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Body Cam: Cops Strip Child Nude in Public, Grope His Genitals to Look for Drugs
Baton Rouge, LA — The taxpayers of Baton Rouge were quietly put on notice this week that they will be footing the bill for the acts of several Baton Rouge police officers. After conducting an illegal traffic stop, the officers stripped a man and his teen brother completely nude, while groping their genitals on the side of the road before driving to their home and illegal searching it.
Body camera footage of the officers’ crimes was released as part of a settlement paid out to Clarence Green and his family after their rights were trampled by Baton Rouge’s finest. The measly $35,000 settlement, however, will most assuredly not undo the trauma of being publicly humiliated, sexually assaulted, and imprisoned. Instead, it serves as a testament to the untouchable nature of criminal cops and the violations they can commit with no accountability all in the name of the drug war.
Clarence Green’s nightmare started on January 1, 2020, when officers led by Sgt. Ken Camallo targeted him for harassment. Camallo claimed Green was parked in front of a “known drug house,” so when Green and his family got in their car to leave, Camallo pulled them over for “suspicious driving.”
Kayleen Butler was driving the vehicle, Clarence Green was riding shotgun, and in the backseat were Green’s 16-year-old brother, another unnamed passenger, and a young child. When Camallo illegally stopped the vehicle, he immediately ordered everyone out of the car.
Camallo then claimed to have “smelled marijuana” so Green and his teen brother were both handcuffed. As the infuriating body camera footage shows, the officers then completely expose Green and the teen’s genitals in broad daylight on a public roadway before groping their private parts. It was an unlawful strip search and borderline sexual assault and when questioned about their actions by Green, an officer responded, “we can do this.”
But they could not.
During this unlawful stop and search, police found a gun in Green’s possession, which is entirely legal in the state of Louisiana, except that Green was on probation for possession of drugs, which prohibited him from having a firearm. Police also claimed to find marijuana on Green’s teen brother. It was in his pocket, however, not behind his genitals where they were looking.
After strip searching the two young men on the roadside, the officers took their unlawful detainment to the next level by going to Green’s home. “Sgt. transported GREEN and his co-defendant juvenile brother to their residence (REDACTED) in an attempt to release the juvenile to his mother,” according to the initial incident report, as published by Reason Magazine.
Before releasing the child to his mother, however, cops entered the Green residence with guns drawn and conducted yet another search, again without a warrant. They went room to room, with guns out. Luckily, a hiding child was shot and killed.
After they searched the residence, police attempted to collect a DNA sample from the child without his mother’s consent. While attempting to collect the sample, Green shouts from the back of the police cruiser for his brother to “call a lawyer.”
This enraged one of the officers who then threatened to “f**k up” Green for asserting his rights.
“If you don’t shut the f**k up,” responded Officer Troy Lawrence Jr., “I’m gonna come in and I’m gonna f**k you up…You think I’m playing with you?” he said to reiterate his threat of violence, “I will f**k you up.”
Green would later be arrested and spend the next several months in jail for unlawful possession of a firearm. However, the state would eventually drop the charges with a federal judge who presided over Green’s case, allowing the request.
After dropping the charges, the judge tore into the officers involved, calling their actions an “abject violation” of Green and his brother’s rights.
“The state agents in this case demonstrated a serious and wanton disregard for Defendant’s constitutional rights, first by initiating a traffic stop on the thinnest of pretext, and then by haphazardly invading Defendant’s home (weapons drawn) to conduct an unjustified, warrantless search,” wrote Judge Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. “Such an intrusion, in abject violation of the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which protects citizens against unwarranted governmental intrusions in their homes, may justifiably be considered to be a trespass subject to prosecution under” Louisiana law.
Citing the officer’s conflicting accounts about the circumstances leading up to the traffic stop, Jackson found Camallo’s testimony “troubling at best.” He also pointed out that Camallo’s incident report had been revised multiple times with facts changing on every instance.
Thomas Frampton, who represented the family in their legal action against the city, pointed out that Camallo has a history of such rights violations and lies, yet he’s never been fired or even disciplined.
Not until there was body camera evidence of him stripping a child naked on the roadside and groping his genitals did Camallo get a slap on the wrist in the form of internal discipline. He is still a cop and still on the streets. None of the other officers involved in the stop, including officer Lawrence, who threatened to “f**k up” Green, have faced any discipline at all.
Sadly, this is par for the course in American policing.
“The video is horrifying,” Frampton said. “It shows a form of ritualized humiliation and contempt for civil rights that, based on the lack of response from BRPD and District Attorney Hillar Moore, apparently has official sanction. These aren’t bad apples; these are some of the best officers on the force. It’s a miracle someone didn’t get killed . . . this time.”
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Cop Arrested After He Shot an Unarmed Woman 6 Times In a Fit of Road Rage
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School Cop Gets Unprecedented Life Sentence for Raping the Children He was Supposed to Protect
Bonner Springs, KS — As TFTP has previously reported, schools across the country are increasingly hiring police officers to do the job that teachers and guidance counselors once did. This is resulting in the criminalization of childhood as well as increased police violence against children. And, as the following case out of Kansas illustrates, these positions for school cops are being filled by child predators.
Officer Mark A. Scheetz, 40, with the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools Police Department was arrested in 2019 over horrifying allegations of child rape and other sex crimes against children, according to the Kansas City Star.
This week, he received an unprecedented life sentence after he was found guilty of two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy with a child younger than 14, two counts of rape, sexual exploitation of a child and intimidating a witness. According to his sentence, he is eligible for parole but not until he’s served 50 years.
Scheetz was arrested in 2019 in Bonner Springs on suspicion of rape, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigations.
The KBI noted that the crimes allegedly occurred while Scheetz was living in Norton County between 2013 and 2015 when he allegedly “engaged in sex acts with a minor, sent lewd photos to minors and used electronic devices to solicit sex with minors.”
After the period of the alleged crimes, Scheetz sought out a career in law enforcement and became a deputy with the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office from 2016 to 2018. He then found a job in the school district which put him in direct contact with children.
Sheetz’ sentence is very much welcomed although it is entirely uncommon. As TFTP reports on a regular basis, police officers, even some accused of crimes like Scheetz, rarely get any time significant time behind bars.
What’s more, this problem of predator police officers is to be expected as more schools opt for cops instead of civilian staff. Positions of authority — especially over children — often attract society’s worst as it allows them easy access to carry out their sick desires. Sadly, it seems, this problem is not getting any better.
According to the Department of Education, the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a survey of all public schools and school districts in the United States. The CRDC measures student access to courses, programs, instructional and other staff, and resources — as well as school climate factors, such as student discipline and bullying and harassment — that impact education equity and opportunity for students.
The trove of data highlights a frightening state of affairs in which public schools now find themselves.
One of the trends shown in the data is the removal of guidance counselors. According to a report in the Washington Post, high school counselors often have tough jobs. They keep track of their students’ progress toward graduation. They help students apply to college and navigate the financial aid process. They also help kids navigate their lives outside of school, which can be made complex by poverty, violence and family trouble. And because counselors often are one of the first positions to be cut when budgets get tight, there are almost never enough to go around. The national average is close to 500 students per school counselor; many students have no counselor at all.
While the data shows that students have declining access to a kind and caring role model to guide them through their high school careers, the number of students who have access to a police officer is growing.
A whopping 1.6 million (k – 12th grade) students attended a school that employs a law enforcement officer — but has no counselor.
According to the CRDC report, which counted cops in schools for the very first time in 2014, 24 percent of elementary schools and 42 percent of high schools have armed police officers. In schools with higher concentrations of minorities that number skyrockets.
It seems that schools in America are starting to more closely resemble prisons than learning facilities. Think about it — children are locked in behind steel doors all day long as armed agents of the state patrol the grounds. A few minutes out of the day, the students are given a little yard time — and again, they are kept under the watch of armed state agents.
Video after video shows the horrific nature of such a practice as children are seen being maced, beaten, and tasered for normal childhood behaviors. And as Scheetz’ crimes show, they are also being sexually abused.
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D.A.R.E. Cop Arrested on 122 Charges for Raping Boys While Telling Them Not to Do Drugs
Doylestown, PA — The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program should better be called an hilarious exercise in how not to convince kids to keep away from substances the state deems illegal. As cops hopped on their high horses and had children pledge not to do drugs, the rate of drug use skyrocketed — thrusting the country into one of the worst drug epidemics in human history. The hypocrisy by the cops who pushed the D.A.R.E. program has been well-documented over the years, explaining, at least in part, as to why the program was such a failure from the start. Now, another cop who pushed kids to ‘just say no’ has been arrested and accused of disturbing criminal activity. Warminster Township Police Officer James Carey swore an oath to protect the children of Doylestown and instead of protecting them, according to a recent indictment, this cop preyed on them. Adding to the insidious nature of Carey’s alleged crimes against children is the fact that he committed them while pretending to be a role model as the school district’s D.A.R.E. officer.
Carey, 52, is facing over 100 charges, announced by Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub on Wednesday. A grand jury presented a whopping 80-page indictment against Carey detailing 122 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault and other related charges.
Carey is accused of raping multiple boys while working as the D.A.R.E. officer at elementary, middle and high schools in the Centennial School District. The incidents allegedly spanned the course of decades taking place between 1987 and 2009 and involved at least four boys.
“A police officer’s creed is to protect and serve his community,” Weintraub said. “In a perverse and criminal dereliction of his duty, James Carey instead took advantage of his power and credibility while on the job as a police officer to sexually abuse our community’s most vulnerable: our children.”
According to the indictment, Carey met his victims at school and would lure them to places outside of campus to prey on them, including on overnight camping trips to the Poconos and to Camp Ockanickon, a Boy Scout facility in Medford, Burlington County, according to the district attorney.
According to the indictment, rumors of the abuse began surfacing long before the investigation as Carey had a reputation of inappropriate behavior around male children which included inviting them to his house to get in his hot tub.
The investigation began to gain steam after a now-adult victim came forward in May and that he had been molested by Carey at a rec center in the township, according to the affidavit of probable cause for Carey’s arrest.
According to the the affidavit, Carey would use his D.A.R.E. police officer status to prey on kids caught with drugs, giving them the ultimatum of sexually pleasuring him or go to jail.
The victim explained he met Carey in the D.A.R.E. program. One day, according to the victim, Carey followed him into the bathroom at school and told the victim he needed to search him after claiming to find a bag of marijuana. During the invasive search, Carey sexually assaulted the boy, forcing him to perform a sex act.The other victims told similar stories of this predator cop who pretended to befriend them in order to force them to perform sex acts.
“The grooming tactics he used were pervasive, manipulative, and calculated such that he not only lowered the minor’s guard but also attempted to provide an assurance that his crimes would go unreported and if reported, not believed,” prosecutors wrote in court documents.
Carey was booked into jail on Wednesday and almost immediately posted a $100,000 bond. This low bail was despite the judge saying she believed Carey was a danger to the community and that he should be locked up.
“I can’t answer for what’s in a judge’s mind. I wish I could, but I can’t,” Weintraub said.
Carey’s attorney, Michael Applebaum, said Carey “completely denies the allegations and looks forward to defending himself in court.”Prosecutors are not buying it, however.
“He was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, preying on those who trusted him,” Weintraub said.
In a sick twist, prosecutors say Carey had a co-molester — a man identified as Charles Goodenough. The DA was forced to drop the case against Goodenough because after receiving a grand jury subpoena, Goodenough killed himself.
“We identified Goodenough’s victims who were linked to him through the Boy Scouts,” Weintraub said.
After listening to the testimonies of the four victims, prosecutors believe there are likely other victims who are just scared to come forward after falling for Carey’s devious tactics. They are urging the other potential victims to come forward and help put this monster away for a long time.
“If you or someone you know was molested by this man, please come forward,” Weintraub said. “We will help you get justice. We can help you heal.”
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D.A.R.E. Cop Indicted for Busting 5 Young Boys for Weed, Raping Them Afterward
Doylestown, PA — The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program should better be called an hilarious exercise in how not to convince kids to keep away from substances the state deems illegal. As cops hopped on their high horses and had children pledge not to do drugs, the rate of drug use skyrocketed — thrusting the country into one of the worst drug epidemics in human history. The hypocrisy by the cops who pushed the D.A.R.E. program has been well-documented over the years, explaining, at least in part, as to why the program was such a failure from the start. Now, another cop who pushed kids to ‘just say no’ has been arrested and accused of disturbing criminal activity.
Warminster Township Police Officer James Carey swore an oath to protect the children of Doylestown and instead of protecting them, according to a recent indictment, this cop preyed on them. Adding to the insidious nature of Carey’s alleged crimes against children is the fact that he committed them while pretending to be a role model as the school district’s D.A.R.E. officer.
As we reported in April, Carey, 52, is facing over 100 charges. A grand jury presented a whopping 80-page indictment against Carey detailing 122 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault and other related charges.
As we reported at the time, police believed there may have been other victims and there were. After yet another victim came forward, Carey has been indicted on a slew of new charges.
Carey was accused of raping multiple boys while working as the D.A.R.E. officer at elementary, middle and high schools in the Centennial School District. The incidents allegedly spanned the course of decades taking place between 1987 and 2009 and involved at least five boys, maybe more.
“Carey ingratiated himself into the lives of minor children, in particular, those who were already facing challenges in their lives,” the Bucks County District Attorney said in a statement, according to NJ.com. “He used his position and authority to groom, not only the children, but their adult caregivers. The grooming tactics he used were pervasive, manipulative and calculated such that he not only lowered the minor’s guard but also attempted to provide an assurance that his crimes would go unreported and if reported, not believed.”
According to the indictment, Carey met his victims at school and would lure them to places outside of campus to prey on them, including on overnight camping trips to the Poconos and to Camp Ockanickon, a Boy Scout facility in Medford, Burlington County, according to the district attorney.
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"In the case of the fifth boy, Carey offered the teen a ride home days after catching him smoking marijuana outside a recreation center, authorities said. Carey then sexually assaulted the boy in the driveway of the teenager’s home, according to investigators."
According to the indictment, rumors of the abuse began surfacing long before the investigation as Carey had a reputation of inappropriate behavior around male children which included inviting them to his house to get in his hot tub.
The investigation began to gain steam after a now-adult victim came forward in May of 2020 and claimed that he had been molested by Carey at a rec center in the township, according to the affidavit of probable cause for Carey’s arrest.
According to the the affidavit, Carey would use his D.A.R.E. police officer status to prey on kids caught with drugs, giving them the ultimatum of sexually pleasuring him or going to jail.
One victim explained he met Carey in the D.A.R.E. program. One day, according to the victim, Carey followed him into the bathroom at school and told the victim he needed to search him after claiming to find a bag of marijuana. During the invasive search, Carey sexually assaulted the boy, forcing him to perform a sex act.
The other victims told similar stories of this predator cop who pretended to befriend them in order to force them to perform sex acts.
Carey was arraigned on Tuesday and is currently being held at Bucks County Jail on a $250,000 bond.
In a sick twist, prosecutors say Carey had a co-molester — a man identified as Charles Goodenough. The DA was forced to drop the case against Goodenough because after receiving a grand jury subpoena, Goodenough killed himself.
“We identified Goodenough’s victims who were linked to him through the Boy Scouts,” Weintraub said.
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Cop Found Guilty of Driving Cruiser On To Sidewalk, Killing 4yo Girl—NOT Fired
Columbia, MO — A tragedy unfolded in 2019 in front of a school in which a Columbia police officer, Andria L. Heese, 29, clearly distracted, drove her police SUV up onto a sidewalk and killed 4-year-old Gabriella Curry. It took over a year for Heese to be indicted and another year for her to be found guilty.
Last year, Heese was charged with involuntary manslaughter after striking and killing a 4-year-old child with her cruiser on a school sidewalk. The indictment claimed she acted recklessly by driving into a pedestrian area at a speed and angle that prevented her from seeing the child.
On Tuesday, Heese pleaded guilty to a lesser charge as part of a plea deal. Heese pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of careless and imprudent driving, a misdemeanor which will likely keep her out of jail and allow her to keep her police officer’s license.
She remains employed with the Columbia police department.
The state will ask for a sentence of 180 days in jail and two years’ probation, Heese’s attorney Donald Weaver told KOMU. However, they will likely not get it.
Prosecutors would not object to Heese being released from probation after one year if all terms and conditions are met, her lawyer told KOMU. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Jul. 9 and remains free.
Highlighting the blue privilege in this matter is the fact that according to the Columbia Tribune, after she ran over Gabriella, before investigators could speak with her, officer Heese was transported from the scene by her fellow officers, provided a police union attorney and taken to headquarters where she refused to answer questions about the child’s death.
The tragedy unfolded on Jan 4th, 2019, as Heese arrived at Battle High School to observe students departing school in an apparent attempt to “protect them.” As she arrived at the school, she drove her police SUV onto the sidewalk where little Gabriella was walking.
″…the defendant recklessly caused the death of G.C. by running over G.C. with a vehicle after entering an area typically used by pedestrians at a speed and coming from an angle which prevented her from seeing G.C.,” Camden County Prosecuting Attorney Heather Miller wrote in the original complaint.
“I think that’s what hurts too, because she explained one day to all my kids that if they need help to call them and they will be there,” Gabrielle’s mother, Cheyenne Hayes said after Heese was charged last year. “My kids don’t see that now. How do you explain to children that have been through this that they (police) still aren’t bad people, but make mistakes?”
As we reported at the time, Heese was driving in a roundabout near the parking lot at Battle High School in Columbia when her car “exited the left side of the roadway,” the crash report states.
The SUV then struck Gabriella and she would not survive the trauma.
Columbia city spokesman Steve Sapp said that emergency workers responded and rushed Gabriella to the hospital but she was too badly injured and did not survive.
Had a civilian driven their vehicle onto the sidewalk in a school zone and struck and killed a child, rest assured that they would’ve likely been arrested on the spot. Instead, Heese was placed on paid administrative leave for a year. What’s more, after this tragedy, the local media took to praising this officer, reporting on a four-year-old video in which she “shows passion for her career.”
No one here is claiming that she doesn’t feel horrible for what she’s done. But it is an undeniable fact that because of her actions and negligence, an innocent child is dead.
Heese may not deserve to be lambasted by the media, however, she most assuredly should not have received praise. But this is exactly what happened in the story mentioned above and it illustrates a serious problem.
Two years ago, we predicted that Heese would not face any jail time for killing Gabriella. It appears that we were most likely correct. “Gabriella was a bubble of sunshine loved everyone and gave the greatest high fives or biggest hugs when u saw her at work,” bus monitor Tammy Crabtree posted to Facebook.
“Gabbie will be missed fly high angel girl and watch over your mom and dad and brother and sisters and rest of the family…”
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Chesapeake Police Lt. Sean Maddox Arrested for Rape and Sodomy
Chesapeake Police Lt. Sean Maddox was arrested yesterday on one count of rape, two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of abduction with intent to defile, two counts of stalking, and two counts of threatening bodily harm. Detectives are not releasing specifics beyond the fact that they first received a complaint that Maddox was involved in criminal activity earlier this year and began an investigation. The investigation resulted in probable cause to arrest Maddox for conduct that took place on April 27th, May 3rd, May 11th, and May 12th. Police have not said which acts took place which days, but did say that the threat charges were for threatening the victim of the abduction, rape, and sodomy.
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Cop Not Fired or Charged After Leaving K-9 Partner in Hot Car Until It Died
Monroe County, GA — In the ostensible land of the free, there are two sets of justice systems: one for all those within and connected to the system, and one for everyone else. A perfect example of this two tiered system is the fact that people are jailed all the time for leaving their dogs in hot cars. But when Monroe County Sheriff’s deputy Willie Barkley left his K-9 partner in his hot patrol car all day until it died, he was not charged, jailed or even fired.
Not only was Barkley not fired but Sheriff Brad Freeman has taken to the media recently to defend his deputy, telling everyone that it was an accident.
According to Freeman, Barkley got home that morning after working the night shift and wrapped up reports in his cruiser in the driveway. When he got out to go inside his home, he left his K-9 Khan in the car.
“He thought he had gotten his dog out and put him in the pin. Obviously, he did not,” Freeman said, according to WMAZ..
As Barkley slept inside his air conditioned home all day, his K-9 sat in a car as the temperature shot up.
“I believe the high temperature that day was 79 to 80 degrees, somewhere in that neighborhood, which is fine for us when you’re just outside but when you put either a human or animal in a car with the windows rolled up. Temperatures go up 20 to 30 degrees. No one can stand that kind of heat inside a car— a human, let alone an animal,” Freeman said.
As he had no way of getting out and no one heard him barking, Khan succumbed to the heat and died. When Barkley walked out to his patrol car later that evening, he found his K-9 dead in the back seat.
As TFTP has reported, police K-9 patrol vehicles are equipped with fail safe systems which alert the handler to a hot car and even set off an alarm. However, that fail safe didn’t happen.
“When the temperature gets above a certain degree that the system will go off and alert the handler through the horn and maybe the siren that something is amiss in the car,” Freeman said.
The reason the fail safe didn’t happen is due to the fact that Barkley had unplugged the device since he was going to be off for the next three days.
“You can spend all the money in the world on technology but there’s still a human factor,” Freeman said, once again going to bat for the officer who killed his K-9 partner.
After Khan died, police launched an internal investigation and determined that it was an ‘accident’ so Barkley was not charged. Instead, he was given a few days of unpaid vacation.
“I felt like it was an avoidable accident. Therefore, the deputy was disciplined,” Freeman said.
But was a few days of unpaid leave really “discipline”? When we look at civilians who have had similar “accidents” the idea of suspension exposes the glaring blue privilege given to cops.
Last July, police arrested 46-year-old Andrew Rodrigues for leaving his dog in a hot car. Unlike Barkley and Khan, Rodrigues’ dog was only in the car for 20 minutes and did not die — yet Rodrigues was still arrested and brought to jail.
In September, 18-year-old Anna Perez was arrested and booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail on one count of aggravated animal cruelty. Her dog did not die and was only in the car for 20 minutes.
Crystal Marie Houk left her dog in her car with the air conditioner running when she went inside Walmart. The air conditioner was confirmed to be in the on position by police but had legitimately stopped working, leading to the death of her beloved pit bull. Despite the fact that the air conditioner was confirmed to have malfunctioned, Houk was charged with one count of animal cruelty, a third-degree felony, and arrested as she screamed hysterically in the parking lot after seeing her dead dog.
This special treatment for cops is not uncommon. As we reported last year, Ozzy, a drug-detection dog with the Long Beach Police Department, was found dead in the K-9 vehicle by his handler officer Chris Thue. Thue and Ozzy were off duty at the time which makes the fact that the dog was in the car, entirely suspect.
After the dog died, veterinarians confirmed that Ozzy indeed died from heat exposure. But instead of facing arrest and felony charges — like all other regular citizens would have faced — Thue, like Barkley, faced nothing.
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A Pennsylvania Police Chief Resigns After Pleading Guilty to Threatening a Facebook Critic With a False Arrest
Perhaps the ignominious end to Brian Buglio's career will alert thin-skinned cops to the perils of trying to punish people for constitutionally protected speech.
JACOB SULLUM | 6.2.2021 1:35 PM
A Pennsylvania police chief has resigned after admitting that he threatened to arrest a critic on trumped-up charges. West Hazleton Police Chief Brian Buglio, who had worked for the town's police department since 1996, pleaded guilty to violating the critic's First Amendment rights under color of law, a federal crime punishable by up to a year of imprisonment and a maximum fine of $100,000.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which charged Buglio last Friday, did not name his victim. But WNEP, the ABC station in Scranton, identified him as East Stroudsburg resident Paul DeLorenzo, who said his beef with Buglio began with Facebook posts last February. One post criticized Buglio for taking too long to make an arrest in a case involving DeLorenzo. Another post, WNEP says, "accused the chief of committing a violent crime."
That's when DeLorenzo heard from Buglio. "He called me, left me a voicemail, and said that he was going to arrest me for a crime that was being investigated for something I've never even done or had any part of," DeLorenzo told WNEP. In March, Buglio summoned him to the police station, where DeLorenzo agreed to take down his posts under threat of arrest. "I said to Brian, 'Why are you doing this?'" DeLorenzo recalled. "He goes, 'Well, you like to post fake things and fake stories about me, so I could make up a fake arrest and put you in jail.'"
DeLorenzo reported the incident to the FBI office in Scranton, which conducted an investigation that led to the federal charge against Buglio. Federal prosecutors said Buglio admitted he knew there was no legal basis to arrest DeLorenzo. He agreed to plead guilty within a few days of being charged.
Buglio is hardly the first thin-skinned cop to treat irksome speech as a crime. As C.J. Ciaramella noted in April, Dickson, Tennessee, cops charged Joshua Grafton with "harassment" last January because he posted a picture on Facebook that "appeared to show two men urinating on the tombstone of Sgt. Daniel Baker, who was shot and killed on duty in 2018." In March, Ciaramella cited a couple of other recent examples:
"In 2019, an Iowa man won a lawsuit after he was charged with third-degree harassment for posting on Facebook that a sheriff's deputy was a "stupid sum bitch" and "butthurt." Just last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit denied qualified immunity to a Minnesota police officer who pulled over and arrested a man for flipping her off."
Going further back, Liberty, New York, police arrested Willian Barboza in 2012 for scrawling "FU¢K YOUR SHITTY TOWN BITCHES" on a speeding ticket when he paid the fine by mail. For good measure, Barboza crossed out Liberty in the phrase "Liberty Town Court" and replaced it with Tyranny. As if to prove his point, local cops charged him with "aggravated harassment in the second degree"—a charge that was ultimately dismissed by a municipal judge who concluded that Barboza's commentary was protected by the First Amendment.
In 2011, police in Renton, Washington, used a trumped-up "cyberstalking" investigation to uncover the identity of "Mr. Fuddlesticks," the creator of nine online cartoons that mocked the police department and alluded to various internal affairs investigations. They later changed their allegation to "harassment."
I could go on, but you get the idea. Perhaps the ignominious end to Buglio's policing career will help alert vindictive cops to the fact that inventing fake crimes in retaliation for constitutionally protected speech is an actual crime under federal law.
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Chief Jailed for Hate Crime for Beating Cuffed Teen, Using N-word After Good Cop Recorded Him
Bordentown Township, NJ — Corruption within the American law enforcement system is rife. Here at TFTP, we watch case after case of ‘good’ cops attempting to hold their own accountable, only to be punished by the blue wall.
This blue code of protecting officers, no matter their crimes, is what’s driving a wedge between the police and the policed.
To affect positive change, the good cops must come forward and shine light on the darkness within their ranks. They must not be afraid to do so either. The Free Thought Project frequently seeks out these brave men and women, who are willing to do what’s right regardless of the repercussions.
One of these good cops who risked persecution and his career to expose his insanely racist and tyrannical police chief is Nathan Roohr, a patrol sergeant.
Thanks to Roohr’s bravery, Bordentown Township Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr. has been exposed for his history of brutal and racist policing. And, after fighting for years to hold him accountable, Nucera has been sentenced to prison for 28 months.
According to the Department of Justice:
"The retired chief of the Bordentown Township Police Department was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for lying to FBI agents who were questioning him about violating an 18-year-old man’s civil rights during an arrest, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
Frank M. Nucera Jr., 64, of Bordentown, New Jersey, was convicted in October 2019 of one count of making false statements to FBI agents who were interviewing him about an arrest that occurred on Sept. 1. 2016. Nucera is also charged by indictment with one count of hate crime assault and one count of deprivation of civil rights under color of law; a mistrial was declared on those counts, and he is awaiting retrial."
As NJ.com reported at the time, federal prosecutors said Nucera can be heard in recordings using the N-word to describe African Americans, and at one point saying they were “like ISIS, they have no value. They should line them all up and mow ’em down.”
Roohr helped to release the recordings which became part of the larger investigation into the former chief for the beating of the teen — for allegedly staying in a hotel room after checkout.
The beating of the teen was a “clear senseless, bigoted, hate-filled,” assault of a prisoner in custody, U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said at a press conference.
According to the criminal complaint, Nucera grabbed the 18-year-old’s head and slammed it into a metal doorjamb. When the teen complained, Nucera hit him in the back of the head with his arm.
During the arrest, Nucera was apparently heard using racist slurs. This history of racist policing is what prompted Roohr to begin recording his chief.
Roohr then caught the chief claiming that he would have no problem executing black people after a black male was caught slashing the tires of a police vehicle.
“I wish that (n-word) would come back from Trenton and give me a reason to put my hands on him, I’m tired of ’em. These (n-word) are like ISIS, they have no value. They should line them all up and mow ’em down. I’d like to be on the firing squad, I could do it,” Nucera said, according to the complaint.
Nucera actually put some of this racist policy into place. According to the complaint, he ordered officers to bring police dogs to certain high school basketball games and to position vehicles near the gymnasium entrance to intimidate entirely innocent black fans—a move reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
For years, Nucera’s racist policies were carried out and were well known. According to the complaint, “Nucera has a significant history of making racist comments concerning African Americans.” However, most of the officers apparently had no problem with it. Not until Roohr crossed the thin blue line and became a good cop did anything happen.
However, as is common among police officers who are charged with crimes, when the investigation came to a head in 2017, Nucera was allowed to quietly retire and currently receives his pension of $105,992.76 — $8,832.73 per month — according to public records.
It took another four years for this cop to finally be put behind bars where he belongs.
Roohr has done his part to mend the gap between the police and the policed, now it is up to other good cops to keep it going.
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Take It From A Lawyer Who Sues Cops: Killing Qualified Immunity Isn’t Enough
BY DAN CANON
In an all-but-forgotten story from 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — widely considered the most liberal federal court in America— let cops off the hook for stealing $225,000 from two business owners. This wasn’t a criminal case, of course. The idea that cops would face prosecution for stealing cash is practically unheard of. Rather, the court absolved them of all civil liability, meaning they didn’t have to pay the money back. The case was dismissed, never to be heard by a jury, and the officers never faced any meaningful consequences.
Qualified immunity, a judge-made hobgoblin long despised by civil rights lawyers, basically means that cops can get away with bad behavior if the law wasn’t “clearly established.” In other words, even if everyone knows an officer’s conduct is wrong, even if my 4-year-old knows not to do it, even if it violates all the established mores in the history of human society, the case is still a loser if there’s not an earlier court opinion saying “this specific thing is wrong.” There is, as it turns out, no case that says “it violates the Constitution for cops to steal your money.” And so, in Jessop v. City of Fresno, the Ninth Circuit reasoned that “although the City Officers ought to have recognized that the alleged theft was morally wrong, they did not have clear notice that it violated the Fourth Amendment.”
Cases like Jessop have earned qualified immunity some overdue public ire as of late. But while some politicians are finally paying attention, our hopelessly inert Congress is unlikely to do away with the doctrine anytime soon. And if judges like Clarence Thomas get their way (which they will, wait and see), the law is bound to get even worse. In a case called Hope v. Pelzer, a prisoner sued after he was tied to a hitching post and left to blister in the Alabama sun for seven hours with no bathroom breaks. Justice Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion in which he said he would grant qualified immunity to the guards because, while cases said it was wrong to tie a prisoner to a fence for hours, there was no case on hitching posts.
You can see how this doctrine can be contorted in favor of the government, even under the most absurd facts. Is there a case that says eating human flesh is wrong? If yes, is there a case about eating men as opposed to women? If yes, what about eating white men? No? Welp, looks like the law isn’t “clearly established,” so an officer can’t be sued for devouring a WASPish arrestee. Worse, a court doesn’t have to say whether the practice is unconstitutional to flush a civil rights case — it can just say the law is unclear without making any effort to clarify it, thus ensuring its unclarity for all time. How will we ever know stealing, torturing prisoners or cannibalism is wrong if the courts won’t say so?
But there’s another problem that goes deeper than the clearly-established prong; one that speaks ill of the judiciary overall, and of our entire system of laws. Judges don’t believe that bad behavior is unconstitutional. There are endless rows of rotten teeth which may be pulled from the mouth of federal caselaw, but a small sampling of my own cases illustrates the point.
Roger King was killed while sleeping on his couch by a Kentucky State Trooper named Eric Taylor. Taylor was tasked with serving a court summons on King. Taylor, not knowing he was being recorded, all but told a dispatcher that he was on his way to kill King who had been known to get into scrapes with police in the past. When Taylor got to King’s house, he went around to the back door. The story told by police was that King, who was lying on his couch, sat up and pointed a revolver at Taylor. One blast of a semiautomatic rifle went through the sliding glass patio door, into King’s face and pierced his medulla oblongata, which would have immediately robbed him of consciousness. Despite the hole in his head, King managed to lie back down, cover himself with a blanket, and lay his pistol neatly on his chest before dying. At least that’s how the body was found. Taylor didn’t get prosecuted, fired or disciplined in any way. He got a “Citation for Bravery” and a promotion.
By the time the King case got to court, the only living witnesses were the cops who participated in the killing. Their stories contradicted each other about basic details of King’s death and contradicted their own expert’s medical opinion. It didn’t matter. The case was tossed out because, in the trial judge’s view, since the cops said Taylor pointed a gun at them, there was no constitutional violation at all. And if there’s no constitutional violation, there’s no case. The “clearly established” analysis didn’t matter.
Another of my clients was locked up for over a year on a cold-case murder he had nothing to do with. He was friends with the main suspect, and police were convinced he would ultimately “flip”; that is, provide evidence against his friend. But he had no such evidence. He also had no money to post bond, so there he sat for a year awaiting a murder trial. At trial, not a single witness identified him. In his closing statement, the prosecutor argued that there was enough evidence to convict his co-defendant, but told the jury “please do not” convict my client, who was then in his early 20s. Even the prosecutor didn’t think he was guilty. He spent that time in jail because police wanted him there; that’s all. That wasn’t enough to establish a constitutional violation, though. Again, it didn’t matter whether the law was “clearly established” or not.
Qualified immunity should, of course, be done away with. But there are lots of tools in the judicial toolkit. If a judge wants cops to win, the cops will win. The current focus on abolishing qualified immunity is, in many ways, a distraction from the basic problems of our justice system. It’s another species of America’s favorite genus of argument: i.e., that resolving the symptoms is the same as the finding a cure. Just as training alone won’t fix cop culture, and voter turnout alone won’t fix the electoral system, the abolition of qualified immunity alone — assuming it ever happens — would be a shallow victory. The real change has to happen where the rot starts: on the federal bench, and deeper still.
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This pigpen is a mess! Start off with a sex scandal involving pigs and a new recruit. Throw in the chief and some "mishandled" documents. Add in a sergeant who claims innocence because he was never properly trained about sexual harassment, but he completed a sexual harassment prevention for employees training in 2018. WTH?
"Not gonna lie, damn sexy" and "Looking good from back here" were just two of the text messages the sergeant, Robert Rosales, sent to multiple female employees. I don't believe any sort of special "training" is required to know that those messages are inappropriate in the workplace.
Last week the chief, Richard L. Lewis, was given a paid vacation, AKA paid administrative leave, for falsifying documents to protect the sergeant and a detective, Robert Weaver, who were having sex with a recruit. For lying about the "off-duty relations" with the two pigs the recruit was fired six months ago and just last month Rosales was fired. Is Weaver next?
SPRINGFIELD POLICE SERGEANT FIRED AMID SEX MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONS
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Springfield police chief put on leave amid complaints that he falsified state record on recruit’s firing
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How can these pigs be this ignorant of the actual laws that they swore to uphold and protect? This ignorant pig lies and copsplains and proves that he has no clue of the "law" he's trying to enforce. Another tyrant pig earning the hate.
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Another pig who batters a man because he doesn't like to be filmed in the course of his duties even though it's both legal and constitutionally protected. The other blue line gang members present for the battery play dumb as if nothing happened and further attempt to intimidate the man filming. The battered man attempted to file a police report for the crime, but was denied by the corrupt blue line gang. Once again no accountability from the jackboots wearing costumes and badges. Traitor pigs.
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Another blue line liar who doesn't know the law or his own department's policies.
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"It's a felony to tape us," said the costumed and badged oath breaker.
Was this pig just lying or is he really this ignorant or the law?
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"Believe me. I know what I'm doing," said the ignorant pig after he and his porkchop sidekick illegally detain a woman. Obviously these tyrants are either ignorant of the laws they swore an oath to uphold or they are just your typical oath breakers out violating peoples' rights...maybe both. Pigs.
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Highland Park Police Detective Charged with Conspiring to Distribute Fentanyl-laced Heroin
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Former Scranton police officer federally charged with bribery violation
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU-TV) — Former Scranton police officer Thomas Mcdonald has been federally charged with a bribery violation, the United State Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced Monday.
Attorney Bruce D. Brandler said, while working as a police officer for the Scranton Police Department in April 2018, McDonald allegedly solicited sex and sexual favors in return for official action from the Scranton Police Department and the City of Scranton.
Court papers say McDonald forced several informants into performing sexual acts, or he would threaten them with the prospect of being jailed.
“I am as appalled and disappointed by this tragedy today as I was the day I first learned that a former member of our force grossly abused his authority, committing vile, repulsive acts,” said Scranton’s Police Chief, Superintendent Leonard Namiotka.
Another Scranton police officer is named in the lawsuit for failing to investigate complaints against McDonald, not notifying superior officers and allowing McDonald to have continued access to female informants.
Scranton police launched an internal investigation into McDonald after they received a complaint about alleged misconduct on the part of McDonald. McDonald was terminated from his position as a Scranton police officer in June 2020.
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Officer Frank Castro-Ramirez Arrested for Raping Stepdaughter
Clifton Police officer Frank Castro-Ramirez also known as Frank Sugar Castro was arrested Thursday for raping his teenage stepdaughter multiple times over an extended time period. He is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a person between the ages of 13 and 16, sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child with sexual contact, and aggravated criminal sexual contact. He is currently housed at the main Passaic County jail facility with a hearing scheduled for Tuesday. The Clifton Police Department has suspended him without pay.
According to media reports, police alleged in an affidavit that Castro-Ramirez sexually assaulted his stepdaughter at her home on multiple occasions. The victim told the police that the abuse began in May of 2019 when she was 14 years old. She said the assaults began with kissing, but he eventually physically forced her into sex. The abuse finally stopped in April when she cut off contact with him. When speaking to investigators she described a tattoo near his groin.
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