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    Sheriff Roundtree finds it "highly irregular" that a DA would actually prosecute one of his criminal piggies. This is the corrupt blue line culture on full display. It's "irregular" because the sheriff and his fellow gang members are accustomed to breaking the law with no accountability or punishment. The Georgia Aggravated Assault Laws (Ga. Code Ann. § 16-5-21) contain no exemptions for LEOs, but the sheriff thinks that the flashlight wielding pig is above the law and should not be prosecuted.

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    The entire Crescent City police department gets a paid vacation while FDLE investigates them for training and certification irregularities.



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    Cops Execute Teen on His Knees, Destroy Security Cameras, Block Autopsy from Family—Lawyer

    Los Angeles, CA — Andres Guardado, 18, had no criminal history. Nevertheless, police began chasing him down and killed him last week. According to his family, he was working as a security guard last Thursday at a repair shop in Los Angeles before police fired 7 shots into him as witnesses say he was on his knees with his hands behind his head. After they killed him, police then destroyed all the cameras that may have caught the interaction before stealing the DVR from the repair shop. Now, as they promise “transparency,” they are blocking the results of the autopsy from the family.

    According to police, deputies saw Guardado, who was working as a security guard at an auto body shop, flash a handgun before running towards two businesses, prompting deputies to pursue the suspect and fatally shoot him in the torso.

    “Deputies engaged in a short foot pursuit between the two businesses, at some point the deputies contacted the suspect and that’s when the deputy-involved shooting occurred,” the department said in its statement.

    They then claimed a gun was found at the scene, a claim the family disputes. Also, it is important to point out that Guardado, who was at work, would have no reason to flash a gun at police. What could he possibly have to gain from this?

    The police claims are also disputed by witnesses who say Guardado had no gun and was on his knees with his hands on his head when he was shot 7 times in the back.

    Andrew Heney, owner of the Freeway autoshop where Guardado worked, said the teen became frightened when deputies pulled up on him with guns drawn for no reason and so he ran.

    “The police came up, and they pulled their guns on him and he ran because he was scared, and they shot and killed him. He’s got a clean background and everything. There’s no reason,” he said.

    After they killed Guardado, police then confiscated the security cameras and footage. Capt. Kent Wegener, the head of the department’s Homicide Bureau, told ABC7 that investigators have taken six or seven exterior cameras from the scene, claiming two of the cameras were missing their memory cards.

    A search warrant was obtained to gain access to any “web-based video or security footage from the third-party vendor who supplies the service at the scene,” Wegener said.

    However, Heney disputes this claim and said police “got the warrant after they took the cameras.”

    “This is the first camera they yanked off the wall,” Heney said pointing towards one of the broken devices in an interview posted on Twitter. “They broke it off and took it right off the wall,” he said as he pointed out another.

    “They were just trying to be malicious and covering themselves,” he said.

    “They illegally got into everything, then they had the place locked down and then they got the warrant,” he said.

    The interview also contained images of one of the deputies on scene reportedly smirking at the family as they asked why their child was killed.

    Also, conveniently enough for the deputies, none of them were wearing body cameras.

    Fast-forward to this week, and now the family has learned that they will not be receiving the results of their son’s autopsy any time soon.

    The results of the autopsy, which was likely very simple considering he had six bullet holes in him, has been placed on a “security hold” by the department, according to a statement from the coroner’s office.

    “Since LASD placed a security hold on the case, the report and the cause of death cannot be released to the public,” Sarah Ardalani, the Public Information Officer for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office, told CNN on Monday.

    News of the department hiding the results of the autopsy, confiscating the video, not wearing body cameras, and killing a teenager on his knees according to witnesses, comes as Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva promises transparency.

    “Out of an abundance of caution, I reached out to @AGBecerra for monitoring of the Guardado investigation. I am committed to transparency and strengthening community faith in the investigative process,” Villanueva said in a Tweet on Monday.

    Naturally, the family is less than pleased with the “transparency” they are receiving in this case and have obtained a lawyer and outside investigators to look into their son’s death.

    “(The family of Andres Guardado) demand, and deserve, full transparency from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department regarding the facts surrounding the death of this young man,” a statement from attorney Adam Shea said.



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    “They had to know that. Which tells you either they are incredibly stupid, arrogant, not trained. But how in the world do you do something like this knowing it’s being recorded,” said the plaintiff's attorney. All three sound fitting and appear to apply to this situation.



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    Another domestic terrorist wearing a costume and badge who willfully operates outside of the law and the constitution that he swore an oath to uphold and protect. Here again we see a poorly trained, egotistical thug who lacks the ability to discern the difference between public and private property. The ignorant pig copsplains and lies, but the woman filming stands up for her rights and informs the pig that she would be continuing her legal, constitutionally protected activity and ignore his unlawful directives . Finally, the tyrant's supervisor showed up and informed him that the woman was allowed to be where she was, as it was public property. The oath breaker was educated and completes the incident with the walk of shame.



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    Despite Guilty Plea, 50 Child Porn Charges, Cop Gets NO JAIL, Will Not Register as Sex Offender

    Ocean City, MD — This month, former Ocean City police officer and sheriff’s deputy Jarrett “Jay” Wise, 53, got himself a PBJ. No, it was not a peanut butter and jelly, but rather probation before judgement. This made him a free man despite pleading guilty to multiple child pornography charges. Blue privilege is real and if you doubt it, you need only look at the following case.

    Wise was ensnared in a child pornography investigation last year when the Internet Task Force Program, a national child abuse and exploitation investigation network, sent a tip to the Worcester County Bureau of Investigations (WCBI).

    Dorchester State’s Attorney Doug Jones said that the Federal Bureau of Investigations received a similar tip about this sick child predator and coordinated with county investigators.

    According to court records, the FBI obtained a subpoena for Comcast records that showed two IP addresses connected to Wise’s home and business computers. When the devices and email accounts were searched, investigators found a trove of child pornography. According to investigators, some of it contained short videos of young children engaging in sexual activity with adult women.

    When police moved in to arrest Wise, he waived his Miranda Rights and immediately admitted to possessing the files as well as distributing them. On January 28 of this year, Wise was indicted and hit with a slew of charges.

    This trafficker of child abuse was charged with five felony counts of promoting and distributing child pornography, as well as 50 misdemeanor counts of possession of child pornography. To show you how much time he was facing in prison, each one of the 50 misdemeanors alone, came with a sentence of up to 5 years in prison, a fine of up to $2,500, or both.

    Just two days after his arrest, Wise posted a $25,000 bond and was released. He would never spend another day in prison. Instead he would make a plea deal with prosecutors, who somehow thought dropping all but three of the misdemeanor charges was a just move.

    Still, he faced the possibility of 15 years for the three charges, right? Wrong.

    As Ocean City Today reports, as part of his plea deal, Wise waived his right to a jury trial and pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of child pornography possession, which are punishable of up to 5 years in prison, a fine of up to $2,500 or both. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered, with the sentencing date contingent upon those findings.

    Last week, Wise was “sentenced” to no jail. After the hearing, Wise walked out of the court room a free man. On top of his insulting lack of punishment, Judge Thomas Groton also said that as he complies with his probation terms for the next two years, no convictions will be entered on his record — meaning he could become a cop again. However, he is not likely to do this as he is currently selling real estate in Ocean City.

    That’s not all. Despite being on probation for admitting to being a literal sex offending pedophile, this former “hero” in blue will not have to ever register as a sex offender.

    “In this case, the state recommended a sentence consisting of a period of incarceration, suspending that period of incarceration down to what is effectively a time-served sentence, crediting him for time he has served awaiting trial,” Jones told Ocean City Today.

    But Wise spent just 48 hours in jail waiting to post bail. That is all. Does this judge think it is acceptable to spend two days in jail and face no additional consequences for trafficking in the sexual abuse of children? Apparently he does.

    In the meantime, in the same state, and around the same time as Wise was arrested, Harold Junior Morris, 30, was also arrested. Morris was not arrested for trafficking in child porn or distributing images and videos of the sexual abuse of children. He was arrested for selling a plant, cannabis. Last year, Morris was sentenced to 40 years in prison for selling this plant as the child abusing pedophile cop walked free. And we still have the audacity to call this country the “land of the free.”

    Disgusting indeed.


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    Oath Breaker: “I’ve been a sheriff for nine years now. I’ve got 30 years of law enforcement in the county.”
    Citizen: “And you still don’t know much about the 1st Amendment, do you?”



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    This oath breaker with a badge and gun has his ignorant cop logic turned on him while harassing workers. Pigs that are literally this stupid or allow their ego to go to these idiotic lengths are a danger to society.



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    The oath breakers investigated themselves and found no wrongdoing on their part.


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    Piggy had his ego bruised and had to show these people what happens when they question the actions of tyrants.



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    This tyrant blows a gasket when his unlawful threats were challenged by a citizen. He was supposedly reprimanded, but this just means he was given a slap on the wrist and told not to get caught next time.


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    WATCH: Woman Awarded $325K after Cops Beat her on Beach for not Providing Name

    Philadelphia resident Emily Weinman was awarded $325,000 after she was beaten by Wildwood cops on a New Jersey beach.



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    Officers Lock Mentally Ill Man in “Feces Filled Room” for 6 Days—Court Denies Them Immunity

    Lubbock, TX — According to the United States Bill of Rights, the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. All too often however, law enforcement in the United States seems to gain pleasure from violating this amendment on all fronts. And as the following case illustrates, they do so, knowing they will likely face no consequences.

    Last year, a federal appeals court affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of several prison guards who forced an inmate to sleep naked on the floor of a prison cell that was covered in human waste and raw sewage. That man is Trent Taylor and after he was sadistically tortured by these officers, he filed a lawsuit against them.

    The system is set up in such a way, however, that multiple courts refused to allow him to go after the cops who locked him in this feces filled cell for days, by granting them qualified immunity.

    To be clear, the officers involved never disputed locking Taylor in the feces filled room. They admitted to the fact that in September of 2013, Taylor was stripped naked and forced to stay in a cell where “almost the entire surface—including the floor, ceiling, window, walls, and water faucet was covered with ‘massive amounts’ of feces.”

    Taylor couldn’t eat in the cell because he feared contamination and couldn’t drink any water because feces were “packed inside the water faucet.” According to the lawsuit, Taylor was brought to that cell on Sept. 6 and was locked in it until Sept. 10.

    On Sept. 11, Taylor’s abuse did not end and he was moved to a “seclusion cell” that didn’t have a toilet, water fountain, or bed, but did have a drain in the floor where he was told to defecate, according to the lawsuit.

    "Taylor alleged that the floor drain was clogged, leaving raw sewage on the floor. The drain smelled strongly of ammonia, which made it hard for Taylor to breathe. Yet, he alleged, the defendants repeatedly told him that if he needed to urinate, he had to do so in the clogged drain instead of being escorted to the restroom. Taylor refused.

    He worried that, because the drain was clogged, his urine would spill onto the already-soiled floor, where he had to sleep because he lacked a bed. So, he held his urine for twenty-four hours before involuntarily urinating on himself. He stayed in the seclusion cell until September 13. Prison officials then tried to return him to his first, feces- covered cell, but he objected and was permitted to stay in a different cell."

    This is quite literally torture and de facto violation of Taylor’s constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with all of this, however, it granted summary judgment for the officers, finding that while Taylor’s Eight Amendment rights were violated, the guards were entitled to qualified immunity because they didn’t have “fair warning” that “their specific actions were unconstitutional.”

    In other words, because throwing a mentally ill man into a feces filled cell for 6 days was not “clearly established” as a violation of the constitution, the cops were granted immunity.

    “The law wasn’t clearly established,” the Court ruled, basing their decision on the length of time permissible to submit a prisoner to such conditions. “Taylor stayed in his extremely dirty cells for only six days. Though the law was clear that prisoners couldn’t be housed in cells teeming with human waste for months on end, we hadn’t previously held that a time period so short violated the Constitution. That dooms Taylor’s claim.”

    Imagine the type of person it takes to think that is acceptable. Then, imagine it happened multiple times as Taylor and his attorneys fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court.

    When the case went before the Supreme Court, finally, reason and logic prevailed and the officers were denied qualified immunity in November of this year.

    “No reasonable correctional officer could have concluded that, under the extreme circumstances of this case, it was constitutionally permissible to house Taylor in such deplorably unsanitary conditions for such an extended period of time,” the ruling said. “Although an officer-by-officer analysis will be necessary on remand, the record suggests that at least some officers involved in Taylor’s ordeal were deliberately indifferent to the conditions of his cells.“

    Justice Clarence Thomas — who somehow thought that the cops should have immunity for what they did — was the single dissenting voice in the ruling and recently appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett abstained.

    “First and foremost, we’re so grateful that Mr. Taylor is going to have the opportunity to continue his fight to vindicate his constitutional rights in the courts,” Elizabeth Cruikshank, one of Taylor’s attorneys, said. “We are also really pleased with the broader implications of this decision. The Supreme Court has been really expanding the doctrine of qualified immunity over recent years. And so this is sort of an unusual case in which the Supreme Court said that conduct had really gone too far to qualify to get qualified immunity. And so we think that this decision will hopefully help ensure that other people who are like Mr. Taylor will have the opportunity to vindicate their rights.”


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    Another jackboot tyrant who attempts to violate a man's rights who has committed no crimes or broken any laws. Pigs hate it when a citizen knows and exercises their constitutional rights. The costumed and badged thug tries to copsplain his version of the law, which was not factually correct, and when the man challenged this the pig told the man he needed to "get out of his city." Piggy's ego gets in the way of performing his duties within the boundaries of the law.


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    Santa Ana Police Officer Agrees to Plead Guilty to Bribery Charge

    SANTA ANA, California – A Santa Ana Police officer was charged today with accepting $128,000 in bribes from a crime figure seeking to thwart law enforcement activities against his illegally operating businesses.

    Steven Lopez, 28, of Chino, was charged with bribery in a single-count information filed today in United States District Court. In a plea agreement also filed today, Lopez agreed to plead guilty to this felony offense. Lopez is expected to plead guilty to the offense in United States District Court in the coming weeks.

    According to his plea agreement, Lopez served as a police officer with the Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) from April 2016 to November 2020. From August 2019 until November 2020, Lopez received approximately $128,000 in bribes from an individual – named in court documents as “Co-Schemer 1” – seeking to influence Lopez in the performance of his official duties as a police officer, the plea agreement states.

    In August 2020, Lopez accepted $16,000 in bribes from Co-Schemer 1, the plea agreement states. Lopez further admitted that in September 2020 he solicited a bribe payment of at least $5,000 from Co-Schemer 1, who met Lopez – who was on duty and wearing his police uniform – during the late evening of September 14, on the top floor of a parking structure located directly across the street from SAPD headquarters. During this meeting, Lopez accepted Co-Schemer 1’s bribe payment, according to the plea agreement.

    Lopez admitted that he agreed to prevent or stop law enforcement compliance checks at businesses illegally operating under Co-Schemer 1’s control, law enforcement efforts to shut down those businesses, and law enforcement searches and seizures at those illegally operated businesses.

    On the evening of November 2, Lopez – once again on duty, wearing his police uniform and driving an SAPD-marked vehicle – met Co-Schemer 1 at the corner of First and Fairview streets in Santa Ana, and accepted a $2,500 bribe payment.

    Upon entering his guilty plea, Lopez will face a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.

    This matter was investigated by the FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the California Department of Justice, and the Santa Ana Police Department.

    This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Daniel H. Ahn and Daniel S. Lim of the Santa Ana Branch Office. Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan S. Galatzan of the Asset Forfeiture Section provided substantial assistance in this matter.



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    I'm pretty sure the statute doesn't allow that," says ignorant pig, Mark Lund, as he tells a man that he is not allowed to wear a mask in public during a pandemic. Do they get any dumber than this?




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    "I'm telling you, you have the right to assemble, but did you go through the proper protocols to assemble here," says the ignorant FIELD TRAINING OFFICER to several men gathering on a public easement to protest. The proper protocols? This jackboot thinks citizens need permission to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. How disgusting is it that the FTO, the one in charge of training other pigs, doesn't even know the law. This old tyrant needs put out to pasture. More Title 18 lawsuits on the way.





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    Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

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    "I gave you a lawful order to give me your name," said the ignorant POS wearing a costume and badge to a man who has committed no crime or broken any laws. Questions of public/private property and public easements can easily be remedied by checking the GIS surveys of the area, but these pigs, like so many, choose to be tyrants and police with their egos, feelings and what they "think" the law to be. Another clear illustration of low IQ, lack of training and the lack of any desire to follow the law. Once again the blue line gang earns the hate violating a man's rights and choosing to operate outside the boundaries of the law that they took a sworn oath to uphold.




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    On Duty Cop Stole Fentanyl from Evidence, Overdosed While Driving, Caused Multi-car Crash

    Klamath Falls, OR — In case you’ve been completely in the dark for the last decade, you’ve likely noticed that the United States is currently in the midst of an opioid crisis. This crisis knows no demographic, no race, no gender, no age limit, and no occupation—it hits them all. One example portrays this notion like no other and that is when cops get caught using opioids like fentanyl. Klamath Falls police detective, Thomas Dwayne Reif, 27, became the latest example after overdosing on fentanyl while on duty.

    Last month, Reif was on duty and in his official police cruiser when he fell unconscious after overdosing and caused a multiple vehicle accident in Klamath Falls. He had reportedly overdosed on the fentanyl which he is accused of stealing out of the evidence room.

    State police, who are investigation the crash said that Reif “unlawfully obtained and used drug evidence from an unrelated case” before crashing his assigned police car. He has since been hit with a slew of charges including DUI, Reckless Driving, Recklessly Endangering Another Person, Official Misconduct 1st degree, Tampering with Evidence, and Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance (Schedule II controlled substance – fentanyl).

    According to police, they received a 911 call of a person driving recklessly in a silver 2013 Dodge Avenger, which was Reif’s assigned police vehicle. Before police could find Reif, however, he caused the multi-car crash.

    “Just prior to the crash, Klamath County 911 received a call describing Reif as driving recklessly down South 6th Street,” according to state police. “Reif was evaluated at the scene by Klamath County Fire District 1 personnel and found to be unresponsive and not breathing. He was transported to Sky Lake Medical Center where emergency department personnel were able to quickly stabilize him.”

    Though the crash and overdose happened on November 27, Reif was not charged with anything until this week after police concluded that he broke multiple department policies.

    “On Tuesday, December 15, 2020, Mr. Reif turned himself in to the Klamath County Jail related to probable cause developed by Oregon State Police during the criminal investigation,” a statement from the Klamath Falls PD reads.

    The department said they are working with the Department of Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) in a professional standards case to determine if Reif can keep his certification as a police officer in Oregon, noting that this incident has “embarrassed” the department.

    “We are deeply embarrassed and disappointed with Mr. Reif’s misconduct. The Klamath Falls Police Department does not condone this type of behavior or misconduct by any law enforcement officer. We will continue to hold each other accountable to the highest ethical standards without exception.”

    Indeed, this incident is embarrassing but it is much more than that. It shows how the war on drugs is a complete failure as the ones enforcing it can’t even prevent themselves from partaking in these arbitrary substances deemed illegal by the state.

    Because Reif stole the fentanyl from police, after he stole it from someone else who is likely in jail, he deserves to be held accountable. Also, because Reif endangered the lives of all the people in the crash he caused, he deserves to be held accountable. And, because Reif engaged in a hypocritical act of betraying public trust by engaging in acts which he has arrested people for, he deserves to be held accountable.

    Had he simply been caught with the substance, he should never be punished — no one should.

    Criminalizing addiction and substance abuse has done nothing to curb use. People are literally dying in the streets at an increasing rate and no amount of police state can stop it. In fact, since the inception of the drug war, drug addiction and overdoses have gotten worse.

    As this incident, and others like it illustrate, when authorities who enforce the drug war, engage in the very practice they ostensibly fight, it is time we try something else.

    Last year, TFTP reported on a similar incident in which a cop — whose job consisted of locking people in cages for illegal substances — overdosed while on duty like Reif. Luckily for Franklin Township police officer Matthew D. Ellery, 29, he was found early enough to save his life and his police cruiser was not in motion.

    Clearly, kidnapping and caging people for substances is making the problem worse. It is time to fix it.


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    Marblehead Police Officer Timothy Tufts resigns after allegedly scratching swastika onto other officer’s vehicle; independent review will be launched

    A police officer in Marblehead has resigned after a swastika was scratched into the paint of another officer’s personal vehicle, officials said Wednesday.

    Police Chief Robert Picariello announced in a statement that Officer Timothy Tufts has resigned from the department as a result of the incident.

    Picariello became aware of the incident in mid-November. He started to gather facts and placed Tufts on administrative leave pending an investigation, consistent with the policies and procedures of the department, according to the statement.

    “I am dismayed and deeply disturbed by this incident. Today, there is no room for excuses of ignorance. The swastika is a symbol of hate and genocide, and we must speak up against acts of hate and hate speech whenever and wherever we encounter it,” Picariello said. “The Marblehead Police Department is committed to equality and respect of human rights and human dignity. This incident is not representative of the dedicated, decent women and men in our agency.”

    Tufts joined the department in March 2016.

    Picariello said he has been in contact with the Anti-Defamation League of New England to provide training programs and resources for the department.

    “Furthermore, I will commission an independent administrative review and retain an outside investigator to conduct a holistic finding of fact so that we can learn all of the facts of this incident and include it in our training programs,” the chief said. “I apologize to our community for this deeply disturbing and unfortunate situation, and I vow to do everything and engage every resource available to ensure that this kind of incident does not repeat itself in the future.”

    The Marblehead Board of Selectmen said it was “deeply disappointed” to learn of the incident.

    “This former officer’s behavior in no way reflects the values of the department, and that is evident in the swift and decisive way Chief Picariello has responded to this incident once he became aware of it last month,” the board wrote in a statement. “There is simply no place for this kind of behavior within the Marblehead Police Department, and we are encouraged to know that the department has engaged a third-party investigator to explore this incident in-depth, as well as contacting the Anti-Defamation League of New England to conduct training and provide essential resources.

    “Ultimately, no amount of training can counteract willful intolerance, and we are glad to know that the person responsible for this incident has resigned from the department. We know that this individual’s actions are not reflective of the character of the men and women who serve our community as police officers,” the statement continued.



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