changes as directed by management in order to reflect the correct finding with respect to OIS,” as officer-involved shootings are known in the agency.
Since its 2007 creation, IPRA has investigated nearly 400 civilian shootings by police and found one to be unjustified.
The spokesman said there would be no interview and sent this statement: “This is a personnel matter that would be inappropriate to address through the media, though the allegations are baseless and without merit. IPRA is committed to conducting fair, unbiased, objective, thorough and timely investigations of allegations of police misconduct and officer-involved shootings.”
The performance evaluation covered 19 months and concluded that Davis “displays a complete lack of objectivity combined with a clear bias against the police in spite of his own lengthy police career.”
Through most of his IPRA tenure, Davis’s performance evaluations showered him with praise. They called him an “effective leader” and “excellent team player.”
The final evaluation, issued June 26, said he “is clearly not a team player.”
“Things began to turn sour, I would say, within the last year,” Davis said. “Chief Administrator Ando began to say that he wanted me to change my findings.”
Davis says he helped investigate more than a dozen shootings by police at the agency. He says his superiors had no objections when his team recommended exonerating officers. The objections came, he says, after each finding that a shooting was unjustified. He says there were six of those cases.
“They have shot people dead when they did not have to shoot,” Davis said about those officers. “They were not in reasonable fear for their lives. The evidence shows that the officer knew, or should have known, that the person who they shot was not armed or did not pose a threat to them or could have been apprehended by means short of deadly force.”
There needs to be federal oversight to do this already.
Newly released video has revealed the dying moments of an African-American active-duty soldier who checked himself into the El Paso, Texas, county jail for a two-day sentence for driving under the influence, and died while in custody in 2012. Authorities claimed Sgt. James Brown died due to a pre-existing medical condition, but shocking new video from inside the jail raises new questions about what happened. The video shows guards swarming on top of him as he repeatedly says he can’t breathe and appears not to resist. By the end of the video, he is shown naked, not blinking or responding, his breathing shallow. Attorneys say an ambulance was never called. Brown was eventually brought to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His family had long suspected foul play in his death but received little information from authorities. They’ve now filed a lawsuit against El Paso County saying his constitutional rights were violated. We are joined by Brown’s mother, Dinetta Scott.Disgusting.
A fundraiser for the “Baltimore 6″ — the police officers charged in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray — will feature a blackface performance by a former police officer who was compelled to leave force in 1984 for performing in blackface, Ebony’s Jamilah Lemieux reports.
Among the list of entertainers on the invitation to the fundraiser is one “Bobby ‘Al Jolson’ Berger — out of retirement,” which as Lemieux noted is one of the stranger ways “to raise funds for a group of police implicated in the death of a black man.” When she contacted number listed on the invitation, however, she discovered why Berger had been booked — “I’m hosting the event,” he told her.
“I was a Baltimore city policeman,” he said by way of explaining why he was hosting the fundraiser, “and then I had no income, no insurance, and a wife and child. We’re trying to get something together for them for Christmas.”
Berger claimed that while he knows “it sounds crazy,” there’s no racial dimension to blackface performances, and that the fact that black people — including former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier — attended his show without taking offense proves as much. “The only thing I can tell you is that the heavyweight champion of the world isn’t going to stand by and watch me mock Black people,” he said, adding that neither Montel Williams nor Ben Vereen were offended by it either.
Lemieux asked whether he considered it inappropriate to perform in blackface given “the racially-charged nature of the Gray case and ensuing civil unrest,” and he dismissed the notion out of hand.
“There’s not a prejudiced bone in my body,” Berger said. “I would never do anything to insult anybody. I wouldn’t do that show if I thought it was insulting.” He explained that it simply “feels like the right time to put some money in these family’s pockets.”
As for those who do find it offensive, Berger said “it’s just make-up, there’s no jokes, no buffoonery. If that bothers you, don’t buy a ticket.”
len Burnie venue on Wednesday abruptly canceled a planned fundraiser for the six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray after the scheduled entertainment — a former Baltimore officer singing in blackface — drew sharp criticism.
Bobby Berger, 67, who was fired from the city police force in the 1980s after his off-duty performances in blackface drew the ire of the NAACP, had said he wanted to revive the act to help the families of the officers.
He said he had sold 600 tickets at $45 each to the bull roast scheduled for Nov. 1 at Michael's Eighth Avenue, where he and several singers planned to perform as guests dined.
In his performances, Berger impersonates Al Jolson, a white entertainer from the 1920s, '30s and '40s best remembered for his blackface performance of "Mammy" in the film "The Jazz Singer."
But after news of the event began spreading Wednesday, Michael's posted a statement on its website saying the event would not be held there.
That's messed up. I hope she enjoys her free money from the lawsuit / settlement.
http://i.imgur.com/ccuqEjD.gifv
Ferguson bis repetita. Pretty unclear what happened so far, but there's footage of a severe gunfight on a parking lot (20+ shots probably and multiple shooters it seems). Possibly other shooting incidents. Also confrontations between cops and possible protesters elsewhere. :-\
Looks like a bunch of trigger-happy cacs armed with assault rifles have shown up in Ferguson to offer protection to journalists [but mainly the one from Infowars]. :goty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCozh_vbYdM
:lawd
Sovereign Citizens are the epitome of entitled CACs to me. It's stunning. Do we /ever/ see anyone non-white trying this bullshittery?
Sovereign Citizens are the epitome of entitled CACs to me. It's stunning. Do we /ever/ see anyone non-white trying this bullshittery?
Only those sheltered from antagonism from the police could possibly think that reciting PUA rhetorical debate cards is gonna work on someone empowered to use violence to do their job.
Night had fallen at the Clinton Correctional Facility in far northern New York when the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander. They handcuffed him and took him into a broom closet for questioning. Then, Mr. Alexander said in an interview last week, the beatings began.
As the three guards, who wore no name badges, punched him and slammed his head against the wall, he said they shouted questions: “Where are they going? What did you hear? How much are they paying you to keep your mouth shut?” One of the guards put a plastic bag over his head, Mr. Alexander said, and threatened to waterboard him.
Not exactly cops, but relevant:QuoteNight had fallen at the Clinton Correctional Facility in far northern New York when the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander. They handcuffed him and took him into a broom closet for questioning. Then, Mr. Alexander said in an interview last week, the beatings began.
As the three guards, who wore no name badges, punched him and slammed his head against the wall, he said they shouted questions: “Where are they going? What did you hear? How much are they paying you to keep your mouth shut?” One of the guards put a plastic bag over his head, Mr. Alexander said, and threatened to waterboard him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/nyregion/after-2-killers-fled-new-york-prisoners-say-beatings-were-next.html?_r=0
I think this is the partial legacy of the Global War on Terrorism. Prison guards are torturing inmates and police are disappearing suspects at black sites (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/05/homan-square-chicago-thousands-detained).
Ah, I understand what you meant now. I agree it is ironic that the US is suppressing freedom while simultaneously telling its military they fight for freedom. I could see how someone might feel betrayed if they believed they were fighting for freedom, but I didn't.
He reported for duty — as a lunatic.
A Massachusetts man, who gave a salute in his shirtless mug shot, assaulted seven Revere police officers after what was supposed to be a simple traffic stop, police said in a statement.
Joseph Parker, 34, of Wakefield, was driving through a construction zone when police asked him to slow down at about 12:40 a.m. Tuesday morning, police said.
Instead, Parker allegedly jumped out of his car and punched one officer, Lt. Jeremiah Goodwin, in the head. He then headed towards a second officer. Goodwin fell on concrete after Parker punched him, and suffered a concussion.
That started a violent spree that included attacking three officers who tried to arrest him, and three more cops once he was booked at the police station, authorities said.
Police said Parker appeared to be on drugs during the alleged attack, screaming “F--- you cops with your guns” and ranting about Ferguson, Mo.
He also allegedly told the officers “I know why you stopped me.”
After assaulting Goodwin, two passengers in Parker’s car exited the vehicle and tried to restrain him as the second officer called for backup.
When handcuffed in the back of a police car he kicked a window several times in an attempt to break the glass and flee the cruiser. Once the glass cracked, he then removed his shoes and tried to stick it through in a failed attempt to escape, police said.
He was also Tased a few times but it had little effect. Authorities also said his story changed multiple times, and his behavior was erratic and nonsensical, the station reported.
He appeared to calm down by the time he arrived at the police station, though he still occasionally screamed expletives. But when officers tried to escort him to jail, he allegedly responded “what the [expletive] are you talking about?”
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/police-union-smears-woman-who-posted-video-of-police-beating-on-facebook-7823262
:lol at that police union banner
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/police-union-smears-woman-who-posted-video-of-police-beating-on-facebook-7823262
:lol at that police union banner
These pictures are very concerning, why is no one bothering to address them?
(http://i.imgur.com/BQSndti.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/ZKBi0bs.jpg)
Lansing, MI - "You think your job is tough?"
That's what a billboard asks drivers as they zoom by on Pennsylvania Avenue in Lansing.
This billboard with a message was the idea of the Ingham County Sheriff.
"It became clear to me that we needed to do something," says Sheriff Gene Wriggelsworth.
As cars race to merge onto I-96, a sergeant reveals the bullet proof vest underneath his uniform just above. The billboard reads: "Wearing body armor to work to serve. You think your job is tough?"
After the unrest over a police-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, the sheriff wanted to send a message to the community about the work officers do every day.
"I don't whether what happened there was right or wrong," says Sheriff Wriggelsworth, "quite frankly all I know is what I read in the media, but I know this, my staff didn't do anything wrong and yet they would get criticism, they'd stop a car and they would get criticism."
The sheriff contacted Adams Outdoor Advertising to see if the company had any sign space available, and Adams donated billboard space.
All the sheriff had to do was pay $1,000 in production costs. The charitable branch of the county's Mounted Unit funded that. So two months ago, the first sign went up on Martin Luther King. Jr. Boulevard near 1-496.
The sheriff sees the billboard as a reminder.
"We hire imperfect people sometimes and we have to deal with that," he says.
And the sheriff says, just like any other human being, officers deserve respect.
"Be a little bit more compassionate towards your police officers," says Sheriff Wriggelsworth.
And the sheriff says, just like any other human being, officers deserve respect.I think, in a way, this is the converse of the problem we're experiencing.
I know this, my staff didn't do anything wrong and yet they would get criticism, they'd stop a car and they would get criticism.
A Boston man allegedly jumped in front of a Boston police cruiser Sunday night in Roxbury and acted as if he was pulling a handgun from his waist band in what authorities described as an attempt to incite two officers to shoot him, police said.
Instead, they arrested him.
“Why didn’t you just let me tap out?’’ Bash Jean, 30, allegedly told officers after being taken into custody, according to a police report. “If this was any other place in the country, I’d be dead.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-woman-held-in-mental-hospital-because-police-didnt-believe-bmw-was-hers-10498704.html
Bet there is more to this story because as is, its pretty fucking crazy.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/sep/18/nine-police-officers-arrest-unarmed-black-teen-jaywalking-stockton-video?channel=us
WTF is wrong with people.
The Round Rock Police Department says on Thursday afternoon there was a disagreement between two male students. In a press release, RRPD says the Round Rock Police School Resource Officers (SROs) were requested by administrators to assist with a fight in the cafeteria because they were unable to “de-escalate the fight and needed police assistance.” Administrators told police one of the student’s involved refused to comply.
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Police say the SROs tried to calm the student down but he still wanted to continue the altercation with the other student. “After repeated attempts to calm the non-compliant student, and stop him from going after the other student, officers were forced to detain him for his safety and the safety of others,” continued RRPD in the statement.
Just don't read the comments.
Just don't read the comments.
Never, ever read the comments.
An Alabama man recorded himself shutting down two police officers who questioned him for jogging while black.
The man, identified as Corey Dickerson, was out of breath and resting after a hard sprint when an officer pulls up in his patrol car to ask who he is and where he is going, reported The Free Thought Project.
Dickerson, of Talladega, asks the officer if he has done anything wrong, and then he calmly and politely refuses to give his name or state his business.
“You look like you been running,” the officer says, and Dickerson agrees he has been. “Where you been running from?”
Man I can't image how humiliating that would be to be profiled like that.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/lapd-outfits-every-officer-body-061003058.html
I'd like to a cancer ridden Steve Jobs introduce a new super iPad mini like that. 'O where did this come from? ...and in 7 different colours!'
School resource officers (SROs) are sworn law enforcement officers who are responsible for providing security and crime prevention services in the American school environment.Huh. And I thought campus cops were a strange aberration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNJFQ5w7kfg
Did he do something to her to deserve that?
On Thursday, a jury acquitted Officer Lisa Mearkle for shooting David Kassick in Pennsylvania, who was pulled over for an expired inspection sticker. The same day, video of the deadly encounter was released by the local D.A., showing Kassick face down on the ground and obeying Mearkle’s orders before being shot twice.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa_oXfd8gDY
The fatal traffic stop happened back in February. When Hummelstown Borough Police Department officer tried to pull over Kassick, the man escaped to his sister’s home nearby. A brief foot chase ensued, and the video begins with the officer yelling for Kassick to get on the ground. Mearkle fires her taser — 50,000 volts — into his back, and he writhes in pain in submission. Complying with Mearkle’s commands, Kassick makes his hands visible. As he lays face down on the ground, Mearkle shoots him with her gun, twice.
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“At the time Officer Mearkle fires both rounds from her pistol, the video clearly depicts Kassick lying on the snow covered lawn with his face toward the ground, furthermore, at the time the rounds are fired nothing can be seen in either of Kassick’s hands, nor does he point or direct anything toward Officer Mearkle,” District Attorney Ed Marisco wrote in an affidavit.
Mearkle has maintained that she was acting in self-defense. Kassick was unarmed, but during her trial, Mearkle explained that she believed Kassick was holding a weapon. “There was no reason for him to reach into his frigging jacket,” she said.
She also criticized prosecutors for charging her with murder.
“I’m a good police officer. This [arrest] should not have happened to me. I believe I could continue to be a police officer,” Mearkle testified. “I was only charged for political reasons. That’s how I feel.”
After the not-guilty verdict, President Les Neri of the local police union applauded the decision and slammed the public for criticizing cops.
“The demonizing of police officers who are forced to make split-second decisions unfairly tarnishes the work done by good police officers. It ignores the unreasonable actions or crimes committed by those who created these situations in the first place,” he wrote in a press statement.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo apologized Saturday for comments he made during a press conference about the arrest of a jogger for jaywalking near the UT campus. During that press conference, Acevedo said that "In other cities there's cops who are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas."
"Peel police and RCMP dismantle suspected meth lab in Brampton"
Shouldn't you confirm that it is a methlab before dismantling it Boogie?
Police union leaders really need to learn to shut up. He could have said 'We welcome scrutiny and as the results of the trial show, we did our job and were justified in our actions'. Instead he basically says 'How dare you question what we do?'http://uk.businessinsider.com/largest-police-union-cautions-quentin-tarantino-2015-11?r=US&IR=T
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/09/nypd-detective-honored-with-challenge-coin-commemorating-four-justified-kills/
isn't generally killing a person a kind of failure by cops to protect and serve, not an achievement?
http://myfox8.com/2015/09/05/police-officer-fired-after-photo-of-him-at-kkk-rally-in-north-carolina-surfaces/
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/09/nypd-detective-honored-with-challenge-coin-commemorating-four-justified-kills/
isn't generally killing a person a kind of failure by cops to protect and serve,
Considering how quick to the trigger our boys are down here and how readily they're able to avoid any skepticism about it, I remain cynical of "justified" or "lawful use of force."
:yeshrug
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/11/09/nypd-detective-honored-with-challenge-coin-commemorating-four-justified-kills/http://nypost.com/2015/02/15/meet-the-most-decorated-detective-in-nypd-history/
isn't generally killing a person a kind of failure by cops to protect and serve, not an achievement?
It was the bad old days of 1974, the South Bronx, and NYPD Detective Ralph Friedman and his partner, Robert De Matas, were working undercover, posing as cab drivers.I like the left hand tattoo better:
They watched a group of teens ask a man, Joaquin Castro, 37, for money. Castro turned them down.
“The kid called him a cheap bastard, so [Castro] pulls out a gun and shoots him right in front of us — his chest explodes,” Friedman recalled.
The cops sprinted after Castro along John Street, the killer firing at Friedman as he fled. De Matas tried to outflank him. Castro jumped behind cars and reloaded.
“I stop by a stoop, so I’m covered,” Friedman said. “I shoot at him. He shoots at me, I duck. He turns and shoots at my partner. Then he turns and shoots at me. Then he reloads again. I go to a second gun. I’m lining him up in my sights like I’m shooting at paper, and I’m like, ‘Why isn’t this guy going down?’
“My partner fires one round, and the guy grabs his shoulder. He goes down. I run up and am standing right over him, and he starts to lift his hand up, and I shoot him right in the head. That did it. He dropped the gun. His brains fell out onto the street. And when they get him downtown, would you believe I’d hit him like nine times — in a good grouping right around the belly?”
Friedman was given the Combat Cross, the department’s second-highest honor, for his actions.
For that battle, and the three other men he killed when they tried to murder him in the line of duty, Friedman gave himself something else, a tattoo on his right trigger finger that reads:
“Justified 4X.”
The reports, released by the city late Friday, show that Officer Jason Van Dyke and at least five other officers claim that the 17-year-old McDonald moved or turned threateningly toward officers, even though the video of the October 2014 shooting shows McDonald walking away, and the scenario sketched out by Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez in charging Van Dyke with murder contends he was walking away as well.
At least one patrol officer said McDonald was advancing on the officers in a menacing way and swung his knife at them in an "aggressive, exaggerated manner" before he was shot and killed. Officers claimed, too, that even after McDonald had been shot by Van Dyke, the teen tried to lift himself off the ground with the knife pointed toward the officers, and though he had been mortally wounded, still presented a threat.
The reports, a collection of handwritten statements from the night of the shooting, and follow-up reports in the days and months after, often refer to Van Dyke as VD and call him the victim. McDonald is O, for offender. Some are in police shorthand.
"VD believed O was attacking w/knife," said a report of Van Dyke's account. "Trying to kill VD. In defense of his life, VD backpedaled + fired. O fell to ground, continued to move/grasp knife. VD continued firing. O appeared to be attempting to get up, still holding knife. Pointing at VD."
The statements prompted police supervisors to rule McDonald's death a justifiable homicide just hours after he had been shot 16 times on South Pulaski Road and 41st Street.
With the video of the shooting as a backdrop, the reports — the first detailed accounts from the officers at the scene — offer a way to examine what Van Dyke and his colleagues say happened. Because they diverge so dramatically from the video, they suggest one possible avenue for additional investigation.
That video, which prompted the city to pay McDonald's family $5 million without it filing a wrongful death lawsuit, shows McDonald briskly walking down the middle of the street when Van Dyke fired from the teen's left side. In charging Van Dyke with first-degree murder, prosecutors said the officer opened fire six seconds after exiting his squad car, firing 16 rounds at McDonald in about 14 seconds as the teen was walking away, and was reloading when another officer told him to hold his fire. For 13 of those seconds, McDonald was already lying on the street, prosecutors said.
The video did not show McDonald lunging toward officers as some of them claimed, although there appears to be a silver object in McDonald's right hand. The autopsy on McDonald found that he had the drug PCP in his system.
The reports hint at how Van Dyke may try to defend his actions and explain a perceived threat. A day after the shooting, Van Dyke recalled a bulletin from the department that warned about knives that also shoot bullets. Included in the reports is a December 2012 bulletin about the knife, attributed to an unnamed "Midwest intelligence organization" that warned officers to "remain cognizant of its threat to personal safety."
Van Dyke also told an investigator that he was aware of the dangers of spring-loaded knives and was familiar with the so-called 21-foot-rule that suggests a suspect armed with an edged weapon can injure an officer from that distance.
While some officers on the scene said in the reports that they did not see Van Dyke shoot McDonald, at least five corroborated Van Dyke's account. Walsh, for instance, said McDonald was advancing toward him and Van Dyke, swinging the knife combatively.PDFs: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-pdfs-laquan-mcdonald-police-report-20151204-htmlstory.html
Walsh said in his account that he also drew his handgun, then came around the rear of the SUV to join Van Dyke.
Walsh said he repeatedly ordered McDonald to "drop the knife" as he approached the officers.
The report says Walsh was backing up as McDonald drew closer, swinging his knife at police officers — action that did not occur, according to the video the Emanuel administration made available after a judge ordered that it could no longer be kept from the public.
"Officer Walsh also backed up, attempting to maintain a safe distance between himself and McDonald," the reports state. "McDonald ignored the verbal direction given by both Walsh and Officer Van Dyke, and continued to advance toward the officers. When McDonald got within 12 to 15 feet of the officers, he swung the knife toward the officers in an aggressive manner."
Van Dyke opened fire and continued to shoot: "Van Dyke continued firing his weapon at McDonald continued moving on the ground, attempting to get up, while still armed with the knife."
Walsh, according to the reports, did not shoot because Van Dyke was in his line of fire. But he was certain McDonald posed a threat to the officers.
"Officer Walsh said he believed McDonald was attacking Walsh and Officer Van Dyke with the knife and attempting to kill them when the shots were fired," the reports state.
The reports say that when McDonald stopped moving, Walsh kicked the knife away.
"Threat eliminated," the report states.
They were arrested in North Battleford, Sask., following a police chase that started in the north end of Saskatoon.
“But it was so strange because I sat down next to her, and she was telling me what happened, and I got this — I’m a big Law & Order fan, and I just got this really weird feeling,” Peggy says. “It was like, I felt like she was telling me the script of a Law & Order story.”
From this rescission to the early release of thousands of federal inmates to the restrictions on surplus military equipment available to state and local law enforcement, the safety and security of our communities is being put at risk.
No indictment in the Tamir Rice shooting.
If these are all kind of blurring together for you like they are for me, that's the one where the 12 year old with the toy gun was shot within 2 seconds of police arriving on the scene.
“He is out on probation and he is out selling drugs, and that’s why he was pulled over,’’ Evans said in a news conference at the hospital.
Evans said police had boxed Headley’s car in and were moving to arrest him, but still had not unholstered their weapons. Headley jumped out of his vehicle and opened fire “unprovoked,’’ leading the officer to return fire, Evans said.
The other officers accompanying the wounded officer chased Headley on foot across Rosseter Street and onto Geneva Avenue, where he was wrestled to the ground and taken into custody without another shot being fired, Evans said.
The commissioner emphasized that point: Officers who had just seen one of their own shot by an armed suspect took him into custody without using deadly force.
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:lol
Authorities last year suggested Chicago’s spike in gun violence in 2015 was due to the “Ferguson effect” — cops afraid to do their jobs because of the scrutiny following the shooting of a black teenager by a white officer in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.
But with Chicago now plagued with an even steeper rise in fatal shootings in January, compared with the same period of 2015, street cops are offering a new reason: the “ACLU effect.”
They say the Chicago Police Department’s pact with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois to monitor police stops in greater detail is prompting officers to stop policing, leaving the streets to the criminals and leading to the spike in gun violence.
Starting in January, officers have been required to fill out two-page forms documenting every stop of a citizen for everything from traffic violations to investigative stops. They ask for much more information than the previous one-page “contact cards” officers filled out.
In interviews with officers and sergeants over the past month, a common theme has emerged: Cops say they have avoided making many of the stops they would have routinely done last year.
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Meantime, January 2016 was the deadliest first month of the year since 2001, according to a Chicago Sun-Times review of homicide records. At least 50 murders were recorded through 6 a.m. Sunday — most the result of shootings on the West and South Sides.
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One sergeant in a South Side police district attributed the latest wave of violence to criminals becoming emboldened by what they see as officers being hamstrung by the intense scrutiny over police practices since the video of an officer fatally shooting Laquan McDonald was made public in November.
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Sergeant-in-slapping-video-due-in-court-Tuesday-6125415.php
A former police officer who slapped a man during a traffic stop and pleaded guilty to official misconduct was fined, but the judge declined to sentence him to probation.
Shawn R. Glans, a former Saratoga County sheriff's sergeant, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the misdemeanor as well as harassment, a violation.
Town Justice Lester Wormuth rejected the prosecution's request to sentence Glans to three years of probation. The judge instead ordered Glans to pay $1,505 in fines by May 21 and stay away from Colin Fitch for a year.
One of the officers suspended Wednesday is RCMP Staff Sgt. Bruno Solesme, who used to be the unit manager. Solesme had already been disciplined for nudity in the workplace, specifically one instance where he was seen lying naked across the desk of a colleague. He was suspended with pay for several months in 2014 before an internal adjudication board formally issued a reprimand and docked him seven days' pay.
The other man suspended this week is a civilian member of the RCMP and a former Canadian Forces Joint Task Force member, Marco Calandrini. He was docked five days' pay for walking around the office stark naked on a regular basis.
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Good friends, the two men were reportedly fond of not only posing completely nude on each other's desks in a purported effort to shock each other but also allegedly simulated oral sex in the office.
All four former staff members told CBC about similar instances where Calandrini appeared naked in the corridors or announced he had just shaved his genitals before dumping the contents of his electric razor onto the table they all shared at mealtimes.
The mayor of Achille, who's been in legal trouble with his town before, is back in the hot seat, but this time in connection with his job as a Bryan County Sheriff’s Office deputy.
Achille mayor, Shane Guhl is once again under scrutiny, leaving his town's people with mixed emotions.
Back in 2009 he was fired from his position as mayor, and later sued his town for wrongful termination, and won.
He was also Achilles’ police chief, and was let go twice.
Guhl is now accused of having an inappropriate affair with a school teacher.
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Guhl has worked as a deputy for the Bryan County Sheriff's Office for over two years.
Last year, he was hired as the resource officer for Achille Public Schools, but is now being investigated by the Bryan County Sheriff's Office over an alleged affair with a teacher in the school system.
Miami FOP Lodge# 20 – Boycotting Beyoncé’s Miami Concert
The Miami Fraternal Order of Police has voted to have all law enforcement officers boycott Beyoncé’s concert which is being held at the Miami Marlins Stadium on Wednesday, April 26, 2016. The fact that Beyoncé used this year’s Super Bowl to divide American s by promoting the Black Panthers and her antipolice message shows how she does not support law enforcement.
I was one of the tens of thousands of law enforcement officers that didn’t watch the Super Bowl halftime show out of respect for our profession. On another day while flipping through the television channels, I did mistakenly watch her "Formation” video that shows scenes of a young black boy dancing in front of police in riot gear, who signal their surrender by putting their hands up, referencing the "Hands up, don't shoot" anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired by the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. I challenge Beyoncé to review the eighty-six page report written by the United States Department of Justice on the death investigation of Michael Brown. As quoted by a witness that was interviewed by investigators, Witness 108 refused to provide additional details to either county or federal authorities, citing community sentiment to support a “hands up” surrender narrative as his reason to remain silent. He explained that he would rather go to jail than testify before the county grand jury. As detailed throughout the USDOJ report, those hands up, don’t shoot accounts are inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence. Countless others contradicted or recanted their accounts of what transpired. Hands up, don't shoot was built on a lie.
While Beyoncé physically saluted the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers movement at the Super Bowl, I salute NYPD Officer Richard Rainey, who succumbed to his injuries on February 16, 2016 from being shot by two Black Panthers who he had pulled over in a traffic stop. I also salute the dozens of law enforcement officers that have been assassinated by members of the Black Panthers.
We ask all law enforcement labor organizations to join our boycott across the country and to boycott all of her concerts.
Fraternally,
Javier Ortiz, President Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #20
Listening to this now
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/581/anatomy-of-doubt
very heart breaking
An Unbelievable Story of Rape (https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story)
Really great long-form crime journalism, and a story including both some pretty crappy and really impressive policework.
Listening to this now
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/581/anatomy-of-doubt
very heart breaking
Pretty sure this is an audio version of something I posted last page:An Unbelievable Story of Rape (https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story)
Really great long-form crime journalism, and a story including both some pretty crappy and really impressive policework.
It's almost like a Goofus and Gallant of how to handle sexual assault cases. Alternately hopeful and depressing.
Less serious than most stories posted here, but amusing since it involves my old high school:QuoteThe mayor of Achille, who's been in legal trouble with his town before, is back in the hot seat, but this time in connection with his job as a Bryan County Sheriff’s Office deputy.
Achille mayor, Shane Guhl is once again under scrutiny, leaving his town's people with mixed emotions.
Back in 2009 he was fired from his position as mayor, and later sued his town for wrongful termination, and won.
He was also Achilles’ police chief, and was let go twice.
Guhl is now accused of having an inappropriate affair with a school teacher.
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Guhl has worked as a deputy for the Bryan County Sheriff's Office for over two years.
Last year, he was hired as the resource officer for Achille Public Schools, but is now being investigated by the Bryan County Sheriff's Office over an alleged affair with a teacher in the school system.
Several children between the ages of 6 and 11 were led out of a Tennessee elementary school in handcuffs Friday after video surfaced online of a schoolyard tussle, WKRN reported.
According to the local news station, the fight broke out during a pickup basketball game off-campus. After reviewing the video, police took the kids into custody at Hobgood Elementary School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and charged them with criminal responsibility for the acts of another.
Local Rev. James McCarroll, joined by outraged parents in a packed Sunday community meeting, told the Tennessean that the kids were charged for not intervening to stop the fight.
Zacchaeus Crawford told WKRN that three of his five children, ages 9, 10, and 11, were arrested. He said he raised his children to avoid “the system,” but they were thrust into legal trouble anyway—even though two of his kids weren’t even present at the game.
In July 2013, while driving through Arkansas on his way to Texas, Espinoza was pulled over by a state trooper who discovered a large amount of cash in the car, which he viewed as inherently suspicious. The money was seized and eventually forfeited based on vague allegations of drug-related activity. But there's a twist: There was so little evidence of such activity that local prosecutors decided to drop the forfeiture case. The judge would not let them, and last week a state appeals court declined to review that astounding decision because Espinoza had missed a filing deadline.
It's not clear why Arkansas State Police Sgt. Dennis Overton decided to stop Espinoza, who was traveling with his girlfriend, Priscila Hernandez. The legal justification for pulling Espinoza over was missing from the state's September 2013 forfeiture complaint, which referred without explanation to "the traffic stop," and from Circuit Court Judge Chris Williams' September 2014 order authorizing permanent confiscation of the money, which said only that the stop was "proper." In his response to the forfeiture complaint, Espinoza argued that the stop was illegal, so it would be nice to know what the rationale for it was.
After the stop, Judge Williams said, a "State of Arkansas drug dog was transported to the site in order to conduct a search of the vehicle." That's a revealing way of putting it, since according to the Supreme Court walking a drug-sniffing dog around a car does not qualify as a search. But if the dog "alerts" to the car, the Court says, that alone supplies probable cause for a search. So what Williams evidently meant was that Sgt. Overton requested a drug dog on the assumption that it would give him the permission he needed to search the car. But according to Williams, "It is obvious from the tape [of the traffic stop] that the dog did not alert on the vehicle at the scene of the stop."
Undeterred, Overton asked for permission to search the car, which Espinoza supposedly granted—a pretty suspicious sequence of events. Why bother bringing in a drug dog to justify searching a car if the driver is willing to give his consent? In any case, Williams said, "the dog alerted on a computer bag," inside which Overton found $19,894 in cash, mostly wrapped in $1,000 bundles. Overton found no contraband, drug paraphernalia, or any other sign of illegal activity. But as far as he was concerned, the cash itself was conclusive evidence that Espinoza was involved in drug trafficking.
"I've worked this interstate for the last eight years," Overton told Espinoza, according to the transcript of the dashcam video, which Williams appended to his order. "Half of my career I've spent out here. OK? Nobody—nobody—carries their money like that but one person. OK? People that deal with drugs, and deliver drugs. That's it. Nobody else. Nobody."
Espinoza, who had no criminal record and was never charged in this case, said the money came from years of construction work, and he later presented checks, receipts, and tax forms to substantiate that income. He said he took the money with him to Memphis because he was planning to buy a 4x4 truck there. But he was not happy with the advertised vehicle, so he did not complete the purchase. He offered to show Overton text messages he had exchanged with the truck seller and said his boss, whom he offered to call, would vouch for him. Overton, already convinced of Espinoza's guilt, was not interested.
Aside from the existence of the cash and the police dog's purported alert to the computer bag, the forfeiture complaint offered no evidence that Espinoza was dealing or delivering drugs. It simply asserted that "the currency was being used for drug trafficking, to further the manufacture of a controlled substance or...to facilitate the violation of Arkansas Code Annotated Section 5-64-536," which criminalizes possessing with intent to deliver marijuana or any other "Schedule VI controlled substance."
someone at the Hot Spring County Prosecuting Attorney's Office had second thoughts about this case. "The Plaintiff has decided not to pursue the forfeiture of the currency," Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Teresa Howell said in a May 2014 motion, "and the In Rem Complaint should be dismissed without prejudice." Amazingly, Judge Williams went ahead with the forfeiture anyway, making the state's case for it by citing snatches of Spanish conversation between Espinoza and Hernandez that can be heard in the dashcam video.
The transcript of that conversation shows Espinoza was anxious that Overton would find the cash, which is either evidence of his criminal culpability or perfectly understandable in light of what ultimately happened to his money. It also shows Espinoza talking to his girlfriend about their trip to Graceland and his plan to buy a truck in Memphis, which Williams read as rehearsal of a cover story but which could also be taken at face value.
Williams counted that nervousness as additional evidence of Espinoza's involvement in drug trafficking. After all, why would an innocent person be nervous when confronted by an armed agent of the state intent on searching his vehicle, implicating him in drug crimes, and seizing anything of value he might find? At the same time, Williams suggested that Espinoza was not nervous enough: "It is very obvious that Mr. Espinoza, during the whole stop which was filmed, was very stoic." Williams concluded that the state, which was no longer trying to prove its case, nevertheless had succeeded by meeting the "preponderance of the evidence" standard for civil forfeiture in Arkansas, meaning it was more likely than not that the money had something to do with illegal drugs.
The state appeals court declined to consider any of those issues because Espinoza missed the 30-day deadline for challenging Williams' decision and the 10-day deadline for extending the 30-day deadline. While concurring in that result, Judge Waymond Brown wrote separately to highlight the injustice Espinoza had suffered:QuoteIn his order, the judge noted statements such as, "What are we going to do? They just found the money," and "Please don't find it, please don't find it" in determining that both Mr. Espinoza and his companion "knew that this illicit money was hauled down the road." Absent from the same order was the obvious language barrier that existed between Mr. Espinoza and the arresting officer, the officer's insistence that he had been a state trooper for sixteen years and there was only one reason someone would carry that much cash in his vehicle, the officer's apparent refusal to be shown text messages between Mr. Espinoza and the person from whom he said he wished to buy a truck, or even Mr. Espinoza's companion's statement, "You didn't tell me you had that money. You just told me we were coming to buy a truck."
Meanwhile, Mr. Espinoza presented the trial court with numerous paychecks from various construction jobs, as well as tax documents evidencing his argument that the money was lawfully earned. Nevertheless, the trial judge ordered forfeiture of the nearly $20,000. In response to Mr. Espinoza’s motion for reconsideration, the judge simply stated, "The Defendant’s Motion to Reconsider is denied and without merit." He gave no further explanation. I am of the belief that unsubstantiated suspicions are not just cause for circumventing established judicial practices.
The judge's reasoning is gold. :hehDistrict Judge. I'm hoping to see this go further up the chain.
It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes.:comeon :comeon :comeon
Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects a person may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan and seize money from prepaid cards. OHP stresses troopers do not do this during all traffic stops, only situations where they believe there is probable cause.I hope this bastard gets beaten in the primaries before he literally handcuffs our first line of defense against criminals. (No Democrat is running in the general election it seems, a Libertarian might.)
"We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. “We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's someway that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."
Troopers insist this isn't just about seizing cash.
"I know that a lot of people are just going to focus on the seizing money. That's a very small thing that' s happening now. The largest part that we have found ... the biggest benefit has been the identity theft," Vincent said.
"If you can prove can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be given back to you. And we've done that in the past," Vincent said about any money seized.
State Sen. Kyle Loveless, R-Oklahoma City, said that removes due process and the belief that a suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty. He said we've already seen cases in Oklahoma where police are abusing the system.
"We've seen single mom's stuff be taken, a cancer survivor his drugs taken, we saw a Christian band being taken. We've seen innocent people's stuff being taken. We've seen where the money goes and how it's been misspent," Loveless said.
Loveless plans to introduce legislation next session that would require a conviction before any assets could be seized.
Summer Loveless, 38, wife of Oklahoma State Senator Kyle Loveless, was arrested after police say she was uncooperative during a traffic stop.
Police said Loveless was speeding along l-44, near Northwest Expressway. She was allegedly changing lanes and following too closely to other vehicles.
An officer tried to pull her over, but she allegedly kept driving for about another mile. She, then, exited May Ave. and pulled into a Lowe's parking lot.
Authorities said, when the officer approached her car, Loveless had her window rolled up, made a gesture to the officer signaling for him to wait, then, proceeded to send a text message.
Eventually, the officer talked with the senator's wife and found out she was driving with a suspended license.
"At this point, the driver had her radio turned up apparently loud. The officer tried three different times to get her attention. Finally, she turned the radio back down and was able to make contact with the officer," Capt. Paco Balderrama Oklahoma City Police Dept. "Initially, the driver was not cooperative... continued to argue with the officer, but subsequently, was placed under arrest."
Loveless faces charges of driving under suspension, two counts of following too closely, and one count of obstructing an officer.
In a Facebook post, Loveless ranted about how she claims she was treated in the Oklahoma County Jail, saying she was "psychologically and sexually abused."
BREAKING: #AltonSterling Was Child Raping Dead Beat Dad Who Owed $25,000+ in Child Support, Not Good “Father of Five”
Yet another narrative exploded… No, Alton Sterling wasn’t a good dad at all.
One of the lies currently being peddled about pedophile gang banger Alton Sterling is that he was a good father.
In fact Sterling was a dead beat dad who owned over $25,000 in child support, according to court records from the state of Louisiana.
Controversial riot instigator (and allegedly CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey’s boyfriend) Deray The Gay McKesson made a big deal about Sterling’s death in an altercation with police.
Is McKesson admitting to being a pedophile too? Let’s hope not. We wouldn’t want another pedophile in Black Lives Matter movement. It’s becoming a trend.
Let’s sum it up: A convicted pedophile with previous charges ranging from drugs to illegal firearms. The police were called because he was pointing a gun at people in the parking lot.
About Charles C. Johnson
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Dommy • 3 hours ago
Thank You, Baton Rouge Police officers, for your service to mankind.
GoodNews ✓Orthodox 4Trump Dommy • 3 hours ago
Let God handle it from here.
Dommy GoodNews ✓Orthodox 4Trump • 3 hours ago
Oh, He will! Of that you can be certain.
No parole either -- forever.
Hotlanta Mike Dommy • 3 hours ago
Another one bites the dust...
Libtards Lie Dommy • 3 hours ago
Amen.
Niccolo' Machiavelli Dommy • 8 minutes ago
DOJ to investigate civil rights violations?
Why was this pedophile roaming the streets? The police did a great job, no mercy for pedophiles: that's my line in the sand, when you cross it you have given up your rights!
already there's another video of a police shooting circulating as of an hour ago. man was in the car with his family, reached for his id, police shot him. his wife recorded the video.
police in this country are out of fucking control. we're approaching 600 ppl shot and killed by cops so far this year, and that doesn't even include shit like the constant stream of stories about ppl who just suddenly decided to kill themselves in police custody. our whole damn justice system is racist trash and always has been, and it's gonna rip our country to shreds (not that i mind) if they don't clamp down on it hard asap.
How much crying would there be about due process and constitutional rights from the very same cunts if this had been a white guy? Or is is this just the frontier justice mentality, where finding out that the victim 'deserved' it overrides any and all expected standards in a civilized society?Quotea bunch of human refuse
I think what really makes those bad cases so bad is how quickly and completely other cops and cop organizations circle the wagons around those bad apples and try to prevent any action being taken. I understand that it's a brotherhood and all that, but some cops just don't deserve that kind of protection.
already there's another video of a police shooting circulating as of an hour ago. man was in the car with his family, reached for his id, police shot him. his wife recorded the video.not only that, he told the officer ahead of time that he was simply reaching for his ID.
police in this country are out of fucking control. we're approaching 600 ppl shot and killed by cops so far this year, and that doesn't even include shit like the constant stream of stories about ppl who just suddenly decided to kill themselves in police custody. our whole damn justice system is racist trash and always has been, and it's gonna rip our country to shreds (not that i mind) if they don't clamp down on it hard asap.
Both of these shooting highlight how terrified white police officers are of black men. That seems to be the problem that needs to be fixed, because their training doesn’t seem to be the issue when dealing with angry, armed, white men.
Complies, gets shot for it. This is going to keep happening so long as the police walk away from all of their mistakes (or 'mistakes', as the case may be). What would the story look like without video?I remember a really absurd case from a few years ago where the officer told a guy to get up and then shot him a bunch of times. Then his claim at trial was that he meant to say "don't get up" so it was just a small mistake and the jury accepted the explanation and he was not guilty on all charges.
I can remember another case where a guy got shot for complying. The state trooper in question lost his job over it, though I don't know if he faced any charges.
sniper in Dallas; just shot 2 police
sniper in Dallas; just shot 2 police
I hope no innocent people get hurt.
NSFW NSFL
Police officer getting taken down at point blank range
https://twitter.com/seguifox13/status/751278909895745537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
So, does anyone want to make any guesses on what the suspects are?
Honestly, I hope that the shooters are white since that would reduce the backlash. Who knows?
I can't tell if the suspects not being named or revealed to the public yet is taking longer than usual in mass shootings or terror attacks like this. Its more annoying than strange, as context behind something like this isn't a bad thing to have.
Honestly, I hope that the shooters are white since that would reduce the backlash. Who knows?
Not even sure of that, depending on his confession and political leanings. I think some pundits are also eager to blame Obama for enabling this crime by waging war on cops or some bullshit.
I don't mind them not releasing names right away, but it feels a bit weird since they rushed to broadcast the face of that one guy who it turned out had nothing to do with it.That guy is black. They always rush to put up the faces of minorities when we're the suspects. So I'll continue assuming that the real shooters are white until we hear more about them.
Man if your own people are just targeting police like this your country is fucked up good, that's a breakdown of what a society is built on
It's a wrap for BLM and criminal justice reform fellas.
So, apparently the guy said he acted alone and was specifically targeting white people.
It's just nuts to me that one guy did all this. Hard to believe.
It's a wrap for BLM and criminal justice reform fellas.
5 cops killed (by a black guy). OMG WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!!!!.
4 Dallas Cops assassinated tonight. Blacks lives matter cheers. LGBT blames Christians. Obama defends Islam
Obama's words & BLM's deeds have gotten cops killed. Time for us to defend our cops
I'd be stunned if they aren't black. Seems tied to the recorded shootings. You can only push people so far before they snap. Not justifying anything, it's disgusting what happened. But those suspects who got arrested last night will be convicted and sentenced to death or life in prison, while the cops who executed black men on camera will go free as usual. They might not even receive charges. And it'll just be another case of black people being told you aren't shit. And people will react, positively and negatively. If you want to call it blowback or something else, it is what it is.
It's a shame and a terrible situation.
Cue gun laws targetting black people only somehowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2703998.1467968528!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/article-walsh-2-0707.jpg)Quote from: @WalshFreedom4 Dallas Cops assassinated tonight. Blacks lives matter cheers. LGBT blames Christians. Obama defends IslamQuote from: @WalshFreedomObama's words & BLM's deeds have gotten cops killed. Time for us to defend our cops
He's also desperately trying to lay this at the feet of Obama, BLM and liberals. Conveniently ignoring the recent news.(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2703998.1467968528!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/article-walsh-2-0707.jpg)Quote from: @WalshFreedom4 Dallas Cops assassinated tonight. Blacks lives matter cheers. LGBT blames Christians. Obama defends IslamQuote from: @WalshFreedomObama's words & BLM's deeds have gotten cops killed. Time for us to defend our cops
From the guy who lobbed disgusting attacks against a military veteran who lost both her legs in combat.
Obama's response to Dallas should be: "America, respect our Police. They keep us safe. Don't ever resist arrest. Stop this war on our Cops."About that...
'And even if you don't, they'll just fucking kill you anyway.'QuoteObama's response to Dallas should be: "America, respect our Police. They keep us safe. Don't ever resist arrest. Stop this war on our Cops."About that...
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/751458594558611456/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Newt Gingrich on Black America
he does not want to be Trump's running mate I see
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) on Friday afternoon railed against the people who took part in the protest in Dallas on Thursday night, charging that the protesters were "hypocrites" because, as he framed it, they were anti-police but expected the police to protect them once the shooting started.
"All those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. What hypocrites," Patrick said on Fox News. "I understand the First Amendment. I understand freedom of speech, and I defend it. It is in our Constitution and is in our soul, but you can't go out on social media and mainstream media and everywhere else and say that the police are racist or police are hateful or the police are killers."
"I do blame people on social media, with their hatred towards police. I do blame, I saw Jesse Jackson — I think it was on Fox the other night — calling police racist without any facts. I do blame former Black Lives Matters protests. Last night was peaceful, but others have not been," Patrick said on Fox News.:stahp
The lieutenant governor said that there are only a "precious few thousand" law enforcement officers and warned that "we're not going to have them much longer."
Patrick argued that concern about police violence is new and must stop.
"This has to end. I grew up in a world — I've been around long enough that we always had bad people, we always had dangerous people, but the general public respected police," he said. "Too many in the general public, who aren't criminals but have a big mouth, are creating situations like we saw last night."
“I think [the Obama administration] continued appeasements at the federal level with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals, their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible,” William Johnson, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, said in an interview with Fox on Friday morning.:obama
Johnson said although the Thursday night shooting of law enforcement officers reminded him of “the violence in the streets in the 60’s and 70’s,” he pointed out how Obama’s response appeared different than his predecessors.
“I think one of the big differences then was you had governors and mayors and the president — whether it was President Johnson or President Nixon, Republican or Democrat — condemning violence against the police and urging support for the police,” Johnson said. “Today that's markedly absent. I think that's a huge difference, and that's directly led to the climate that allows these attacks to happen.”
"It's a war on cops," Johnson also said. "And the Obama administration is the Neville Chamberlain of this war."
why can't we all just play pokemon go
“I think one of the big differences then was you had governors and mayors and the president — whether it was President Johnson or President Nixon, Republican or Democrat — condemning violence against the police and urging support for the police,” Johnson said. “Today that's markedly absent. I think that's a huge difference, and that's directly led to the climate that allows these attacks to happen.”
President Obama, addressing the tumult...said here Friday that he was outraged by the sniper attacks on the Dallas police that left five officers dead and seven wounded, calling the carnage "a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement.”
The president said there was "no possible justification" for the violence against police.
“We are horrified over these events and we stand united with the people and the police department in Dallas,” said Obama.
Obama emphasized that he had spoken by phone with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and offered full federal assistance to the investigation. He added that the FBI has been in touch with local officials.
Police have “an extraordinarily difficult job and the vast majority of them do their job in an outstanding fashion," Obama said Friday. "Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices they make for us."
Quote“I think one of the big differences then was you had governors and mayors and the president — whether it was President Johnson or President Nixon, Republican or Democrat — condemning violence against the police and urging support for the police,” Johnson said. “Today that's markedly absent. I think that's a huge difference, and that's directly led to the climate that allows these attacks to happen.”QuotePresident Obama, addressing the tumult...said here Friday that he was outraged by the sniper attacks on the Dallas police that left five officers dead and seven wounded, calling the carnage "a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement.”QuoteThe president said there was "no possible justification" for the violence against police.Quote“We are horrified over these events and we stand united with the people and the police department in Dallas,” said Obama.QuoteObama emphasized that he had spoken by phone with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and offered full federal assistance to the investigation. He added that the FBI has been in touch with local officials.QuotePolice have “an extraordinarily difficult job and the vast majority of them do their job in an outstanding fashion," Obama said Friday. "Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices they make for us."
derpa derp
“When it was time to try to leave, he said, ‘I’m gonna stand up. You stand behind me, and we’re gonna back out,’” recalled Moore.
But by numerous reports, Johnson and his Army Reserves engineering unit did not see so much as a moment of combat.
At least part of Johnson’s manifest transformation seems to have been the result not of PTSD, but of what might be termed PTDD, Post Traumatic Disgrace Disorder.
As reported by one of his bunkmates in Afghanistan, Johnson suffered a particular shame.
“We all knew he was a pervert cuz he got caught stealing girls’ panties,” the bunkmate later said in a Facebook post.
Johnson’s military lawyer, Bradford Glendening, says that a female corporal mentioned Victoria’s Secret underthings when she filed a sexual harassment complaint against his client.
The lawyer further reports that the corporal was worried enough to seek an order of protection against Johnson and to recommend that he receive mental health treatment.
All this seems to have transpired shortly after Johnson’s unit was detailed to assist in the preparations for what was described as “a surprise thank you visit” by President Obama to Bagram Air Base on the evening before Memorial Day in 2014.
Her excitement and the president’s praise could have only deepened the shame when he was deemed a panty perv and and shipped home three months early to face sexual harassment charges.
A former Affton High School football standout forced his way into a South County home and was shot and killed by an off-duty officer inside after a Facebook dispute over Black Lives Matter apparently boiled over late Saturday afternoon.
That's what can be pieced together from the accounts of police and an uncle of Tyler Gebhard, who said the young man had been struggling with mental health issues.
"He walked over there and into a gunfight," Gebhard's uncle, Patrick Brogan said, drawing on accounts offered by friends of his nephew. "When he got there, he was met with a gun and the guy killed him."
Authorities said Gebhard, 20, and the officer were acquainted, and Gebhard made Facebook threats to the officer's family and “uninvolved members of the community” in advance of the Saturday encounter with the unidentified officer.
Gebhard threw a 50-pound concrete planter through the window and entered the Lakeshire residence as the officer's wife, mother-in-law and two young children struggled to escape through a bedroom window, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. The off-duty officer shot and killed Gebhard.
"I don’t think the officer had a choice — I honestly don’t,” Belmar told reporters on Saturday, labeling the situation “a very difficult position to be in.”
Brogan said Gebhard and the police officer he befriended at a local church had clashed recently on Facebook over his nephew's support of Black Lives Matter.:holeup
Gebhard, who was biracial, supported the cause but was not an active participant in the protest movement, the uncle said.
His Facebook page contains numerous posts about police shootings of black men and the deaths of five officers in Dallas at the hands of a gunman targeting white officers. Some devolve into heated arguments and warnings of a "race war." Some posts are conciliatory, calling for black and white people to come together. One shows an image of a candle burning for the fallen Dallas officers.
But an online disagreement over the issues brought Gebhard to the Lakeshire home shortly before 6 p.m.
Belmar said Gebhard tossed the planter through the back window after being rebuffed by the officer's wife at the front door. She hid with other family members, including a toddler and an infant, as the off-duty officer went to check on the disturbance.
Holy fuck at that judo throw :crazyBecause the person being thrown isn't white, that's how. :shh
How can it not be excessive force ?
cident. Parker encountered Patel last Feb. 6 while responding to a call of a suspicious black man looking at garages and walking near houses. Patel, in from India to visit his son and grandson, testified that he did not understand English or the officers who confronted him while he was out for a walk.
Honestly, as a father of an autistic kid, I'm terrified of any interactions he might have with police. They are just trained to shoot. And that's sad. The only way this changes is if families of victims of police sue the pants off police departments. Maybe if they take a big enough financial hit it will cause them to actually consider changing.
Yeah, but that's Chicago. If they ripped out brutal police bullshit, it would be removing the bedrock on which the city was founded. :'(Honestly, as a father of an autistic kid, I'm terrified of any interactions he might have with police. They are just trained to shoot. And that's sad. The only way this changes is if families of victims of police sue the pants off police departments. Maybe if they take a big enough financial hit it will cause them to actually consider changing.
Probably not.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/4/27/1380655/-Cash-strapped-Chicago-admits-it-has-paid-half-a-billion-in-police-brutality-settlements-since-2004
http://ktla.com/2016/07/20/unarmed-therapist-shot-by-police-while-trying-to-calm-autistic-man/"administrative leave" - needs more administrative removal of employment. There is no excuse, none.
"I don't know", i.e. my training is worthless.
Rivera said it wasn’t clear Thursday if the officer who fired his weapon had undergone Crisis Intervention Training. The session is required in many departments when an officer joins and is urged as a refresher in ensuing years. It is not required in North Miami.It's too expensive, or what?
Retired firearms expert Robert Hoelscher, who spent 50 years with the Miami-Dade Police Department, said it’s hard to perceive how the situation was misjudged, but it was — grossly.:doge
“I wish there was something positive I could say. You arrive on scene and a guy’s playing with a toy truck. Why do you bring out the assault rifle?” Hoelscher asked. “You can’t get enough training when you’re dealing with lethal force. This is as bad a situation as I’ve ever seen. It’s a good thing he was obviously a lousy marksman.”
Follow-up:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article91160077.htmlQuoteRetired firearms expert Robert Hoelscher said "It’s a good thing he was obviously a lousy marksman.”:doge
I forgot to mention that the shooter is on the SWAT team.
Because the job isn't policing anymore, it''s occupying.I forgot to mention that the shooter is on the SWAT team.
-on the swat team
-can't aim for shit
-can't properly evaluate a situation
-isnt required to take crisis intervention classes
i would say what in the fucking fuck, but then, this is Miami Dade pd
it is REALLY hard for me to understand how crisis intervention isn't required. i mean that's literally what the main part of your job is. i need the psyduck emoji for situations like this.
Follow-up:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article91160077.html
They basically didn't re-assess the situation at all after getting the call that someone was going to shoot themselves in the middle of the street. The caretaker said he'd repeatedly told them that the autistic guy didn't have a weapon, but they must not have heard shit, because an officer "suggest(ed)" the autistic guy may be "loading his gun", meaning he didn't actually see shit and just guessed. So another officer fires three shots but only successfully hits the wrong target. Thankfully only in the leg.
Police union chief: Officer thought Charles Kinsey was in danger, aimed at autistic man
The North Miami police officer who shot an unarmed, black mental health worker caring for a patient actually took aim at the autistic man next to him, but missed, the head of the police union said Thursday.
It was a stunning admission from the police officer and from John Rivera, who heads up Miami-Dade’s Police Benevolent Association. But it was one meant to calm the fears of a nation besieged with cellphone videos of police shooting and sometimes killing unarmed black men.
In this case, Rivera said, the officer ended up wounding the man he was trying to save.
“I couldn’t allow this to continue for the community’s sake,” Rivera said Thursday during a hastily called press conference at the union’s Doral office. “Folks, this is not what the rest of the nation is going through.”
Rivera, at the end of his press conference Thursday, read from a statement he said was from the North Miami officer who shot Kinsey.
“I took this job to save lives and help people,” the officer said. “I did what I had to do in a split second to accomplish that and hate to hear others paint me as something that I’m not.”
This cop got 4 years in prison for nearly killing a teen after tasing him for 22 seconds and then dropping him on his face. (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/dashcam-footage-of-cop-tasing-dragging-and-dropping-teen-is-unsealed/)
This shit is infuriating.
https://www.readfrontier.com/investigation/judges-order-elliott-williams-jail-cell-became-burial-crypt/
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
Asked in a deposition about Williams’ death, Washburn said he believed Williams received “appropriate care,” adding: “people just die sometimes.”
The order notes Williams had not been violent or aggressive toward officers there appeared to be no basis for that warning.I can guess why.
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Craziest part is that's what they did WITH THE FEDS RIGHT THERE IN THE CAR.
Also officers apparently document their own blatantly unconstitutional actions in written reports. Which indicates how widespread and "normal" that sort of thing has become. Sheesh.
I recently found out that if you are a person of great interest that the police can listen to your cell phone conversations over the internet in real time. I'm unclear how you get to be that person, but it sounds like a clear violation of the 4th amendment.Be in or have been in a relationship with a cop.
Whoops
http://kdvr.com/2016/08/09/woman-accidentally-killed-during-shoot-dont-shoot-training-exercise-at-police-department/
So much wtf. First thing I wondered is why they used a real gun instead of a blank gun.
I recently found out that if you are a person of great interest that the police can listen to your cell phone conversations over the internet in real time. I'm unclear how you get to be that person, but it sounds like a clear violation of the 4th amendment.
On August 11, 2014, after registering her child for first grade, Ms. West returned to her home to find multiple City of Caldwell police officers in her yard searching for a Fabian Salinas. Wanting to cooperate, and uncertain whether Salinas was in her house, Ms. West gave the police a key to her house and gave them permission to use it to enter her house to arrest him. During a ten hour long standoff, police repeatedly exceeded the authority Ms. West had given them, breaking windows, crashing through ceilings, and riddling the home with holes from shooting canisters of tear gas destroying most of Ms. West and her children’s personal belongings. The only occupant of the house was Ms. West’s dog. Ms. West’s home remained uninhabitable for two months.
Not cops but close enoughJust a different kind of occupying force.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/watch-israeli-soldiers-throw-stun-grenade-palestinians-outside-coffee-shop-1764755157
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160818/18363835281/woman-sues-after-police-destroy-her-home-during-10-hour-standoff-with-family-dog.shtmlQuoteOn August 11, 2014, after registering her child for first grade, Ms. West returned to her home to find multiple City of Caldwell police officers in her yard searching for a Fabian Salinas. Wanting to cooperate, and uncertain whether Salinas was in her house, Ms. West gave the police a key to her house and gave them permission to use it to enter her house to arrest him. During a ten hour long standoff, police repeatedly exceeded the authority Ms. West had given them, breaking windows, crashing through ceilings, and riddling the home with holes from shooting canisters of tear gas destroying most of Ms. West and her children’s personal belongings. The only occupant of the house was Ms. West’s dog. Ms. West’s home remained uninhabitable for two months.
Raul Delatoba, 34, was booked Monday (Sept. 5) on charges of simple criminal damage to property, disturbing the peace and a felony-level hate crime, his arrest warrant says. During his arrest, but after he had broken the window, Delatoba is accused of using sexist and racial slurs against police officers, the document shows.
The regional director of the Anti-defamation League, an organization that trains law enforcement agencies to enforce hate crimes, said she does not believe a hate crime occurred in this incident, based on the circumstances described in Delatoba's warrant.
Allison Padilla-Goodman, the group's director, said she believes Delatoba is possibly the first person charged with a hate crime under the "blue lives matter" provision the Legislature recently added to the state's hate crime law. The provision adds law enforcement occupation to the list of targeted victims for which a hate crime applies.
Once at the station, the warrant states, Delatoba began to verbally "attack members of the New Orleans Police Dept." The warrant states Delatoba called one female officer a "dumb a-- c---" and another officer a "dumb a-- n-----."
The warrant states Sgt. S. Jackson instructed NOPD Officer Williams Knowles to charge Delatoba with a hate crime in addition to damaging property and disturbing the peace. "The hate crime charge stems from Delatoba's attack on individuals based on their race, sex, and occupation," the warrant states.
A police officer and the security guard who worked at a nearby building are listed as victims in the case, along with the Royal Sonesta and the state of Louisiana.
The sponsor of the "blue lives matter" legislation, State Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexandria, said he pushed for the provision to give district attorneys "an extra tool in (their) toolbox" and offer additional protection for first responders. The change to the law received wide, bipartisan support in the legislature.
Louisiana's hate crime law was incorrectly applied to charge a man arrested after police say he damaged a hotel window and shouted racial and gender slurs at New Orleans police officers and a witness, an NOPD spokesman said Thursday (Sept. 8).
It was not immediately clear if the hate crime charge against Raul Debatoba would be dropped, however. NOPD spokesman Tyler Gamble said that decision would be made by the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office.
Gamble said Thursday after reviewing initial facts of the case, "it is clear that the responding officer incorrectly applied the law relative to a hate crime in this incident."
You can take a right on red....Not everywhere.
A friend's house got robbed last night and the cops were like "just fill out a claim online" they didn't bother showing up or anything. But those fuckers are right there if you take a right on a red. No issue there.
You can take a right on red....Not everywhere.spoiler (click to show/hide)Huh, apparently it's just New York City where it's banned.[close]
They're often at weird ones too. Like you'd expect to see it for a one-way road headed left, but they don't always put one up. But some random road where there'd be no hazard because you can clearly see, sry breh we just decided.
The illegitimate semi-monopoly violence of local government.
Yo Boogie, if someone one steals from me you gonna hold my hand and make me feel better right?
QuoteFrom the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
After responding to a report of a domestic incident on May 6 in Weirton, W.Va., then-Weirton police officer Stephen Mader found himself confronting an armed man.
Immediately, the training he had undergone as a Marine to look at “the whole person” in deciding if someone was a terrorist, as well as his situational police academy training, kicked in and he did not shoot.
“I saw then he had a gun, but it was not pointed at me,” Mr. Mader recalled, noting the silver handgun was in the man’s right hand, hanging at his side and pointed at the ground.
Mr. Mader, who was standing behind Mr. Williams’ car parked on the street, said he then “began to use my calm voice.”
“I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’ Then he starts flicking his wrist to get me to react to it.
“I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and deescalate it. I knew it was a suicide-by-cop” situation.
Mader was responding to a 911 call from Williams’s girlfriend. In that call, she told police that Williams was threatening to kill himself, not anyone else.
What Mader did upon arriving at the scene is a hell of a lot braver course of action than simply opening fire when the suspect doesn’t immediately disarm. What Mader did is in fact exactly what we want cops to do when someone is in crisis. It’s also precisely what law enforcement officers say they do on a daily basis — put themselves at risk in order to save lives. Mader should have been given a medal. Unfortunately, two more cops then showed up, and quickly shot Williams dead.
...
Then came the punchline.QuoteMr. Mader — speaking publicly about this case for the first time — said that when he tried to return to work on May 17, following normal protocol for taking time off after an officer-involved shooting, he was told to go see Weirton Police Chief Rob Alexander.
In a meeting with the chief and City Manager Travis Blosser, Mr. Mader said Chief Alexander told him: “We’re putting you on administrative leave and we’re going to do an investigation to see if you are going to be an officer here. You put two other officers in danger.”
Mr. Mader said that “right then I said to him: ‘Look, I didn’t shoot him because he said, ‘Just shoot me.’ ”
On June 7, a Weirton officer delivered him a notice of termination letter dated June 6, which said by not shooting Mr. Williams he “failed to eliminate a threat.”
:goty :picard :tocryDon't worry, the black guy still got tried and sentenced:
But just then, two other Weirton officers arrived on the scene, Mr. Williams walked toward them waving his gun — later found to be unloaded — between them and Mr. Mader, and one of them shot Mr. Williams’ in the back of the head just behind his right ear, killing him.
A month-long West Virginia State Police investigation later concluded the shooting was justified
Dude also got robbed of his pension rights because heh !
A Dallas police sergeant has filed a federal lawsuit against Black Lives Matter leaders and others, blaming the movement for race riots and violence against police officers.
Sgt. Demetrick Pennie, president of the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation and a 17-year law enforcement veteran, filed the amended complaint in federal court Friday.
The listed defendants include not only those associated with the Black Lives Matter movement but public figures such as the Rev. Al Sharpton, Louis Farrahkan, George Soros, the New Black Panthers Party and even President Barack Obama and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
According to the suit, the defendants "have repeatedly incited their supporters and others to engage in threats of and attacks to cause serious bodily injury or death upon police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities."
The suit accuses the defendants of inciting supporters and others "to engage in threats and attacks" against law enforcement officers around the country, including the July 7 murders of five Dallas officers by Micah Johnson after a Black Lives Matter demonstration.
Pennie is being represented by Larry Klayman of lobbying organization FreedomWatch.
"Sergeant Pennie and I feel duty-bound to put ourselves forward to seek an end to the incitement of violence against law enforcement which has already resulted in the death of five police officers in Dallas and the wounding of seven more, just in Texas alone," Breitbart quoted Klayman as saying in a release.
The 66-page complaint seeks damages of more than $500 million.
In this class action Amended Compliant, Plaintiffs Demetrick Pennie and Larry Klayman (collectively “Plaintiffs” unless individually named), and police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities including but not limited to Jews, Christians and Caucasians, sue Defendants Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Al Sharpton, National Action Network, Black Lives Matter, Rashad Turner, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Johnetta Elzie, Deray McKesson, New Black Panthers Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz, George Soros, Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton (collectively “Defendants” unless individually named) in their individual and official capacities where applicable, and in support allege as follows:
Geeman Jeffrey C. Miller • a day ago
It's about time the Cops start fightback against these race war instigators.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/03/sacramento-police-shooting-joseph-mann-dashcam-video
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/03/sacramento-police-shooting-joseph-mann-dashcam-video
The Guardian has a tracker of people shot by police in the US linked at the end of that article and claims that almost 820 persons were killed this year (over 1100 in 2015) :mindblown
Seen from Europe, it's a total mystery.
The investigation has just begun, but the case looks bad for the department. Police Commissioner James O’Neill almost immediately placed the sergeant, Hugh Barry, on modified duty, stripped of his badge and gun. Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference that the sergeant had not followed training or protocols for dealing with those with mental illness, and for some reason had neither used his Taser nor waited for specialized officers trained to deal with such situations. Mr. O’Neill said: “We failed.”
A ceremony honoring law enforcement, military and first responders before a high school football game Friday night drew criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey because of an underlying "frightening message."
The ceremony was held before a highly-anticipated Shore Conference clash between two topped ranked teams in the state, Middletown South and Toms River North.
The ceremony, organized by Middletown police Deputy Chief Stephen Dollinger, featured State Police Pipes and Drums of the Blue and Gold, state and local mounted units, military personnel from all branches of service and officers from surrounding police departments and sheriff's units.
It also honored the Linden police officer who was wounded in a shootout with Ahmad Khan Rahimi, who is accused of bombings in Seaside Park, Elizabeth and New York City.
Dollinger told the Asbury Park Press before the event that the ceremony was also meant to respond to pro athletes who have taken a knee during pre-game performances of the national anthem, most notably by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
"It's OK to stand up for social justice, inequality and reform," Dollinger told the newspaper. "It's another thing to not stand up for the national anthem."
Those comments caught the attention of the ACLU of New Jersey, who condemned the ceremony in a letter written to Middletown High School South officials.
"As initially described, the event appeared to honor police officers, veterans, service members, and first responders," the ACLU wrote to the district. "According to press reports, however, the event is being used to intimidate and ostracize people who express their views about systemic racism and social just."
"Law enforcement officers are sworn to protect the constitution, and it is a disservice to the students and players that an event that should focus on them, their families, and their communities is being used to send a message that people who express concerns about disparities in the criminal justice system are unwelcome, disloyal or unpatriotic," the letter states.
I saw this book in a shop last week and started laughing:I saw this on Amazon the other day and what was even better was when I clicked on it and saw the "frequently bought together":
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Rc4fB5LIL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
What kind of man would shoot two officers, kill two relatives and brag about his exploits on Facebook Live?
Apparently a man recently charged with child sex abuse who might also try to spread a communicable disease, Oklahoma authorities say.
Michael Dale Vance Jr. seems to be relishing his notoriety as fugitive, streaming on Facebook Live shortly after the two Wellston officers were shot and wounded.
“This is more intense than I thought it would be, to say the least,” Vance said, apparently driving a stolen vehicle.
“This truck is about dead. … I’m about to steal another car. Like right now.”
In another clip, Vance points the camera at a weapon on the floor of the vehicle — possibly an AK-47 — and hints at violence to come.
“Letting you all know look, this is real — see? That’s a mother——- gun. That’s the real deal. This ain’t a joke. This ain’t a prank. I’m going (expletive) live.”
Authorities later found the bodies of two of Vance’s relatives. Both showed signs of attempted dismemberment.
Since then, authorities haven’t been able to catch the 38-year-old fugitive from Chandler, Oklahoma, now accused of a lengthy crime spree.
Off-duty DC police officer says he was brutalized by Prince George's Co. officer
PG county police department doesn't even apologize lol
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/213809206-story
Yeah, I first learned about them last year in Ta-nehisi Coates' book Between the World and Me for killing a friend of his. They sound worse than NYPD.Off-duty DC police officer says he was brutalized by Prince George's Co. officer
PG county police department doesn't even apologize lol
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/213809206-story
Prince George's police have a bit of a reputation. Back when I got my haircuts at a black barbershop, I heard some variation on "don't fuck with those PG boys" more than once.
According to CBS News, the jury on Thursday requested transcripts of witnesses who testified in court to examine “the difference between passion and fear.”What the hell does this mean?
The NYT story mentions that it's just one juror who could not "in good conscience consider a guilty verdict". While it's beyond me how this person doesn't see the criminal behaviour there, it's at least just the one person.
It's one person after the prosecution would have used voir dire to filter out the most clearly biased potential jurors from the pool.Totally didn't think of this.
The NYT story mentions that it's just one juror who could not "in good conscience consider a guilty verdict". While it's beyond me how this person doesn't see the criminal behaviour there, it's at least just the one person.
It's one person after the prosecution would have used voir dire to filter out the most clearly biased potential jurors from the pool.
And after the jury was given the compromise option of convicting for manslaughter and not homicide.
In a shooting caught on tape, where the defense admitted that the victim was running away and had no gun, and that the officer had lied about parts of the incident.
A conviction should have been a foregone conclusion. This was the case that gave lowkey racist apologists no room to equivocate, and it still was a hung jury. After the Tamir Rice shooting didn't even result in charges filed. The fact that some of us are looking at the 11-1 vote (and we have no idea how much persuading it took the other jurors to get to that point) as progress or a hopeful sign shows just how fucked the situation is.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-man-frankie-taylor-eastpointe-michigan-blind-beaten-police-tied-chair-dui-alleged-a7463541.htmlThis headline jumped out at me.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38183819
Not sure where to stick this story, so "catch-all cop thread" is being definition tested. It could also go in a privacy thread.
tl;dr: In order to bypass a suspect's phone lock and encryption, the cops waited for the suspect to make a call, which requires unlocking. Then the cop just kept it active to prevent it from re-locking. So... hey; anyone think of a UI fix for this? Time-limited access? Require password/PIN every 10 minutes of active use?
LOL
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-man-frankie-taylor-eastpointe-michigan-blind-beaten-police-tied-chair-dui-alleged-a7463541.html
fentanyl is scary
Is there a reason why fentanyl seems to be hitting Canada more than the U.S.?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38183819
Not sure where to stick this story, so "catch-all cop thread" is being definition tested. It could also go in a privacy thread.
tl;dr: In order to bypass a suspect's phone lock and encryption, the cops waited for the suspect to make a call, which requires unlocking. Then the cop just kept it active to prevent it from re-locking. So... hey; anyone think of a UI fix for this? Time-limited access? Require password/PIN every 10 minutes of active use?
Or, as per the effort required on the part of police to go through the hoops to get to the point of the article: you could simply not be involved in organized crime on a level to attract the attention of a dedicated police task force. ;)
Okay, that's a cheeky response, but still. From my professional perspective, notwithstanding the "melodramatic" phrasing of the news article, I view the above simply as good, albeit creative, policework. (By "melodramatic", I think the provocative use of "mugging" a suspect is likely an absurd characterisation of the event. It might just as well be described as "the police were able to catch the suspect by surprise when they lawfully arrested him.")
Regardless, there are two aspects here, which come up again and again in recent years when it comes to the conflict between evidence gathering vs. encryption. There is what law enforcement is justified in doing according to the law versus what they are capable of doing, in a technical sense.
Police, especially those investigating serious, organized crime, need to be able to effectively do so. I do not know the state of the law in regards to warrantless cell phone searches incidental to arrest in the USA, nor Britain. (Though in the latter, I would guess based on the article, the fact they planned such an operation, and got a guilty plea, suggests they felt they were on solid ground, legally). I do intimately know the state of the case law for Canada, so I'll use that for my analysis.
In Canada, the Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search of a cell phone incidental to arrest may be justified/admissable given a certain test. 1) Most obviously, the arrest itself must be legal. 2) The search of the cell phone must be for evidence related to the offence for which the subject was arrested. This makes sense, to me. It means no "fishing expeditions", that the officer can't just browse through a phone aimlessly upon an arrest for impaired driving, or causing a disturbance. 3) There must be some reason for the officer to believe that evidence of the offence may be found on the phone, and that there is a need to search the phone at the time, rather than wait for a search warrant to be obtained. It is a standard less than "reasonable and probable grounds", but more than mere speculation. The articulation that an officer may not be able to search the phone later, even with a search warrant may be a factor here.
I believe that the above is a reasonable take on the issue. This sort of case law is most relevant to "task force" level policing, that most people shouldn't really stress, imo. If you're really worried about a plainclothes police officer arresting you by surprise for no reason while you are on the phone and then searching through your phone before its locked, that's a level of paranoia/fearfulness that just isn't reasonable, to me.LOL
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also: Not enough " :goty2 :derp :fbm :badass :picard :iface"s in the world......http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-man-frankie-taylor-eastpointe-michigan-blind-beaten-police-tied-chair-dui-alleged-a7463541.html
Fucking hell :-\
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38183819
Not sure where to stick this story, so "catch-all cop thread" is being definition tested. It could also go in a privacy thread.
tl;dr: In order to bypass a suspect's phone lock and encryption, the cops waited for the suspect to make a call, which requires unlocking. Then the cop just kept it active to prevent it from re-locking. So... hey; anyone think of a UI fix for this? Time-limited access? Require password/PIN every 10 minutes of active use?
Or, as per the effort required on the part of police to go through the hoops to get to the point of the article: you could simply not be involved in organized crime on a level to attract the attention of a dedicated police task force. ;)
Okay, that's a cheeky response, but still. From my professional perspective, notwithstanding the "melodramatic" phrasing of the news article, I view the above simply as good, albeit creative, policework. (By "melodramatic", I think the provocative use of "mugging" a suspect is likely an absurd characterisation of the event. It might just as well be described as "the police were able to catch the suspect by surprise when they lawfully arrested him.")
Regardless, there are two aspects here, which come up again and again in recent years when it comes to the conflict between evidence gathering vs. encryption. There is what law enforcement is justified in doing according to the law versus what they are capable of doing, in a technical sense.
Police, especially those investigating serious, organized crime, need to be able to effectively do so. I do not know the state of the law in regards to warrantless cell phone searches incidental to arrest in the USA, nor Britain. (Though in the latter, I would guess based on the article, the fact they planned such an operation, and got a guilty plea, suggests they felt they were on solid ground, legally). I do intimately know the state of the case law for Canada, so I'll use that for my analysis.
In Canada, the Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search of a cell phone incidental to arrest may be justified/admissable given a certain test. 1) Most obviously, the arrest itself must be legal. 2) The search of the cell phone must be for evidence related to the offence for which the subject was arrested. This makes sense, to me. It means no "fishing expeditions", that the officer can't just browse through a phone aimlessly upon an arrest for impaired driving, or causing a disturbance. 3) There must be some reason for the officer to believe that evidence of the offence may be found on the phone, and that there is a need to search the phone at the time, rather than wait for a search warrant to be obtained. It is a standard less than "reasonable and probable grounds", but more than mere speculation. The articulation that an officer may not be able to search the phone later, even with a search warrant may be a factor here.
I believe that the above is a reasonable take on the issue. This sort of case law is most relevant to "task force" level policing, that most people shouldn't really stress, imo. If you're really worried about a plainclothes police officer arresting you by surprise for no reason while you are on the phone and then searching through your phone before its locked, that's a level of paranoia/fearfulness that just isn't reasonable, to me.LOL
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also: Not enough " :goty2 :derp :fbm :badass :picard :iface"s in the world......http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-man-frankie-taylor-eastpointe-michigan-blind-beaten-police-tied-chair-dui-alleged-a7463541.html
Fucking hell :-\
Thanks for taking the time to write out a reasoned and thoughtful response. Why do you hate freedom.spoiler (click to show/hide)Sorry, that's as close as I get to actually trolling. For reals, I figured a Like isn't enough when you've put that much thought into explaining your professional viewpoint to another person. FWIW, I agree with your assessment on all fronts, and that "mugging" is an inappropriately lurid term to use for this case. Maybe the guy in the DUI article though. Jesus.[close]
LOL
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Mark and Cheryl Brown of Battle Creek, Mich., filed suits over unreasonable seizure of their property and a violation of their constitutional rights for the deaths of their pets.
According to the Battle Creek Enquirer, officers shot and killed the Browns' pit bull terriers during an April 2013 operation, with Emergency Response Team members claiming one lunged at them and that the other barked as they executed a search warrant for drugs.
“The standard we set out today is that a police officer’s use of deadly force against a dog while executing a search warrant to search a home for illegal drug activity is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment when … the dog poses an imminent threat to the officer’s safety,” wrote Judge Eric Clay in the decision that saw the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati side with the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids' dismissal.
Clay concluded the decision by stating that "a jury could reasonably conclude that a 97-pound pit bull, barking and lunging at the officers as they breached the entryway, posed a threat to the officers' safety."
The Browns had been living in the basement of the home, which was owned by Cheryl Brown's daughter, Danielle Nesbitt. Nesbitt had a child with Vincent Jones, who was allegedly using the residence to sell drugs, according to WOOD TV.
"It was a good ruling," Police Chief Jim Blocker told the Battle Creek Enquirer. "It pointed out some things we have to improve upon, but supported our operating concept that officers must act within reason."
Blocker said "officers have milliseconds to make a decision and it is a judgment call and based on too many variables. Ensuring officer safety and preventing the destruction of evidence must be protected."
Blocker was a member of the Emergency Response Team for 12 years and said "officers already know that dogs are not the guilty party. The animals are typically among the innocent."
He said officers today shoot fewer animals than in the past and have tried to develop alternatives like distraction using fire extinguishers or catch poles and if possible have a animal control officer present to assist. He said officers have looked for dog food as a way to distract dogs.
"In this case the animals were actively aggressive and an imminent threat to the officers. But shooting an animal in a home is not ideal. We could have subjects in other rooms and officers don't want to start throwing rounds into area where they aren't sure no one else is going to get hurt."
"Most of our officers are dog owners themselves," Blocker said. "And I want to know if we hurt a dog. They are going to have to explain themselves."
He said practices are being written into policy but that the department wants to ensure officer safety.
"We try to give officers a framework with their safety in mind because I am concerned about them going home uninjured."
Former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Sunday blamed the Black Lives Matter movement for causing a rise in violent crime around the country.
During a radio interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York, McCarthy blamed protests against police brutality in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and Charlotte, N.C., for creating a “political atmosphere of anti-police sentiment.”
“So what’s happening, and this is ironic, is that a movement with the goal of saving black lives at this point is getting black lives taken, because 80 percent of our murder victims here in Chicago are male blacks,” McCarthy said. “Less than half of 1 percent of all the shootings in this city involve police officers shooting civilians.”
In an interview segment that aired on 60 Minutes on Sunday evening, McCarthy said, “officers are under attack. That’s how they feel in this environment.”
“Noncompliance with the law is becoming legitimized,” he added. We’re reaching a state of lawlessness”
Shortly before he was arrested, the wrongly accused suspect told someone on the phone: ' You know how it is with black people — they think we’re always trying to do something wrong'And now he's complaining?!? You can't please some people.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/illinois-police-beat-black-man-lawrence-crosby-stealing-own-car-video-a7531721.html
I like the part where one officer tells the guy he's on camera.
Once officers realised the car belonged to Mr Crosby, they arrested him and charged him with disobeying officers and resisting arrest.
I hope they all get fired
The officers involved in the incident were not reprimanded, and the Evanston Police Department defended its actions, saying the officers were "in compliance with our procedures as it pertains to this type of situation".
he resisted? looks like he pulled over and put his hands in the airYeah but he was black.
The private sector always pays more.
wow unbelievable who could have guessed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul-CympWx8g
:lol
As part of a civil suit filed last year against Wilson, a court document reveals some stunning admissions from the former Ferguson police officer. In a court docket filed Dec. 28, the cop who killed Brown admitted to using racial slurs, cursing at Brown before he was killed and grabbing him without provocation.
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/gwinnett-county-deals-with-aftermath-of-officer-brutality-videos/article_14fa21ff-e9b4-5481-b6c2-a49d04d75e93.html
“In many cases, justice calls for a conscientious and thorough prosecution,” according to a solicitor’s office press release. “However, when police officers betray the public’s trust and confidence, justice demands that all those cases that depend on their credibility be dismissed without delay.”
The jury in the Walter Scott case said it can't agree on a verdict, the judge told them to go back and deliberate further.The officer has struck a plea bargain where he'll be guilty of violating Scott's rights, but no manslaughter/homicide charges.
Since they're all sort of blurring together for a lot of us, that's this one:spoiler (click to show/hide)(https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/04/Screen_Shot_2015_04_07_at_6.27.38_PM/lead_large.png)[close]
No blood or dead body, but a still shot from the video showing where Scott was and how he was facing when he got shot.
The jury in the Walter Scott case said it can't agree on a verdict, the judge told them to go back and deliberate further.The officer has struck a plea bargain where he'll be guilty of violating Scott's rights, but no manslaughter/homicide charges.
Since they're all sort of blurring together for a lot of us, that's this one:spoiler (click to show/hide)(https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/04/Screen_Shot_2015_04_07_at_6.27.38_PM/lead_large.png)[close]
No blood or dead body, but a still shot from the video showing where Scott was and how he was facing when he got shot.
A violation of civil rights is a federal charge, whereas homicide and manslaughter are state charges. The federal government has used civil rights statutes to prosecute law enforcement abuses before in cases where the local judicial system didn't produce a conviction for whatever reason (pretty sure this happened with the Rodney King beating). So I'd venture the DoJ stepped in after the mistrial, and had some leverage since the jury was reportedly 11-1 for convicting.(http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33100000/Wendy-O-Williams-Fanart-wendy-owilliams-33144484-500-276.gif)
Apparently this could carry a sentence up to life. We'll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI4UxURjqEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI4UxURjqEQ
Halton Regional Police say a 16-year veteran of the force has been arrested and charged with breach of trust and theft after approximately 30 drug exhibits were allegedly tampered with over a three-year period.
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The Toronto Police Service began their criminal investigation into the matter in December 2016 and their probe resulted in the arrest of Halton Regional Police Staff Sgt. Brad Murray.
Halton police say Murray was a member and supervisor of the drug and morality unit from January 2013 to May 2016 and it is during that time that police allege the criminal offences occurred.
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Murray is facing two counts of breach of trust, two counts of theft under $5,000 and obstructing justice.
He has been suspended from duty with pay, a stipulation outlined in the Police Services Act of Ontario.
Halton police say in addition to the charges, Murray will also face disciplinary procedures in accordance with the Police Services Act.
Anyhowww, in news closer to home for me:
A forensic expert at trial said the bullets came close to hitting Reynolds and her daughter, but the jury also acquitted Yanez of endangering their lives with his gunfire....
He said that the deliberations were “very, very hard” and that the jury spent a lot of time on the idea of “culpable negligence,” where a suspect creates the unreasonable risk of death.Castile did what he was supposed to when you're carrying, right? Inform the officer, wait for further instructions. Let's assume they argued he shouldn't have carried*, aren't they watering down the right to carry?
"The defense also brought up the fact that THC, a chemical found in marijuana, was found in Castile’s system, and could have impacted his reactions."
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http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/national/minn-police-officer-found-not-guilty-philando-castile-death-article-1.3253452
:maf :maf :maf :'(
“Uh but uh as that was happening as he was pulling at, out his hand I thought, I was gonna die and I thought if he’s, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five year old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about me?”http://www.startribune.com/case-file-in-philando-castile-shooting-to-be-made-public-today/429659263/
http://www.theroot.com/dashcam-footage-of-philando-castile-shooting-released-1796273817
seriously WTFQuote“Uh but uh as that was happening as he was pulling at, out his hand I thought, I was gonna die and I thought if he’s, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five year old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about me?”http://www.startribune.com/case-file-in-philando-castile-shooting-to-be-made-public-today/429659263/
5) This happened due to a system of racism and gun culture. If he was white i bet this wouldn't have happened. If every officer wasn't thinking everyone could have a handgun, this wouldn't have happened.Unfortunately these are also the circumstances that are most difficult to change. :-\
Two officers "challenged the off-duty officer and ordered him to the ground," the department said. The officer complied and once they recognized him the on-duty officers told him "to stand up and walk toward them."
At about the same time, another officer who had just arrived on the scene saw what was happening and "fearing for his safety and apparently not recognizing the off-duty officer, discharged a shot, striking the off-duty officer in the arm."
Before he was accused of beating a handcuffed African-American woman, a Chicago Police sergeant registered a racist URL: n**gadown.com.
George Granias, a sergeant at the heart of a recently settled police brutality lawsuit, purchased at least two websites with racial slurs in their titles, his alleged victim’s lawyer says. The domain names include URLs like n**gaguns.com, the legal team first told CBS Chicago. An investigation by The Daily Beast revealed a series of other domains registered to Granias’ name and address, including “murdertech.com,” “necroarmy.com,” and in a jab to Illinois’ former governor, “patquinnsucks.com”.
At least one publicly available domain name database still linked Granias with n**gadown.com on Wednesday, the day CBS Chicago first reported that Shiller had discovered Granias’ stash of domain names. That same day, a person calling himself George Granias asked the website to remove the page that listed him as the owner of n**gadown.com.
“Please remove my info from n**gadown.com,” the person posting under the name George Granias wrote on Wednesday. “I haven’t owned it in years and your information is false.”
Though the website is no longer active, Granias’ registration is still active and does not expire until the end of the year, website registration data shows.
But Granias owns a number of other domain names, The Daily Beast has learned. Among them are “n**gaguns.com,” a handful of violently named sites like “murdertech.com” and “deathcomescalling.com,” and a series of vaguely pornographic names like “supremegirl.com,” “naomiscarlet.com,” and “conditionaldating.com”. Granias also registered “patquinnsucks.com,” “necroarmy.com,” and two domains with the name of a local Chicago university.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson went so far as to claim the mainstream media is engaged in a deliberate cover-up of the officer’s nationality. On the July 18 edition of his show, Carlson said, "Mohamed Noor was an immigrant from Somalia. Is that a relevant fact? We don't know. But it's being treated as one by many news organizations. How do you know that? Because they're not reporting it."
Minneapolis chief of police Janeé Harteau resigned Friday, forced out by the city’s mayor nearly a week after a police officer fatally shot an Australian woman who had called 911.
Mayor Betsy Hodges, who has previously called the lack of body-camera footage of the shooting “unacceptable,” said in a statement, “I’ve lost confidence in the Chief’s ability to lead us further.”
“For us to continue to transform policing — and community trust in policing — we need new leadership at MPD.”
Protesters overwhelmed Hodges’ press conference Friday evening with chants of “no justice, no peace, prosecute the police.”
In a statement tweeted by the Minneapolis Police Department, Harteau said that “I have decided to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the MPD to be the best it can be.”
“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over?” Trump said, miming the physical motion of an officer shielding a suspect’s head to keep it from bumping against the squad car.
“Like, don’t hit their head, and they just killed somebody — don’t hit their head,” Trump continued. “I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”
[...]
Trump’s remarks were criticized by law enforcement officials including the Houston police chief and agencies including the Gainesville, Fla., police department. His comments also drew a rebuke from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In a statement Friday, the group did not specifically mention Trump by name but appeared to respond to his speech by stressing the importance of treating all people, including suspects, with respect.
"Las vegas... new mexico?" lmao
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/28/trump-tells-police-not-to-worry-about-injuring-suspects-during-arrests/?utm_term=.c86b6140fa02Quote“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over?” Trump said, miming the physical motion of an officer shielding a suspect’s head to keep it from bumping against the squad car.
“Like, don’t hit their head, and they just killed somebody — don’t hit their head,” Trump continued. “I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”
[...]
Trump’s remarks were criticized by law enforcement officials including the Houston police chief and agencies including the Gainesville, Fla., police department. His comments also drew a rebuke from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In a statement Friday, the group did not specifically mention Trump by name but appeared to respond to his speech by stressing the importance of treating all people, including suspects, with respect.
Fuck you, Trump.The more worrisome thing to me is that watching the video, it was a big applause line, in front of a crowd of LEOs.
http://www.cp24.com/news/toronto-officer-buys-shirt-tie-for-shoplifter-who-needed-outfit-for-job-interview-1.3535864
https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/08/10/teen-testifies-he-stood-up-for-himself-then-got-punched-by-a-cop.html
https://twitter.com/PolkCoSheriff/status/905438240278278144
:jeanluc
The City of Orlando paid $37,500 to a man to settle a lawsuit after police officers arrested him for what they thought was meth but was actually tiny flakes of glaze from a Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins pulled Rushing over on the afternoon of December 11, 2015, ostensibly because he did not make a complete stop as he pulled out of a 7-Eleven parking lot and subsequently exceeded the speed limit. But those offenses seem to have been pretexts. Riggs-Hopkins had been keeping an eye on the convenience store because of "citizen complaints about drug activity" and thought it was suspicious that Rushing, who was giving a lift to a friend, left without buying anything, in the company of a "black female employee of the 7-11."
When Rushing opened his wallet to retrieve his driver's license, Riggs-Hopkins noticed that he had a concealed-carry permit and asked if he was armed. He said he was, and she asked him to get out of his car "for my safety." At that point Riggs-Hopkins "observed in plain view a rock-like substance on the floor board where his feet were." The cop recalled that she "recognized, through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer, the substance to be some sort of narcotic." The suspect "stated that the substance is sugar from a Krispy Kreme Donut that he ate," but Riggs-Hopkins knew better: Two field tests of the "rock-like substance" gave "a positive indication for the presence of amphetamines."
Rushing said Riggs-Hopkins initially was not sure what "sort of narcotic" she had discovered. "I kept telling them, 'That's…glaze from a doughnut," Rushing told the Orlando Sentinel. "They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first. Then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth.'"
Adding insult to injury, Rushing was accused of possessing meth "with a weapon" (his legally carried handgun), which made a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, into a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. He was handcuffed and taken to the county jail, where he was strip-searched and locked up for 10 hours before being released on $2,500 bail.
Another test, this time performed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, determined it was sugar from the doughnut.
Orlando police ended up training more than 730 officers on how to properly use the field test kits.
Riggs-Hopkins was given a written reprimand for making an improper arrest.
When asked how many other road-side drug tests have produced false positive results, an OPD spokeswoman wrote, "At this time, we have no responsive records. … There is no mechanism in place for easily tracking the number of, or results of, field drug testing."
FDLE spokeswoman Molly Best wrote that her agency has no information about the prevalence of false-positive field drug tests.
Stolen from resistera, but :lol :lol :lol
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/detroit-police-officers-fight-each-other-in-undercover-op-gone-wrong
Video here: http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/watch-chilling-video-shows-where-botched-detroit-police-drug-raid-went-wrong
Crossposting from the Politics thread, because oh my god. :picardStolen from resistera, but :lol :lol :lol
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/detroit-police-officers-fight-each-other-in-undercover-op-gone-wrong
Video here: http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/watch-chilling-video-shows-where-botched-detroit-police-drug-raid-went-wrong
The graphic video, recorded by Brailsford’s body camera, shows Shaver and the woman exiting the hotel room and immediately complying with the officer’s demand that they lay down on the ground.
Shaver immediately puts his hands in the air and lays down on the ground while informing the officer that no one else was in the hotel room.
“If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very severe possibility that you’re both going to get shot. Do you understand?” Brailsford says, before telling Shaver to “shut up.”
“I’m not here to be tactical and diplomatic with you. You listen. You obey,” Brailsford says.
For the next five minutes, Brailsford gives Shaver a series of instructions. First, the officer tells Shaver to put both of his hands on top of his head, then he instructs him to cross his left foot over his right foot.
“If you move, we’re going to consider that a threat and we are going to deal with it and you may not survive it,” Brailsford said.
The officer then has the woman crawl down the hallway, where she is taken into custody. Shaver remains on the ground in the hallway, his hands on his head.
The officer tells Shaver to keep his legs crossed and push himself up into a kneeling position. As Shaver pushes himself up, his legs come uncrossed, prompting the officer to scream at him.
“I’m sorry,” Shaver says, placing his hands near his waist, prompting another round of screaming.
“You do that again, we’re shooting you, do you understand?” Brailsford yells.
“Please do not shoot me,” Shaver begs, his hands up straight in the air.
At the officer’s command, Shaver then crawls down the hallway, sobbing. At one point, he reaches back — possibly to pull up his shorts — and Brailsford opens fire, striking Shaver five times.
...the officer involved was acquitted of second-degree murder charges...
The judge did not allow jurors to hear about an etching on the dust cover of the rifle Brailsford used to shoot Shaver, which said "You're f--ked," because he felt it was prejudicial.http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/08/arizona-cop-acquitted-for-killing-man-cr
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The former assistant police chief of Prospect told a Louisville Metro Police recruit that, if he catches juveniles smoking marijuana, he should "shoot them” if they are black, according to documents released Friday.
Todd Shaw, who resigned from the suburban Louisville department late last year, sent several “highly disturbing racist and threatening Facebook messages” to the recruit, Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell wrote in a letter to Prospect Mayor John Evans on Aug. 31.
Shaw had fought to keep the messages private after media outlets requested them under Kentucky’s open records law. Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman ruled this week that the records must be released.
Shaw was initially suspended with pay on Sept. 1. Prospect Police Chief Jeff Sherrard was not in the office Friday and could not be reached for comment.
In an interview, Evans said that after receiving O'Connell's letter, "the human reaction would be to fire" Shaw, but the department needed to conduct its own investigation.
Shaw served with LMPD for more than 20 years before joining the Prospect department in 2012. In one of the Facebook messages, the LMPD recruit asked Shaw what to do in a scenario in which he catches three juveniles smoking marijuana.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td67kYY9mdQ
The question was part of a paper the recruit was writing about “the right thing to do,” according to O’Connell’s letter.
“F--- the right thing,” Shaw allegedly responded. “If black shoot them.”
And as for what to tell the parents of the juveniles, Shaw said: “… call their (pa)rents … if mom is hot then f--- her … if dad is hot then handcuff him and make him suck my d---,” according to O’Connell’s letter.
Shaw continued, “Unless daddy is black. … Then shoot him.”
O’Connell told Evans that prosecutors found the Facebook messages while screening a case for possible criminal prosecution against Shaw.
Shaw was under investigation for allegedly interfering in the sexual abuse probe of the Louisville Metro Police’s Explorer program, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the case.
Ward said the officers kept BB guns in their vehicles “in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them.” He did not say whether the officers ever planted a BB gun on anyone.
In one incident, police took a man’s house keys, ran his name through databases to find his address, went into the home without a warrant and found drugs and a safe. The officers cracked open the safe, which had about $200,000 inside. They took $100,000 out, closed the safe back up, then filmed themselves pretending to open it for the first time. “Nobody touch anything,” Jenkins can be heard saying on the video, which was played for jurors.
Kevin Raymond Curtis, of Augusta, held up an evidence bag Tuesday containing two small, clear plastic bags of a white sandy material.
Police had suspected the grainy substance was heroin.
It was actually his father.
On Saturday, Kevin Curtis had lent his 2006 Chevrolet Impala to a friend, Jess Legendre, 31, of Livermore Falls, to go to the grocery store. Curtis said he was unaware Legrendre’s license had been suspended. Police said Legendre’s license had been revoked because he was a habitual offender.
While Legendre was traveling along Prescott Road in Manchester, the vehicle went off the road, struck and broke a utility pole and ended up in a ditch.
Initially, investigators thought he was under the influence of heroin, and emergency responders used the opioid-overdose reversal drug Narcan on him to revive him after he appeared to pass out while rummaging through the glove box for paperwork. Deputies found the small bags of powder and suspected they contained heroin. A second dose of Narcan was administered later at MaineGeneral Medical Center, where Legendre was taken for treatment.
And as for what to tell the parents of the juveniles, Shaw said: “… call their (pa)rents … if mom is hot then f--- her … if dad is hot then handcuff him and make him suck my d---,” according to O’Connell’s letter.:drool :drool :drool
The comments I have seen on that video are proof we are in a post-racial society.
A lot of Americans (or Russian bots pretending to be American) as willing to defend cops god-given right to ground pound anyone that looks at them sideways.
On Sept. 23, 2016, Robbie Sanderson, a 52-year-old Black man from North Carolina, was arrested for retail theft by in Crafton, a small town near Pittsburgh.
During the arrest, Sanderson called police “Nazis,” “skinheads” and “Gestapo,” according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by the Crafton Borough police.
For that, he was charged with a hate crime.
The police approached Sanderson by the cash registers, detained him, and searched his backpack, according to the affidavit. Inside the backpack, police allegedly found a little more than $100 worth of stolen merchandise, including beef jerky and Dr. Scholl’s shoe inserts.
After Sanderson called the police derogatory names, the affidavit states, he also told them “that’s why motherfuckers are killing y’all out here” and “all you cops just shoot people for no reason.”
And police said that Sanderson told one officer, Brian Tully, that he was going to find his wife and have sex with her.
Tully then charged Sanderson with summary retail theft for allegedly stealing the items from the CVS, as well as misdemeanor terroristic threats, institutional vandalism and resisting arrest for incidents that occurred during the arrest, according to court records.
Sanderson was also charged with “felony ethnic intimidation”—Pennsylvania’s hate crime statute—for making angry comments to the police.
Sanderson is not the only Pennsylvania resident to face ethnic intimidation charges for what appears to be simply making comments to the police that could be considered racist. The Appeal identified at least three other such cases in the state in 2016.
In January that year, Sannetta Amoroso, a 43-year-old Black woman from Pittsburgh, was charged with multiple counts of first-degree felony ethnic intimidation by McKees Rocks police Officer Brandy Harcha. According to police, Amoroso became angry while trying to report a crime and said “I’m going to kill all you white bitches” and “death to all you white bitches.”
Then in June, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Robert Wareham charged Steven Ray Oller, 47, of Chambersburg, with misdemeanor ethnic intimidation for threatening officers and using a racial slur directed at a Latinx trooper during an arrest for suspected DUI.
And in August, Trooper James Welsh of the state police charged Seneca Anthony Payne, a 39-year-old Bucks County man, with misdemeanor ethnic intimidation. Payne allegedly called an officer a “Gandhi motherfucker” during a welfare check at Payne’s home.
Despite filing such charges, in 2016 these departments reported to the Pennsylvania State Police Uniform Crime Reporting System that no hate crimes occurred in their jurisdictions.
BLUE LIVES MATTER(https://i.imgur.com/XTtY0Bs.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAKWwM_FCfM
He said that authorities believe Ortiz had killed all four women since Sept. 3. The names of the victims were not immediately released. Alaniz said two of them were U.S. citizens but the nationalities of the other two were not yet known. All of them were working as prostitutes and one was a transgender woman, he said.
CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Dickson County Sheriff has debuted the newest addition to the patrol fleet which features a blue ribbon with Autism Awareness puzzle pieces.
Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe came up with the idea to dedicate one of the Dickson County Sheriff vehicles to Autism Awareness which was designed by Dickson Graphics.
The design is present both on the hood and on the life gate.
The blue autism ribbon featured on the car was first adopted in 1999. It has since been the universal sign of Autism Awareness.
The puzzle pieces are meant to reflect how complex the autism spectrum is and the different diversity of the people and families who live with the condition.
The new patrol car is expected to be assigned to a deputy in the near future.
New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced his decision Monday to fire NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo after it was found that he’d violated policy by restraining Garner with a prohibited chokehold in 2014.
“None of us can take back our decisions, especially when they lead to the death of another human being,” O’Neill said. “It is clear that Daniel Pantaleo can no longer effectively serve as a New York City police officer.”
The police union that represents Pantaleo said Monday, and a NYPD official with direct knowledge later confirmed to The Daily Beast, that it had been in discussions as late as Friday to allow Pantaleo to resign and keep his full pension. The discussions broke down before O’Neill decided to terminate Pantaleo, leaving him with only his portion of his pension contribution.
Pantaleo’s lawyer said he plans to appeal the termination, with the goal of getting the officer’s job back. Meanwhile, the police union slammed O’Neill. Pat Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, said the commissioner chose “politics and his own self-interest over the police officers he claims to lead.”
Two years ago, police officers arrived at a Mississippi home in the middle of the night to execute a warrant. But they knocked on the wrong person's door, a commotion ensued, and they shot the homeowner in the back of the head, state investigators said.
Now, the city of Southaven has argued in a legal brief that the man, Ismael Lopez, was not protected by the US Constitution because he was an undocumented immigrant.
Quote from: https://www.insider.com/ismael-lopez-undocumented-immigrant-constitutional-rights-2019-9Two years ago, police officers arrived at a Mississippi home in the middle of the night to execute a warrant. But they knocked on the wrong person's door, a commotion ensued, and they shot the homeowner in the back of the head, state investigators said.
Now, the city of Southaven has argued in a legal brief that the man, Ismael Lopez, was not protected by the US Constitution because he was an undocumented immigrant.
A former Dallas police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in his apartment was found guilty of murder by a Dallas County jury on Tuesday.
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The basic facts of the unusual shooting were not in dispute throughout the trial. In September 2018, Guyger walked up to Jean's apartment -- which was on the fourth floor, directly above hers on the third -- and found the door unlocked. She was off duty but still dressed in her police uniform after a long shift when she shot Jean with her service weapon.
It is unclear how the three men came into contact with Brown or why they would have driven more than 300 miles (483 kilometers) from central Louisiana to purchase marijuana in Texas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=492&v=Q9SZlypyK-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb4n7sddVsU&feature=youtu.be&t=72Didn't even announce himself as police. One command, then fires almost immediately. He had no idea what was even going on, but fires on the first figure he sees. Wtf kind of procedure is that?
Jed Painter, an assistant district attorney from Nassau County, has been giving presentations on New York’s new state laws that limit bail, expand discovery in criminal cases and encourage speedy trials to audiences of lawyers and legislators across the state. But critics say Painter’s presentation helps prosecutors find legal loopholes to hold more defendants on bail and to delay trials.
In the course of the nearly 90-minute July 13 presentation provided by NYPTI as a podcast, Painter gave tips to the audience of prosecutors on how to jail people that otherwise would be released under the new law. Under the law going into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, defendants can be held pretrial if they miss a court appearance and don’t appear for 30 days. So Painter gives what he called a “practice pointer you can tell your police”: If a defendant warranted on a felony doesn’t show up to court, “don’t pick them up right away. Don’t be their Uber,” he said. “You’re not going to get bail on them for that violation. Wait the 30 days, and then you’ve got your bail jumping charge waiting for them.”
Painter added that “if public safety is an issue, you don’t want to wait the 30 days,” but he seemed to be encouraging prosecutors to find a way to hold defendants pretrial.
Later in the presentation, Painter gave a strategy for when you have a “problem child” – presumably, an uncooperative defendant who won’t show up to court dates. That situation would obviously frustrate prosecutors, but defendants can be held in jail awaiting trial if they have “persistently and willfully” failed to appear. Painter suggests asking the judge to require the defendant check in daily by phone or Skype. If they fail, then the defendant could be arrested – ensuring their attendance in court. “Can you do this by yourself? No. Can you talk to your administrative judges about doing this? Absolutely,” Painter said.
Painter is clearly no fan of those laws. “I have a problem with all of this,” he said during the presentation, while listing some crimes where prosecutors can still ask a judge to set bail. At another point, he says the writers of the bill text “screwed up.”
In an emailed statement, Painter told City & State that the quotes above are “an oversimplified misrepresentation of the training that I have offered to promote compliance with these well-intended but flawed laws.”
He said that asking cops to wait 30 days before an arrest actually gives defendants that much time to voluntarily come back to court and avoid additional charges.
“Only if the Legislature’s intent was to allow felony defendants to evade justice with impunity, which it was not, would this practice point frustrate the law’s objective,” he wrote.
Painter also criticized the way the laws were passed, as a part of the annual budget which was, as is typical, passed late at night with minimal time for legislators to review the language upon which they were voting. “Passage of these laws was rushed without a single public hearing on the legislation that was ultimately enacted,” Painter said. “Though laudably seeking to promote a more just and efficient system, these laws impose massive and immediate unfunded mandates upon local governments resulting in many legal and practical concerns compounded by the short window afforded by the Legislature to comply.”
Miriam Sholder, spokeswoman for the Nassau County District Attorney’s office, where Painter works, responded in a separate statement, saying that the office supports the goals of the legislation and has worked diligently to prepare for its implementation by offering training. “Claims that this training in any way seeks to frustrate or undermine the objectives of this legislation are factually inaccurate and border on defamatory,” Sholder said.
An armed shoplifting suspect in Colorado barricaded himself in a stranger's suburban Denver home in June 2015. In an attempt to force the suspect out, law enforcement blew up walls with explosives, fired tear gas and drove a military-style armored vehicle through the property's doors.To arrest a shoplifter. Armed shoplifter, sorry.
After an hours-long siege, the home was left with shredded walls and blown-out windows. In some parts of the interior, the wood framing was exposed amid a mountain of debris.
A federal appeals court in Denver ruled this week that the homeowner, who had no connection to the suspect, isn't entitled to be compensated, because the police were acting to preserve the safety of the public.
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The suspect in the case, who was wanted in connection with shoplifting, was taken into custody after a 19-hour standoff. More than 100 officers from agencies around the Denver area responded to the incident.
https://www.pittsburghcurrent.com/pittsburgh-cop-with-troubled-past-arrests-bystander-after-he-came-up-and-decided-to-be-disrespectful-to-me/
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1303704037917962242
https://apnews.com/article/police-private-facebook-groups-hate-22355db9b0b7561ce91fa2ddfbcd2fc1
(CNN) — Authorities are looking for a former sheriff's office detective suspected of killing three people in a shooting in Austin, Texas.
The victims were pronounced dead at the scene Sunday, according to tweets from Austin-Travis County EMS. The shooting appears to be "a domestic situation that is isolated," Austin police said in a tweet.
"Obviously this is a tragedy. We have people who have lost their lives out here," Austin Police Interim Chief Joseph Chacon said during a Sunday news briefing. "The danger still remains high at this point."
Police identified the suspect, who is still at large, as Stephen Nicholas Broderick, 41.
In the age of active shooters, a new mantra has emerged: 'Run. Hide. Fight.'
It is unknown if Broderick fled on foot or in a vehicle and authorities said they're concerned he could be hiding or take a hostage, Chacon said.
"We're going to be doing our very best to conduct the best investigation that we can and also to get this person into custody as quickly as possible and hopefully with no further loss of life," Chacon said during the briefing.
Chacon said people should still be vigilant and not approach the suspect if they see him.
Broderick is a former Travis County Sheriff's Office detective who was charged with sexual assault of a child, Travis County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kristen Dark told CNN.
Dark said Broderick resigned from the department last year after he was arrested and charged in the child sexual assault case. He was arrested June 6, 2020 and released on bond the same month.
CNN has reached out to the Travis County prosecutor for more information and is working to obtain the affidavit in the case.
Austin police, fire and EMS responded to the city's Great Hills Trail and Rain Creek Parkway area around 11:42 a.m. Sunday, where they found three people suffering gunshot wounds, according to officials.
The shooting was targeted and the three victims -- two women and one man -- knew Broderick, according to Chacon. A child was involved but has been located and is safe, he added.
The motive in the shooting is currently unknown.
Correction: An earlier version of this story had the wrong date for Stephen Nicholas Broderick's arrest on charges of sexual assault of a child. It was June 6.
GUILTY
Whatever the jury ultimately decides about the culpability of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, we already know the case is an anomaly. Officers who kill civilians are rarely prosecuted, let alone convicted — many aren’t even disciplined by their departments.
Last Wednesday marked two years since the shooting, so I checked in with the NYPD about it. The department had said late last year that it had finally finished its internal investigation and that the police commissioner — who has complete discretion over discipline, as many chiefs around the country do — would soon be deciding what to do.
Last week, the NYPD told me that Commissioner Dermot Shea had indeed ruled on the case. The officers were completely cleared. “There was no discipline as no wrongdoing was found,” the department said.
Here is the NYPD’s full statement. It noted that there was also a “tactical review” to determine “what, if anything, could have been done differently.”
For a year and a half, it refused to release body-worn camera footage, arguing in response to a public records request and lawsuit that doing so would “interfere” with the department’s internal investigation and would be an “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
But the NYPD did offer its perspective about what happened. “It appears to be justified,” one of the NYPD’s top officials told reporters the day after the shooting.
The police’s perspective shaped the early coverage. Citing “law enforcement sources,” the New York Post reported that a “musclebound man” who was “nicknamed ‘Chaos’” had been shot “when he charged at cops twice with a stick and a knife.” (Trawick was about 5 feet, 5 inches tall, and his family told me they’ve never heard that nickname. The video shows he ran at the officers once, after he was hit by a Taser.)
The NYPD eventually decided to release footage, after the Bronx District Attorney’s Office published it as part of a report last November that laid out its decision not to pursue criminal charges against the officers. The DA’s decision, too, was no surprise: Local prosecutors, who work closely with the police, are particularly hesitant to indict officers.
The DA’s report had troubling revelations buried inside it. While the report’s highlighted timeline didn’t mention it, the report revealed more than two dozen pages in that Davis had tried to stop his partner from shooting Trawick. It also disclosed that other officers had previously decided there was no need to use force when they answered remarkably similar calls involving Trawick. On page 36, the report cited those interactions as “examples of disparate outcomes that deserve mention.”
The DA’s report did not contain the full, unedited body-worn camera footage, and the NYPD initially continued to fight a lawsuit demanding it.
The day before a December hearing in the case, the NYPD sent the footage to the complainants, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, because, after 20 months, the department’s internal review was complete. That footage, which the law firm shared with me, showed that as officers converged on the scene where Trawick lay lifeless, two of them told a sergeant that “nobody” had been hurt. “Just a perp.”
Good.
Now when are they locking up the 17 year old that killed people at the protest?
That's.... some phrasing :lol"George Floyd is very proud of us right now" - Nancy Trump
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1384624260698812416
Raiders really stepped in it. :lol
I've been watching bits of the live stream and some of the jury selection. I really wouldn't be surprised if he gets off.
I've been watching bits of the live stream and some of the jury selection. I really wouldn't be surprised if he gets off.
https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1384617606003499008
Late last year, as a team of Minnesota state prosecutors was preparing for the trial that would ultimately convict former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd, they received a series of videos depicting Chauvin's handling of another case three years earlier that by their own description shocked them.
The videos, from Sept. 4, 2017, allegedly showed Chauvin striking a Black teenager in the head so hard that the boy needed stitches, then allegedly holding the boy down with his knee for nearly 17 minutes, and allegedly ignoring complaints from the boy that he couldn't breathe.
"Those videos show a far more violent and forceful treatment of this child than Chauvin describes in his report [of the incident]," Matthew Frank, one of the state prosecutors, wrote in a court filing at the time.
Now, the U.S. Justice Department may do something that state prosecutors never did: charge Chauvin for the 2017 incident.
Two months ago, federal prosecutors in Minneapolis brought witnesses before a federal grand jury to provide testimony related to the incident, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported at the time. And this week, a source informed of the probe told ABC News that the investigation is still underway, with the Justice Department still weighing whether to bring federal charges against Chauvin for both the 2017 incident and George Floyd's death.
After officers entered the home and spoke to the woman, they ordered the son to lie on the ground, but he refused. Within seconds, Chauvin hit the teenager with his flashlight, grabbed the teenager's throat, hit him again with the flashlight, and then "applied a neck restraint, causing the child to lose consciousness and go to the ground," according to Frank's account of the videos, detailed in a filing seeking permission to raise the incident during trial.
"Chauvin and [the other officer] placed [the teenager] in the prone position and handcuffed him behind his back while the teenager's mother pleaded with them not to kill her son and told her son to stop resisting," Frank wrote, noting that at one point the teenager's ear began bleeding. "About a minute after going to the ground, the child began repeatedly telling the officers that he could not breathe, and his mother told Chauvin to take his knee off her son."
About eight minutes in, Chauvin moved his knee to the teenager's upper back and left it there for nine more minutes, according to Frank.
The Maryland’s Attorney General’s Office said Friday it believes there should be a review of “in custody” death reports produced by the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner during the tenure of Dr. David Fowler, nine days after Fowler testified that an ex-Minneapolis police officer was not responsible for the death of George Floyd in police custody.whoops
The announcement came less than 24 hours after the attorney general’s office received a letter from the former medical examiner of Washington, D.C., Roger A. Mitchell, signed by 431 doctors from around the country, saying Fowler’s testimony and conclusions were so far outside the bounds of accepted forensic practice that all his previous work could come into question.
“Dr. Fowler’s stated opinion that George Floyd’s death during active police restraint should be certified with an ‘undetermined’ manner is outside the standard practice and conventions for investigating and certification of in-custody deaths. This stated opinion raises significant concerns for his previous practice and management,” the letter said.
Two D.C. police cars were totaled after officers decided to drag race each other, according to an internal email obtained exclusively by FOX 5’s Lindsay Watts.lol at making you FOIA everything
"Yesterday two 6D scout cars were totaled because officers decided instead of fighting crime, patrolling their beats, or engaging the community – they decided to drag race each other on Anacostia Avenue at 5 pm in the evening," reads the email from 6D Commander Durriyyah Habeebullah.
Sources say the email was sent to command staff following the crash Thursday.
"What does this say to all the members of MPD who are passionate about their job and work hard every day to make a difference. This is not fair to any of us," the email goes on to say.
DC Police would not provide the incident report Sunday because the department only provides traffic reports through FOIA.
On the lighter side:Quote from: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-cop-cars-totaled-after-officers-drag-race-in-ne-says-commanderTwo D.C. police cars were totaled after officers decided to drag race each other, according to an internal email obtained exclusively by FOX 5’s Lindsay Watts.lol at making you FOIA everything
"Yesterday two 6D scout cars were totaled because officers decided instead of fighting crime, patrolling their beats, or engaging the community – they decided to drag race each other on Anacostia Avenue at 5 pm in the evening," reads the email from 6D Commander Durriyyah Habeebullah.
Sources say the email was sent to command staff following the crash Thursday.
"What does this say to all the members of MPD who are passionate about their job and work hard every day to make a difference. This is not fair to any of us," the email goes on to say.
DC Police would not provide the incident report Sunday because the department only provides traffic reports through FOIA.
He repeatedly told deputies he could not breathe.
But the deputies and police officers he struggled with taunted him until he died.
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Jennette screamed for officers to get off his back. He was face down on the floor in handcuffs continuing to struggle.
"Go get leg restraints before you do anything else, go get leg restraints," an officer said as officers were on Jennette's back.
Seconds later, Jennette said for the first time he could not breathe.
But a female officer was not sympathetic.
"You shouldn't be able to breathe, you stupid b*****d," she exclaimed.
Officers stayed on Jennette's back and even bent his legs to his back, until finally one officer said be careful of suffocating him.
"Easy, easy -- remember asphyxiation, guys."
Another officer responded, "That's why I'm not on his lungs, to let him breathe."
Jennette's last words were: "I'm good."
But an officer with his knee on Jennette's back talked back to him.
"No, you ain't good. You're going to lay right there for a f*****g minute," the officer said.
We showed the video to law professor and former police officer Seth Stoughton. He's co-written a book, "Evaluating Police Uses of Force."
"That's the exact opposite of what generally accepted training has taught officers for the last 25 years," Stoughton said.
"When the handcuffs came on, they should have rotated the guy to his side."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83mytQX37AShit policing isn't exclusive to the US though, we had plenty of embarrassing moments of shitty police work here.
Hardly surprising sentiments, but an interesting watch.
Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed by a cop.
And amid the national reckoning on policing, communities are questioning who should become a police officer today.
Mass protests and calls for reforming or defunding the police, as well as the coronavirus pandemic, took their toll on officer morale. The rate of retirements at some departments rose 45% compared with the previous year, according to new research on nearly 200 law enforcement agencies conducted by the Washington-based Police Executive Research Forum and provided to The Associated Press. At the same time, hiring slowed by 5%, the group found.
But the climate today, coupled with increases in crime in some cities, is creating what Chuck Wexler, the head of the Police Executive Research Forum, called a “combustible mixture.”:fbm
It’s creating “a crisis on the horizon for police chiefs when they look at the resources they need, especially during a period when we’re seeing an increase in murders and shootings,” Wexler said. “It’s a wake-up call.”
Police in Oregon’s largest city are being advised to no longer pursue low-level traffic infractions — including expired plates and broken headlights — unless related to an immediate safety threat, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced Tuesday.:gladbron
In addition, if police do stop a driver they must receive recorded consent before searching the vehicle and clearly inform the person they have the right to refuse.
Insane story. Female officer accuses other of harassment, gets sent to fake psychologist.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-officer-mental-health-report-by-fake-psychologist-sexual-harassment-1.6083291
Insane story. Female officer accuses other of harassment, gets sent to fake psychologist. The chief that sent her is now a senator. Current police didn't look into it until the CBC called them.
https://mobile.twitter.com/GwynneFitz/status/1411709470237986817"Bring your own marijuana!"
Gamers Rise Up!
:riot :society
https://mobile.twitter.com/GwynneFitz/status/1411709470237986817
Gamers Rise Up!
:riot :society
NYC students and parents:
Please heed this post from public defender @eorlins below. This game truck will be used to collect DNA unknowingly from minors and use tech like DRT boxes to intercept data on cell phones, etc. This is surveillance of BIPOC minors disguised as “community engagement”.
Piece of advice from your friendly public defender: do not get in this truck. Period.
By request, here’s an explanation: This is predatory, this is copaganda, this is a waste of taxpayer money, and hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on this. This taxpayer money could’ve funded youth programming or a community center. It could have funded healthcare, education, libraries, parks, or so many things other than policing.
Over-surveillance is already a huge problem and the police will use any methods available to them.
As a public defender, I’ve represented kids as young as 15 whose DNA was surreptitiously collected by NYPD, like from a can of soda, a used straw, or a bag of chips — items often offered by cops to the children. The last thing they need to be doing is voluntarily entering cop vans.
the United States Capitol Police is planning to expand operations outside Washington in an effort to better protect lawmakers, beginning with the opening of field offices in California and Florida."Defund the police"? No, here, have $2 billion to expand outside the Capitol!
Tim Barber, a spokesman, said the plan was to open several additional regional offices as the department charged with protecting Congress transforms itself in the aftermath of the attack, which exposed serious deficiencies in the Capitol Police’s gathering and dissemination of intelligence, preparedness and training.
Much like the Secret Service, which has field offices in multiple states and countries, the Capitol Police need to be able to monitor and quickly investigate threats against lawmakers wherever they occur, Mr. Barber said.
A 19-year-old woman was charged with a hate crime after allegedly “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign” at a gas station in Panguitch.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, a Garfield County police officer was conducting a traffic stop for speeding at a gas station when the officer saw a woman “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumble it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me.”
The fact determination at issue in this case is one that necessarily must be determined by the Court based on its real world experience and common sense applied to the evidence. Officer Hiser cannot say whether the windows of his or Gray’s vehicles were rolled down and Gray points out persuasively. The Court agrees with Gray that it is incredible that Officer Hiser—who self-admittedly does not have a heightened olfactory system—could smell the scent of two resealable sandwich sized plastic baggies of unburnt marijuana coming from a moving vehicle when patrolling in his cruiser. This occurrence is not only contrary to any common experiences, but is “implausible” and seemingly “contrary to the laws of nature.”:dead
https://twitter.com/sivrajxx/status/1418999469241257990
I saw the body cams - it still looks like they were trying to set shit up and stopped when they got caught. The whole situation is just weird in conjunction with that they are doing these searches due to a minor speeding violation.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-shotspotter-to-alter-evidence-from-gunshot-detecting-ai
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department will see a wave of resignations if the city enforces its policy requiring vaccinations for its employees, according to the Deputy Sheriff’s Association, the union representing sheriff’s deputies.noooo don't go
Mandated vaccines, “will result in law enforcement officers and fire fighters retiring early and seeking employment elsewhere,” the union wrote on its Facebook page Thursday.
“Public safety of San Francisco has turned into the Wild West and will get worse when officers quit due to the vaccine mandate.”
Union President Ken Lomba said he’s heard threats of resigning or retiring early because of the mandatory vaccine policy “from a large group within our membership.”
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/81f6aa5114ab75f4598256e6bb1355a1/tumblr_na15cdF5HT1thh46do5_r1_250.gifv)Quote from: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-sheriff-s-deputies-threaten-resignations-16370801.phpThe San Francisco Sheriff’s Department will see a wave of resignations if the city enforces its policy requiring vaccinations for its employees, according to the Deputy Sheriff’s Association, the union representing sheriff’s deputies.noooo don't go
Mandated vaccines, “will result in law enforcement officers and fire fighters retiring early and seeking employment elsewhere,” the union wrote on its Facebook page Thursday.
“Public safety of San Francisco has turned into the Wild West and will get worse when officers quit due to the vaccine mandate.”
Union President Ken Lomba said he’s heard threats of resigning or retiring early because of the mandatory vaccine policy “from a large group within our membership.”
Shortly after midnight on Jan. 11, 2019, Phoenix police pulled over a car filled with four people suspected of committing an armed robbery earlier that evening. Three seconds after one of them, Jacob Harris, hopped out and started running, officers Dave Norman and Kristopher Bertz opened fire, fatally striking him in the back.
The officers didn’t face any consequences for the shooting. Instead, prosecutors laid the blame on Harris’s three friends in the car. Even though none of them had fired a single shot, 19-year-old Sariah Busani, 20-year-old Jeremiah Triplett, and 14-year-old Johnny Reed were charged with first-degree murder. More than two years later, they remain in jail awaiting trial.
Prosecutors charged them under a legal provision unavailable in most of the country. Most states have the “felony murder” rule, which dictates that a person can be held liable if, while they are committing certain felonies, someone dies as a result of their actions or those of a coconspirator. But in at least 13 states, including Arizona, liability for deaths under the felony murder rule is extended even further: A person can be tried for the fatal actions of a third party, such as a police officer, if the death is deemed a reasonably foreseeable outcome of the crime. In Harris’s shooting, prosecutors argued that the four young adults were fleeing an armed robbery, establishing a chain of events that led to the death. Since 2010, at least 22 people nationwide have been charged with felony murder for deaths directly caused by police, according to a BuzzFeed News review. At least 13 have been convicted.
The 13 states where civilians can be charged with felony murder in police killings, according to an analysis by legal scholar and author of Felony Murder, Guyora Binder, are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Illinois, which was previously among those states, changed its law in February as part of a sweeping criminal justice reform bill that narrowed its felony murder rule to prohibit first-degree murder charges in cases where a third party, like a police officer, causes the death. A 2016 investigation by the Chicago Reader found at least 10 such cases in Cook County between 2010 and 2016.
However, the bill did not apply retroactively. Among those imprisoned under the previous felony murder statute is Tevin Louis, who participated in the robbery of a restaurant in Chicago’s South Side with his cousin, 19-year-old Marquise Sampson, in 2012.
Chicago police officer Antonio Dicarlo shot and killed Sampson as he was running away. Sampson was carrying a gun. Louis, who was then 19 and unarmed, had left the scene earlier and wasn’t present during the shooting, but was arrested and charged with felony murder.
Louis was sentenced to 32 years for armed robbery and an additional 20 years for murder. Dicarlo received a Superintendent's Award of Valor after the shooting, according to the Citizens Police Data Project.
https://twitter.com/createcraig/status/1430595241350926342Quote from: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-sheriff-s-deputies-threaten-resignations-16370801.phpThe San Francisco Sheriff’s Department will see a wave of resignations if the city enforces its policy requiring vaccinations for its employees, according to the Deputy Sheriff’s Association, the union representing sheriff’s deputies.noooo don't go
Mandated vaccines, “will result in law enforcement officers and fire fighters retiring early and seeking employment elsewhere,” the union wrote on its Facebook page Thursday.
“Public safety of San Francisco has turned into the Wild West and will get worse when officers quit due to the vaccine mandate.”
Union President Ken Lomba said he’s heard threats of resigning or retiring early because of the mandatory vaccine policy “from a large group within our membership.”
CopFTFYunions really are the worst.
https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1435472901818372097https://twitter.com/createcraig/status/1430595241350926342Quote from: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-sheriff-s-deputies-threaten-resignations-16370801.phpThe San Francisco Sheriff’s Department will see a wave of resignations if the city enforces its policy requiring vaccinations for its employees, according to the Deputy Sheriff’s Association, the union representing sheriff’s deputies.noooo don't go
Mandated vaccines, “will result in law enforcement officers and fire fighters retiring early and seeking employment elsewhere,” the union wrote on its Facebook page Thursday.
“Public safety of San Francisco has turned into the Wild West and will get worse when officers quit due to the vaccine mandate.”
Union President Ken Lomba said he’s heard threats of resigning or retiring early because of the mandatory vaccine policy “from a large group within our membership.”
https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1435472901818372097https://twitter.com/createcraig/status/1430595241350926342Quote from: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-sheriff-s-deputies-threaten-resignations-16370801.phpThe San Francisco Sheriff’s Department will see a wave of resignations if the city enforces its policy requiring vaccinations for its employees, according to the Deputy Sheriff’s Association, the union representing sheriff’s deputies.noooo don't go
Mandated vaccines, “will result in law enforcement officers and fire fighters retiring early and seeking employment elsewhere,” the union wrote on its Facebook page Thursday.
“Public safety of San Francisco has turned into the Wild West and will get worse when officers quit due to the vaccine mandate.”
Union President Ken Lomba said he’s heard threats of resigning or retiring early because of the mandatory vaccine policy “from a large group within our membership.”
https://reason.com/2021/08/17/dea-seizes-life-savings-of-new-orleans-grandfather-without-charging-him-with-a-crime/https://twitter.com/JodyBarr/status/1440856486280785922QuoteIn 2016, a USA Today investigation found the DEA seized more than $209 million from at least 5,200 travelers in 15 major airports over the previous decade.:american
New life was injected into a free speech legal saga over an "I Eat Ass" bumper sticker yesterday when a federal judge ruled that the expression might violate Florida's obscenity law and would thus be unprotected by the First Amendment.
At the center of the odyssey is Florida man Dillon Shane Webb, who was pulled over in May of 2019 after Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy Travis English took exception to the sticker. Webb declined to censor it on the spot, his vehicle was searched, and he was subsequently arrested and booked in jail for "obscene writing on vehicles" and "resisting an officer without violence." (The "resisting" in question refers to his refusal to alter the sticker's appearance at the officer's demand.)
Those charges were dropped shortly thereafter, with the State Attorney's Office citing the First Amendment.
But the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled yesterday that the case is not so cut and dry, awarding qualified immunity to English and thus dooming the suit Webb brought against him for allegedly violating his free speech rights and for falsely arresting him.
"While Webb denies the Sticker was in fact obscene, in interviews he repeatedly acknowledged the sexual nature of his Sticker," wrote Judge Marcia Morales Howard in Webb v. English, "albeit couched as an attempt at humor, showing that the notion that an erotic message was more than hypothetical—it could reasonably be viewed as the predominant message being communicated." She added that "if the Sticker depicted a sexual act, it would be protected speech under the First Amendment only if it had serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." English, as well as Corporal Chad Kirby—who via phone agreed Dillon should be arrested—thus can't be held liable over their subjective determination and the subsequent arrest.
Chrystal Templeton, the police officer investigating the video, wanted to arrest every kid who watched the fight and “get them all in front” of Davenport, she would say later during an internal police investigation. Charging them was helping them, Templeton believed, because “juvenile court is about rehabilitation.”
Templeton thought an appropriate charge might be conspiracy to commit assault. But then she met with Amy Anderson and Sherry Hamlett, two judicial commissioners authorized by Rutherford County to issue arrest warrants. Anderson told Templeton that she thought the only child who could be charged with conspiring was the kid who recorded video of the fight on a cellphone.
So they went in search of another charge, with Hamlett checking the state’s criminal code on a computer.
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Templeton wanted guidance. She believed the boys throwing punches were too young to be charged with a crime. An assistant district attorney agreed. The assistant DA also told Templeton she didn’t believe there was any single charge appropriate for all the kids gathered around. But Templeton still wanted to charge them all.
Inside the judicial commissioners’ office, Hamlett discovered an alternative to conspiracy to commit assault.
Her search turned up a Tennessee statute defining “criminal responsibility for conduct of another.” It says, in part: A person is “criminally responsible” for an offense committed by another if “the person causes or aids an innocent or irresponsible person to engage in” the offense, or directs another to commit the offense, or “fails to make a reasonable effort to prevent commission of the offense.”
Hamlett shared her find with Templeton. They went through the statute line by line, with Anderson joining in.
“I looked at the charge to the best of my ability, from my experience was like, ‘Yeah, that’s, that’s the charge,’” Templeton would later say.
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When Hamlett came up with “criminal responsibility for conduct of another” as a possible charge, there was a problem. It’s not an actual charge. There is no such crime. It is rather a basis upon which someone can be accused of a crime. For example, a person who caused someone else to commit robbery would be charged with robbery, not “criminal responsibility.”
But in the judicial commissioners’ office that Friday afternoon, 10 petitions were issued, each charging a child with “criminal responsibility.” The petitions didn’t distinguish the kids’ actions; the documents were cookie-cutter, saying each child “encouraged and caused” two other juveniles to commit an assault.
Templeton signed each petition. Anderson also signed at least some of them. Templeton then left the judicial commissioners’ office, the 10 petitions in hand.
After the four arrests at Hobgood, other children named in the petitions were brought in by their parents or rounded up by police.
“Defund! Reclaim! Reinvest!” about two dozen people called out from the darkened Dallas street. A few weeks later, the police chief resigned over her handling of large-scale protests. Then the City Council voted to cut how much money the department could use on overtime and hiring new officers.
That was last year.
This year has been very different.
In cities across America, police departments are getting their money back. From New York to Los Angeles, departments that saw their funding targeted amid nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd last year have watched as local leaders voted for increases in police spending, with an additional $200 million allocated to the New York Police Department and a 3 percent boost given to the Los Angeles force.
The abrupt reversals have come in response to rising levels of crime in major cities last year, the exodus of officers from departments large and small and political pressures. After slashing police spending last year, Austin restored the department’s budget and raised it to new heights. In Burlington, Vt., the city that Senator Bernie Sanders once led as mayor went from cutting its police budget to approving $10,000 bonuses for officers to stay on the job.
But perhaps nowhere has the contrast been as stark as in Dallas, where Mr. Johnson not only proposed to restore money to the department but moved to increase the number of officers on the street, writing over the summer that “Dallas needs more police officers.”
After the mayor proposed increasing funding, no protests followed. When the Council backed a budget that restored many of the cuts made last year, few came to the public hearing, and even fewer spoke against the plan, which included the hiring of 250 officers. It passed with little fanfare last month.we're back baby 8)
While she was in custody, police said she coughed “in close proximity” to officers, and said she had Covid-19, though no dashboard, body or in-station videos exist to prove the assertion either way.
The allegation has landed Lewis, who otherwise has no criminal history, with a potentially ruinous terrorism charge – one that could land her in prison for 10 years and leave her with a $150,000 fine.
The rare and serious penalty was available to prosecutors only because New Jersey was in a state of emergency, in this case because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lewis is among nearly four dozen people hit with life-altering terrorism charges – the sort of charges normally brought against people who perpetrate bomb threats – after the former New Jersey attorney general led a campaign to show law enforcement “we have their backs” amid the early days of the pandemic.
“It’s a miscarriage of justice,” said Lewis’s attorney, public defender Logan Terry. The most recent plea agreement offered to Lewis would sentence her to five years in state prison with restitution.
The first apparent terroristic threat charges in New Jersey came on 14 March 2020, two days before the White House would call on Americans to stay home for 15 days to “slow the spread” of Covid-19. The charges were brought against a Bergen county woman who allegedly coughed on an officer during a domestic violence incident.
From there, the former New Jersey attorney general Gurbir Grewal would continue to bring serious charges against people throughout New Jersey, tacking them on to otherwise minor arrests.
Grewal has since joined the Biden administration as the director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“By ensuring that prosecutors filed serious charges in each of these cases, we let our officers know that we have their backs and that we appreciate the dedicated and professional way that they have met the challenges of this unprecedented emergency,” Grewal told the Guardian in June, before he joined the administration.
Despite these warnings, some New Jersey defendants charged under anti-terrorism statutes found themselves detained for far longer periods than they might during a non-emergency situation. That is because New Jersey waived a requirement that defendants be indicted within 90 days of arrest, as backlogged courts struggled to adapt to the pandemic.
In one case, a northern New Jersey man spent eight months in jail awaiting indictment. His crime, his attorney said, was telling arresting officers, “I have corona,” when he was asked if he had any health problems.
“It’s obviously not a threat in the common definition of the threat nor in the legal definition of the threat, and it was a direct response to their questioning,” said the man’s attorney, who asked not to be named to protect their client from retaliation.
After release, he was asked to return to jail indefinitely to get a coronavirus test.
All told, the New Jersey attorney general’s office publicized charges of terroristic threats in the second degree against at least 45 people, possibly the most concerted campaign to criminalize threats of Covid-19 transmission in the US.
Prosecutors have apparently stopped bringing new second-degree terroristic threats charges. The last anti-terrorism charge related to the pandemic, according to the attorney general’s office, came in December 2020, when a Secaucus man arrested for drunk driving coughed on police and said he had coronavirus.:american
“We will not tolerate those who endanger the first responders working on the frontlines of this pandemic,” the acting attorney general of New Jersey, Andrew J Bruck, said in a statement to the Guardian.
“We are committed to safeguarding our law enforcement officers and other emergency workers, and we will hold accountable individuals who deliberately threatened to expose these heroes to a deadly virus,” he said.
They needed 19 correction officers whom they had posted at the Queens criminal courthouse to fill in at the massive jail complex, where staffing was short, slashings and stabbings were up and detainees had gained control over some housing units. It was Columbus Day, a holiday, and the workload at the Queens courthouse was comparatively light.
But when the bus to Rikers arrived at the courthouse, many of the guards refused to board it. Instead, according to interviews, they claimed the onset of sudden illness. Seven of them dialed 911, complaining of chest pain, leg injuries, lightheadedness and palpitations. One produced a cane as proof of disability. More than a dozen officers left in ambulances. Rikers remained understaffed.
The powerful correction officers’ union has said that hiring more guards would solve the problems. But records and interviews show that there is no staffing shortage in the jail system. In fact, on days this year when guard posts in volatile Rikers housing units went unfilled, hundreds of other correction officers were stationed elsewhere in less dangerous positions, including as secretaries, laundry room supervisors and even bakers.
The groundwork for the violence and disorder on Rikers was laid over the years by successive mayoral administrations, which allowed power to shift to lower-level wardens and the guards’ union and then to incarcerated gang members themselves. As a result, guards have been posted throughout the system in wasteful and capricious ways, generous benefits like sick leave have been abused and detainees have had the run of entire housing areas.
The failures are especially stark given the vast sums the city has spent on the Correction Department. At an annual cost to taxpayers of more than $400,000 per inmate — more than six times the average in the nation’s other biggest cities — New York has operated a jail complex that has broken down in fundamental ways, leaving some detainees to roam unsupervised and others to go without food or basic health care.
The fallout has occurred largely out of sight, on an island in the East River that most New Yorkers never visit or even think about.
It can be measured in loss of life — more than 16 men have died in the jail system this year — and in the thousands of injuries inflicted on other detainees, who, by September, had been slashed, stabbed, beaten or otherwise harmed at a pace of 38 per day for more than 270 days straight. Most of the detainees at Rikers have never committed violent acts in jail, and more than half suffer from mental illness or other serious ailments.
It can also be gauged by the rising number of assaults — more than 2,000 this year — endured by jail guards. Some officers responded by lashing out at incarcerated people. Others were accused of joining them in criminal acts. In May, seven officers were charged with taking bribes to smuggle drugs, scalpels and cellphones into the jails.
New York operates the best-staffed jail system in the nation, employing more guards per detainee than any other major American lockup. So many officers are on the city payroll that, on days in September when as many as 2,000 of them missed work — more than the total number of guards employed by the jails in Indianapolis and Jacksonville combined — there were still about 5,800 who reported for duty.
With so many correction officers on hand, it can be difficult to track what all of them are doing on a given day, according to Mr. Schiraldi and others. Even as the pandemic raged and concerns about staffing shortages spilled into public view, there was little transparency about who was posted where, and why.
But interviews and internal city records obtained by The Times reveal a system that uses uniformed officers in ways that other jail agencies do not.
Guards act as drivers for wardens. Guards answer phones and file papers for administrators. Guards supervise lawn-mowing crews. Guards oversee tailor shops. Guards help run a bakery.
An internal staffing report shows that of the more than 8,900 sworn officers on the department’s payroll in February, about 850 were stationed at the department’s Queens headquarters, at its training academy or in other positions requiring little or no contact with detainees.
Nearly 750 guards were assigned to daily posts at the Manhattan Detention Complex during a period in which the Lower Manhattan jail was holding, on average, just 16 people a day.
Those officers who return to work from sick leave can still avoid being assigned to guard detainees, thanks to another policy embraced by union members. This one allows officers who are deemed by their doctors to be in need of light-duty assignments to remain in those posts indefinitely.
Concerned in 2016 that the policy was being abused, Angel Villalona, a top Correction Department administrator, urged then-Commissioner Joseph Ponte to curb it, even proposing a rule that would have limited the amount of time officers could spend in modified-duty posts. Mr. Ponte, who did not act on the proposal, said he did not recall receiving it.
During the pandemic, the number of guards who were out sick or on the so-called medically modified status lists ballooned into the thousands, in part, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, because the department’s Health Management Division is so backed up with appointments that it can take months to verify that officers are suffering from ailments.
Five times since last May, sheriff's deputies in Kansas and California have stopped armored cars operated by Empyreal Logistics, a Pennsylvania-based company that serves marijuana businesses and financial institutions that work with them. The cops made off with cash after three of those stops, seizing a total of $1.2 million, but did not issue any citations or file any criminal charges, which are not necessary to confiscate property through civil forfeiture. That process allows police to pad their budgets by seizing assets they allege are connected to criminal activity, even when the owner is never charged, let alone convicted.:money
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On May 17, Dickinson County Sheriff's Deputy Kalen Robinson pulled over one of Empyreal's vans on Interstate 70 in Kansas, ostensibly because the Colorado tag number was partially obstructed by the license plate frame. Robinson grilled the driver, who explained that she planned to pick up cash from licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Kansas City, Missouri, the next day, then take it to a credit union in Colorado, which would entail traveling through Kansas again on the same highway. Robinson let the driver proceed on her way without issuing a citation, but the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) kept an eye on the van the following morning as it visited the Missouri dispensaries.
Later that day, Robinson stopped the van again as it traveled west on Interstate 70, seizing more than $165,000 in cash from its vault. In September, the Justice Department filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to keep the money. If the government prevails, the Dickinson County Sheriff's Department will get up to 80 percent of the loot under the Justice Department's "equitable sharing" program.
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The stops and seizures in California raise additional legal issues, because that state, unlike Kansas, allows the sale of marijuana for medical or recreational use. It also explicitly protects companies like Empyreal from harassment by local or state law enforcement agencies. A 2020 law says a business that "transports cash or financial instruments, or provides other financial services does not commit a crime under any California law…solely by virtue of the fact that the person receiving the benefit of any of those services engages in commercial cannabis activity as a licensee pursuant to this division." Despite that law, San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies stopped Empyreal vans three times in November, December, and January, seizing more than $1 million.
On November 16, Sheriff's Deputy Jonathan Franco pulled over one of the company's vehicles, supposedly because it was following a tractor-trailer truck too closely. Like Robinson, Franco did not issue any citations. But after the driver told him the van was carrying cash, the lawsuit says, Franco "asked many questions about the nature of Empyreal's business." Even though it should have been clear that Empyreal was not violating any state laws, the cops seized about $700,000. The sheriff's office later told the company's lawyer the money "was transferred to the FBI for civil forfeiture."
On December 9, Empyreal says, the same deputies pulled over the same vehicle, driven by the same employee, ostensibly because he "slightly exceeded the speed limit and prematurely activated his turn signal." But once again, no citation was issued. According to the lawsuit, "the driver's operation of the Empyreal vehicle was completely lawful." The company says "the deputies had planned the stop in advance and would have pulled over the driver and the Empyreal vehicle regardless of how carefully or lawfully it was driven."
The deputies claimed a drug-sniffing dog alerted to the van, which Empyreal says also is not true: "Video footage from the vehicle does not show the dog alert on the vehicle. Instead, it shows the dog is barely interested in the vehicle."
This time the cops seized about $350,000. The deputies, who were audibly excited about the $700,000 haul, were somewhat disappointed by the relatively small size of the second seizure. Based on an audio recording by the van's security system, the lawsuit describes this exchange: "One of the deputies said, 'That's it?' and chuckled. He then said: 'You set the bar too high.' When another deputy remarked that he thought they'd get 'a million or two,' the [first] deputy responded, 'At least we got over a million'"—apparently referring to the combined take from the two seizures. The FBI later told Empyreal's lawyer it had also taken possession of the money seized on December 9, pending federal forfeiture proceedings.
From San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus' perspective, involving the feds has clear advantages. Money earned by state-legal marijuana businesses is not subject to forfeiture under California law. Even if it were, law enforcement agencies would be entitled to just 65 percent of the proceeds, compared to as much as 80 percent under federal law. And for cash forfeitures involving $40,000 or more, California requires "clear and convincing evidence," while federal law says "a preponderance of the evidence" is good enough.
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The third California stop sheds some light on that strategy. On January 6, the lawsuit says, San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies stopped an Empyreal driver who was "picking up an order of rolled coin boxes from Empyreal's vendor, which happens to be located in San Bernardino County, in order to replenish its rolled coin supply." After the deputies realized that the coins had nothing to do with cannabis, they decided not to seize them. "When the Empyreal driver asked a deputy why Empyreal vehicles were being stopped so frequently," the company says, "the deputy told him it was 'political' but declined to elaborate."
“I was in shock and panicking because I never wanted these two parts of my life to collide,” Melissa Williams, 46, told Jam Press of her resignation, in which she reportedly received a $30,000 severance package to leave the force.
The ex-cop — reportedly a 28-year police veteran whose LinkedIn profile lists her as “retired” from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office after more than 11 years there — had apparently started moonlighting on the porn platform in May 2020 as a means of spicing up her sex life with her husband and also decompressing from her difficult and dangerous job.
“My personal sex life was entirely separate and never affected my ability to do my job,” said the cop-turned-skin-flick-star, who “felt like my bosses were policing my bedroom.”
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment about Williams’ claims.
Known by the alias Lexi Bella (@the_real_bella_lexi) on OnlyFans, Williams predominantly shared saucy snaps of herself and her husband, who has opted to remain anonymous for privacy reasons.
“A lot of the material my husband and I shared is stuff we’d taken in our private sex life over the years,” explained the mother of two. “I was working up to 60-hour weeks, so mostly my husband ran the page and shared my pictures, and then sometimes we’d have fun dressing me up and taking photos especially to share.”
The self-proclaimed “MILF and wife-next-door” added, “It was a fun way to relax and be creative together after a stressful week in a stressful job.”
Williams had been making a good side-living on OnlyFans for about 18 months, Jam Press reported, when in August 2021 the cop’s boss supposedly received an anonymous tip about her salacious side hustle.
The aghast officer claimed that she subsequently received an official complaint via email, whereupon she allegedly discovered that her colleagues had been gossiping about her sextra-curricular activities — with some even signing up for her page.
“The complaint came totally out of the blue,” said the horrified officer. “Then I was angry and embarrassed because the notice went on to say how five colleagues of mine — all in lower and higher ranks than me — had obtained access to my paid account to access my private content so they could investigate my conduct.”
“I loved my job — but how could I go back to work in an environment like that?” said Williams. “It was hard being a woman in the force. People have always been jealous of me because I am successful, attractive and confident.”
Nonetheless, the porn star sees her firing as a “blessing in disguise,” as she “can sleep at night now and I feel 10 years younger without the stresses of police work.
“My family are glad they don’t have to worry about me not coming home,” added Williams, who also shares saucy snaps to Instagram.
And while Williams said she is currently only earning about $4,000 a month on OnlyFans — less than her police salary — she hopes her page will take off now that she can spend more time on it. However, in the future, she aspires to become a team leader or manager in security or corporate training.
The driver of an armored car carrying $712,000 in cash from licensed marijuana dispensaries was heading into Barstow on a Mojave Desert freeway in November when San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies pulled him over. They interrogated him, seized the money and turned it over to the FBI.
A few weeks later, deputies stopped the same driver in Rancho Cucamonga, took an additional $350,000 belonging to legal pot stores and gave that cash to the FBI too.
Now, the FBI is trying to confiscate the nearly $1.1-million bounty, which it might share with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The FBI says the money is tied to federal drug or money-laundering crimes, but has specified no unlawful conduct and charged no one with a crime.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/941887But can they unseat this guy's teaching in people's minds?
UC-led research first to show benefits of police de-escalation training
“The results were impressive, to say the least,” says PERF executive director Chuck Wexler. The research, Wexler says, “found that training officers in ICAT was associated with 28% fewer use-of-force incidents, 26% fewer injuries to community members and 36% fewer injuries to police officers.”
“My family are glad they don’t have to worry about me not coming home,” added Williams
After striking a plea deal with prosecutors, a onetime Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who was accused of repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl over a period of 20 months will serve no time in prison and does not have to register as a sex offender.
Brian O. Beck, 47, pleaded guilty to a single count of aggravated assault on Monday, according to court records filed in Shelby County Court. That plea was part of a deal between Beck and prosecutors, a member of the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office confirmed to Law&Crime.
The judge in the case suspended Beck’s nominal four-year prison sentence and said the defendant would instead serve three years probation, a sentencing order provided to Law&Crime by the prosecutor’s office indicates.
Beck would have been facing up to 90 years in prison had he been convicted of the four counts upon which he was initially indicted by the grand jury.
A 2016 dispute between neighbors that began when a 7-year-old boy was accused of littering escalated into a violent confrontation with Fort Worth police officer William Martin, who arrested the boy's mother, Jacqueline Craig, and three of his sisters. Craig says Martin, in addition to forcing her to the ground with a taser to her back, kicked her 15-year-old daughter ("J.H."), hit her 14-year-old daughter ("K.H.") in the throat, and, after handcuffing her 19-year-old daughter, Brea Hymond, "hyper-extended her handcuffed arms by flexing them above her head in order to cause pain." Martin's body camera video suggests all this happened because he was irked when Craig angrily berated him for condoning an assault on her son and criticizing her parenting.
Because the legal justification for Martin's use of force was unclear, a federal judge ruled that Craig could proceed with her lawsuit against him. But last month, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit concluded that Martin had done nothing illegal.
When Martin appealed, however, the 5th Circuit accepted his version of events, which it was not supposed to do at this stage unless the existing evidence "blatantly contradicted" Craig's claims. McBryde thought it did not. But the appeals court, for reasons that are not entirely clear, disagreed. In a decision written by Chief Judge Priscilla Owen, the 5th Circuit concluded that Martin's manhandling of Craig et al. "was not objectively unreasonable." In any case, the court added, his conduct did not violate "clearly established" law.
The 5th Circuit dismissed that use of force as "relatively minimal," adding that Martin jerked Hymond's arms "only after Hymond refused to provide Martin with her name." But deliberately inflicting pain on a nonresistant arrestee to obtain information is "obviously unconstitutional," I.J. says, and the appeals court's alarming acceptance of that practice needs to be corrected.
While the 5th Circuit described Hymond as "resisting," its basis for that characterization is thin. "Hymond was shouting at Martin throughout the entire confrontation," Judge Owen wrote. "She did not comply with any of Martin's commands or instructions….Hymond continued to verbally deride Martin while Martin was lifting her arms and immediately after he put her arms down. Given Hymond's continued resistance, Martin's use of force against Hymond was not objectively unreasonable."
Craig's initial offense supposedly was interfering with Martin's duties, but her interference consisted of yelling at him after he suggested that assaulting her son was a justified response to littering and faulted her for not raising him properly. The two other charges against her, resisting arrest and failing to identify herself, were contingent on Martin's hotheaded decision to arrest her in the first place.Bodycam footage at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1400361/Police-bodycam-shows-arrest-Jacqueline-Craig-family.html
Hymond likewise was charged with interference, which again was limited to yelling at Martin. As with Craig, Martin tacked on resisting arrest and failure to identify.
J.H., the 15-year-old, was handcuffed and forced into Martin's police car, but she was not charged with anything. K.H., the 14-year-old, was taken to a juvenile detention facility, where she was released without charges.
All the charges against Craig and Hymond were dropped.
The county Sheriff's Office originally said that Ralph Ennis fell over the trailer hitch of his red pickup truck and struck his head on the camper top attached to his truck.
But as footage aired by Washington, DC, TV station NBC4 shows, deputies rushed the man in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven near Front Royal, VA, and then slammed him face-forward into the back of his truck and tackled him to the ground. Police have said Ennis failed to drop his keys and put his hands behind his back after exiting his vehicle.
Ennis, whose wife said he suffered from dementia, died 13 days later. The sheriff's office originally said that the man had non-life threatening injuries as a result of the incident. Wife Linda Ennis said her husband was transported by medics to the hospital and was diagnosed with a brain bleed.
The Warren County Sheriff, Mark Butler, told News4 he stands by the initial statement his office released.
Patricia Rodney walked into the 62nd Precinct in Dyker Heights on December 2, 2020 because she had lost her glucose monitor. Rodney knew how important the instrument was to her survival. A diabetic, she had been hospitalized multiple times for complications related to her diabetes, and used the device to check her blood sugar levels many times a day.
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Rodney was at the end of her rope: She’d already been told she could get the report here. Now she was getting the runaround. She dug in, telling the officer she’d been told to come back and get the report, and she wasn’t leaving the stationhouse until she got it.
The account up until now is Rodney’s, as told in an interview with Hell Gate and in a federal civil complaint. What happened next is documented in the body-worn-camera footage of two officers on duty at the 62nd Precinct that night. When the footage picks up, Rodney is in the vestibule of the precinct house, surrounded by police. When the sound on the video kicks in (NYPD body cameras only begin recording sound when activated, but append the previous 60 seconds of visuals from the camera’s buffer memory), an officer is warning Rodney that “Body cameras are now on.”
“This is my camera,” Rodney replies, holding her cell phone. “I’m allowed to film.”
Rodney wasn’t actually filming, she told Hell Gate. “But they were getting very hostile, and they were telling me that they were filming me, so I held my phone up and said, ‘Okay, I’m filming you.’”
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“We’re asking you to leave, you’re not leaving, and you’re not allowed to record,” an officer says in the video. “Turn around.” With that, half a dozen cops close in around Rodney, and in short order, she is on the ground, screaming, as officers twist her arms.
“It felt like they were breaking my arm, Rodney said. “And yes, it turns out they did.” A medical report confirms that Rodney suffered a fractured elbow.
“I’m not playing with you!” the officer bellows as he works to get Rodney into handcuffs and leg shackles.
“I’m a diabetic,” Rodney sobs. “I just need a piece of paper.”
“Now you’re going to jail,” the officer replies. As Rodney is brought to her feet and frog-marched out of the vestibule and into the precinct house, the officer, who, like other police surrounding Rodney, is not wearing a mask himself, grabs her mask from her mouth and pulls it up over her eyes so she can’t see. “Put your mask up,” he says. “All you had to do was cooperate. You did this to yourself.”
The police took Rodney to a hospital to treat the injuries she suffered during her arrest, leaving her handcuffed throughout. Then they brought her back to the precinct house for several hours before sending her on to Brooklyn Central Booking, where she was charged, based on a sworn statement from an NYPD officer, with resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct, and criminal trespass.
Before his sentencing, Menocal gave a brief statement, but he did not apologize or express remorse for his criminal actions against his female victims. “I have had some dark times in the past seven years, and if it wasn’t for my wife and family, I probably wouldn’t be here today,” he told the judge.Was just an accident that for some reason kept happening.
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During Thursday’s sentencing hearing, Menocal’s defense attorneys, Mycki Ratzan and Jude Faccidomo, tried to depict the police officer’s misconduct as “aberrant” — not indicative of a law enforcement career highlighted by honors such as officer of the year in Hialeah. They proposed he should receive no incarceration in prison, and instead get a probationary sentence with time split between a halfway house and home detention.
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Despite investigations by Hialeah police internal affairs and the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, Menocal was temporarily suspended from duty but then reinstated by Police Chief Sergio Velázquez. Velázquez only fired him after FBI agents arrested Menocal in December 2019, and the chief himself was removed from office two years later.
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They also planned to call as a witness a police academy cadet who was allegedly impregnated by Menocal while he was working as her instructor. According to federal court records, Menocal tried to pressure the cadet into having an abortion after he allegedly got her pregnant.
After the ordeal, Baker sought that remedy through her home insurance, which stipulated that they are not on the hook if it is the government's fault. And though the government didn't deny being at fault, per se, they did deny that Baker was a victim, sending her on her way with a ravaged home, thousands of dollars in destroyed personal possessions, and a dog that went deaf and blind from the chaos that July day.:trumps
However, the photos provided Wednesday confirm what police sources had previously told 3News Investigates: Eight officers fired more than 90 shots, causing more than 60 wounds to Walker’s body.Got em. :cop
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Akron police say they attempted to stop Walker’s car just after midnight Monday for a traffic infraction and equipment issue. Walker instead led the officers on a high-speed chase down East Tallmadge Avenue toward State Route 8.
At some point, police say Walker fired a gun. Sources tell 3News Investigates that one casing was found in Walker’s car and a second was found on the roadway near Route 8.
The 4 1/2-minute chase took police south on Route 8 with speeds reaching about 80 mph at times, police said. Walker, 25, eventually jumped out of the car on Wilbeth Road near the Bridgestone Tire offices.
Police say they first deployed their tasers, but ultimately opened fire after they said Walker made motions that caused them to fear bodily harm. Eight officers unleashed a hail of gunfire that was captured on body cameras worn by the officers.
Sources say some of the last shots were fired while Walker’s body was on the pavement. Walker was on the ground dead when medical help arrived. Autopsy records show he was handcuffed after the shooting. He was not armed at the time he was shot, sources said.
A gun, however, was recovered inside Walker’s car, the same sources confirmed.
It is unclear why Walker fled police. He has no past criminal records aside from a speeding ticket.
Once under arrest, police took inventory of what he carried. Besides the rifle and Bible, they also found 120 rounds of ammunition and a handgun. However, since Herrera didn't actually shoot anyone, he did not commit a felony offense under Texas law.
Herrera was charged with a misdemeanor for the Galleria incident. Then, on March 18, he showed up at the Houston FBI headquarters asking to meet with the director of the agency. In that incident, he had a gun in the car. However, because no shots were fired and he didn't point the weapon at anyone, he was again just charged with a misdemeanor.
Did... did they at least fail the training?
Sounds like they passed.https://twitter.com/Caulimovirus/status/1577074102489473026
The Parma Police Department did not appreciate Anthony’s criticism. Citing 11 calls that Parma residents made to a nonemergency line to either ask about or tattle on Anthony’s parody page, police obtained a warrant for his arrest, searched his apartment, seized his electronics, and charged him with a felony under an Ohio law that criminalizes using a computer to “disrupt” “police operations.” Anthony had to spend four days in jail before making bail. He was prosecuted, but after a full criminal trial, a jury found him not guilty.
But when Anthony tried to vindicate his rights by filing a civil-rights lawsuit, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to hold the police officers accountable for their actions. Despite the clear violation of Anthony’s First and Fourth Amendment rights, the Sixth Circuit granted the officers qualified immunity—a doctrine that the Supreme Court invented in the 1980s to protect government officials from being sued for unconstitutional conduct. As a result, Anthony’s case was thrown out.
In addition to maintaining a towering standard of excellence to which the rest of the industry aspires, The Onion supports more than 350,000 full- and parttime journalism jobs in its numerous news bureaus and manual labor camps stationed around the world, and members of its editorial board have served with distinction in an advisory capacity for such nations as China, Syria, Somalia, and the former Soviet Union. On top of its journalistic pursuits, The Onion also owns and operates the majority of the world’s transoceanic shipping lanes, stands on the nation’s leading edge on matters of deforestation and strip mining, and proudly conducts tests on millions of animals daily.
The Onion’s keen, fact-driven reportage has been cited favorably by one or more local courts, as well as Iran and the Chinese state-run media.
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Tu stultus es. You are dumb. These three Latin words have been The Onion’s motto and guiding light since it was founded in 1988 as America’s Finest News Source, leading its writers toward the paper’s singular purpose of pointing out that its readers are deeply gullible people.
The Onion’s motto is central to this brief for two important reasons. First, it’s Latin. And The Onion knows that the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks: They quote Catullus in the original Latin in chambers. They sweetly whisper “stare decisis” into their spouses’ ears. They mutter “cui bono” under their breath while picking up after their neighbors’
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This is the fifteenth page of a convoluted legal filing intended to deconstruct the societal implications of parody, so the reader’s attention is almost certainly wandering. That’s understandable. So here is a paragraph of gripping legal analysis to ensure that every jurist who reads this brief is appropriately impressed by the logic of its argument and the lucidity of its prose: Bona vacantia. De bonis asportatis. Writ of certiorari. De minimis. Jus accrescendi. Forum non conveniens. Corpus juris. Ad hominem tu quoque. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Quod est demonstrandum. Actus reus. Scandalum magnatum. Pactum reservati dominii.
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This Court has traditionally been hesitant to chill speech, and the prospect of chilling parody by imprisoning its practitioners provides equal cause for caution. “What may be difficult to communicate or understand when factually reported may be poignant and powerful if offered in satire.” Rogers v. Grimaldi, 695 F. Supp. 112, 123 (S.D.N.Y. 1988), aff ’d 875 F.2d 994 (2d Cir. 1989). “ ‘[T]he last thing we need, the last thing the First Amendment will tolerate, is a law that lets public figures keep people from mocking them.’ ” Cardtoons, L.C. v. Major League Baseball Players Ass’n, 95 F.3d 959, 972–73 (10th Cir. 1996) (quoting White v. Samsung Elecs. Am., Inc., 989 F.2d 1512, 1519 (9th Cir. 1993) (Kozinski, J., dissenting)).
The Onion intends to continue its socially valuable role bringing the disinfectant of sunlight into the halls of power. See Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 67 (1976) (quoting Louis D. Brandeis, Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It 62 (National Home Library Foundation ed. 1933)). And it would vastly prefer that sunlight not to be measured out to its writers in 15-minute increments in an exercise yard.
"I think the top two fascists in this town, Mayor Michael Hansen and the chief of police, need to be removed from power," said Petersen.
Arrested when he refused Hansen's order to leave the meeting, Petersen and supporters now are claiming the city violated his First Amendment rights.
"Do not address the chief of police in that manner," Hansen told Petersen, gaveling over the speaker as he attempted to continue. "Noah, your comments are over. You are not going to defame the chief of police of this community. Our rules clearly state you are not to state derogatory remarks about any individual, including an employee of the city of Newton."
When Petersen kept speaking, the mayor ordered him to leave the meeting, then temporarily adjourned and summoned police to remove Petersen in handcuffs. Court records show Petersen was charged with disorderly conduct — the second time in a month he's faced charges for speaking at a Newton council meeting.
City officials appear committed to enforcing their rule. After Petersen was ejected Monday, Hansen, the mayor, stuck a defiant tone as he addressed Petersen's associates and other attendees. He said that if people want to be "politically active," there is a place and time for it, but not during council meetings.:american
"I would challenge you to go to a board of supervisors meeting, or a meeting of the state Legislature, and conduct yourself in that manner. It would not be allowed, and per the rules of this council, it will not be allowed here either so long as I am sitting in his chair,” Hansen said. “It is disrespectful to the men and women you have elected to do your business, and as long as I’m sitting in this chair and we have rules to enforce, I will do so. I make no apologies for that whatsoever."
And, in a final remark before gaveling the meeting back to order, the mayor made clear his feelings about Petersen's comments.
"Go do your activism somewhere where somebody cares," Hansen said.
But according to court documents from the State of Michigan Court of Appeals, neighbors complained that the Maxons had expanded the number of vehicles they were storing on the property. Long Lake Township investigated again. The township was unable to determine any zoning violations from the ground, so they hired a drone company multiple times between 2010 and 2018 to surveil the Maxons' property, flying overhead and taking photographs.:american
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But the township never got a warrant for this surveillance, and so the Maxons turned to the courts to suppress the photo evidence as a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. Initially, Michigan's Court of Appeal agreed with the Maxons that Long Lake Township had violated the couple's rights and suppressed the evidence. But then the state's Supreme Court vacated the decision and kicked it back down to the Court of Appeals to determine whether the exclusionary rule (which prevents evidence collected illegally from being used in a trial) actually applied in this case.
That's when the Maxons' argument ran aground, at least for now. The Appeals Court ruled in September that because this was a civil lawsuit, the exclusionary rule did not necessarily apply. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected the use of the exclusionary rule in civil cases. Chief Judge Elizabeth Gleicher wrote in the ruling, "The United States Supreme Court has explained that the purpose of the exclusionary rule is twofold: to deter police misconduct, and to provide a remedy where no other remedy is available. When analyzed under the federal or the Michigan Constitution, suppression of the drone evidence does not serve these goals." And so, the evidence can be used in a civil proceeding.
Note that this ruling doesn't indicate that the Maxons' Fourth Amendment rights weren't violated. Indeed, Gleicher writes that the court is operating on the assumption that the violation occurred. But, remarkably, the court believes that a violation of a constitutional right is not nearly as important as enforcing zoning rules, and so the illegally acquired evidence may be used. "Enforcement of the township's zoning ordinance in this situation may depend on the use of drone evidence. And even assuming some marginal deterrent value impacting township officials, the benefit of suppression of the evidence is vastly outweighed by the public's interest in enforcement of zoning regulations," Gleicher writes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/ynzkig/policing_in_america_a_legally_blind_man_was/I'm glad they didn't let the criminal go with a warning. That just encourages these thugs the next time to get really dangerous when the police try to stop their crimes.
Apparently this just happened. Gonna watch this one for further developments.
https://mobile.twitter.com/reason/status/1592896308037419008
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VERMILLION COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI) - An investigation is underway after an officer accidentally fired a gun and hit a student at South Vermillion High School.
According to police, the shooting happened just after 9:30 Thursday morning.
There was a class teaching students how to be officers. Participants in the classroom were doing a drill about a scenario with a so-called "bad guy.".
A policy proposal heading for Board of Supervisors approval next week would explicitly authorize San Francisco police to kill suspects using robots.
The new policy, which defines how the SFPD is allowed to use its military-style weapons, was put together by the police department. Over the past several weeks, it has been scrutinized by supervisors Aaron Peskin, Rafael Mandelman and Connie Chan, who together comprise the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee.
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Peskin, chair of the committee, initially attempted to limit the SFPD’s authority over the department’s robots by inserting the sentence, “Robots shall not be used as a Use of Force against any person.”
The following week, the police struck out his suggestion with a thick red line.
It was replaced by language that codifies the department’s authority to use lethal force via robots: “Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to SFPD.”
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“The original policy they submitted was actually silent on whether robots could deploy lethal force,” said Peskin. He added that he decided to approve the SFPD’s caveated guidelines because the department had made the case that “there could be scenarios where deployment of lethal force was the only option.”
RICHMOND, Va. — Shelia Jackson wanted her son who has autism to feel comfortable around police officers.
She signed him up for the after-school tennis program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where officers from the Richmond Police Department volunteer through the Richmond Police Athletic League.
But, on Nov. 3, Jackson showed up at the tennis courts to find her son on the ground in handcuffs.
"We ended up going to VCU emergency room. They diagnosed him with a TBI concussion," Jackson said.
Jackson said the staff at the tennis program said her son was getting frustrated on his serves, and they told him to practice off to the side. But she is unclear on what happened next.
Her son said one of the police officers raised her voice at him, and he started to walk away from her.
"He knows to try to self-regulate and walk away from a situation, she may have thought he was being defiant," Jackson said.
After that, Jackson said her son said the officer grabbed him.
"When I got here my son was handcuffed on the ground right behind where that fence is opened," Jackson said. "There was an officer holding his head, there was an officer on his left leg, someone on his right leg, there was an officer on his right side kneeling holding his shoulders down and then there was another officer standing up."
Jackson said Richmond Police told her that her son headbutted an officer while they detained him, and they were worried he was going to run.
But she is still not sure why he was handcuffed, and what exactly happened that caused him to get a concussion.
"That is not how he should be dealt with, not only my son, anyone," Jackson said. "Where is the training? Are you just going to the training and you're not taking it in?"
Jackson said she has spoken to various people with the Richmond Police Department about the incident a number of times, but she still has not gotten answers to her questions.
The police report she paid $5 for does not have an incident description.
A spokesperson for the Richmond Police Department said they are conducting an internal investigation that is ongoing, and they could not provide any more details at this time.
Price was arrested Aug. 19, 2020, and charged with first-degree terroristic threatening, a class D felony, according to the lawsuit. Price, then 50, reportedly walked into the Fort Smith Police Department and began shouting and cursing at officers. He at one point held out an empty hand as if holding a gun and used his index finger to pull an imaginary trigger while verbally threatening them.
Officers reportedly recognized Price from previous visits to the police station, which took place almost every day and were commonly characterized by agitated or irrational behavior on Price's part. He was arrested and taken to the jail after refusing to leave the station when asked to do so. Price's bail was set at $1,000.
Jail medical and security staff were also familiar with Price and his history of mental illness through the multiple times he had been detained at the facility in 2019 and 2020, which was typically for disorderly conduct and trespass-related charges, according to the lawsuit. Price had been detained there from July 7 to Aug. 11, 2020, during which he was prescribed anti-psychotic medication.
"Records from that recent pretrial detention indicate that he was hearing voices, delusional, depressed, disoriented, confused, speaking rapidly, experiencing psychomotor agitation and struggling to understand his surroundings," the lawsuit states. "His mental symptoms were described as 'severe' and likely to have a '[m]arked impact on [his] ability to function satisfactorily in the [jail] setting.'"
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Ferguson went to check on Price on Jan. 28, 2021, after being notified Price was consuming his own feces and urine, according to the lawsuit. She saw he was "noticeably thinner," and although she told staff to monitor his food and fluid intake and output daily, there's no indication she alerted a higher-level provider about Price losing 35 pounds or that jail medical staff did anything in response.
The lawsuit further states staff only maintained a food and fluid log on Price sporadically and incompletely over the next three months, with no such monitoring taking place after April 25.
"In May 2021 a Sebastian County Circuit Court judge ordered Mr. Price to undergo a psychiatric assessment to determine whether he had the capacity to form the culpable mental state required to prove him guilty of the crime with which he was charged and to determine whether he was mentally fit to proceed to trial," the lawsuit states.
"That assessment, however, never occurred. And in the months that followed, Mr. Price continued to languish alone in his cell -- further descending into the throes of his untreated psychosis."
Price was "visibly malnourished and starving to death" by Aug. 1, the lawsuit states. However, despite the fact staff was ordered to check on his well being every 15 minutes or more, no one summoned medical help, alerted a supervisor or documented Price's condition.
Jail staff found Price lying unresponsive in his cell in a pool of standing water and urine on Aug. 29, the lawsuit states.
Price was pronounced dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital Fort Smith, the lawsuit states. Price, who weighed 185 pounds when he was booked into the jail a year earlier, was estimated by hospital personnel to have weighed 90 pounds. A physician diagnosed him with cachexia, a wasting syndrome, while a medical examiner concluded his death was caused by acute dehydration and malnutrition.
Sheriff Hobe Runion said in a video statement Price's 2021 death is only in the news now due to a "lawyer from Seattle, Wash." suing county taxpayers.
"That lawyer made a lot of allegations, and out-of-state reporters have repeated those allegations as if they were all true; they're not," Runion said. "When the state police and prosecuting attorney had already determined no one acted criminally. I'm still looking into this matter because I place a high priority on the safety of everyone in the jail. The people of the county deserve to know what happened."
Runion said Price was a convicted sex offender and had been convicted for violent crimes. Price was awaiting a mental health evaluation at another facility at the time of his death, with Runion noting there is evidence he was "severely mentally ill."
However, Runion said Price's autopsy showed he weighed 120 pounds when he died, as opposed to the 90-pound estimate cited in the lawsuit. This means that, with an original weight of 185 pounds, Price lost around 5 pounds per month while in jail for about a year, according to Runion.
"Let me make one point clear: the jail staff gave this inmate plenty of food and water every day," Runion said. "The jail medical staff were in regular contact with him. The autopsy said the inmate died with covid. All of us want to know more about what other factors may have led to this tragic death."
Dan Shue, county prosecutor, wrote in a letter to Arkansas State Police on Jan. 5, 2022, he believed no criminal charges could be filed in connection with Price's death after reviewing the agency's investigative file into the matter.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1616982717148848130
Rest in Power: America (1789-2023)AMERICA'S BACK BABY:
On Feb. 5, Hartford Police arrested University of Hartford student Tenuun Enkhbat for making allegedly threatening posts on the social media app Yik Yak, including, “We bouta have a shootout,” and, “I got glocks on deck!” Enkhbat was charged with threatening in the first degree. Police did not find any weapons on campus, and Enkhbat told them he made the posts as a joke, imitating how he had heard other students talk.:american :american :american :american
After the arrest, Hartford Police Sgt. Chris Mastroianni made the following statement:QuoteSo the message here is we were able to vet these threats pretty quickly and kinda come to the conclusion that they weren’t imminent. And there was some joking nature involved. However, we’re going to treat them all the same. It’s not going to be tolerated and I think the school would say the same thing is there’s zero tolerance for any language like that.
Mastroianni said it does not matter “whether you think you’re joking around or not; if there’s certain language, certain dialogue, that occurs, we’re going to take it seriously and we’re going to arrest you for that.”