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http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html
Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years.
He’s been searched more than 100 times. And arrested and jailed 56 times.
Despite his long rap sheet, Sampson, 28, has never been convicted of anything more serious than possession of marijuana.
Miami Gardens police have arrested Sampson 62 times for one offense: trespassing.
Almost every citation was issued at the same place: the 207 Quickstop, a convenience store on 207th Street in Miami Gardens.
But Sampson isn’t loitering. He works as a clerk at the Quickstop.
So how can he be trespassing when he works there?
It’s a question the store’s owner, Alex Saleh, 36, has been asking for more than a year as he watched Sampson, his other employees and his customers, day after day, being stopped and frisked by Miami Gardens police. Most of them, like Sampson, are poor and black.
And, like Sampson, many of them have been cited for minor infractions, sometimes as often as three times in the same day.
Saleh was so troubled by what he saw that he decided to install video cameras in his store. Not to protect himself from criminals, because he says he has never been robbed. He installed the cameras — 15 of them — he said, to protect him and his customers from police.
Since he installed the cameras in June 2012 he has collected more than two dozen videos, some of which have been obtained by the Miami Herald. Those tapes, and Sampson’s 38-page criminal history — including charges never even pursued by prosecutors — raise some troubling questions about the conduct of the city’s police officers.
The videos show, among other things, cops stopping citizens, questioning them, aggressively searching them and arresting them for trespassing when they have permission to be on the premises; officers conducting searches of Saleh’s business without search warrants or permission; using what appears to be excessive force on subjects who are clearly not resisting arrest and filing inaccurate police reports in connection with the arrests.
“There is just no justifying this kind of behavior,’’ said Chuck Drago, a former police officer and consultant on police policy and the use of force. “Nobody can justify overstepping the constitution to fight crime.”
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I thought I've heard it all... 
| Quote: | A New Mexico woman claims she suffered for weeks after a Bernalillo County corrections officer strip-searched her and sprayed mace in her vagina.
According to court records, police arrested Tapia for a probation violation tied to a previous drug case. While at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Tapia said two officers strip searched her and asked her to bend over at the waist. That’s when they noticed a plastic baggie protruding from Tapia’s vagina.
Instead of taking Tapia to a doctor to have the baggie removed, she said one of the officers – Blanca Zapater – sprayed a chemical agent directly on her genitals twice.
Simonson said the chemical agent was mace. |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/more-drug-war-sadism-in-n_n_4342948.html#closeOverlay
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| Quote: | Electric car owner arrested for ‘stealing’ 5 cents of power
Not since Arlo Guthrie found himself behind bars in the "Alice's Restaurant Masacree" has an alleged miscreant been locked up over so little: Demonstrating a shocking lack of common sense, police in Georgia recently arrested a man for "stealing" electricity from a school where he plugged his car in for 20 minutes during his son's tennis match.
Value of the allegedly stolen goods: 5 cents, according to one expert, though I'm sure your mileage may vary.
| Quote: | "He said that he was going to charge me with theft by taking because I was taking power, electricity from the school," Kaveh Kamooneh told a Georgia television station. Kamooneh says he had charged his car for 20 minutes, drawing about a nickel's worth of juice. Don Francis of Clean Cities Atlanta, an electric vehicle advocacy group, says the estimate of five cents is accurate.
"I'm not sure how much electricity he stole," said Chamblee police Sergeant Ernesto Ford, but he added: It doesn't matter. "He broke the law. He stole something that wasn't his." |
Call me soft on crime if you like, but I'm thinking that a warning would have sufficed in this case. And, yes, I can imagine all kinds of scenarios where charging your car on someone else's dime might rise to the level of a crime. That's an issue that will need to be addressed as the use of electric cars grows. |
| Quote: | | While the police officer says he could have arrested Kamooneh right then and there, that's not what happened. Instead, the Chamblee police - having apparently eradicated real crime in their community -- actually "investigated" and once they discovered that Kamooneh did not have permission to plug in, went to his home and arrested him. Eleven days after the alleged theft. Made him do the perp walk. And the man spent more than 15 hours in county lockup. Yes, really. |
more here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/electric-car-owner-arrested-%E2%80%98stealing%E2%80%99-5-cents-power
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How Do You Charge an Unarmed Man with Shooting People? Get the NYPD Involved. | Quote: | In September, New York Police officers responded to an emotionally disturbed man causing a ruckus at a Times Square bus terminal by opening fire on him while they were surrounded by crowds and traffic. They missed him and hit two innocent bystanders (one of whom was in a walker). Police said at the time they thought the man, Glenn Broadnax, was reaching for a gun, but he turned out to be unarmed.
Even though Broadnax was not armed, an indictment unsealed Wednesday is charging him with assault for the injuries caused by police gunfire. From the New York Times:
| Quote: | The man, Glenn Broadnax, 35, of Brooklyn, created a disturbance on Sept. 14, wading into traffic at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue and throwing himself into the path of oncoming cars.
A curious crowd grew. Police officers arrived and tried to corral Mr. Broadnax, a 250-pound man. When he reached into his pants pocket, two officers, who, the police said, thought he was pulling a gun, opened fire, missing Mr. Broadnax, but hitting two nearby women. Finally, a police sergeant knocked Mr. Broadnax down with a Taser. …
Initially Mr. Broadnax was arrested on misdemeanor charges of menacing, drug possession and resisting arrest. But the Manhattan district attorney’s office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years. Specifically, the nine-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday said Mr. Broadnax “recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death.”
“The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders,” said an assistant district attorney, Shannon Lucey. |
Broadnax was taken to Bellevue Hospital after they got him down and told police he was hearing voices of dead relatives and was trying to commit suicide. But a psychologist has nevertheless found him competent to stand trial.
One of the women shot by the police is absolutely not having it:
| Quote: | | Mariann Wang, a lawyer representing Sahar Khoshakhlagh, one of the women who was wounded, said the district attorney should be pursuing charges against the two officers who fired their weapons in a crowd, not against Mr. Broadnax. “It’s an incredibly unfortunate use of prosecutorial discretion to be prosecuting a man who didn’t even injure my client,” she said. “It’s the police who injured my client.” |
New York City spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year settling claims against the city (though not all are tied to police behavior). Despite trying to redirect responsibility Broadnax’s way, it should not be a surprise to see six figures or more of city money heading in the direction of Khoshakhlagh and the other woman shot.
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Six figures or more? Uhh, keep that meter going to 7 or 8, and they best settle it fast.
The sad part here isn't even the idiot cops that started shooting. It's now the AG who is actually willing to prosecute on that charge. What nonsense.
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| jt09 wrote: | if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
| Quote: | Don't Appear to Be Clenching Your Buttocks When Pulled Over For Not Coming to a Complete Stop or Be Tortured by Doctors: America, This is Your War on Drugs
Brian Doherty|Nov. 5, 2013 10:57 am
From the "folks, this is just wrong" department of our War on Drugs, reported by KOB-TV 4 in New Mexico. They are reporting on a lawsuit that arose from an:
incident [that] began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According to a federal lawsuit, Eckert didn't make a complete stop at a stop sign coming out of the parking lot and was immediately stopped by law enforcement.
Eckert's attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in an interview with KOB that after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks. Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search.
The lawsuit claims that Deming Police tried taking Eckert to an emergency room in Deming, but a doctor there refused to perform the anal cavity search citing it was "unethical."
But physicians at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City agreed to perform the procedure and a few hours later, Eckert was admitted.
While there...
1. Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
4. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
5. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
6. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.
Throughout this ordeal, Eckert protested and never gave doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center consent to perform any of these medical procedures....
There are major concerns about the way the search warrant was carried out. Kennedy argues that the search warrant was overly broad and lacked probable cause. But beyond that, the warrant was only valid in Luna County, where Deming is located. The Gila Regional Medical Center is in Grant County. That means all of the medical procedures were performed illegally and the doctors who performed the procedures did so with no legal basis and no consent from the patient. ....
The warrant also had expired in time when the "medical procedures" were carried out. Eckert is suing the city of Deming and Deming Police Officers Bobby Orosco, Robert Chavez and Officer Hernandez, as well as three Hidalgo County Deputies and two doctors from the Gila Regional Medical Center.
The petty legalities of time and place of the carrying out of these hideous tortures will, I hope, be sufficient for Eckert to win his suit. But the entire event is an abomination from beginning to end. If only he could just sue for "police being petty officious door knob morons, and doctors violating their professional standards and all human decency by going along." |
http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/05/dont-appear-to-be-clenching-your-buttock |
Man gets $1.6 million settlement.
www.abajournal.com/news/article/man_to_get_1.6m_for_humiliating_3-enema_hospital_colonoscopy_ordeal_after/
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He's gonna get more than that, there is still a suit pending against the doctors/hospital that agreed to do it.
| Quote: | | Eckert's suit also named Gila Regional Medical Center and the doctors who performed the exam as defendants, and that portion of the case is ongoing. |
Yeah, they're gonna pay. My guess is they settle for a similar 7 figure sum.
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If there were ever a case that warranted the maximum punitive damages allowed, this one would have to be it. Assuming the facts to be true, of course.
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| pet575 wrote: | | If there were ever a case that warranted the maximum punitive damages allowed, this one would have to be it. Assuming the facts to be true, of course. |
I get the payout but where are the criminal charges against the doctors and police officers? Kidnapping and rape?
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| Quote: | Two Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers have been pulled off the streets following allegations of excessive force against a deaf man in Oklahoma City.
According to a website set up for Pearl Pearson, the 64-year-old man is recovering from his injuries nearly two weeks after a violent confrontation with two Highway Patrol officers during a traffic stop.
"Pearl pulled over and rolled down his window, expecting an officer to ask for [his] identification," the website states. "An officer struck him in the face before Pearl had the chance to do anything. As you can see, he was struck multiple times."
The website alleges Pearson, who is deaf and diabetic, has a placard on his driver's side door that says, "Driver is deaf." His license also allegedly indicates he is deaf.
"An interpreter was never provided while Pearl was under the care of law enforcement," the website states. "Not during the booking, hospital, or time at the jail was an interpreter provided, even though Pearl requested one."
Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesman George Brown told HuffPost that troopers Eric Foster and Kelton Hayes have been placed on suspension with pay.
"An internal investigation is being conducted," Brown said. "If it is determined there were any violations of department policy, the appropriate action will be taken."
The troopers stopped Pearson because he allegedly fled the scene of a car accident in south Oklahoma City. When they stopped him, he "resisted Trooper Foster and Trooper Hayes ... [and] refused to comply with repeated lawful orders to display his hands," according to a police affidavit.
"A physical altercation ensued for approximately seven minutes," the affidavit states.
The document does not indicate whether the troopers were aware Pearson is hearing impaired.
Pearson was taken into custody at the scene and ultimately charged for resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident.
Pearson's attorney, Billy Coyle, did not return a call for comment from The Huffington Post on Tuesday. In an earlier interview with KFOR News, Coyle denied his client did anything wrong.
"My client is completely innocent of these allegations," Coyle said. "We are waiting on the OHP report and we are sorting through the facts of the case. My client is profoundly deaf and was trying to give officers his specialty license during the stop."
According to Brown, neither Pearson nor Coyle have filed a complaint about the incident with the Highway Patrol.
The organization "Total Source for Hearing-loss and Access" is holding a fundraiser for Pearson in Tulsa, Okla., Thursday. The benefit will try to raise funds for his legal and medical expenses.
Rene Ryan, the executive director for the organization, told HuffPost the agency does not have a position on whether excessive force was used in the case.
"We have not asked for the details of what happened," Ryan said. "We are an advocacy agency and for us, there was a communication issue and a culture issue that was not addressed, and as a result, he sustained injuries ... We're trying to focus on [educating people] so this does not happen again." |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/15/pearl-pearson-police-brutality_n_4603445.html
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| I feel like this thread should be made into a Dateline/60 minutes episode. We have compiled 24 pages of egregious misconduct of law enforcement, clearly showing these incidents are not "isolated" and are finally being exposed via smartphones and other technology. Good job wb.com, this is definitely the most comprehensive "report" of such incidents I've seen anywhere on the internet...
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I think this case was posted earlier although I can't find it.
Injustice sickens me.
http://ktla.com/2014/01/13/verdict-reached-in-trial-of-ex-officers-in-kelly-thomas-death/#axzz2qK433nd0
| Quote: | In a quickly reached verdict, jurors found two former Fullerton police officers accused in the 2011 beating death of a 37-year-old homeless man not guilty on all charges on Monday.
A coroner’s report stated Thomas died of asphyxia due to chest compression and injuries to his head and chest during the struggle on July 5, 2011, at the Fullerton Transportation Center.
The verdict was read back just before 4 p.m. Monday, with Cicinelli and Ramos not guilty on all counts.
Ramos faced the more serious charge of second-degree murder, along with involuntary manslaughter. Cicinelli was charged with involuntary manslaughter and use of excessive force.
At the center of the trial was a 30-minute black-and-white surveillance video – and audio from officers’ recording devices – that showed a routine patrol stop escalate into a brutally violent confrontation.
Ramos responded and was the first to make contact with Thomas. His attorney, John Barnett, argued that Ramos had tried to use verbal threats against Thomas to avoid a physical confrontation and had used his police training correctly.
“See my fists? They’re getting ready to [expletive] you up,” Ramos can be heard saying to Thomas in the recording. Ramos made a show of putting on rubber gloves.
Cicinelli arrived when Ramos and another officer were already struggling with Thomas after swinging their batons at him. Cicinelli joined in the fray, pulling out his Taser to stun Thomas, and then bashing him in the face with the butt of the stun gun.
During the fight, Thomas cried out repeatedly for his father, saying he could not breathe.
“Dad, they are killing me,” were among his last words, the recording shows.
The struggle left a pool of blood on the ground after paramedics responded, taking Thomas to a hospital.
After the verdict was read Monday, Thomas’ father, a former sheriff’s deputy, spoke to news media and reacted angrily.
“What was he doing but begging for his life that he deserved to get beat in the face with a deadly weapon?” Ron Thomas said. “They never said, ‘Kelly, have you had enough?’ He would have certainly said ‘yes’ because he was begging for his life.”
Thomas was removed from life support and died five days after the encounter. Seen with a bloodied and battered face in photos from the hospital, Thomas had never regained consciousness.
A chronically homeless man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Thomas was seen regularly in the area where he was beaten. He had had multiple previous encounters with Ramos that were detailed by attorneys.
There was no evidence of drugs or alcohol in Thomas’ body at the time of his death, a coroner’s report stated. |
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| Posted: Feb 11, 2014 6:10 pm Post subject: Cop shoots/kills service dog-then issues the owner a ticket |
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| Quote: | On Saturday, a police officer in Filer, Idaho responded to a call about two dogs running around without leashes on a suburban street. Thirty-eight seconds after exiting his patrol car, Officer Tarek Hassani determined that one of the animals was too aggressive and fatally shot it in the front yard of its owner's house. A video (NSFW) shows the 7-year-old black labrador convulsing and whimpering before moving out of the dash cam's line of sight.
The dog, named “Hooch,” belonged to Rick Clubb, who says he suffers from Parkinson's disease and that Hooch was his trained service animal. At the time of the shooting, Clubb was apparently inside, hosting his 9-year-old son's birthday party.
Hassani explained to another officer after the altercation ended, “I get out to talk to the people, two dogs come around me, one of them's growling and snarling. I kick it. It comes back around, now it's growling and snarling. I kick it again. Then it lunges at me, I'm like, f*ck you. So, I just shot it.”
Although it is not visible on the video, the audio picks up the sound of the officer's car door opening and within two seconds, the pet begins yelping, presumably, as Hassani acknowledges, because he kicked it.
Hassani gave Clubb a $100 citation for letting the dog run at-large.
Clubb told KTVB, "My dogs, they'd get out, yes, but you don't have to shoot them. There's other ways around it besides shooting them." He speculated about the officer's action, asking the Times-News, “What if [a bullet] had ricocheted through the window?” Clubb acknowledged, “Maybe I deserve a ticket, but I don't deserve a dead dog."
Police Chief Tim Reeves explained to a local Fox affiliate, "My decision was that [Hassani] did a good job and he was totally justified in putting the dog down." |
http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/11/cop-shoots-service-dog-during-birthday-k
dashcam (it's bad - don't watch if you're squeamish) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=41d_1392084950
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Saw this on FB today. Unbelievable...those dogs were barking and being a little protective, but not that aggressive. If the cop was so worried about the dogs, why not get back in the car and call for back up or animal control versus a physical altercation and shooting.
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KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) -
A Leawood couple is seeking $7 million in damages for what they said was a SWAT-style raid intended to find marijuana plants that instead turned up nothing.
The former CIA workers and their two young children on Tuesday sued in federal court in KCK. The lawsuit was filed against the Johnson County commissioners, Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning and various deputies involved in the 2012 raid.
Citing the pending lawsuit, Johnson County officials said they could not comment.
Adlynn and Robert Harte say they and their then 13-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter were mistakenly detained at gunpoint for hours as deputies in SWAT gear turned their Leawood home upside-down.
They said their trash was searched several times in the days leading up to the raid and that deputies made false assumptions and failed to do proper legwork before deciding that the family had a major marijuana-growing operation inside their basement.
"The Hartes - targeted as marijuana growers on the basis of innocent purchases and the brewing of loose tea leaves that they discarded in the trash - were intimidated, accused, traumatized and held under armed guard for 2 1/2 hours despite the fact it was clear on the warrant on its face rested on virtually no grounds," according to the lawsuit.
The family contends if any probable cause did exist that it vanished within three minutes of deputies arriving and finding the family's hydroponic garden contained only "scraggly" tomatoes, squash and melons.
They said two innocent activities occurring at the same time led to the false conclusions. Robert Harte wanted to grow a small indoor garden for a class project with his son, and his wife liked to brew high-end tea with loose leaves.
"It was obvious after the discovery of the vegetable plants that the prolonged and illegal search was aimed simply at uncovering something that would get the deputies off the hook for their improper actions," the lawsuit says. "But the Hartes had never used any type of drugs, and there was nothing to find."
Two drug-sniffing dogs were brought in, the family claims, but neither found anything. Deputies tried to claim then that the 13-year-old boy was using marijuana.
The couple said they left their jobs with the CIA to come to a quieter neighborhood to raise their children. Adlynn Harte is an in-house counsel at a financial services firm while Robert Harte is now a stay-at-home father. The family has lived in their Leawood home since 2004.
After the humiliating experience, they said they had to take the search warrant receipt stating, "No items taken," to show neighbors in an effort to prove that they weren't drug dealers living in the midst of a quiet neighborhood.
The couple previously went to court to force the sheriff's office to turn over documents related to the raid.
The couple said their ordeal began when a Missouri Highway Patrol trooper saw Robert Harte and his two children leave a hydroponic store that caters to organic gardeners with "a small bag of merchandise."
Eight months would lapse in between. The family maintains that in those eight months that deputies failed to conduct any surveillance, interview neighbors, conduct thermal imaging, check electrical records or look at their clean criminal history before conducting the raid.
The family says Denning's desire to get publicity for making raids and arrests caused the sloppy investigative work.
"The raids were not a legitimate law enforcement operation, but rather were part of a publicity binge intended to place the sheriff and the department in a positive light," the lawsuit says.
http://www.kctv5.com/story/23951053/leawood-family-seeks-7-million-for-swat-style
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Got a very casual acquaintance who is a neighbor of these people. Said they are the most furious he's ever seen people over this. The kid got a helluva hard time at school and it hasn't let up. They've considered moving but now they are dug in because they want blood.
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I hope they get blood too, it's a shame that blood will come from taxpayers who are not responsible for this bullsiht. The department heads and the judge that signed off on the warrant need to have some personal accountability in this.
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We saw this on our news the other night. Sad! "On paid administrative leave"? Sickening!
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| Quote: | BASTROP COUNTY, Texas -- A modest house in Bastrop is now missing the person who made it home, Yvette Smith.
"She was strong hearted, you know," said Anthony Bell, speaking of his mother. "Loving and caring, would do anything for her children. She worked three jobs if she had to. If you needed anything, she was willing to give you whatever she had."
Just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday, Bastrop County sheriffs were called to a home on Zimmerman Avenue. The caller said two men, who KVUE News has learned are father and son, were fighting over a gun.
When deputies arrived, one of the men was outside. The other was inside. Smith came to the door and was shot by 28-year-old Deputy Daniel Willis. She was taken to the hospital, where she died.
Initially, investigators said Smith had a gun and didn't follow the deputy's commands. Hours later, they retracted that statement saying they don't know if Smith had a gun.
The home owner and neighbors said she did not.
"This is a big tragedy for everybody, because, I mean, we feel unsafe now. I mean, an officer shot somebody without the person being armed," said neighbor Joe Martinez. "It just hurts, because now you can't trust an officer here." |
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Investigation-continues-into-fatal-shooting-of-Bastrop-woman-245884241.html
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EUHARLEE, Ga. —
The family of a 17-year-old shot and killed by a Euharlee police officer has hired an attorney, and they say he had a remote control in his hand. They say it was not a gun.
Christopher Roupe, 17, was in the ROTC at Woodland High School and wanted to join the Marines. His friends said he looked after them.
“He was a good kid. He always hung out with me and he took up for me,” said William Corson.
Roupe's young life ended Friday night when Euharlee police officers showed up at the door of his home in the Eagle View Mobile Home Park to serve a probation violation warrant for his father.
A female police officer told GBI investigators that Roupe pointed a gun at her when he opened the door.
“It just doesn't add up,” said Cole Law who is representing the Roupe family.
Law said Roupe was about to watch a movie.
“We don't know where that statement came from. The eyewitnesses on the scene clearly state that he had a Wii controller in his hand. He heard a knock at the door. He asked who it was, there was no response so he opened the door and upon opening the door he was immediately shot in the chest,” Law said.
Neighbors said they ran to the home after they heard the shot.
“When we got up there, they said there was a Wii remote in his hand and she shot him,” said Tia Howard, who lives a few doors down.
Neighbor Ken Yates said he saw the female officer moments after the fatal shot.
“This is tragic. She came out of this house. She put her head in her hands and she was sobbing. Supposedly, he opened the door with a BB gun and in my opinion I think he was playing a game with his neighborhood buddies,” said Yates.
The officer is on administrative leave, which is standard procedure after an officer-involved shooting.
The GBI said the autopsy is complete, and they will turn over evidence to Cherokee Judicial Circuit District Attorney Rosemary Greene’s office.
The funeral for Roupe is planned for Friday.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/attorney-teen-was-shot-having-wii-controller-hand/ndSrL/
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A Florida woman spent the night in jail after a Broward County sheriff’s deputy accused her of committing a “felony” by audio recording their conversation during a simple traffic stop. Upon review, all charges against her were dropped — but now the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) is facing a lawsuit.
Brandy Burning, a single mom, was pulled over by BSO Lt. William O’Brien for driving in an HOV lane. After some back-and-forth about her traffic violation, Burning informed the officer that she was recording their conversation.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you I was recording our conversation,” Burning is heard saying in the audio.
“I’m sorry?” O’Brien responds.
“I have to tell you, I forgot to tell you I was recording,” she repeats.
It was at this point that O’Brien accused her of committing a “felony” and demanded the cellphone. He also told her he knows the law better than she does.
“You are committing a felony. Hand me the phone,” O’Brien orders.
“No, I am not,” the defiant woman says in the audio. “I am not giving up my phone.”
As Washington Post opinion blogger Radley Balko correctly notes, “[In] every state in America, you are well within your rights to record an on-duty police officer.”
“There are a few limited exceptions, such as if while recording you physically interfere with an officer trying to perform his duties. But as long as you aren’t in the way, you’re protected by the First Amendment,” he writes.
After allegedly climbing into the car and attempting to take the phone forcefully, O’Brien removed Burning and arrested her. The mom can be heard screaming on the tape, demanding the officer take his hands off of her.
.“Get off of me! You are breaking the law!” she yelled. “I am not getting out of my car. Get off of me!”
Burning was eventually charged with traffic violations and resisting arrest — but no crimes related to the recording. All charges were eventually dropped.
The single mom still spent a night in jail and claims she suffered several bruises and scrapes during the traumatic experience.
“Touching me, trying to take my personal belongings from me, trying to put me in jail for something so small,” she recalled in an interview with WPLG-TV.
Burning’s attorneys have already notified the Broward Sheriff’s Office that they are planning to file a lawsuit on grounds of battery, false arrest and false imprisonment.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/18/single-mom-spends-night-in-jail-after-cop-accuses-her-of-committing-a-felony-during-simple-traffic-stop-except-she-didnt/
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 9:20 am Post subject: |
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Brooklyn Man Sues Cops For Hitting His Car & Falsely Arresting Him
http://gothamist.com/2014/02/21/brooklyn_man_sues_cops_for_hitting.php
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A Brooklyn man claims that two cops hit his parked car, then blamed him for the crash. Robert Jackson, 31, is suing the NYPD after officers Christopher Oliver and Shazad Shigri allegedly sideswiped his parked SUV outside his Brownsville home in April 2013, checked the neighborhood for surveillance cameras, then arrested him: "I thought it was a joke," Jackson told the News. "The cop said, 'Dude, you ran into me.'"
Jackson, who works as a porter, said he was waiting for his girlfriend in the car when the cops drove the wrong way down a one-way street; when a truck came down the block, the cop car backed up, damaging its bumper and hitting the SUV. Then the cops allegedly checked for cameras around the block: "When they thought no cameras were on. I saw their gloves go on, and that's when I was arrested," Jackson told the Post.
Jackson was arrested for destruction of city property, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, though he was ultimately only charged with unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle because he had a suspended license. Oliver wrote in the criminal complaint that he "went to the driver's side door of defendant's vehicle and observed the door open and the keys in the ignition," something which Jackson insists is a lie.
It turned out there was one surveillance camera the cops missed; the News reviewed the video, and said it shows that Jackson "immediately shut the door upon exiting the car and that the cop never went near the driver's side as he claimed." Jackson had to spend a night in a "filthy, overpopulated, rat- and rodent-infested cell."
"I just wanted them to fix the damage and apologize, but it didn't turn out that way," Jackson added. "They were trying to cover it up."
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| Posted: Feb 26, 2014 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Debated on whether to post this back when the story first broke and it looked like a potential "sh!tty cop" video but nobody knew for sure what happened back then.
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Case file describes the moments before police officer fatally shot newlywed firefighter in downtown KC
February 25
By DONNA McGUIRE
The Kansas City Star
As he lay bleeding on a downtown Kansas City street, newlywed Anthony Bruno mouthed “Don’t let me die” to a bystander who had rolled him on his back to check two gunshot wounds.
On the pavement nearby, Police Officer Donald Hubbard felt himself drifting in and out of consciousness. Blood dripped from his broken and battered face. He tried to get up but fell back.
The bystander, who happened to be a critical care nurse in a hospital trauma unit, could not find Bruno’s pulse. She asked Hubbard to apply pressure to Bruno’s wounds while she began chest compressions. Hubbard crawled to her as sirens sounded in the distance, according to documents released Tuesday by police.
Soon an arriving police officer asked what direction the gunman had fled.
Hubbard looked up.
“I shot him,” he said.
Multiple witnesses described elements of that scene to investigators trying to piece together what led to an off-duty Kansas City police officer fatally shooting an off-duty Kansas City firefighter who had been celebrating his November wedding in the early hours of Dec. 1.
Detectives interviewed witnesses, studied two cellphone videos shot by bystanders and obtained surveillance videos from area businesses. They also took photos of a taxicab driver allegedly assaulted by Bruno moments before Hubbard’s attempted arrest of Bruno devolved into a fatal struggle.
As they do in all fatal shootings involving police, Jackson County prosecutors presented the investigators’ report to a Jackson County grand jury. The jurors voted “no true bill” on Feb. 14, ending the case without charges.
That also closed the case and allowed media to request copies of the case file, which included the videos.
The Star is posting one of those videos online, showing the final confrontation between Bruno and Hubbard, because it was key evidence considered by the grand jury. Some profanities from onlookers were edited out, as were scenes after the shooting showing Bruno. Viewer discretion is advised, as the video contains graphic scenes, including intense fighting and sounds of gunshots.
Over and over in the inch-thick case file, witnesses stories largely match one another.
Anthony Bruno, 26, and Stephanie Bruno, 29, were dressed in wedding attire as they celebrated their Nov. 16 nuptials. About 2 a.m. on Dec. 1, they had taken a cab from a restaurant to the Kansas City Marriott Downtown with Anthony’s cousin, who had been drinking heavily at the restaurant and had fallen asleep there.
The Brunos had imbibed as well, but neither was drunk, Stephanie later told police.
They wanted the cabdriver to take Anthony Bruno’s cousin home, but an argument began on how much that would cost — the meter kept running as they discussed it — and whether the cabdriver could leave the cousin on the street instead of taking him home.
Stephanie Bruno told police the cabdriver kept increasing the fare, used a derogatory word toward her and threw money back in her face.
“That’s when my husband got out of the taxi and began hitting the taxicab driver,” Stephanie Bruno told police.
She yelled at her husband to stop, she said. He quit and walked away. She stayed with Anthony’s cousin, as three men were approaching the taxi to protect the driver. The three men nearly started another fight, she said.
“The Marriott security and I both tried to keep that from turning into an altercation. The security guard after that basically told me KCPD had been called and to just stay there. So I stayed there.”
Hubbard, who was working security for the Marriott while wearing his Police Department uniform, saw the group arguing and saw Anthony Bruno leaving the area. He headed east after him.
They met up on Baltimore Avenue, between 12th and 13th streets. Hubbard said he tried to arrest Bruno, who resisted and tried to run.
“Throughout my entire contact with the suspect, I gave him numerous verbal commands to give me his hands and to stop resisting,” Hubbard told detectives later. “In my attempts to place handcuffs on the suspect, he continued to resist and we eventually went to the ground.”
At one point, Hubbard put Bruno in a neck restraint and thought Bruno had given up. But then Bruno began resisting again, trying to stand while holding onto Hubbard.
“That’s when I noticed two people filming nearby,” Hubbard recounted. “I told these individuals that I was by myself and pleaded for them to call for help.”
Bruno told Hubbard he shouldn’t have hit him, Hubbard said.
“He then somehow flipped me over onto my back and the subject began punching me on the left side of my face and head,” Hubbard told detectives. “He was on top of me and I was in an extremely vulnerable position and I was exhausted from the struggle with the suspect.
“I don’t know how many times he struck me, but I started to black out and saw lines across my eyes. He continued to strike me and I started to lose consciousness and I believed the suspect was not going to stop hitting me until he killed me.
“I feared for my life and I drew my weapon, fired two shots center mass.”
A couple walking nearby included the nurse. They didn’t see the start of the confrontation.
“But at the very end, the cop was underneath the civilian and had his head smashed very hard against the cement by the civilian,” the nurse later told detectives. “I did not see any other circumstance than to shoot him. I mean he had to do something because he was gonna get a head bleed from the traumatic brain injury.”
On the cellphone video released by police, the witnesses can be heard yelling at Bruno to stop hitting the officer.
Two gunshots stopped the action. Bullets hit Bruno in the chest, according to the autopsy. One hit the heart, diaphragm and liver.
The nurse, Hubbard and other officers helped with CPR until a Fire Department medic crew arrived. Bruno was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Hubbard was taken to a hospital as well. His injuries included a broken eye socket, a fractured cheekbone, a cut above his left eye that required two stitches and loss of feeling in the left side of his face.
He has returned to work, police said Tuesday. |
The video referred to in the article:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itPY54C_guM
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jt09
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| Posted: Feb 26, 2014 7:11 am Post subject: |
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sounds like a legit use of deadly force.
edit - after watching the video, the actual use seems legit, but holy f*ck did the cop escalate that situation needlessly. wtf man?
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When I was reading the story, I thought, well if he was losing consciousness and thought he was going to be beaten to death then it was justified. Even moreso when the nurse said she thought the same thing.
But I just didn't see that on the video, unless it was edited in a way that doesn't reflect what was in the story.
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jt09
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| Posted: Feb 26, 2014 8:12 am Post subject: |
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i can see the cop feeling like he was going to lose consciousness and thinking he needed to act quickly or it was going to be over (maybe not dead, but still...).
but the thing is - the cop is the one who escalated it w/ the knee to the head. and it's also the move that took him out of control position, which gave the suspect the opportunity to be the aggressor. just f*ing relax for a second and either wait for help or proceed w/ caution. why the need to rush?
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Don't disagree with you there.
This has become a bigger story in KC because there has been bad blood between the KCPD and the KCFD for decades (probably like many metro areas) and it had finally started to fade a bit in the 2000's. The guy who was shot and killed was KCFD and the cop has pretty much had to disappear and relocate out of fear for his life and safety of his home. Pretty messed up stuff.
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| Posted: Feb 26, 2014 9:58 am Post subject: |
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The cop definitely escalated the situation, when he could have just kept the guy under control.
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Another gem:
| Quote: | Texas police defend DUI arrest of black man who blew 0.00 on Breathalyzer
By Travis Gettys
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:05 EST
Police in Texas are standing by their drunken driving arrest of a man whose Breathalyzer and blood tests showed no evidence of intoxication.
Larry Davis was arrested Jan. 13, 2013, by Austin police after he ran a stop sign and, according to arresting officers, appeared to be intoxicated during a field sobriety test.
Davis insisted he’d had only one drink and volunteered to provide a blood sample after testing 0.00 on a Breathalyzer – the lowest recordable blood-alcohol content level – and spent a day in jail, reported the Austin Statesman.
Months later, those results also came back negative, and Davis is now trying to have his arrest record cleared, which could take several more months.
But the arresting officer’s supervisor said he still supports the decision to arrest Davis.
“If there is someone who is possibly impaired, we don’t want them driving,” said Cmdr. David Mahoney, of Austin police. “We need to get them off the road, so that was probably (the officer’s) mindset.”
But legal experts say the case shows that drunken driving can sometimes be “an opinion crime,” requiring law enforcement officers to make quick judgment calls on whether a person is intoxicated.
Prosecutors said judgment errors by police helped cause Travis County to have the highest percentage of DUI case dismissals among major Texas counties, according to a 2011 analysis by the Austin Statesman.
Police argue that they cannot take chances with drunken driving suspects in the interest of public safety, although their aggressive enforcement tactics cause about 30 percent of such cases to be dismissed.
However, even for defendants whose cases are dismissed, fighting a drunken driving charge can be costly.
The Texas Department of Transportation used billboards to warn drivers that a DUI charge could cost $17,000 in legal fees and court costs.
While an independent analysis found that claim difficult to verify, a drunken driving charge can certainly cost thousands of dollars to fight and can impede suspects’ ability to work while their case is pending.
Davis, whose case was dismissed last week, was declared indigent at the time of his arrest, and Travis County picked up his legal fees amounting to several hundred dollars.
“I was arrested for nothing, really,” Davis said. “It was suspicion of drunk driving, which I wasn’t so I was surprised and hurt at the same time.”
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