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What other place of employment gives someone the option to resign or be fired? This is standard procedure at most departments. This POS sheriff, Darryl Daniels, was given the option to either resign and not seek re-election or be arrested and face felony charges. Basically, Daniels just has to quit and and his crimes are forgotten and it all goes away. Another example of how the blue line gang has insulated themselves from accountability and punishment for their criminal actions.
Pedophile Cop Arrested for Running Child Porn Network While Patrolling the Streets
Elmore, OH — Residents of Elmore, Ohio likely felt secure when they saw the police vehicle belonging to Elmore police officer Samuel Kurp drive through their neighborhoods. They likely felt “protected” and “safe” as Kurp crept down their streets. However, they won’t feel so protected and safe anymore now that this alleged pedophile cop was arrested for distributing child pornography whilst on the job.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who headed up the arrest, on August 4, 2020, a referral was forwarded by the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to the Oregon Police Department who then forwarded the cyber tip to the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
The cyber tip indicated an individual had been utilizing a social media messenger app to upload and/or send to another user or group of users 26 videos or image files of child sexual abuse material, the FBI said.
Investigators determined the IP addresses being used to send and receive the child sexual abuse material, also known as child pornography, belonged to officer Kurp, who lives in Oregon, Ohio. When the FBI looked into Kurp, they discovered he was a police officer.
Two federal search warrants were executed on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, and officials arrested the alleged pedophile shortly after. When the FBI reached out to Kurp’s department, they determined that the images and videos distributed by Kurp were sent when the officer was on patrol.
On Tuesday, Kurp was taken into custody today by members of the FBI’s Toledo Resident Agency’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force without incident.
According to a statement from the Elmore Police Department, after he was arrested, Kurp resigned his position.
"The Elmore Police Department received information that Officer Samuel Kurp was under investigation for Child Pornography by the FBI. The Elmore Police Department immediately offered any assistance with the investigation and fully cooperated with federal authorities. Officer Samuel Kurp resigned his position with the Elmore Police Department prior to being taken into custody by the FBI."
The department the reassured the public that not all cops are bad and to maintain their faith in the department in spite of one of them being a pedophile on duty.
"Child sexual exploitation is not a crime we take lightly. The staff at the Elmore Police Department are dedicated to the mission of protecting our community. We strive to prevent the shocking allegations against one officer discourage the faith the community has entrusted upon us to protect and serve."
Kurp has since been charged with receipt and distribution of child pornography.
As conservatives push the #savethechildren tag on Facebook, they shamefully look the other way when it is police officers involved. As most people write this off to the “bad apple” fallacy, the fact remains that cops are some of the worst offenders when it comes to preying on children.
Their badges, authority, and protection from the law afford child predator cops abilities regular child predators do not have. In fact, just days ago we reported on a cop in Dallas who was doing the exact same thing as Kurp — running a child porn network, while on the job. This cop was even using the government’s network to do it.
As we reported, Sr. Cpl. Daniel Lee Collins allegedly uploaded sexual photos of underage girls to various Google accounts using the City of Dallas internet network, according to the Department of Justice.
According to the federal criminal complaint, Collins, a 35-year-old senior corporal assigned to Dallas Police Department’s Auto Theft Unit, was charged via criminal complaint with transportation of child pornography.
“Law enforcement officers take an oath to protect and serve,” said U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox. “This defendant allegedly undermined that vow, preying upon our most vulnerable. The Department of Justice will not tolerate the exploitation of children – especially by our public servants.”
One week before Collins, TFTP reported on Sgt. James Robert Wissmann IV, 35, of the Baltimore Police Department who has been collecting a six figure annual salary over the years, on the taxpayer’s dime, all the while he’s been running a sophisticated child porn network. He was sentenced to just 4 years last month despite facing 5 times that sentence.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/pe...g-the-streets/
These pigs just spew whatever nonsense to fit the situation and get their way by legal means or by violating someone's rights and lying. These blue zero heroes all know that there is very little chance that they'll be held accountable for their actions and that their fellow gang members will have their back and assist in a cover up if needed.
"Recording of us during our official act would be considered a felony without our permission." Lying POS oath breaker needs to brush up on laws concerning photography of public servants in the course of their duty and the 1st Amendment.
As Citizens Face Felonies For It, Cop Leaves K-9 in Hot Patrol Car Until it Dies and is NOT Charged
Long Beach, CA — 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. However, when a Long Beach police officer did the exact same thing and killed his police K-9 partner, he came out on the other end unscathed.
On August 14, 2019, 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 faced nothing.
According to a report in the Press Telegram, shortly after Ozzy’s death, the Long Beach Police Department gathered and presented facts surrounding the death to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for review of any criminal culpability.
Fast-forward to 2020, and on Monday, the Long Beach Police were notified that the District Attorney’s Office and the Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office declined to file charges against Thue.
The Press Telegram reports:
"The case was first rejected by the District Attorney’s Office, and the city prosecutor’s team came to the same conclusion: that the case did not meet the standards for “criminal negligence,” Assistant City Prosecutor Randall Fudge said in an email.
The case was reviewed by three separate prosecutors in the Long Beach office with 40 years of combined experience, he added. The rejected possible charges included neglecting and/or abusing an animal."
“All three separately came to the same conclusion,” Fudge said, “that there would not be enough evidence for a unanimous jury to conclude there was criminal negligence on the part of Detective Thue.”
Patty Jackson, a local animal rights activist organized demonstrations to push for charges against Thue but after hearing the news he got off Scot free, she was not surprised.
“They should be held to the same standards that we are,” Jackson said of law enforcement officers. “These animals are like toddlers, and we’re sending them into the line of fire.”
Thue claimed the cooling system in his car had “malfunctioned” but the report never confirmed it. It is entirely obvious that these government entities came to this decision because Thue is a police officer, especially considering similar cases that turned out entirely different for non-cops.
Last year, 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 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.
Just last month, right down the road from where Ozzy was left in a hot car until he died, a small dog named Boomer was found in his owner’s car. Boomer was freed before he died, but unlike the special privilege granted to Thue, Boomer’s owner was immediately found and arrested.
As people continue to take to the streets across the country, it is cases like this one that compel them to be there. On a regular basis, cops commit the same or worse crimes than their civilian counterparts and almost always escape accountability — even in instances of child rape. If this doesn’t make you see the need for radical change then you are not paying attention.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/no...s-cop-hot-car/
Pennsylvania Cop Charged with Sending Sexual Text messages to Teen Girl
Prosecutors say this cop sent sexually explicit Snapchat text messages to a underage girl.
A part-time police officer in Delaware County, PA is accused of sending sexually explicit text messages to an underage girl. The officer is identified as 21-year-old Justin Hazelton and he was arrested on August 13. Hazelton is charged with one misdemeanor count of corruption of a minor.
Hazelton is employed as a officer with the Upland Police Department. On July 17 the Delaware County District Attorney's Office was contacted by the Department of Children and Youth Services who said a minor aged girl was receiving sexually explicit messages from Hazelton, CBS Philadelphia reports.
The messages had been brought to the attention of an attorney with the Department of Children and Youth Services who was working on an unrelated matter that had caused him to examine the contents of the minor girl's cell phone, the district attorney's office said.
The girl told authorities she received the text messages through Snapchat. Hazleton was then interviewed and admitted to police that he had sent and received the text messages, the district attorney said.
Hazelton turned himself in at the media courthouse with his attorney. He was arraigned and bail was set at $50,000 unsecured.
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-...1k6XTjFupZYuJA
Cops Arrest Man for Having “Their Feelings Hurt” by His Satire Police Facebook Page
Hutchinson County, TX — In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed in Hustler v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, that a parody, which no reasonable person expected to be true, was protected free speech. In the three decades since, politicians and government agencies have ignored this ruling and attempted to go after those who mock them using satire and parody.
Police officers are the worst when it comes to getting triggered after being made fun of with parody or satire accounts. As the following case illustrates, their rage at someone’s free speech can manifest into deprivation of rights, kidnapping, and extortion.
Michael Samuel Joseph Freemen runs a Facebook page under the name Borger Police Department. Aside from the content of the posts, the logo looks very similar to the actual Borger Police Department except that on the right on Freeman’s version, it clearly states that this is a “Satire / Parody” Facebook page.
The Borger Police Department claimed it wasn’t always labeled in this manner. However, it doesn’t matter as “no reasonable person expected it to be true.” What’s more, the censors at Facebook didn’t have a problem with it and our readers know how ban and censorship happy they can be.
Because many police officers do not like to have their feelings hurt, for running the page that is clearly labelled as satire, a warrant was issued for Freemen’s arrest.
He turned himself in last week on a charge listed as “ONLINE IMPERSONATION-NAME/PERSONA CREATE PAGE” which is an apparent reference to Sec. 33.07. of the Texas Penal Code forbidding creation of an online page with the “name or persona” of another person.
Spoiler alert, the Borger Police Department is not a person.
In a ridiculous bit of irony, below is a post from the real Borger Police Department page showing them celebrating the fact that they stole CBD and cannabis products that many people were going to be using as medicine. The fact that cops still think it is a good idea to brag about robbing people of their medicine should be satire in 2020 — but it is not.
Freeman apparently grasps this notion and thus started the satire page.
Highlighting the ridiculous nature of police claiming Freemen was impersonating them is the fact that anyone who scrolls down the page will clearly see that it is making fun of the Borger PD and not pretending to be them.
Ryan Brown of Blackburn & Brown, LLP in Amarillo told the Pampa News that Freemen’s ordeal is an extreme miscarriage of justice.
“What happened here is that the officers of Borger PD got their feelings hurt, and now they are just extorting Mr. Freeman by making him come to Borger and spend all this money,” he said. “We spent a lot of time on the phone with them making negotiations prior to him going there.”
On top of his arrest, Borger’s bail also seemed excessive as it was set at $15,000. He bonded out shortly after turning himself in and will now have to prove his innocence — which should not be very hard given the fact of this case — in order to avoid significant time behind bars.
“I’m not a criminal and didn’t do anything wrong, no reason to run or hide,” Freeman said. We agree.
Freeman is not the first person to be targeted for offending cops and he certainly will not be the last. Just this month, TFTP reported on a family who was harassed by police after they made a Facebook post complaining about how an off-duty officer shot and killed their dog and got away with it. Cops actually showed up to their home after complaining about their dog’s death on Facebook and threatened them.
That’s not all, in a case extremely similar to Freemen’s, Anthony Novak attempted to mock the Parma police department in Ohio and call out their numerous violations of citizens’ civil rights by creating a fake Parma PD Facebook page and make fun of its department. The police, whose pride had apparently been offended, arrested Novak for expressing his 1st Amendment right to free speech through satire.
He took his case all the way to trial and was acquitted. He’s now suing and will likely win.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/sa...-man-arrested/
WATCH: California Deputy Shoves NBA Executive Twice then Claims Victimhood
Newly release video contradicts statements from a California deputy that he was brutally attacked by NBA executive.
A California deputy who claimed to have been brutally attacked by the president of the Toronto Raptors last year was proven to be the aggressor after videos of the incident were released Tuesday.
Alameda County sheriff's deputy Alan Strickland was working security during an NBA Championship game between the Raptors and Golden State Warriors on June 13, 2019. The Raptors had just won the championship game and team president Masai Ujiri was making his way from the locker room tunnel to the floor of the arena to accept the trophy.
Bodycam video shows Ujiri was in the process of pulling out his credentials from inside his suit coat when Strickland shoved him hard, sending him reeling backwards.
"Back the f_ck up, man!" the deputy yelled at Ujiri.
With a shocked expression on his face, Ujiri attempted a second time to make his way onto the floor but the deputy shoved him back again.
That was when Ujiri shoved the deputy back.
Overhead security video with no audio shows a crowd of Raptor associates stepping between the two after Ujiri's shove, then whisking him away as Strickland appears to want to go after him but is unable to get to him because of the crowd. He told another cop to go after him but that cop was also unable to get to him.
Strickland initially claimed he suffered a concussion and the sheriff's office tried to file charges of battery on a law enforcement officer against Ujiri but the Alameda County District Attorney's Office declined to file charges.
Strickland then filed a lawsuit in February against Ujiri, claiming the following:
"At or around 9:00 P.M., Plaintiff ALAN STRICKLAND was at his assigned post when he saw an unidentified male wearing a dark suit and neck tie approaching his post. Plaintiff ALAN STRICKLAND later learned the identity of the male in the dark suit and neck tie was MASAI UJIRI.
MASAI UJIRI had no visible credentials, as was required by NBA security regulations. MASAI UJIRI attempted to circumvent the security checkpoint and evade Plaintiff ALAN STRICKLAND and access the basketball court without showing security personnel, including ALAN STRICKLAND, his credential. MASAI UJIRI repeatedly ignored Plaintiff ALAN STRICKLAND’s orders to stop and return to the arena security official.
MASAI UJIRI then attacked Plaintiff ALAN STRICKLAND and hit him in the face and chest with both fists. The force of from MASAI UJIRI’s attack sent Plaintiff ALAN STRICKLAND backwards several feet. And/or MASAI UJIRI negligently hit Plaintiff ALAN STRICKLAND and hit him in the face and chest with both fists.
At no point during this confrontation between MASAI UJIRI and Plaintiff ALAN STRICKLAND did MASAI UJIRI stop trying to advance towards the court or present his credentials for inspection as required by NBA security regulations."
On Tuesday, Ujiri responded by filing a counterclaim which is a little more truthful.
"As Mr. Ujiri attempted to make his way onto the court to join his team and fulfill his duties as Raptors’ President, he encountered Plaintiff Alan Strickland. Mr. Strickland was working as a security guard at the game. As Mr. Ujiri attempted to enter the court, Mr. Strickland assaulted him, forcefully shoving him back once and then twice. Mr. Ujiri then shoved Mr. Strickland in the chest. Other than the shoves, the two men did not have any further physical contact with each other. The entire encounter between Mr. Strickland and Mr. Ujiri was brief. Mr. Ujiri was eventually escorted to the court where he joined his team, accepted the championship trophy, and gave a live on camera interview."
The entire altercation could have been avoided had the deputy simply asked Ujiri for his credentials rather than shove him without warning but that would probably take de-escalation skills which is lacking in most law enforcement agencies across the country.
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-...K0So6tWdV3Lqpw
California Deputy who Falsely Accused NBA Executive has Prior Fraud Conviction
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-...bU-me5hhTtR-3A
Parents Release Video Showing Cop Execute Unarmed Innocent Son—Cop Charged with Murder
Fulton County, GA – Fired from the Atlanta Police Department for gunning down an innocent driver, a former cop was indicted on multiple charges including murder, making a false statement, and violating his oath of office. Although the ex-cop reported that the driver was attempting to run him over when he opened fire, investigators determined his claims were false after reviewing dashcam footage and witness statements.
After fighting for years to make the video from that night public, the family of 22-year-old Deravis Caine Rogers has released new video from the night of that fatal shooting, renewing calls for action from the city.
As 11 Alive reports, Rogers’ parents and their attorneys made the video public during a Tuesday morning news conference on Zoom – which they said they fought hard to obtain and share.
“It is hard to watch it because you start to wonder when will it end,” said Roger’s father, Deravis Thomas.
Shortly before midnight on June 22, 2016, Officer James Burns responded to a call from an off-duty cop reporting a suspicious person breaking into cars. Arriving at the scene in his patrol car, Burns hit his lights and siren immediately after seeing a 2011 Ford Fusion driving towards him.
Burns suddenly exited his vehicle and fired a single bullet into the head of Rogers. According to Burns, Rogers ignored his order to “Stop!” before gunning his engine and attempting to run him down with the sedan. Blinded by the headlights and fearing for his life, Burns claimed that he killed Rogers in self-defense.
“He clearly made a decision to run me over, you know, and kill me,” Burns told investigators. “And I’m thinking about, you know, I gotta protect myself.”
But the new video shows that Rogers likely had no idea he was even a suspect. Rogers had been driving toward Burns’ passenger side and made no attempt to harm the officer. Rogers was actually driving away from Burns when the officer shot him through the side of his Fusion.
“What happened was James Burns made assumptions as Mr. Rogers was driving away that he was involved in something that the evidence strongly suggests he wasn’t,” said Shean Williams, co-council for the family.
“Burns was indicted two months after the incident in 2016. He was reindicted in 2018 to fix a procedural matter,” according to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.
An internal affairs investigation found that Burns had no reason to suspect Rogers of criminal activity before using unnecessary and unreasonable force. After Burns was fired from the department in July, APD Sgt. Warren Pickard admitted that no evidence existed of any cars that were burglarized or stolen that night anywhere near the vicinity.
“The officer simply acted in a way that we cannot support,” Sgt. Pickard told 11 Alive News. “He had no idea who was in the vehicle. He had no idea if that was the vehicle he should be concerned with. He just discharged his weapon.”
Though Burns was indicted — twice — his family has yet to see justice in the form of a conviction much less a trial date.
“Rogers parents, Melva Rogers and Deravis Thomas, are appreciative that Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms and the city of Atlanta have highlighted the death of Rayshard Brooks and the tasing of two HBCU students, but they wonder why the mayor or city has done nothing regarding their son’s killing at the hands of APD officer James Burns,” family attorneys with the Cochran Firm noted in a statement.
“The city has yet to acknowledge us in any capacity,” Deravis added. “No one has ever reached out to us to even apologize to us on behalf of this officer that they hired.”
According to 11Alive, the family is now asking to sit down with the mayor and have the lawsuit against the city – which is on hold because of the delays with the criminal case, and, now, COVID-19 – settled. They are also asking for the mayor to establish what they’re calling a reconciliation commission to address past and unresolved cases of injustice involving APD officers.
The mayor responded to the family’s request, noting that her “thoughts and prayers” are with the Rogers as they wait and hope for justice to happen.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms released the following statement:
“The fact that this incident occurred in 2016, before I was Mayor, yet remains unresolved four years later, only highlights the need for urgent action and reform. My thoughts and prayers are with the family of Caine Rogers and every other family awaiting justice.”
Below is the raw dashcam footage. Notice how Rogers drove around the officer just like anyone would do, thinking cops were stopping someone else.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/vi...ents-murdered/
More blue line privilege for a criminal pig. Instead of receiving a fleeing charge, which is a felony, this POS cop gets off with a 15 day suspension and keeps his job. This was not "a mistake" made by an officer where leniency of punishment may be acceptable. This was a conscious effort to flee and evade being stopped by his fellow gang members.
Off-duty San Antonio police officer who fled traffic stop suspended for 15 days, records show
Officer reached speeds of 112 mph, according to suspension record.
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio police officer who fled from a traffic stop was suspended for his conduct, according to disciplinary records obtained by KSAT 12 News.
Officer Marcus Justice served his suspension from July 8 to July 20, according to the records.
On Nov 20, 2019, Justice was off-duty when he drove past another police officer while speeding on I-10 East, according to the suspension document.
Justice pulled over, but as the police officer was getting out of his vehicle, Justice “drove off at a high rate of speed,” according to the suspension record.
Officers noted Justice’s car reached speeds of 112 mph before they stopped chasing him and filed an evading arrest report. Court records do not show any criminal charges filed against Justice.
Records showed Justice agreed to the suspension, meaning he will not be appealing the decision.
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020...ium%3Dsharebar
Typical behavior from tyrants out looking to fabricate charges, violate someone's rights and possibly generate some revenue. The man filming was under no legal obligation to "show his papers" or prove anything to this jackboot pig, much less assist in his unlawful fishing expedition.
Cop Admits to Kidnapping, Tasering, and Raping Multiple Women While on the Job
Chattanooga, TN — A serial rapist police officer, who admitted to using his badge and cruiser to prey on innocent women — by raping them while on duty — was handed down a 20-year sentence this week. This sentence is extremely high for rapist cops and highlights the serious nature of his crimes.
As TFTP regularly reports, almost no one feels “protected” when they see flashing red and blue lights behind them while driving. But the women pulled over by Chattanooga police officer Desmond Ladon Logan were getting far more than a simple promise of extortion. Several of them got raped, and one even abused with a taser.
Logan pleaded guilty to two counts of deprivation of civil rights for the rapes of two women as part of a plea agreement and also admitted to two additional assaults.
In court this week, Logan stood before U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier and tried claiming that he never hurt anyone, saying, “I’d like to apologize for all the trouble it’s caused … I am not a bad person. I made mistakes. I never hurt anyone.”
His face mask muffled his words as he claimed to have never hurt anyone again. “I’ve done things wrong — moral things wrong, [but] I never hurt anyone.”
His victims, however, do not agree.
“I was barely afraid of anything before this happened to me, and now I am afraid to get out on the street by myself,” wrote one woman, identified as D.H., who Logan assaulted in a parking lot near the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2016, according to the Times Free Press.
During Logan’s trial, another victim came forward and said Logan raped her too — she’s now a cop.
Despite Logan attempting to claim he didn’t hurt anyone, Chattanooga police Chief David Roddy let this rapist know that he is “an absolute disgrace of a human being.”
“To stand in front of a judge and say he never hurt anyone is despicable and reprehensible,” he said in a statement to the Times Free Press. “Desmond Logan has hurt many, his family, officers, friends outside the department, but none more than the women he’s raped.”
“The actions of Desmond Logan jeopardized public safety and violated the trust of the citizens of Chattanooga he swore to protect,” J. Douglas Overbey, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, said in a statement. “This case exhibits our continued efforts to prosecute those who would abuse their authority to commit acts of violence and injustice against members of our community. Our office will continue to stand by and protect the victims of such crimes.”
Collier said the U.S. is also a victim in this case.
“It is all of your fellow citizens and on their behalf that the charges were brought,” he said.
“The state of Tennessee and city of Chattanooga cloaked Logan in the authority of the state to use force, detain and arrest citizens accused of crimes when he was given the badge of law enforcement,” Collier said.
And when those charged with enforcing the law turn around and break the law, it “breeds disrespect of law and anarchy,” he said.
It certainly does breed disrespect and no amount of pandering by police chiefs and judges claiming it was this “one bad apple” will ever reverse that disrespect as Logan’s case is one of many.
Indeed, one need only browse through our archives to see the brutal reality that is police sexual misconduct. Arguably, the reason it is so pervasive is the fact that they can get away with it with little to no consequences.
Fortunately in this instance, the rapist cop received far more time than other officers.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...women-on-duty/
Cop Drives Twice Legal Limit, Kills Man, Covers It Up and Is NOT Charged—He’s In With the Prosecutor
Fairmont, WV — Police officer Jakob Streyle was traveling at roughly twice the speed limit when he crashed into an elderly man’s SUV at an intersection in July of 2019. Steven Gene Santini, 72, was killed in the crash, and he was ultimately blamed for the incident as well — despite clear and overwhelming evidence against the officer. Now, after the state failed to hold officer Streyle accountable, the taxpayers were held liable instead — to the tune of $1.8 million.
According to court documents, Santini’s wife, the City of Fairmont and the two officers involved in the crash reached a $1.8 million settlement.
As TFTP reported at the time, officer Streyle insisted that Santini passed through the stop sign without stopping, and was eventually able to gather at least one witness who would confirm his side of the story, but in the lawsuit, Santini’s wife says that police did not take statements from two people who were traveling directly behind him. The people traveling behind him say that he did stop at the intersection, and there is also reportedly video evidence from a nearby surveillance camera that confirms this version of events as well.
The police report claims that “multiple witnesses” saw Santini pass through the stop sign, but only one witness’s testimony was listed. The claims of the witness cited in the police report are disputed by video evidence and other witnesses at the scene, but their testimony was never taken and the video was never considered as evidence.
“When our officers investigate an accident, that’s all we do, is investigate it,” Marion County Sheriff Jimmy Riffle said in April. “We don’t draw conclusions. We just write down what our investigation has revealed. Any criminal charges or fault or things of that nature are assigned, usually, through the prosecutor’s office. Fault and amounts of fault are usually determined through a civil process.”
However, they did draw conclusions and what they did was hardly an investigation, especially considering the fact that the video and testimonies were never entered as evidence.
Nevertheless, due to the disputed testimony of the sole witness, officer Streyle has been able to avoid any consequences for his reckless behavior. It may have helped that Streyle seems to have a friendly relationship with Marion County Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Freeman, who was ultimately responsible for deciding whether or not Streyle would face criminal charges.
In a letter absolving Streyle of any charges, Freeman pointed to the disputed witness testimony, and also suggested that emergency vehicles are allowed to break certain traffic laws. However, this only applies if the vehicle is actively on their way to an emergency with their sirens on, neither of which was the case in this incident.
On the day that the crash happened, Fairmont police posted an update on their Facebook page, reporting that a police truck crashed into a man who ran a stop sign, but also said that the truck “was not being operated at an extensive rate of speed.”
They were deceiving the family from the beginning.
Eight months later, the Santini family learned that this claim was a lie, when their insurance company hired an independent crash reconstructionist, who determined that Streyle was driving at least 73 mph when the crash happened.
The family’s lawyer Tony O’Dell, believes that the police department intentionally kept this information from the family and the public.
“The family was led to believe … that the Fairmont police officer was driving the speed limit. That is very troubling that the police department allowed this family to go for months not knowing what actually happened to their husband and dad,” O’Dell said, according to the Charlestown Gazette.
Freeman sought and won reelection in November, and unsurprisingly, he was endorsed by officer Streyle. In fact, Streyle comes from a law enforcement family, and his brother was hired just a few months after the crash.
Freeman has said that he appreciates the support he has gotten from the Streyle family, but denies any type of personal relationship that may have impacted his decision in the case.
“They’re all involved in law enforcement, so anytime you get that as a prosecutor — that kind of support, certainly it means a great deal, but we don’t have a personal relationship between myself and any of the Streyle family,” Freeman said,
After being accused of giving Streyle special privilege, Freeman took to Facebook to go on the defensive and claimed people who made such claims were “cowards and trolls.” He was subsequently demolished in the comments.
Sadly, as TFTP exclusively reported last year, this sort of thing happens all the time.
In September 2015, on a rainy Saturday night, Georgia state trooper Anthony Scott was flexing his above the law privilege and driving at dangerously high speeds for no reason. He was doing 91 mph in a 55 mph zone. Scott was not on his way to a call, nor did he have any official reason for driving fast. While travelling at such a high rate of speed, he slammed into a Nissan Sentra carrying four kids. Kylie Hope Lindsey, 17, and Isabella Alise Chinchilla, 16, who were in the back seat of the Nissan, were killed.
For four years, Kylie’s family fought for justice for their daughter. However, thanks to a corrupt system, not only has this cop avoided any and all accountability, but he’s been rewarded in the form of two elected positions. As TFTP reported at the time, Scott was elected to city council only three months after killing young Kylie and Isabella. It was also reported that he can even return to law enforcement.
But that’s not all.
In November, as the city of Buchanan held their elections, Scott ran uncontested and after serving as a member of the city council, and he was elected mayor. Not surprisingly, the media coverage of who won mayor is completely non-existent.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/po...y-with-murder/
Salt Lake officer on leave; use of K-9s suspended amid probe into use of force against Black man
SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake City Police Department has halted use of police dogs and placed an officer on administrative leave after he ordered a K-9 to attack a Black man who was kneeling in his yard with his hands in the air.
The department made the announcement Wednesday after launching an internal investigation a day earlier.
Police body camera footage shows a dog latching onto Jeffrey Ryans’ leg repeatedly on April 24, including as another officer sat over his back and handcuffed him. Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute at Ryans’ home that night and ordered him to get on the ground.
Attorneys for the 36-year-old Ryans say his wife told police that night that although the two had been arguing, nothing violent had happened.
“Then five minutes later, my client’s on the ground, being used as a chew toy,” attorney Dan Garner said. The only factor distinguishing the police call from several others the department fields each day is that his client is a Black man, Garner said.
Ryans wants the police department to take responsibility, Garner said, cover Ryans’ mounting medical bills and make permanent changes to its police dog protocol.
Ryans took a step toward suing the department in June, alleging in a legal notice that excessive police force left him with avoidable injuries like nerve and tendon damage, infections, and the possibility he will need to have his left leg amputated.
Body camera footage shows Ryans saying, “I’m on the ground, why are you biting me?” and crying out in pain several times. The officer can be heard saying “good boy” as the dog latches on.
Ryans, a former college basketball player and father of three, is a train engineer who can no longer feel his ankle because of nerve damage and is out of work due to his injuries, Garner said.
He told the Deseret News five or six officers responded to the home that night.
The police department said its internal review will determine whether the force was necessary and why it wasn’t referred to the internal affairs division. It will also pause the use of police dogs in apprehensions as experts evaluate its police dog program, the department said in a Wednesday statement on its website.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said Wednesday she is “deeply concerned” that she and senior leaders of the city’s police force learned of the encounter only after news coverage of the arrest surfaced Tuesday.
“We will conduct a thorough review of the breakdown in communication to ensure that it does not happen again,” Mendenhall said in a tweet. “I am disturbed by what I saw in that video, frustrated by how the situation was handled, and am committed to working to ensure neither happen again.”
Garner, Ryans’ attorney, said he does not believe supervisors in the police department were unaware of the issue before Tuesday, noting his law firm sent the legal notice of claim in June.
The department did not return a message Wednesday but pledged transparency at the conclusion of its review. In a statement, it said it is “committed to upholding the highest standard of service and professionalism to the communities we serve and will ensure this case is investigated in a timely manner.”
Police responded to a call from someone other than Ryans’ wife on an allegation that he was violating a protective order, Garner said. His wife had asked to lift the order and Ryans had been living in the house for weeks when police were called, but a judge had not yet signed off on her request, Garner said.
Garner declined an interview on Ryans’ behalf, saying that going public has taken an emotional toll on his client but that Ryans wanted to add to a growing conversation about injustice against Black people.
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office is also reviewing the case.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/8/...-bit-black-man
Cops Strip Search 6 Kids, Including a Toddler, After Mom Took Too Long to Buy Muffins
Elizabethtown, KY — In the land of the free, taking ten minutes in a store to buy muffins is akin to robbing a bank or selling heroin. At least that’s the way it played out when Holly Curry ran inside the Cobbler’s Cafe to buy her six children some muffins for breakfast and came out ten minutes later to find two cops waiting for her. This visit from police would end with all six of those kids being stripped naked by police and a family’s rights being severely violated. The good news is that in an extremely rare more, the cops who strip-searched children and threatened their mother were just denied qualified immunity.
As Reason Magazine reports this week, Curry sued the cop and the caseworker, insisting that the day she was investigated for child abuse, the two authorities so overstepped their bounds that they should not be afforded qualified immunity. In other words, their behavior was so egregious, they had to take responsibility for it. The judge agreed.
As we reported at the time, it was 67 degrees that day on March 30, 2017, so Curry — who was on her way to bring her 5-year-old to karate practice — thought it would be easier to leave the kids in the car than bring all of them into the Cafe. Statistically speaking, leaving the kids in the car is far safer than herding them through a busy parking lot. However, the police didn’t care about statistics.
When Curry came out, the officers told her she was being detained. Curry began to cry as the cops began questioning her and she asked if she could call her husband, Josiah. However, the officers refused to allow her. Also, the cops couldn’t have cared less about the kids being in the car, as they never mentioned them, and the kids stayed in the car the entire time.
The officer informed Curry that they were not charging her with a crime, but noted that they were going to file a “JC3 form” which is a hotline-type alert to the Kentucky child protection system.
The very next day, a CPS agent showed up at the Currys home. But Curry stood her ground and asked if the agent had a warrant. CPS did not have a warrant and the agent left. However, Curry’s brief rights-flexing victory lasted only about an hour.
Shortly after the original visit, child protective services showed up at the Curry’s home again, this time with a cop by her side, and demanded to be let in—despite still not having a warrant. Again, Curry asked for a warrant. That’s when the threats came out. According to the lawsuit filed by the Currys, the CPS agent and the cop threatened the family with taking all their kids if they did not let them in. Not wanting to have her children kidnapped, Curry let them in.
According to a report from Reason magazine, once inside, the woman from CPS:
"…questioned Curry about her home life. Curry answered fully, the lawsuit said, worried that any refusal would add to her peril. The investigator insisted on taking the youngest child from Curry’s lap and, without permission, began to undress her. In the presence of the male deputy, the investigator proceeded to undress each child, male and female, down to the genitals (removing the diapers of the two youngest). Curry tried to object, but she knew she was powerless to stop the investigator from doing full-body inspections.
The last to be undressed was her 4-year-old son, taught by his pediatrician that he should never let a stranger take his clothes off without his mom’s okay. But when the boy tried to make eye contact with Curry, the investigator stood directly in his line of sight, leaving him helpless. Then the investigator pointed to the deputy and said, “Show that cop your muscles!” The little boy removed his shirt and flexed his biceps as ordered. The investigator and deputy began laughing while the investigator started to pull down his pants. When the little boy finally was able to look back at his mother, she was holding back tears. The little boy’s face registered shame and fear."
After humiliating the family and severely tormenting the children with a police officer assisted strip search, the cop and the CPS agent left. Two weeks later, Curry would be found not guilty of child neglect.
The Currys then used the lawsuit to expose the system for coercion and threats they used to “investigate” an innocent mother and her six children.
Curry said, “the experience left an indelible mark on our whole family. We all felt violated.”
After the incident and subsequent lawsuit, the officers involved did what cops do, they sought to use the doctrine of Qualified Immunity, however, according to Reason, on August 19 in Curry v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Human Services, Judge Justin Walker said that it was clear the government used an improper threat to enter the home, lacked any evidence that might have justified a strip search, and violated the children’s rights to bodily integrity. The judge issued a powerful ruling, stated as follows:
"Act One: An “attentive and loving” mother gets muffins for her children. Act Two: There’s a knock on her door and a threat by the government to take away her children. Act Three: Her children are strip searched without cause. America’s founding generation may never have imagined a Cabinet for Health and Family Services. But they knew their fair share of unwelcome constables. And they added a Fourth Amendment to our Constitution to protect against this three-act tragedy."
Curry had every right to be worried about the state taking her children as Kentucky CPS have been exposed in recent years for illegally stealing children from homes as well as circumventing constitutional rights by threatening to steal children.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...ffins-lawsuit/
More blue line privilege for 2 POS pigs. Instead of being criminally charged for altering and doctoring police reports, they just get fired.
More pignorant tyrants out harassing and policing with their feelings and opinions instead of the laws that they swore an oath to uphold.
Originally Posted by b1slickguy
Ex-Boston Police Union Pres. Charged With Raping 4 More Children
Of the new victims, one was allegedly abused within the last two years.
A former head of Boston's police union already charged with raping a young relative now faces 16 new charges and accusations that he sexually assaulted and abused four more children, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Patrick Rose, a former Boston police officer and president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, was arrested on child sex charges earlier this month. Those charges stemmed from allegations he sexually assaulted a young relative starting when she was 7.
Rose was arraigned Tuesday on the 16 new charges, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins' office. There are 11 counts of child rape and five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local...ldren/2183771/
School Cop Caught on Own Body Cam Watching Porn Instead of Protecting Children
Forsyth County, GA — While collecting his taxpayer funded paycheck, a Forsyth County deputy was found to be watching porn instead of doing his job on the school campus he was tasked with patrolling. After repeatedly failing to even show up to work, the department began looking into Deputy Todd Franklin and discovered a shocking pattern of misconduct.
According to Forsyth County Sheriff Ron Freeman, after an internal investigation revealed a pattern of “unacceptable behaviors,” Franklin was fired. Freeman said that the school lodged several complaints against the deputy — not for watching porn in his patrol car — but for refusing to show up to the school at all.
Channel 2 Action News reports the investigation found the former deputy billed taxpayers for three days that he never went to the school. In addition, a search of Franklin’s county-issued cellphone uncovered an explicit exchange of photos and text messages between him and a woman, according to the news station.
After finding out that he was sending explicit text messages on his department-issued cellphone, investigators thought it may be a good idea to review his body camera footage. They discovered that while Franklin was supposed to be patrolling traffic in front of the school to keep the students safe, he was inside his police cruiser streaming porn.
After he was caught watching the porn, Franklin told superiors that it was acceptable because he thought he was watching child porn. Seriously. As Channel 2 reports, “when questioned about his conduct, Franklin reportedly told his supervisors he was investigating allegations that an underage girl was involved in the inappropriate videos.”
”When someone acts as this former employee did, they lose their right to work alongside those deputies and employees who serve with such distinction and heroism daily,” the sheriff’s office told Channel 2 in a statement. “The sheriff has made it expressly clear that unethical, illegal or immoral acts will lead to termination from this agency … There is no room for this conduct here, and the men and women of FCSO, as well as our citizens, deserve better.”
The citizens of Forsyth county most assuredly deserve better but as Franklin was not stripped of his law enforcement license for refusing to show up for work and watching porn when he did show up, another town will likely hire him as a cop.
While Franklin’s actions are certainly shocking while at a school, frequent readers of TFTP know that they could’ve been far worse.
Sadly, there is a pattern of school police officers getting caught preying on the children they are tasked with protecting. What’s more, despite getting caught preying on these children, many of the officers end up never going to jail.
Last year, we reported on another school cop, officer Matthew Priebe. This officer pleaded no contest to second-degree criminal sexual conduct, attempted fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, misconduct in office and two counts of assault and battery. The charges all stemmed from his role as a school resource officer and the repeated sexual assault of multiple young girls while on the job. In exchange for his no-contest plea, prosecutors dropped the charge of distributing sexually explicit material to a minor.
The charge of distributing sexually explicit material to a minor was dropped in spite of prosecutors having the photos of Priebe’s erect penis that he sent to the children. The Livingston County Prosecutor William Vailliencourt said that Priebe’s plea deal would guarantee that he would spend no more than 12 months in jail — all of which were suspended.
Also, as TFTP reported earlier this year, right down the road from Forsyth county, Cartersville Lt. Ryan Prescott quietly resigned amid an internal investigation into dozens of Snapchat messages he exchanged with preteen girls who attended the school at which he was the school resource officer. Prescott admitted to sending the messages to three girls, which the department found “unprofessional and inappropriate,” according to documents obtained by AJC.com through an open records request.
Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Prescott was not charged with a crime.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/sc...-porn-on-duty/
This situation took place 2 years ago, but the video gives some very basic information that should be well known by everyone...especially cops. Thumbs down to officer Romero, but thumbs up to his supervisor who arrived on the scene.
The people of Pueblo shelled out a boatload of their tax money that summer for the criminal activity of their thugs wearing costumes and badges.
Cop Caught on His Own Body Camera Sexually Assaulting Domestic Violence Victim Who Called 911 for Help
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/of...t-body-camera/
City paid victim nearly $500K
https://www.chieftain.com/f96c01b9-7...071b7ef51.html
More thugs wearing costumes and badges out enforcing their feelings and opinions instead of the law that they swore an oath to uphold. ID laws are the most basic laws, but most cops like to either play dumb as to what the actual law is or they make up their version of the law to get their way and violate peoples' rights. Pigs.
Just another instance of corruption, falsified police reports and lies from the blue line gang in an attempt to cover up the criminal behavior of their fellow thugs.
Police Claimed They ‘Lost’ Video of Officers Torturing Handcuffed Man with a Taser But That Was a Lie
Superior, AZ — When a person is charged by police and there is no bystander video evidence, it is that person’s word against the officer’s. In nearly all cases, courts will take the officer’s word over the alleged criminal and as a result, countless innocent people have done time in prison. Police also maintain control over body camera footage and as Aaron Maughan’s case illustrates, if police claim the footage was lost, it is up to you to find it.
In 2017, Maughan admitted to eluding police and was taken into police custody while being 100 percent compliant. The fact that he complied with the officer’s orders however, was no defense against his subsequent torture.
Video, which was thought to be “lost” now shows what happened while Maughan was taken into custody and as a result, the charges — for which he did time in jail for — were dropped.
According to police, Maughan eluded them during a traffic stop in an off-road pursuit but was found sleeping outside a convenience store the next morning. What happened after police officers Christian Ensley and Brett Marsden found him is now the subject of a lawsuit against the Superior Police Department.
“As Marsden secured the handcuffs on Maughan’s wrists, Ensley unholstered his taser. Marsden handcuffed Maughan, and said, “He’s good.” Maughan was in handcuffs and completely subdued. Ensley started yelling at Maughan to roll over onto his back. Maughan could not move because Marsden was sitting on his back. Ensley tased Maughan,” according to the claim. “Tasing a subdued handcuffed subject was unnecessary and excessive and amounts to the crime of aggravated assault by Ensley abetted by Marsden. “
As the video shows, the use of force by the officers was so over the top that a bystander asked them to stop. Instead of stopping, however, Ensley threatened the bystander.
Maughan would later plead guilty to eluding police and spent two years in jail for it. For some reason, however, a year after Maughan was sentenced to prison, the Superior police department hit him with new charges for the same incident. This time he was facing “resisting” charges.
‘As the video below clearly shows, however, Maughan was the victim of an assault and was not resisting in the least. This is likely why the video was reported “lost” by the department when Maughan sought to obtain it. Luckily for Maughan, his attorney found it.
“Superior Police Department officials, presumably Ensley, told the prosecutor that there was no (body camera footage) because the ‘disk had crashed.’ From our prior dealings with the Superior Police Department, we know that all OBC is stored on two separate servers that mirror each other,” according to the notice of claim written by Maughan’s attorney. “We also checked the Town of Superior City Council minutes for last year and found no indication that the SPD ever reported the disk crashed or sought funds to repair or replace the disk drive. We believe SPD has the OBC or has access to it, but fully intend to investigate this issue when we litigate this case.”
In other words, these criminal cops simply lied and claimed the video was lost when in reality, it was right where it was supposed to be. Once the video was produced, the charges against Maughan were dropped.
On top of the fact that police claimed to have lost the video, they also falsified the report from that day and made no mention of the use of force.
As ABC15 reports:
"But ABC15 obtained an apparently undisclosed police report authored by Ensley that shows he wrote a series of false statements about the facts of the arrest and his use of force.
Ensley claimed they struggled with Maughan for “a few minutes” and that they weren’t able to handcuff him until after he tasered him.
Both statements are clearly false.
Maughan was approached and handcuffed within 35 seconds. The taser was also deployed after he was handcuffed and Officer Marsden told Ensley that Maughan was “good,” meaning handcuffed."
According to the report, Ensley has a long and troubled career in law enforcement having been fired or investigated in at least six departments.
Only due to the fact that Maughan’s attorneys knew about the video is Maughan now a free man. Others have not been so lucky.
Days prior to the report from ABC15, the charges against Maughan were dropped.
“Apparently, the sudden emergence of the video also changed the Pinal County Attorney’s view of the case. Last week, after ABC15 sought comment from the Pinal County Attorney’s Office about its story, all the charges against Maughan were dismissed,” the notice of claim said.
Below is that “lost” video.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...torturing-man/
”He was under no legal obligation, at that point, to identify himself, but had he done so he would have been off and about his business in 2 minutes,” SAPD chief McManus.
So, the chief of the SAPD would rather have citizens surrender their 4th Amendment rights, despite there being no legal obligation to provide identification. Pigs have utter disdain for people who know their rights, the law and the scope of authority of LEOs and those who call them out on their BS.
More pigs who think their costumes and badges grant them special privileges to break the law. These oath breakers illegally used their emergency lights, when there was no emergency, to get around and avoid traffic on their way to lunch at the Pig Stand. How fitting.
Texas Police Officer Pleads Guilty To Possession Of ‘Sadistic’ Child Pornography
This cop was flagged by Google and then admitted to uploading child pornography from his work computer network.
Dallas Police Department Officer Daniel Collins, 35, pleaded guilty to uploading sexually explicit images of children using the City of Dallas’ employee internet, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. The guilty plea was on August 21.
Collins was a senior corporal with the department assigned to the Auto Theft Unit.
According to News Channel 10 Collins uploaded sexually explicit photos of prepubescent girls to his various Google accounts via the City of Dallas’ internet network.
Google flagged the images – one uploaded on May 13 to an account tagged “Dan Collins” and two more uploaded on June 29 to an account tagged “John Smith” – to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which filed a Cyber Tip line report with the Dallas Police Department.
In the report, they noted that one of the profiles included a photo of a man in a police uniform, later determined to be Collins.
A Dallas IT specialist traced the IP addresses used for the uploads to the City of Dallas internet network. Investigators determined that the same Google accounts were also accessed from Collin’s residence.
In an interview with federal agents, Mr. Collins admitted to accessing the Google accounts and saving child pornography.
U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox released this statement:
“Law enforcement officers take an oath to protect and serve. This defendant allegedly undermined that vow, preying upon our most vulnerable. The Department of Justice will not tolerate the exploitation of children – especially by our public servants.”
Collins faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Collins resigned from the Dallas Police Department before he could be fired.
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-...nUuY5HFrFz67Qw
Cop Arrested After He Was Caught Looting and Assaulting Protester During Brutality Protest
San Bernardino, CA — A 11-year veteran of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department was fired, and charged with assault, filing a false police report and looting in connection with an incident at a Big 5 Sporting Goods store amid George Floyd protests on June 1.
During the Floyd protests, which spanned from coast to coast, countless stores and businesses were looted and many of them burned to the ground. While the majority of the protesters remain entirely peaceful, these criminal factions discredit most everything the protests stand for. When cops being participating in the criminal activity as well, the line gets blurred even further.
Erdem Gorgulu, 46, responded with other sheriff’s deputies to a call of looting at the store. Upon entry Gorgulu encountered Juan Martinez, 28, who was allegedly mistreated by Gorgulu in an excessive use of force incident. Another deputy reportedly witnessed the incident and crossed over the thin blue line to report the matter to the police watch commander who promptly opened an investigation.
Gorgulu’s car was searched after a warrant was obtained and items, belonging to the Big 5 from 2150 East Highland Avenue, were located in his vehicle. Deputy Gorgulu was later fired and charges of assault and looting soon followed. Amazingly enough, Gorgulu was turned in by a fellow cop.
Charges against Martinez were later dropped for lack of evidence. Gorgulu’s charges, however, remain in place. San Bernardino County Sheriff John Macmahon weighed in on the incident in support of the officer who turned in his fellow boy in blue. The sheriff stated:
"I will not allow criminal acts to go unchecked and assure the public our deputies will be held to the highest standard…I applaud deputies for standing up for what is right along with the overwhelming majority of law enforcement officers across this great nation who do the right things for the right reasons every day."
Addressing Gorgulu’s actions directly, Macmahon in a statement:
"The criminal acts committed by Gorgulu while serving in his capacity as a deputy sheriff are inexcusable and undermine all the good, valuable work deputies do every day…Although Gorgulu’s acts were unacceptable and disheartening, this incident serves as an example of how deputies are willing to come forward and report unethical behavior."
The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office appears willing and able to prosecute Gorgulu. In a statement the DA’s office stated:
"When it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, we will prosecute those responsible for committing criminal acts, regardless of who they are."
Curiously silent in the matter of a sheriff’s deputy charged with serious crimes is the police officers’ union which goes by the title The Sheriff’s Employees’ Benefit Association. A search of Gorgulu’s name on their website came up empty, indicating the union will likely side with Gorgulu if he is one of their members.
It’s unclear at this point if Gorgulu’s firing, arrest, and charges are simply a show of force against alleged corruption or if the sheriff and the DA will go ahead with prosecution. As we have reported in the past, many times when deputies are charged with crimes, not only are the charges later dropped, when all the attention to the case diminishes, but they often times get their jobs back and go right back to abusing the supposed authority given to them by way of their badge.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...ality-protest/
Rather than going out and actually fighting real crime or doing something to benefit their community, these undercover pigs were out conducting a sting operation to try to entrap Uber and Lyft drivers into taking cash for a ride.
"A lot of the (ride share) people we are arresting - believe it or not - we are arresting for their own safety so they are not putting people in the cars that can hurt them." --- Lt. Dave Ferry, LAPD.
I don't believe Lt. Ferry and this is nothing more than a revenue generating scheme.
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