Someone link the story of the cop writing anti cop stuff on his coffee cup then claiming a McDonald's employee did it.
Guy should be sued for every penny he has and fired.
Guy should be sued for every penny he has and fired.
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Cops Proudly Brag About Terrorizing the Poor During Christmas with ‘Homeless Quilt’
Mobile, AL — Two Mobile panhandling prevention police officers made international headlines and drew criticism for their perceived insensitivity this Christmas. They fashioned what they called a “quilt” out of many of the panhandling signs they confiscated from the homeless.
According to WKRG the controversy began last week when:
A Mobile Police officer posted the picture to Facebook, in the post that accompanied the picture, the officer wrote in part, “Hope you enjoy our homeless quilt!”
Officers with the 4th precinct took the panhandling signs and either glued or sewed them together and, while standing beside the so-called “quilt” had their picture taken. Yet what started out as a cruel joke, mushroomed into international outrage, Now it has ended with Mobile Chief of Police issuing an apology. Even though panhandling is illegal in Mobile, Chief Lawrence Battiste said:
I take full responsibility for making sure we have an aggressive stance on dealing with panhandlers because it impacts the safety of our community. Homelessness, we do not intend to police our way out of homelessness.
Intimating the embarrassment the police department has received on social media and in the press, Battiste issued what can be characterized as a sincere apology:
"Once again, I’d like to apologize for the insensitive behavior of the officers, their actions are nowhere indicative of who we are as a department. As a police department entrusted with serving and protecting our community, we offer our sincerest apology for the insensitive gesture of a Facebook post by two of our officers where they are holding up a homeless “quilt” made of panhandling signs. Although we do not condone panhandling and must enforce the city ordinances that limit panhandling, it is never our intent or desire as a police department to make light of those who find themselves in a homeless state."
The Mobile Chief of Police also provided facts and figures related to his department’s efforts to rid Mobile streets of panhandlers. At the time of the incident in 2019 to date, 63 arrests were effected against panhandlers. These numbers are in stark contrast to the chief’s statement on not “policing their way out of homelessness.” In fact, that is exactly what they appear to be doing.
Many police accountability activists would claim such arrests only further victimize the homeless and those in need by arresting them for being too poor to eat or pay their living expenses. By placing the homeless in jail, many will spend extremely long periods behind bars before being tried and found guilty in a court of law.
This is due to the fact that, often times, the homeless are too poor to be able to post bond to be able to get out of jail, often spending weeks, months, or longer, all the while awaiting trial for doing nothing other than begging for money or food. Undoubtedly, police departments who arrest the homeless and those begging for sustenance are complicit in a system which preys upon the poor.
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More blue line privilege for a drunk off duty cop who had a loaded gun in the console of his vehicle, but does not face any charges related to possessing a firearm while intoxicated. The chief said, That was a discretionary decision by his officer out on the scene." Discretionary my ass.
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NYPD Cop who Terrorized Black Family Resigns after Pressure from Public
The NYPD cop said he was so drunk, he entered the wrong home, thinking it was his Airbnb, terrorizing a family of four.
NYPD officer Michael Reynolds never denied breaking into the home of a black family and calling them "n_ggers" while threatening to kill them after confusing their home with his Airbnb next door during a drunken bachelor party excursion with fellow cops in Tennessee.
He just figured it would not affect his job as a New York City police officer much less land him in jail.
After all, "what happens in Nashville stays in Nashville" was the prevailing attitude among Reynolds and his two cop buddies that weekend in July 2018, according to the prosecutor who charged him with four misdemeanors, including one count of aggravated criminal trespassing and three counts of assault.
"We are police from New York," the groom, NYPD officer Thomas Geberth, told the 42-year-old victim, Conese Halliburton, the day after the incident.
"You don't need to make a big deal about it. We were just drinking."
The cops were laughing when they told Halliburton not to bother filing a complaint because they had "immunity," according to her testimony. Reynolds apologized but he was also laughing, mocking her, thinking it was all a big joke. That he would never get disciplined over it.
Only hours earlier after Halliburton had called 911, Nashville police officers responded and made no arrests after learning the culprit was a cop.
But Nashville police lied to Halliburton and told her they were unable to find the suspect who broke into her home even though she told them exactly where to find him and Reynolds later testified that he spoke to them and told them he was a cop.
In fact, Reynolds was not arrested until three months later, long after he had returned to New York. And only after the national media reported on the incident widely.
But even after a Nashville judge sentenced the 26-year-old cop to 15 days in jail on December 4 after he pleaded no contest to the four misdemeanors, the New York City Police Department still did not see it fit to fire him.
Instead, it kept him on "modified duty," a type of police purgatory that allows cops to retain their pay and benefits while relinquishing the power and authority to destroy lives.
The point is usually to keep the cop employed until the public forgets about whatever crime he may have committed which is when he is quietly allowed back on active duty.
But it did not appear that the public was going to forget this one anytime soon considering a petition demanding his termination quickly surpassed 10,000 signatures as well as about two dozen demonstrators showed up to NYPD headquarters on New Year's Day demanding his resignation.
The petition and the protest drew press coverage and the pressure apparently got to Reynolds who resigned Thursday, which means he loses his pension and health benefits.
Had the NYPD had any true values and standards, it would have fired him after learning of what he did back in 2018. And had the Nashville Police Department had true values and standards, it would have arrested Reynolds the night of the incident instead of lying about not being able to find him.
After all, Halliburton not only told the cops the man who had broken into her home was staying in the Airbnb next door but Reynolds testified that the only thing he remembered that night was talking to a Nashville cop.
Reynolds must begin serving his 15-day sentence by January 15 unless he files an appeal which will be much harder to win now that he has been stripped of his Blue Privilege. Halliburton has also filed a lawsuit.
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Another day another bad cop(s) I’m sure if it was you and I and we were drunk and carrying a pistol would have worked out the same way..
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Thin blue line privilege for sovereign criminals who wear a costume and badge.
"A Twinsburg police spokesman said in a news release that the department will conduct its own internal review into whether officers followed the department’s policies."
Any person with half of a brain knows that this or any department's policies weren't followed from the bodycam footage alone. The phone call officer Hunter makes at 30:45 in the video lays it all out clearly."...they are obviously OVI and we have seized their firearm from them because they were carrying it on their hip. We're extending the courtesy allowing a family member to pick him up and drive him home."
We all know how these internal reviews and investigations go.
"We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."
(Despite the evidence of wrongdoing.)
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4 Officers Arrested After Video Leaked of Them Beating Man So Badly His Face Was Disfigured
Clermont, FL — According to the officers involved, the savage beating of Otis Miller never took place. His mangled face and unconscious body found lying on the floor in a jail shower were a mystery according to the officers and this would be their story until a leaked video caught them all in a lie. Now, four officers have been arrested and charged with felonies for the horrific beating and subsequent cover up.
In July, a video was uploaded to YouTube by an anonymous source which showed a group of officers at the Lake Correctional Institution near Clermont viciously beating Miller—for nearly five minutes. The video was secretly taken by an inmate and was the only evidence of the crime. Had it not been published to YouTube, the four officers who nearly killed Miller would’ve gotten off Scot free.
“This video is deeply disturbing. We have zero tolerance for officer abuse or misconduct for any reason,” Mark Inch, the newly appointed secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections said after the video was posted to YouTube in July. “The actions of these individuals will not be tolerated. Our Office of Inspector General has launched an immediate investigation.”
In July, Inch said the officers who beat Miller “have been taken out of contact with inmates and will not be allowed to return to full duty until a thorough investigation has been completed. Those found participating in any level of abuse or failing to properly report abuse will be subject to administrative and criminal charges.”
During the investigation, the nurse who witnessed the aftermath described how the officers were celebrating the beating by exchanging high-fives and bragging about kicking and punching Miller.
Miller’s sister would be the one to expose the beating. She went to the authorities with the video and showed them what took place.
For several minutes, officers took turns punching and kicking Miller who does not appear to be fighting back. In fact, he would later fall unconscious. After the investigation was complete, a new video, taken by the prison, was released showing the aftermath of the beating. It is hard to watch.
During the initial investigation, the four officers who beat Miller were not aware of the YouTube video. Capt. Milton Gass, officers Joshua Petersilge, Ian Gretka and Hunter Lingo all lied to investigators saying that none of them threw a punch or a kick. Even when they were told about the video, the officers denied it.
When one of their cellphone’s was searched, a chat was discovered of them mocking Miller and talking about covering up the beating.
All four officers in the video below pleaded not guilty.
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Cop Indicted for Recklessly Driving Patrol Car Onto Sidewalk, Killing a 4yo Little Girl
Columbia, MO — A tragedy unfolded last year in front of a school in which a Columbia police officer, Andria L. Heese, 28, clearly distracted, drove her police SUV up onto a sidewalk and killed 4-year-old Gabriella Curry. Now, a year after the incident, Heese has finally been charged.
On Monday, Heese was charged with involuntary manslaughter after striking and killing a 4-year-old child with her cruiser on a school sidewalk acted recklessly by driving into a pedestrian area at a speed and angle that prevented her from seeing the child, prosecutors wrote in a complaint made public on Tuesday.
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 complaint filed Monday requesting a warrant.
The warrant with a $5,000 bond was issued Tuesday for her arrest, but there has been no word on whether or not she’s been booked into jail.
Heese now faces the possibility of 7 years in prison if convicted. In response to the charges, Hayes said she doesn’t know what sentence would ever be enough.
“To be honest, nothing in my mind is fair because of the situation, but paying for a crime that has been committed is what I want for my daughter.”
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 Heese doesn’t deserve due process. No one here is claiming that Heese is not innocent until proven guilty. And, 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.
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Corrupt Cop Caught on His Own Body Cam, Planting Weapon in Man’s Car
New York, NY — All too often we hear the police apologist crowd rattle off talking points like, “if you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.” However, time and time again, these people are proven wrong when cops are caught framing innocent people by planting or fabricating evidence to falsely arrest them. The following case out of New York and subsequent lawsuit highlights this serious problem.
Last year, Omar Prescott, of Flatbush, was targeted by police for a traffic stop for allegedly making an improper u-turn. According to a recently filed lawsuit against the NYPD, the officer involved in the stop was Officer Carlo Cassata.
As Prescott parked his Chevrolet Suburban outside his home in Brooklyn, Cassata approached him and started his fishing expedition.
The NY Post recently obtained body camera footage from this incident as part of a lawsuit by Prescott which shows Cassata allegedly planting a stun gun in Prescott’s glove box. After planting the weapon, Cassata then charged Prescott with an illegal weapons charge.
Cassata also accused Prescott of having marijuana which made the weapons charge that much worse. According to the Post, “the cop is seen holding a stun gun in his hand then searching around Prescott’s car. Then the officer backs away from the vehicle, turns on the sound on his body cam, leans back into Prescott’s vehicle and pulls what appears to be the same stun gun from the glove compartment.”
After claiming to find the illegal weapon in Prescott’s vehicle, this arguably entirely innocent man was arrested and charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and marijuana possession.
Luckily for Prescott, however, the body camera footage did not lie and captured the crooked cop planting the weapon, according to the lawsuit. When the case went before the court, the judge threw out all the charges.
“Cops should be on the street to protect and serve, not to plant guns and manufacture evidence, as clearly shown in this bodycam video,” said Caitlin Robin, the managing partner at the firm representing Prescott in the case, according to the Post.
“Thank goodness for cops wearing body cameras — and thank goodness this cop was unaware his was on when he planted the stun gun,” she added.
The NYPD is now choosing to remain silent in the face of this controversy and officer Cassata’s employment status within the department is currently unknown.
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Here's a half-assed attempt by a couple of law enforcement agencies to regain public trust, but it falls so short of anything significant. You can tell right away how feeble and meaningless this attempt is due to the backing of police unions. A vast majority of the time, the thin blue line prevents true and honest justice from taking place when their gang members are involved in criminal activity or violate citizens' rights. Citizen groups who are not involved or affiliated with law enforcement in any capacity need to be put in place to police the police.
Because Body Cameras Haven't Made Cops Better, Two Law Enforcement Agencies Are Going To Start Random Inspections Of Footage
Body cameras were supposed to bring more transparency and accountability to law enforcement agencies. The change that was promised hasn't arrived. Body camera footage does little for the public. Every so often, it results in a successful lawsuit and/or prosecution.
What body camera footage does best is what cops do best: lock people up. Prosecutors are making the most of recordings, using them as evidence against criminal suspects.
When the idea of watching the police first started gaining traction, officials and politicians opposed to anything that might make cops more accountable claimed the recordings were nothing but a "gotcha" tactic. In their minds, someone would be reviewing all recorded footage every day, just waiting for a cop to screw up.
This was a stupid stance to take. Not only was this fantasy logistically impossible, but there's hardly anyone inside law enforcement agencies all that interested in punishing officers, even when they've screwed up. What has actually happened is the millions of hours of footage recorded every day is uploaded and forgotten about until someone needs it. It usually takes a lawsuit to get this footage released, or at least the threat of one. Defense attorneys looking for footage to defend their clients must subject themselves to a variety of third-party user agreements before they're allowed to see anything.
Since the police aren't going to police themselves -- not even with a slew of new self-policing tools -- accountability and transparency must be forced on agencies by other government entities. But this has been very slow in developing. And what we're being given can't even generously be called a half-measure.
One (ONE!) law enforcement agency in Indiana has agreed to random inspections of body camera footage. The agreement is the result of the shooting of a black man by white police officers. No footage exists of this incident, despite the fact the officer who shot the man had a cruiser equipped with a dash cam and was wearing a body camera.
The new inspection rules are incredibly lax, pretty much ensuring no South Bend cop will ever be the "victim" of this barely-there "gotcha tactic."
The new requirements call for sergeants to randomly sample at least five videos each month from officers they supervise, and to review at least 15 minutes of footage from each subordinate three or more times per year. The sergeants are to check for discrepancies between the videos and officers’ reports, and to pass positive and negative findings up the chain of command.
Wow, up to 45 minutes a YEAR! Yeah, that's going to turn things around, restore the public's trust, etc. Considering how much footage is generated on a yearly basis, the chance of randomly pulling a culpatory needle from this haystack begins to approach zero almost immediately.
This new measure -- instituted in the wake of the unrecorded shooting -- will do more to increase accountability than the random inspection policy.
Another new provision requires an officer, before stopping a recording, to speak into the device with the reason.
This won't prevent abuse but it will at least stump officers who can't come up with a legit excuse in the heat of the moment. There are lots of excuses made about how it's impossible to turn on a camera when in the middle of police stuff. Now, officers will have to come up with something believable when they decide they don't want to record an interaction. Unfortunately, it won't force officers to turn on their cameras first, which is still going to be a problem going forward.
Only one other city has announced a random inspection plan. That would be Los Angeles, home to one of the largest police forces in the nation. The local union actually agreed to this, so the inspection program has been weakened to its satisfaction. The inspection program -- first reported by the LA Times -- doesn't provide any details as to how much footage is reviewed or how often. But it does show why the union agreed to it.
This may help community relations but it won't stop excessive force deployments or ill-advised shootings. Arrests and use of force incidents are exempted from this random inspection program, which means it's not all that random and it's not all that useful.
Despite the limitations, the program has already caught one officer who engaged in an extremely depraved act while responding to a call.
A Los Angeles police officer is under investigation after a random review of body camera footage showed him fondling a dead woman’s breasts, according to a person briefed on the incident.
The Los Angeles Police Department officer and a partner had responded to a report of a body at a residence, the person said. The officer fondled the corpse’s breasts when his partner was not in the room.
The officer has not been named, which is par for the course when it comes to "accountability." The union has already expressed its displeasure with the officer's actions, which only means fondling corpses is one of the few misdeeds it won't publicly support.
The officer shut off his body camera before fondling the dead woman, but the rolling buffer engaged two minutes before the officer turned his camera back on, capturing him in mid-fondle.
These are very minimal efforts that barely deserve to be called "efforts." This is what we're being given in exchange for our tax dollars and the vast amount of power we, as a society, have entrusted law enforcement with. Sorry, chief(s), this ain't it. Do better.
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Family of 15-year-old ATV driver killed by state trooper settles suit for $12 million
Detroit — The family of a 15-year-old ATV driver who was killed after a state trooper stunned him with a Taser settled a federal wrongful death lawsuit Friday for $12 million.
Damon Grimes died Aug. 26, 2017. He was riding his ATV in the street illegally and Michigan State Police trooper Mark Bessner ordered him to stop. When Grimes didn't comply, Bessner fired his Taser at him, and the teen crashed into a flatbed truck and died after sustaining blunt-force trauma to his head.
It's against State Police policy to fire a Taser into a moving vehicle. Bessner was fired, and in May, he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Wayne Circuit Judge Margaret Van Houten exceeded the sentencing guidelines of 19-38 months and sentenced the ex-trooper to 5-15 years in prison.
Grimes' mother, Monique Grimes, retained Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against Bessner, fellow trooper Ethan Berger and Michigan State Police Sgt. Jacob Liss.
Berger, who was driving the cruiser, was fired in March 2018.
Fieger and the Michigan Attorney General's Office, which represented the defendants, on Friday reached a settlement in the lawsuit, which was presided over by U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain.
"After extensive discovery reaching over 40 depositions, the parties have entered into a global settlement in the amount of $12 million," the seven-page order said.
Reached by telephone Friday, Fieger said: "I’m very thankful that the attorney general recognized the grave injury that occurred in this case, and the intolerable circumstances, and therefore accepted responsibility and allowed justice to be done."
"The facts of this case are so horrendous, and it was difficult dealing with the bureaucracy of the state of Michigan and dealing with the police agencies, but having cut through all that, the attorney general did the right thing and settled the case, and didn't subject the state to a trial that could have resulted in a much larger verdict," Fieger said.
Michigan State Police Lt. Mike Shaw said in a written statement: "The Michigan State Police extends its continued condolences to the Grimes family, friends and supporters. Damon Grimes’ death is a tragedy that could have been avoided if not for the criminal and unforgivable actions of a former MSP trooper.
"The MSP recognizes that while this monetary settlement does not change how this has affected the Grimes family, it may help to begin to bring some closure. The MSP sincerely apologizes to everyone impacted by this senseless act, and we have prioritized working with our troopers and the community to avoid this from happening again."
The Rev. W.J. Rideout, who organized protests after the incident, said justice was served, although he added: "It will never bring back the life of Damon Grimes."
"I'm glad the family got something out of this, but it'll never bring him back," Rideout said. "However, some justice was served in this case, and the officer — or, I should say, the murderer — is in prison serving time.
"We just hope and pray this will send a message to other police officers that they cannot get away with blatant murder."
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WATCH: Award-winning Cop Arrests Musician on "Asshole Charge" for Cursing at him
This video is a textbook example of a typical contempt of cop arrest.
By now, cops in this country must know that citizens have the right to curse them out in public.
After all, numerous court decisions have affirmed that we have the right to swear at cops and flip them off if we so desire. It is protected speech. And numerous police departments have shelled out thousands in needless settlements over these unlawful arrests.
But cops in this country also know they can violate the Constitutional rights of citizens and get away with it as long as they use the appropriate contempt of cop charge, then claim ignorance if they get sued.
And that is exactly what Woodmere Police Sergeant Christopher Colon does in the above video when he arrests street musician Joseph Workman for disorderly conduct for cursing at him on December 16.
Workman, 23, was upset that Colon and another cop were threatening to arrest him for playing his guitar on a public sidewalk. He first called Colon an "asshole" and then a "penetrating ....." – an insult he did not complete – which is what triggered Colon into arresting him.
However, for a disorderly conduct charge to stick on the basis of profanity, a person would need to use "fighting words" along with the profanity – which is not the case here.
And that is something Colon should have known given that he appears to be a veteran cop with decades under his belt. He even has a daughter who just joined the force so he is likely well-protected in the department's friends and family plan.
Colon proves to be a hypocrite when he also curses in public – much louder than Workman ever did – but he probably believes he is exempt from the law he just fabricated.
"Don't f*¢king move!" he yells at the non-moving man as he sits on top of him.
When the cops arrived, Workman was standing by himself near the sidewalk with his guitar in his hands. Colon accused him of violating a noise ordinance and became angry when Workman did not believe him about the noise ordinance.
Workman, a busker who travels the country with his guitar playing blues and classic rock, has had issues with cops in the past.
He was arrested in August for disorderly conduct while performing during an annual street festival in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland.
He said he recorded the arrest but Cleveland police confiscated his phone and have not returned it.
"The judge dismissed the case that day and ordered them to return the phone but they have not returned it," he said. "I think they may have destroyed it."
He also received a $2,000 settlement from the city of Chardon, Ohio who cited him and arrested his brother for playing their music in public.
And he will probably end up receiving a settlement from the village of Woodmere, which has a population of just over 800 people and is one of 14 mayor's courts in Ohio to show a "distinct patterns of racial bias and profit-oriented policing."
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Taxpayers to Be Held Liable After Cops Open Fire on Truck Full of Toddlers, Shooting 3 of Them
Oklahoma City, OK — As TFTP reported last year, a rather disturbing scene unfolded in Oklahoma City as police officers attempting to kill a robbery suspect opened fire on four small children, shooting three of them. For months, the family and residents demanded answers and the police remained silent. Now, after the police have refused to hold anyone accountable, the mother of the three children who were shot is seeking legal action in the form of a lawsuit.
The Free Thought Project has learned that Olivia Hill has filed a tort claim against the city of Hugo. The claim was filed last month against the city, in which Hill is seeking unspecified monetary damages for pain and suffering, mental anguish and emotional distress, current and future medical bills and counseling, and damages to the truck.
“The shooting was objectively unreasonable, unnecessary, and reckless or negligent, and the City of Hugo and other members of the (Hugo Police Department) were negligent in hiring, training, and supervising the Officers who perpetrated it,” according to the claim.
According to WPSD, medical records say a bullet pierced the left frontal lobe of 4-year-old Asia Jacobs’ brain. Her 5-year-old brother suffered a skull fracture and her 1-year-old sister was left with deep facial cuts. Asia’s 2-year-old brother was not hit.
The children’s mother, Olivia Hill, says: “Emotionally, they’re not OK. Physically, they’re here.” However, Hill notes that their injuries are substantial.
Not until six days after the shooting did police release any information as to what happened. While they have refused to elaborate on any video of the incident, we now know that the suspect William Devaughn Smith, 21, did not fire on police before police opened fire on the truck full of children. Also, we now know that police were in an unmarked car and not in uniform when they approached Smith.
According to police, they saw Smith in his pickup truck with the four children and when they made contact with him, they began shooting after they claim he tried to flee. Police claim that Smith attempted to run them over with the truck. However, as TFTP has reported on countless occasions, this defense is used all the time when cops could’ve simply stepped to the side and allowed the driver to leave — especially if there are four small children inside.
What’s more, according to the police report, Smith was backed up when he saw the plainclothes men pull out their guns and come after him. He then hit a pole in the parking lot and stopped.
Hill’s lawyer backs up this claim and says two Hugo detectives fired at least 26 shots into a stationary truck full of kids.
In May, police identified the officers involved as Hugo Police Department detectives Billy Jenkins and Chad Allen. Both of the officers were in an unmarked car and in plainclothes when they approached Smith.
The officers were put on paid administrative leave pending the investigation. However, a review of the shooting obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request shows a panel of five Hugo police officers and the Choctaw County sheriff found neither detective violated department policy.
Following the naming of the officers, District Attorney Mark Madoff said it would take him several weeks to review the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation report and determine whether detectives Billy Jenkins and Chad Allen committed crimes. However, it appears they have simply swept the case under the rug and are refusing to release any more details.
After shooting three children, police took to the press to point out the fact that not all of the children were shot as one of them luckily came out unscathed.
Tulsa attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, who is representing the family, pointed out the obvious noting that if Smith saw two armed men coming at him in plainclothes, he likely had no idea they were police.
According to The Frontier, investigation records show Jenkins has been involved in at least one other shooting in the past few years — the fatal December 2014 shooting of William Lee Honea, 33, in Hugo. That shooting was ruled justified by the district attorney, but like in this case, resulted in a civil lawsuit against the city of Hugo, Choctaw County and others that was settled in 2018 for an undisclosed amount of money.
The city now has 90 days under state law to respond to the claim. If it does not respond, the claim is considered denied and Hill can then file a lawsuit against the city.
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Oklahoma Officer Charged with Selling His Department Issued Guns to Pawn Shop
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation arrested Boswell Police Department Officer Shawn Karr, 33, after he allegedly pawned his department-issued firearms. Karr was arrested on January 6 at Boswell City Hall in Oklahoma.
The investigation began last month. Police say they acted after receiving information from the Choctaw County Sheriff about the alleged crimes, KXII News reports.
The Choctaw County sheriff requested The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation investigative assistance after receiving information that Karr pawned four of his department’s guns.
Karr faces one count of felony embezzlement. Karr was booked into the Choctaw County Jail, where his bond was set at $10,000.
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Another lawsuit or settlement on the way paid for by taxpayers because these oath breaking pigs deliberately violated a man's rights. These Hodgenville blue line gang members are ignorant lying POS's. The backwoods jackboots falsely charged and kidnapped a man because he knew and invoked his rights and wouldn't lick their boots. When the man wouldn't obey their unlawful demands they decided to police with their feelings, opinions and egos rather than according to the law. If these asshole tyrants act this way while they know they are being filmed, imagine how they act when they aren't. The man's criminal (lol) trial takes place later this month. The full video of the entire encounter, the oath breakers' bodycam footage along with officer Thompson's self-damning police report (shown at the very end of the first video below) is all the evidence he'll need to win his trial and a slam dunk federal lawsuit.
The corrupt Hodgenville PD even blocked people and deleted comments on their Facebook page that highlighted their gang members' criminal behavior. This is a criminal offense because it is, by law, a public record. Maybe they should ask the Honolulu PD how that worked out for them after they did the same.
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Another case of special privileges for a criminal who wears a costume and a badge and dons the gang's thin blue line flag of tyranny.
Cop Accused of Sexually Harassing A Dozen Women Gets Full Retirement, Keeps Police License
Mesa Police Department Officer Jeffrey Neese was allowed to retire with his full pension despite the fact nearly a dozen female co-workers and citizens claimed the formerly high-ranking police officer sexually harassed them. As TFTP reported in 2019, Neese was under investigation for claims of on-the-job sexual harassment, allegations which led to his being demoted to patrol officer last year after he was found guilty of doing so.
Instead of dismissing the officer and revoking his Peace Officer’s license, the State of Arizona allowed him to retire with honor. According to the Phoenix New Times:
Two previous investigations by the city of Mesa in late 2018 found that Neese had exhibited a repeated pattern of sexual harassment over several years, including sending unwarranted graphic texts and Facebook messages to subordinates that described masturbating, a pornographic drawing of three female officers, and fetishizing LGBTQ officers’ private relationships.
Several of his alleged victims intended to file lawsuits against the City of Mesa, AZ in 2018. As women came forward to tell their stories, and the story broke on the world-wide-web, more alleged victims emerged. Representing some of the women in the lawsuits, attorney David Lunn claims the women were only mildly pleased in Neese’s retirement saying:
"While we find some comfort knowing that Sergeant Neese will no longer be in a position to harass Mesa Police Officers, his retirement doesn’t change the systemic issues within the Mesa Police Department or the City of Mesa…In fact, it makes matters worse for victims now and in the future."
Lunn points the finger of blame at the City of Mesa for dragging its feet while appearing to investigate Neese. Not only will Neese be allowed to draw full retirement but he can now become a gypsy cop and work at another police department, never fully being held accountable for the sexual harassment he has inflicted on his victims.
The attorney stated one only has to look at the fact the police department’s findings were never submitted to Arizona’s Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, the ones who would have invalidated his license to be a cop should they have chosen to do so.
Neese’s sexual harassment allegations date back to 2014 and his victims are numerous with some simply being too scared to come forward. For the female police officers who did muster up the courage to cross the thin blue line of silence and speak out against his actions, the decision to do so must have been gut wrenching. Ashley Elliff is one such female officer and target of Neese’s sexual harassment.
"It was clear to us that his behavior went unchecked for years…This was not a one-time incident."
Officer Elliff’s statement appears to insinuate Neese was allowed to continue harassing officers in a culture where doing so only got him demoted, not fired, and eventually permitted him to retire without facing the disgrace of having to face his accusers in court, at least not yet that is.
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Teacher, Doctor, Fast Food worker..any of them would have probably gone to jail for this.
He got his job back
A Texas officer who lost his job in 2016 for feeding dog feces to a homeless man has had his termination overturned following an appeal.
Officer Matthew Luckhurst, who appealed his suspension from Oct. 28, 2016, argued his termination from the San Antonio Police Department was unlawful as it did not take place within the first 180 days after the incident, reports KSAT.
Luckhurst, a bike patrol officer, initially stated that the incident occurred when he was on-duty on May 6, 2016. Luckhurst admitted to placing discarded pieces of dog feces between two bread slices in a food container. The officer then left the disguised faux meal next to a homeless man.Comment -
It would appear as though Luckhurst has a feces fetish with all the "pranks" he's played involving fecal matter while in uniform and on duty. I would say I'm shocked at that, Nitrogen, but I'm truly not. These sovereign thugs have free reign to do just about whatever they want with no real consequences. It's shit stains like Matthew Luckhurst that earn the hate and negativity pushed on all LEO's.Comment -
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Cops Acquire ‘Nasal Ranger’ Smell Amplifier to Crack Down on Marijuana Users
In case after infuriating case, the Free Thought Project has reported on instances of horrifying rights violations all stemming from a police officer claiming to smell a plant. We have seen both women and men sodomized and raped — often times in public — as cops search for this smell. We have seen entire families held hostage, women and children beaten up, rampant sexual assault, and all of it stemming from a plant smell. Now, police are arming themselves with a “smell amplifier” to go after those who’d dare grow or partake in a plant—in a state where recreational marijuana is legal.
In December 2018, the state of Michigan legalized recreational marijuana. According to the city council in the town of Bessemer, however, the most common complaint from residents in the town is the smell of weed. Despite it being legal, cops are now arming themselves with new smell technology to go after those who dare partake in a legal plant in the legal state.
The Daily Globe reported that the Michigan town of Bessemer has voted to spend approximately $3,400 to purchase a device to smell marijuana plants and train police officers in its use.
“The city of Bessemer stinks,” council member Linda Nelson said. “You can smell marijuana everywhere. We’ve got people who can’t sit in their backyard because the smell from their neighbor is so bad.”
Council Member William McDonald added, “It’s time we do something,” even though he said the cost of the equipment posed some concern for him, the Globe reported.
This move by the city to acquire a smell device to catch “stinky” marijuana users and growers highlights a problem that still plagues the United States — the bureaucracy’s addiction to the war on drugs.
“Americans should be outraged that police departments across the country continue to waste tax dollars and limited law enforcement resources on arresting otherwise law-abiding citizens for simple marijuana possession,” NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri said. We agree.
Now, cops are reverting back to smell technology they used when weed was illegal nationwide. This is a dangerous move in the wrong direction for many reasons.
As TFTP reported in June, an infuriating video was shared with the Free Thought Project showing North Carolina cops violate the rights of multiple innocent people because one of them smelled marijuana. No marijuana was found, but that didn’t stop cops from holding a family and their guests hostage for over an hour to look for it.
Also in June, TFTP reported the case of Erica Reynolds, 37, who is seeking $12.5 million in damages accusing police of sexual assault and battery, wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, gross negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The reason for this sexual assault and battery? Cops smelled weed.
Just last September, TFTP reported on another case in which Chanel Bates, 26, was leaving a restaurant when she was targeted by police who claimed they smelled marijuana. The officers’ olfactory intuition was then used as the justification to detain, savagely beat, and kidnap the entirely innocent woman who had caused harm to no one. The infuriating and disturbing scene was captured on video.
There is at least one state moving in the right direction, however. As TFTP reported in August, the violence associated with cops claiming to smell weed has gotten so out of hand that one top court in Maryland is doing something about it. The court ruled that police are not justified in searching a person based solely off of the smell of marijuana.
This ruling is a major boon for freedom and will only serve to improve police and citizen interactions by removing one of the ways police can harass individuals. Hopefully it will spread to other states like Texas where tyrant cops like Parris smash in people’s heads for the smell.
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Former dirty cop Gerald Goines is back in the news again. One of his cases from over 10 years ago that put a man in prison is coming back to haunt him. Expect more skeletons from this corrupt thug's closet to come out in the near future.
Ex-Houston cop charged in raid accused in old drug case
HOUSTON -- A former Houston police officer who has been charged in connection with a deadly 2019 drug raid that left two people dead is facing accusations that he provided false testimony that led to the wrongful conviction of a man in another case from 2008.
Attorneys for 64-year-old Otis Mallet allege Gerald Goines lied in trial testimony about buying crack cocaine from their client in April 2008 and failed to disclose evidence that would have been beneficial to Mallet’s case. Mallet was sentenced to eight years in prison and later paroled.
Mallet has long maintained his innocence.
“Otis has been fighting this case since 2008. It’s fair to say that I think he’s pretty tired of being put through all this kind of stuff. But hopefully we’ll be done with this soon enough,” Jonathan Landers, one of Mallet’s attorneys, said following a court hearing Thursday on Mallet’s efforts to be declared innocent of the drug charges.
Landers had requested that Goines testify during the hearing. Goines, 55, appeared in court but soon was dismissed after his attorney, Nicole DeBorde, told a judge her client would be asserting his Fifth Amendment right not to testify.
“We will not be having him testify on any matters while there is an investigation pending by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office,” DeBorde said. “These lawyers can make any claims that they want, no matter how outrageous they want them to be. He still can’t answer any questions about those claims.”
In a petition before state District Judge Ramona Franklin, Mallet’s attorneys allege Goines’ expense reports, which were not made available to the defense at trial, show he lied about using police funds to buy drugs from Mallet. The expense reports also show Goines said he paid an informant for information leading to Mallet’s arrest, something which he didn’t reveal at trial or tell prosecutors about, according to the petition.
In an affidavit, Jamie Burro, the prosecutor in Mallet’s case, said had she known about the information in Goines’ expense reports, she would have asked that the case be dismissed.
The accusations by Mallet are similar to ones made against Goines related to the January 2019 drug raid in which Dennis Tuttle, 59, and Rhogena Nicholas, 58, were killed. Prosecutors allege Goines lied to obtain the warrant to search the couple's home by claiming that a confidential informant had bought heroin there. Goines, who was shot in a gunfight during the raid, later acknowledged there was no informant and that he had bought the drugs himself, they allege.
Since the raid, prosecutors have been reviewing about 14,000 cases handled by the Houston Police Department's narcotics division, including at least more than 2,000 tied to Goines and another ex-officer, Steven Bryant.
Goines is facing two counts of felony murder in state court for the deaths of the couple and is also facing seven counts in federal court over allegedly providing false information in the raid.
Bryant is also facing state and federal charges in the deadly raid. Both men were relieved of duty after the shooting and later retired.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said her office agrees with Mallet’s attorneys that Goines lied during Mallet’s trial and failed to provide evidence in the case.
“What we’re really concerned about is that an innocent person spent time behind bars,” Ogg said. “It’s our job to get the right guy and to make sure the evidence we have is authentic and truthful.”
But Ogg said she wasn’t yet prepared to declare Mallet innocent.
During Thursday’s court hearing, prosecutor Josh Reiss asked Franklin for more time to investigate.
The judge gave prosecutors until Feb. 3 to finish their investigation.
If Franklin accepts the findings, she would then forward to case to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which would make the final ruling on whether to declare Mallet innocent.
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Cop Claims He Has Amnesia Hours After Allegedly Beating Police Chief to Death
Tulsa, OK — The numbers do not lie. Police in America are the deadliest throughout the entire world. American cops kill far more than their counterparts in the rest of the world and these numbers are indisputable. One indicator that the problem has gotten out of hand is the fact that cops are killing cops. In a tragic case out of Florida last, a police officer killed his own police chief. Now he’s in jail and appears to have amnesia.
In November, Mannford police officer Michael Patrick Nealey, 49, was arrested and charged with the murder of Mannford police chief Lucky Miller, 44. The duo traveled from the small town of Mannford, Oklahoma for a conference in Pensacola over a weekend when things took a tragic turn.
In a local story out of Tulsa, KTUL reports that Nealey appears to have no idea why he’s in jail nor what happened.
The video was just released this week, showing Nealey’s interrogation just hours after he allegedly beat Miller to death.
“I know you’re asking me questions, but can I ask you a question? Homicide? Who is dead?” Nealey asked the officers interviewing him.
“Lucky’s dead,” replied the officers.
“Lucky’s dead. Hmm,” Nealey said in response.
As KTUL reports, in pictures of the crime scene, blood and paramedic equipment is seen on the floor and a mostly empty vodka bottle is seen nearby. Nealey claims to not know what happened.
“I would like to know what happened. I’m telling you I don’t have any memory of any of this sh–. I’m shocked that Lucky’s dead. It’s shocking,” he said.
“I’ve got no problem with Lucky,” Nealey said. “I can’t believe what you’re telling me has happened. I can’t believe. Hmmm. Wow.”
“Did you have any sort of animosity or anything like that towards Lucky?” an investigator asked Nealey.
“Nope,” Nealey responded.
“Lucky is dead. I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it,” he added.
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This video is almost 8 years old, but very informative.
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Cops Sic K9 on Innocent Man, Beat Him with Flashlights, Lie to Cover It Up, Get Off With Wrist Slap
Raleigh, NC — A North Carolina judge released a series of disturbing videos last year showing the horrifying attack on a man who had done nothing but walk down the road. Kyron Dwain Hinton, 29, had harmed no one and committed no crime when he was surrounded by police, mauled by a K9, pistol whipped, kicked, punched, and stomped on—for nearly five minutes. Now, one of the key players in that attack has pleaded guilty and will likely get off with a wrist slap.
The assault charges against disgraced officer Michael Blake were dropped this week in exchange for a plea to two misdemeanor charges of willful failure to discharge his duty. It’s unclear at this time if Blake will spend any time in prison.
This guilty plea comes in spite of Blake’s not guilty plea in 2018. “Trooper Blake will plead not guilty and continues to look forward to his day in court,” Blake’s attorney said in 2018. Apparently that has all changed.
According to the report, Blake is also forced to relinquish his law enforcement license.
As ABC 11 reports, in addition to being charged with assault with a deadly weapon, Blake was later charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice. Investigators said Blake gave misleading statements to State Highway Patrol about the arrest and his use of force.
The incident happened on April 3, 2018 and the videos are so horrifying that all the officers involved, not just Blake were charged for it.
Troopers Tabithia L. Davis and Michael G. Blake were fired for their role in the beating and were charged with assault inflicting bodily injury and willfully failing to discharge duties. Their patrol sergeant, R.W. Goswick was also placed on administrative leave for his role in instructing the troopers to cover it up. The trooper was captured on video telling his officers to lie.
Dashcam video from the scene captures Goswick telling Davis, Blake, and another trooper Zachary C.Bumgardner to lie on their statements and report “no use of force on our part.”
Goswick would conclude—in spite of the horrific video showing otherwise and officers admitting to the abuse—that all the troopers did was “assist in holding the man down” and “that nobody threw any punches.”
Despite officers admitting on video that they severely beat Hinton, as the News Observer reported at the time, Goswick said “that no use of force by the Troopers on the scene could be seen,” Freeman stated, before later adding that the Highway Patrol’s use of force policy indicates that “striking an individual in the head with a flashlight is considered use of deadly force.”
For two months, the police departments blocked all the footage from being released. However, Wake County Superior Court Judge A. Graham Shirley eventually responded to the multiple requests from media and finally released the video.
According to the News Observer, Hinton initially was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting a public officer and assault on a law enforcement animal, but Wake prosecutors dismissed all charges against him.
For walking down the road, Hinton was severely beaten, mauled by a K9 and hospitalized for several days. He suffered 21 dog bites all over his body, a broken nose and a fractured eye socket.
The taxpayers would later be held liable for the beating and Hinton was awarded an $83,000 settlement from Wake County Sheriff’s Office. Sadly, he would never spend the money because he died the very next day. The medical examiner concluded that Hinton died as a result of cocaine toxicity and homicide.
See the videos of the oath breaking thugs wearing costumes and badges beating the innocent man and conspiring to cover up the incident in the link below.
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“Certainly you would think a police officer would recognize donut glaze that’s probably on the front of their uniform.”
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Standards for an "Officer of the Year" award must really be lax or nonexistent. This cop, Jonathan Mills, gets hit with an excessive force lawsuit in 2017, but rebounds to win Patrol Officer of the Year at his department a year later. It makes you wonder how bad the conduct of the rest of his fellow blue line gang members was that negated them for consideration for the award. Now he's back in the news for the same thing he was given a verbal warning (meaning nothing was done) for in 2016.
Cop once named Orlando’s officer of the year disciplined for taunting teen during arrest
An Orlando police officer who was named 2018′s patrol officer of the year was disciplined recently after body camera footage showed him “taunt, belittle, humiliate and even incite ... violence” while detaining a teenager for violating a city ordinance in May, an internal investigation found.
Officer Jonathan Mills has previously faced excessive force lawsuits and was given a verbal reprimand after he was accused of making a racist comment to a woman during a traffic stop in March 2016.
Asked whether Mills’ interactions with the public are a concern for OPD Chief Orlando Rolón after the latest incident, OPD spokesman Sgt. David Baker said the chief “is not worried ... because discipline is also intended as a corrective measure."
Baker added, "[w]ith the disciplinary actions taken, Chief Rolón believes Ofc. Mills will conduct himself professionally going forward.”
Mills was named patrol officer of the year for being “the most proactive member on his squad," the agency wrote in its annual report. He was touted for making more than 100 arrests and confiscating numerous guns and drugs in 2018. Others on his squad “consider him a leader... motivating and assisting them,” the report said.
Mills detained three teens, two of whom were 19 and one who was 17, on May 10 after another officer had stopped them outside a liquor store in Parramore for loitering.
After reviewing body camera footage of the incident, Mike Stanley, an Internal Affairs investigator, said the video showed Mills interacting with the teens in a way “not representative of the high standards of the professional conduct expected from members of the Orlando Police Department."
Stanley said Mills was seen on video footage grabbing the hands of one of the teens and saying “[t]hese soft hands have been through something. You have no marks on your knuckles, you’ve never been in a fight,” according to a summary of the investigation.
When he saw another teen talking on his cell phone, Mills grabbed it from him and tossed it on the ground, Stanley wrote.
Mills then said to another one of the teens, “I hope he runs,” according to Stanley.
Mills told Stanley that he grabbed the teen’s hands to “[break] the cycle of whatever he’s thinking about.” But Stanley said video showed there was a screwdriver within the teen’s reach that Mills didn’t remove, calling into question whether the officer thought the young man "posed an immediate threat.”
Mills also said he tossed the other teen’s phone because he was talking “really softly and that made me nervous ... almost as if he was trying to conceal his actions.”
But Stanley wrote that Mills’ comment about hoping the man would run “serves to discredit Officer Mills belief [the teen] posed a threat.”
Mills’ actions toward the teens, who Stanley wrote were “detained and seated on the ground in a position of disadvantage,” did not serve a law enforcement purpose, he wrote, and were done “only ... to taunt, belittle, humiliate and even incite a person to do violence.”
Mills maintained he was trying to diffuse the situation, denying his actions were discourteous. He said the teens were acting “confrontational” and making anti-police comments.
When the Sentinel in June asked questions about Mills being named OPD’s 2018 officer of the year, given the history of allegations against him, Rolón launched a review of the agency’s procedure for handing out its annual awards. The honor was not rescinded.
Baker said Rolón “has now made it clear that all Officer of the Year nominees must be vetted through Internal Affairs for discipline history.”
He said employees eligible for a nomination must also be in good standing according to criteria set by OPD’s union contract. To maintain that status, officers must not receive a “below average" mark on any aspects of their most recent evaluation and in the previous year have had no more than three separate disciplinary violations, and no suspensions of more than 32 hours or demotions.
Mills received a verbal reprimand for the May incident, the same punishment he got for violating the same agency policy during the 2016 traffic stop.
Asked why the penalties for both violations were the same, Baker, the OPD spokesman, said the previous violation was no longer part of Mills’ disciplinary record. According to the agency’s union contract, violations that result in a verbal reprimand or written censure are purged from an officer’s disciplinary history after three years.
The teens were arrested for violating a disorderly conduct ordinance. Prosecutors later dropped the cases against at least two of them. Court documents for the 17-year-old were not available because he is a juvenile.
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