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florida cop planting meth on random drivers

Man, what a prick.

Putting people in jail. Ruining their lives.

Give em the electric chair.

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Another thug wearing a costume and badge violating an innocent person's constitutional rights.

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WATCH: ‘Pedophile Hunter’ Catches Police Chief Trying to Have Sex with 14yo Boy

Stow, MA — A police chief in Stow, Massachusetts has been pulled from his job as the city’s top cop after video by a self-declared pedophile hunter was posted online. The video allegedly shows the cop attempt to meet a boy — who the chief knew was only 14 — for sex. Instead of meeting the boy, however, the chief was confronted by Predator Poachers Massachusetts.

Stow Police Chief Ralph Marino has been relieved of his duties after a meeting with state police over the weekend, according to authorities. As NBC10 Boston reports, Marino met with Massachusetts State Police representatives Saturday at the Stow police department, the town said. After the meeting he put himself on indefinite administrative leave and named Sgt. Darren Thraen as acting chief.

In a statement, the town said it would cooperate fully in “any investigation of Chief Marino or any other matters.

“There is no reason to believe that the activities being investigated involve or concern the operations of the Stow Police Department,” the statement said.

As the video shows, the ‘Catch a Predator’ style format of the group found the chief waiting outside of a local establishment. The chief had allegedly been exchanging text messages with the undercover vigilantes in the Predator Poachers group, who he thought was a 14-year-old boy.

The chief’s messages were gruesome in nature and illustrated his level of depravity. The chief knew that the person he was communicating with was a child. Despite the fact that he knew the person on the other end of the text was a child, the chief described his sexual desires to him, asked the child about the size of his genitals, and arranged to meet the child in a place “out of the way.”

The video starts when the chief is waiting to meet the boy, ‘somewhere out of the way.’ In the video, the man confronts Marino and attempts to identify him as ‘Mark.” Marino looks shocked and the man filming accuses the chief of trying to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex.

Predator Poachers knew that Marino was their man, as he had asked the chief to send a picture of himself to the 14-year-old boy, and the chief complied.

The chief appears to be frantically scrolling through his phone in an apparent attempt to delete the conversation with the pretend boy. However, as he reportedly attempts to delete the texts, the man filming tells him that he has them all in screen shots already.

The chief then walks away and gets into what appears to be a police-issued vehicle before driving off in shame. The entire time, the man filming is calling him out in front of everyone.

It is important to note that the folks at Predator Poachers didn’t immediately identify the man in their video as the police chief. However, after the chief appeared on local news when a 2-year-old girl went missing, they pegged him.

About 25 minutes before the chief went on the air to announce that a 2-year-old girl had gone missing, the chief was trying to lure a child for sex. As TB Daily News points out:

"The messages continue on April 13 at 10:05 AM, when the Chief attempts to bring the child into the woods, presumably for sex. This is significant because according to WCVB a two year old girl in Stow went missing at 10:30 AM, and was found at 12:30 PM."

Below is the disturbing video of a police chief attempting to lure a child for sex. Had the boy been an actual real child, there is no telling what the chief might have done. Warning, the text messages in the video below are disturbing.

These vigilantes out their catching alleged pedophiles provides an a much-needed service to humanity. There are groups like this all over the country and through their actions, they serve to deter pedophiles going online for fear of being outed.

Sadly, however, despite the high chances of the person on the other end of the text message being a cop or predator hunter, these sickos are unable to control their urges and continue to get busted. This is overtly apparent in the alleged actions of this police chief. He is a cop. He knows what happens to pedophiles in jail, knows that there are stings all the time to take them down, yet he still actively sought out sex with a child online. Shameful indeed.

Perhaps that is one of the reasons cops have arrested these pedophile hunters.


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Another blue zero hero fabricated a story that someone shot him while he investigated gunshots he heard coming from a nearby treeline. Resources and tax dollars were wasted as multiple LE agencies responded and searched for a shooter who didn't exist. These fake "cops getting ambushed" stories are becoming all too common. Nothing more than costumed and badged cowards needing their egos stroked and seeking attention.


Cop Arrested for Faking Story About Being Shot, Setting Off Manhunt for Non-Existent Shooter

Kansas City, MO — On September 14, news outlets across Missouri ran stories of a Kansas City Police officer who was shot while patrolling a shopping center early on a Saturday morning. According to police, the officer was off-duty, wearing his police uniform and shot in the chest while moonlighting as security at the local shopping center. A lockdown and manhunt immediately ensued as cops searched for the illusive shooter. But they would never find him, because he did not exist.

This week, the now-former Kansas City police officer, Kelly Sapp, 53, was charged for the incident. There never was a shooting and Sapp fabricated the entire story.

For months, despite prosecutors telling Sapp they had evidence contrary to what he was telling them about the shooting, the cop stood by his story. Eventually, however, once all the surveillance footage from the shopping center was reviewed — showed no signs of a shooting and contradicted all of his testimony — Sapp cracked.

As the Kansas City Star reports, after a lengthy investigation, Sapp told detectives, “this incident was a result of his being “in crisis” and he had “screwed up,” according to court records.

Sapp also allegedly told police investigators, “this is gonna be in the hands of Jackson County and they wanna decide whether I get punishment or not I’m perfectly fine with that,” prosecutors allege.

According to the report:

"According to police, Sapp said about 1 a.m. on Sept. 14, he heard noises coming from a nearby treeline. When he went to investigate, Sapp said, he heard gunshots.

Sapp, who was dressed in his full uniform, said he retreated and radioed for help. While taking cover, Sapp said, he realized he had been shot, but the bullet hadn’t penetrated his bullet-resistant vest.

He reported he couldn’t locate the suspect.

Several officers from Kansas City and Raytown responded and secured the area to prevent the possible shooter from escaping, according to court records."

But the shooter did “escape” because he didn’t exist. After reviewing many hours of surveillance footage, police would eventually find this out.

Sapp now has a court date of May 28 where he will face down a single misdemeanor charge for filing a false report — hardly a slap on the wrist for the potential outcome of such a lie.

While cops making up fake shooting stories may seem outlandish, it is, unfortunately, not an isolated incident. In fact, a lot of other officers have been caught forwarding the false narrative about the war on cops with fake shootings.

Just last December, TFTP reported on the fabricated story of how Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Angel Reinosa was shot in the shoulder by a sniper as he walked from his patrol car into the station. A massive manhunt ensued as heavily armed deputies in military attire set up a perimeter and locked down the area but it would all be in vein. Reinosa was arrested in December because he made the entire thing up. Then, less than a week later, another cop in Ohio was arrested for doing the exact same thing.

On January 13, approximately 50 officers from ten different departments combed a prominently black neighborhood looking for a non-existent suspect. This swarm of cops was reportedly detaining innocent people, pulling over others, and shaking up an entire community. All of this chaos and rights violations were because Warren Police Officer Noah Linnen falsely claimed he’d been involved in a shootout with a black man in a black SUV.

We have covered so many of these stories that it is hard to keep count.

In September of 2016, police around the country spread the story and asked for prayers for one of their own who’d been shot while on duty. An investigation was launched, a dragnet conducted, the town locked down and a suspect had been brought in. However, cops and their supporters quickly found out they had been duped by their fellow officer once investigators discovered the entire story had been fabricated. In October of last year, former Jackson Police Department Officer Sherry Hall was sentenced to prison for her lies.

As TFTP reported, one cop went to the ultimate extreme to fake a war on cops and actually took his own life.

In September 2015, a massive manhunt ensued after Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was found dead 50 yards from his cruiser 15 minutes after he radioed in that he was pursuing three suspects on foot. Despite locking down the entire town, no suspects were found in the area.

The following November, it was revealed that the reason no suspects were ever found was due to the fact that Gliniewicz killed himself. In a press conference, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force commander George Filenko said, “This staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that Gliniewicz had been committing.”

Gliniewicz wasn’t alone either. Also in September 2015, a Millis, MA police department placed an entire town on lockdown after a cop claimed he’d been shot by a ‘black man.’ However, it was quickly discovered that the cop faked being shot at to cover for his reckless driving.

“We have determined that the officer’s story was fabricated. Specifically, that he fired shots at his own cruiser as a plan to concoct a story that he was fired upon,” Millis Police Sgt. William Dwyer said. “The evidence indicates the shots were not fired by a suspect, and there is no gunman at large in or around the town.”

England Police Department Sgt. David Houser faked being shot during a traffic stop in Arkansas. Another statewide manhunt was launched for a non-existent “Hispanic man.” Two weeks later, Houser caved to pressure and confessed to shooting himself.

Before that, it was reported that veteran police officer Terry Smith was shot in the back by an unknown assailant, and Black Lives Matter protesters were implicated. However, the Houston Police Department found that it was actually his partner, Gregory Hudson who shot Smith.

In September 2015, Officer Bryan Johnson crashed his police cruiser into a tree. To cover up his terrible driving, Johnson then fired several shots into his wrecked car and then radioed into the station, claiming he’d been a victim of the war on cops. Yet another massive manhunt was launched in search of a fake shooter.

Commerce City Police Officer Kevin Lord was also arrested in 2015 after it was revealed he faked being shot at during a traffic stop. Lord claimed he was shot at close range while making a traffic stop in the 9700 block of Peoria Street. Like Reinosa, his bullet-proof vest was credited with saving his life.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/fa...y-cop-charged/

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EXCLUSIVE: Car Wash Manager Attacked by Cops For Filming Them Beat His Elderly Neighbor

Los Angeles, CA – Vincent Velasquez, 29, was exercising his constitutional rights to film police officers in the course of their duties when the crime scene tape was being erected in a double murder/suicide case. Velasquez noticed the police were mistreating his neighbor, a grandfather, who lived at the home where the crime took place. The grandfather called police and asked for Torrance PD to respond but when Lomita Sheriff’s Department arrived Velasquez witnessed Lomita deputies throwing the elderly grandpa in his 70’s to the ground, pulling him around, yanking him around on his arms, and slamming him against the squad car even after they had him in cuffs.

Lomita Sheriff’s Department noticed Velasquez filming and walked up onto Velasquez who back peddled to get away from the approaching officer. The officer told him he didn’t have the right to record — which is a lie.

Velasquez told the officer the car wash video surveillance cameras were recording and pointed to them mounted on the wall as he was being intimidated and nervous. “I’ll make up a charge if I have to,” an unnamed sergeant promised Velasquez as he was pressing in on the neighbor who was simply trying to record the abuse the elderly citizen was experiencing.

The irate cop then knocked the phone out of Velasquez’ hand, sending the expensive personal item to the ground. After the cop assaulted Velasquez, another officer came over and stepped on Velasquez’ hand as he was trying to retrieve the phone which was later crushed, along with Velasquez’ hand, under the weight of the officer’s foot.

From ages 5 to 18, Velasquez tells TFTP that he had trained in Jujitsu with his family. He knew how to defend himself and could have easily taken the attacking officer to the ground. Instead, the young man continued to submit to the demands of the officers. But when he retrieved his phone, the Lomita officers on scene escalated their attack on Velasquez.

The first officer appeared to fall over his own feet to the ground. Two other officers already had a hold of Velasquez and wrangled him to the ground. Again, his only perceived crime was filming in public which is no crime at all and protected 1st Amendment speech.

After getting on the ground, a female officer placed Velasquez in a choke hold and “choked out” the good citizen. He had been choked out before, 20-30 times, in his jujitsu training, and knew what had happened.

When he came to, he was being set up by cops who already had him in handcuffs. We took a look at all the video Velasquez made available to us. We cannot see at any point during the unwanted unwelcome police contact that Velasquez was resisting arrest. Instead, it is our opinion the Lomita officers were the aggressors, actually attacking a citizen they had targeted for a beat down, instigated by slapping a phone out of the hands of a concerned citizen.”

If you hang onto someone’s neck for 10-15 seconds you can kill someone. I counted 8 seconds before I blacked out. They weren’t even applying a proper choke hold, they were just pulling on my neck. It was just all over the place,” he told TFTP.

Velasquez was eventually charged with felony assault on a police officer for “kicking” the officer. Can you see Velasquez kick an officer? Instead, the officer was most likely injured when he clumsily fell over his two left feet. The act of falling down in front of his peers possibly gave his fellow boys and girls in blue the impression he was being attacked and a gaggle of cops descended on him.

“I’ve got a child. I manage the car wash. I don’t attack officers. I’m a family man. That’s not the lifestyle I live. I’m not a criminal. Not at all,” he said.

After being lifted off the ground the cops bent him over a squad car where the irate officer told Velasquez he would “break his shoulders” and we can see from the footage he did, in fact, attempt to dislocate Velasquez shoulders for no reason at all. Remember, at this point, Velasquez was already in handcuffs, still being cooperative, and was walking without resistance to the cop’s car.

Upon his arrest Velasquez was taken to jail where he bonded out. He is now facing felony charges and is looking for a lawyer. He wants to hire both a criminal attorney to get the charges dismissed and then a civil rights attorney to help him sue Lomita Sheriff’s Department for violating his civil rights. Again, Mr. Velasquez was at the car wash where he worked, filming police allegedly abusing his elderly neighbor who had just witnessed his grandchildren murdered in front of his eyes. It is not a crime to film police officers. It is not a crime to stand up for one’s civil rights, and it is not a crime to hold police officers accountable for their actions.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/ex...acked-filming/


Vincent Velazquez posted the following on his facebook page along with the videos of the incident, which can be seen in the link above.

"This is lomita sheriff's arresting me last week...
After the cop smacks my phone out my hand.,stomps phone attacks me for trying to grab it..
choked me out tell a passed out..
Didn't want me recording...they also have no body cams...
Kept my phone for evidence won't get it back for months...
Wtf
Report says I kicked him...what you think?
Let's get this out there!!!"

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Family Horrified After Cop Trespasses, Walks Up to Chained Dog, Kills It on Easter

Lonoke, AR — As our readers know, police officers killing dogs in the Land of the Free is such a common occurrence that it has its own terminology: puppycide. Despite postal workers, delivery drivers and pizza personnel coming into contact with dogs on a much more regular basis, it’s the police who are in the news because they can kill them with impunity. As the following story illustrates, even chained up dogs on private property are not safe from cops on a mission to kill them.

Dustin Evans, his fiancé Kathrain Lynn, and her children discovered on Easter morning that their beloved dog had been shot and killed while it was chained to a tree in their yard. According to the family, a deputy with the Lonoke County Sheriff’s office was the assailant.

“How do you explain to your kids that their dog was killed on easter because a dumbass f*cking police thought he was above the law and came in my yard after being told time and time again that the dog will bite if nobody is home,” Lynn wrote in a heated Facebook post.

In a Facebook post Sunday, Evans held no punches when calling out Deputy Humes for allegedly killing his dog.

"This is the piece of sh*t that decided that it was okay to go into my yard killing my dog that was on a running cable with out a warrant or probable cause. Nobody was home. This officer deserves everything he has coming to him please share and make this asshole famous. This happened in lonoke county"

According to Lynn they have gotten calls about their dog before — when he was off of his leash. She said that the deputies who have previously responded to the unleashed dog were able to deal with the situation without shooting their dog. But this time, when their dog was on a leash, the cop killed it.

Lynn said that a neighbor called police and asked them for Lynn or Evans phone number because she wanted them to put their dog inside. Instead of simply telling the family this, the deputy allegdly went onto private property and killed the leashed dog.

In less than 24 hours, Evans post has been shared over 11,000 times, illustrating how much this topic resonates with so many different people.

One Facebook user wrote that the family should file a lawsuit:

"He was on his runner minding his own business and this shady cop just walks up to him ajd shoots him! That’s animal cruelty I would understand if the dog was loose and running the streets trying to bite someone but it was on a runner, and in its own yard protecting your home… File a law suit"

“I am,” Lynn responded. Now, it will be the taxpayers who are held liable for a cop who allegedly shot a dog who was chained to a tree.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/po...easter-sunday/

Cop Fired After Walking Onto Family’s Property, Killing Their Leashed Dog


Lonoke, AR — As TFTP reported earlier this month, Dustin Evans, his fiancé Kathrain Lynn, and her children discovered on Easter morning that their beloved dog had been shot and killed while it was chained to a tree in their yard. According to the family, a deputy with the Lonoke County Sheriff’s office was the assailant. TFTP has since learned that the deputy who killed their dog has been fired from the department.

According to the Lonoke County Sheriff’s office, the deputy broke no law when he went onto the family’s property and killed their dog that was on a leash. However, according to a post on the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, “several policy and procedural issues were noted” in their investigation which led to the department terminating Deputy Aaron Humes’ employment.

In the post, the sheriff’s department claimed Deputy Humes was on the family’s property that day to “help” the dog. They claimed the dog had gotten tangled in the tree, so Humes untangled it. After untangling the dog, Humes claimed the leashed dog “lunged” at him so he “fired his service weapon,” killing the dog.

Had the deputy simply left the dog alone, it would still be alive today. Luckily for the residents of Lonoke county, Humes was fired, otherwise their dogs may one day receive the same “help.”

According to the statement, an internal investigation determined that no criminal actions took place.

"The sheriff was advised of the incident and with all use of force incidents he ordered a review by the Sheriff’s Administrative staff. After completion of this review it was determined that there was no criminal action or criminal intent by the deputy. However, several policy and procedural issues were noted. The recommendation of the administrative review was to discipline the deputy for these actions. The Sheriff terminated the deputy’s employment based on the totality of the incident. As with any employment issue no other details can be released. The Sheriff has always maintained the motto of “Do what’s right, not what’s easy”. While the deputy had no malice and was trying to assist the animal in this situation; there was an unintended consequence and this caused the solution to be worse than the problem."

“How do you explain to your kids that their dog was killed on easter because a dumbass f*cking police thought he was above the law and came in my yard after being told time and time again that the dog will bite if nobody is home,” Lynn wrote in a heated Facebook post..

The original article we wrote on this story was shared over 40,000 times on Facebook, illustrating just how dear this subject is to many folks. Due to the backlash the sheriff’s office received from the coverage, they had no choice but to fire deputy Humes, illustrating the power of social and alternative media.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...easter-sunday/

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Protesters Surround Cop’s Home After Video Showed Him Arrest Mom for Bringing Kids to Park

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/pr...sted-mom-park/

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Cop Arrested for Torturing Woman to Keep Her Silent About Raping Her as a Child—Released On $0 Bail


St. Albans, VT — The term blue privilege came about in this country after people began paying attention to the crimes committed by police officers and the subsequent lack of accountability they face when committing them. Over the years, TFTP has reported on countless cases of murdering, raping, child molesting, and rights violating cops escaping accountability for their actions with little to no jail time. In some instances, they aren’t even fired for murdering unarmed innocent fathers, crawling on their knees, begging for their lives.

Continuing in the trend, in a case out of Vermont this week, a St. Albans police officer just received a hefty dose of blue privilege over his alleged crimes. He was arrested for allegedly breaking into a woman’s home, beating her up, throwing her down a flight of stairs, and burning her repeatedly with a cigar. For good measure, he took his father along with him — who was also arrested for his role in the incident.

According to the victim, as reported by the St. Albans Messenger, she says two men she identified as Zachary and his father Allen Pigeon entered her home the first weekend in April, dragged her from the couch where she was sleeping, threw her down some stairs and off her porch, then pulled her back up it and again threw her down again, this time off a section of porch with no stairs, before burning her back with a cigar.

Despite these grim allegations, after Officer Zachary Pigeon, 29, and his father Allen Pigeon, 56, each pleaded not guilty Monday to five charges: simple assault, kidnapping, obstructing justice, burglary, and unlawful restraint and they were released without bail and walked out of the courtroom.

As the VT Digger reports,

"The kidnapping charge carries the possibility of life behind bars, with the additional charges collectively adding the potential of another 26 years imprisonment.

State police had said Sunday that Zachary Pigeon would also face an aggravated sexual assault charge, but that was not included in the counts filed against him in court Monday.

At an arraignment at the Chittenden County criminal court, Judge Gregory Rainville ordered both Zachary Pigeon and his father Allen Pigeon be released on conditions — citing the coronavirus."

According to the judge, holding the two men accused of torturing an innocent woman to keep her quiet, was not “absolutely necessary” due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

VT Digger reports Rainville said it was a “very close case,” particularly for Zachary Pigeon, noting that he had no criminal record, but that the alleged crime was a “very heinous act” that carried the possibility of a life sentence.

“However, given the Covid-19 emergency, we’re trying not to introduce any new inmates unless absolutely necessary,” Rainville said.

State’s Attorney Diane Wheeler disagreed with the judge and pushed for both men to be held without bail. She did not get her way. Now, two men accused of attempting to cover up a case of long-term sexual abuse, by torturing a woman, are at their home, released on condition.

According to WCAX, the victim told investigators she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Zachary Pigeon between 2003 and 2007. Police say when she recently threatened to reveal the alleged attacks, Pigeon and his father kidnapped and assaulted her.

According to the affidavit, Zachary and Allen Pigeon told the woman “if she said anything more, or tried to get them in any more trouble, she’d be dead, or she’d be wishing she was worse than dead,” according to the affidavit.

The woman told police that Pigeon had repeatedly sexually assaulted her over the course of several years when she was only a child. Zachary was a teenager at the time of the alleged assaults.

The victim “told police the assaults began when she was in the fourth grade and continued until the eighth grade, when she moved and was no longer living where Zachary could assault her. She said he threatened to assault her younger sister if she resisted him, and that he would hold a box cutter to her throat, nipples or another vulnerable part of her body to degrade her if she tried to refuse.”

When interviewed in the investigation, both Pigeons denied the allegations and told investigators that the victim was unreliable.

The cop’s privilege was even extended by his own department who issued nothing but praise for him after the arrest.

“There is nothing, nothing whatsoever in his file that would show up as a red flag or an indicator of any of the things that I have now heard that he is alleged to have done,” St. Albans Police Chief Gary Taylor said. “We went all through it. He polygraphed twice– and there is nothing.”

Hopefully, the alleged victim doesn’t end up dead before these two men go to trial.


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Serial Rapist Cop Found with ‘Hundreds of Thousands of Images’ of Victims on His Phone

Urbana, IL — In December, University of Illinois police officer Jerald “Jerry” Sandage, was arrested and charged with official misconduct for allegedly using police resources to look up personal information on women, while both on and off duty. He was let out shortly after and now finds himself back in the same Piatt County jail after being arrested again — this time for the rape of multiple women, who were all unconscious at the time of their rapes.

Sandage is accused of disgusting acts of rape on unwilling and unconscious victims. Illustrating the extremely depraved nature of his acts is the fact that the victims never knew they had been raped until seeing the photos of it. One of the victims found out from Sandage himself after he showed her the photos and videos of him raping her and then blackmailed her for more sex by threatening to expose an extramarital affair.

Because Sandage was a cop, he has managed to escape accountability for his actions for years. In fact, some of the charges Sandage is currently facing stem from a 2018 investigation that originated when one of the victims went to Illinois State Police with her claims of rape.

However, according to the News-Gazette, the office of the state appellate prosecutor, appointed at the time because Sandage was still a UI police officer, declined to file criminal charges in that case.

They are likely regretting that decision as it allowed Sandage to victimize at least one victim, but potentially countless others.

Not until 2019 did his own department find that he was using police resources to look up personal information on his victims to stalk them. Once this was uncovered, State’s Attorney Julia Rietz filed seven counts of official misconduct against Sandage in December.

After his arrest on multiple counts of misconduct, the allegations that were once thrown out due to his blue privilege, received a second look. Other victims were then interviewed and Sandage’s phone was searched. What they found was an incredibly disturbing profile of a serial rapist with countless victims going back years.

In the midst of the investigation, Sandage resigned in February after being a UI officer for 12 years.

In court filings, Rietz described the allegations in each case of the four women who are known:

"— On June 29, 2012, Sandage is accused of committing criminal sexual assault with a woman who was unable to consent. He and the woman were friends and were at a bar together. The victim was intoxicated and went to his home and fell asleep.

Photos found on his phone show Sandage allegedly committing a sex act with the woman, who was unaware it happened until she was shown the photos.

— On March 19, 2016, Sandage is accused of committing criminal sexual abuse with a female friend. Photos on his phone show her apparently unconscious and in states of undress as he allegedly committed a sex act with her. The woman didn’t know it had happened until seeing the pictures.

— On Sept. 22, 2018, Sandage is accused of committing criminal sexual assault on a woman he had met at a bar and invited to another bar to see a band. She went to his apartment with him, had a drink and passed out. She said she awoke to find him on top of her committing a sex act. A search of his phone showed that three weeks earlier, he had looked up information on date-rape drugs. (This was the case where the state appellate prosecutor declined to file charges.)

— Between November 2017 and November 2019, Sandage is accused of committing criminal sexual assault and intimidation with a woman he knew. He allegedly had sex with her when she couldn’t consent and threatened that unless she continued to have sex with him, he would reveal to her husband information about another relationship she was having with a married man."

Sandage is currently being held on a $3 million bond. If convicted on all counts, Sandage faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. Let’s hope for his alleged victims, that he doesn’t get off with a slap on the wrist, like so many other serial rapist cops.


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WATCH: ‘Hero’ Cops Arrest Elderly Man for Trying to Run His Compliant Business During Pandemic

Winslow, AZ — For all intents and purposes, Native American trinket and souvenir dealer Daniel J. Mazon was attempting to comply with the closure of non-essential businesses in Winslow, Arizona where his roadside business is located. He got his business license changed on to read “Indian Department Store” in March. But that wasn’t enough for Winslow police to leave the 71-year-old man alone.

They continued coming by his business, even after he’d changed his business license, ordering him to close, and justifying it by saying they got calls from concerned citizens the elderly man was running a business which wasn’t essential. Mazon remarked:

"Corona Bologna"

Once again, after showing responding officers his new business license and declaring he is selling hay, food, and dog food, Mazon believed he had done all he needed to do to comply with the COVID-19 restrictions.

However, this time, the officers decided to place the man in handcuffs for the simple act of defying to give them his driver’s license. In his elderly mind he “was not driving” so why should he have to provide a driver’s license. Cops told the man he was being arrested and he then said he’d give them his driver’s license. But it was too late.

They put the cuffs on him, stuffed him into the back of a squad car, and gave the money from his wallet, which they’d seized, to his wife. She was so distraught she started sharing religious messages with the police who we presume would just say they were “doing their jobs”.

Unconvinced Mazon was an “essential business” one officer stated his store, based on his perception:

"Does not qualify as a department store."

The elderly businessman accused the police officers of not understanding the law, violating his constitutional rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, and to not be unlawfully arrested. He told the men: "You guys don’t have a right to touch me or even handle me."

In the end, Mazon stood his ground, and avoided arrest but he declared he was “close enough in compliance to your violation.” He also hinted that he would continue to run his business even though the detaining officer told him once again to “stay closed”.

Mazon wasn’t hurting anyone, was selling essential goods, and had attempted to comply by getting his license changed. Mind you, feed and seed stores were open, pet stores were open, and Mazon was simply trying to make a living by meeting the buying needs of the public during an epidemic.

Officers eventually relented in their pursuit to arrest Mazon, deciding to give him a citation, after all. Why other businesses can remain open (which are large department chains usually) and why small businesses like Mazon’s are forced to close remains a mystery to many Americans, actually spurring protests all throughout the United States.

Let’s be clear. Had Mr. Mazon attempted to resist arrest in any way, those police officers who presumably have elderly parents of their own, would have thrown him to the ground, and violently kidnapped the man away from his business and wife, all to enforce the dictatorial mandate of Governor Doug Ducey. It is becoming clearer with every passing day the basis upon which COVID-19 restrictions were put into place is starting to crumble.

While the pandemic is killing thousands of people, overall the virus is apparently not as dangerous as first suspected and continuing to deprive citizens of the right to work is leading to further chaos and needless confrontations with police. In Mazon’s own words to one of the officers who later returned his cell phone:

"Are you worried about corona? It’s nonsense. It’s used to take over our country."

Someone give Mr. Mazon a medal for standing up for what he believes in the face of two badge wearing men with guns. Not only did he not get arrested, he showed everyone who wants to work during the so-called quarantine just how to attempt to legally do it. He got his business license changed to demonstrate he’s an essential business and he did not back down even when threatened with arrest. Mr. Mazon, we at TFTP salute you. Thank you for your service.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/el...ated-detained/

Watch the footage from one of the order following blue line gang member's body cam in the link above.

[Grits n' Gravy]

Like I said, a cop commits a crime, he should be executed and his benefits given to any victims of his crimes. Screw his family.

Dead cop > crooked cop

[b1slickguy]

Multiple Parents Shocked to Find School Cop Creepily Texting Their Middle School Daughters

Cartersville, GA — Grooming is a manipulative process used by a sexual predator for the purpose of creating a sense of trust with a targeted person prior to the act of actual victimization. It’s through grooming that these vile sexual predators are able to convince their victims, often times children, not to report them and endure years of abuse. Over the years, TFTP has reported on countless child predators — many of whom are cops, who are tasked with protecting children at their schools. In the instance below, we get a look into how this alleged grooming takes place as a Cartersville police lieutenant appeared to be engaging in grooming multiple middle school girls — yet he was not arrested or even fired.

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.

Ironically enough, Prescott was tasked with teaching children classes on “Sexting and Social Media.” It was during these classes that Prescott engaged with several young girls and began texting with them.

As the AJC reports:

"He said an eighth grade student showed him how to use Snapchat, which is when he began to message that student and two other girls, the documents said. Prescott told investigators that his intent was to “build a ‘trusting’ relationship with the student (who set up his account) since he had concerns about her being bullied.” He also said the student was having problems at home.

Aside from claiming that the girl repeatedly visited the school counselor, he couldn’t provide an example of why he thought she was experiencing bullying or problems at home, according to the documents."

“When confronted with the comments he exchanged with the students, Prescott agreed that they may appear inappropriate but that was not his intent,” according to the documents.

The claim of not knowing they were inappropriate is likely a lie, especially considering the fact that he said so in the messages and was worried about be caught.

“Delete my messages Butthead,” the school cop wrote to the little girl. “Im deleting the app, im being set up.”

In one exchange, in the photos above, Prescott told girls he was “drunk texting everyone,” to which the child responded “drinking is bad” and “… why you do it. you supposed to be a good influence.”

When the parents found out that the school cop was “drunk texting” their children, naturally they were shocked.

Some of the parents who read the messages said that their daughters’ interactions with Prescott were not sexual in nature. However, they heard that Prescott was more explicit with other children, including “hooking up at school,” the document said.

In one message, according to the documents, Prescott told a girl to delete the messages because “rumors will spread.” But these were not rumors. This was really happening.

Prescott denied the accusations that he was grooming the girls, but when reading the texts, it is hard to come to any other conclusion.

While the aforementioned texts do not necessarily equate to criminal behavior, the next ones, not so much. One parent told investigators that “She felt the messages were inappropriate considering her daughter’s age and Prescott’s position with the school and the agency,” the documents said.

But inappropriate is an understatement.

Prescott admitted to investigators that he discussed a girl’s sexual orientation in an effort to “build a relationship with her,” the documents said.

As AJC reports, Prescott continually asked the girl if she had a boyfriend, and she eventually replied that she was interested in a girl at school, according to the Snapchat messages.

He then asked, “Do all your friends know you like girls butt? Lmao” before asking her to “send me a pic of her.”

Prescott was engaging in the solicitation of images from children, hardly the conduct of an upstanding school cop, and more like the conduct of a child-grooming pedophile

Nevertheless, Prescott resigned quietly and, according to AJC, the investigation concluded that he violated Cartersville Police Department standard operating procedures, the documents said. They cited three sections that he violated, including “professional image,” “social networking” and “conduct unbecoming.”

Despite their findings, no criminal charges have been filed in regard to Prescott’s case.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/sc...g-young-girls/

[Grits n' Gravy]

Multiple Parents Shocked to Find School Cop Creepily Texting Their Middle School Daughters

Cartersville, GA — Grooming is a manipulative process used by a sexual predator for the purpose of creating a sense of trust with a targeted person prior to the act of actual victimization. It’s through grooming that these vile sexual predators are able to convince their victims, often times children, not to report them and endure years of abuse. Over the years, TFTP has reported on countless child predators — many of whom are cops, who are tasked with protecting children at their schools. In the instance below, we get a look into how this alleged grooming takes place as a Cartersville police lieutenant appeared to be engaging in grooming multiple middle school girls — yet he was not arrested or even fired.

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.

Ironically enough, Prescott was tasked with teaching children classes on “Sexting and Social Media.” It was during these classes that Prescott engaged with several young girls and began texting with them.

As the AJC reports:

"He said an eighth grade student showed him how to use Snapchat, which is when he began to message that student and two other girls, the documents said. Prescott told investigators that his intent was to “build a ‘trusting’ relationship with the student (who set up his account) since he had concerns about her being bullied.” He also said the student was having problems at home.

Aside from claiming that the girl repeatedly visited the school counselor, he couldn’t provide an example of why he thought she was experiencing bullying or problems at home, according to the documents."

“When confronted with the comments he exchanged with the students, Prescott agreed that they may appear inappropriate but that was not his intent,” according to the documents.

The claim of not knowing they were inappropriate is likely a lie, especially considering the fact that he said so in the messages and was worried about be caught.

“Delete my messages Butthead,” the school cop wrote to the little girl. “Im deleting the app, im being set up.”

In one exchange, in the photos above, Prescott told girls he was “drunk texting everyone,” to which the child responded “drinking is bad” and “… why you do it. you supposed to be a good influence.”

When the parents found out that the school cop was “drunk texting” their children, naturally they were shocked.

Some of the parents who read the messages said that their daughters’ interactions with Prescott were not sexual in nature. However, they heard that Prescott was more explicit with other children, including “hooking up at school,” the document said.

In one message, according to the documents, Prescott told a girl to delete the messages because “rumors will spread.” But these were not rumors. This was really happening.

Prescott denied the accusations that he was grooming the girls, but when reading the texts, it is hard to come to any other conclusion.

While the aforementioned texts do not necessarily equate to criminal behavior, the next ones, not so much. One parent told investigators that “She felt the messages were inappropriate considering her daughter’s age and Prescott’s position with the school and the agency,” the documents said.

But inappropriate is an understatement.

Prescott admitted to investigators that he discussed a girl’s sexual orientation in an effort to “build a relationship with her,” the documents said.

As AJC reports, Prescott continually asked the girl if she had a boyfriend, and she eventually replied that she was interested in a girl at school, according to the Snapchat messages.

He then asked, “Do all your friends know you like girls butt? Lmao” before asking her to “send me a pic of her.”

Prescott was engaging in the solicitation of images from children, hardly the conduct of an upstanding school cop, and more like the conduct of a child-grooming pedophile

Nevertheless, Prescott resigned quietly and, according to AJC, the investigation concluded that he violated Cartersville Police Department standard operating procedures, the documents said. They cited three sections that he violated, including “professional image,” “social networking” and “conduct unbecoming.”

Despite their findings, no criminal charges have been filed in regard to Prescott’s case.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/sc...g-young-girls/

Bullet to the head

[b1slickguy]

Just another day of harassing and intimidating for this POS domestic terrorist wearing a costume and a badge. Another member of the blue line gang earning the hate.

[b1slickguy]

WATCH: Cop Checks Her Phone Before Stepping In to Stop Partner’s Attack on Innocent Man

Los Angeles, CA — A disturbing video was submitted to the Free Thought Project Monday night that shows an unidentified LAPD officer whaling on an innocent man. The video has since prompted an internal investigation for misconduct and excessive use of force.

According to police, the incident unfolded on April 27. However, video of the incident wasn’t posted online until this week. The video shows two officers with LAPD’s Hollenbeck Division reportedly responding to an alleged trespassing report.

LAPD reports that when officers arrived on the scene, they encountered the man in the video below and told him to leave the property. If you read the LAPD report, it states that the officer received injuries to his hand. However, those injuries were from the repeated punches to the innocent man’s head, not from the innocent man attacking the cop.

“During the course of the investigation a physical altercation occurred between the suspect and one of the officers, resulting in the officer receiving minor injuries to his hand. The suspect had abrasions to his head and face but refused medical attention,” LAPD said in a statement.

Also, there was no altercation, the attack was one-sided and unprovoked.

As the video shows, the man is entirely compliant. He is seen putting his hands behind his back and allowing cops to handcuff him. Then, without cause or provocation, the male LAPD cop unleashes a flurry of punches to the innocent man’s head.

Amazingly enough, the man does not fight back and only crouches out of the way in an attempt to defend his head from the cop’s fists. As the cop continues to pound the compliant innocent man’s head, the video shows his partner checking her phone, entirely unconcerned that her partner is violating an innocent man’s rights.

Eventually, the abuse must get to the female cop as she finally moves in and grabs the male cop’s arm to stop further abuse.

The innocent man, clearly shocked that he was just attacked for no reason by a raging violent cop, asks the cop “what the f**k is wrong with you?”

The cop responds with the same question. But when you watch the video below, it is entirely clear who had something wrong with them and it wasn’t the innocent man getting his head pummeled by one of LA’s finest.

According to FOX 11, a uniformed supervisor responded to the scene and initiated a preliminary investigation consistent with the Department’s reportable use of force protocols,” the statement continues. “A community member who reportedly witnessed some portion of the altercation provided the supervisor with a copy of a cell phone video taken. Upon review of the content of the cell phone video and the involved officer’s body worn video, the supervisor notified his commanding officer and investigators of the Internal Affairs Group responded to conduct a personnel complaint investigation.”

Showing the entire unnecessary nature of the detainment and subsequent beating is the fact that after the supervisor arrived on the scene and watched the video provided by the witness, the innocent man was let go without charges.

After the video was posted online, LAPD Chief Michel Moore ordered an investigation into the officer’s use of force.

“The LAPD closely scrutinizes all uses of force, as we hold every officer to our high standards. While we are withholding judgement on the actions of the involved officer at this time, the officer has been assigned home pending further investigation,” said LAPD.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/la...ent-man-phone/

[b1slickguy]

Hats off to Officer G. Anderson for speaking out against tyranny and the trampling of people rights.

[b1slickguy]

Cop arrested while camping? Clear case of criminal intent.

LAPD Cop Charged with Attempted Murder for Shooting Fellow Cop on Camping Trip

Los Angeles police officer Ismael Tamayo is being held on a one million dollar bond.

A weekend camping trip of drinking and shooting firearms led to the arrest of an off-duty LAPD officer for shooting another off-duty cop.

Ismael Tamayo, 44, was arrested early Sunday morning and booked on a single count of attempted murder. The victim whose name has not been released was struck in the shoulder and is expected to survive. He is 48 years old. The other cop that had gone camping with them is a supervisor.

Tamayo was arrested at 1:17 a.m. Sunday and is being held on a one million bail, so Blue Privilege apparently does not protect cops when they shoot other cops.

Last year when an off-duty LAPD cop shot and killed a mentally ill man inside a Costco, he was never taken into custody and was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing. An attorney for Tamayo is confident the same will happen to his client.

"We are cooperating with authorities and we are confident that he will be cleared of any wrongdoing once the facts are made known," Greg Yacoubian told CNN.

But the LAPD referred to the shooting as a "disturbing incident" in its press release, which can read in its entirety below.

"The Los Angeles Police Department was notified early Sunday morning about a disturbing incident involving three of our employees, that occurred just after 1:00 am in an unincorporated area of Apple Valley.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies responded to a shooting call at the Stoddard Wells Off-Highway Vehicle Area. They arrived to find one of our three employees, an off-duty police officer, suffering from a gunshot wound. The officer was airlifted to a nearby hospital and is in stable condition and expected to survive. A second employee, an off-duty supervisor, was not injured by the third accused employee, identified as Police Officer III Ismael Tamayo, assigned to the Department's Newton Division.

Uniform personnel from the SBCSD located Ismael Tamayo nearby and he was taken into custody. At the time of his arrest he was in possession a firearm.

Ismael Tamayo was booked for Attempted Murder 664/187(a) PC.

Investigators from the LAPD's Force Investigation Division of Professional Standards Bureau, responded to the scene and initiated an administrative investigation. The Department is fully cooperating with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office in their criminal investigation.

In response to the arrest, Police Chief Michel Moore expressed disappointment and frustration, 'The events overnight culminating in the serious injury to our off-duty officer, apparently at the hands of another member of this Department, give me great concern. I spoke earlier this morning with San Bernardino Sheriff John McMahon, pledging our full support of their criminal investigation. I am thankful our injured officer is in stable condition and expected to survive. I am committed to determining what and how this occurred.'

Officer Tamayo has been relieved of his police powers pending the outcome of the criminal and administrative investigation."


https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-...MEO-mdUtSWLoRA

[b1slickguy]

Veteran Cop Arrested for Trafficking Massive Amount of Weed and Cocaine

Redding, CA — As TFTP regularly reports, all too often cops are caught hypocritically breaking the laws they are tasked with enforcing. Their role as a law enforcement officer gives them access to inside information, subsequently giving the ability to do things that regular criminals cannot. Much of the time, the corruption goes under the radar and cops get to retire having lived a double life. A cop in Redding, California, however, is no longer living that double life.

Cpl. Will Williams, 53, was one of three people arrested by the California Highway Patrol as part of an investigation into and raid of what authorities are calling a drug warehouse.

The other two were identified as Redding residents Heather Legault, 40, and Michael Gray, 39, according to a CHP press release. According to police, they recovered over 138 pounds of processed marijuana, 332 marijuana plants, 30 grams of cocaine, two firearms and $59,000 in U.S. currency.

CHP Northern Division Chief Elizabeth Barkley explained to reporters that the investigation started when a citizen informed authorities of possible criminal activity inside the warehouse. When police obtained a search warrant for the warehouse, they found the contraband.

Barkley refused to elaborate on Williams’ connection to to the alleged drug ring or how police knew he was involved. When questioned about Williams receiving potential blue privilege, Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett said, “When we do receive the case, it will be treated as all other cases, as the law applies equally to everyone.”

According to the Record Searchlight, Redding Police Chief Bill Schueller said Williams has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation by RPD’s professional standards unit. After the arrest Schueller released the following statement, noting how one of his officers getting arrested for drugs “disturbed” him.

"I am deeply disturbed by the arrest of Corporal Will Williams for the cultivation of marijuana and the possession of marijuana for sale. So much so, that after learning of his arrest, I requested the assistance from our Federal Law Enforcement partners with this investigation. This kind of criminal behavior, especially by a law enforcement officer sworn to uphold the law, cannot, and will not, be tolerated.

As required under the law, Corporal Williams has been placed on paid Administrative Leave, pending the outcome of an internal investigation by my Professional Standards Unit. At the conclusion of this investigation I will determine any discipline, up to, and including, termination. I will be as transparent with that decision, as the law allows.

I understand this kind of behavior can erode the community’s trust and confidence in their police department. I can assure you, we hold our officers to the highest moral, and ethical, standards. This type of criminal behavior, is not a reflection of the rest of our incredibly hard working men and women at the Redding Police Department and the work they perform each and every day."


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...ing-warehouse/

[b1slickguy]

[b1slickguy]

Karma? Cop Tries to Kill Innocent Family’s Dog, Shoots Himself in the Foot Instead

Putnam County, FL — Proportionately, cops kill far more dogs than they do people. It’s quite a strange phenomena because postal workers, UPS drivers, and food deliver drivers don’t seem to have the same problems with dogs like cops do. It’s so devious, the killing of family pets by those sworn to serve and protect the public, we actually keep an archive of stories of cops killing man’s best friend. But one cop learned the hard way shooting a dog can be dangerous. He shot himself instead of the dog.

Chris Crenshaw, of Putnam County, had committed no crime and had harmed no one when a Putnam County deputy came to his home, walked into his gated yard and knocked on the front door before attempting to kill his dog.

Police were reportedly looking for a person who’d ran away from home. When the deputy knocked at the door, Crenshaw’s dog ran outside and police claim it charged the officer.

That’s when the deputy opened fire. Luckily for the dog, however, the deputy shot himself in the foot instead and the dog is fine. News 4 JAX reports that according to the Sheriff’s Office, the deputy reached for his gun to shoot the dog, but the dog moved out of the way and the deputy accidentally shot himself in the foot.

The Sheriff’s Office said no charges have been filed against Crenshaw and the deputy’s act of shooting himself in the foot is under investigation.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...foot-kill-dog/

[b1slickguy]

Award Winning Cop Arrested for Stealing Money From Woman During a Traffic Stop

Escambia County, FL — An Escambia County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) deputy was fired last week after it was discovered he stole money orders he found in a car he pulled over during a routine traffic stop. Fired after four years on the job, ECSO deputy William Christopher Henley, 37, was arrested the same day of the theft and charged with larceny, burglary, dealing in stolen property and fraud.

Henley was booked into the Escambia County Jail and was disallowed bond and remains jailed awaiting his arraignment. Not surprisingly it was the citizen, not the police, who discovered the very officer who pulled over her boyfriend was the person who had stolen her blank money orders, filled in his name, and cashed them. A woman told police her boyfriend was pulled over by Henley and arrested on outstanding warrants. She knew the money orders were in the car and inquired about them with **.

The financial services and communication company (**) told the woman a person by the name of “William Henley” already cashed the two money orders she had purchased. The amounts of the money orders totaled $700, one for $200 and one for $500. She notified ECSO and an investigation ensued. According to NorthEscambia.com, Henley was caught on camera while on duty, committing the crime:

"ECSO investigators obtained surveillance photos from Navy Federal that showed Henley in uniform depositing the money orders."

The ECSO redacted portions of the police report where Henley was questioned about the crime so the public has no idea what he said to investigators who were interviewing him following the alleged crime. The report does mention Henley also put his own home address on the money orders.

Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan addressed the public with the shameful news one of his own was a crook.

"We are always saddened that someone in law enforcement is engaged in criminal activity,” said Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan. “The bottom line is that there is no place in our ranks for someone who breaks the laws."

Citizens who report such criminal behavior also run the risk of being treated inappropriately simply for questioning the integrity of a law enforcement officer. As we have reported in the past, simply filing a criminal complaint against an officer carries certain risks such as intimidation, threats, and even arrest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ5f1JMKns

The aforementioned case serves to illustrate just how important it is for motorists to know their rights and be able to safely and effectively stand up to illegal searches and seizures by police officers. Cop apologists might be tempted to think Henley is just a bad apple and this sort of thing does not happen often. However, we beg to differ.

Simply put…police officers can legally steal your possessions anytime they darn well please. The practice is called “Civil Asset Forfeiture” and was designed to punish drug dealers and money launderers by confiscating cash believed to have been used in the commission of a crime until proved otherwise. The practice has now morphed into a legal money grab for police departments and takes place all across the country. We have reported on rappers having cash confiscated while attempting to purchase vehicles in cold hard currency. Musicians who were moving to another state have also had their funds confiscated.

But more troubling seems to be the fact many cops can simply take objects out of a person’s car, or worse still, plant objects (drugs or guns) in a suspect’s car and that person’s life be financially or legally ruined. And there seems to be no protections for motorists to prevent cops from randomly engaging in fishing expeditions (what it’s called when cops ‘toss’ a car looking for evidence).

For our readers we have recommended following Kenny Suitter’s advice to motorists to simply say “I don’t answer questions” and to remain silent. Often times that is enough to get police officers to leave.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/aw...-traffic-stop/

[jtoler]

Karma? Cop Tries to Kill Innocent Family’s Dog, Shoots Himself in the Foot Instead

Putnam County, FL — Proportionately, cops kill far more dogs than they do people. It’s quite a strange phenomena because postal workers, UPS drivers, and food deliver drivers don’t seem to have the same problems with dogs like cops do. It’s so devious, the killing of family pets by those sworn to serve and protect the public, we actually keep an archive of stories of cops killing man’s best friend. But one cop learned the hard way shooting a dog can be dangerous. He shot himself instead of the dog.

Chris Crenshaw, of Putnam County, had committed no crime and had harmed no one when a Putnam County deputy came to his home, walked into his gated yard and knocked on the front door before attempting to kill his dog.

Police were reportedly looking for a person who’d ran away from home. When the deputy knocked at the door, Crenshaw’s dog ran outside and police claim it charged the officer.

That’s when the deputy opened fire. Luckily for the dog, however, the deputy shot himself in the foot instead and the dog is fine. News 4 JAX reports that according to the Sheriff’s Office, the deputy reached for his gun to shoot the dog, but the dog moved out of the way and the deputy accidentally shot himself in the foot.

The Sheriff’s Office said no charges have been filed against Crenshaw and the deputy’s act of shooting himself in the foot is under investigation.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/co...foot-kill-dog/

only the foot got off lucky

Award Winning Cop Arrested for Stealing Money From Woman During a Traffic Stop

Escambia County, FL — An Escambia County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) deputy was fired last week after it was discovered he stole money orders he found in a car he pulled over during a routine traffic stop. Fired after four years on the job, ECSO deputy William Christopher Henley, 37, was arrested the same day of the theft and charged with larceny, burglary, dealing in stolen property and fraud.

Henley was booked into the Escambia County Jail and was disallowed bond and remains jailed awaiting his arraignment. Not surprisingly it was the citizen, not the police, who discovered the very officer who pulled over her boyfriend was the person who had stolen her blank money orders, filled in his name, and cashed them. A woman told police her boyfriend was pulled over by Henley and arrested on outstanding warrants. She knew the money orders were in the car and inquired about them with **.

The financial services and communication company (**) told the woman a person by the name of “William Henley” already cashed the two money orders she had purchased. The amounts of the money orders totaled $700, one for $200 and one for $500. She notified ECSO and an investigation ensued. According to NorthEscambia.com, Henley was caught on camera while on duty, committing the crime:

"ECSO investigators obtained surveillance photos from Navy Federal that showed Henley in uniform depositing the money orders."

The ECSO redacted portions of the police report where Henley was questioned about the crime so the public has no idea what he said to investigators who were interviewing him following the alleged crime. The report does mention Henley also put his own home address on the money orders.

Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan addressed the public with the shameful news one of his own was a crook.

"We are always saddened that someone in law enforcement is engaged in criminal activity,” said Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan. “The bottom line is that there is no place in our ranks for someone who breaks the laws."

Citizens who report such criminal behavior also run the risk of being treated inappropriately simply for questioning the integrity of a law enforcement officer. As we have reported in the past, simply filing a criminal complaint against an officer carries certain risks such as intimidation, threats, and even arrest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ5f1JMKns

The aforementioned case serves to illustrate just how important it is for motorists to know their rights and be able to safely and effectively stand up to illegal searches and seizures by police officers. Cop apologists might be tempted to think Henley is just a bad apple and this sort of thing does not happen often. However, we beg to differ.

Simply put…police officers can legally steal your possessions anytime they darn well please. The practice is called “Civil Asset Forfeiture” and was designed to punish drug dealers and money launderers by confiscating cash believed to have been used in the commission of a crime until proved otherwise. The practice has now morphed into a legal money grab for police departments and takes place all across the country. We have reported on rappers having cash confiscated while attempting to purchase vehicles in cold hard currency. Musicians who were moving to another state have also had their funds confiscated.

But more troubling seems to be the fact many cops can simply take objects out of a person’s car, or worse still, plant objects (drugs or guns) in a suspect’s car and that person’s life be financially or legally ruined. And there seems to be no protections for motorists to prevent cops from randomly engaging in fishing expeditions (what it’s called when cops ‘toss’ a car looking for evidence).

For our readers we have recommended following Kenny Suitter’s advice to motorists to simply say “I don’t answer questions” and to remain silent. Often times that is enough to get police officers to leave.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/aw...-traffic-stop/

total idiot

[b1slickguy]

Hats off to Officer G. Anderson for speaking out against tyranny and the trampling of people rights.

The blue line gang can't and won't have people with honor and integrity wearing their costume and badge. Officer Greg Anderson spoke the truth about liberty and the constitutionality of some LEO's actions in the video that he posted last week and he has now been put on administrative leave pending termination. I don't know anything more about Officer Greg Anderson other than what he spoke of in his initial video, but his words affirming his oath and his beliefs of freedom and liberty will most likely end up costing him his job. This comes as no surprise as the tyrant jackboots only want order followers in their ranks and not people who can think for themselves and/or those who question the immoral actions of their fellow LEOs.

[b1slickguy]

This is the kind of "expertise" that's produced when only about 6 months at the academy is required to get a costume, badge and a gun. Then, only requiring about 40 hours of training each year thereafter to remain a member of the parasitic organization. Like most every lawsuit filed against the blue line gang, including this one, taxpayer money is shelled out needlessly to pay for ignorant pigs' unlawful actions.

Heavily Militarized SWAT Raids Innocent Family for Growing Tomatoes—Taxpayers Held Liable

Leawood, KS — Adlynn and Robert Harte and their two children had harmed no one and broken no laws when heavily armed militarized SWAT deputies with the Johnson County sheriff’s department stormed their home like it was an ISIS compound. The “hero” deputies were searching for evidence of marijuana production and use but they found none because the Harte’s don’t use or produce marijuana. They do grow vegetables, however, and they also drink tea.

The Hartes and their two children were held at gunpoint and nearly killed for purchasing supplies for their vegetable garden and drinking tea. After they were seen buying gardening supplies, cops rummaged through their trash and mistook tea leaves for weed, sparking ‘probable cause’ for the raid. Since the raid in 2012, the Harte family has been attempting to seek justice but to no avail. This month, however, they finally got a break.

According to Reason, the couple whose home was raided in 2012 after sheriff’s deputies claimed that loose tea found in their trash was marijuana will receive $150,000 for their trouble under a settlement agreement with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. The settlement—which caps seven years of litigation, including two trips to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit—falls far short of the $7 million that Adlynn and Robert Harte originally sought. But it represents an implicit acknowledgment that the Hartes and their children suffered an outrageous invasion of their privacy and dignity in the service of a comically inept publicity stunt.

In the realm of unlawful police raids, this one near the top. It began with a Missouri State Highway Patrolman staking out a garden store every day in Kansas City in hopes of catching some pot growers. Robert Harte visited the store with his two children to buy supplies for an educational vegetable garden project in his basement.

The sergeant shared Harte’s information with a counterpart in the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO), which was planning to raid several suspected cannabis growers on 4/20…such originality. JCSO went through the Harte’s trash on three occasions, eventually finding what officers believed was cannabis clippings soaked in THC extract. Because everyone throws away their weed, right?

But the “marijuana” was actually discarded tea leaves.

Despite a lab technician saying the tea leaves looked nothing like cannabis leaves or stems, deputies Edward Blake and Mark Burns used notoriously faulty field drug test kits which showed the presence of THC. These supposed field drug tests were the basis for planning the raid, but the deputies never photographed or documented the tests — leading Judge Carlos Lucero to note that these circumstances gave the deputies strong motive to lie.

“The deputies did not photograph any of the substances, nor did they send them to a crime lab for testing,” Judge Joel Carson notes in this month’s 10th Circuit decision. “If the deputies would have sent the wet vegetation to a crime lab for testing, they would have discovered that the wet vegetation was not marijuana but instead was Addie’s loose-leaf tea. Rather than conducting further investigation, the deputies prepared a search warrant affidavit relying solely on the loose-leaf tea found in the garbage and Bob’s shopping trip to a garden store eight months earlier.”

They had to find something on the Hartes, because the JCSO had already scheduled the raid on the Harte’s home. Several routine investigatory steps were ignored, making their search warrant “based on nothing more than gardening supplies and a bag and wet tea leaves in the garbage.”

The list of sheer incompetence goes on. In his written decision in 2017, Lucero used extraordinary language to characterize just how reckless these drug warriors were.

“Law-abiding tea drinkers and gardeners beware: One visit to a garden store and some loose tea leaves in your trash may subject you to an early-morning, SWAT-style raid, complete with battering ram, bulletproof vests, and assault rifles.

Perhaps the officers will intentionally conduct the terrifying raid while your children are home, and keep the entire family under armed guard for two and a half hours while concerned residents of your quiet, family-oriented neighborhood wonder what nefarious crime you have committed. This is neither hyperbole nor metaphor—it is precisely what happened to the Harte family in the case before us.”

During the two and a half hour raid – where heavily armed SWAT team broke in during early morning hours while the children were home – officers frantically searched for anything to justify their debacle, but found only tomato plants and gardening supplies. Knowing the history of no-knock SWAT raids, someone could have easily gotten killed. All the while, the family was terrorized in their own home.

On the day of the raid, 10th Circuit Judge Joel Carson noted in a 2019 opinion, “Bob opened the front door” shortly before 7:30 a.m., “and the deputies flooded in the foyer. Bob ended up on the ground with an assault rifle pointed at or near him. The deputies ordered Addie and the couple’s two young children to sit cross-legged against a wall. A deputy eventually allowed the family to move to the living room couch where an armed deputy kept watch over them.”

Over the course of the next two hours, the cops would look like fools. Carson wrote, “the deputies found the hydroponic tomato garden that was readily visible from the exterior of the home through a front-facing basement window. And after ninety minutes of extensive searching, a couple of the deputies claimed to smell the ‘faint odor of marijuana’ at various places in the residence. A drug-detection dog showed up, but did not alert the officers to any other areas of the house requiring further searches. The dog’s handler also did not smell marijuana.”

The cops had picked the wrong target this time, as both Mr. and Mrs. Harte are former CIA employees and knew a thing or two about research. After the traumatic experience, the Hartes set out to find out why this happened to them. Spending thousands of dollars in legal costs, they were able to procure a probable-cause affidavit.

It was easy to see that the “probable cause” was full of holes, and thankfully the 10th Circuit court actually studied the facts. The reinstated lawsuit included unlawful search-and-seizure claims against 10 deputies, the sheriff who started the fiasco and the Johnson County Board of Commissioners.

“There was no probable cause at any step of the investigation,” wrote Lucero in 2017. “Not at the garden shop, not at the gathering of the tea leaves, and certainly not at the analytical stage when the officers willfully ignored directions to submit any presumed results to a laboratory for analysis.”



https://thefreethoughtproject.com/he...s-held-liable/

[b1slickguy]

only the foot got off lucky

total idiot

One of the comments below the story:

"It’s a shame they did not have a pet bird, perhaps the officer could’ve scored his own head shot..."

[b1slickguy]

Watch the coproaches scatter after they are called out for the same things they are harassing and extorting other people for. Double standards for members of the blue line gang on display once again.

[b1slickguy]

Supreme Court Will Soon Decide Whether To Reconsider Qualified Immunity

https://www.cato.org/blog/may-15th-s...tion-qualified


Qualified Immunity: The Supreme Court’s Unlawful Assault on Civil Rights and Police Accountability

https://www.cato.org/multimedia/even...-rights-police

[b1slickguy]

After Police Ignored Her Complaints, Cop Beat Wife So Badly Her Eye Came Out of Her Head

Indianapolis, IN — A 14-year veteran of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was arrested this week and accused of gruesome acts of violence against his wife. Adding to the horrifying nature of his alleged crimes is the fact that his wife had been reporting him to his department for months and no one took action.

IMPD officer Jason D. Norman was charged Friday with two felonies, domestic battery and criminal confinement, and a misdemeanor count of domestic battery after Hamilton County prosecutors say he abused his wife on multiple occasions.

This man allegedly beat his wife so viciously that her eyeball literally came out of her head and medical staff could put it back in. She was so traumatized by the incident that she has no recollection of how it exactly transpired.

After his arrest on Friday, Chief Randal Taylor suspended Norman and has recommended to the Citizens Police Merit Board that he be fired. Because his wife cannot recall the exact details of how she lost her eye, Norman was not charged in relation to that injury. Instead, that injury was unable to be ignored — like her previous complaints — and police launched a separate investigation leading to the current charges.

According to the Indy Star:

"The investigation began on Feb. 25 when Norman called 911 from his home in Sheridan and reported his wife was badly injured in a fall from the tub.

The woman’s right eye was “coming out of its socket,” Norman told dispatchers, according to the probable cause affidavit filed in support of the criminal charges.

She underwent surgery at Ascension St. Vincent Hospital. In an interview with investigators a week later, police said she could not recall “salient details’ of what happened.

But she remembered other times that Norman abused her, according to the probable cause affidavit. She had endured two years of fear, pain and abuse, she told investigators.

In May or early June of 2019, she locked herself in a bathroom. She was on the floor, crying when Norman kicked in the door, according to court records. The door hit her in the face and broke her nose, she told investigators."

According to court records, the abuse happened for years and she’d reportedly tried to tell investigators and Norman’s supervisor, but her complaints fell on deaf ears. On June 29,2019 Norman’s wife told police that Norman was so irate that she tried to leave the house. However, before she could leave, he parked his patrol car perpendicular in the driveway, blocking her exit.

She took a picture of this and sent it to her cousin to have proof.

“(Norman’s wife) stated she didn’t attempt to leave the residence because she was fearful Jason David Norman would physically prevent her from doing so,” Green wrote.

In August, Norman “was getting worked up watching a political show with the volume loud” when he thought his wife said something, Green wrote.

He grabbed her leg and pulled her off the couch. She fell hard on her knee.

“(Norman’s wife) likened the way Jason David Norman pulled her off the couch to the way you start a pull-start lawnmower,” Green wrote.

At the time, she texted a photo of her injuries to Norman’s supervisor in the department. Nothing happened.

Apparently Norman even threatened his fellow officers if they would launch an investigation into him.

According to the probable cause affidavit, as RTV6 reports, Norman, in a text exchange with IMPD investigators, told police to “stay out of my way,” and threatened violence after a search warrant was issued for his house. Below one text message was a photograph appearing to depict a cowboy with a revolver on his right hip, and his right hand in a position suggesting he is about to remove the gun from his holster.

What this case illustrates, frequent readers of the Free Thought Project already know, and it’s that police officers in the United States have an exceedingly higher rate of domestic violence than any other occupation. The average rate of domestic violence among most families in America is around 10%. As the National Center for Women and Policing points out, two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence. That is a four-fold increase.

A simple Google search will illustrate how police officers are arrested for domestic violence on a near-weekly basis. It is also estimated that the incident rate for domestic violence is likely far higher than reported as many women stay silent out of fear of retaliation and the fact that their abuser’s brothers in blue will cover for them.

As this case illustrates, and as TFTP has previously noted, a report by a government-appointed watchdog group shows that most of the time, abusive officers who commit these crimes, do so with seeming impunity. The above case is a perfect example of why that is so.

Sadly, it is estimated that many of the abused women never come forward as they know the likely result — which is getting shamed by the department for reporting it and potentially more abuse.



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[Grits n' Gravy]

Best cop is the one lying dead on the street.

I enjoy putting money on the books of prisoners who shot and killed pigs. They are national heroes.

[firstclass]

Best cop is the one lying dead on the street.

I enjoy putting money on the books of prisoners who shot and killed pigs. They are national heroes.

You aren't giving any of your gravy bread welfare money away. Who are you kidding.

[b1slickguy]

Excessive force lawsuit: Denver officer said, ‘This is what happens when you elude police, dude’

DENVER (KDVR) — The words of a Denver police officer caught on body cam may come back to haunt him if Justin Lecheminant’s lawsuit ever goes before a jury.

Shortly after Lecheminant was handcuffed following a physical encounter with Officer Robert Blanc, Blanc can be heard telling Lecheminant, “This is what you get when you elude police.”

Photos of Lecheminant’s facial injuries are included in a federal lawsuit the 42-year-old filed Tuesday morning against the City and County of Denver and four members of the Denver Police Department: Det. Mark Duran, Sgt. Troy Sandoval, Cpl. Daniel Felkins and Officer Robert Blanc.

It’s Blanc who the lawsuit accuses of repeatedly punching Lecheminant after tasing him twice.

Blanc tells him to get on the ground and then tases Lecheminant twice when he doesn’t comply.

Body cam footage shows Lecheminant pulling Taser prongs out of his chest and at that point, Blanc charges Lecheminant and tackles him to the ground.

“This is a man who was absolutely pummeled, absolutely pummeled,” said Chris Decker, an attorney representing Lecheminant.

Lecheminant’s injuries included a broken nose, a concussion, a punctured eardrum and four broken ribs.

After Lecheminant was handcuffed, Blanc can be heard saying, “This is what happens when you elude police, dude.”

“They beat the hell out of him and they beat the hell out of him because they got their feelings hurt and he didn’t comply — not because he was a threat, not because he was resisting, not because he was violent against them,” said Decker.

He filed the lawsuit on Lecheminant’s behalf with attorney Tiffany Drahota, who described the internal police investigation as a “haphazard sham investigation with no fact finding.”

Drahota pointed out Blanc was never placed on leave and her client was never interviewed by internal affairs investigators.

Police arrested Lecheminant for assaulting an officer but the Denver district attorney dismissed the charges.

Lecheminant did plead guilty to obstruction and felony eluding and received probation.

Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson told KDVR it would not be appropriate for the department to comment on pending litigation.

In an email, Jackson wrote, “All Use of Force incidents are reviewed by Internal Affairs. No further investigation was opened following the Use of Force review.”


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[b1slickguy]

[b1slickguy]

WATCH: Cop has Epic Meltdown of a Temper Tantrum after Man Questions his Actions

The Connecticut state trooper has been placed on paid administrative duty.

Enraged that a citizen would dare question his actions, a Connecticut state trooper was caught on video Monday unleashing a stream of profanities and threats at a man who asked why he was tailgating another car.

It does not appear as if trooper Matthew Spina was aware he was being recorded because the phone was lying on a car seat while he was blowing his top. The video is now going viral and he has been placed on paid administrative duty where he no longer has contact with the public.

"Who the f*¢k do you think you are worrying about what I'm doing?" Spina yells at the man who goes by C.O.P -Civilian on patrol on Youtube but has been identified by the Hartford Courant as Kevin A. Jette.

"It just never f*¢king ends in this f*¢king job," he says at another point point. "I got 14 months. I can't f*¢king wait to be done."

And his parting words that were captured on video were, "Don't you ever f*¢k with me again!".

https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-...mE-oxBARH58a5g

Read the department's excuse laden statement about the incident in the link above.

[b1slickguy]

Another name to add to the list of people the domestic terrorist thin blue line gang has needlessly murdered.

Innocent EMT, Working the Front Line, Killed in Her Bed by Cops Raiding the Wrong Home

Louisville, KY — According to his attorney, Kenneth Walker woke up in the middle of the night to armed intruders kicking in his door. He then grabbed his legally owned firearm to defend himself. A hail of gunfire subsequently ensued, all but one of the bullets coming from police weapons, and Walker’s girlfriend 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a certified EMT working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, was killed in her bed.

Earlier this month, police fired 22 bullets into the couple’s home, many of them shot from outside. According to the attorney representing the family, Sam Aguiar, police were actually looking for someone else and other officers had picked the suspect up at his home in a separate raid shortly before the shooting.

After the raid, Walker was arrested for defending himself in his own home against armed invaders because he shot one of the armed invaders in the leg. Showing the unnecessary nature of the entire deadly debacle is the fact that Walker was released from jail after his arrest because he is not a threat.

Naturally, this infuriated the police union.

“Not only is he a threat to the men and women of law enforcement, but he also poses a significant danger to the community we protect!” River City FOP president Ryan Nichols wrote in a Facebook Post Friday. “Home incarceration was not designed for the most violent offenders!” “I call on the public to condemn the actions of Judge Olu Stevens.”

But according to his family and his attorney, Walker is not a violent offender and was an innocent man raided by cops who murdered the love of his life.

According to WDRB, defense attorney Rob Eggert said police burst in Taylor’s home without announcing their presence and fired at least 22 times, with bullets going into neighboring apartments, and “it was incredible that Mrs. Taylor was the only one killed.”

“Had Breonna Taylor been killed by anyone except police, the person or persons responsible for her death would have been charged with a homicide,” Eggert said in a court document, also alleging Walker is a “victim of police misconduct.”

Taylor and Walker’s family echoed the attorney’s sentiment, claiming police were simply in the wrong home, looking for a different person.

“These are two good kids,” said Bianca Austin, Taylor’s aunt. “This is incompetent police work. My niece lost her life over this.”

“Something went terribly wrong,” Aguiar said. “This was clearly a botched execution of a warrant.”

The police union does not agree and claim that the family’s version of events simply doesn’t matter and is “irrelevant.” They do not see Walker as a man defending his home from intruders who kicked in the door in the middle of the night. They see him as a cop killer who needs to be removed from society.

Police also claim that they did everything by the book when they invaded the home and killed an innocent woman as they looked for non-existent drugs and the wrong person.

As WDRB reports:

"Eggert claims police did not announce themselves as they exploded through the door of the apartment around 1 a.m., while the couple was sleeping.

Eggert acknowledges that Walker fired a shot, hitting Sgt. Mattingly in the leg, but claims Walker did not know he was shooting at police, according to a motion filed in court.

Police then returned fire, killing Taylor, Eggert wrote.

There were no drugs found in the home, Eggert said.

And Walker was not the target of the search warrant and if he had known police were outside, he would have let them in, Eggert said in the motion."

Witnesses to the shooting corroborate this narrative, and told local media that police never announced themselves before barging in to the home.

“All she heard was a ram (breaking through the door) and gunfire,” the unidentified neighbor said.

What’s more, Walker had no criminal past. Taylor’s aunt said Walker had just accepted a job to work at UPS.

“These two were not drug dealers,” she said. “It just don’t make sense to us at all.”

Now, it is up to Walker to seek justice for himself and his recently murdered girlfriend.

Walker “wishes to exonerate himself. His girlfriend was killed in a hail of police bullets while naked and he himself simply acted to try to protect himself,” Eggert said.


https://thefreethoughtproject.com/in...he-wrong-home/


Here's the blue zero heroes' preliminary narrative of the events that unfolded. Either the man who was shot and had his girlfriend murdered and the witnesses have it all wrong or the pigs are lying to protect each other like usual. And of course there is conveniently no body worn camera footage of the jackboots raiding the wrong place. They'll end up investigating themselves and, as is the norm, find that policies and procedures were all properly followed and there was no wrongdoing on their part, despite serving a search warrant at the wrong place and killing a completely innocent woman.

Ky. Cops Lied on Warrant that led to Innocent Woman's Death in Botched Drug Raid

Louisville cops claim the USPS told them drug packages were being shipped to a home they raided but the USPS denies it.

Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were sound asleep in bed after midnight in their Kentucky home when three plainclothes cops busted into their home with a battering ram and a warrant based on lies, searching for drugs that did not exist.

Jolted awake into believing they were being robbed, Walker called 911, then shot at the intruders, striking one in the leg. The cops responded by firing more than 20 rounds into the apartment (as well as the adjoining apartment where a 5-year-old girl slept), killing Taylor, a 26-year-old nursing student who was working as an EMT at two hospitals during the coronavirus crisis.

Louisville police officers Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove and John Mattingly, the latter who was shot in the thigh, found no drugs in the March 13 raid but ended up arresting Walker and charging him with attempted murder of a police officer.

Walker, 27, a legal gun owner with no criminal history, said he had no idea they were cops and there is no evidence to suggest he did.

But there is plenty of evidence to suggest it was another botched raid by another group of corrupt cops using another rubber stamping judge to kill another innocent citizen, all under the pretense of a failed drug war that has long run its course. Not to mention another preposterous attempt by police to play the victim.

Like the botched raid in Texas last year that led to the arrest of two Houston police officers on murder charges, police lied on the search warrant when presenting it to Judge Mary Shaw, who apparently signed it without questioning it.

Also like the botched raid in Houston, one of the cops involved already had an open lawsuit against him for planting drugs and fabricating evidence but was allowed to continue participating in drug raids with no oversight. Louisville cop Brett Hankison who also has a long history of use of force complaints against him is described as a "dirty cop" in the lawsuit filed last year.

And like the botched raid in Houston, there is no evidence police even announced themselves as cops before breaking the door down despite claiming in Walker's affidavit that "detectives knocked multiple times and announced their presence in an attempt to get occupants to answer the door."

That's an obvious lie considering detectives were insistent the judge sign a no-knock search warrant because as they explained in the warrant, "these drug traffickers have a history of attempting to destroy evidence, have cameras on the location that compromise detectives once an approach to the dwelling is made, and have a history of fleeing from law enforcement."

But now they expect us to believe they stood in front of the door knocking like a trio of midnight Jehovah's Witnesses just waiting to be invited in?.

No, that is all part of the Police PR Spin Machine and if they lie about that, they will lie about anything, including the "evidence" they gathered for the search warrant.

According to WDRB:

"A U.S. postal inspector in Louisville said Metro police did not use his office to verify that a drug suspect was receiving packages at Breonna Taylor's apartment, one of the factors listed in officers' request for a "no-knock" warrant for her home.

But Tony Gooden said a different law enforcement agency asked his office in January to investigate whether Taylor's home was receiving any potentially suspicious mail. After looking into the request, he said, the local office concluded that it wasn't.

'There's no packages of interest going there,' he said in an interview after WDRB News contacted him Friday.

Gooden's disclosure raises new questions about the Louisville police department's justification for a warrant that allowed officers to enter the Springfield Drive apartment without knocking or identifying themselves — and why her home was even targeted."

The main target of the police drug investigation was a man named Jamarcus Glover who Breonna Taylor had dated two years earlier and had maintained a "passive friendship" with him, according to attorney's for the victim's family.

In fact, another group of Louisville cops had already served another search warrant at Glover's house that night which was ten miles away. He was already in custody by the time cops arrived at Taylor's apartment.

Police, meanwhile, have refused to release public records pertaining to the case, including the 911 call made by Walker which should be enough to clear him of the charges. And they continue to portray Walker as a menace to society when not only does he not have a criminal record, he had every right to defend himself under Kentucky's Castle Doctrine.

Two weeks after the incident when a judge released him from jail, allowing him to remain on house arrest until his trial, police union president Ryan Nichols issued the following hyperbolic statement to the media:

"Just one week ago, this man violently attacked our officers and was charged with attempted murder after shooting a sergeant! Not only is he a threat to the men and women of law enforcement, but he also poses a significant danger to the community we protect!

LMPD officers put their lives on the line everyday protecting the citizens of this community. Judge Stevens’ actions are a slap in the face to everyone wearing a badge. His actions place our community at risk of further violence!"

A similar case out of Corpus Christi, Texas resulted in a jury acquitting a man who shot three cops breaking into his home in a no-knock raid because they did not identify themselves as cops.

Although police have refused to release several public records requested by the Louisville Courier-Journal, they did release an audio recording from the moments following Mattingly getting shot in the thigh with a man, presumably one of the cops, telling a dispatcher, "officer down!" and "officer shot on Springfield!" in an obvious attempt to portray themselves as the victims – much as they did after the botched raid in Houston.

Also like the case in Houston, there have been changes in policies resulting from this raid, including a requirement that cops must wear body cameras during raids as well as a requirement that cops must seek approval from the chief before obtaining a no-knock warrant but these are changes that should have been implemented years ago but there was obviously little oversight and accountability.

It took seven months for the cops in Houston to be criminally charged and it's only been two months in this case, so if the parallelisms between the two cases continues, karma will catch up to these cops after all.

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the police department by Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, which you can read here. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/m...or_lawsuit.pdf



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